"Though I don't know how you found this place,"
Golden Lion Shiki floated behind the lion's head, his voice brimming with confidence and arrogance.
"You've got guts, fighting me in my own stronghold! But those guts will get you killed!"
The Float-Float Fruit had one limitation: its user could only control things he had touched.
When fighting away from home, Golden Lion Shiki first had to find a way to touch his target before he could use his power.
But on his own turf, that was no problem at all.
Golden Lion Shiki had long since touched every island in the floating archipelago. Everything here was under his control.
Lucas showed no trace of panic as the enormous lion's head lunged at him.
A dense cloud of blood mist suddenly rose from his body and spread rapidly, covering a radius of over a thousand meters in an instant.
"Blood Dragon Bite!"
Under Lucas's control, the blood mist boiled and churned, becoming hundreds upon hundreds of snarling crimson dragons that surged upward toward the massive lion's head.
Boom!
A deafening collision rang out as the crimson dragons slammed into the lion's head.
Lucas's Supreme Armament Haki flowed with the rushing blood into the lion's head, tearing apart the earth and stone from within.
In moments, cracks spread like cobwebs across the surface of the enormous lion's head. Under the combined assault of blood and Haki, it shattered, sending countless chunks of earth and stone tumbling toward the ground.
Golden Lion Shiki's gaze shifted. He was about to use the Float-Float Fruit to gather the falling debris for another attack.
Just then, dazzling rainbow halos appeared around the countless falling fragments.
Swept up in the merciless flow of time, the unprotected earth and stone went from formation to weathering, decay, and finally