The world lost all sound at that moment.
Then came a blinding white light, followed by an overwhelming shockwave. The wooden dome held for three seconds before it began to collapse. Splintered wood was instantly ignited by the intense heat, turning into a rain of fire that filled the sky.
But this also reduced the meteor's momentum and size. By the time it finally smashed through the dome and struck the ground, its diameter had shrunk to less than fifty meters.
Even so, the explosion still leveled everything within several hundred meters.
Aramaki crawled out of the ruins, half his body charred black. He panted heavily as he looked at Dawn floating in midair, genuine fear appearing in his eyes for the first time.
"You did well. So, what are you going to do about the second wave?"
Dawn grinned, and that smile looked like a demon's to Aramaki. Rings of purple light spread out from Dawn's body, shooting rapidly into the sky, piercing through the atmosphere, and flying toward outer space.
"[Horizon Meteor]!"
Aramaki looked up, his pupils shrinking to pinpoints.
Dense orange points of light lit up the night sky.
Ten, twenty, fifty... Hundreds of meteors entered the atmosphere at once. Burning with raging flames, they carved countless intersecting trails of light across the night sky, like a magnificent meteor shower.
And the target of that "shower" was Aramaki alone.
Aramaki's blood nearly froze.
He had barely managed to withstand one meteor after giving it everything he had. This entire meteor shower...
He would die. He would definitely die.
Even if he used Armament Haki for defense, he could not withstand attacks this dense.
Even if he relied on the Woods-Woods Fruit's unique mechanism to be reborn from a seed, he had no confidence he could survive such