"I thought so too."
Dawn's expression did not change. Kikoku flipped in his hand in an instant, precisely slicing through the turbulent airflow before its blade slammed fiercely into Murakumogiri.
Clang!
The explosive clash of metal shook their eardrums painfully. A terrifying shockwave became a visible ring of air that spread wildly in every direction.
The already battered Ice beneath their feet gained dozens more enormous, bottomless cracks, Ice-cold seawater gushing frantically from them.
"The warm-up is over. Time to get serious."
A dark purple vortex spread rapidly from beneath Dawn's feet. In the blink of an eye, it covered an area a hundred meters wide, forming a massive, continuously rotating black whirlpool.
Humanoid outlines formed from dark elements surged madly from the vortex, gripping Whitebeard's limbs like life-reaping demons and trying to drag him completely into the pitch-black Subspace.
Taking that chance, Dawn instantly retreated several hundred meters. Deep purple halos burst from his body and shot into the skies of the New World like meteors, even breaking through the atmosphere and flying beyond the planet.
A scorching orange-red glow suddenly appeared across the once azure sky, dyeing the entire heavens a magma-like crimson.
A rough meteor as large as a small mountain, engulfed in raging flames, descended thunderously from beyond the sky, bearing unparalleled force and destruction.
[Heavenly Obstacle Quaking Stars]!
Under Dawn's precise control, the extraterrestrial meteor locked firmly onto Whitebeard's position and crashed down with world-destroying might.
The meteor was simply too massive. As it fell, even the entire sky trembled and hummed.
Terrifying atmospheric pressure pressed down like an invisible giant hand slamming onto the Ice field. The hard Ice cracked into web-like fissures, with the deepest ones splitting open directly to reveal the churning seawater below.
"Gurararara! Gravity Brat, you're already this big, yet