Rumble!
Meteorites blazing with raging flames fell from space like torrential rain. Bone-chilling frost condensed into thick layers of ice across the ground, only to be shattered in an instant by sword energy.
The clash of steel rang out again and again, resounding through the heavens. Even heaven and earth trembled continuously beneath the collision of these two supreme powers.
Dawn and Saint Nusjuro's battle had lasted from morning until night, from daylight into darkness. Both unleashed every means at their disposal, wielding all manner of sword techniques with ease. The fight went on for three days and three nights.
Day and night alternated, the sun rose and the moon fell.
The surface of all Hive Island had been forcibly shaved away by three feet, then refilled with shattered meteorites, blasted rock, and congealed blood.
As far as the eye could see, there were only bottomless sword scars and meteor craters. Not even a single intact rock remained.
"What's wrong? Have you finally had enough, Davy D. Dawn?"
Saint Nusjuro curled his lips into a savage, icy sneer. The First Generation Kitetsu in his hand glowed with an eerie red light, wrapped in black-and-red Conqueror's Haki lightning as he slashed at Dawn at point-blank range.
"Criminal! Today is the day you die!"
Before the long blade could fall, the erupting sword energy had already cleaved a ravine dozens of meters deep into the ground before him, sending shattered stones flying through the air.
"Are your old eyes failing you? Which eye saw that I was about to go down?"
Dawn sneered. The Abyssal Prison Garb around him suddenly expanded outward like a massive black maw, swallowing both the incoming sword energy and the slash itself whole.
He viciously swung Kikoku like a baseball bat. The black-and-red lightning at its tip