"Losing focus in battle isn't a good habit."
A calm voice rang out above him.
Alarm bells blared in Lucci's mind. He abruptly looked up, only to see that Adams had somehow appeared directly above his dragon head.
Azure Heaven and Yellow Springs was wielded like an enormous brick, its broad, heavy blade coated in dense Armament Haki as it mercilessly smashed down toward his forehead.
Bang!
A dull, thunderous impact rang out.
Lucci felt an irresistible force crash down from the crown of his head and instantly sweep through his entire body. His dragon brain buzzed, his vision went black, and stars burst before his eyes. Rolling his eyes back, he plummeted toward the ground.
Boom.
The ground shook violently as a massive crater was smashed into it, sending dust and debris soaring into the sky.
Before Lucci could recover from the dizziness caused by that "brick smack," Adams used Soru to appear at the bottom of the crater, right beside the tip of his dragon tail.
He casually planted Azure Heaven and Yellow Springs into the ground nearby. The muscles across his body bulged, layered rings like tree growth lines emerging over them, and his hands clamped down on the dragon tail, thicker than a pillar, like iron pincers!
"Roar!" Lucci struggled in shock and fury, trying desperately to wrench his tail free from those terrifying hands. His dragon tail thrashed wildly, scattering stones and spreading cracks across the ground, yet the hands gripping it seemed welded in place, utterly unmoving.
Adams curled his lips into an almost cruel grin. The core strength in his waist and abdomen erupted once more with mountain-shaking force as he suddenly exerted himself.
The three-hundred-meter dragon body was forcibly dragged off the ground.
"Dark Hell Paradise Drop!"
Adams laughed. The muscles in