Minion Island, the battle grew increasingly intense.
A full day of high-intensity fighting had not exhausted any of the four combatants. Instead, as they came to understand one another and continuously pushed their own potential to the limit, the battle only became more dangerous.
Deep within the snowfield lay Sengoku and Bullet's battlefield.
"Buddha's Impact!"
Having transformed into a golden Buddha, Sengoku gathered immense power in his giant palm and thrust it forward. A shockwave of extraordinary breadth swept ahead like a tsunami, instantly annihilating everything in its path—snow, frozen earth, and exposed rock alike.
"Snowfield Heavy Armor!"
Bullet let out a furious roar as he fully activated the power of the Combine-Combine Fruit. The snow within several hundred meters around him, the frozen earth beneath the ground, and deeply buried solid rock all surged toward him as though alive. In an instant, they fused onto his body, forming a composite armor over ten meters thick and covered in sharp, icy crystal spikes.
Even more chillingly, he completely coated it in his highly refined Armament Haki, giving the makeshift fortress a dark, sturdy metallic sheen.
Rumble!
Sengoku's shockwave slammed hard against the composite armor. Amid the deafening roar, the outermost layer of Armament Haki and sharp ice crystals shattered inch by inch beneath the shockwave, but the thick barrier greatly weakened its force as well.
In the end, all that reached Bullet himself was a violent tremor, unable to cause any real damage.
"Hm?" A trace of surprise flashed through Sengoku's golden Buddha eyes as he muttered inwardly,
How many years has it been... Bullet's Armament Haki, both in quantity and quality, has improved by far more than a single level compared to back then! His rate of progress is astonishing!
"Hahahaha! Sengoku, you've gotten old!"
Bullet shattered the remnants