Conqueror's Haki was an ability that relied on the user's own "presence" to activate.
Legend said that only those with the qualities of a king were qualified to learn it.
Once used, an invisible pressure radiated outward, enough to make any petty villain quake with terror.
Caesar fell from the sky like a king descending from heaven, his Conqueror's Haki spreading across the sea.
Beneath the surface, swarms of serpentine Deadpools fainted under the pressure and floated up like dead fish.
But Leviathan was clearly beyond Caesar's intimidation.
Its songlike cry suddenly rose in pitch as it leaped from the sea like a fish, raising waves dozens of meters high.
Its blood-filled maw, packed with sharp teeth, opened wide and blocked out the moonlight, intending to swallow everyone at once.
The first person about to be swallowed was Caesar.
The massive jaws and towering wave crashed down together.
An attack practically on the scale of a natural disaster would at least cut the number of people present in half again.
At that moment, Chu Zihang raised one hand and drew a Zanpakutō out of thin air.
He charged toward the giant wave, his blade angled toward the heavens, and chanted a long incantation as if reciting a Word Spirit.
"Faintly revealed within this turbid text..."
It was the chant for Hadō No. 90: Black Coffin from the Shinigami system.
But before Chu Zihang could act, someone moved faster than him.
"I'm dead, I'm dead! Ice Release: One-Horned White Whale!"
Like disaster was upon him, Lu Mingfei frantically formed hand seals.
Chakra erupted.
An Ice Release narwhal no smaller than Leviathan burst from the sea with equal force and slammed viciously into Leviathan.
The collision sounded like two continents crashing together.
The shockwave swept outward, shattering the enormous waves into countless