Just when the few survivors thought it was over, the entire sky abruptly changed again, turning completely black.
The red faded, covered by pure darkness.
Then, against that black backdrop, a bright, massive pillar of light plunged diagonally from above like an enormous dragon.
"What is that?!!"
The people fell into utter despair.
This attack was dozens, even hundreds of times thicker and more dazzling than the beams before it.
Mary Geoise's fate was already clear.
That beam shone so brightly that it became the only thing with any color left in their eyes.
After an unknown length of time, the blinding pillar descended, striking the ground of Mary Geoise at an angle.
Bzzzt!
The ground seemed to shudder. Then the surface, which had stood unshaken for countless years, split apart with a thunderous crash.
Even the sky seemed to collapse and twist at that moment.
The ground rapidly fractured. An unimaginable earthquake radiated from the point where the pillar struck, spreading in every direction.
Then a sight beyond anyone's imagination unfolded.
A breach appeared in the unbroken Red Line, widening steadily as the land crumbled at a speed visible to the naked eye, until it stood only a few dozen meters above sea level.
That breach lay exactly where Mary Geoise had once stood.
The waters of the Grand Line's First Half and Second Half surged, forming an enormous tsunami that swept forward and flooded the land within the breach.
The searing heat collided with the seawater, sending countless clouds of white steam billowing into the sky.
Seen from afar...
The Red Line separating the two halves of the Grand Line looked as though it had been pierced straight through, leaving an enormous, solid, flat expanse of land!
The unimaginable sight shook everyone to their core.
An unknown amount