The instant the air touched the unstable Primordial Stone, a violent reaction erupted. The already unstable stone began shaking fiercely. When that instability reached its limit, its hard shell could no longer contain the immense energy within, and an unimaginable explosion followed!
From the square, everyone saw a massive explosion erupt behind the floating Mary Geoise. The thunderous shock wave even whipped up a tsunami larger than the ones caused by the meteorite and Whitebeard's power!
Suspended in midair with nothing to anchor it, Mary Geoise shook violently under the force of the explosion-even more violently than when Whitebeard had overturned the entire island!
The shaking knocked the already weakened Golden Lion straight to the ground, rendering him unconscious. With him unconscious, the power he had applied to Mary Geoise automatically vanished, and the floating island plunged straight back toward the sea!
Amid the thunder of the explosion, all of Mary Geoise crashed heavily into the sea, setting off another terrifying tsunami. Seawater surged wildly inward, submerging and swallowing the island Golden Lion had summoned earlier, dragging it to the bottom of the ocean!
The once crescent-shaped Holy Land of Mary Geoise had now changed beyond recognition. A massive circular gap had appeared in the broadest stretch of land at its center. Everything there, including the Marine Headquarters castle Whitebeard had destroyed earlier, had fallen into the water!
"Aaaaaah!"
"Th-the end of the world!"
"God! What just happened?!"
The Marines descended into panic, crying and screaming without cease, as though the end of the world had truly arrived before their eyes.
The pirates still in the square stared dumbfounded at Barn, who had appeared beside Whitebeard at some point.
"Did Mr. Barn really do that?"
"Now that's doing things on a grand scale..."
"Thank goodness Mr. Barn isn't our enemy..."