The earth was trampled beneath surging fury, raging waves, and crashing thunder.
Facing nature's wrath, powerful enough to scorch the earth, the two clone Admirals were blown some distance away by the shock wave.
The barrier maintained by the four captains was instantly "neutralized," erupting in a rainbow radiance like a supervolcano and piercing dozens of kilometers into the night sky. Vast atmospheric discharges spread through the stratosphere.
Overlapping rainbow arcs centered on the whole of Gran Tesoro formed a spherical, multicolored curtain of light roughly twenty kilometers across.
At the center of the Sky Theater's main stage, a spherical section had been hollowed out, leaving molten edges behind.
The air expanded like an invisible spherical force field. As though struck by a train, the four captains flew off in four directions, crashing onto different parts of the ring-shaped stage.
Apoo, the physically weakest, exhausted his Armament Haki and fell unconscious with severe injuries. The Praying Hands serving as stage extras retrieved him.
Drake had fully transformed into his beast form and fared somewhat better than Apoo. He rose, battered and torn, his head ringing and his vision blurred and doubled. His Ancient Zoan Allosaurus form seemed to have brought him some additional prehistoric psychological trauma, too.
Hawkins got up normally from the steps where he lay, dropping several burned-out straw dolls. He looked completely unharmed.
In the audience stands, the others fighting there could not help pausing at the sight.
Hina had just fired a volley of spears at Baccarat, but her opponent avoided them simply by strolling around at leisure.
While Hina was struggling with that headache, she saw Shining's "maximum manifestation" on the central stage.
-He deliberately waited until the civilians were gone before going all out... Biri-biri, you little-
"-What?"
The tremendous tremor behind Baccarat made