Amid the dense red forked lightning, the shield around Bondrewd flickered unsteadily.
Seeing this, Kizaru realized that the earlier "clear-out" could not be an ability he could use repeatedly.
Golden light streamed from his body as he flew toward Bondrewd, "clones" appearing one after another along his path.
More than a dozen Kizarus closed in around Bondrewd.
Some drew Ama no Murakumo and flashed from place to place, trying to tie Bondrewd down in close combat.
The other clones fired golden lasers at Bondrewd from multiple angles.
"Splendid~. What principle makes this work?"
Bondrewd drew a purple lightsaber out of thin air and blocked an approaching Kizaru clone.
The magnetically confined violet-wavelength laser blade collided with Kizaru's golden lightsaber, producing a low hum.
"So similar to an elemental body, yet capable of maintaining this degree of 'independence.'"
Kizaru's clone did not answer. The lightsaber in his hand merely flared.
After their brief clash, Bondrewd abruptly abandoned the contest of strength and flew backward, breaking contact with Kizaru's clone.
Three golden lasers and a blue-white electron beam shot toward Bondrewd from different angles.
Bondrewd evaded two of the lasers. These "light-speed attacks" could not be dodged in the conventional sense.
Unless Observation Haki could employ Mind Reading or Precognition, allowing the user to dodge in advance.
Otherwise, all one could do was gamble on a passive warning from the sixth sense, or simply take the hit.
-Bang! Vmmm!
The bright blue electron beam struck Bondrewd's shield. The shield rippled and deflected it.
But at the instant of deflection, the electron beam abruptly went "out of control," producing a dazzling plasma explosion in front of Bondrewd. His shield rippled and distorted, "disrupted."
As the massive discharge caused by Red Sprites ended, Shining also launched a rapid barrage of ranged attacks.
The third