Gern's pupils turned completely white, and the vibration particles swirling around him abruptly stilled. Even the air seemed to freeze.
"Heavenquake..." He slowly raised his right hand, palm down, then sharply clenched his fingers.
"Space Dominion: All Things Disintegration!!"
Hum! A pure-white quake ring expanded from beneath his feet at blinding speed, instantly covering the entire battlefield!
Space within the ring shuddered violently. High-frequency shock waves distorted gravity, sending loose stones floating impossibly off the ground, only to disintegrate into dust a second later.
Light refracted and shattered inside the quake ring, forming countless pale, prism-like fissures. The entire world seemed to have been sliced into fragments.
Roger's body suddenly sank, as though an invisible mire had engulfed him. Every movement became ten times slower.
More terrifying still, he could distinctly feel his bones, muscles, and even his blood gradually resonating... with the vibration frequency of space itself!
"Not good, my body... is disintegrating?!"
He looked down and saw fine cracks spreading across the skin of his arm, like crazing on porcelain.
Gern's figure slowly emerged at the center of the quake ring, his voice icy. "Drown in the vibrations, Roger!!!"
"Hegemon Skeleton!!" Roger roared, and Conqueror's Haki erupted from his body like a volcano!
Dark-red lightning forcibly pushed back the quake ring's restraints. His muscles tightened and his veins bulged, every step collapsing the ground beneath him.
Ace's edge was wrapped in unprecedented Haki as Roger brought him slashing down at Gern!
Gern's pupils narrowed. "He can actually resist the disintegration effect with Haki..."
But a second later, a cold smile curved his lips.
"Unfortunately, you can't hold out for long."
The quake ring contracted again, and the rate of spatial disintegration... abruptly accelerated!
For a time, across this ten-thousand-mile seabed battlefield that Gern had forcibly carved out with