"This was the moment I was waiting for!!!" Gern's roar exploded across the shattered battlefield, his figure becoming a streak of pale lightning amid the rain of crystals.
He raised both arms at once, vibration particles revolving around him like stellar rings as fine cracks began to spread across his skin.
He was compressing the entire Heavenquake Domain!!!!
"Final Quake..." The sky suddenly darkened, as though even the sun had been swallowed.
Nine pale quake rings, each ten thousand meters across, unfolded in layers across the heavens like wheels of judgment bestowed by a god.
Within each ring, space twisted and collapsed under high-frequency tremors. Light was crushed into pale stardust, while the rubble, seawater, and even air on the battlefield silently disintegrated into streams of elementary particles.
"Godfall Star Ring!"
The first quake ring thunderously contracted onto the blade of Black Blade: Eight Desolations!
BOOM-!!!
The surface of the entire island vanished in an instant. It had not collapsed or shattered; it had simply been reduced to nothingness.
The ground beneath Roger's feet disappeared like a pencil drawing rubbed out by an eraser. He could even see the soles of his battle boots dissolving into particles.
"You madman!!" Roger snapped his head up. The second quake ring had already begun to contract.
Dark red lightning erupted from his entire body with unprecedented intensity. His Conqueror's Haki no longer coated his blade, but formed a towering Haki tornado centered on him, forcibly resisting the tearing force of collapsing space!
But the price was that blood began seeping through his skin, and his bones groaned under the unbearable strain.
Gern hovered at the center of the ninth quake ring, blood flowing from his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, yet a crazed smile spread across his face.
Then the fifth and sixth