Trapped inside the invisible, crushing cage of "Spatial Compression," powerful enough to pulverize steel, Kaido's enormous dragon-human body had been squeezed badly out of shape.
His scales shattered, blood kept spilling from the corners of his mouth, and even breathing became agonizingly difficult. Gern was almost literally squeezing Kaido into an ice cream cone!
Unfortunately, the terrifying vitality and willpower of the "World's Strongest Creature" were no joke!
Kaido's expression hardened. Far from submitting, he erupted with an even more savage aura!
"Ugh... OOOOHHH!!!"
Letting out a roar of pent-up fury, Kaido relied on his unbelievably powerful physique.
Braving the terrifying pressure around him that could crush a mountain, he forcibly shifted his left arm and seized the spiked club, Hassaikai, embedded deep in the ground beside him!
"Just... BREAK!!!" His expression twisted into utter savagery as he poured every scrap of strength he had left and his seething Conqueror's Haki into the iron club.
Ignoring the risk of tearing his body apart even further, he unleashed a ferocious ranged strike straight at Gern!
"Vajra Arrow!!"
"Vmmmm-"
An enormous, tightly condensed column of force burst from the club, wreathed in black-and-red Conqueror's Haki lightning.
Like a gigantic siege ram, it tore through the space warped by crushing vibrations and shot toward Gern at astonishing speed!
The blow might not have matched a direct strike in power, but its penetrating force and speed were extraordinary!
Meanwhile, Gern clearly had not expected Kaido to launch such a vicious counterattack from so desperate a position.
Faced with the hurtling "Vajra Arrow," he had no choice but to stop maintaining "Box Compression" and dodge sideways.
But the instant Gern's technique slackened-
"BOOM!!!" Kaido, who had already been poised to act, unleashed the Conqueror's Haki long suppressed within him like an erupting volcano!
A torrent