Meanwhile, Dragon had forcibly steadied himself as he was hurled away.
Though blood had seeped from all seven orifices in the impact, leaving him a wretched sight, his eyes remained fierce.
He pressed both hands down, ignoring the stabbing pain in the bones of his arms, and unleashed his power with everything he had!
"Wind Domain: Sky Lock!"
The gray-green wind no longer attacked, instead turning into countless tough, invisible chains.
They wrapped around the space surrounding Gern from every direction, trying to restrict his movement and buy Shanks and Dragon time to recover.
But Gern did not even glance at the wind chains closing in.
After kicking Eight Desolations away, he abruptly clapped his hands together before his chest!
Between his palms, highly concentrated, almost liquid pale vibration energy gathered and compressed wildly, emitting a high-frequency shriek that made the scalp crawl!
Then he pulled his palms apart!
A gigantic sword of light appeared in his hands, formed entirely from pale vibration energy condensed to its utmost limit, roughly three meters long, its edges constantly warping!
"Heavenquake: Aurora Sword!"
With the sword of light in hand, Gern blasted the ice beneath his feet apart and shot skyward in a straight streak of pale light.
He broke through the blockade of wind chains in an instant and appeared before Dragon, who had just finished unleashing his ability!
"Slash!"
With that cold utterance, the sword of light swept diagonally downward!
Wherever its edge passed, the air was sliced cleanly apart, leaving pale fissures that lingered!
Dragon's pupils contracted. With no way to dodge, he could only concentrate all his Armament Haki into his arms and cross them to block!
BOOM!!!
The sword of light struck the defense of wind and Haki, erupting in dazzling pale light!
Dragon grunted. His sleeves were