The situation was critical.
Charlotte Linlin could only use Armament Haki to protect Kaido's wounds.
She had to prevent his condition from worsening.
Meanwhile, the endless stream of magma.
Corroded numerous wounds into both of their bodies.
"Damn Marines!!!!!!"
The lava planted by Sakazuki when he withstood a slash finally erupted.
Adding insult to injury for the already heavily wounded Kaido, though Charlotte Linlin discovered it in time and attached Armament Haki to block it.
Yet at this moment, Kaido was breathing his last.
Watching Kaido on the verge of death, Charlotte Linlin was nearly driven mad as anger shattered her reason.
Still, for Kaido's sake, she forcibly controlled herself.
An idea struck her in an instant, and with a fierce look in her eyes, she gazed at the surrounding pirates and marines.
"Give me your lifespans!"
Following Charlotte Linlin's roar, Conqueror's Haki swept out alongside the power of the Soul-Soul Fruit.
"Life or Slave!"
Every single pirate and marine caught in the shockwave visibly aged and died.
"Ahhhhhhh!"
"Help me!!!!!"
"Big Sister Linlin, we're on your side!!!"
"Bastard!!!"
"Run, hurry and run!"
"Big Sister has lost her mind!!!"
"Madwoman!"
"Save me!!!"
Countless pirates and marines wailed and cursed.
Watching themselves and those around them visibly age.
These emotions ultimately transformed into that emotion known as fear.
Accompanied by the reluctance of their shattered ambitions and dreams, they closed their eyes and lost their breath.
In an instant, countless pirates and marines died in droves.
The entire battlefield fell silent, all of them staring in terror at the magma-drenched figure holding a man.
Charlotte Linlin had no time to care about that.
The collected lifespans gathered in her right hand and pressed swiftly against Kaido.
She poured the lifespans harvested from thousands of people entirely into Kaido.
As the lifespans were poured in, Kaido's aura gradually rose, but the lifespans in her hand were also consuming at an alarming rate.
Not daring to hesitate, Charlotte Linlin picked up Kaido once more and charged toward Rocks's pirate ship.
Along the way, she incidentally harvested the lifespans of pirates and marines, leaving behind nothing but the corpses of turned elders in her wake.
And the pirates on this battlefield, having experienced Sakazuki's two magma-cleansing waves.
The morale they had managed to reorganize with such difficulty.
Finally, under Charlotte Linlin's harvesting, completely collapsed!
By the time Charlotte Linlin charged onto Rocks's ship.
People across the entire battlefield slowly began to move, walk, and finally run, with all the pirates charging toward the few remaining pirate ships.
"Bastard, get down here!"
"Get lost, this is Laozi's ship!"
"I'm begging you, let me up!
"I'm a navigator!"
"Go to hell!!"
"Step aside!"
"Die!!!"
Countless pirates swarmed forward.
Brotherhood and loyalty appeared utterly worthless at this moment.
To board the ship, they slaughtered each other relentlessly, flesh and blood flying everywhere.
Leaving corpses strewn across the ground...
On the other side.
Sakazuki knew nothing of all this.
He only knew through vague sensory abilities that the magma left inside Kaido had erupted.
As for whether he would die...
With Charlotte Linlin's Devil Fruit power, even just plundering others' lifespans to infuse Kaido made it unlikely he would die so easily.
Still, burning away a few organs was undoubtedly unavoidable; Kaido had thick skin, but not thick viscera.
"BIG MOM..."
A slightly deep voice rang out, and then Sakazuki, transformed into magma, continued to surge toward the depths of God Valley.
He was going to send Rocks and the Celestial Dragons... a great gift!
I do not know how much time passed, but the temperature gradually rose as he descended about several thousand meters.
Finally, he felt a hint of heat-the radiating warmth of the rolling magma beneath the crust.
Sakazuki dropped into the magma, his upper body transforming back into human form.
Standing upon the surface of the magma, he closed his eyes and manipulated his power, causing the endless magma underground to flow around Sakazuki.
Time seemed to freeze; at this moment, Sakazuki was the god who commanded molten rock.
More and more magma converged, growing increasingly restless, with countless magma bubbles forming and exploding.
After a long while.
"Don't rush, it is not yet time."
Sakazuki slowly opened his eyes as his deep voice rang out.
It was like an aging father comforting his child.
And that restless magma, after Sakazuki's soft whisper, actually quieted down bit by bit.
Only Sakazuki knew what kind of energy was contained beneath this calm magma.
That was a power capable of easily erasing a country from navigational charts.
That was a power capable of making the Four Blues endure eternal winter; that was... a power sufficient to destroy the world.
"We still lack a catalyst..."
He raised his head to gaze upward, his gaze seeming to pierce through several thousand meters of earth.
He saw those few heaven-shattering figures engaged in battle, then transformed back into magma.
Surging upward toward that place of clashing combat, the earth along his path.
All of it transformed into rolling magma, carving out an outlet for this restless magma to vent.
"Soon... soon..."
Sakazuki's deep voice echoed within this sea of magma thousands of meters underground.
As if understanding, the magma cheered and leaped about, growing hotter and hotter...
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