BOOM-!!!!
The tremendous impact threatened to burst their eardrums...
First, an enormous Laser Beam struck the dragon's head, knocking it slightly off course.
Then a black tiger-shaped Sword Aura, imbued with immense gravity, slammed into Kaido with the weight of a mountain. The black tiger collided with the flaming Azure Dragon, sending shock waves sweeping outward...
The slash did no real damage to Kaido, but its irresistible force sent him crashing sideways...
His enormous dragon body slammed into the ground and rolled. His whipping tail swept past Luo, carrying blades of air sharp enough to slice open his face, before smashing into the ground...
Under the tremendous impact, the island on the verge of sinking split into several large pieces. Seawater rushed into the gaps with a deafening roar.
Luo relaxed and withdrew the long blade in his hand. More than half of it had already shattered.
Still reeling from the surge of adrenaline, he gasped for breath:
"Hah-"
"Hah-"
Issho flew low over the sea and landed beside Luo:
"We were still a step too late..."
The shattered island and the scattered bodies of Navy Soldiers all lay within Issho's Observation Haki...
No one had expected Kaido's surprise attack. No... perhaps they had considered it, but no one had expected an Emperor like Kaido to stoop so low...
He had bypassed Borsalino and Issho, who were guarding the front lines, to attack an island whose highest-ranking defender was only a rear admiral...
The unspoken rule that the leaders on both sides restrained themselves from slaughtering ordinary pirates and soldiers had been utterly broken...
By the time Borsalino and Luo arrived, a third of the island had already been destroyed. Only after holding Kaido off for so long had they barely managed to evacuate most of the survivors...
And now