He's Already Lost?!

Seeing the incoming Shattered Mirror, Kaido bristled his dragon scales, an effect similar to human hair standing on end.

However, his heart did not hold a shred of fear or tension; instead, it brimmed with excitement-truly a battle maniac!

He desperately mobilized his Armament Haki, forgoing all-around defense and instead focusing heavily on vital spots like his heart and head, preparing to take Su Yu's attack head-on.

The next second, that seemingly fragile yet terrifyingly formidable Shattered Mirror arrived before Kaido, then slowly yet unstoppably collided with his body.

The two collided without producing any huge sound or stirring up any ripples, as if everything happened completely naturally. That huge mirror collided with Kaido's seemingly indestructible body, then silently shattered completely, while Kaido seemed completely unharmed, without even a single hair missing from his body.

The onlookers were a bit dumbfounded. That move's visual effects had been maxed out just now, right? And Kaido's attacks had been completely ineffective, only for it to end like this?! Not a single effect at all?!

At this moment, everyone held their breath, and the two fighting above also stopped moving. This realm seemed to suddenly grow quiet, abandoning its previous clamor.

Kizaru and Rayleigh were also a bit puzzled. That move looked like it should have immense power, and Su Yu was not one to make pointless gestures either. Afterwards, they suddenly noticed a very strange thing: why was Kaido standing completely motionless after taking that hit?

No, they could not exactly call it motionless either. With the two men's visual acuity, they could see that Kaido's very flowing whiskers seemed frozen in midair! Kaido was not failing to move; he was unable to move!

Kaido's entire dragon form seemed frozen in space! It was just like a three-dimensional painting.

After noticing this, the two men drew in a sharp breath. This move was a bit too terrifying; once hit, it seemed they would be directly KO'd!

They had also witnessed how futile Kaido's previous resistance was. If one could not block it, then did this move only leave escaping the attack range at extreme speed as an option?

Yet would Su Yu leave such an obvious flaw? Of course not! Su Yu had actually not unleashed this move's original power at all; otherwise, the space of the entire One Piece World could not have withstood it!

"Crack-"

Suddenly, the previously quiet atmosphere was broken by a cracking sound, much like the sound of breaking glass. Then the cracking sounds rang out one after another, and the source of the sound was... none other than Kaido himself!

They saw that Kaido, who had been completely intact just a moment ago, suddenly had his entire body shatter as if filled with terrifying cracks. The dragon scales on his body burst apart inch by inch, and scaleless streams of scorching dragon blood splashed wildly as if they cost nothing, resembling a red rain starting to fall below. This blood loss volume was super exaggerated!

This was not even the end! Kaido's dragon claws had already lost their original shape, looking like a few pieces of rotting flesh dangling from his abdomen, barely connected to his body. The dragon horns on his forehead also directly snapped and shattered, leaving only small stumps behind. That entire form of Kaido could no longer be called a dragon at all, resembling instead a bloody, mutilated giant snake-what a miserable sight to behold!

At this time, Kaido seemed to thaw out and was finally able to move. A shrill dragon roar echoed across the heavens and earth-truly enough to move anyone to tears. Afterwards, the heavily injured Kaido no longer had the strength to stay in the sky and plummeted directly toward the ground.

A huge lump of Kaido plunging from the sky gave the people below a massive scare; if this thing smashed down, it would cost people their lives!

Fortunately, Kaido was heavily injured and no longer had excess power to maintain his beast form, so during the fall, he had already reverted to human shape.

Reverting to human form, Kaido looked slightly better than in his dragon shape, but his appearance was still extremely wretched. His limbs were still relatively intact, but they had basically lost their shape, and the cracks on his body remained. Fortunately, the cracks on his head and chest position were not quite as deep, and furthermore, the blood loss volume was super high-the entire person had turned completely red.

Just like that, a minor giant over seven meters tall made a direct free fall from a height of over a hundred meters, smashing a huge crater into the ground. When the flying dust dispersed, all that was left in the crater was a half-dead Kaido.

Kizaru looked at Kaido sprawled in the crater, feeling internal shock, and mumbled blankly, "Kaido... has he been defeated just like that?!"

As for the remaining watching pirates, they were practically scared to death. What had happened? Exactly what had happened? Kaido of the Beasts, the Four Emperors Kaido, had fallen just like that?! He took a single move and went down?!

At this moment, the half-dead Kaido in the crater twitched, moved again, and then actually struggled to climb back up bit by bit! And as he slowly climbed to his feet, the wounds on his body gradually began to heal, and his limbs also slowly began to recover!

One had to know that Kaido's previous injuries could no longer be described as severe; if placed on anyone else, it would already have been more than enough to die several times over, not to mention falling directly from a height of over a hundred meters afterwards. Still, since Kaido frequently "cliff-jumped" before, maybe he had developed antibodies, but even setting aside cliff-jumping, the fact that he was still alive was already awesome enough!

Now Kaido was not only still alive, but even the wounds on his body were practically gone. Aside from being covered in bloodstains, there was completely no sign that he had been injured previously. Truly, only a name could be given in error, but never a nickname; he well deserved his moniker of the immortal Kaido!

However, although he had already stood up and the wounds on his body had all healed, fatigue and weakness could still be seen on Kaido's face. It seemed that recovering from such astonishing injuries beforehand was not without its price.

This terrifying recovery ability was partly because Kaido's original physical constitution was extremely boundary-pushing, and partly because of the so-called Devil Fruit Awakening.

Awakenings varied depending on the type of fruit. Paramecia awakening allowed the user's abilities to affect the surrounding environment, while Logia awakening increased elemental control and greatly amplified attack power.

Once Zoan users awakened, they possessed terrifying recovery abilities, and their combat power received a terrifying boost-a point most pronounced in the case of Kaido.

Yet awakenings also carried the possibility of failure. Take Zoan users, for instance: if they failed, they would forever remain unable to revert to human form. Those bizarre koala- and zebra-like jailers in Impel Down were simply the unlucky victims of failed fruit awakenings.

At this time, Su Yu also slowly dropped back down to the ground, arriving in front of Kaido. The residents and pirates who had originally been here had long since hidden far away, and now they looked at Su Yu as if gazing upon celestial beings.

Was he not a celestial being, after all? In their eyes, Kaido was like a world-destroying demon leaving them powerless to resist, while Su Yu, who had struck down the demon in a single move, was beyond their imagination.