"What?"
Another member of the Holy Knights looked shocked as well.
"This guy isn't using any weapons. Does he intend to fight the Light of Annihilation with his body?"
"Is he kidding?"
"That's enough energy to vaporize an island in an instant!"
"Does he think his body is made of Seastone?"
An officer loudly challenged him.
"No, even Seastone would melt into molten iron in an instant under a direct hit from the Light of Annihilation!"
The Adjutant spoke through gritted teeth.
"This guy is completely insane!"
"He's challenging the authority of the World Government!"
"The energy reading has exceeded the critical threshold!"
"The strength of his flesh... no human could possibly have a body like this!"
The monitoring technician's voice cracked as he watched the red alerts flashing wildly across the screen.
"Sir, the target's energy index is still rising!"
"His body is surrounded by highly concentrated lightning and Conqueror's Haki coating!"
"Damn it, is this monster really human?"
"Fire immediately! Vaporize him!"
The commander finally lost control and roared.
Murderous madness flickered in his eyes.
"Yes, sir!"
"Light of Annihilation, fire!"
As the operator pulled down the red lever, countless enormous gun ports beneath the fortress simultaneously unleashed dazzling streams of red light.
Countless streams of red light converged in midair into a massive beam more than a hundred meters in diameter.
The beam thundered downward, carrying a terrifying aura of destruction that threatened all things.
Tiny black cracks appeared in space wherever the beam passed.
Those distortions formed because space could not withstand the immense energy.
The entire sky turned blood-red in that instant.
The violent energy fluctuations whipped the sea below into towering waves.
At that moment, in Wano Country's Flower Capital below, countless evacuating civilians stopped in their tracks.
They raised their heads in despair,