Doflamingo dug all ten fingers into the fractured rock, veins bulging on the backs of his hands like twisted venomous snakes.
Boom!
A strange pulse erupted from the ground beneath his hands.
The pulse spread wildly through the rock in every direction.
Standing at the edge of the crater, Lorne immediately sensed something wrong beneath his feet.
The hard, rocky ground began to writhe violently.
The grayish-brown rock instantly lost its color, turning into strands of pure white string in the blink of an eye.
"Is this... Awakening?"
Lorne raised his right foot and stamped down hard.
Pfft!
His foot did not strike solid rock.
Instead, Lorne's right foot sank straight into a soft mass of white string.
"Fuffuffuffuffu!"
Doflamingo laughed wildly.
"This is the higher realm of Devil Fruit powers-Awakening!"
He kept both hands pressed against the ground as the strange pulse grew more intense.
Sin Island's central plaza collapsed completely.
The ruined buildings nearby, the towering clock tower, even the steel pipes buried deep underground all began to transform.
The solid materials lost their original shapes, twisting wildly before being assimilated into churning white strings.
Within moments, the vast stretch of ruins around them vanished completely, and the entire ground became a sea of white string.
"That brute strength you're so proud of is completely useless on this ground!"
Doflamingo jeered loudly and slowly rose.
The white strings beneath his feet gathered on their own, lifting him into the air.
Both of Lorne's legs were buried deep in the white strings.
He pulled his right leg free with force, only for the surrounding strings to coil around it like venomous snakes.
"Turning everything around you into string?"
Lorne swung his right fist, coated in Armament Haki, and smashed through the white strings wrapped around his leg.
"That ability