As ominous dark-purple clouds shrouded the skies above White Oak City, Illusia's Royal Capital, the Golden Oak Guards on the walls gripped their weapons tightly, their eyes fixed on the figure gradually coming into focus in the distance.
Lü Bu sat alone on horseback, the muscles beneath his Beast-Faced Swallow-Head Linked Armor shifting slightly. The pressure he naturally radiated made the surrounding air thick and sluggish. The flame-wreathed Red Hare pawed uneasily at the ground, as though sensing the terrifying power about to awaken within his master.
"Finally, a city worth the trouble." Lü Bu gently stroked the Sky Piercer. The dark-purple light flowing along its blade echoed the vortex gradually forming overhead.
In White Oak City, Arnold Likena stood atop the twenty-meter-high wall, observing the lone enemy general through a telescope. He could not understand why Hua Country had sent just one man to attack this mighty city, which boasted that it would "never fall."
"Cheap tricks!" Arnold Likena sneered and ordered, "Ready the laser cannons! Let this arrogant fool see what White Oak City can do!"
Yet before his orders could be fully relayed, a sudden change occurred.
Lü Bu slowly raised the Sky Piercer and unleashed the full power of his Giratina Fruit. A dark-purple Distortion World emblem appeared on his forehead, and netherworld light completely replaced his eyes.
"Distortion World-open!"
With his low shout, the entire sky began to twist and collapse around Lü Bu. An enormous vortex several kilometers across appeared above White Oak City. Deep within it, an inverted, disordered world of bizarre sights could faintly be seen.
"Wh-what is that?!" The defenders on the walls discovered in terror that their shadows had begun moving in reverse, the moat's water was pouring up into the sky, and even gravity had fallen into utter chaos.