Meanwhile, Huang Zhong's battle with Manmaiya Diliya unfolded in an entirely different fashion.
As a gunner of the Holy Knights, Manmaiya wielded an oddly shaped rifle covered in mysterious patterns. She was in no hurry to attack, instead moving along the edges of the battlefield in search of an opportunity for a one-shot kill.
"Old general, going to war at your age-aren't you afraid of throwing your back out?" Manmaiya chuckled as her rifle suddenly spat fire! Specially made Seastone Bullets, coated in her Armament Haki, shot toward Huang Zhong along bizarre curves!
Huang Zhong stood unmoving as his Dialga Fruit ability quietly activated. "Time Arrow: Slow Flow." The incoming bullets abruptly slowed upon entering a ten-meter radius around him, like insects trapped in amber!
"A paltry trick." At some point, Huang Zhong had already drawn his Iron-Backed Bow to full tension, blue temporal energy coiling around the arrowhead! "Time Arrow: Instant!" The moment the arrow left the string, time seemed to stop! Only that arrow crossed space at a speed beyond thought, aimed straight between Manmaiya's brows!
Manmaiya's pupils contracted, and she hurriedly twisted aside! The arrow grazed her cheek, taking a strand of hair with it! More terrifying still, time flowed abnormally wherever the arrow passed, and faint signs of aging actually appeared on her skin!
"Time powers?!" Manmaiya finally cast aside her contempt, her gaze turning grave. She swiftly changed magazines, loading specially made explosive rounds this time. "Looks like I'll have to take you seriously, old man!"
Huang Zhong stood with his hand on his bow as the energy behind him slowly took the shape of a phantom Dialga. "You little runt, I could tell at a glance you were an old hag. Why pretend to be young before a master of time like me?"
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