At the center of the N-7 Sea Area, it was as though an invisible giant hand had gouged out a piece of heaven and earth. On one side lay the utter destruction brought by Akainu Sakazuki-magma churned, black smoke blotted out the sky, seawater either evaporated or boiled and bubbled, and the air reeked of pungent sulfur and death. On the other, where Lü Bu stood, there was an eerie, deathly stillness. Dark purple Netherworld Energy writhed like a living thing, devouring light and sound. Even the boiling seawater rapidly cooled and dimmed as it approached this region, as though the very concepts of life and energy were being reversed and eroded by some power.
Akainu stood with his arms folded, magma flowing and dripping over his body like blood, scorching wisps of smoke from the volcanic rock temporarily solidified beneath his feet. His face was iron-dark, his gaze like a tangible branding iron fixed on the defiant figure opposite him. "Lü Bu... Hmph. Another piece of pirate scum who fancies himself powerful. Your Hua Country is nothing but a swarm of ants gathered beneath a criminal's flag, deluding yourselves that you can challenge the world's order."
Rather than grow angry, Lü Bu laughed, his laughter as wild and defiant as tearing metal, drowning out even the roar of boiling magma. "Order? Red dog, the order you speak of is nothing but shackles the strong impose on the weak! True order should be defined by the strongest! And today"-he slammed the Sky Piercer into the ground, driving its tip into the rock with a thunderous thud, and dark purple Netherworld Aura erupted skyward like a volcano, staining hundreds of meters of sea around him an ominous purple-black-"I, Lü Fengxian, will show you what a new order means!"
"Hell Hound!"
Akainu