Time returned to the center of the main battlefield in the N-7 Sea Area earlier, where the sky seemed to have been torn apart by two utterly different manifestations of the "qualities of a king." Saint Figarland Shamrock's dark-red Conqueror's Haki surged skyward like a boiling sea of blood, mingled with the ominous, shadowy aura brought on by the awakened Cerberus Fruit of his sword. Space warped and all things withered wherever it passed, filled with an oppressive force of destruction and death.
Standing against it as an equal was Guan Yu's green-gold Conqueror's Haki, soaring into the heavens, radiant as heavenly might. The power of wind and thunder stirred by the Rayquaza Fruit coiled and surged within it, bearing the will to tear apart the firmament and command the weather. The two kingly auras collided and pressed against each other fiercely in midair, unleashing countless bolts of interwoven red-black and gold-green Conqueror's Haki lightning with soul-rending roars. This clash of their auras alone depressed the sea below and scattered the clouds, as though the apocalypse had arrived.
The deathly silence across the entire sea was more suffocating than the earlier clamor. All the surviving Marines and Hua Country Soldiers, whether commanders locked in fierce combat or soldiers struggling to survive, involuntarily slowed their movements and turned their eyes toward the two figures facing each other like towering mountains. This was a clash at the pinnacle that would soon determine the course of the war, and might even affect the balance of the world!
"Guan Yu..." Figarland began slowly. His voice was calm, yet carried an icy pressure that pierced the soul and reached everyone's ears clearly. "You have usurped the West Blue, presumed to claim sovereign rule, recklessly taken up arms, and challenged the World Government's eight hundred years