At the edge of the square, at the end of the charred trench.
Enel struggled out of the deep crater. His entire body was blackened, his white harem pants were in tatters, and blood kept spilling from the corners of his mouth. His once neatly combed long hair hung loose, caked with dust. A distinct palm print patterned with fine dragon scales was deeply sunken into his chest. The flesh around it had turned an eerie blue-gold, as though some force were constantly eating away at it, cutting it apart and preventing it from healing.
That palm strike had not only grievously injured his body. A savage power of rules, imbued with the will to "rend" and "negate," had invaded him, ravaging his lightning core and making even Elementalization extraordinarily difficult and painful.
"Cough, cough... Pfft!" Enel coughed up another mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of his organs. He stared fixedly at the green figure walking slowly out of the shattered shrine, his golden eyes bloodshot and filled with an almost insane, hysterical venom.
"Damn you... You damned Blue Sea insect! You dared... dared to damage this god's perfect body!" Enel's voice was hoarse and distorted. He raised a trembling hand, and electricity began dancing around him again, but compared with before, its light was dim and erratic. "Unforgivable... Absolutely unforgivable! I'll wipe you... and this entire island... from this world!!!"
Utter rage and terror gave rise to a madness bent on destroying everything.
Enel flung his arms wide and threw back his head with an inhuman roar! The Three Tomoe Drums on his back exploded, turning into pure lightning energy that merged into his body. Above him, the clear skies of Sky Island abruptly changed! Endless black clouds surged in from every direction, covering the whole sky over