"The sky... split open!"
The instant that thought flashed through the flying ability user's mind, he lost the ability to think forever.
Rumble!
A thunderclap so deep that it sounded as though the entire planet were groaning in pain exploded from the deepest reaches of the clouds stained entirely black and red!
That was no ordinary sound!
It was a "roar of God" that could act directly upon the soul and make all things tremble!
Then!
Before the utterly horrified eyes of the tens of thousands of pirates on Bakira Island!
One bolt! Ten! A hundred! A thousand!
Countless bolts of Black-and-Red Lightning, thicker than barrels, wreathed in eerie blood-colored patterns and filled with an aura of pure destruction, poured madly from the split heavens like world-ending spears cast down by a god!
Their target was not any single ship or person!
It was the entire island of Bakira!
Everything in these waters!
"Wh... what the hell is thiiiiis?!"
"It's divine punishment! Divine punishment!"
"Run! Find cover!"
The pirates who had been so arrogant just a second before now plunged into apocalyptic panic and despair!
They scattered frantically, trying to find anywhere they could hide.
But it was useless.
Against this indiscriminate carpet bombardment of lightning that covered the entire island, hiding anywhere had become meaningless!
Crack!
A bolt of Black-and-Red Lightning struck a flying warship attempting to take off with pinpoint accuracy.
The sturdy warship, forged from special alloy and capable of withstanding repeated bombardment from naval main guns, did not even have time to explode when the lightning touched it!
Like a fragile model tossed into an ultrahigh-voltage electric arc, it was completely vaporized and disintegrated from the inside out, from bow to stern, in an instant by that incomparably overwhelming destructive energy!
In the end, not even