"Next, let me show you what despair means."
When Yas's cold words, laden with the finality of a last judgment, echoed like the whisper of death through the deathly silent command center of G-1 Branch, every Marine officer's soul trembled violently beyond their control!
They did not know what would happen next. But the intuition born of their survival instincts screamed at them frantically, hysterically-the moment to witness a miracle had arrived!
The next second, Yas abruptly vanished from everyone's sight without a sound.
It was not high-speed movement! Not elementalization! Nor a spatial jump! It was pure, complete disappearance-as though he had been erased directly from this world!
Azure Thunder Flash, activated!
Inside the captain's quarters of the Leviathan, the main flagship of the Destruction-User United Fleet.
"Shipbreaker" Doriano, the great pirate with a bounty of five hundred million Beli who ruled a stretch of the New World through brutality and terror, furiously smashed the enormous barrel of liquor in his hands against the floor!
"Useless! Every last one of you is useless!" His brown-bear-like bulk shook violently with rage. "What the hell happened?! Why have everyone's powers stopped working?! Why has the shelling stopped too?!"
Only moments earlier, he had been immersed in the ecstasy of soon breaching G-1 Branch and making his name known throughout the world, but in the blink of an eye, the enormous fleet he took such pride in had descended into inexplicable chaos! An invisible, chilling force kept eating away at his body, making him feel the terrifying strength he prided himself on, enough to shatter a warship with one punch, rapidly draining away!
"Bastard! Whoever's behind this! Once I drag you out, I'll chew you up, bones and all!" Doriano let out an earth-shaking roar, a sinister metallic sheen gleaming on his