Saint Nusjuro was dead!
Judged by the standards of an ordinary person, he had died countless times in his life.
Yet none of those deaths had been as despairing as facing Shane.
The final punch flew.
Only the Headquarters building remained in Marineford.
Shane leaped back up high, lightning racing and waves surging.
With white light and electricity radiating from his entire body, Shane resembled a god returning from beyond the heavens after the apocalypse to create the world anew.
Almost casually.
Shane raised a hand and opened an Air Door.
Afterward, it was as though nothing had happened.
He quietly waited for the final battle to arrive.
At last.
A swarm of writhing worms appeared beneath the Headquarters building.
They headed toward the summit, seemingly wailing, yet also seemingly roaring.
As they climbed, they coalesced into five human figures, all elderly men with grizzled beards.
Halfway up, each transformed into a demon from myth.
After reaching the summit.
Each transformed again into his strongest hybrid form.
The world's mightiest demons were going to slay a god!
They had succeeded once before, turning Heaven and Earth upside down for eight hundred years.
This time.
If this were the true prophecy, the Five Elders really would have had a sliver of a chance; at worst, they would only have lost narrowly.
The trouble was that Shane was too powerful.
Even Imu from eight hundred years ago would have been torn to pieces!
The Five Elders punched simultaneously. Against Shane, fighting with Haki-infused Rokushiki was the best approach.
Boom!
Even the Headquarters building was shattered, while dents and hollows appeared all over Shane's body.
As the Five Elders applied more force, they felt the rebounding force grow stronger.
Until they could no longer inflict any damage!
All their attacks, along with their