"Has Golden Lion gone mad?! Why is the entire arena starting to collapse?!"
"Damn it, help! Stop the match immediately! I'm withdrawing! Is anyone in charge?!"
Amidst the terrified screams, the blood-moon and white slash finally exploded. A terrifying storm swept through, turning into waves of death scythes that engulfed the entire venue, instantly taking an unknown number of lives.
"Hahahaha! A bunch of weaklings, not worthy of being my opponents."
In the crowd, a pirate with a bounty of 420,000,000 Berries laughed loudly.
"Fight! Fight to your heart's content!"
"When you all fight until both sides are heavily injured, that will be the time for me, Orano, to make my move."
"Just thinking about being able to step on both the legendary pirate Golden Lion and an Admiral at the same time, this feeling is simply beyond amazing."
Whoosh!
Gale winds carried countless sharp gravel and broken blades, raging and dancing across the arena. However, no matter how these gravel, capable of easily piercing armor, impacted, they could not shake the young figure in the sky.
His black hair gently fluttered, and a faint glow shimmered in his cerulean eyes. Renji's smile remained calm and composed from beginning to end.
"The Float-Float Fruit, capable of making oneself or inanimate objects float. Hmm..."
Renji stroked his chin. "It has a bit of a psychokinesis feel to it."
His gaze swept towards Shiki, whose veins were bulging all over his body. With Lv. 7 Heavenly Six Eyes, he could see that Shiki's blood flow was accelerating throughout his body due to fully activating his Devil Fruit ability, and a large amount of mental and physical energy was being consumed frantically.
The cost of using the Devil Fruit ability in this way was naturally not small, it would undoubtedly cause a significant loss to his lifespan. But Shiki couldn't care less about that at this moment.
In the face of a life-or-death crisis, shortening his lifespan and dying prematurely from overuse of his ability was nothing.
"Kid, your name is Renji, right? I acknowledge you."
Shiki's golden hair flew upwards towards the sky, his entire sleeves puffed out by the wind, and a terrifying aura exploded, shaking the ground and air wildly.
He looked exactly like an old man in a novel making a desperate last stand, exhausting his final essence to unleash his strongest attack.
"Just this one move, I offer you my highest respect. Feel my power, Renji!" Shiki roared, even coughing up blood.
However, his face showed no concern for it, his weathered face filled with madness.
In a place imperceptible to everyone on the island, a terrifying aura, centered on Shiki, enveloped the entire Galzburg island, brewing frantically.
The Marines and the World government agents near the coast were all horrified, some even pale with fear at the sight before them.
"Hey Lucci, what do you think... is the situation now?!"
Kaku had already transformed into his giraffe form. Under this pressure, he could no longer maintain his composure.
Lucci shifted his gaze from the blank screen, looking at the apocalyptic scene. His heart also felt heavy, he had underestimated Golden Lion's strength.
"Is this the peak strength of the old era's powerhouses?"
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"Captain, do we really have to stay here?" Laffitte looked at Blackbeard with fear, trying to persuade him to leave for now.
"If worse comes to worst, it wouldn't be too late to come back after they've fought enough, right?"
The other crew members shared this thought, but Blackbeard's eyes were deep, and he did not give the order to retreat, pondering something unknown.
On Renji's battleship, Miguel felt powerless watching the scene before him.
"To think that boss is fighting such a person. Damn it! I can't do anything!"
Yamakaji, who had seen many storms, was also speechless at this moment.
"Such a natural disaster is beyond our influence. It all depends on Admiral Seiryu."
At this moment, the giant island, under Shiki's full activation of his Float-Float Devil Fruit ability, had completely risen into the air, detaching from the ground. Simultaneously, a vast vortex, larger than the entire island, opened up above.
Countless gravel and strong winds transformed into torrents of ocean-like tornadoes, being sucked upwards into the sky.
It looked like an abyssal maw opened by a peerless giant beast hidden in the dark sky, devouring the vitality of the human world.
Around the island, even more terrifying storms were gradually forming. The sea surface trembled and surged, and underwater currents churned.
Even an Admiral like Fujitora felt a life-or-death crisis.
Putting down his ramen, Fujitora slowly drew Yakuza Kasen, subtly emitting a terrifying aura. His lightless eyes struggled to open and look upwards.
"What a terrifying disaster. It's hard to believe that such a natural disaster is man-made."
Under the perception of his incredibly powerful Observation Haki, even though he was blind, no one near the coast was more aware of the horror of this disaster than Fujitora.
It was a catastrophe even more terrifying than the tsunami that destroyed Marineford two years ago.
"General Commander Renji, although you told us to stay put, in this situation, we can't just stand by."
Fujitora's face was extremely grim. Suddenly, circles of purple gravity halos appeared layer by layer on Yakuza Kasen. Terrifying gravity instantly fell, and the surrounding Marine soldiers were all shocked by the power fluctuations he emitted.
Just as Fujitora was about to make his move, his expression suddenly changed.
"This is!?"
On the arena, the ground was torn apart, swept into the sky by gusts of wind, creating a horrifying scene.
But high in the sky, there was still one person who remained completely unaffected.
"Is this your strength, Golden Lion?" Renji's expression was still very relaxed, and his tone was playful.
"Come on, don't disappoint me too much."
"Cough, cough!"
Two more mouthfuls of blood spewed out of Shiki's mouth.
Looking at the extremely arrogant figure in the sky, Shiki coughed up blood, either from overexertion or from being angered.
"Laugh, laugh. Soon... you won't be able to laugh anymore!"
As Shiki let out a sudden roar, his arm muscles swelled, and at the same time, it seemed he couldn't control this power and had reached his limit, his skin and flesh breaking open and bursting with blood mist.
Although he had reached an awakened level of control at this point, his body had clearly reached its limit due to the reckless activation of his Devil Fruit ability.
"Hahahahaha! My strongest world-destroying attack, all of you die!" Shiki roared, his piercing eyes bursting with unprecedented brilliance.
He spread his arms, then clenched his ten fingers tightly with a sudden force.
In an instant, as Shiki clenched his ten fingers, the entire world was put on pause. Kaido, Crocodile, Fujitora, Aramaki, and other powerhouses were all utterly shocked and speechless.
At this moment, the world was silent, everything stopped, falling into a distorted white. Only a pair of cerulean eyes, like the eternal lamp of a god, stood unyielding amidst this white torrent of fragments.
"Dragon Scales. Repulsion. Paired Falling Stars."
World-Cutting Slash!