"It's ineffective, you know. It's already connected with the spiritual world, and..."
Kizaru looked at Tot Musica, who was rapidly stabilizing its form, and Uta singing loudly on its head, her back growing black wings in reality, and said, "Seems like you've stimulated it."
Black air currents quickly enveloped Tot Musica's body. In an instant, the demon, which still had a bit of musician elegance, transformed into a gigantic humanoid creature.
The keyboard arms transformed from two arms to four, extending like tentacles continuously. The head became more sinister, a terrifying large mouth occupied half of it, and the hat on its head turned into two horrific gaping mouths.
The skulls on its neck changed from three to five, burning, its fluid body turned into something like a bloody, rotten cake. The legs hadn't even formed when black clouds covered the lower half, and massive black wings suddenly unfolded, descending along with its overwhelmingly large body.
Boom!!
A colossal tsunami was stirred up, carrying a powerful impact.
Amidst the shock, Kizaru transformed into golden light, scattering outward.
Sage swiftly flashed, rushing to the bow of the Death Star, just about to act when he suddenly sensed something, instinctively swung to the side, catching Buggy, who flew out from the seawater due to the tsunami impact.
His whole body had completely fainted, his belly enlarged several times, his head tilted, continuously vomiting seawater.
"Off you go!"
Sage tossed Buggy onto the ship, simultaneously releasing a Haki Shock, propelling both the Death Star and Cross Guild's flagship into the air. Then he turned, punched backward, condensing Haki into a massive shock, blasting a temporary hole in the giant wave overhead.
The wave descended, passing through Sage's form, spreading across the island.
Instantly, the impact of the descending wave shattered the island into dust, dispersing it into the sea.
"A terrifying guy!"
Already arrived on the battleship and starting to retreat, Flying Squirrel wiped the sweat off his forehead, looking somewhat shaken.
Fortunately, they moved quickly, and not many people had come to the island to attend the concert. After bringing them onto the battleship, they promptly withdrew.
Otherwise, they would have sunk into the sea along with the remnants of the island.
"Oh~ What a terrifying power, and... there's also the trait of music."
Light appeared beside Sage, forming into Kizaru. He pursed his lips in surprise, looking at the black musical notes emerging from Tot Musica, and said:
"The power is comparable to ancient weapons, right? It can arbitrarily destroy islands. Compared to the records twelve years ago, this complete form of power is much more terrifying, as the spiritual world and reality have fully merged within it."
"Come on, is this considered an ancient weapon? If you say that, then you and I could be considered ancient weapons."
Sage sneered, "Just because the power is a bit greater doesn't mean there's no way to deal with it. Demons, these capabilities exist with both advantages and disadvantages, but there must surely be a way to counter them."
Besides fearing seawater, Ability Users truly rely on mutual clashing capabilities. Among the myriad abilities, no matter how invincible, there's always one suitable for countering.
Rubber doesn't fear lightning.
The Dice-Dice Fruit fears the Rust-Rust Fruit.
The Sing-Sing Fruit and Calm-Calm Fruit, sequentially.
Including the Quake-Quake Fruit, which has the ability to trigger earthquakes. So similarly, there must be an ability that can cause everything to stop.
Sage's More-More Fruit, since it can amplify, there must also be one for reducing and diminishing.
Whether wishes or demons, these otherworldly things born from human imagination must surely have a countering fruit.
Likewise, this thing already has one.
"Those soldiers, I guess they perished long ago in its spiritual world. After being absorbed, they transformed into soldiers, appearing in reality."
Sage said, "Its flaw lies here; this thing likely exists first as illusion, then reality, possibly triggered by a person in the spiritual world, appearing in the real world. The appearance twelve years ago probably was an incomplete existence. Such things, any Ability User of musical fruits, with sufficient talent, can achieve when studying the score."
"That thing truly lacks flaws, talking with pure strength, the victor can obtain everything."
"But only with the Sing-Sing Fruit, which induces people into a hypnotic spiritual world, can virtual and real fully merge into a complete form. It seems powerful, but flaws have also emerged. You know, Kizaru, as long as you attack a single point simultaneously, the same virtual-reality fusion can injure it."
Sage grinned, "For this existence, I don't even need transformation."
"Oh~ You seem well-prepared, looks like Vegapunk helped you quite a bit."
Kizaru nodded, glanced at the Death Star far out in the sea, "So, they fell asleep not purely due to carelessness?"
"Certainly careless, even Mihawk got lax... but in that instant, he should have been able to react. No matter how exaggerated an ability is, it's ultimately an ability; Haki isn't defenseless."
Sage said, "Since he didn't act, he probably saw me here, wanting to know what the spiritual world is like? It doesn't have the Sword Master he hopes for."
Just as he spoke, his eyes flashed crimson, a finger slightly lifted, "Since it's appeared, let's test its strength, Lily!"