"Hehehehe~"
"I've never learned how to 'get the hell off' anywhere. Why don't you demonstrate it for me first?!"
Aeridar let out a low, mocking laugh and soared straight up to meet her head-on.
"Then go die!"
Charlotte Linlin bellowed in a towering rage. Under Aeridar's astonished gaze, her giant sword Napoleon underwent a grotesque transformation, the blade warped and twisted, shifting into a massive saber with a ravenous, demonic maw.
Sizzle... Sizzle...
The next instant, electricity flared violently across Zeus's body as he discharged a concentrated bolt into the giant blade. Instantly, the transformed saber morphed into a magical, lightning-wreathed weapon of pure destruction.
Cognac: Hahaba!!!
"Secret Fist Technique: Bear King Pillar!!!"
Aeridar roared. His arms bulged and expanded rapidly, turning into what looked like two jet-black metallic pillars before slamming forward with unadorned, brute force.
The air detonated with a deafening crack as his fists, draped in a razor-sharp vortex of gale-force winds, crashed brutally against the lightning-engulfed saber.
BOOM!
The cataclysmic collision sent a violent tremor through the atmosphere. A fierce shockwave erupted outward, accompanied by dozens of red-and-black streaks of Conqueror's Haki and blinding white lightning that tore wildly through the air.
Moments later, a devastating sonic boom ripped across the sky. The compressed white air burst outward in a massive ring, swirling into a hurricane-force gale that swept across the heavens and the earth, violently impacting half of Whole Cake Island. Below them in the Seducing Woods, countless tree and flower Homies were uprooted by the sheer force of the wind, while in the surrounding towns, rows of buildings collapsed like a row of knocked-over toy blocks.
"Golden Ring brat!!!"
Amidst the swirling, chaotic tempest, Charlotte Linlin's face contorted into a mask of pure malice. She roared, hoisting her giant saber once more to cleave Aeridar in two.
Pop!
The air rippled faintly. Aeridar vanished in a fraction of a second, leaving her massive blade to slice through empty space.
The next second, Aeridar materialized behind Big Mom like a ghostly specter. Shaping his right hand into a piercing palm strike, his entire right arm began to vibrate at a speed invisible to the naked eye. Shrouded in black Haki, his arm transformed into a lethal, buzzing blade as he thrust it toward the old woman's back.
High-Frequency Vibration Black Blade!!!
Screeech—
The pitch-black hand pierced through the air with a piercing, ear-splitting shriek.
"You bastard!!!"
Caught between shock and fury, Charlotte Linlin whirled around, swinging her blade backward in a vicious horizontal arc.
Pfft!
A sharp, tearing sound echoed.
With a grim, menacing smile on his face, Aeridar's high-frequency vibrating hand acted like an unstoppable, divine weapon. It actually breached the near-invincible natural defense Big Mom so fiercely prided herself on, driving straight through her ironclad flesh. Half of his arm plunged directly into her abdomen.
"AAAHHH—"
An agonizing scream tore from Charlotte Linlin's throat as a wave of excruciating pain, a sensation she hadn't felt in decades, washed over her.
Yet almost simultaneously, her massive saber, crackling with an immense surge of lightning, slammed squarely into Aeridar's torso. Blinding electricity erupted, completely swallowing his body.
Swoosh—
A figure shot downward at terrifying speed, instantly covering hundreds of meters. Breaking through multiple sonic booms in mid-air, he crashed violently into the ground below.
BOOM!!
The earth shuddered violently as the ground cratered and shattered under the impact, gouging out a crater nearly a hundred meters wide. A powerful shockwave rolled outward, throwing a massive curtain of dust into the sky.
High above, Charlotte Linlin clutched the bleeding wound in her abdomen, dropping onto one knee on Zeus's back as blood leaked uncontrollably through her fingers.
"Mama!"
"You're bleeding!"
The thundercloud Zeus and the saber Napoleon cried out in sheer panic.
"You... you brat..."
Charlotte Linlin's face twisted as she forced herself through the severe pain, spitting out words laced with pure hatred.
How many years had it been!
One look at her flawless, unscarred body would tell anyone that she had never suffered a wound this severe in her life. Ever since she established Totto Land and ascended to become one of the Yonko, no one, not Kaido, not Shanks, not even the old man Whitebeard in their past clashes, had ever managed to inflict such a devastating injury upon her!
Meanwhile, on the outskirts of the town, the battle between Enel and Katakuri raged on with unabated intensity.
"El Thor!!!"
"Judgment of God!!!"
"60,000,000 Volt Jamboule!!!"
"Willow Mochi!!!"
"Rain Drop Mochi!!!"
"Mirror Mochi!!!"
Boom! Boom! BOOM! BOOM!
The two powerhouse pirates clashed relentlessly. Blinding bolts of lightning crossed paths with a landscape rapidly turning into malleable dough. They unleashed their respective powers without restraint, reducing the surrounding environment to absolute ruin.
However, having already suffered heavily at the hands of Katakuri's Future Sight, Enel had altered his strategy. He adopted a highly fluid and mobile combat style, utilizing the sheer speed of his lightning element to constantly zip around Katakuri's perimeter, trying to counter the Future Sight by overwhelming him with pure velocity.
Even so, Katakuri was a Special Paramecia user whose body could fluidly reshape and phase much like a Logia. Combined with his advanced Observation Haki, Enel's high-speed blitzes failed to land a decisive blow.
Conversely, while Katakuri could predict Enel's movements a step ahead, his slight disadvantage in raw speed, coupled with Enel's own swift Logia intangibility, meant that Enel managed to narrowly evade or logia-shift out of his strikes every single time.
In this high-stakes dance, Enel was pushing the limits of his lightning-fast mobility.
Suddenly, a dangerous red gleam flashed in Katakuri's eyes. He barked coldly, "Don't think you can escape!"
Opening his arms, he swung them inward. Instantly, the surrounding buildings and the ground beneath turned entirely to dough. Though they retained the superficial shape of towers and streets, they had fundamentally transformed into sticky mochi. The massive structures stretched upward into the sky, closing in from all directions toward a central clearing like a colossal, inescapable cage.
Sizzle... Sizzle...
In the center of that clearing, arcs of electricity crackled and danced, rapidly coalescing into a human form.
"Dammit! What an annoying, troublesome ability!"
Enel brandished his golden trident, his eyes sweeping across the closing trap. Though his lightning-addled face was unreadable, the electricity jumping across his body pulsed with increasing violence.
Glancing upward at the shrinking opening in the sky, Enel transformed into a brilliant streak of lightning, rocketing upward to break through.
Swoosh—
Yet, Katakuri anticipated the move, appearing high in mid-air to completely block his path.
"Willow Mochi!!!"
Katakuri's right leg turned to mochi and split into multiple elongated limbs, unleashing a rapid volley of kicks.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Caught off guard, Enel, even in his elemental lightning state, could not react in time. The Armament-hardened, whip-like legs struck him squarely, forcing him to cough up a mouthful of blood as he crashed heavily into the dirt.
With a thunderous roar, a stray bolt of lightning struck the earth where he fell, exploding into an incandescent dome of energy that obliterated everything within its radius.
Right at that moment, the mochi-fied buildings came raining down like a localized meteor shower, brutally bombarding the entire sector.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Deafening explosions echoed in rapid succession. The earth trembled continuously as powerful shockwaves blasted outward, kicking up a thick storm of dust that choked the entire battlefield.