Just as Uta was about to completely finish off the invaders, a Marine scout suddenly looked up at the sky in horror, his face instantly turning pale:
"Run! Run!!!"
Before the scout's scream had even faded, the air across the entire battlefield suddenly became scorching hot and viscous.
Everyone involuntarily looked up, their pupils reflecting a terrifying sight they would never forget—
The clouds high in the sky were torn open as if by an invisible giant hand. In the center of the swirling dark clouds, a crimson pillar of fire, over a hundred meters in diameter, pierced through the heavens and earth.
The flame was no ordinary fire; it shimmered with a metallic luster like the scales of a Azure Dragon. The core, incandescent to the point of appearing almost black, ionized the air along its path into plasma.
The moment the pillar of fire fell, time seemed to stretch: on the upturned faces of the Marine soldiers, expressions of terror had not yet fully formed; from the muzzles of guns firing, bullets were vaporized the instant they left the barrel;
Vice Admiral Strowberry's raised saber, its blade had already begun to soften and deform.
Spiraling air currents wrapped around the pillar of fire, air channels twisted by extreme heat. Anything grazed by these currents—whether steel weapons or flesh and blood—carbonized and disintegrated within a thousandth of a second.
"Boom—!!!"
The moment of impact, first an blinding white light consumed everything.
The twelve closest CP0 agents didn't even have time to scream before they were directly vaporized by the high temperature, leaving only charred silhouettes in their wake.
The shockwave spread spherically, melting the granite ground within a hundred-meter radius into glassy crystals.
Then came the sonic boom.
The tremor shattered all the stained-glass windows three blocks away, and the splashing shards turned into a deadly rain of fire in the high temperature. The Marine's proud heavy armored vehicles were flipped like toys, their cannon barrels softening into twisted noodles.
When the dense smoke slightly dispersed, the scene survivors witnessed made their souls tremble: a two-hundred-meter-diameter lava pool appeared at the explosion's center, with crimson magma still bubbling;
- Dozens of "shadow statues" were scattered radially around the periphery—these were hollow shells left after bodies were instantly carbonized. Further away, a dozen fire people ran frantically until they turned into charcoal and fell.
Vice Admiral Doberman's body was severely burned on one side. He stared blankly at the melted saber in his hand, then suddenly let out an inhuman scream.
A young Marine knelt on the ground, realizing that his gun-holding hand was reduced to mere bone. Most terrifyingly, while the survivors at a slightly greater distance had intact limbs, their eyeballs were all baked milky white by the high temperature.
In the center of this living hell, Kaido's Azure Dragon form slowly contracted into his Human-Beast form.
Every step he took sent lava splashing, and his dragon tail casually swept aside the debris in his path. Unextinguished flames still flowed over his crimson scales.
"Ugh-ro-ro-ro..." His laughter caused the survivors to collectively lose control of their bladders. "Now, does anyone still want to touch that little girl?"
Yamato leaped into the battlefield right behind him, the chilling aura wrapped around her spiked club contrasting sharply with the lingering inferno.
When she saw Uta was unharmed, her tense shoulders finally relaxed.
"Uta! It's good that you're alright!"
And all of this was faithfully recorded by the News Birds drones circling high above, shocking the entire world through live broadcast.
Beside them, all members of the "News Birds Pirates" who were live streaming on site stood frozen on the deck. The photographer's phone clattered onto the deck.
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