Tiger, Lindbergh, Crow, and Ivankov's attacks shot out like arrows.
Their combined full-power strike almost merged into a hundred-meter-diameter chaotic torrent, carrying spatial cracks as it surged towards the flickering figure in the thick smoke.
The beam of light formed by the attack pierced through the entire battlefield, with sparks and lightning flashing where it passed, and the atmosphere was torn into a spiral vacuum tunnel.
The distant clock tower broke in the middle, and the upper half of the tower disintegrated into countless fragments as it fell, tracing molten gold trajectories in the air.
Further away, the Pangu City's once sturdy outer wall collapsed like dominoes.
Amidst the rising dust, the Void Throne, standing tall in the center, could even be vaguely seen.
"A trick of ants!"
A faint voice came.
Facing such a terrifying attack, Imu's tone remained unchanged.
Blake smoke billowed, and a vortex-like Blake hole suddenly appeared in front of him.
The energy torrent, capable of evaporating everything, was swallowed whole by that abyssal Blake hole, like fine sand pouring into the sea.
"What?!"
"How is this possible?!"
The Revolutionary Army members' eyes widened, letting out exclamations of disbelief.
Their ultimate combined attack hadn't even caused the Blake smoke above Saturn's head to waver in the slightest.
"What is this? Sealing Jutsu: Absorption Seal?"
Blake, in the distance, narrowed his eyes:
"Is long-range energy attack useless against him?"
Blake remembered that when Sabo invaded Mary Geoise, Imu had also used a similar move.
He just raised a hand, and the flames Sabo threw at him vanished.
Although the Revolutionary Army's combined attack failed, Dragon's figure followed closely behind.
"Hooah!!!"
Dragon roared, his body crackling, and an attack infused with all his strength and lifelong conviction rushed towards Imu.
In this world, will truly can affect combat power.
This strike had reached the pinnacle of Dragon's life.
He transformed into a blurry cyan afterimage, and wherever he passed, it was like a comet streaking across the sky, forming a dazzling beam of light.
His arms were wrapped in dragon-scaled Armament Haki, with Blake and red lightning interwoven within, and cyan airflow vibrated violently.
Although he moved through the air, the battered ground could not withstand the wind pressure caused by his rapid flight, and a huge gully was instantly ploughed out.
The moment the rubble splashed, it was crushed into dust by the ensuing airwave.
A thousand meters passed in an instant, and Dragon's fists heavily slammed into the Blake smoke representing Imu.
The greenish-Blake light swallowed all sound.
Centered on Dragon and Imu, a spherical white light rapidly expanded.
Seconds later, a mushroom cloud that almost pierced the atmosphere rose from the ground.
At the base of the cloud column, rolling Blake and red lightning continuously flickered, while at the top, an ice crystal dome thousands of meters in diameter condensed.
Drip! Drip!
Amidst the sound of the explosion, a sound like flowing water was unusually clear in everyone's ears.
Blake looked intently, only to see that the thick smoke Imu had condensed first became covered with cracks, and then the entire space peeled away like a shattered mirror.
The Blake smoke seemed to have a trace of injury, with Blake and red blood scattering from it, each drop turning into a twisted rune as it fell.
"He actually got injured?!"
Blake's eyes widened, filled with an expression of disbelief; he hadn't expected this strike could actually make the god... bleed?
On one hand, Dragon's desperate strike was indeed very strong, but Blake didn't think it could reach the point of breaking through Imu's defense.
On the other hand, since Imu was currently in a possessed state, even if he was injured, it should be Saturn who was injured, right?
But thinking about it now, combat power isn't determined solely by defensive attributes.
He compared this attack to his own body and felt that he wouldn't be injured under full defense.
But perhaps Imu wasn't skilled in physical defense, or perhaps the possessing Blake smoke was different from the main body.
In any case, with the opportunity created by Tiger and several Revolutionary Army executives' full-power strike, Dragon's attack successfully injured Imu.
"It seems that when Imu possesses Saturn, it's different from when he possessed Gunko back then."
Blake clearly remembered that when Imu possessed Gunko in Elbaf, it was a complete spiritual possession, without a physical form.
But now, the towering Blake smoke above Saturn's head was his physical form for this possession, and it could even be injured.
At Imu's wound, Blake and red lightning continuously crackled, and the power of the Haoshoku imprint prevented the injury from healing.
"Imu is angry!"
Saturn, possessed by Imu, suddenly straightened his spider legs, and the crimson energy condensed at the tips of his legs transformed into six spiral light cannons, tearing through the air and striking directly.
Dragon was about to dodge, but the previous attack left him in a state of "old strength gone, new strength not yet born."
Although Dragon didn't understand these martial arts techniques, he understood attack wind-up and attack cool-down.
"Can't dodge..."
He gritted his teeth, barely managing to call upon the few remaining Armament Haki on his body.
His hurricane-wrapped fists slammed out, and the violent wind pressure collided with two laser beams, the explosive shockwave sending rubble flying within a hundred meters.
But the remaining four beams were already closing in on his brow... "Bang!"
Kuma suddenly teleported into the air, raising his palm to swat one of them away.
He himself, however, could no longer maintain his balance and crashed heavily onto the ground.
Tiger used Fish-Man Karate to barely shatter another one, and likewise lay on the ground, gasping for breath, his spirit weak.
The last two, however, solidly struck Dragon's crossed, blocking arms.
The high temperature, enough to evaporate steel, instantly carbonized his skin, revealing stark white bones.
"Leader!"
"Commander!"
"Mr. Dragon!"
The Revolutionary Army executives cried out in alarm, but they no longer had the extra strength to continue their attacks.
"Ugh!"
Dragon staggered backward, not yet steady, when Saturn's venomous breath pressed in like a tsunami.
He forcibly activated his Devil Fruit ability, and the hurricane transformed into a drill that pierced through the venomous wave, but as it broke through the final layer, it was entangled by a lurking venomous python around his right leg.
A sizzling corrosive sound emanated, and his muscles visibly decayed at a rapid pace.
"Hurricane Passage · Revolve!"
Dragon roared as he spun, the muscle fibers of his venom-corroded right leg snapping one by one, yet he also twisted the venomous python into a sky full of acid rain.
"Death throes!"
Imu's emotionless voice sounded again, and a distorting surge of Haoshoku suddenly erupted from above Saturn's head, precisely hitting Dragon's head.
Dragon felt as if his skull had been struck by a ten-ton hammer, and blood from his ruptured eardrums streamed down his neck.
He crashed to one knee, but Saturn's spider legs followed closely, piercing through his right abdomen like spears, his organs displaced by the impact.
More troubling, the Ox-Demon-shaped Saturn was covered in a large amount of venom.
Dragon felt his Observation Haki begin to dissipate.
"Hurricane · Blast!"
He burned his life force to extract potential, and his punch slammed into Saturn's spider leg, two snapping sounds occurring simultaneously.
The spider leg Saturn had impaled him with made a breaking sound, and at the same time, a sharp pain shot through Dragon's arm.
Imu coldly rotated his leg joints, and fragments of internal organs splattered from the wound.
An eerie light illuminated the magic book in the sky, and a huge magic circle reappeared on the ground.
Purple-Blake beams of light completely enveloped Dragon's body, and Dragon's consciousness gradually began to blur...