BOOM!
A deafening roar, as if the sky itself had been torn open.
With that ship's rudder being violently ripped out by the Golden Lion, a Conqueror's Haki that had slumbered for ten years, like an ancient beast awakening, surged into the heavens.
Scarlet blood gushed down through his golden hair, staining half his ferocious face red. But this agony did not weaken him. It became the final fuel that ignited his fury.
"SHIRAHAHAHAH… it's back! All of it is back!", The Golden Lion roared with crazed laughter, his voice hoarse and wild.
In this moment, he felt the entire world was under his control.
Such a wondrous feeling. He hadn't experienced it in ten whole years.
At this instant, centered on him, the power of the Float-Float Fruit was driven to its absolute limit.
In the blink of an eye, the very earth of the Flower Capital of Wano groaned under unbearable strain.
The solid ground shook violently. Countless tiles and beams, along with massive boulders, broke free of gravity's chains and slowly began floating upward.
Streets, lofts, bridges, the foundation of the entire city loosened, as if he would uproot it all, transforming it into a floating fortress of war in the sky.
The blood-soaked head and crippled legs became the only blemish in this scene of world-dominating majesty. But it did nothing to diminish his overwhelming aura.
The Golden Lion's eyes burned red, locking firmly onto Rosse in the high sky. From deep in his throat, a thunderous roar burst out:
"Newgate!"
That one cry carried no hint, yet was full of the tacit understanding between sworn rivals.
Whitebeard, standing upon the ground, didn't even look at the Golden Lion.
At this time, words weren't needed. These two legends of the old era already understood one another completely.
"GURARARARA…", Whitebeard let out a deep laugh from his chest, then his expression grew stern. He sank his weight, muscles like mountains surging forth.
On his left fist, Armament Haki hardened jet-black, while arcs of crimson Conqueror's lightning writhed and crackled like serpents.
"Hah!"
With a low roar, Whitebeard hurled his full power into the void before him.
"Sea Quake!"
DING!
That was no sound, it was the world's lament.
Where his fist struck, space shattered like glass, spiderweb cracks spreading in all directions.
A pure, ultimate force of vibration, enough to shatter all things, erupted forth as an invisible shockwave.
Yet this time, this earth-shattering power did not tear the land apart as usual. Under the Golden Lion's deft guidance of the Float-Float Fruit, the quake's force merged perfectly into the rising mass of rubble, beams, and ruins.
In an instant, a miracle was born.
That slowly ascending floating city, with the quake's blessing, transformed into a living beast.
Every stone, every timber became a cannonball infused with annihilation.
The entire Flower Capital became an unprecedented "land tsunami," carrying the Golden Lion's will and Whitebeard's destruction, surging upward, crashing violently into the boundless sea Rosse had summoned.
It was a cooperation the two legendary pirates had never tried before, yet it flowed as if they had trained it thousands of times.
Just a single call of a name was enough to create an effect far greater than the sum of its parts.
Witnessing this world-shaking scene, Kozuki Oden and Kaido seized the fleeting chance.
Oden had no time to grieve for the Flower Capital's ruin, and Kaido quickly steadied his breath and charged again.
Both roared, their auras blazing. Like twin streaks of light ripping through the sky, they flanked the "land tsunami" from left and right, lunging toward Rosse himself.
Oden, gripping Enma and Ame no Habakiri, concentrated his two-sword style to the utmost. Kaido, wielding his kanabo Eight Trigrams, wrapped it in thunder and fire, brutal beyond compare.
One couldn't beat him?
Then four together.
They were pirates, after all.
Above, the sky was filled by the clash of land and sea.
On both sides, two top warriors closed in.
At this moment, four pirates who stood at the pinnacle of the era launched their fiercest encirclement against the man in the heavens.
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[Whitebeard – Edward Newgate]
[Combat Power Rating: S+]
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[Golden Lion – Shiki]
[Combat Power Rating: S+]
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[Beasts – Kaido]
[Combat Power Rating: S]
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[Kozuki Oden]
[Combat Power Rating: S]
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"Whitebeard, Shiki, Kaido, Kozuki Oden…", Rosse floated at the dome of the sky, like a god gazing down upon the mortal world, softly reciting these four names.
They weren't remnants of the old age, but in this moment, they had become challengers of the new age against the divine.
With each syllable Rosse spoke, the radiance around him responded, swelling and blazing, becoming ever more sacred, ever more blinding to behold.
This was no mere light. It was near-tangible divinity, as if he would encompass the entire world in his grasp.
Meanwhile, the phantom ocean in the sky, under the divine light, solidified completely.
Azure waters, carrying an ancient and boundless aura, seemed so real, as though they had always existed there.
And directly below that ocean, the "land tsunami" of stone, beams, rubble, and ruins roared upward with world-rending force, colliding against the heavenly sea.
RUMBLE! RUMBLE! RUMBLE!
Heaven and earth, sea and land, clashed violently in that instant.
The whole world seemed to lose balance, turned upside down.
The lofty sky became a surging sea.
The firm ground transformed into a swaying floating city.
The sea above, the city below.
Between the two, a fierce, magnificent collision and erosion unfolded.
Gigantic waves, carrying destructive power enough to erase all, crashed wildly upon the wavering "land." Meanwhile, the floating rubble fought back like endless cannonballs, tearing a path toward Rosse through the raging sea.
Every impact unleashed power that could level mountains.
Tens, even hundreds of meters of space twisted, warped, and collapsed under the shockwaves.
Countless stones were swallowed by the waves, crushed to powder.
Likewise, vast amounts of seawater evaporated under quake-force, becoming white mist that spread through heaven and earth.
To assimilate all things into the essence of one's fruit, this was the fruit's awakening at its peak.
For Rosse, all things became the sea. His fruit power turned real, eroding the sky, creating a true ocean in the heavens.
For Whitebeard and the Golden Lion, all things likewise became assimilated into their fruits' power. They turned a city into a weapon, merging quake-force into drifting ruins, birthing this cataclysmic "land tsunami."
And in this moment, the two forces met and clashed in midair, forging a spectacle unseen for nearly a century.
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