Rumble
As Link's voice fell, the ground shook violently once more.
The already dense forest sprouted a vast number of new trees, and this small Wheat Island, similar to Amazon Lily's domain, was now mostly covered by forest.
The newly emerging trees were thicker and greener than before, with numerous massive vines as thick as dozens of people linking arms.
At the tips of those vines bloomed huge red flowers.
The red flowers slowly opened their petals, continuously releasing pollen like gray dust.
In no time, several regions of the forest turned hazy and gray.
Though she didn't know what the pollen did, Charlotte Linlin's instincts told her she absolutely must not inhale it.
Thus, Charlotte Linlin ascended on the thundercloud Zeus while ordering, "Prometheus, destroy the flowers below."
"Yes, Mama!"
The sun fused with Napoleon immediately spewed a pillar of fire downward, attempting to ignite the forest through the pollen.
"Roooar"
At the same time, the wooden dragon's roar echoed to the heavens.
From the forest, a dozen branches shot forth as if they could extend without limit, and several of those branches turned into wooden dragons.
Then an unbelievable scene unfolded, shocking Charlotte Linlin and making Charlotte Katakuri and Pudding watching from afar turn pale.
The wooden dragons soaring skyward opened their giant maws and spewed torrents of water at Charlotte Linlin above.
One of the streams was a razor-sharp, high-pressure jet, aimed straight at the roaring pillar of fire.
With a single contact, the fire pillar was sliced apart by the high-pressure water, and the remaining force cleaved the unprepared sun Prometheus in two.
Although Prometheus did not die, he was so frightened he could not recover for the moment.
Equally frightened were Napoleon and the thundercloud Zeus, both nearly severed, and their Mama, Charlotte Linlin.
Yet what terrified them was not merely the power of the high-pressure water
A wooden dragon spewing water—how horrifying a thing!
Charlotte Linlin and Charlotte Katakuri's first thought wasn't even what tricks Link was using. If Link could develop his ability to this extent, wouldn't all ability users be restrained?
Even so, Charlotte Linlin did not move slowly; riding Zeus, she dodged the attacks of the water streams.
As for whether those water streams were performed by Link?
Simple: Link could remotely control all trees created by Wood Release, because those trees contained chakra.
Since Link could use the trees to remotely perform the Wood Clone Technique, he could naturally create a half-torso—or even a wood-transformed clone—inside the wooden dragon's mouth, and then perform Water Release within it.
Thus, to outside eyes, it appeared the wooden dragon was spewing water.
In truth, it was Link's wood clone spewing water.
Not only water—Link could have the wooden dragon spew fire, wind, and lightning as well, all at Sage Art level.
While Charlotte Linlin nimbly avoided the water jets, with water dragons and branches slamming and binding in pursuit behind them
The sky suddenly darkened!
As if only now reacting, Charlotte Linlin's expression changed drastically as she looked upward.
The Wood Human Arhat, towering like a mountain, raised its hand to gather force and swatted down toward Charlotte Linlin.
Its speed was so great that friction with the air produced a red aura, descending like a meteor with terrifying air pressure.
Around that flaming aura, dark red lightning flashed without cease.
The world-blotting wooden giant hand was imbued with Conqueror's coating!
Clearly, this palm was even more terrifying than the one that slew Whitebeard during the Summit War!
Though the falling speed of the wooden hand was fast, Charlotte Linlin still had time to charge a counterattack, but she could not do so.
Because without her control, Zeus's reactions and speed would slow, and they simply wouldn't evade the wooden dragons and branches.
If her charge failed, she would have no chance at all.
At this moment, Charlotte Linlin's eyes suddenly hardened. Controlling Zeus, she continued to evade the dragons and branches trying to attack and bind her, and dove toward the pollen-shrouded forest.
While diving, Charlotte Linlin also gathered the powers of Zeus, Prometheus, and the thunder-and-fire sword Napoleon into one, forming a humanoid energy body that shone with emerald laser light.
The energy body was enormous, its exterior resembling a woman.
As soon as the feminine energy body formed, it opened eyes flickering with dark red electricity, and within the emerald laser ran thin threads of dark red current.
When the charge was complete, Charlotte Linlin whipped around, back to the forest, and fired her strongest strike at the wooden giant hand above:
"Mother's Visit Cannon—Three-Thousand-League Ikoku!"
Boom—
Using the cylindrical shockwave as thrust, the feminine energy body soared skyward.
Fused from the energies of Zeus, Prometheus, and Napoleon, the feminine energy body, like a special Homie, possessed independent will. It could act on its own, avoiding wooden dragons and branches that tried to obstruct or attack it, and blasted toward the descending wooden hand.
After dodging every dragon and branch, a new radiance bloomed above the feminine energy body's head—a golden flame tinged with faint dark red.
With its multi-hued glow, under the boost of Ikoku, the feminine energy body became like a super-massive laser cannon, streaking upward at extreme speed to collide with the descending wooden hand.
"———"
Just like a clash of Conqueror's coating, the laser cannon and the wooden hand did not truly touch.
They were blocked by a layer of invisible substance.
But in the next second, the invisible substance suddenly took on color.
It flashed several hues in succession, finally turning into a beam of white light that burst outward.
The white light was so dazzling it was as if the entire world turned white.
Even Charlotte Katakuri and Pudding on the island's edge shut their eyes against that white glare.
Boom————
Almost the very next second, a terrifying explosion rolled across the Totland Kingdom, spanning dozens of islands.
The skies, darkened to overcast by the earlier clash of Conqueror's Haki, were instantly blown clear by a terrifying invisible airflow.
That unseen gale, like an invisible hurricane, not only scattered the clouds above but swept across Wheat Island, flinging the unprepared Charlotte Katakuri and Pudding off the isle.
"Ah——"
Pudding, blown away like a fallen leaf, let out an involuntary cry.
At that moment, a gigantic hand, wreathed in an orange-yellow flame cloud, caught the Pudding flying off the island.
When the white light faded, the owner of that hand was revealed—Karina in Nine-Tailed Fox beast form.
Even so, Pudding had no time to thank Karina.
Her eyes were wide as she stared at Wheat Island ahead; if she lifted the bangs on her forehead, even the third eye would be wide, filled with shock.
The sea of trees that Wheat Island had become was now a scene of devastation.
The forest covering most of the island looked as if ravaged by a super-hurricane—countless trees not merely snapped but torn up by the roots; the luckiest were bent double to the ground.
The forest was coated in dust—not pollen-made, but true grit.
At the island's center stood a Wood Human Arhat over two hundred meters tall.
Beneath the Wood Human lay a truly colossal crater.
The crater was not circular; it was shaped like a human hand.
At the bottom of that handprint crater lay a faint, dying figure. She had not been killed by Link, but she could not withstand Wood Release's absorption of vitality and Haki, along with its sealing power—Charlotte Linlin.
After the gravely wounded Whitebeard and Golden Lion, yet another Rocks Pirates cadre had been one-shotted by Link's extradimensional palm.
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