Crack!
The razor-sharp spider spear froze inches from Sakura's chest, unable to push forward.
Layer after layer of ice armor shattered, peeling away from her body bit by bit.
"Ice armor, huh? Always pulling cheap tricks!"
Satan leaned on his cane, raising more venomous spikes into the air—only to freeze in place.
Because right in front of him, Sakura had somehow lifted her arm.
In her pale little hands burned a tiny flame, blazing wildly inside the ice crystals!
She was commanding both cold and heat at once, the essence of thermal energy blooming in her palm.
High-pressure and low-pressure airflows spun in a vortex, trapping massive thermal circulation inside a wide, heavy sword.
Sakura gripped the hilt with both hands, her beautiful emerald eyes asking—You ready?
"Oh no..."
Satan's pupils shrank. His muscles bulged, twisting the flame patterns on his body. All six spider legs bent, ready to leap back.
But then... everything went black.
The last thing he saw was a giant sword rapidly enlarging in his vision—closer, closer, until it blocked out the entire world.
Old man, times have changed. Eat my... THERMODYNAMICS SWORD!!!
Slash!
The greatsword came down, and Satan's head exploded in a burst!
Just then, the Holy Land guards received orders from the highest authority and rushed to Mariejois's commercial street.
The scene before them turned their faces pale.
The girl with the massive sword had just blown the head off a towering mythical beast. Blood rained upward along the flames, and the huge body swayed before crashing to the ground.
"SATAN-SAINT!!!"
Amid the screams, blood and chunks steamed. Bone and flesh spurted from Satan's severed neck, regenerating in an instant.
"Don't panic! Aim at that guy and fire!"
The battle-hardened Science Defense Martial God calmly gave orders, directing the Holy Land guards.
"Pfft, you immortal freaks are such a pain!"
Sakura landed, tilting her head. Rising crimson flames turned her cherry-pink hair fiery red.
The bullets fired by the guards melted the moment they got near her.
Suddenly, a flash of Haki-red sparked in her eyes. She tried to dodge—but it was too late.
One bullet pierced her thermal barrier and lodged in her shoulder, leaving a bloody hole.
Cough!
Sakura spat blood, feeling her strength drain like water. She dropped to one knee.
"Heh, ability user! If I hadn't let you hit me, you think you'd get a shot like that?"
Satan gloated, his six legs alternating to drag his massive body toward her.
"Tch, dirty tricks as expected from a political animal!"
As she spoke, emerald energy surged from her fingers. Without hesitation, she plunged them into her own wound.
"What?! I sealed your powers!"
In Satan's stunned gaze, Sakura dug out the bullet buried in her bone. The blood-soaked seastone round rolled to the ground.
Instantly, ice and fire roared back across the battlefield.
Jagged ice spears erupted from the earth, piercing straight through Satan's beastly body and hoisting him up!
But with a constant supply of teal flames, he regenerated fast—snapping the ice, rebuilding himself.
"Hmph, burning through stamina and blood like that—how long can you keep fighting?!"
Satan raised his venomous spikes. His power activated, unleashing invisible transparent stingers that rained down on Sakura.
Countless sharp spikes crisscrossed from ground and sky, forming a deadly forest of poison.
"I can go ten days!"
Drip.
Thick blood flicked from her fingers. The bullet wound on her right arm had vanished, leaving flawless skin under her bloodstained ninja gear.
She raised the Thermodynamics Sword, slashing out a swirling storm that clanged against the incoming spikes like metal on stone.
"Self-healing, huh? Those rebels left us a nice little test subject!"
Satan leaped into the air, spikes whistling toward her again, his aged face twisted in rage.
Just some leftover trash from hundreds of years ago, daring to challenge them now?
If they'd picked a side clearly back then, they'd either be dust in history—or Celestial Dragons.
But because they wavered, they lost everything in the great war, reduced to scum scraping by in the lower world.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
Storms and thunder roared across the earth. The clash between spikes and storm-sword was too intense for normal people to approach.
One careless step, and a Holy Land guard would be impaled or sliced in half.
"You're just ants from the lower world—why resist us?! Still bitter?!"
Satan's shadow loomed over Sakura. His claws stabbed from every angle, weaving a giant net of ferocious attacks that forced her back step by step.
"Oh, and those slaves who escaped because of your stupid stunt? I'll catch every last one. Make them personally dissect you in the lab!"
"That's the perfect ending for ants like you. Utterly pathetic."
His inhuman face twisted with cunning, using words to enrage her and break her focus.
Without Observation Haki, a few more seastone bullets would drop this prime specimen right into his hands!
"Is that so... No wonder this regret has lingered for so long!"
Sakura coldly raised her hand, wiping dust from her face—unshaken.
The incoming seastone bullets were crystal clear in her Haki. She casually swayed with Paper Arts to dodge.
Now she finally understood what the will inside the fruit regretted.
Probably not seeing through the true face of the temporary joint army sooner, letting a rotten order spread across the world...
Poisoning countless lives for far too long!
"You—you who dare trample the dream I chase—you're the ones I'll never forgive!!!"
Her emerald eyes turned purple with surging fury.
A clear will rose from the depths of her soul—from faint echoes to a earth-shaking anthem.
Conqueror's Haki erupted across the land. Dark lightning wreathed twin giant swords forged from ultra-compressed storms!
"System, activate Weather Sovereign!"
[Affirmative. Weather Sovereign released. Demon Blood activated!]
BOOM!
The moment the system spoke, her petite frame vanished in flames. In its place stood a colossal silhouette—pure white horns on her forehead, a body as grand as mountain ranges.
Satan's murky eyes reflected the image of a giant.
The instant their gazes met—hers radiant with starlight—he knew.
The enemy of God had arrived!
"Damn it! You filthy traitors—what the hell did you create?!"
In a frenzied roar, Satan burned through his reserves, forcibly boosting his power and charging the massive figure.
This thing could not be allowed to live—otherwise, disaster without end!
In a blink, countless venom spikes twisted space, howling with lethal poison in a tidal surge!
Hand seal!
A ninja sign flashed. Chakra exploded, and the giant shadow suddenly split into two.
"What?!"
Satan froze for a split second, his infinite spikes pausing.
But he recovered and unleashed the barrage. The sound of spikes crashing into solid flesh echoed nonstop.
Yet the giants didn't budge an inch. Instead, her fighting spirit burned hotter!
"Immortal monster, huh? Then fly—all the way to the end of the world!"
Both giants raised their storm greatswords, slowly winding up like swinging bats.
Inhale—
The massive beings drew a deep breath. Ice, fire, raw power, and boiling chakra poured unrestrained into the blades.
The two storm swords swung slowly. The instant their broad edges touched—
The will to carve a new future collided, forming an unprecedented shockwave. A violent torrent erupted, engulfing everything.
Everything in sight across Mariejois was buried, crushed, pulverized into dust.
The great spear that once pierced the world reappeared on the earth with a roar.
"ELBAF SPEAR · HEGEMONY!!!"