"Elbaf Spear: Ikoku!"
Charlotte Linlin stood atop the thundercloud, wielding the great sword formed from her pirate hat, and unleashed a massive shockwave of sword chi.
Conqueror's Haki and Armament Haki erupted without reservation.
Douglas Bullet shouted loudly, blasting out with both fists, but he was still knocked back more than ten meters.
"Blade of Mother's Flame!"
Charlotte Linlin rode the thundercloud and charged in an instant, her great sword wrapped in crimson flames, cleaving down from the sky.
The space around Luo Chen's clone distorted, and his figure vanished from his original spot.
Charlotte Linlin, who had been splitting her attention to watch him, paused her attack, her sharp gaze sweeping the surroundings.
Through Luo Chen's recent battles, the World Government had already exposed his many abilities on his wanted poster.
One of them was the terrifying surprise attack utilizing Observation Killing combined with the power of spatial teleportation.
In the next moment, Luo Chen's clone appeared above Charlotte Linlin's head.
Dark red lightning wrapped around the pitch-black wooden blade.
"Divine Departure!"
"Above you, Mama!"
The hat-shaped great sword in Charlotte Linlin's hand, possessing eyes and a mouth, shouted hurriedly.
It was a Homie created by Charlotte Linlin and shared a psychic connection with Mama.
The moment Luo Chen disappeared, it was also helping to watch for the opponent's sneak attack.
Charlotte Linlin grinned ferociously; the giant sword wrapped in flames swung upward, changing course to slash at Luo Chen.
The instant the wooden blade made contact with the flaming giant sword, Luo Chen's clone activated the intangibility power of Kamui.
His entire body passed right through Charlotte Linlin's flaming giant sword.
This sudden change caused Charlotte Linlin's pupils to shrink slightly.
She roared, wrapping her chest in Armament Haki for defense.
The next moment, the Divine Departure slashed across her chest.
Haki flared intensely. Linlin grinned and roared, "Is this all the power you have? Not enough to even tickle this old lady!"
Her physique was naturally powerful from birth, invulnerable, like a "Steel Balloon."
Although Luo Chen's strike was strong, it only cut her skin and failed to damage her bones or internal organs.
Luo Chen's clone used the force of the slash to leap backward, his eyes flickering slightly.
Charlotte Linlin's physical defense was indeed much stronger than that of ordinary humans.
If the three Marine Admirals had taken this slash head-on, their sternums would have been fractured.
"She really can take a beating," Luo Chen's clone muttered, charging out again.
This time, he did not use Kamui to teleport but launched a frontal attack.
Charlotte Linlin combined the three great Homies she controlled.
She gripped the hilt of the sword; the sun, Prometheus, held the end of the blade, and the tip of the blade passed through the thundercloud, Zeus.
"Maser Cannon!"
A powerful laser beam condensed from lightning, fire, and Haki exploded from the tip of the sword.
Luo Chen's clone used intangibility, allowing the laser beam to pass through his body.
Charlotte Linlin narrowed her eyes slightly, having already guessed that it might be some application of spatial power.
Otherwise, her Armament Haki would definitely have been able to harm Luo Chen.
"No matter how you turn intangible, when you attack this old lady, you must be solid."
Charlotte Linlin steeled her heart, preparing to take another slash from Luo Chen head-on.
While Luo Chen was attacking, she would grab his physical body and counterattack.
She feigned an attack, slashing out with the flaming giant sword while keeping some strength in reserve, effectively readying all her Armament Haki for defense.
"Crackle—"
Luo Chen's clone slashed out with Divine Departure again, turning intangible to pass through the flaming giant sword, his target still Charlotte Linlin's chest.
A sinister smile appeared on Big Mom's face; she raised her empty left hand, ready to grab Luo Chen.
But in the next moment, her expression changed abruptly.
Because the space at the blade edge of Divine Departure actually distorted.
This slash was no longer a simple "Divine Departure."
It fused the power of spatial distortion.
The threat level far exceeded the previous one.
"Squelch—!"
The slash from Luo Chen's clone struck Big Mom's chest, instantly splashing blood.
Her astonishingly defensive steel skin, even wrapped in Armament Haki, was twisted by the spatial power, turning into a spiral shape.
The Divine Departure slash followed closely behind, cutting into the skin twisted into a spiral.
This time, the defense was successfully breached.
A chunk of flesh was sliced off by the wooden blade and then vanished into the twisted spatial power.
Luo Chen's wooden blade finally slashed onto Big Mom's dense white sternum.
With a "crack," the sternum shattered.
Charlotte Linlin grunted, her massive body flying backward, smashing through one candy house after another.
Katakuri, Perospero, and the other children who were being held up showed looks of shock and shouted in worry.
Soon, Big Mom's angry voice came from the ruins of the sweet buildings in the distance.
"Little beast, you have quite a few tricks."
Hearing that Mama's voice was still full of vigor, the children felt relieved.
They knew Mama's abilities well.
It seemed the injury just now wasn't serious.
Moreover, it could be healed immediately.
Charlotte Linlin stood up from the ruins of the sweet buildings. A large hole had been opened in her chest, and the broken white bone had nearly pierced her heart.
A halo of light emerged from her hand as she pressed it emptily over the broken sternum.
"I grant you life. Awaken, bones."
Charlotte Linlin activated the power of the Soul-Soul Fruit, bestowing intelligence and life upon the broken bones.
In an instant, the shattered bones came alive and shouted, "Yes, Mama!"
Visible to the naked eye, the fractured sternum healed rapidly, becoming as good as new.
Even the missing flesh on her chest regenerated immediately.
Soon, Charlotte Linlin's injuries were fully healed.
She roared, and her entire body suddenly began to expand, becoming several sizes larger than before.
The aura radiating from her body was also much more powerful.
Her pink hair also began to burn like flames.
Luo Chen's clone narrowed his eyes slightly.
This should be Big Mom's second form.
Consuming her life span to make her body larger and her strength even more formidable.
It was one of the abilities of the Soul-Soul Fruit.
"This fruit really is powerful."
"It's a pity I can't steal the fruit's power."
Luo Chen's clone felt a slight regret.
If he could steal Devil Fruit powers like Blackbeard and bestow them on others, he could build a very strong team.
"Exchanged a couple of moves with the old hag and didn't gain any advantage. She's harder to deal with than a Marine Admiral."
Luo Chen's clone couldn't help but evaluate silently.
Charlotte Linlin and Kaido belonged to the same type.
There were no shortcomings in attack, defense, or recovery.
Unlike the Marine Admirals, Whitebeard, or Red Hair—whose attacks were strong, but whose physiques were fragile and couldn't heal quickly.
His current fighting style was more like an assassin.
Fighting fragile, high-attack types like Marine Admirals, he could kill them instantly with a surprise attack.
Fighting thick-skinned types like Big Mom and Kaido, he had to grind them down slowly.
"Maser Saber!"
Big Mom roared, and the giant sword in her hand became elemental, a mixture of lightning and fire power.
The giant sword slashed horizontally, sending a sword beam of lightning and fire tens of meters long tearing through the air.
Luo Chen's clone activated Kamui's intangibility.
The massive sword beam passed through his body, leveling tall sweet buildings one after another as it rushed toward the distant sea.
Amidst rumbling noises, the sea churned as if tons of explosives had been detonated underwater.
Huge waves rose and surged in all directions.
The ground of Whole Cake Island trembled slightly.
In the peripheral zone, Morgans, Stussy, Momousagi, Chaton, and the others stared intently at the battle between the two Emperors.
This was a clash of the world's top combat power.
Even the sea and the island had to tremble before it.
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