Chapter 446: Galaxy Impact
Van Augur was preparing to use the rock formations to leap high into the air and retreat from the battlefield.
However—
Vmm!!!
The instinct of danger exploded in his mind.
He subconsciously lowered his head, but only had time to see that streak of blood-red afterimage tear through the air in the night.
Slash—!!!
—So fast that even his shadow couldn't react in time.
Kuina erupted from the shadows like a cursed blade drawn from hell!
Her aura had completely blended into the blood energy. Her figure was like mist, sweeping past like a phantom.
In that instant, even the wind was cleaved in half.
"GAAAH—!!!"
Blood splattered as his left arm flew high into the air!
Van Augur's sniper rifle, along with his entire arm, was cleanly severed. Hot blood sprayed across the night sky like a fountain.
His off-balance body immediately plummeted from the high altitude!
"Augur!!"
Doc Q roared, desperately driving that sickly horse with only one wing left to lunge forward.
The sickly pegasus let out a cry, violently extending its tattered wing, and forcefully caught Van Augur ten meters above the ground.
"Cough, cough... Are you still alive?"
"—My arm is gone!!" Van Augur growled through gritted teeth. His face was deathly pale, and blood poured relentlessly down half his body.
Doc Q turned his head, only to see Kuina slowly walking through the air amidst the churning blood mist.
Her eyes were like cold stars, and the blood shadows behind her churned like an Asura treading on waves.
"Damn woman..." Doc Q's face turned ashen. He abruptly raised his hand!
A dark purple toxic mist violently erupted, instantly reducing all living things in its path to ashes.
The poisonous miasma rolled like a rotting ocean wave, swallowing the entire harbor.
While driving the pegasus to flee rapidly, he continuously released the plague mist to block her line of sight.
"Hiss—Hoo—!! Hurry up!!!"
But before he could even catch his breath, a cold, sharp shout suddenly rang out from the depths of the foggy sea.
"Soketsu: Senyokuzan (Frost Blood: Thousand Wing Slash)!!!"
As her voice fell, heaven and earth seemed to stagnate.
In the next instant—
The entire night sky was dyed crimson.
Countless blood lights gathered around Kuina. She used the absolute pinnacle of the Shimotsuki Style as her core, and the blood energy of the Vampire Fruit as her wings!
In that moment, the sky itself seemed to be sliced into countless fragments by her sword intent!
"What is this...?!" Van Augur looked up, his pupils shrinking violently.
In the sky, countless blood blades spread out like the wings of a swarm of bats, kicking up sonic booms and tornadoes.
Every single blood blade was clad in Armament Haki, carrying freezing cold and killing intent, like a "swarm of sword auras" condensed from the essence of life itself.
Doc Q's pupils contracted: "Those are—swaths of blood blades!?"
He forcefully pulled up the pegasus, but that momentary action was already far too slow.
Hiss—!!!
Tens of thousands of blood-red sword auras shredded the plague mist, forcibly piercing through the barrier of sickness!
Trees along the path were reduced to ashes, and rocks were sliced into fine powder!
Doc Q roared: "No! I can't block it—!!"
He viciously kicked the sickly horse into the air: "Go block her!!!"
A flash of terror and confusion crossed the one-winged sickly horse's eyes. In the next second—it was completely swallowed by the countless blood blades!
Squelch, squelch, squelch—!!!
The blood wave surged, and the skeletal equine body was instantly sliced to dust, scattering as a mist of blood.
The aftershocks continued to sweep forward—
"BOOM—!!!"
Although Doc Q and Van Augur used the opportunity to drop to the ground, they were still swept by the residual blood energy.
Bone-deep gashes were carved into their chests, blood gushing wildly as they were sent flying backward like ragdolls for dozens of meters!
They smashed heavily into the ground, causing the rocks to fracture.
"Cough—cough cough!" Doc Q spat out a mouthful of black blood. Gripping the ground tightly, he looked up at the churning blood mist.
And amidst that churning sea of blood—
Kuina stood slowly in mid-air, the Wado Ichimonji dripping with bloody light.
Her aura was bitterly cold to the extreme. The blood mist around her rolled in the wind, as if living creatures were bowing in worship.
In the center of that battlefield where chaos and blazing flames intertwined—
A colossal rock giant shaped like a skull, formed by the Island-Island Fruit, stood proudly.
Its massive size nearly covered half the sky vault over Hachinosu. Its eyes were hollow, yet burned with a crimson light.
"Wiiiihahahaha!!!"
Heaven-shaking laughter echoed in all directions, overpowering the explosions and roars.
It was Burgess's voice—a ferocious laugh carrying madness, pain, and bravado.
"It's useless!! You can't destroy me!!"
Accompanying his furious shout, the giant hand that had been shattered by Luffy's dragon punch earlier actually began to reassemble amidst a loud rumble—
Rocks and metallic wreckage intertwined, bone-like structures interlocking with one another.
The massive metacarpals cracked and snapped in the air, like a monster reborn from hell.
However, beneath that ferocious laughter, Burgess was secretly cursing in his heart:
"Damn it—!! It hurts like hell!!!"
Although the Island-Island Fruit allowed him to assimilate with the terrain and transform into a giant body—
Every bit of damage the enemy inflicted upon the island would synchronously feed back to the ability user's own body.
Inside Burgess right now, the sound of fracturing bones echoed continuously, and blood seeped from the corners of his mouth.
He gritted his teeth, forcefully suppressing his trembling.
"I can't retreat yet!! In front of Boss Teach—I absolutely cannot back down!!!"
"RUMBLE—!!!"
The giant let out another low roar. The ground caved in, and the ocean waves churned.
The two giant palms that blotted out the sun and sky were raised once again. Carrying a mountain-like oppressive force, they slammed down viciously from the zenith toward Luffy in mid-air!
"Wiiihahaha—CRUMBLE INTO DUST!!!"
Facing this strike that could destroy warships and crush castles, Luffy remained completely motionless.
His dragon scales shimmered with a pink-gold luster, and his dragon pupils reflected the lightning, flames, and the giant shadow.
"In that case—"
He slowly lowered his stance, his muscles tensing amidst the flow of Haki.
"Then I'll go all out too!"
"——BOOM!!!"
The air shattered. Black and red Conqueror's Haki lightning violently erupted from his body, like an angry dragon roaring, piercing straight into the firmament!
That suffocating pressure instantly plunged the entire battlefield into a deathly silence.
Even Zoro and Kuina in the distance were shocked by that aura.
The two of them looked up almost simultaneously, their gazes meeting.
"That move is...!" Zoro's voice revealed the excitement of battle intent.
Kuina parted her lips slightly, her gaze profound: "Has he finally mastered it completely—that punch?"
Pink and gold intertwined light bloomed in the center of Luffy's fist—
A dazzling cross starburst flashed in the night, like a spark igniting the galaxy.
Burgess's pupils shrank violently, every hair on his body standing on end: "This aura... this is bad—!!!"
He roared, pushing his Devil Fruit power, controlling the giant palms to accelerate once more, tearing through the air currents!
"DIE—MARINES!!!"
However, just as that furious roar fell, the dragon-man in mid-air had already moved.
"Ryukotsu: Galaxy Impact (Dragon Bone: Galaxy Impact)!!!"
Accompanied by a roar, a streak of pink-gold light soared into the sky, like the reverse trajectory of a falling meteor!
The black and red lightning on Luffy's fist converged into a dragon shape. The fist wind condensed into something tangible, piercing through heaven and earth.
In that moment, his fist—was the fall of the galaxy.
"——BOOM!!!"
The dragon-shaped shockwave roared as it pierced the sky. Amidst the tearing of sonic booms, it hit the island giant's skull head-on!
A massive bang shook the entirety of Hachinosu!
The air was compressed, exploded, and collapsed. The entire sea kicked up waves a thousand meters high as lightning ripped through the clouds!
"GAAAH—AAAAHHHHH!!!!"
Burgess let out a heart-wrenching, miserable scream. The upper half of the skull giant disintegrated in the explosion, its rock layers blasting apart into countless meteors that crashed into the sea!
The ground shook violently, and a corner of Hachinosu was completely blown away!
Monstrous giant waves rolled, swallowing the port!
And Burgess himself, his body half-shredded by the shockwave, plummeted into the sea mixed with blood and rock debris, still screaming: "Aaah—Boss Teach—!!!"
In the sky, Luffy's pink-gold dragon-shaped fist shadow was still dissipating. He hovered in mid-air, his fist lowered, unyielding resolve and furious fire burning in his dragon pupils.
Wherever the wind passed, the sea surface continued to tremble.
That punch had not only pulverized the Island-Island Giant—
It had also torn open the sky of Hachinosu.
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