"Pfft!"
Hancock's fair and delicate body was sent flying by Linlin's punch and before she even hit the ground, another mist of blood sprayed from her lips.
Linlin's towering figure was surrounded by flickering flames and crackling lightning as she leisurely advanced towards her.
Hancock struggled to her feet.
The usual haughty and aloof expression she wore was gone, her mature and alluring body exposed to the frigid air, looking frail and pitiful.
Linlin approached, looking down at Hancock with a smirk.
"Mamamama, what a beauty! The Pirate Empress truly has a stunning appearance. Totto Land is missing your race. After this, you should go back and relocate your kingdom to my territory. So many women would make perfect wives for the officers of my Beast God Pirates."
"Never!" Hancock's face twisted with rage, her body trembling with fury.
A powerful burst of Conqueror's Haki erupted from her as she mustered her strength once more, leaping across the distance in an instant, her long pale leg lashing out towards Linlin face!
"Perfume Femur!"
Pink lightning exploded through the air, unleashing a terrifying pressure that shattered the ice beneath their feet.
Linlin didn't back down.
Her massive fist swung forward, red lightning crackling around it, tearing through space itself!
BOOM! CRACK!
The collision of their Conqueror's Haki shook the skies, the flames and lightning around Linlin momentarily pushed aside.
"Haaaah!"
With a sharp cry, Hancock raised her leg high like a battle-axe and brought it down with crushing force!
BAM!
Linlin, her arm coated in Haki, effortlessly blocked the attack before swiftly reaching out and seizing Hancock's smooth, slender leg.
With a brutal yank, she slammed Hancock into the ground!
BOOM!
The ice shattered, glittering shards scattering under the moonlight.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Linlin swung Hancock around like a child with a toy, smashing her into the ground over and over, each impact sending tremors through the battlefield, a sight that made onlookers shudder.
After dozens of brutal slams, Hancock's body finally gave out, her form covered in ice shards, her delicate bones fractured in multiple places, bruises marring her skin.
"Tch!" Linlin showed no mercy, grabbing Hancock by her hair and lifting her into the air, shaking her like a trophy.
"Pirate Empress Boa Hancock, hehe, Caesar is going to love you."
Hancock's vision blur, her body wracked with pain, her Haki completely drained.
Only now did she realize—her once-unstoppable Mero Mero no Mi abilities were utterly useless against a truly powerful opponent.
Especially against a woman of such overwhelming strength!
Her abilities, her physique, her Haki—all were crushed.
That was why she had fallen so swiftly, so utterly crushed.
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Beneath the cake tower, Caesar, who had just sent Aokiji flying with a single punch and Katakuri, who hadn't even had a chance to act, were about to enter.
BOOM!
A deafening explosion tore through multiple floors, Conqueror's Haki lightning tearing through the air, pressing Rayleigh's body down as he was sent crashing deep into the earth!
Caesar raised an eyebrow and looked up, spotting Kaido's towering and domineering figure over a dozen floors above, gripping a kanabo in his hand.
"Caesar! They're my prey—don't you dare steal them from me! Last time, you hogged Garp and Sengoku all to yourself. I haven't fought in days, and my body's practically rusting!"
An overwhelming aura surged around Kaido, shaking the entire Tower as if it might collapse at any moment.
Caesar smirked and pointed at Rayleigh, who lay at the bottom of the seemingly bottomless pit.
"I heard this is the legendary Dark King Rayleigh, Roger's—no, the Pirate King—right-hand man. And there's also a former Marine Admiral. You sure you can handle both? How about I take one off your hands?"
"Hmph! Just two old men whose bones are practically dust. I'll crush them in seconds! Just get lost already!"
From the upper floors, explosions rang out intermittently, accompanied by Zephyr's frenzied roars that echoed throughout the building.
"Kaido! You bastard, where the hell did you hide Ain?!"
Kaido grinned wide, baring his sharp teeth.
"Wororororo! I already told you old man, she was killed long ago. You two former Admirals are way too cautious—sneaking in without even using Observation Haki. How could you possibly track anyone like that?!"
"Grrr! I'll kill you, Kaido!"
Floors collapsed one after another as rubble rained down.
Zephyr swung his massive mechanical arm, punching through dozens of floors midair, his fist wreathed in Armament Haki as he aimed straight for Kaido's chest!
Kaido's face twisted into a savage grin.
Without dodging, two dragon horns sprouted from his head, his fangs elongating past his lips.
Scales emerged across his torso and his legs transformed into draconic claws below the knees.
A fearsome dragon tail whipped through the air with a howling sound.
"Thunder Bagua!"
With a deafening roar, Kaido's muscles bulged, compressing the air with a thunderous crack.
Conqueror's Haki coiled around his kanabo, crackling with dark lightning as he swung it straight at Zephyr's mechanical arm!
BOOM!
Kaido's monstrous physique was like that of a prehistoric beast from ancient jungles—far beyond Zephyr's ability to match.
The moment their attacks collided, an earth-shattering explosion erupted.
Zephyr's mechanical arm shattered instantly and his body was sent flying backward at even greater speed, crashing through the walls and out of the tower!
"Worororo! That felt good!"
Kaido leaped down through the massive hole in the floors, landing with a thunderous impact in the first-floor hall.
The violent tremor shook the tower, threatening to topple it entirely.
SWOOSH!
A blinding sword slash tore through the air, instantly slicing through the azure dragon scales covering Kaido's body.
A spray of blood erupted as Kaido's massive frame was sent flying—straight towards Caesar.
Caesar scratched his head, a mischievous grin spreading across his face as he kicked Kaido square in the rear, sending him hurtling back.
"Caesar! You bastard! I'll make you pay for this!"
Kaido was so furious at this bastard!
Still midair, he swung his kanabo with full force, aiming at Rayleigh, who had just leaped up through the hole.
Rayleigh appeared covered in dirt but was otherwise unharmed.
His mastery of Haki was incredibly high, not the least bit inferior to Kaido's, though his physical strength was slightly less than Kaido.
"Taste Roger's technique, Kaido!" Rayleigh's eyes blazed with fury as an overwhelmingly sharp sword intent pierced the heavens, seemingly capable of splitting space itself.
Crimson lightning crackled along the blade of his sword as he swung it down.
"Divine Departure!"
BOOM!!
The entire cake tower exploded from the bottom up, layer by layer.
Countless fragments of stone shot out in all directions, faster than cannonballs.
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