Below.
The battle among the officers was nearing its end.
Clap, clap, clap!
Hancock moved like the wind, her long legs striking with the speed of thunder.
One kick was enough to shatter a biscuit armor standing in her way, breaking it into pieces like stones.
In the blink of an eye, she had already rushed up to the stern-faced Cracker.
"What is with this woman?!"
Cracker didn't dare look at Hancock.
Just one glance would make his face flush and his heart race—he simply couldn't bring himself to attack her.
But if he tried to distract himself from her with pain like Katakuri did to them before, Cracker just couldn't—he was already too afraid of pain.
He could only close his eyes and use Observation Haki to anticipate Hancock's attack.
After several fierce exchanges like a raging storm, the sword in his hand was kicked away by Hancock's foot.
Then—
"Love-Love Beam."
A heart-shaped light wave pierced through Cracker's body.
The famous Warlord Senju Cracker instantly turned into a statue.
"Too easy."
Hancock snorted lightly.
Everyone who couldn't escape her charm was nothing but a fragile opponent before her.
"..."
Katakuri's eyebrows lowered.
"Hehehe! Only you're left now!"
Solem laughed maliciously, turning into a golden statue.
Perespero lay quietly at his feet.
At first, he could still put up some resistance, but it didn't last long.
Solem quietly scattered a lot of golden powder. Taking advantage of Perespero's unpreparedness, he immediately turned him into a statue.
"Eh? Is it already over?"
Yamato looked around in surprise and saw everyone was now watching her and Katakuri.
"Because someone is just too useless," Hancock sneered, "Everyone else is done, and only you're left."
"Damn it!!"
Yamato was extremely unwilling to give up. She glared fiercely at Katakuri, "You really know how to dodge!"
In a straight fight, her strength was definitely above Katakuri's.
But his Future Sight Observation Haki was such a pain that she simply couldn't land a hit.
I've decided!
I need to learn Future Sight too!
But before that...
Yamato took a deep breath and slammed her spiked club heavily onto the ground.
"Frost Field!!"
A thick white mist suddenly spread rapidly, instantly filling the entire area and forming a large hemispherical zone.
Inside this zone was dense fog, making it almost impossible to see anything.
Katakuri's expression changed sharply, and his whole body was instantly covered in Armament Haki.
Even so, a layer of solid ice quickly formed over his body.
So cold!!
Everything is about to freeze!
Grinding his teeth, Katakuri knew he had to shatter this field!
The ground surged, transforming into a flood of rice cakes.
But before these rice cakes could do anything, they turned directly into ice sculptures within the white mist.
Yamato said seriously, "As long as you have nowhere to hide, that's enough, right?"
Katakuri instantly charged forward, launching a direct attack on Yamato.
He had considered retreating to escape this area, but the future he saw told him otherwise.
It was useless.
This area was movable, centered around the spiked club in Yamato's hand! It moved as Yamato moved!
As long as he couldn't shake off Yamato's pursuit, there was truly nowhere to run.
"Freeze!"
Yamato shouted sharply.
The spreading cold suddenly converged.
Katakuri was instantly frozen into an ice sculpture.
At that moment, Yamato dashed forward, raising her iron club high.
But the icy spiked club collided against the spinning trident.
Katakuri shattered the ice again, his face already frozen purple.
"You have nowhere left to escape!"
Although Yamato's strike didn't land, she was not annoyed. She even declared loudly, "The moment your Haki runs out is the moment you'll be frozen solid!"
"..."
Katakuri clearly understood his situation. Surrounded by this icy domain, he had to constantly use Armament Haki to resist the biting cold.
On top of that, he had to fend off Yamato's direct attacks.
Armament Haki was rapidly draining.
He couldn't hold on much longer.
But even if he won, nothing would change.
The giants, the monsters under Ian's command, were all still lurking hungrily.
"Mom!"
He gritted his teeth. "I have no choice but to rely on you!"
In the sky—
"You brat!!"
Aunt Linlin shouted angrily. She swung her long blade fiercely, but couldn't even graze a single hair on Ian.
Zeus was fast in flight, but compared to Ian, it wasn't nearly enough.
Moreover, Ian could foresee the future, so Aunt Linlin's attacks couldn't even touch him.
"Tch, with moves like that, you won't defeat me, Aunt Linlin."
Dodging the attacks, Ian pointed downward with his finger.
"There's only Katakuri left. If you don't hurry, the whole army will be wiped out."
"God of Lightning Tenjin!!"
Aunt Linlin roared in fury, plunging her hand deep into the cloud body of Zeus below.
Suddenly, Zeus's body darkened and swelled. In the next moment, thunder and lightning flashed violently toward Ian from all directions.
The speed of the lightning was indeed fast, but if you could predict their trajectory in advance, you could still dodge.
However—
Huh?
Ian was slightly stunned.
Each lightning tip had a face.
Even after being dodged, they changed direction at an astonishing speed and surged toward Ian.
Lightning Homies?
Fully automated, pursuing thunderbolts?
An unavoidable attack?
Interesting.
A faint smirk appeared on Ian's lips.
The speed of lightning was something even he couldn't match. He could only let the thunderbolts hit him repeatedly.
But then—
"What?"
Aunt Linlin's eyes widened in surprise.
Lightning continuously pierced Ian's body, yet it caused him no harm.
Because he had become flames!
How could lightning extinguish fire?
"Let me end this, Aunt Linlin."
Ian, entering the Phoenix state, raised the flaming sword in his hand. Surtr instantly shifted form.
The blade of the flaming sword lengthened, splitting at the tip into two halves, gradually forming a double helix structure like a DNA model, before merging again at the top.
The flaming sword transformed into a spiral spear—
A crimson spiral spear.
"Let's call it,"
Ian thought for a moment, "Gungnir."
The meteor spear that never misses, never fails, and always wins!
In the next moment, flames roared behind Ian as he truly became a meteor shooting forward.
"I don't want to sound rude, but Aunt Linlin, let's end this battle with this move."
This move would be called Meteor One—no, the Great Wild Starfall.
The spiral spear suddenly began to spin. The air around it was silent, because even the air blocking its path was destroyed by the flames.
Aunt Linlin's expression changed drastically. Even she knew the power of Ian's destructive fire!
"Zeus!!"
She shouted as thunderclouds rapidly retreated, releasing a storm of lightning toward Ian.
But it was useless. Completely useless.
Lightning still pierced Ian's body, still unable to harm him.
"Indra!!"
Aunt Linlin swung out a furious strike, trying to blast Ian away with a shockwave.
But still, it was useless.
The meteor spear pierced straight through her violent blade wave.
The crimson spear reflected in Aunt Linlin's eyes.
"You brat!!"
Aunt Linlin roared, her great blade, Napoleon, slicing through the air, aimed directly to cleave Ian in two.
But—
A red light flickered in Ian's eyes.
Ian said he'd teach you a lesson, so he really would.
You'll get to experience firsthand the downside of Observation Haki that can't predict the future.
The shining meteor suddenly changed direction, effortlessly dodging Aunt Linlin's last desperate strike.
Even though Ian's fiery body could completely ignore the attack, he still perfectly avoided the massive blade.
After that, nothing stood in his way.
Charlotte Linlin's shocked and horrified eyes watched as the tip of the Meteor Spear pierced her right shoulder.
Charlotte Linlin desperately focused her Haki there—she knew how terrifying Ian's red flames were!
But she had no idea they were this terrifying.
Conqueror's Haki—breaking through.
Armament Haki—breaking through.
The crimson spear tip stabbed deeply into her right shoulder.
Then, a brief stalemate.
Her physical body was actually stronger than the defense of dual Haki.
However, after all, Haki does not negate the special attack property of abilities.
Next moment—invincible body—breaking through!
The Meteor Spear plunged into Charlotte Linlin's shoulder.
"Waaaah!"
A scream of pain instantly echoed through the skies.
On Ian's blazing head, a faint, almost imperceptible smile appeared.
They say even among Emperors, there are differences.
Aunt Linlin, why won't you believe it?
That you're the weakest of the Four Emperors—I thought everyone already knew that.
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