The giant blade fell, as if Moses were parting the sea. A spiral-shaped sword wave tore apart everything before it.
The ground was cut with a chasm. The lightning was split in two. The clouds were cut in half at the waist. It was as if the entire world had been sliced open.
Facing the oncoming storm slash, Linlin showed no fear. She took out Napoleon and began absorbing the other two Homies.
"Here we go, Zeus, Prometheus, Napoleon!" Linlin called out loudly.
A foot wearing wooden clogs heavily struck the ground, kicking up a huge cloud of dust. At the same time, her increasingly swelling two-handed sword was raised behind her. Haki surged.
—Sword of Resounding Light!
When the greatsword swung, the whole world seemed to be swallowed by darkness. Only that thunder, like burning steel, raced across the sky.
That thunder was even more powerful than the fierce winds and torrential rains, constantly jumping between countless mediums.
In just an instant, it extended over a vast distance, as if possessing life, converging into a straight line, piercing through the storm and attacking Sakura.
"Interesting. So you can use it with Zeus too?" Casually raising her arm, Sakura raised a single finger. Her Wood Release Chakra boiled without reservation.
The next moment, countless giant trees grew from the ground. Their branches and vines hooked together, forming a vast forest.
—Wood Release: Nativity of a World of Trees!
The activated trees directly extended their broad branches. The vines, coiled with two-color Haki, casually struck. An invisible thunder was smashed to pieces by the wood, which was as hard as metal.
"A tree?" Linlin's eyes flashed with light. She casually dragged her massive body into the forest.
"What is she trying to do?" Sakura frowned, feeling that things were not simple. She directly manipulated the Wood Release branches to form spikes and stabbed them fiercely at her.
Clang, clang, clang, clang—!
After the thrust of the Armament-coated wooden spikes, a considerable portion shattered upon impacting Linlin's hard skin, also coated in Armament. The remaining spikes were directly grabbed by her.
"Hey, forest over there. I like your spirit. Come work for me!" Linlin grinned, licking her lips with a sinister smile. "I'll specially endow you with, my soul!"
She wrapped one arm around the giant wooden spike. Her other hand grabbed her own abdomen. Using the power of the Soru Soru no Mi, she divided a portion of her own soul and forcefully pressed it into these vines.
The next moment, intense soul light enveloped the entire forest.
"Hey hey, is this really necessary!" Sakura's pupils contracted. She instinctively wanted to release the Wood Release.
Her storm greatsword swung horizontally. The giant race's legendary spear blasted out a wide-area shockwave that poured down.
However, the Wood Release Chakra she tried to pull back was not complete. After the sword wave slashed, it only cut off a horn of the distant Onigashima.
The vast forest and vines rapidly gathered and condensed in Linlin's raised palm like a fluid, forming a wooden ball 0.5 meters in diameter.
"Come on, let me see your ability!" Linlin's mouth curled into a wild smile. Her hair and clothes were blown about by the shockwaves erupting from the gestating Homie.
But she seemed completely unconcerned. Instead, she raised the wooden ball, which was throbbing with the breath of life, and laughed loudly, "Do it! Tambuzu!"
The wooden ball collapsed inward. The next moment, it shattered outright, revealing a slender, small figure suspended in mid-air.
"Yes, Mama!" The fairy-like, tiny Homie spread its light, nimble wings. The entire Homie turned into a stream of light and charged into the earth.
Then, countless vines grew from beneath the ground, winding and weaving giant nets that pounced on Sakura.
'Tch, the Mori Mori no Mi. Not even a dog would eat it.'
Sakura gathered Chakra to the soles of her feet, using the technique of Ninja footwork. Her entire being, like a butterfly, lightly weaved between the vine nets.
At the same time, her cherry-pink long hair gradually turned crimson as it danced. Extreme heat began to radiate from her body.
—High-Temperature Mode: Blazing Fire Warrior Form!
"Flame Light Sword - Ikoku Sovereignty!"
Sakura raised her sword and slashed again, ruthlessly wielding the violent thermal energy generated from her fruit ability.
She swept up the surrounding flames, turning them into a crimson tornado. Then, in the endless molten fire, she slashed down at Linlin!
"Mama mama, it's useless!" Linlin raised Napoleon in her hand. Prometheus, chewing on the surrounding flames, infused the greatsword with fire. Powerful Armament Haki flowed over the blade's tip, coating it with a purple film.
—Blade Mother's Flame!
Sprinting across the shattered ground, Linlin met Sakura's Ikoku Sovereignty with her own killing move.
Boom!!!
In close combat, all things were enveloped in that dazzling light. The towering ocean waves and surges retreated in terror, along with the already shattered earth, rapidly evaporating under the terrifying impact.
Finally, the sky islands, unable to withstand the battle between the two, shattered. The land before Onigashima and the Flower Capital each broke apart, collapsing downward, directly causing the weapon level of Onigashima to press against the main gate of the Flower Capital.
In the sky, the thoughts of the lion and the dragon, who were heartbroken by this scene, reached a high degree of consensus at this moment.
'Look at the mess you've made! You two wasteful women!!!'
The various masters of the Beasts Pirates, Big Mom Pirates, Higanbana Pirates, and Flying Pirates also took the opportunity of the ground collapsing to withdraw from the main battlefield.
"How crazy, Mother." Sato Sakura, maintaining her half-beastman form, looked up at Sakura in the distance.
"Kid, you have the nerve to look elsewhere?" King, as an ancient-type pteranodon, relied on his excellent flying instincts to charge at Sato Sakura.
He prepared to take advantage of the golden opportunity when a certain land giant beast left the ground to defeat her!
Someone can't fly, but I won't say who!
To ensure the maximum power of this strike, the flames behind King burned to their extreme. He even transformed into his hybrid form and drew the katana he had never used.
"Proud Marten Emperor!!!"
With King's roar, the flames wrapping the katana suddenly sprayed. The scalding flames, like lava, turned into a long dragon, opening its giant mouth toward Sato Sakura.
"Heh!"
Contrary to King's expectations, Sato Sakura's body rapidly shrank back to her human form. The Lunarian clan wings behind her spread. The flames on her body also extinguished. Her entire body's speed suddenly increased by several levels.
A black stream of light spun and swept past the fire dragon in the air, arriving before King without warning, carrying blazing Haki.
Sato Sakura looked up. Her green eyes, inherited from Sakura, narrowed, showing a pleased expression. "You lose. It seems your so-called pure breed is nothing special."
"You..." King was instantly horrified. Cold sweat seeped from his forehead, flowing upward as he was inverted.
But Sato Sakura clearly had no intention of giving him any chance. The giant race's spear for opening the future was delivered with her fist.
—Elbaf Spear - Ikoku Sovereignty!!!