However, Mamaragan was only a method to pin Lancelot down.
The real main event was still waiting behind it.
That was Enel's ultimate move, his final trump card.
The power of this technique was beyond imagination, even several levels above his Thunder God form.
Enel roared, "Raigo!"
In an instant, he released the vast thunderclouds he had created with the Ark Maxim, then poured the lightning he had personally generated into them.
Those bolts of lightning acted like a fuse, rapidly stimulating the thunderclouds and causing them to undergo a startling transformation.
In the blink of an eye, the once-scattered thunderclouds seemed to be drawn together by some mysterious force.
They swiftly gathered into an enormous black spherical cloud.
The shape of the cloud resembled ball lightning, but the energy contained within it was far beyond anything ball lightning could compare to.
Inside it, terrifying air currents and electrical currents churned violently, as though it were an energy bomb compressed to the absolute limit, ready to erupt at any moment.
Lancelot stared up at the thunder sphere in the sky, and a solemn look appeared on his face as well.
The last time he had faced such a massive sphere was during his fierce battle against Ace in Wano Country.
Back then, Ace had unleashed a technique called Flame Emperor, and its power had been astonishing.
But now, Enel's attack was clearly even stronger. If one insisted on giving it a name, even "Thunder Emperor" would not be worthy of describing its power.
No.
Only the name "Thunder God" could match it.
Because the power of this technique was absolutely far above Ace's Flame Emperor.
"Die before this god!"
Enel roared furiously, his voice exploding through heaven and earth like thunder, shaking the surrounding air until it buzzed.
His raised hands seemed to be pulled by an invisible force as he suddenly dragged them downward.
In that instant, the black thundercloud sphere suspended high in the sky seemed to come alive.
Like an enraged beast opening its bloody maw, it descended with world-ending momentum, crashing straight toward Lancelot on the ground.
"Tch, tch."
Seeing this, Lancelot showed no fear at all.
Instead, the corner of his mouth lifted slightly, forming a chilling, strange smile.
His eyes stayed fixed on the approaching black thunder sphere, as if he were admiring some magnificent performance.
After all, Lancelot had seen the original story. He understood the power of this black thunder sphere better than anyone.
He knew that the moment it fell, it would erupt with devastating lightning and destroy every target within its range. Its destructive power could only be described as terrifying.
In the blink of an eye, it could reduce an entire cloud island to dust.
And the Raigo created by Enel at full power was even more dreadful, enough to wipe out the people of an entire nation.
One could imagine just how terrifying this technique truly was.
"Hoo…"
So as Lancelot watched the black thunder sphere crash toward him like a falling meteor, his pupils contracted sharply until they were as thin as needle points, as though he could see the endless destructive power hidden within that black mass.
His body trembled involuntarily, as if enveloped by an invisible fear, like he had been caught in a terrible earthquake.
However, Lancelot was not frightened into helplessness by the terrifying sight.
He took a deep breath and forced his heart to settle.
His hand moved like lightning, swiftly landing on Shusui.
Then, without hesitation, he drew the blade in a single violent motion.
In that instant, waves of tremendous power surged out like a flood, as though the entire world shook because of it.
First, Ryuo-infused Armament Haki burned across the surface of Shusui like a blazing flame.
That Armament Haki did not merely wrap tightly around the blade; it also granted it overwhelming strength and hardness.
Immediately afterward, arcs of black lightning coiled around the sword like dragons rising from the sea, cutting dazzling curves through the air.
This black lightning was no ordinary electricity.
It was an extremely rare form of power, one that carried the force to shatter heaven and earth.
At the same time, the Sacred Sword tattoo on his chest suddenly shone with an unusual light, like a sleeping beast awakening from its slumber.
That radiance echoed with the black lightning, forming an indescribable pressure.
Under the glow of that light, a sharp sword aura erupted from the blade.
Finally, a white halo appeared along the sword's edge.
This strike fused Conqueror's Haki, Armament Haki, the power of the Sacred Sword, and the Tremor-Tremor Fruit into one peerless attack.
Rumble!
With a furious roar, Lancelot swung his blade like heavenly thunder descending from the highest skies.
Carrying unmatched force, the slash met the black thunder sphere falling from above.
This blade carried all of his strength and technique.
This was absolutely one of the greatest clashes at the summit of this world.
There was no equal.
Crack! Crack!
The instant the blade collided with the thunder sphere, an earth-shaking roar erupted. The sound was like the collapse of the universe itself, deafening beyond belief.
And in the place where the blade had been swung, space itself seemed to tear apart, revealing shocking cracks.
Those cracks spread rapidly like a spiderweb, covering a thousand meters of space above Lancelot's head at an incredible speed.
From the sheer scale of the spatial fractures alone, one could imagine just how terrifying the Gura Gura no Mi had become in Lancelot's hands.
This had already far surpassed the level Whitebeard had reached back then.
It was a power beyond imagination.
And only such terrifying power could contend with Enel's world-destroying Raigo.
In fact, during that fierce collision, Lancelot's strike gradually gained the upper hand and began to break it apart.
After that brief, heart-stopping stalemate—or perhaps under the added pressure of Raigo's tremendous power—the space that had already been covered in dense cracks suddenly shattered like a broken mirror.
With an earth-shaking explosion, a black hole nearly a thousand meters across suddenly appeared before everyone's eyes.
It was like a ferocious beast opening its bloody maw, instantly swallowing the entire black thunder sphere.
Yet that was not the end.
After swallowing the thunder sphere, the black hole did not stop. Instead, it continued madly devouring everything around it.
Space, light, air…
Everything fell within its range of devouring.
However, because space possessed an extremely powerful self-repairing nature, the black hole existed only for an instant before disappearing as abruptly as it had appeared.
Even so, despite its brief existence, the terrifying devouring power it displayed was enough to leave everyone utterly stunned.
"This… how is this possible?"
Enel, still in the air, stared in complete shock. His eyes widened uncontrollably, as though he had just witnessed the most impossible thing in the world.
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