Meanwhile, in the northern part of the island, the fierce battle continued.
Under Imu's full-force assault, Raiver was pushed to a disadvantage. Imu appeared determined to eliminate Raiver right then and there.
Raiver had lost count of how many times he had used Voidification to evade the lethal attacks of the black spike tentacles.
At that moment, Imu raised her hand once more.
Thousands of black spike tentacles, entwined with Conqueror's Haki, surged out from the void!
They surrounded him from all angles, 360 degrees without a single blind spot.
Then, they all fired at once!
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—!!!!
Raiver pressed his palms together, his gaze sharpening.
"Super Divine Push—!"
A vast and mighty repulsive force erupted from him as the center, expanding rapidly in a spherical shape!
An invisible barrier collided with the oncoming tentacles, producing a harsh, grating sound!
For a moment, energy surged violently, and ripples spread through the surrounding space.
"Hah—!" Raiver roared, pouring all his strength into the attack!
The Super Divine Push erupted and expanded once more, crushing all the black tentacles and clearing everything within a three-hundred-meter radius.
Immediately after, Raiver raised his right hand, fingers slightly spread, aiming at Imu.
"Space Severance!"
Swish—!
At Imu's location, space was torn open, leaving a massive, cleanly sliced fissure!
The fissure extended from above her head down to her feet, vertically splitting her body in two!
But quickly, Imu's bisected body began to heal and restore at a visible pace.
Raiver didn't stop. He clenched his right hand:
"Spatial Strangulation—!"
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Countless Space Shards descended and swept through, piercing Imu's newly restored body like rays of light!
Under the force field of Spatial Strangulation, Imu's body was sliced into hundreds of pieces, suspended in mid-air.
Yet, within three seconds, the shredded body rapidly restored itself once again.
Raiver's expression turned grave. From their previous exchanges, he had realized:
Apart from damage inflicted by Conqueror's Haki, which could slow Imu's regeneration, all other attacks—
whether physical, elemental, or spatial—allowed her to recover from the damage instantly.
Thus, Imu had no need to use Haki for defense.
She channeled all her Haki into offense, relying on her Undying Body to withstand any and all harm.
This was an unwinnable battle.
Imu was enraged; she had never been humiliated like this before!
"You insect... how dare you..."
Before she could finish her words, all the tentacles in the void began to writhe and merge frantically!
They twisted around each other like colossal black pythons, layering upon one another.
In the end, they coalesced into a single, pitch-black spear over ten meters in diameter!
"Die."
With that one word uttered, the massive black spear shot forth!
The space in front of the spear's tip was directly pierced, forming a spiral-shaped vacuum channel!
Raiver raised his right hand, fingers spread wide:
"Void Barrier—!"
A semi-transparent spatial barrier instantly unfolded in front of him.
Boom—!!!
The moment the black spear struck the barrier, ripples spread across its surface, and then—it shattered.
The spatial barrier couldn't hold for even a second, breaking apart into countless fragments.
The spear, unstoppable, continued its advance!
But there was not a trace of panic in Raiver's eyes.
As the barrier shattered, he swept his left hand in front of him.
A Space Gate instantly unfolded.
Correspondingly, an identical Space Gate appeared simultaneously three meters behind Imu.
The colossal black spear pierced through the Space Gate in front of Raiver and vanished.
The next moment, it emerged from the Space Gate behind Imu, hurtling toward her back at the same terrifying speed!
Imu didn't even have time to turn around.
Ssshh—!!!
The spear pierced through her chest, emerging from her front, its tip still carrying her own dark aura.
Time seemed to freeze for a second.
Imu looked down at the spear tip protruding from her chest, all three of her eyes widening simultaneously.
No pain, no surprise.
Only pure, profane rage.
Being pierced by her own attack—even if it was merely negligible damage to her Undying Body—had crossed the bottom line of her dignity as a "god."
"You… how dare you…"
Her voice trembled, not from injury, but from trampled dignity.
Imu slowly raised her hand and grasped the spear tip at her chest.
Darkness Power surged from her palm, "dissolving" the colossal spear and absorbing it back into her body.
The piercing wound on her chest healed at a visible rate, even her clothes restored to their original state.
But the fury in her eyes had reached its peak.
"Die—!!!"
Imu's third eye erupted with a blinding light!
An overwhelming God-Tier Conqueror's Haki compressed, condensed, and transformed within the depths of her pupils, ultimately morphing into a pitch-black Haki Lightning Spear!
Then, it shot forth!
The moment the lightning spear was launched, it had already struck Raiver—no, it struck the position where he had been.
Because at the exact instant the lightning spear was fired, Raiver's Space Perception issued an unprecedented, fatal warning!
It wasn't a warning of "danger"—it was a warning of "certain death!"
Without the slightest hesitation, Raiver's body instantly turned transparent, illusory.
Voidification—entering the 3.5-dimensional space.
This was Raiver's trump card ability, bar none.
When his body voidified, he would detach from three-dimensional space, entering a layer between the third and fourth dimensions.
In that dimension, all physical attacks, Haki attacks, even conceptual attacks from three-dimensional space could not touch him.
Simply put, as long as he wished, he was "invincible."
The black lightning spear passed through Raiver's already voidified body as if through a phantom.
Then it continued forward, shooting toward the distant sky.
One second later.
The other half of the island that Rocks had split in two with a single slash.
That half-island, which hadn't completely collapsed in the previous battle, met its end.
There was no sound—first, a black light shone from the center of the half-island.
Then, the light began to spread, "erasing" everything in its path.
When the light faded, the half-island was gone.
All that remained was a massive crater hundreds of meters deep, seawater frantically rushing in to fill it.
That single strike had directly "erased" all matter within a radius of several kilometers.
After a brief dead silence came an even deeper fear.
On the ships that had fled to the sea, whether Marines or pirates, all stared blankly at the vanished half-island.
Some even forgot to breathe.
At the center of the battlefield, Raiver's body solidified once more.
He looked at the distant crater, a trace of gravity flashing in his eyes.
Imu could cheat—relying on her Undying Body to withstand all attacks.
He could cheat too—relying on Voidification to evade all attacks.
Thus, the battle reached a stalemate.
Neither could kill the other, only wearing each other down until one side was exhausted.
But Raiver didn't want to continue.
Because he knew there was no point in going on.
Imu's Undying Body seemed to have no limits, while his own stamina and Haki would eventually run out.