Shock!

Flames and lightning.

Two catastrophic natural elements danced around Kaido and Charlotte Linlin.

Their raised weapons, the long sword and the spiked club, were enveloped in flames, lightning, and the intimidating conqueror's haki.

Their massive bodies emitted a terrifying aura.

In an instant, it felt as if two ferocious beasts were silently roaring.

These two Emperors of the Sea in the New World were gathering their strength, preparing to strike Nicholas together with full force.

Seeing the formation of Charlotte Linlin and Kaido, Nicholas could clearly feel a tremendous pressure, giving the illusion that anything standing in their way would be annihilated in the next moment.

Even the flow of time seemed to slow down at this moment.

Nicholas was certain that something terrifying was about to happen!

In this situation, should he resist head-on or avoid their edge? Should he make a run for it?

Without a moment's hesitation, Nicholas made the decision to confront them directly.

After all, he wanted to see if he could withstand the combined attack of two Emperors of the Sea.

"Raijin!"

Nicholas swiftly sheathed his long sword.

As he muttered to himself, lightning surged around him, and his entire body began to be enveloped in a mass of lightning, expanding rapidly.

In no time, a hundred-meter-tall Raijin stood where Nicholas had been standing.

Kaido and Charlotte Linlin observed Nicholas's response.

"Wororororo, it looks like he's planning to face us head-on. He underestimates us, Linlin..."

Seeing that Nicholas seemed to have no intention of dodging, but rather wanted to confront them directly, Kaido's eyes gleamed with malice.

Originally, they had to consider Nicholas's terrifying speed with his lightning ability.

So they hadn't rushed to attack but had instead used Observation Haki and Aura to lock onto Nicholas's aura.

Now—

Seeing the Raijin towering between heaven and earth, they didn't need to consider so much anymore.

If they couldn't hit such a large target, they might as well go back to running a zoo.

"Linlin!"

"Mama... Kaido, let's take him down together!"

The auras of Kaido and Charlotte Linlin intertwined and flowed between them, quickly forming a unified front under their tacit understanding.

"Hakai!"

Their auras surged, and Kaido and Charlotte Linlin almost simultaneously launched their attacks.

The Napoleon long sword wrapped in flames and lightning, and the spiked club with purple-red lightning flowing around its sharp spikes, both unleashed shockwaves filled with a destructive aura with almost identical power and speed, slashing towards Nicholas.

The dazzling light became the most eye-catching presence in the world in an instant.

Wherever the shockwaves passed, even the air emitted a mournful cry, and the ground and various remnants of buildings were completely annihilated into molecules.

"Hakai!?"

Members of the Beast Pirates and the Big Mom Pirates were all shocked at the sight of the simultaneous attacks by Kaido and Charlotte Linlin.

The terrifying momentum that seemed to annihilate everything, even reaching them tens of miles away from the battlefield, inevitably shocked them.

Almost simultaneously, they all had a sudden thought.

"Nicholas is done for."

For them, it was inconceivable that anyone could withstand such terrifying attacks head-on.

At the moment Kaido and Charlotte Linlin launched their attacks, Nicholas, transformed into Raijin, clasped his hands together, and began gathering a large amount of lightning in his palms, compressing it continuously, almost to the point of materialization.

"KA-ME-HA-ME---HA!"

With Nicholas's voice, a gigantic beam of light with a diameter of over fifty meters rushed towards the direction where Kaido and Charlotte Linlin were.

In terms of momentum alone, it seemed to be on par with Hakai.

In the blink of an eye, the shockwaves launched by Nicholas met the ones sent by Kaido and Charlotte Linlin.

"Boom!"

The moment the two shockwaves collided, all anyone could hear was the deafening roar echoing in their ears.

Immediately afterward, a blinding light, capable of blinding even those who didn't react in time, filled the space, causing tears to well up in many people's eyes.

Everyone present, shocked and amazed, subconsciously closed their eyes.

The next moment, the oncoming shockwave, like an invisible wall of air, fiercely struck them.

Thud, thud...

The members of the Beast Pirates and the Big Mom Pirates, both officers and ordinary crew members, were pushed back by the violent shockwave.

"What's happening...!!!"

Reacting instinctively, they raised their arms to shield their eyes.

They squinted, trying to see through the blinding light to the center of the collision.

What they saw was a colossal, incomprehensibly bright sphere of light, surrounded by concentric rings of waves rushing outwards.

As for the specific situation, they couldn't see anything.

"Mr. Kaido's and Mama's combined attack was actually blocked...?!!"

Perospero, who was chewing on candy, hastily created a makeshift pair of sunglasses with his Devil Fruit ability just to barely see what was happening in the field. However, when he saw the specific situation, his eyeballs almost popped out, and he even bit down on the candy in his mouth so hard that it shattered.

"Mr. Perospero, what are you saying...? How could such a terrifying attack be blocked?!"

Hearing Perospero's words, the people who lacked sunglasses and couldn't see through the intense light were all in disbelief.

"..."

Perospero glanced at the many crew members who were unwilling to accept the truth, then silently looked towards the battlefield, where the situation was still deadlocked and victory had not yet been determined.

However, Perospero's face was filled with deep fear.

The overwhelming sound soon came to an end.

At the same time, there was finally a change in the stalemate between the two sides, and the massive beam of destruction whistled through the thick smoke and struck the colossal Raijin head-on, causing the giant Raijin to disappear.

As the smoke cleared, everyone watching saw the vast empty space created by the shockwave, and they also saw Kaido and Charlotte Linlin standing there. On the other side of the empty space was Nicholas.

"This..."

The people who were once convinced that Nicholas could not possibly withstand the joint attack of Charlotte Linlin and Kaido now watched in shock as Nicholas emerged unscathed.

Many people's only thought at this moment was, although I don't understand, I am deeply impressed.