Chapter IX - The Sword That Parts The World

Ahead, three voices roared in unison, each unleashing their Conqueror's Haki to its fullest. Lightning crackled and black-red waves distorted the air around them with godlike fury.

"IKOKU SOVEREIGNTY!!!" Linlin screamed, unleashing a mountain-cleaving compressed air slash fused with fire and lightning. Her Conqueror's Haki wrapped around Napoleon in thick, screaming coils.

"GURA GURA NO… GEKISHIN!!!" Whitebeard bellowed, smashing the air with quake force so powerful it split reality itself. His Conqueror's Haki burned around his arms like storm vortexes, shaking the battlefield with unstoppable will.

"TENCHI GIRI!!!" Shiki howled from above, releasing golden gravity blades spiraling down in chaotic elegance, Conqueror's Haki flaring around his swords with violent arcs.

Their combined attacks surged forward, merging into a wall of annihilation.

Zenka exhaled softly, her own Conqueror's Haki igniting around her body in silent black-red flames, distorting the air as her hair lifted under its oppressive aura.

She whispered:

"Kiseki Shinken-Ryu… Yatsufusa."

She drew her sword. Eight miracle-infused slashes erupted forward, merging into a single unstoppable blade wave. Their combined forces collided with hers, creating a blinding vortex of distorted light, gravity, and clashing Conqueror's Haki that sundered the air itself. The world exploded with impact. Linlin's Ikoku Sovereignty shattered into burning fragments, Whitebeard's Gekishin quake force cracked and splintered into collapsing tremor echoes, and Shiki's Tenchi Giri golden blades dissolved under her overwhelming edge. 

Soul Edge pulsed with savage hunger.

"More. Cut more. Break their souls. Their flesh is meaningless – their fear is the sweetest reward."

The ocean before her split into a scarred gully around fifty meters wide, its parted waters refusing to close. Steam rose in silent pillars, revealing the exposed sea floor trembling under the slash's lingering force. Shockwaves rippled for kilometers as shattered coral reefs and sunken wrecks were dragged into the endless wound cut through the sea.

Zenka's boots skidded backward from the recoil, molten rock cracking under her heels as her body trembled with strain.Their combined strike still struck her chest a little. Her ribs cracked inward, her boots tearing twin trenches through the shore as she was hurled backward, unable to brace against the sheer force. Pain lanced through her chest where internal fractures refused to seal. 

"Too soon…" she thought, her breathing ragged. "I wasn't ready to draw you fully yet…"

Blood dripped from her mouth as Soul Edge pulsed with a low, hungry hum.

As the brilliance faded, Linlin fell to one knee, eyes wide with terror and rage. Whitebeard stood panting, bisento trembling in his grip,coughing blood. Shiki hovered above them, face twisted in shock as his leg was gone.

Zenka lowered her blade slowly, eyes opening to reveal a faint, cold smile.

"Enjoy the gifts of Gods."

Just as she steadied herself, an invisible force smashed into her chest.

Rocks D. Xebec appeared from thin air, eyes blazing with murderous glee, his massive body coated in pitch-black Armament Haki laced with crackling Conqueror's lightning. Beside him, heavily wounded Silver Axe flickered into view, almost unconscious over Rocks' shoulder, his Clear-Clear Fruit power granting Rocks invisibility despite his limp state.

Her body crashed into the shallow rocky waters near the parted gully with explosive impact. Water erupted skyward, fragments of shattered stone raining down. She sank beneath the waves, her limbs refusing to move as Soul Edge pulsed weakly against her chest.

Her Miracle Miracle fruit faltered, unable to keep up with the accumulated damage and mental shock. Her lungs failed to regenerate fast enough as water flooded them again and again, her vision darkening as she fell.

Above, Rocks stood silently, Conqueror's lightning flickering around him. He looked down into the roiling water where her silhouette twisted below.

"Vohahahahaha!!!...Even death… can drown! VOHAHAHA! My Rivals are saying their regards!"