Chapter 165: The Tremor-Tremor Fruit
Skye looked up at the sky over Manhattan, where a dense, overwhelming army of demons blotted out the heavens.
A bright smile spread across her face.
There was nothing more satisfying than wiping out the whole field in one shot.
Using her power in the Mirror Dimension was one thing. Using it in the real world against a swarm of demons was something else entirely.
What was more, earlier that afternoon, the Boss had given her something called the Tremor-Tremor Fruit.
With that, combined with her own shockwave ability, she felt as if she had become unbelievably powerful.
So the cross-shaped sword in her hand shifted onto her back, while the black sheen of Armament Haki coating and hardening faded away.
She spread her feet slightly and clenched her right fist. A white sphere wrapped around her gloved hand.
Inside it churned an immense and complex mass of vibrational energy.
A terrifying aura swept across the battlefield at once.
In that instant, all of Manhattan began to tremble faintly on its own.
At the same time, the eruption of that energy was so overwhelming that everyone could feel it, even ordinary people.
By chance, the reporters near Times Square who had been filming the Astartes fighting under Skye's protection caught her movements on camera.
The people in charge at the news network reacted quickly and immediately shifted every channel's focus onto her.
Skye's every move was exposed to everyone watching the broadcast.
The World Destroye had no idea that all eyes were on her in that moment.
And she did not care.
Her eyes were fixed only on the sky. With a low shout, she tightened her fist, wrapped in that white aura, and drove it into the air above her.
Crack!
It was as if her punch had struck a mirror. Around her fist, the air splintered like shattered glass, as countless white cracks spread outward like a spiderweb.
Savage. Terrifying.
And then—
The shocking force she released at full power created a sight that stunned everyone who saw it.
The sky over Manhattan shattered.
Literally shattered.
The entire sky above Manhattan's 59.1 square kilometers was covered in those dense white fractures. Whether they were standing in Manhattan itself or watching through live television footage, everyone fell silent.
They could only stare blankly at that horrifying, terrifying scene.
Especially those in Manhattan—police, civilians, gang members, even the wealthy.
All of them saw the sky splitting apart, and all of them felt, most directly, the pressure, the suffocation, and the despair it brought.
Time itself seemed to freeze.
Countless demons in the sky were caught within the white fractures and held in place. Their bodies shifted apart as they cracked, splitting into countless irregular sections.
Low-level demons, and even the somewhat stronger ones that had been hanging back and observing—
Every demon caught within those fractures found itself unable to move.
They could only watch helplessly as their bodies broke apart, until their consciousness completely vanished.
Boom!!!
A second later, the shattered cracks disappeared, and then a wave of vibrational force beyond human imagination erupted. A deafening roar followed, along with a massive surge as the shockwave energy swept wildly through the sky like a raging flood, destroying everything in its path.
The countless demons overhead were annihilated and torn apart within that torrent of vibrational force.
The rolling energy even spread into Manhattan itself.
Violent winds whipped through the city, and the ground shook fiercely. Many civilians lost their footing and fell.
Countless people screamed in panic, instinctively grabbing onto whatever they could reach to steady themselves.
And just like that, an unforgettable scene was born.
The sky had been cleared in an instant.
Skye herself was a little dazed. She raised her head and looked at the sky, then lowered her eyes to her own fist, her mouth falling open.
She could hardly believe she had done that.
In fact, even before eating the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, the destructive range of her ability could already reach this scale.
But with her current level of fine control, wide-area destructive output like this had been beyond her.
It might even have affected Manhattan itself.
Instead, like now, the destruction had basically been limited to the sky without damaging the ground.
While Skye was still in shock, Jessica's excited shout came through her earpiece.
"By the Leader above, what did you do, Skye? Look at what you just did!"
"Is that your ability?"
"Hahaha, that's too strong."
"Fuck, die, you piece of trash! You actually tried to grab a baby. She's not even three years old!"
The first half had been praise and astonishment. The second half was fury mixed with roaring impacts. Clearly, Jessica was brutalizing some unlucky demon.
"Beautifully done, Skye."
"Everyone else, speed up the cleanup of the remaining demons on the ground. Lock the battlefield completely in the sky. Absolutely do not allow a single demon to break through the defensive line and reach the ground."
Reacher's steady voice sounded in the channel.
Although this temporary channel covered every soldiers of the two Warbands, during combat, whether it was cooperative orders or communication, everything was short, fast, and precise.
There was no chaotic or unnecessary chatter.
Even Jessica had used a one-way private channel to speak with Skye, not the general channel.
Under the deliberate training of Reacher, Natasha, and the others, discipline had long since been carved into their bones.
"Yes, Commander."
As Warband Commander, Reacher and Natasha occupied the highest positions of command during wartime. Reacher served as the overall commander, while Natasha acted as his deputy, coordinating with him.
Reacher's battle orders overrode all others.
No one was permitted to object.
Under his command, the remaining soldiers immediately surged forward, accelerating their sweep to eliminate the remaining demons on the ground.
At full output, the Astartes and Raven displayed terrifying killing power unlike anything before.
The Astartes were like silent and dreadful killing machines. Facing the demons' attacks, they did not dodge at all. Instead, they endured the demons' strikes head-on, then delivered fatal blows with a punch, a kick, or a swing of their weapons.
Those demons were like stalks of grain being harvested, falling and dying in batches.
Demon blood gathered into rivers, soaking the ground of Manhattan.
Corpses lay scattered in every corner like garbage.
The Astartes stepped heavily over the bodies and through the blood as they continued advancing. The demons were afraid too. Facing this terrifying legion of killing-machine-like monsters, they began to retreat.
They screamed and tried to flap their wings to flee, but unfortunately for them, the female soldiers of the Raven Warband were still there.
These beautiful, heroic female soldiers wore no armor. Compared with the towering Astartes, they even seemed somewhat delicate.
But each and every one of them was the most terrifying kind of killer.
They moved swiftly through the steel jungle, displaying ghostlike figures beyond compare. People could not even clearly see their forms.
They could only see streaks of red light flashing past their eyes, and then those demons baring their claws and fangs would all die.
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