"Divine Light · Infinite Collier Rice Bowl!!!!"
Blazing firelight illuminated the entire sky.
In the next instant, attack after attack carrying scorching properties descended upon Saint Mars and Saint Peter, bringing them endless agony.
And yet, all of this happened in the blink of an eye!
This was the power of the awakened Speed-Speed Fruit!
After successfully refining his Lineage Factor, Sanji had not only forged his own body into sothing even more terrifying, but had also amplified the abilities of the Speed-Speed Fruit severalfold out of thin air.
Sure enough, after its awakening, the Speed-Speed Fruit had lived up to Red's earliest expectations for it—
Transcending ti!!!
Though that might sound sowhat exaggerated, the current Sanji could already use extre speed, combined with the distortion of the speed of surrounding objects, to achieve an alternative form of ti control.
It was not truly the law of ti.
But to Sanji's enemies, it was no different from manipulating ti itself.
High in the air, Sanji's figure seed to appear simultaneously around every part of the two Five Elders' bodies, continuously launching attacks at them.
This was tornt!
Vicious, rciless tornt!!!
Under the endless replenishnt of life force, the real world had now beco sothing the two Five Elders desperately wished to be freed from—
A boundless hell!!!
"..."
Watching the miserable states of Saint Mars and Saint Peter, Saint Nusjuro and Saint Warcury actually felt a strange trace of relief.
At least… the ones now trapped in a state where they could neither live nor die were not them!
They only had to face the threat of death… that was all~
"Three Sword Style · God-Slaying · Frost Prison!!!"
Clang!!!
Zoro, who clearly had no intention of giving the Five Elders too much ti to be shocked, once again erupted with an icy chill.
Borrowing the glacier beneath his feet, as well as the freezing energy he had absorbed during his earlier confrontation with Saint Nusjuro, Zoro unleashed a brand-new God-Slaying sword technique.
"Careful!!!"
Seeing Zoro charge toward them, Saint Nusjuro and Saint Warcury were montarily at a loss.
If they raised their weapons to et him, their "life" might be severed.
But if they did not take the initiative to confront him, allowing the opponent to attack freely would simply be death by another thod.
In the end, it was Saint Warcury, who had yet to suffer an attack, whose eyes flashed with determination. His enormous boar head abruptly lifted, dark lightning flashing all around him as he swung his sharp tusks and charged straight at Zoro.
Clang!!!
A crisp sound like tal colliding once again rang through heaven and earth.
The divine power of the ancient mythical beast Fengxi actually blocked Zoro's attack completely. Then, with the impact brought by his massive body, Saint Warcury held out for one second before directly sending Zoro flying backward.
Skrrt—
After tumbling several tis through the air, Zoro suddenly drove his swords into the ground, carving two straight blade marks across the glacier before finally coming to a steady stop.
"Saint Warcury!?"
Seeing this, Saint Nusjuro hurriedly stepped forward as if to ask about his condition.
He badly wanted to know whether every one of Zoro's attacks would damage the spiritual connection between them and Imu.
However, the mont Saint Nusjuro fully t Saint Warcury's eyes, his expression abruptly turned to shock. He stared at the current Saint Warcury in disbelief.
"Sa… save …"
Boom!!!
The enormous boar swayed on his feet, then actually toppled straight to the ground. He could not even maintain his Fengxi form, reverting back into human form.
"What… what is going on!?"
Saint Nusjuro was greatly shaken.
That fellow called Roronoa Zoro had actually killed Saint Warcury with a single slash!?
How was that possible!?
Panic flashed through Saint Nusjuro's heart. Fortunately, he was still an old monster who had lived for hundreds of years, and he quickly realized sothing was wrong.
Saint Warcury… had not truly died!?
After all, when Five Elders like them died, the scene would never be this peaceful.
So this sword technique had actually only temporarily restricted their ability to move!?
Very soon, Saint Nusjuro knew that his guess was not wrong.
Because in his perception, Saint Warcury's aura had already begun recovering from its initial icy stillness.
In perhaps a dozen seconds or so, he would probably be fully restored.
Yet at that very mont, a sharp sound of air being torn apart suddenly rang beside his ear.
"Hey! Baldy! What are you thinking about!?"
Tap!
Zoro's figure once again stepped through the wind, streaking through the air as a flash of green light and arriving before Saint Nusjuro in an instant.
Imdiately afterward, three blades wrapped in the power of violent wind swung out.
They had clearly already been forged into black blades, yet at this mont, three different-colored blade lights appeared in the air.
The cold sharpness of Steel type.
The wildness of Dragon type.
And the abyssal gloom of Ghost type.
Three blade lights, carrying a special wind power, once again clashed with Saint Nusjuro's Shodai Kitetsu.
As expected, Saint Nusjuro, who possessed strange abilities in his skeletal horse form, once again successfully blocked Zoro's attack.
But at the sa ti…
The connection between his soul and Imu was severed by another thread.
Sothing was wrong!
At that mont, Saint Nusjuro inexplicably felt a trace of strangeness.
But Zoro, whose strike had failed to finish him, seed to have had no intention of pressing further from the very beginning. After confirming that his swordsmanship had injured Saint Nusjuro's soul, he followed the montum and retreated once more.
At that mont, Saint Warcury also slowly recovered. After a trace of confusion flashed through his eyes, he imdiately entered Fengxi form again.
"What happened, Saint Nusjuro!?"
"What just happened!?"
As though his mory had skipped a beat, Saint Warcury's face was full of bewildernt as he questioned the bald Five Elder beside him.
Saint Nusjuro was also astonished.
"You don't rember what just happened!?"
"I…" Saint Warcury opened his mouth slightly, but then said instead, "I don't know either. The feeling just now was extrely strange. It was like I had already died once."
"No thoughts. No thinking. Even my consciousness was paused in that instant!"
"Damn it! What kind of ability is this!?"
Saint Nusjuro gnashed his teeth in fury.
If this were a straightforward battle of blades and strength, he believed Zoro would absolutely not be a match for the two of them.
But the opponent's sword techniques were so bizarre that they could even cause them real damage. That made a trace of fear suddenly appear deep in his heart, one even he himself did not notice.
"You woke up that quickly?"
At the sa ti, when he saw Saint Warcury awaken once again, a trace of understanding flashed through Zoro's eyes as well.
The Ice-type God-Slaying sword technique was even more effective than he had expected.
After absorbing the cold aura innate to the battlefield, as well as the extre freezing energy released by Saint Nusjuro, Zoro's ice God-Slaying strike was actually able to directly freeze the soul of a powerful being like Saint Warcury completely.
Although it only lasted for about ten seconds, in a true battle, that was already enough to decide the outco.
Unfortunately, the two opponents fighting Zoro today were not normal creatures. Apart from Zoro's God-Slaying swordsmanship, all other attacks had no value whatsoever.
After forcing Zoro back once more, Saint Nusjuro instantly flashed to Saint Warcury's side.
"The situation is bad! We have to find a way to break this deadlock!"
Who could have imagined that the Five Elders, who had always stood high above and decided the life and death of all things, would one day be forced by a young man into seeking their only path to survival?
Unfortunately…
From the mont they arrived on this battlefield, their only ending had been death!!!
...
...
"As expected, the higher Zoro's level rises, and the stronger his basic strength becos, the God-Slaying swordsmanship that once required ti to gather can now be used as an opening basic attack?"
"Looks like he really hasn't slacked off during this period~"
Floating in midair, Red watched the battlefield below like an outsider, his thoughts rapidly moving through his mind.
There was clearly nothing more worth watching in Zoro and Sanji's battles.
The Five Elders' strength was what it was. Even counting the previously deceased Saint Saturn, among the original Five Elders, only Saint Nusjuro and Saint Warcury could be considered truly strong.
Yet now, they were being completely countered by Zoro's God-Slaying swordsmanship.
For the pirate world, where people cultivated only their bodies and not their spirits, Zoro's God-Slaying swordsmanship was a complete dinsional suppression.
If not for the massive gap in raw strength, even Imu would not have an easy ti under Zoro's God-Slaying swordsmanship.
Next, they only had to wait for Zoro to grind down Saint Nusjuro and Saint Warcury, then go deal with Saint Mars and Saint Peter, who were being controlled by Sanji.
These Five Elders, who had persecuted the pirate world for hundreds of years, could finally be considered thoroughly withdrawn from the stage of history.
"The rest depends on Luffy's battle."
Red suddenly raised his head and looked toward the starship area behind the glacier zone.
Boom!!!
Dazzling thunder abruptly flashed.
Luffy had sohow grabbed a bolt of lightning from sowhere, turning that originally elental power into sothing solid, clutching it in his hand and stabbing it toward Imu!
That was right!
Stabbing!
There was no technique.
No follow-up move.
And when Imu opposite him saw the lightning in Luffy's hand, he had no intention of dodging at all. Instead, he straightened his body and t it head-on.
That posture seed to say, "Try stabbing if you dare!!!"
Sizzle!!!
Lightning flashed, and the spear of thunder in Luffy's hand stabbed into Imu's body without hesitation.
This was clearly a battle between two of the strongest beings in two worlds, yet their thod of fighting looked like a street brawl between petty thugs, utterly lacking in skill.
But when the lightning, shining with supre power, pierced into Imu's body, it was like a branch falling into water. In an instant, it rged into him without the slightest ripple.
At that mont, Imu's chaotic voice suddenly rang out.
"It is useless, Straw Hat boy!"
"You are not the true Joy Boy. You have not inherited his true power!!!"
Imu could sense that although the Luffy before him was also extrely powerful, he did not possess Joy Boy's impossible-to-handle "freedom"!
That was the power of freedom condensed from the prayers of countless slaves!
Against Imu, who wished to rule over all, it possessed a natural suppressive force.
That was why, before Joy Boy, Imu had always been beaten with no ability to fight back.
But now, he could clearly feel that Luffy did not possess that sort of "will of freedom."
Although Luffy's fighting style was still as free and unrestrained as ever, what he followed was only his own heart, not the heart of this world!
Luffy's current "freedom" was only the freedom of the self, not the freedom of the pirate world!
That was the gap between Luffy and Joy Boy.
"I was never Joy Boy in the first place!!!"
However, faced with Imu's doubt, the smile on Luffy's face did not change in the slightest.
Then he suddenly leapt, his enormous body moving as nimbly as a spring as he pulled away from Imu.
Imdiately afterward, Luffy raised his head, his face blooming with a brilliant grin.
"Looks like my guess was right! Your ability is to control the elental powers of this world, isn't it!?"
"Fire, lightning, or other elental attacks—they don't have any effect on you."
"Heh…"
Whether it was due to the influence of his monster form, or because confirming that Luffy's Nika form was incomplete put him in a good mood, Imu at this mont no longer seed as irritable as he had been in Pangaea Castle.
Faced with Luffy's statent, he instead answered with a cold laugh.
"So what if you discovered it!?"
"My power can rule over everything in this world! Any attack you use is ineffective against !!!"
"Whether it is your Haki, your fruit ability, or lightning, fire, the ocean…"
"As long as it is sothing that exists in this world, it is under my control!!!"
"Hahahahahahaha!!!!"
Perhaps just thinking about the successor of Joy Boy being beaten to death by his power of dominion made Imu unable to stop himself from laughing loudly.
Without Joy Boy's power to liberate all things, grant everything freedom, and break free from his power of dominion, there was no one in this world who could defeat him!
"So that's it. This is the wish you made with the Solar Crystal, right?!"
In his giant state, a trace of understanding flashed through Luffy's eyes, white lightning flickering through them and vanishing in an instant.
In the next second, however, he suddenly grinned again and raised his head to look at the demon-like Imu.
"But… what you rule over is this world's power?"
"So as long as it isn't power from this world, it can hurt you, right!?"
"Power that isn't from this world?" Imu continued to sneer. "Can you do that!?"
"Even if it is an ability created by the Solar Crystal, as long as the source of that wishing power cos from this planet, then the power transford from that wishing power can never escape my rule!!!"
"Give up, Straw Hat boy!!!"
"You have fooled around… long enough!!!"
Joy Boy's freedom could stand above Imu because the wishing power accumulated in the formation of the Nika Fruit far exceeded the wishing power Imu had used to strengthen himself.
But Imu did not believe that the Solar Crystal, which had only accumulated power for eight hundred years, could possess more wishing power than he did.
Not to ntion, Luffy had even scattered that so-called Pokémon power among so many people!
In Imu's eyes, Luffy's use of the Solar Crystal was a complete waste of heavenly treasure!!!
However, he would never imagine…
Luffy's power—or rather, the Straw Hat Pirates' Pokémon power—did not co from the Solar Crystal at all.
It ca from a truly miraculous force that stood above this world, truly originating from another world!!!
"As long as I know the nature of your ability, that's enough!"
The corners of Luffy's mouth lifted, revealing a row of white teeth.
The next mont, thunder, fla, and ice erupted simultaneously behind Luffy. Under his will, the three energies spiraled together, forming a huge tricolored spear that radiated the power of three elents.
"Imu!"
"If you're that confident, then try taking this attack!!!"
"Tri Attack · Elental Javelin!!!"
(End of Chapter)
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