At that moment, Shakky, Wang Zhi, and the others saw the giant elephant rushing closer, and they could even make out black dots flying rapidly toward them.
"Hades and the others are here already?"
Stussy turned into a shadow, kicked Kong in the back, then vanished from the spot again.
She was surprised too. Had the war in the West Sea and the battle at Marine Headquarters, Marineford, already ended?
If so, then Mary Geoise was the only battlefield left.
That meant they had to push even harder, kill Kong quickly, and end this war faster.
"Captain Wang Zhi! I'm here to help!"
The Immortal Phoenix Hel beat her blue flame wings at high speed. The moment she arrived, she saw Paladin Sargon being pinned in place by a group of Seraphim, trapped under layers of control and unable to move.
A perfect opening.
She had always wanted to personally take down a Navy Admiral.
Sengoku, a Mythical Zoan user, could not be killed yet. Iron Fist Garp was Dragon's relative. That left only Sargon, the physical type admiral.
Of course, there was also Fleet Admiral Kong, another physical monster.
Hearing Hel's shout, Wang Zhi's supreme blade, Emperor's Codex, trembled slightly in his hand. He instantly gave up the thought of solo killing a Navy Admiral.
He decisively handed that achievement over to the boss's daughter.
"Imprisonment!"
"Princess Hel, hurry! I've got him! Kill him now! I can't hold him much longer!"
Wang Zhi shouted while secretly sighing to himself.
Back then, he had been an unyielding swordsman, even praised by the pirate overlord Rocks as someone with the qualifications to become the world's strongest swordsman.
How had he ended up like this after leading the Seraph Sixth Squadron?
Life really had worn down his edges.
Still, he had to admit it.
He was living well now.
He had a fulfilling life, a good position in the Hell Guild, Brook's appreciation, and a bright future ahead.
As the saying went, once you wear a pure gold ring, even a smaller ambition starts to feel pretty comfortable.
If he gave this Navy Admiral kill to Princess Hel, it would also help him get along with the second generation of Hell later. Hel was famously hot tempered and hard to deal with.
As long as he stayed on good terms with her, dealing with the others would be much easier.
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Seeing how sensibly Wang Zhi was cooperating, Hel smiled in satisfaction. At least he was not like the others who only knew how to steal kills.
Good thing she had planned ahead and flown here first.
This admiral's head was hers.
"Phoenix Sky Breaking Strike!"
Hel did not hold back. Her sharp phoenix claws were wrapped in Armament Haki and Conqueror's coating, and with the momentum of high speed flight, she shot straight at Paladin Sargon, who was being forcibly locked down by confinement, slowness, gravity, and other control effects.
Sargon's face turned pale.
He frantically burned through Armament Haki, breaking one control after another with brute force.
But Wang Zhi and the Seraphim's coordination was flawless.
The instant he broke one control, another landed.
It never stopped.
Seeing the blue flame phoenix tearing toward him, Sargon, unable to break free, could only pour all his Haki into defense.
At that moment, even a God's Knight trained by the World Government since childhood cried out words he had never dared think before.
"I surrender! Don't kill me...!"
But he was too slow.
Hel's phoenix claws pierced through his Armament Haki and punched through his heart.
"Hmph. You surrender only when you're about to die. Go to hell."
She ripped her claws back out in one clean motion, blood spraying everywhere.
In her hand was a bright red, still warm heart.
Luckily, she had moved fast and ruthlessly. Otherwise, this admiral might really have managed to surrender in time.
In a world war like this, a few heavyweights had to die.
"Hel! You're too fast!"
Osiris, Bullet, and the others rushed over and shouted in dissatisfaction. Hel had taken the first Navy Admiral kill.
"Not bad, not bad. Then I won't be polite."
Suddenly, more than a dozen black shadows merged into the shape of the vampire Shakky and appeared in front of Hel. They took over Sargon's body as blood gushed from the wound and instantly drained the admiral dry.
"Aunt Shakky, leave Kong to me!"
After tossing Sargon's heart to Shakky, Hel transformed back into a blue phoenix and, without another word, shot toward the battlefield where Fleet Admiral Kong was fighting.
The other second generation of Hell followed immediately, charging over to hunt Kong together.
As for Akainu, Kizaru, Aokiji, and the others, their eyes were fixed on the top level battles, especially the terrifying clash between the two gods, Brook and Imu.
Sakazuki watched as two colossal gods, each seventy or eighty meters tall, fought at extreme speed. Every blow looked capable of reducing even a Logia magma user like him to ash.
The collisions between solid white destructive energy waves and dark blue shadow energy kept all of Mary Geoise trembling.
Then violent thunder exploded from the highest point of Pangaea Castle, and countless bolts flashed across the sky.
"Are there still enemies up there? Senior Redfield is using that much power... Could there be someone else on the level of a Five Elder?"
Kizaru spoke in an unusually serious tone. On this battlefield, even he had become focused.
If he lost concentration for even a moment, Imu's destructive energy waves could kill him in seconds.
That power could annihilate even elemental bodies, and it made every Logia user feel unsafe.
Logia intangibility only negated physical attacks.
Against this kind of energy, even elementalization would be erased.
It was even more dangerous than Armament Haki.
"Only Shiki and Newgate are fighting the remaining Elders. Interested in going up and helping?"
Akainu loosened his tie, eyes burning with battle intent. To fight a world class monster like that, even taking serious injuries would be worth it.
"Hahahahaha, I'm going to check on Senior Redfield."
Kizaru turned into golden light and vanished instantly.
His instincts were screaming at him to stay farther away from Imu, the biggest source of danger on the battlefield.
"I'll go help Senior Newgate."
Aokiji glanced at the crowd dogpiling Kong and judged there was no danger there. He did not reject Sakazuki's proposal.
"Then I'll help Shiki."
Sakazuki saw Shiki being suppressed by the blond Elder, Peter, and charged anyway.
He was not afraid.
He only wanted to punch the stronger one.
The two of them immediately rushed off to witness and join the top tier battle.
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In Brook and Imu's battle, Linlin suddenly leaped back into the fight.
Even though her combat power had risen a little after devouring Mars's soul, she still could not truly threaten Imu.
Worse, Linlin had partially lost control of herself, which made Brook uneasy. He even had to split his focus to protect her.
"Linlin! Wake up!!"
Brook's soul shaking voice slammed directly into Linlin's soul, making her movements slow for a moment.
That brief opening was enough.
Imu instantly seized the chance and moved to kill Brook's woman on the spot.
"Don't even think about it!"
Brook had no choice but to block Imu's Claw of Destruction head on. At the cost of injuring his arm, he forcibly flung Linlin, who was only beginning to recover her senses, out of their battlefield.
Even a giantess like Linlin, who stood eight or nine meters tall, looked as small as a kitten in front of the seventy to eighty meter Hell God Jin and the God of Destruction.
"Brook, I admit you won this war. But do not force me!"
Imu's tone changed as he watched his servants and subordinates die one after another.
"Retreat today. From now on, we use the Red Line as the border. We divide the world and rule it together!"
After sitting above the world for eight hundred years, he was unwilling to watch the World Government be destroyed.
And the Curse Killing Team he had prepared for Sun God Nika and Brook had failed to produce the result he wanted. That had cost him a perfect chance to kill Brook.
But if Brook kept pressing, then Imu would use a suicidal move just like Brook's desperate trump cards, and they would both die.
Brook had Hell's Gate.
Did Imu not also have a move that could drag all his enemies into hell?
"Yohoho! Do you think that's possible, Imu?!"
Brook sneered.
As the saying goes, one does not allow another to sleep beside his bed. There was no way he would leave behind a threat as massive as Imu and the World Government.
And more importantly, he would never repeat the mistakes of the past.
If he wanted to unify the world, he had to finish it in one stroke, not leave endless future trouble for his descendants.
"Brook, you and I are the same kind of people, people who cherish life and crave control."
Imu suddenly laughed after sensing Brook's killing intent and determination.
"If you insist on forcing me, then we go to hell together and leave this world for others to fight over! I have ruled this world for eight hundred years. You have not even ruled it for a single day!
Are you really willing to let others enjoy the world you fought so hard to seize?!"
"Yohoho. I have many children. You are just the remnant of an old dying line. Even if I die, my descendants will rule this world."
Brook ignored Imu's threats on the surface, but inwardly he became even more cautious.
This old monster definitely had some terrifying destructive move that could kill both sides.
"Hahaha! Brook, if your children had not come to Mary Geoise, then maybe your wish would come true!"
Imu's smile turned colder.
"But now they are all here, in my territory. Do you think any of you can leave?
Not just you. Your women, your children, your Hell Kings, and all your rebels will die.
No one leaves Mary Geoise.
So I will ask one last time. Will you retreat? Or do you want to test whether my words are true?"
In the form of the God of Destruction, Imu smiled like a mad king.
He did not just want to drag Brook down with him. He wanted to drag everyone in Mary Geoise into the grave.
He was the king of the world.
What was wrong with taking a few more funerary offerings with him?
But if he and Brook both died, who knew which bastard would take control of the world afterward?
And he still had not seen that little revolutionary from the Monkey family appear.
Could it be that after he and Brook died, the D clan would take the world back again?
"Did you plant explosives in Mary Geoise?"
Brook's expression turned grave.
It seemed possible that Imu had implanted terrifying self destruct bombs into some of the God's Knights to prevent Brook from reclaiming Devil Fruit abilities.
If Imu had also hidden large scale self destruct explosives in Mary Geoise itself, then the entire Holy Land really might be buried with him.
"You only need to know one thing."
Imu's voice was icy.
"I can destroy all of Mary Geoise and everyone in it. So if you do not want to die with me today, retreat obediently.
And we sign a faith contract with Conqueror's Haki as witness. From now on, the Red Line is the border. Neither side crosses it."
Seeing that Brook's main force, as well as Brook's women and children, were almost all gathered here, Imu felt he finally had enough leverage to threaten that bastard properly.
"No. What right do you have to keep ruling half the world now?"
Brook answered coldly.
"If you surrender, I can leave Mary Geoise, the Sabaody Archipelago, and God Valley in the New World to you as retirement land."
Although Brook was worried inside, losing his entire family here would be an unbearable price, he could not let Imu threaten him so easily.
And he did not believe Imu had truly made up his mind to die together just yet.
So he chose to stall, test, and buy time.
At the same time, every extra second gave the Hell Kings more time to kill the remaining Five Elders.
"You...!!"
Imu was so furious his chest felt like it was exploding.
Three retirement locations?
He might as well die with Brook.
Unable to endure it any longer, he surged forward and attacked, wanting to kill this shameless bastard immediately.
"Don't be angry. We can still negotiate the terms!"
Brook clashed with Imu again while continuing to delay and probe.
He wanted to uncover Imu's hidden threat, and unless absolutely necessary, he would never accept Imu's peace terms.
The same was true for Imu.
Unless he had truly reached a dead end, he would never willingly die with Brook.
So when Brook refused his conditions, Imu still could not bring himself to launch the suicidal move.
The two of them could only resume their brutal fight.
Meanwhile, in Pangaea Castle, Kizaru Borsalino, who had just arrived, saw Redfield frantically chasing a squad.
And what shocked him even more was this.
Senior Redfield was actually injured.
What kind of terrifying opponent had done that?
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