Chapter 409: The God's Concession!
Junzigong's eyes transformed into concentric circles resembling the Rinnegan, slowly spinning like a vortex.
Her black cape billowed without any wind. An aura that was both sacred and eerily grotesque intertwined and permeated the air, as if resonating with heaven and earth.
"VROOM—!!!"
An invisible wave swept out, instantly enveloping the entire Marineford plaza!
In a flash, with the exception of Sengoku and the three Admirals, the vision of all the Marine officers and soldiers in the rear blurred simultaneously. It was as if a thick, distorted curtain of water had been placed over their eyes, completely obscuring the events unfolding in the center of the battlefield!
"Wh... What?!!"
Gasps of shock echoed from the rear, but no matter how hard they strained their eyes, they could only see a churning blur of light and shadow.
Seeing this, Luffy, Law, and the others dashed forward, trying to break through that invisible barrier.
But right at that moment, Roy's voice transmission pierced directly into their minds like a line of ice:
"Relax—just watch quietly."
That absolute certainty sent a jolt through Luffy and the others, making them stop in their tracks involuntarily!
On the other side, Saint Garling and the entire Holy Knights order dropped to their knees, pressing their foreheads tightly against the shattered stone slabs, suppressing their breathing to the absolute minimum.
They knew better than anyone else just how unfathomable and unlookable the entity that had descended truly was!
Sengoku's Golden Buddha form trembled slightly, a rare look of shock flashing through his ancient and steady pupils.
The magma inside Sakazuki boiled silently, his chest resembling an active volcano about to erupt.
Kizaru completely dropped his usual lethargic attitude, a sharp, chilling light flashing in his eyes.
Aokiji let out a low breath, frost spreading from his palms and quietly covering the earth.
—The four of them simultaneously stood in absolute readiness!
Roy slowly raised his head, looking at Junzigong hovering in mid-air. His voice was calm: "It seems... you've finally woken up, Imu."
The possessed Junzigong spoke, her voice ethereal and majestic, yet carrying an indescribable oppression:
"Roy... let this matter end here."
Roy sneered, black-red lightning flickering in the depths of his eyes. "So, you're here to back up these pieces of trash?"
"That doesn't seem like your style..."
As his words fell, Imu's concentric circle eyes suddenly shrank, the vortex spinning like a collapsing star, taking on a trace of chilling impatience.
"Although I have an agreement with you..."
"That—is NOT the foundation for you to stand on equal footing with me!!!"
"BOOM—!!!"
A Conqueror's Haki as vast as a galaxy abruptly crushed down toward Roy from Junzigong's body!
That power targeted the very depths of the soul, pressing down so hard that even the air itself wailed!
The three Admirals and the Fleet Admiral felt their hearts jolt simultaneously!
—This Haki was enough to completely annihilate a person's will!
However, Roy remained entirely unmoving. Instead, he violently took a step forward!
"CRACK—!!!"
Black-red Conqueror's lightning erupted around him, shooting into the sky like a reversed galactic river, clashing head-on with that oppressive force!
"KABOOM—!!!"
The two apex Hakis collided! The sky looked as if it were being torn apart, and the ground of Marineford instantly crumbled!
Tsunamis raged. The connection points between the glaciers and the island exploded, and the entire Marine Headquarters was on the verge of being ripped to shreds!
"ICE AGE—!!!" Kuzan violently plunged both palms into the ground!
Countless freezing ice pillars grew manically like towering giant trees, completely freezing the fractured island and forcibly holding the earth together!
High in the sky, the pupils of the Imu-possessed Junzigong quaked violently. For the very first time, a trace of fluctuation appeared in her voice:
"It seems... in those two years, you have grown to an unfathomable degree!!!"
Roy ignored the possessed Imu's shock, slowly taking another step forward.
"BOOM—!!!"
In an instant, a Haki even more vast and boundless than the one coming from Junzigong erupted like a bursting volcano!
It was a power capable of destroying heaven and earth!
It was a Conqueror's Haki capable of tearing apart the seas and the skies!
A black-red thunderstorm swept out like a raging tsunami! The exploding lightning spanned the entire sky, breaking through the cloud layer, tearing the firmament asunder, and extending straight to the end of the horizon!
A boundless shockwave swept across the ocean. With Marineford as the epicenter, the sea level convulsed violently. Tsunamis rose manically, towering hundreds of meters high, as if looking to swallow the entire world!!!
CRACK-CRACK-CRACK—!!!
—In this moment, Roy's momentum even crossed the ocean, enveloping the firmament above the Sacred Land of Mariejois!
The invisible barrier established by Imu fractured inch by inch instantly!
The defensive wall held up by the combined efforts of Sengoku and the three Admirals trembled wildly, the stone slabs beneath their feet cracking massively!
"THUD—!!!"
The members of the Holy Knights could no longer bear it. They stumbled backward one after another, their silver armor cracking, their faces deathly pale!
The surviving pirates fared even worse. Droves of them rolled their eyes back and fainted before they could even make a sound, their bodies littering the plaza like a tide!
Junzigong's body suddenly jolted. Her shoulders trembled violently, and even her breathing was forcibly cut off as a low groan leaked from her throat:
"Urgh—!!!"
—At the same time, in the Room of Flowers, Sacred Land Mariejois.
Imu's true body violently collapsed to their knees. Ripples of terror washed over their concentric pupils, as if they had been brutally suppressed by some ancient will!
Their fingertips dug deeply into the earth. The blooming flowers behind the Empty Throne instantly withered to ash, and a suffocating aura of death permeated the air.
Imu stared fixedly at the ground. Their throat was hoarse, almost instinctively spitting out: "This aura... Joyboy?!!"
However, in the next second, a flash of clarity and denial swept through their eyes!
"No!!!"
"This isn't Joyboy's power... but..."
Their thoughts churned frantically in their mind. In a daze, it was as if they remembered a certain dust-covered memory—
A past they did not wish to touch, a past they did not wish to recall.
"Why..."
"Why does Roy possess... His aura?!"
For a split second, Imu felt as if they had returned to hundreds of years ago, to that completely buried era...
To that colossal figure who was never meant to be mentioned again...
...
Above the battlefield of Marineford, heaven and earth instantly fell silent as a tomb.
The devastating shockwaves slowly dissipated, leaving only the sky full of residual light falling like meteors.
In the air, everyone stared blankly at that unyielding, towering figure.
Roy's eyes were pitch-black and bottomless. The muzzle of his gun remained lowered, and the residual waves of his Haki swept the surroundings like the embers of a dying storm.
No one dared to move; no one dared to speak.
After a long while, Junzigong finally managed to raise her head with great difficulty, her voice carrying an undisguisable tremble: "Roy..."
Her gaze slowly shifted toward the deep, Buddha palm-shaped crater, looking at the dying Saint Saturn and Saint Somars.
Saint Saturn's charred arm trembled as he raised it. His eyes bulged out as he begged for mercy in absolute despair: "Your Majesty... please spare my life..."
"I was wrong... let me go..."
Saint Somars had already exhausted all his strength and couldn't even make a sound.
Junzigong raised her hand indifferently, her five fingers lightly closing into a loose grip.
"VROOM—!!!"
Two invisible forces suddenly descended upon them!
The bodies of Saint Saturn and Saint Somars instantly convulsed! Their flesh and blood peeled away inch by inch like grains of sand, turning into ash and scattering in the wind!
Their miserable screams were so short they were almost instantly snuffed out!
In just a few breaths, two stark white skeletons stood upright in the crater, frozen in the twisted postures of their final, dying struggles!
The entire plaza was struck with sheer terror!
Cold sweat soaked Saint Garling's back. His throat went dry, and he even forgot to breathe.
The eyes of the other Holy Knights looked ready to split open, yet not a single one of them dared to make a sound.
Junzigong slowly lowered her hand and turned back to Roy. Her eyes still bore those concentric circles, and her voice returned to its icy demeanor:
"...Is this enough?"
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