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Chapter 408: Space Shatters! Forcibly Obliterating Limbo
Before Garp could react.
Boom! A horrifyingly indescribable surge of colossal force suddenly erupted from that "nothingness."
Pfft—! Garp's head snapped back as he coughed up a massive mouthful of blood. His chest looked as if it had been brutally struck by a sledgehammer, his entire sternum caving in instantly.
Bang! Garp was sent flying backward even faster than he had approached. Like a baseball knocked out of the park, he slammed into the earth thousands of meters away. Dust plumed into the air.
Dead silence.
The entire battlefield fell into a deathly stillness. Sengoku, Akainu, and the others, who were preparing to follow up with their own attacks, skidded to a violent halt. Shock and bewilderment were plastered across everyone's faces.
"What... just happened?"
The sleazy smirk on Kizaru's face completely vanished, cold sweat rolling down his forehead.
"Was Vice Admiral Garp... knocked flying by the air?"
No one had seen Madara make a move. Madara hadn't even twitched a finger!
"Observation Haki... completely failed."
Sengoku stared intensely at the space surrounding Madara Uchiha, his expression incredibly grim.
As top-tier powerhouses in the pirate world, the thing they relied on most was Observation Haki. Anticipating attacks, sensing killing intent, locking onto positions.
But in that split second... Sengoku's Observation Haki told him: There's nothing there! Yet Garp's caved-in chest and the blood he coughed up were undeniably real!
"Cough, cough... cough..."
Amid the distant ruins, Garp struggled to his feet. He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, a look of uncertainty and shock entering his eyes for the first time.
"Can't see it..."
"Can't sense it..."
"There's not even any killing intent..."
Garp glared at Madara.
"What kind of sorcery did you use, you bastard?!"
High above, Madara Uchiha looked down upon this group of bewildered "ants" from his superior vantage point. He slowly extended a single finger and wagged it back and forth.
"Dark magic?"
"No."
"This is a disparity in dimensions."
The sneer on Madara's lips grew crueler.
"In this world, there are things your mortal eyes will never be able to reach."
"Limbo: Border Jail!"
The second his voice dropped, that fatal sense of crisis exploded in Sengoku's heart once again.
"Dodge!!!" he roared frantically.
But it was too late.
Bang! Standing at the very front, Akainu's eyes suddenly bulged out. Without any warning, his abdomen took a massive blow. He instantly bent over like a cooked shrimp, spewing out magma mixed with fragments of his internal organs.
Right on the heels of that...
Bang! Just as he was elementalizing, Kizaru's head was viciously kicked by an invisible foot. His photonized head instantly burst apart, and his body spun wildly through the air like a top.
Bang! Aokiji's ice leg was instantly shattered, and an unseen force pinned his entire body into the ground.
Invisible! They were completely invisible! On this battlefield, it was as if four unseen phantoms were carrying out a one-sided slaughter on the Marine Admirals!
"Dammit! Armament Hardening!!"
Akainu roared, coating his entire body in pitch-black Armament Haki. He even pushed his Observation Haki to the absolute limits of Future Sight. He was trying to catch the trajectory of those invisible strikes.
"Over there!!"
Akainu fiercely threw a Dark Hound toward his left. However, this surefire blow merely punched through empty air.
A second later...
Thud! The back of his head received a heavy blow, smashing him violently into the bedrock.
"It's useless."
Madara's apathetic voice echoed across the battlefield.
"These are shadows existing in the world of 'Limbo.'"
"They belong neither to this space nor this time."
"That so-called 'Haki' of yours can only sense existence within this world."
"Against attacks that do not belong to this dimension..."
Madara paused, his eyes full of contempt.
"You are all nothing but a pack of blind men."
Despair. An unprecedented sense of powerlessness enshrouded the hearts of all the Marines.
How were they supposed to fight this? Their attacks couldn't hit his true body. Their defenses couldn't block his shadows. They didn't even know where the enemy was or when he would strike! Was this the power of the Six Paths tier?
"Stop screwing around..."
Just as everyone was on the verge of breaking. That bloodied old man staggered to his feet once again.
The blue-green steam radiating from Garp had grown incredibly faint. But the light in his eyes was shining brighter and brighter. Frighteningly bright!
"You can't see them, huh..."
"They're in another dimension, are they..."
Garp viciously gnashed his teeth to the point of breaking, spitting a mouthful of bloody froth onto the ground.
"Then I'll just smash this entire pocket of space..."
"To absolute pieces!!!"
Boom! "Since they're invisible..."
The blood-soaked corners of Garp's mouth suddenly stretched from ear to ear. His wide, bell-like eyes burned with a fire known as sheer madness.
"Then all I have to do is shatter this entire space, along with the little mice hiding in the dark!!!"
Hum—! An unprecedented halo of white light instantly enveloped Garp's entire body. It was no longer just covering his fists like before.
This time... Centered on Garp's body, the entire atmosphere began to wail under the overwhelming strain.
Tremor-Tremor Fruit—Awakening!
"Shatter... for me!!!"
Garp's hands curled into claws as he savagely grabbed the "void" of empty air in front of him. Then, he violently tore it apart!
Crack!!! A sharp sound, like the snapping of the world's spine, instantly spread across the entire battlefield.
Inside the Partys Bar in Foosha Village, which was currently broadcasting the fight. Whitebeard shot to his feet, crushing his sake bowl to dust in his grip.
"Gurarara... That lunatic!"
"He actually did it!"
"He's not just sending vibrations through objects anymore; he directly shattered the very 'medium' of space itself!"
On the screen... A scalp-numbing scene unfolded.
Radiating outward from Garp, the space for thousands of meters looked like a mirror smashed by a heavy hammer. Countless pitch-black fault lines crept wildly through the air. The atmosphere broke down! Space itself warped and disjointed!
"Ugh..."
From the previously empty space ahead, a muffled groan suddenly rang out. A semi-transparent shadow was actually squeezed right out of the void.
That shadow bore the exact same outline as Madara Uchiha. Yet right now, it was covered in cracks, looking like a porcelain doll on the verge of shattering.
This was the shadow of Limbo: Border Jail! Originally existing in a different dimension, the space it relied on for survival had been forcibly shattered by Garp. It had no choice but to reveal its true form!
"Caught you!"
Garp cackled like a maniac. His iron fist, coiled with Haki and Lightning Release, shot forward without a single trace of hesitation.
Boom!!! One punch. It slammed solidly into the chest of that shadow. This time, there was a genuine, physical sensation of impact!
Bang—! That shadow, which could ignore even the attacks of the Admirals, was instantly blasted into a sky full of chakra motes by Garp's Awakened strike.
At that exact moment... Madara Uchiha's body jerked violently in midair. A thin trickle of blood flowed down from the corner of his eye. It was the backlash of his Limbo clone being forcibly destroyed!
"Good! Very good!"
Madara wiped the blood from his eye. His Rinnegan lacked any anger; rather, an even more fanatical surprise burst forth.
"It's not just Taijutsu."
"You can actually wield power that touches upon the very laws of space."
"Garp! You are truly worthy of making me shed a little blood!"
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