As he ascended higher, the radiance emitted by Vladimir grew ever brighter.
The divine light surrounding him was incredibly dense, as if he had transformed into a cloud of holy light.
In the next moment, an incomprehensible divine language was spoken. Following this, a crack appeared in the vast holy cloud, from which a beam of light shot downward.
The beam was not a cylinder, but rather radiated outward, enveloping the entire battlefield area of the ice mountain region.
"What is he trying to do?" Lance's heart trembled with a foreboding feeling. "Be prepared, he's about to make a serious move!"
Fearing that his subordinates might not take it seriously, he added in a deep voice: "Don't forget what the Sea Dragon did back then. As the ruler of the sea, the Sea Dragon could single-handedly target the Navy's fleet. At that time, the Navy's overall strength was not weaker than ours now!"
Hearing this, a dozen members of Lance's pirate crew looked grave.
As fellow top-tier officers, the Great Angel would not be weaker than the Sea Dragon — even stronger. After all, the ocean has its limits, but the sky does not!
Meanwhile, Vladimir had already flown to over a thousand meters in the sky.
He looked down over the land, as if a ruler, coldly observing the many pirates below.
Suddenly, he extended his right hand, spread his fingers wide, and pressed down from afar, while reciting divine words.
"God says, the world will be filled with eternal darkness!"
As his words fell, the area covered by the holy cloud vanished—light disappeared, and darkness filled the world.
This was endless, boundless darkness—true darkness, not the kind that previously deprived others of sight.
At this moment, whether they were pirates, generals, or the always-watchful Doflamingo, everyone within the range of the holy light was plunged into eternal darkness.
This darkness would not easily dissipate; it would last for seven days and seven nights!
Even the navy fleet far out at sea, approaching this area, could now see the distant island of Cake Island bathed in eternal darkness, shrouded in the sky.
"What is that!?" Commandant Tsuru muttered in shock. "That black... seems capable of erasing any light!"
But what truly stunned him was not her, but the Golden Buddha on Cake Island.
He was completely stunned, because he was a Glint-Glint Fruit user—at this moment, his ability vanished!
In the eternal darkness, his light could no longer be emitted. Once it left his body, it was immediately forcibly erased by a mysterious force.
No, to be precise, his ability hadn't truly disappeared. His fluid still existed, but he could no longer control natural elements!
"This... how is that possible?!" Tsuru's mind shook violently. He suddenly regretted arriving on the island first. "They can actually change the rules!"
Above the sky, the source of darkness—the origin of the blackness—Vladimir's second divine utterance sounded.
"God says, under the illumination of holy light, heaven and earth... invert!"
Boom!!
Suddenly, the ground trembled, and the sky grew heavy. It was as if the rules of the world had been rewritten.
The earth rose upward, the sky sank downward. Between heaven and earth, the pirates within this space couldn't see any light, but they could sense it.
Outside, the changes were happening.
It was as if a divine hand had grasped this space and twisted it 180 degrees, causing... heaven and earth to invert, gravity to become abnormal!
"Ahhh!"
A cry of shock rose from countless pirates, as the gravity from above pulled them upward.
Lance was the same. His Observation Haki barely allowed him to "see" what was happening.
Because he knew, he was even more shocked.
"Is this... a 'god'!?" he muttered in a trembling voice.
"Is this... a 'god'!?"
Lance muttered in disbelief.
This ability to forcibly rewrite the natural rules was truly astonishing.
Even though he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, his Observation Haki perception was more precise than the naked eye.
The ground was cracking, chunks of debris flying into the sky. Gravity had been reversed, and his body was now being pulled from above.
What was rewritten wasn't just gravity—it was the entire heaven and earth.
At the center of Cake Island, that mountain of ice was now completely uprooted and flying into the sky.
Inside the mountain, Poland wobbled and directly collided with the icy ceiling above her.
"What's going on?" she whispered in shock. "The gravity has changed? No, the entire mountain is moving!"
As she finished speaking, the light of the holy cloud disappeared, replaced by darkness.
Even if hiding inside the mountain, they couldn't escape the eternal darkness. Wherever the holy light cloud covered, the result was the same.
"Crimson Stone!"
Nini Poland exclaimed in surprise. She didn't care about the disappearance of the light; instead, she reached out to touch the Crimson Stone. But this stone was moving away from her—more precisely, the entire mountain was collapsing, and even the cave was no longer safe.
Not to mention the internal situation, externally, chaos was even greater.
"Captain, what should we do?" Bober said anxiously. "This monster, it's not something a few pirate crews can fight against!"
He tightly grasped a stone under his feet, and they flew into the sky together.
"Prepare to retreat!" Lance took a deep breath, using his Observation Haki to confirm his twelve crew members. "A single Great Angel is already very difficult to deal with, and there's also the navy…"
"Then the Crimson Stone?" someone hesitated and asked.
"Fake!" Lance's eyes flashed, and he said, "From the very beginning, this was a trap set by the navy and Phantom working together—to suppress us all. If it were real, the navy would have moved first to seize the Crimson Stone!"
The navy's attitude toward the historical text was extremely strict—much harsher than against pirates.
Ten years ago, the navy even destroyed the archaeological holy site "Oharra" to prevent the world from reading the ancient characters on the historical texts.
And the red-colored historical text, even more so. If it were real, the navy would rather abandon all the pirates on the island than let the Crimson Stone fall into the wrong hands.
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