Boom! Boom! Boom!
As the Truth Seeking Orb blades unleashed by Ryūjin Uchiha exploded, the entire world was thrown into a terrifying upheaval.
It was as though the end of the world had arrived.
Those watching the battle from the outskirts of Holy Land Mary Geoise felt the horror most vividly. Towering waves dozens of meters high surged toward them, nearly overturning their ships.
As for the weaker pirates, there was no need to mention them. Their vessels were swallowed whole by the monstrous waves, disappearing without a trace in the blink of an eye.
It proved one thing clearly.
Without overwhelming strength, watching Ryūjin's battle was an extremely dangerous act.
When the raging sea finally settled, the entire world fell into a deathly silence.
Everyone trembled uncontrollably, their fear reaching its limit.
That terrifying Dragon had actually been killed by Ryūjin so effortlessly?
Ryūjin was truly a god.
"Impossible! This is absolutely impossible! How could Uranus be destroyed?!"
At the altar, Imu roared like a madman. His eyes were bloodshot, and his teeth were clenched so tightly that blood dripped from his lips.
He simply could not accept what had happened.
The Three Ancient Weapons were the ultimate powers of the world. Possessing even one was enough to rule everything.
How could one of them be destroyed?
"Hiss..."
After the initial shock, Imu drew in a sharp breath as boundless fear flooded his heart.
At that moment, his fear of Ryūjin had reached its absolute peak.
"Damn it... Ryūjin, who the hell are you? Why does someone like you even exist in this world?!"
His voice trembled, sweat pouring down his forehead.
As the ruler who controlled the entire world, he had never once heard of Ryūjin before.
The man had appeared out of nowhere.
Without warning.
Without a single trace.
Imu could not understand it.
But now was not the time to dwell on such questions.
Swallowing hard, Imu slit his wrist across the altar once again.
The strange blood-activated pattern lit up, and the Dragon-shaped totem began glowing once more.
Crack! Snap!
The lightning that had vanished alongside Uranus suddenly returned, filling the skies above Mary Geoise.
"..."
Ryūjin looked on with surprise.
Was Uranus actually coming back?
Roar!
A deafening Dragon's roar echoed across heaven and earth.
The Celestial Dragon he had just destroyed appeared once more.
"This is getting ridiculous."
Ryūjin cursed inwardly.
The thing already stood at the absolute peak of the world, and now it was immortal too?
How was anyone supposed to deal with that?
But then his expression shifted.
Something was wrong.
From the outside, Mary Geoise looked unchanged.
Yet through the perception of his Observation Haki, the entire island had become lifeless.
It was as though it had suddenly aged by more than a decade.
The difference from when he had first arrived was overwhelming.
"I get it now."
A look of realization crossed Ryūjin's face.
Although he still didn't fully understand the connection between Uranus and the Celestial Dragons, one thing was obvious.
The Dragon was feeding on the life force of the entire Holy Land Mary Geoise.
That was the source of its immortality.
As long as Mary Geoise continued supplying it with energy, Uranus could never truly die.
Perhaps that was the true reason it had always been called the Holy Land.
After understanding everything, a faint smile curled across Ryūjin's lips.
He had never intended to wipe out the Celestial Dragons of Mary Geoise.
But now...
It seemed even the heavens wanted them dead.
"The giant Dragon... it came back? How is that possible?!"
Whitebeard, Dragon, and the others were completely dumbfounded.
Then they nearly started cursing.
Was this thing cheating?
It was already absurdly powerful, and now it couldn't even be killed?
How was anyone else supposed to survive?
Could Ryūjin really destroy something like this?
Although they had no idea what Ryūjin's Truth Seeking Orbs actually were, they could all tell those attacks were extraordinary.
A technique capable of blowing apart a thousand meter Dragon could not possibly be used endlessly.
"Damn it! How did that dead Dragon come back again?!"
Nami stomped her foot anxiously, her face filled with worry.
"Nami, you have to trust Ryūjin."
Nico Robin spoke softly, maintaining her usual composure.
Yet even she failed to notice that her own body had tensed.
Roar!
The Dragon roared once again as Uranus charged toward Ryūjin, intending to crush him.
But before it could even get close, another Truth Seeking Orb blasted it apart.
"Ryūjin, I refuse to believe you can keep using attacks like that forever!"
Grinding his teeth, Imu sliced open his wrist once more, continuing the blood sacrifice.
What he refused to admit was that although Ryūjin's Truth Seeking Orbs had their own limitations, his own body could not endlessly provide blood either.
Activating the altar consumed an enormous amount of it.
After two sacrifices, Imu already felt dizzy and weak.
But Ryūjin had no intention of giving him another chance.
The pupils of his eyes shifted into the Rinnegan.
Then he unleashed a technique he had never used since his rebirth.
"Heavenly Restriction Star."
The clouds overhead suddenly surged outward, driven away by an overwhelming force.
Then they shattered.
From beyond the sky, an unimaginably massive meteorite began descending.
Its diameter reached a full thousand meters.
It plummeted directly toward Mary Geoise.
This was Ryūjin's Heavenly Restriction Star, amplified by fifteen times the normal Six Paths level.
Summoning a thousand meter meteorite was effortless for him.
It was simply that absurd.
His intention was clear.
If Mary Geoise was the source of Uranus's power, then destroying Mary Geoise would destroy Uranus as well.
Of course, if innocent civilians had lived there, Ryūjin would never have chosen such a method.
No matter how ruthless he was toward his enemies, he was not the kind of person who would casually slaughter innocents.
But the ones living there were Celestial Dragons.
As far as he was concerned...
Yeah right, fuck off.
He felt absolutely no burden wiping out every last one of those disgusting creatures.
"What's happening? Why has the sky gone dark?!"
"What the hell is that?!"
"Hurry! Look up!"
The meteorite was simply too enormous.
It completely blocked out the sun, casting the entirety of Mary Geoise beneath a vast shadow.
After their initial confusion, the Celestial Dragons looked upward.
The moment they saw it, every ounce of courage they possessed shattered.
"W... What?! Such a gigantic meteorite?!"
Even Imu observed the scene through Observation Haki.
He gasped, his trembling hand spilling blood beside the altar.
According to his senses, that meteorite was at least a thousand meters wide.
How could Ryūjin possibly create something like that?
Could a human really reach such heights?
At that moment, Imu trembled uncontrollably.
Fear gripped his very soul.
His legs nearly gave out beneath him.
Whitebeard, Dragon, and everyone else watching felt as though their minds had exploded.
Ryūjin's power had shattered everything they believed possible.
A thousand meter meteorite?
It was simply unbelievable.
Whitebeard suddenly found Sengoku's old words laughable.
He had once been called the man with the power to destroy the world.
Compared to Ryūjin...
That title belonged to someone else entirely.
Only that falling meteorite truly possessed the power to destroy the world.
Across the seas surrounding Mary Geoise, countless people cried out in terror.
At that moment, everyone reached the same conclusion.
Ryūjin was not human.
He was a god.
Only a god could wield power that transcended mortal limits.
Under everyone's gaze, the meteorite continued its descent.
Closer.
Closer.
The Celestial Dragons stood frozen in despair.
They could only watch.
They had absolutely no way to stop it.
Even Imu could do nothing.
His only remaining hope was Uranus.
"Faster! Hurry!"
Knowing escape was impossible, Imu desperately poured more blood into the totem.
He understood that running from Ryūjin was meaningless.
Even if he escaped today, Ryūjin would simply kill him tomorrow.
Before that man, he was nothing more than an ant.
His only chance was to place everything on Uranus.
"Hurry up!"
Imu sliced open his other wrist as well.
Blood poured from both wounds, rapidly activating the pattern.
The Dragon-shaped totem shone brilliantly.
His eyes lit up.
Kneeling before it, he stared with fanatical devotion.
At that moment, nothing else in the world existed.
Only that Dragon-shaped totem remained.
It was his last hope.
The final hope of the Celestial Dragons.
But despair soon followed.
Mary Geoise had already fueled two resurrections.
Its life force had been drained immensely.
This third revival was far slower.
Crack! Snap!
Only when the meteorite had descended to low altitude did lightning begin flashing once again.
"My god Uranus! Hurry! Please hurry!"
Imu bit his lips until blood flowed freely, yet he didn't even notice.
His eyes remained fixed on the totem as he roared desperately.
Crack! Snap!
The lightning grew increasingly violent.
Masses of cyan energy gathered together.
The outline of a colossal Dragon gradually formed.
Its shape became clearer and clearer.
At the same time, the meteorite continued falling.
Ninety meters.
Uranus's claws took shape.
Eighty meters.
Its whiskers formed.
Seventy meters.
Its tail became complete.
Thirty meters.
Its piercing eyes opened.
Twenty meters.
Its scales fully materialized.
Ten meters.
Uranus returned.
Roar!
A Dragon's roar shook the heavens.
Its overwhelming might swept across the world.
But...
Boom!
The thousand meter meteorite crashed directly into Mary Geoise.
The entire Holy Land shook violently before exploding apart.
The island shattered into countless fragments.
Rumble!
The entire world trembled with the impact.
Even people hundreds of kilometers away felt the violent shockwave.
Crash!
At the same time, the seas of the pirate world erupted.
Towering waves hundreds of meters high spread in every direction.
A monstrous tsunami was born.
The world had truly been shaken by Ryūjin's attack.
Not as an exaggeration.
Not as a figure of speech.
But as undeniable reality.
"N... Nani?!"
"Run!"
The expressions of everyone watching changed dramatically.
No one dared remain to witness the spectacle any longer.
If they stayed...
They would die.
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