At this moment, atop Holy Land Mariya, Im's Observation Haki spread out, blanketing the entire first half of the Grand Line.
After centuries of accumulation, his Observation Haki was already enough to cover the entire world. Every movement across the world was under his control!
Seeing the entire Navy being held back by Night Blade alone, and sensing Night Blade's Sun's Fire, Im narrowed his eyes. That flame was indeed terrifyingly powerful!
"Sun's Fire... Could he be from some special race? And... this life signature... another anomaly?" Im locked onto Night Blade with his Observation Haki, but as his senses probed deeper, his brows rose.
The faint yet lingering life signature emanating from Night Blade gave him an incomparably familiar feeling...
Observation Haki was not omnipotent. The strong had ways to block its perception to a certain extent.
Moreover, because the distance was simply too great, his Observation Haki could not sense things precisely. However, that life signature was indeed extremely familiar to Im!
"Flame-based abilities... Could he be a Lunarian who ate a flame-type Devil Fruit? He also has ice abilities... An Olicia Clan member? An experiment from that former kingdom?" Im speculated.
Im did not know much about Night Blade. He had only learned a few things through Navy intelligence.
He knew that Night Blade was a user of the Human-Human Fruit Mythical Zoan: Death God Form, possessing the powers of flame and ice.
He had never heard of this fruit, nor was it recorded in the Devil Fruit encyclopedia.
Even though the World Government had controlled the entire world for centuries, it still could not document every Devil Fruit. After all, Devil Fruits appeared without any pattern, and sometimes entirely new abilities emerged...
Furthermore, after being eaten and developed by the strong, the essence of a Devil