The Five Elders, Slammed Around Like Ragged Sacks!

Luffy hovered beneath the blood-red sky.

His signature short black hair stood on end, like blazing black flames.

His muscles were honed like the hardest black-gold divine iron in the realm of the gods, every inch of his skin gleaming with an invincible sheen of intertwined dark gold and pitch black.

His entire body was bathed in overwhelmingly dense black-red Haki lightning, and soul-piercing golden light blazed from his eyes.

How could anyone still call him a pirate?

He was clearly a Black Gold God and Demon who had torn through the void from ancient mythology and descended into the mortal world!

"Wh... what is that form?!"

Below, Saint Saturn, in his Ushi-oni form, had been preparing to unleash a curse attack. A trace of incredulous horror flashed through his enormous Evil Eye.

He had lived for eight hundred years and witnessed countless powerful fighters, yet he had never seen a monster fuse Haki and flesh to such a reality-defying degree!

"Hissss!"

But momentum had already carried Peter Saint's enormous Sandworm form high into the air, and his fang-filled maw still snapped viciously at Luffy.

"Stay—still!!!"

Luffy, transformed into a Black Gold God and Demon, let out a thunderous roar.

He neither dodged nor retreated. His hill-sized arms, gleaming black and gold and wrapped in endless black-red lightning, shot downward!

Bam!!!

A muffled impact shook heaven and earth!

Luffy's enormous black-gold hands clamped like iron pincers, completely disregarding the Sandworm's hard outer shell, which could deflect cannon fire. He seized the massive head, dozens of meters across, in an unbreakable grip!

"What?!"

Peter Saint discovered in horror that an irresistible, monstrous force had brought his enormous body to a dead stop in midair!

"Up—you—go!!!"

The black-gold muscles in Luffy's arms swelled like mountain ranges in an instant, and Thunder True