The road to the underworld was deep.
Mist shrouded everything. On either side seemed to lie bottomless abysses, and every so often, all kinds of chilling sounds rang out. But none of them could scare the group.
Enel even fired off a bolt of lightning.
Unfortunately, it made not the slightest ripple.
Slowly,
the light ahead began to change. Faint, ghostly figures wandered about.
To Chaos, they were just a meal waiting to be eaten. He caught and absorbed them with ease, learning a few things from their memories.
And so they continued onward.
At last,
a curtain of light appeared before them. They tested it first and, finding no problem, passed through.
"Is this the Demon World?"
They were now standing amid a mountain range.
A gray, gloomy world stretched before them. Its mountains and rivers looked like something out of hell, their strange shapes almost artistic. Many plants bore the bizarre patterns found on Devil Fruits.
The air was foul.
Compared to the clean Yang World, this place felt oppressive and stank to high heaven.
"Something's coming!"
Suddenly,
Chaos looked in one direction, furrowing his brows in surprise.
No way!
Had they really been greeted with a huge surprise the moment they arrived?
The others were startled, but they soon sensed two terrifying presences approaching from different directions at incredible speed.
They hadn't even had a chance to look around the world yet.
"Old Don, stay here. The rest of you, hide."
"Move!"
Ivankov used the Door-Door Fruit, and everyone slipped into an alternate space.
"What a coincidence."
Chaos looked into the distance, the corners of his mouth slowly lifting. Those two terrifying presences felt familiar.
Boom!!!
The air exploded again and again.
Two figures appeared in midair, one on each side. After warily sizing each other up,