"This is..."
"...the power Yoriichi possesses now?!"
The elevator gradually slowed. As it came to a steady stop, Kong and the others quickly stepped off.
As they looked out over the boundless red earth in the distance, every face was filled with shock.
Garp stared at the scene for a long time before murmuring heavily, his eyes full of disbelief.
The dense fog that had blanketed all of Mary Geoise had dispersed. Bright moonlight spilled over the Holy Land, illuminating the distant landscape.
Pangea Castle, which had once stood atop the Holy Land as a symbol of the Celestial Dragons' status as "Creators," had vanished. The red ground was riddled with craters, while shattered stones scattered everywhere reflected a crystalline gleam beneath the moonlight.
Under the scorching heat of Tsugikuni Yoriichi's power, mineral crystals had precipitated from the soil.
The once-prosperous Marie Geoise now had only the town where the Celestial Dragons lived still relatively intact.
However, the high wall separating Pangea Castle from the Celestial Dragons' town was covered in cracks from the aftershocks of battle.
The Holy Land, used as a battlefield, had been more than half destroyed.
The Celestial Dragons' "ancestral land," which had stood at the pinnacle of the world for eight hundred years, suffered a devastating blow that night. The losses were simply incalculable.
In the eight hundred years since the World Government's founding, there had never been a recorded case of anyone breaking into the Holy Land.
Yet ever since Tsugikuni Yoriichi appeared, such incidents had already happened twice.
The last time, Tsugikuni Yoriichi and his subordinates had also caused a huge disturbance in the Holy Land. Yoriichi had even slaughtered many Celestial Dragons there. But that incident had not truly affected the Holy Land as a whole. The buildings had not been severely