"What?!"
The CP0 agent in the white suit stared at the massive arm reaching for him, his scalp prickling with dread.
He could clearly see that the arm wasn't coated in Armament Haki at all.
Lynn had broken his killing move with nothing but raw physical strength and terrifying power!
His heart leapt in alarm, and he hurriedly tried to dodge Lynn's outstretched hand.
But somehow, the massively muscled arm had already clamped around his neck.
"Th-this is impossible!"
Solig's eyes widened as he stared in shock at the arm gripping his neck.
He clenched both fists, intending to smash them into the arm.
But—
BOOM!!
His terrifying punch tore through the air with a fierce howl and slammed into Solig's abdomen.
The immense force erupted, making Solig's eyes bulge as his body curled up like a shrimp.
Even his Devil Fruit ability failed to activate again. The punch had left him completely unable to move.
Penny stared at the scene before her, her heart full of shock.
Lynn... When had Lynn gotten so strong?
He'd only just run into the guards at Celestial Dragon City, and he'd already taken them all out?
Penny had thought she and Lynn would die at the guards' hands.
But Lynn had kept revealing terrifying powers beyond anything she could have imagined.
A thought began to stir in her mind.
Could they... actually escape Mary Geoise?
Lynn formed Hand Seals, drawing Lightning Release Chakra from his cells. Terrifying currents surged out as his cells rubbed together furiously.
Then he spat out a golden Lightning Spear, a full seven or eight meters long.
The moment the terrifying Lightning Spear appeared, it stirred the free ions in the surrounding air.
Streams of terrifying electricity, like little snakes slithering through the air, shot toward everyone on the ground.
BOOM!!
A huge explosion rang out.
Thick smoke billowed as fierce winds whipped around them.
"Let's go, Penny."
Lynn turned and hurriedly scooped up Penny, who was still frozen in shock.
"It might get a little bumpy."
Before Penny could react, she and Lynn had appeared more than ten meters away.
They surged forward through the sky, using Geppo.
Soon, a large number of other Celestial Dragons arrived at the place where they had fought the guards.
The fierce winds gradually scattered the smoke, stretching it into wisps that faded and disappeared.
The Celestial Dragons grew excited when they saw the enormous crater at the battle site.
"Heh heh... Those damn slaves must be dead by now!"
"Exactly! They actually thought they could escape. Damn slaves like them deserve to be tortured!"
But then one of the Celestial Dragons spotted Saint Charlos's corpse, along with the uniforms of the CP guards.
"Wait! Saint Charlos is dead!"
"What? Saint Charlos is dead?"
"And those clothes on the bodies—that white suit..."
"Captain Solig is dead too!!"
"Saint Libut! Princess Olihael... They're dead too?!"
"..."
When they heard that Celestial Dragons had died, all the newcomers hurried back onto their transport slaves.
Their faces were filled with disbelief.
After all, Celestial Dragons were the world's nobility, the face of the World Government.
A Celestial Dragon's death was a major incident.
Whenever a Celestial Dragon died, a Marine Admiral would be sent to hunt down the killer, and the World Government's Cipher Pol would dispatch its elite agents as well.
They wouldn't stop until the killer was dead.
News that Saint Charlos and other Celestial Dragons had died in the attack quickly spread throughout Celestial Dragon City.
When the slaves heard that Celestial Dragons had died—and that the guards of Celestial Dragon City had been wiped out—they stared in disbelief.
Especially the ones in cages, waiting for Lynn and Penny to be captured and brought back so they could be tortured again and again.
"T-the Celestial Dragons are dead?"
"H-how is that possible? Those two slaves didn't just kill a Celestial Dragon—they escaped too?"
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible! Mary Geoise is so heavily guarded that even Devil Fruit users can't escape. How could those two have made it out?!"
"But Lynn seems to have some really powerful ability. I wonder what Devil Fruit he ate."
It wasn't only the slaves who were shocked that Lynn and Penny had escaped.
The Five Elders were also furious when they heard that slaves had killed a Celestial Dragon and immediately escaped Mary Geoise.
Saint Saturn wore a black suit. He had curly white hair, a thick white beard, a flat hat, and a scar on his left cheek.
He was the Five Elder in charge of scientific defense, Saturn.
"Another slave has escaped, and he's killed several Celestial Dragons..."
"Have CP0 handle this with the utmost priority. Then contact Sengoku and have him send a few Marine Admirals to hunt them down."
"They're only two slaves. They probably haven't even made it out of Mary Geoise alive."
After the Five Elders issued their orders, CP0 and Marine Headquarters quickly sprang into action.
Marine Admiral Akainu had been keeping an eye on the Whitebeard Pirates, preparing for the coming Summit War.
But after receiving word from Headquarters, he headed straight for the Red Line.
Organizations with plenty of informants and well-connected networks soon learned that Akainu was on the move.
The news that a slave had killed a Celestial Dragon and escaped Mary Geoise made the papers the next day.
Before long, the whole world had heard that a Celestial Dragon had been killed by a slave in his own home, and that the slave had escaped Mary Geoise.
Shiki the Golden Lion drifted through the sky aboard his island.
His hair was golden, and both his legs had been cut off, replaced by his two swords.
A ship's wheel was embedded in his head, making him look a little like a rooster.
Reading the news in the paper, Shiki burst into delighted laughter.
"Gahahahahaha!! The brats of this sea sure are getting bolder!"
"I broke out of Impel Down, and he broke out of the Celestial Dragons' Mary Geoise. That's the spirit!"
"I've got to find him. He'd make a fine crew member!"
It wasn't just the great pirates of the previous era who took notice of the slave who had escaped Mary Geoise. Some of this era's pirates, too, with staggering bounties on their heads, paid attention.
"Lynn, was it? Fufufufu, how interesting. He escaped Mary Geoise of all places."
Doflamingo, draped in a coat of pink feathers, raised his head and looked toward his pool.
"I'll have to see if I can find this guy."
The offer the Five Elders had just made was simply too tempting for the flamingo to refuse.
While the whole world searched for the two escaped slaves, Lynn and Penny,
Lynn carried Penny as they slowly left the Red Line, stepping through the air with Geppo.
Thanks to Electric Current Drive and the terrifying physique granted by DC Lynn,
Lynn's Geppo was countless times more effective than before.
With a light leap, he could jump straight up to a height of more than a hundred meters.
And that was before he even started using Geppo.
Held in Lynn's arms, Penny wrapped hers around his neck and looked down, her face tense with fear.
"Lynn, where are we going?"
Lynn looked down at the sea and estimated their direction.
"Sabaody Archipelago."
He thought it over carefully. Enel should have already gone to the moon in search of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.
Even if he killed Enel on the moon, there was a good chance he still wouldn't get the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.
So he might as well plan to take Kid's Magnet-Magnet Fruit instead.
Lynn had a feeling that if he got the Magnet-Magnet Fruit, it might let the pure power inside him break through to the level of Magnetic Field Rotation ahead of time!
And once he reached Magnetic Field Rotation, his strength would increase a thousandfold, with a hundred times the force!
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