Saint Imu's Probe
"Such a terrifying aura exists in this world..." Kizaru murmured softly, his usual casual and lazy tone completely disappearing. The photon power flowing around his body was trembling slightly and almost unstable, and golden light particles kept dissipating from his body.
Akainu clenched his fists, lava surging in his palms, yet he dared not move an inch. He stood silently, his gaze fixed on the core of the black mist, not daring to relax for a moment. The lava flowed slowly on his fists, but showed no sign of pouring outwards.
He turned to look at Kizaru and solemnly instructed, "Don't act rashly. Wait for instructions. When the master takes action, we simply need to stand by."
In the void behind and to the side of the black mist, one after another, chilling figures materialized and appeared.
The remaining powerful members of the God's Knights and the Five Elders who reside at the pinnacle of the world stood in formation, their bodies shrouded in a solemn and majestic aura. They silently gathered around the black mist, awaiting the command of the supreme being. Their aura was solemn and overwhelming.
Zambaron V. Saint Nusjuro adjusted his robes, gazed at Susanoo high in the sky, and muttered to himself, "In hundreds of years, I have never seen a creature as ferocious as the Uchiha."
On the distant horizon, countless Marine warship lit up one by one, their black hulls forming a steel Great Wall stretching across the sea. White waves broke through the surface, and they sped off to reinforce the battlefield in Sabaody.
The World Government's ultimate fighting force is now fully in place!
On the deck of the warship, Navy Soldier gripped their weapons tightly, gazing up at the two enormous figures confronting each other in the sky, not daring to even breathe loudly.
The sea breeze suddenly stopped, the waves became still, and seabirds fled far away from this sea area. The entire world fell into a deathly silence, with only an ancient pressure enveloping all directions. No one dared to be the first to break this suffocating silence.
After a long while, from the depths of the black mist, a detached, cold voice, devoid of any joy or sorrow, and without the slightest emotional fluctuation, slowly resounded throughout the heavens and earth, echoing across the entire airspace.
The supreme being who called himself Mu pierced through layers of black mist, his gaze settling on the towering Susanoo, and on Madara Uchiha standing between his brows, with a hint of surprise.
"I thought that, apart from Uchiha Natsu, there was no other Uchiha in the world who could force me to take action personally."
In the void, those massive crimson eyes narrowed slightly, locking onto Madara Uchiha. His calm tone held an unparalleled majesty that seemed to survey all living beings. "Uchiha Natsu, didn't you come?"
Imu's voice dissipated into the dim sky, while his crimson giant eyes, suspended in the black mist, silently locked onto the sky-blue Susanoo a thousand meters high, awaiting Madara's reply.
The surrounding dark red mist slowly surged, like an ancient abyss breathing and slumbering. With each slow movement, the air pressure over the entire sea area became heavier.
Fine black dust floated in the air; it was the shattered rocks of the island and the broken remains of buildings from the previous battle, suspended motionless in mid-air by the two forces.
The waves stirred up by the battle just now froze on the sea surface, and the water wall tens of meters high hung there without falling. The interior of the seawater was covered with spider web-like spatial cracks. The sunlight was completely blocked by the black mist and Susanoo's wings, leaving only two colors in the world - dark blue and dark red.
On one side was the colossal shadow of a war god formed from Uchiha Chakra, and on the other was the abyssal mist sea that shrouded the world in darkness for eight hundred years. The two enormous forces confronted each other across thousands of meters of void.
The invisible energy fields continued to collide and compress, and the void emitted a sharp buzzing sound similar to the cracking of thin ice. Fine spatial cracks continued to grow and spread between the two, and then slowly healed under the clash of forces.
Shepard Saint Shepherd Somaz, kneeling in the void below, had taut muscles all over his body. His head was still lowered, but his eyes were secretly glancing upwards. His gaze was fixed on the tall figure between Susanoo's eyebrows. His back was soaked with cold sweat, and his clothes clung tightly to his skin.
The power of the Thorn-Thorn Fruit stirred restlessly beneath his skin; tiny thorns and spikes uncontrollably pierced his forearm and emerged from his skin, only to be forcibly pushed back into his body.
He silently chanted in his heart: Answer, answer quickly. Let's see if you can maintain that overwhelming arrogance when facing Lord Imu.
Thatchers Maffey, standing to the side, kept his head down, his two horns trembling slightly, his heavy and tall body swaying slightly, his knees trembling in the void, not daring to look up at the supreme being deep in the black mist, much less face Madara Uchiha.
The scene of witnessing Saint Saturn being completely erased had left an indelible mark of fear on his heart.
He remembered how many times Saint Saturn had returned from the brink of death by relying on the Deep-Sea Contract, but that attack just now had directly shattered the foundation of the contract, leaving not even a remnant soul behind.
Just recalling that scene made his blood almost freeze.
Akainu slowly raised his right hand, crimson lava flowing slowly across his fist. The moment the lava dripped down, the seawater in mid-air was vaporized before it even hit the ground, rising up in clouds of white mist.
He glanced at Kizaru beside him out of the corner of his eye and said in a low voice, "Here comes the crucial part: Madara's answer will determine the life and death of everyone on this island. Once war breaks out, Sabaody will be wiped off the face of the sea."
Kizaru hovered in mid-air, golden photons flickering faintly around him. The playful smile that usually graced his face was gone. He nodded slightly, his voice so soft it was almost swallowed by the Air Quake: "I understand. The power of these two has long transcended the ordinary rules of victory or defeat. If they were to fight today, it wouldn't just be a single island destroyed; the entire Grand Line would be thrown into turmoil."
Garp stood not far away, his entire body covered in jet-black Armament Haki armor, his fists slowly clenching, the bones making a dull cracking sound.
His gaze alternated between the crimson giant eye deep within the black mist and Madara Uchiha atop Susanoo. Conqueror's Haki black aura emanated from his body, spreading outwards in concentric circles, crushing all the rubble and debris it swept over into powder.
He thought to himself: These two are monsters standing at the pinnacle of the world. If a full-scale war breaks out, Sabaody, and even the entire Grand Line, will suffer a catastrophe.
Behind the black mist, the Five Elders stood in the void, their clothes fluttering in the raging winds caused by the clash of two opposing forces.
Topman Saint Topman Warcury frowned, his aged hand gripping the scepter at his waist tightly. He spoke in a low voice to his companion beside him, "Imu Im has already given him a chance to speak. If Madara Uchiha is sensible, there might still be a glimmer of hope. But given the temperament he just displayed, there's absolutely no possibility of him backing down."