Astra's face instantly turned pale. "We thought we had completely destroyed it back then..."
"The Five Elders... were all its puppets," Sabo continued, revealing the shocking truth. "Including Kordo. They thought they were controlling the power of the Void, but they had long since been influenced by the Lord of Nothingness's consciousness. Through them, it established footholds in the real world and gradually infiltrated it..."
Hearing this, Kordo's expression shifted from wild joy to rage. "Nonsense! I am the master of Void power! I am no one's puppet!"
Sabo looked at him sadly. "Kordo... look at your shadow."
Everyone followed Sabo's direction and drew sharp breaths. Kordo's shadow was not shaped like a normal human at all. It was a twisted, many-tentacled monster that wriggled constantly across the ground.
"This... this is impossible..." Kordo lowered his head to stare at his own shadow, terror appearing on his face for the first time.
"The Lord of Nothingness is accumulating energy through the Purple Moon Cycle," Sabo said, hurrying to convey the most critical information. "In the Void Dimension, I heard its plan. The Purple Moon Cycle appears once every thousand years, when the Dimensional Wall is at its weakest. It intends to completely break through the seal before this cycle ends."
Astra calculated the time. "How long until the Purple Moon Cycle ends?"
"According to the flow of time in the Void Dimension... less than seven days," Sabo said painfully. "If we cannot reinforce the seal before then, the entire real world will be Devoured by Nothingness. When that happens, not only our world, but even the remaining consciousness of the Void Civilization—everything will be Devoured by the Lord of Nothingness and become nourishment for its rebirth."
Luffy clenched his fists, his Stellar Markings gleaming with unwavering light. "Then we'll stop