Pluto orbital battlefield, Void Hunter flagship command room.
Karax stared at the battle report, rage burning in his three purple eyes.
"Seventeen warships destroyed, eight heavily damaged..." the adjutant reported tremblingly. "The enemy has found a way to counter us."
"Pure Will..." Karax gritted his teeth. "For the first time in thousands of years, prey has emerged that can threaten us."
He walked to the enormous console at the center of the warship and entered a string of complex passwords.
"Activate the forbidden weapons arsenal."
"Commander! That weapon..." The adjutant was horrified. "Using it will contaminate this entire starfield!"
"I don't care!" Karax roared. "A mere Solar System dares resist the Void Empire?"
A blackish-purple crystal sphere rose from the console.
Viscous liquid flowed within the sphere, radiating nauseating malice.
"The Will Corruption Toxin, the Void Empire's ultimate biological weapon." Karax sneered. "It is designed specifically for enemies with powerful spiritual will."
He pressed the activation button.
Thirty specially shaped Void Warships emerged from the rear of the fleet.
Unlike ordinary combat vessels, these warships had tentacle-like hulls covered in densely packed spray ports.
"Begin release!" Karax ordered.
All thirty toxin warships activated at once, blackish-purple mist pouring from their spray ports.
The mist spread at the speed of light, instantly covering an area tens of thousands of kilometers wide.
The entire Pluto orbital battlefield was shrouded in strange purple mist.
"What is this?" Ace was the first to notice something wrong. "The mist is approaching us!"
"All ships, evade!" Luffy immediately ordered.
But the Will Toxin spread faster than any warship.
Within seconds, the purple mist covered every Solar System warship.
"Cough, cough!" A Jupiter Warship captain began coughing. "This mist... is poisonous!"
Ace tried to purify the air with flames, but his fire went out the moment it