"Partners!" Luffy raised his arm and shouted. "Lin Ye is protecting us! Let's fight for him!"
"For Lin Ye!"
"For the Solar System!"
"Never retreat!"
Thunderous battle cries erupted throughout the fortress.
Seeing this, rage burned in Karax's three eyes.
"Damned consciousness fragments!" he roared. "I'll destroy every last one of you!"
The Void Fleet's ultimate attack finished charging, and a destructive sphere of black energy shot toward the fortress.
In Pluto's orbit, amid the silent ruins of a battlefield.
Suddenly, a golden fragment buried deep beneath the ice began to glow.
This was the largest consciousness fragment Lin Ye had left behind when he sacrificed himself, containing his strongest will to protect.
The fragment sensed the crisis threatening his companions deep within the Solar System and began to tremble violently.
"Luffy... Ace... Zoro..." a faint voice emerged from the fragment.
Golden radiance erupted in an instant, purifying the Will Toxin across tens of thousands of kilometers around it.
The purple mist rapidly dispersed before the pure light, revealing clear space.
Like ripples, this power spread outward, reaching every corner of the Solar System.
Deep within Jupiter's Great Red Spot, another consciousness fragment sensed the call.
"I can feel it... Lin Ye's will..." Jupiter's voice grew excited. "He's calling us!"
The clouds began to churn as the fragment slowly rose from gas thousands of kilometers below.
The golden speck burst through Jupiter's atmosphere and glittered in space.
Within Mars's core, the consciousness fragment amid the lava also began to respond.
"Lin Ye!" Mars cried out excitedly. "I can hear your voice!"
The entire planet Mars began to shake, and countless fissures split open across its surface.
Golden fragments erupted from the core, turning into meteors that shot into space.
Within Saturn's rings, dozens of small fragments awakened at once.
"Gather!"