Astra's face instantly turned pale. "We thought we had completely destroyed it back then..."
"The Five Elders... are all its puppets," Sabo continued, revealing the shocking truth. "Including Kordo. They thought they were controlling the power of the Void, but in reality, they had long been influenced by the Lord of Nothingness's consciousness. Through them, it established footholds in the real world and gradually infiltrated it..."
Upon hearing this, Kordo's expression shifted from wild delight to fury. "Nonsense! I am the master of Void power! I'm no one's puppet!"
Sabo looked at him sorrowfully. "Kordo... look at your shadow."
Everyone followed Sabo's gesture and gasped. Kordo's shadow was not the shape of a normal human, but a twisted, tentacled monster that continuously writhed across the ground.
"This... this is impossible..." Kordo lowered his head to look at his shadow, fear appearing on his face for the first time.
"The Lord of Nothingness is accumulating energy through the Purple Moon Cycle." Sabo hurriedly delivered the most crucial information. "In the Void Dimension, I heard its plan. The Purple Moon Cycle appears once every thousand years, when the dimensional barrier 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 the void. By then, not only our world, but even the remaining consciousness of the Void Civilization—everything will be swallowed by the Lord of Nothingness and become nourishment for its rebirth."
Luffy clenched his fists, the star patterns on his body flashing with a resolute light. "Then we'll stop it! Sabo,