Sensing a genuine threat, the Void Avatar began burning its own essence, launching one last frenzied counterattack.
"If... I cannot conquer... then I will destroy everything!"
The Void Avatar's body began swelling rapidly, radiating terrifying energy powerful enough to tear space apart. All of Laugh Tale began to tremble before that power, and the island's edges crumbled into the Void Abyss.
"It's going to self-destruct!" Zoro's expression changed drastically. "If it succeeds, it won't just destroy Laugh Tale. The shock wave will sweep across the entire world!"
"Then we can't let it succeed!" Jinbe gritted his teeth and began drawing on the last of his strength.
When the portal's light faded, Lin Ye and Kizaru found themselves in a horrifying world beyond human imagination.
Mary Geoise-the place once revered as the World Government's Holy Land-had become hell on earth. Its once-sacred white buildings had twisted into eerie black spires, their surfaces running with purple void energy like blood. The sky was no longer blue, but a vast black vortex from which countless tentacles reached down, relentlessly lashing the ground.
"Oh my... things here are even worse than I imagined." Kizaru surveyed the scene, but his eyes held no fear, only an unwavering belief in justice.
Enormous fissures leading into nothingness scarred the ground everywhere, and despair-inducing howls rose from within them. A thick, sinister presence filled the air; even breathing brought a suffocating sense of oppression. Worst of all, the laws of reality here had completely broken down-gravity alternately vanished and increased tenfold, time flowed at wildly different rates across different areas, and space itself constantly twisted and warped.
But what truly inspired despair was the enormous figure gradually taking shape in the sky.
A projection of the Lord of Nothingness's true body was descending into the real world. The