"Friends!" Luffy raised an 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 within the fortress.
Karax watched the scene, fury burning in his 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 devastating black energy sphere shot toward the fortress.
In Pluto's orbit, amid the deathly 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 its companions' crisis deep within the Solar System and began to tremble violently.
"Luffy... Ace... Zoro..." a faint voice emerged from the fragment.
Golden light erupted in an instant, purifying the will toxins across tens of thousands of kilometers around it.
Purple mist swiftly dissipated before the pure light, revealing clear space.
The power spread outward like ripples, 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 out of Jupiter's atmosphere, glittering in space.
Within Mars's core, the consciousness fragment in the lava also began to respond.
"Lin Ye!" Mars cried excitedly. "I heard your voice!"
The entire planet Mars began to shake, countless fissures splitting open across its surface.
Golden fragments gushed from the planetary core, turning into meteors that shot into space.
Within Saturn's rings, dozens of small fragments awakened at once.
"Gather!" Saturn said elegantly