Hell Battleship

"Combine-Combine Fruit Awakening!!"

As Bullet pushed his Devil Fruit ability to its limit.

Vast swathes of deep purple radiance began erupting from his mountain-like body.

In an instant, it submerged every part of Impel Down that stood above the sea.

Any wall shrouded in the deep purple glow was immediately affected by the Combine-Combine Fruit's power, rapidly transforming into countless stacked deep purple crystal blocks.

The innumerable crystal blocks churned and surged like a deep purple ocean.

The flowing light did not stop.

Under the shocked gazes of the prisoners at Impel Down's port.

The hazy radiance poured rapidly downward toward the walls of Impel Down beneath the sea.

At the same time.

A shocking transformation was also taking place inside this Undersea Prison.

Crash!

The ceiling, the surrounding walls, and the ground beneath everyone's feet were all permeated by purple light, rapidly turning into countless crystal blocks.

The crystal blocks rolled and surged, spreading layer by layer toward Impel Down's underground levels at an unimaginable speed.

Rumble!

In an instant.

The entire Impel Down prison shook violently beneath this inhuman power.

Inside the cells, some prisoners who had yet to be released looked around at the changes in terror.

Many of them cowered and trembled like frightened birds.

In an exceedingly short time, the purple ocean of crystal blocks invaded every corner of Impel Down.

Looking over from the surrounding seawater.

The enormous Impel Down prison resembled a purple spire standing in the sea.

"Gulp!"

The prisoners at the port, who had been cursing and clamoring without pause.

Were now silent as cicadas in winter.

Watching Impel Down turn upside down, watching the walls and ground churn like a purple torrent.

Everyone was deeply shaken!

Teach's eyelid twitched wildly as he clenched his fist.

"Changing the terrain across such a vast area—is this the power brought by a Paramecia Devil Fruit Awakening? Terrifying!"

At the peak of Impel Down's tower.

Bullet stood up and extended both hands.

Two purple crystal pillars rose from the ground.

The tops of the pillars spread and rolled outward, forming two spheres.

Bullet's face remained impassive as he placed his hands on the spherical crystal pillars at either side.

Now, under the effects of the Combine-Combine Fruit's awakened power.

Everywhere within the Undersea Prison, apart from the Sea-Prism Stone sections that could not be affected by his Devil Fruit ability.

Had become a purple torrent completely under his control.

The instant his hands pressed against the tops of the crystal pillars before him.

Bullet suddenly felt something strange.

It was as though Impel Down beneath his feet had become one with him.

He could control this enormous structure as he pleased.

"Impel Down! Combine!!"

Rumble!

A deafening roar resounded through the sky.

With Impel Down at its center, rings of surging waves spread outward in every direction.

At that moment, the immense prison had become a Rubik's Cube that Bullet could twist at will.

The deep purple torrent of crystal blocks transformed into a roaring tsunami, swallowing everyone stationed on the sea-level floor!

Teach and the others could not even react before the overturning waves swept them up and dragged them into the endless torrent in terror.

Shiryu gripped the long sword in his hand tightly, offering no resistance as the torrent swept him away.

Deep beneath the sea, the section of Impel Down connected to the seabed suddenly let out a dull cracking sound.

Then, a long fissure rapidly spread.

Splash!

Splash!

From the purple torrent surging across Impel Down's surface, huge chunks of buildings, earth, and stone were occasionally spewed out.

Great masses of bubbles continuously rose through the seawater.

Bullet was removing the useless parts from Impel Down.

Impel Down was so enormous that it was no smaller than an ordinary small island.

Although he had already achieved complete control over it by combining with the prison.

Pulling this gigantic tower out of the deep sea was still somewhat difficult.

But if he could reduce the burden and remove the unnecessary sections.

Bullet could turn all of Impel Down into a colossal battleship!

The purple torrent rolled like a tsunami, sweeping every prisoner in Impel Down who could be taken away down toward the sixth level, Infinite Hell.

Inside Impel Down, the heavy floors that divided the prison into seven sections had all been opened up.

Turning the prison tower into an atrium that ran straight from top to bottom.

Crack! Crack!

Bullet focused his mind and summoned the power of his Devil Fruit Awakening, directly severing Red Lotus Hell, Beast Hell, Hunger Hell, Scorching Hell, Freezing Hell, and the sea-level floor from Impel Down.

He transferred the cells holding prisoners into Infinite Hell, while dumping all the other structures into the deep sea.

Some excessively large cells were also tossed into the sea and abandoned.

Even Newkama Land, Level 5.5, located between Freezing Hell and Infinite Hell, was directly removed by Bullet.

Though it seemed there were quite a few Newkama prisoners inside.

"Done!"

"The modifications are complete!"

Upon the surface of the Calm Belt stood a purple pillar that stretched straight into the heavens.

Bullet stood atop the pillar, withdrew his hands from the spherical crystal pillars, and lifted one palm toward the sea below!

"Rise! The Hell Battleship rebuilt from Impel Down!"

As his voice fell.

The waves on the sea suddenly began rising and churning violently.

A dense shadow gradually expanded amid the rolling waves.

Like a deep-sea Sea King rising to the surface.

Rumble!

Tens of millions of tons of seawater roared and poured away as the sea heaved high and split apart.

A colossal battleship with an ancient, weathered appearance and a jet-black exterior burst through the waves, crashing heavily onto the surface and raising waves over a hundred meters high.

The battleship was one thousand meters long, two hundred meters wide, and two hundred twenty meters high.

It was made from vast quantities of steel, wood, and stone.

The main body of the vessel was formed from Impel Down's sixth level, Infinite Hell.

The interior of the hull was packed with tightly connected cells.

Bullet extracted all of Impel Down's steel materials to forge the hull of this gigantic battleship.

But because the vessel was simply too large, the immense amount of steel could only form a thin outer layer.

From afar.

It looked like an aircraft carrier enlarged five or six times over.

Its deck was enormous and empty.

At the center of the battleship stood a giant pillar over two hundred meters high.

Whoosh!

Bullet leaped down from the top of the pillar and landed on the black deck with a thud.

He opened his palm and beckoned toward the warship floating not far away, the one formed from ten Marine warships combined together.

The warship immediately moved without wind, rapidly drawing closer.

Then, it crashed into the stern of the Hell Battleship, swiftly breaking apart and merging into it to form its most vital propulsion system.

Inside the Hell Battleship's stern, enormous amounts of coal began burning fiercely, boiling seawater to generate powerful thrust and drive the massive propeller at the rear into rapid rotation.

Amid the roar of seawater, the colossal battleship, over a thousand meters long, began slowly accelerating across the surface of the Calm Belt.

But due to its enormous size, the battleship's speed seemed unable to reach the level Bullet wanted.

He needed to borrow momentum.

Bullet raised his head and looked into the distance.

At the end of his vision, the two towering gates of the Gate of Justice had slowly begun to open.

And farther beyond the Gate of Justice, a black line seemed to have appeared across the sea.

The momentum Bullet needed had arrived!