Holy Knights Mobilize

At the summit of the Red Line, Holy Land Mary Geoise.

Inside the Room of Authority, the silence was suffocating.

Before the enormous round window symbolizing the world's highest authority, five figures draped in ornate black robes sat around a circular table. Yet unlike before, the atmosphere had grown so heavy it seemed frozen, because the seat long occupied by Jaygarcia Saturn Saint now stood empty.

In his place sat a stern-faced man with a spear-straight posture. Unlike the other four withered, elderly Five Elders, his silver-gray short hair was impeccably combed, and his deep blue eyes carried the sharp, murderous aura of a battle-hardened veteran. Beneath his black robe was the faint outline of a muscular body covered in old scars, while an ancient-looking knight's sword hung at his waist, radiating a pulse that made hearts quiver.

Figarland Saint Garling.

The former supreme commander of the Holy Knights, he came from the Figarland Family, the oldest and most noble of the Celestial Dragons. After Saint Saturn had been forcibly sunk into the ten-thousand-meter-deep sea by Rain, the Extreme Pressure anomaly, using the awakened power of the Rock-Rock Fruit on Egghead, and remained missing to this day, Imu had personally promoted him to the seat of the Warrior God of Science and Defense.

"Saint Saturn's Immortal Demonic Qi resonance... has completely vanished."

Saint Warcury spoke in a low voice. His infernal tusks, which Rain's Conqueror's Haki Infusion had shattered, had barely been restored after the Immortal Demonic Qi's lengthy reconstruction, though fine cracks still remained. His gaunt fingers tapped against the table, his eyes filled with gloom.

"That Extreme Pressure anomaly, Rain, did more than simply sink Saturn into the sea. His awakened Rock-Rock Fruit power seems capable of severing the resonance between the demonic qi and the body. In