Instantly Struck

Ace and Sabo exchanged a glance. Without hesitation, flames erupted across their bodies as they forced back the opponents before them and transformed into two streaks of flowing light, racing toward Allen!

Yamato swung the Glazed Sword, unleashing a burst of frost that blasted Akainu away as she shouted, "Got it!"

She too charged swiftly toward Allen.

When Marco heard himself called "Pineapple Head," the corner of his mouth twitched violently, but the deathly threat emanating from the demon in the sky was all too real.

He shouted in a low voice, "Follow me!" With a flap of his Azure Flame Wings, he led Vista, Jozu, and several other division captains toward Allen like azure meteors.

Allen's gaze swept over Kaido, who was stubbornly enduring the pressure, his dragon eyes fixed on the demon in the sky. He shouted again, "Hey! Old Man! Stop watching the show! Your lousy tolerance can't handle that Old Hag's booze! Get over here now! It's dangerous!"

Hearing the utterly disrespectful address of "Old Man," Kaido snorted two jets of scorching steam from his nostrils and let out a dissatisfied, thunderous "Hmph!" He haughtily turned his head aside and pretended not to hear.

Allen was so angry he nearly rolled his eyes. "This old man... and he's still acting tsundere at a time like this?! Fine! You're so noble! You're so badass! When you get beaten to death later, don't blame me for not warning you!"

He forcibly suppressed the urge to complain, because Imu in the sky had already raised that blood-red trident!

Hovering at the center of the black-and-red lightning domain, Imu's crimson eyes emotionlessly swept over Ace and the others gathering toward Allen below before finally settling on Allen.

That gaze was like he was looking at an insect about to be crushed.

The blood-red trident in his hand slowly traced through the sky filled with black-and-red lightning.

Following the trident's path, the black-and-red thunderclouds in the sky churned and spiraled violently as though boiling.

A colossal Five-Pointed Star Magic Array slowly emerged and condensed within the clouds, covering the entire sky above Rock Island. It was larger and more complex than any previous magic array, radiating an aura that promised to end everything!

The array's lines were formed from the purest black-and-red lightning, each node like a spinning miniature black hole that frantically devoured the surrounding light and energy!

The temperature across the entire island plummeted, as though even the air itself was about to freeze and be sucked away!

The aura of destruction washed over every survivor's heart like a tangible tide!

Everyone understood that once this magic array fully formed and descended, it would bring a true judgment of doomsday!

The enormous Five-Pointed Star Magic Array shone ever brighter, while the spinning black-hole node at its center emitted a deep hum, as though it could spew out destructive power at any moment!

Imu's crimson eyes coldly locked onto the ground below as his trident was about to fall!

"No time!"

Allen's pupils contracted. He knew Imu's attack was an indiscriminate area-of-effect strike. If he delayed any longer, Ace and the others approaching him would not escape disaster either!

He abruptly pressed both hands together before his chest, and the immense Space-time power within him surged frantically with unprecedented intensity!

"Kamui—open!!"

Allen let out a low roar, his voice carrying the texture of tearing space apart!

Before him, space did not merely twist—it was forcibly ripped apart and spun like fragile glass!

A massive purple spatial vortex, over ten meters in diameter and so deep it seemed connected to the end of the universe, instantly formed!

At its center was absolute darkness, while its edges radiated violent spatial turbulence. With piercing shrieks, it frantically devoured the surrounding light and air!

Ace, Sabo, and Yamato were the closest. In an instant, they were dragged into the irresistible vortex. Before vanishing, they left behind only the lingering sparks on Ace's body and Sabo's brief cry of alarm.

Marco, leading Vista, Jozu, and the other division captains, had just reached the edge of the vortex.

"Pineapple Head! Take everyone inside!"

Allen shouted.

At the name, a vein throbbed on Marco's forehead. "Brat! You're the pineap—"

Before he could finish protesting, the violent suction swallowed both him and his words into the Kamui Space! The division captains were also pulled in without any ability to resist.

The Kamui vortex instantly closed, as though it had never existed. Allen's surroundings were suddenly empty, leaving only him to face the world-ending magic array in the sky!

Almost at the exact instant the Kamui vortex closed, the blood-red trident in Imu's hand lightly swept downward.

"Hummm—!!!!"

The gigantic Five-Pointed Star Magic Array covering the entire sky suddenly erupted with a pure, all-devouring black radiance as thick and viscous as asphalt!

This was not light, but more like a tangible torrent of energy filled with cold malice. Like a black waterfall, it poured down over all of Rock Island!

Devil Contract: Forced Signing!

The instant they were illuminated by the viscous black light, low-ranking Marine Soldiers, ordinary Cipher Pol members, and minor officers and lackeys of the Beasts Pirates did not even have time to scream. Their bodies convulsed violently, and their eyes were instantly filled with dense darkness as their pupils vanished!

Two twisted black bone horns burst through the skin of their foreheads like poisonous bamboo shoots, growing madly! Their clothes tore open across their backs with a "Riiip!", and a pair of pitch-black, bat-like flesh wings covered in coarse membranes burst forth amid blood!

Strands of black energy reeking of sulfur escaped from their mouths, noses, and pores! In less than a second, they completed their transformation from human to demon, letting out shrill, chaotic, insanity-filled laughter like sandpaper grinding against glass: "Kekekekeke!!!" Their sharply surging auras mixed with pure malice and soared into the sky!

Rayleigh, standing at the center of the sealing magic array, could not evade it! The black light pierced through the array and shone upon him!

The legendary pirate let out a pained groan as his body trembled violently! Veins bulged across his forehead like earthworms, while his eyes struggled madly between clarity and darkness!

But the contractual power from Imu was too domineering! In the end, pitch-black Demon Horns still pierced from his temples, and flesh wings tore through his clothes behind him! Though a trace of agonized struggle remained in his eyes, most of him had been consumed by madness and the desire to kill! The Haki surrounding him was completely contaminated and assimilated by the Black Energy! He too joined the piercing laughter. "Kekekeke... kill!!!"

Among the "corpses" that had originally fallen to the ground, many were also illuminated by the black light, their bodies twisting as they stood back up and completed their Demonization!

In an instant, Rock Island was filled with hundreds, even thousands, of demons in all kinds of forms. Yet every one of them bore two horns, bat wings, and Black Energy, laughing without end! Their laughter gathered into a storm of noise that made scalps tingle and blood run cold!

Akainu roared as his entire body became Magma-ified to the extreme, like a humanoid volcano!

The viscous black light that shone near him was evaporated and blocked by the boiling magma barrier around his body, which radiated terrifying heat and gave off violent "Sizzle! Sizzle!" sounds! Even the ground beneath his feet melted into a pool of lava.