Arc 18Chapters 426–440

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Ch. 426Entering the realm of a Great Swordsman

Kuina defeated four awakened Jailer Beasts with a single Ryuo-infused sword technique, clearing the way for Lorne and the Wano Country samurai to press deeper into Impel Down. The chapter ended in Infinite Hell, where a scarred black-robed figure approached Garp’s cell with a ring of keys.

  • Denjiro ordered the samurai to form a defensive line as beasts charged through poisonous mist, and Lorne had Ryan distribute antidotes.
  • Four awakened Jailer Beasts attacked the narrow passage, but Kuina stepped forward to face them while Lorne saved his Haki for the enemies ahead.
  • Kuina used One Sword Style: Flowing Water Skybreaker to cut down all four Jailer Beasts in one strike.
  • Lorne praised Kuina’s swordsmanship, and the samurai continued through Beast Hell toward Starvation Hell on Underground Level Three.
  • In Infinite Hell, Garp ignored the prisoners’ taunts as a black-robed figure approached his cell carrying keys.

Ch. 427Releasing an Extremely Evil Criminal

The World Government freed Voland from Infinite Hell and sent him to kill Lorne, while Lorne led his forces through Impel Down to rescue Marines and advance into Beast Hell. The chapter ended as Kuina, Denjiro, and Ryan blocked Beast Hell’s poisoned Seastone bolts with a Haki barrier.

  • A black-robed agent gave Voland a Seastone key and ordered him to kill Lorne, but Garp warned Voland that Lorne was too dangerous to provoke.
  • Lorne’s forces treated and evacuated the four rescued Marines, and the Wano Country samurai pledged themselves to his cause.
  • Denjiro recognized that Kuina had reached the ranks of Great Swordsmen, and Lorne ordered the army to advance into Beast Hell.
  • The deputy jailer commander unleashed beasts, poisoned Seastone spikes, and heavy crossbow bolts against the advancing army.
  • Kuina, Denjiro, and Ryan combined their Haki to form a barrier that stopped the incoming bolts.

Ch. 428An overwhelming advance

Lorne’s army crushed Impel Down’s defenses on the first three floors and broke through the gate to Blazing Hell, where a towering purple figure stood waiting. The chapter ended as the invading army entered the fourth floor and faced the figure.

  • Lorne ordered Ryan to break the beasts’ charge, and Ryan’s explosive rounds shattered the vanguard while Carrot electrocuted the tyrannosaur and captured its deputy commander.
  • The Fearless Legion cleared Beast Hell, then Lorne ordered Ryan and Denjiro to seal the passage gates and resupply the troops.
  • On Starvation Hell, Lorne’s stomp blasted the hidden jailers, giant scorpions, and traps out of the sand.
  • Lorne’s army routed the defenders of the first three floors and reached the gate to Blazing Hell, which Denjiro and Kuina identified as Magellan’s guarded stronghold.
  • Lorne smashed the darksteel gate with Decimating Smash, and his army entered Blazing Hell to find a towering purple figure blocking their path.

Ch. 429As everyone knows, Sett's health bar is fake

Lorne faced Magellan alone in Impel Down and endured the Chief Warden’s Poison Dragons, using his Sett Bloodline’s Battlefield Valor to turn the venom’s damage into fully charged Grit. With a golden shield protecting him, Lorne launched Decimating Smash at Magellan.

  • Lorne ordered Kuina, Denjiro, Ryan, and the others to guard the passage while he confronted Magellan alone.
  • Magellan unleashed three Poison Dragons, and they swallowed Lorne in a mass of corrosive venom.
  • The venom ravaged Lorne, but Battlefield Valor activated and his Grit rose as his body repeatedly healed.
  • Lorne emerged from the Poison Dragons as his Grit reached its peak, forming a golden shield that repelled Magellan’s venom.
  • Lorne charged through the poisonous mist and appeared before Magellan, unleashing Decimating Smash.

Ch. 430Hannyabal's despair

Lorne defeated Magellan with a single punch and prepared to descend into Level Five to rescue Garp. Before the army could proceed, Magellan triggered Impel Down’s emergency lockdown, sealing the passage with Dragon-Breaking Stones and trapping Lorne’s forces above the prison’s deeper levels.

  • Lorne shattered Magellan’s poison armor and knocked him through the floor into Level Five, leaving him gravely wounded.
  • Hannyabal saw Magellan’s Vivre Card nearly burn away, panicked, and fled to seek reinforcements from Marine Headquarters and the World Government.
  • Lorne ordered his forces to prepare for Level Five, and Ryan reported that the samurai remained combat-ready after taking antidote for minor poison exposure.
  • Magellan used his last strength to activate Impel Down’s emergency lockdown mechanism.
  • Dragon-Breaking Stones sealed the passage between Levels Four and Five, stopping Lorne’s army while prisoners watched from the darkness below.

Ch. 431Shattering the Dragon-Breaking Stone with a Fist

Lorne shattered Impel Down’s ten-thousand-ton Dragon-Breaking Stone gate with one punch, then led the army into the freezing fifth floor. As Army Hound Wolves surrounded the cold-weakened samurai, Lorne unleashed lightning and heat.

  • Lorne shattered the Dragon-Breaking Stone gate with his Decimating Smash, opening the passage to the fifth floor.
  • Lorne led the thirty thousand Wano Country samurai into Freezing Hell, where the extreme cold slowed and endangered them.
  • Carrot sensed watchers in the blizzard, and thousands of Army Hound Wolves surrounded the samurai.
  • Denjiro tried to organize a defensive formation, while Kuina cut down a wolf that attacked a samurai.
  • The wolves charged the struggling samurai, and Lorne released dazzling lightning and heat across the ice field.

Ch. 432Target: Garp!

Lorne melted a path through Freezing Hell and led the recovered samurai toward Level 6 to rescue Garp, while CP0 revealed that a poison-gas trap and a Marine fleet awaited them. The story left Lorne preparing to breach the Seastone gate as the surrounding battleships closed in.

  • Lorne unleashed Divine Dragon Lightning into the ice, melting Freezing Hell and scattering the Army Hound Wolves.
  • Denjiro, Ryan, Carrot, and Kuina reported that the samurai had recovered, and Lorne ordered the thirty thousand troops to advance.
  • Lorne's force crossed the fifth level and reached the Seastone gate to Level 6, where Garp was held in a central water dungeon.
  • Lorne prepared to break through the gate and said he had come to get Garp.
  • A CP0 captain revealed that Magellan had activated a poison-gas self-destruct protocol and that a trap awaited Lorne on Level 6.
  • Marine Headquarters Buster Call-class battleships emerged from the fog and surrounded the waters near Impel Down.

Ch. 433One punch shattered the gate!

Lorne shattered Impel Down’s Level Six Seastone Barrier Gate with one punch and entered Infinite Hell with Kuina, Denjiro, and thirty thousand Wano Country Samurai. There, he found the guards dead and confronted three escaped remnants of Rocks’s era who had been promised pardons for killing him.

  • The Navy sealed every ocean-current outlet around Impel Down under the Five Elders’ Heavenly Punishment Extermination Order.
  • Lorne’s punch shattered the Seastone Barrier Gate on Level Six, sending a shock wave through the sea and throwing the naval battleships into the waves.
  • Lorne entered Infinite Hell with his allies and the Wano Country Samurai, where Ryan and Kuina warned that seastone dust and Hallucinogenic Miasma weakened their perception.
  • Lorne found open cells and dead Impel Down guards before Moga, Daker, and another escaped prisoner emerged from the shadows to block the route to the Central Water Prison.
  • Moga and Daker revealed that a black-robed man had given them keys and promised them pardons and three affiliated nations if they killed Lorne.
  • Lorne dismissed the three prisoners as cripples, and Daker smashed his axe into the ground.

Ch. 434The demon awakens

After Moga revealed that Garp was imprisoned and mocked Lorne’s adoptive mother, Masha, Lorne’s killing intent overwhelmed the pirates. The chapter ended with Lorne appearing in front of Moga and gripping his skull.

  • Moga trampled Garp’s Justice Cloak and claimed Garp was chained in the Water Prison.
  • Moga threatened Garp and insulted Lorne’s adoptive mother, Masha, prompting Ryan to panic and Lorne’s companions to fear his reaction.
  • Lorne’s presence fractured the stone floor and left Moga and Daker unable to move with terror.
  • Lorne crossed the distance to Moga in an instant and clamped a hand around his skull.

Ch. 435Offense and defense reversed

Lorne rescued Monkey D. Garp from Impel Down and escaped the Marine fleet without a shot being fired. He persuaded Sengoku to contact Aokiji and Fujitora and keep conscientious Marines from becoming the Five Elders’ cannon fodder, setting the stage for a confrontation with the World Government.

  • Lorne killed Moga and the other Rocks Remnants, then freed Monkey D. Garp from the Water Prison by tearing apart his Seastone chains.
  • Lorne and his forces sailed out of Impel Down with Garp while the Marines refused to fire on them.
  • Three days later, Lorne reunited Garp with Sengoku at a secluded harbor and argued that the World Government and Celestial Dragons, not the Marines, were the enemy.
  • Lorne asked Sengoku to contact Aokiji and Fujitora and keep conscientious Marines from serving the Five Elders as cannon fodder.
  • Sengoku accepted Lorne’s Den Den Mushi and agreed to contact Kuzan and Issho, while warning Lorne not to harm innocent civilians.

Ch. 436An alliance with the Revolutionary Army, blades aimed at the Holy Land

Lorne and Dragon formed an alliance between the Fearless Empire and the Revolutionary Army to attack Mary Geoise, with the Revolutionary Army cutting supplies and helping free the enslaved. After the World Government fortified Red Port and inflicted casualties on Zou scouts, Lorne ordered the fleet to sail straight for the Red Line anyway.

  • Dragon warned Lorne about Mary Geoise's defenses and the World Government's strength, but Lorne explained that Pluton · Fearless could blast a path up the Red Line and that he would face the Holy Knights and Five Elders.
  • Lorne and Dragon agreed that the Revolutionary Army would cut the Four Blues' supply routes, stir resistance in affiliated nations, and evacuate the enslaved people from Mary Geoise.
  • Dragon revealed that Sabo's detachment was in Sabaody and that Koala had obtained Red Port's garrison rotation schedule; Lorne ordered Ryan, Denjiro, and Kuina to mobilize the army for an assault in three days.
  • A distress projection from Boss Nekomamushi reported that the Holy Knights had deployed modified bio-soldiers and three steel defensive lines outside Red Port, where Zou scouts had suffered heavy casualties.
  • Lorne rejected changing the plan, told Dragon to proceed with the blockade, and ordered Pluton · Fearless to smash through Red Port's defenses as the fleet set sail for the Red Line.

Ch. 437The godslaying fist, Pangaea Castle drenched in blood

Lorne and his allies stormed Mary Geoise and battled the Five Elders inside Pangaea Castle. Lorne killed four of them and advanced on the last Elder, Saint Warcury, with the Empty Throne beyond him.

  • Lorne ordered the Pluton · Fearless to blast through Red Port, and thirty thousand Wano Country Samurai entered Mary Geoise with Dragon, Kuina, and Denjiro.
  • The Five Elders transformed and attacked, but Lorne killed Saint Saturn with Haymaker after overpowering his regeneration.
  • Dragon and Lorne brought down Saint Mars, while Carrot wounded Saint Shepherd Ju Peter before Lorne killed the sandworm from within.
  • Kuina confronted Saint Nusjuro, and Lorne killed him with Haymaker after catching his sword and enduring its blade.
  • Saint Warcury stopped his charge in terror as Lorne took Shodai Kitetsu from his palm, gave it to Kuina, and approached the last Elder and the door to the Empty Throne.

Ch. 438Shattering the God Armor, the Throne Revealed

Lorne killed Saint Warcury, completing the Five Elders’ defeat, then confronted Imu on the Empty Throne as Imu awakened Uranus to destroy Mary Geoise. Lorne ordered his allies to evacuate and rose into the sky to face the weapon with a punch.

  • Lorne shattered Saint Warcury’s tusks and God Armor, then killed him with Haymaker, leaving all five of the Five Elders dead.
  • Dragon reported that the Revolutionary Army had taken the outer Slave Camp and was evacuating tens of thousands while warning that Marine Headquarters remained a concern.
  • Lorne revealed that the true ruler was Imu, seated on the Empty Throne in the chamber beyond the hall.
  • Imu destabilized Pangaea Castle and summoned Uranus, which began charging a destructive beam over Mary Geoise.
  • Lorne ordered Ryan to have Pluton · Fearless target Uranus and told Kuina to take the Samurai Corps to underground shelters.
  • Lorne flew through the ruined roof toward Uranus and prepared to strike the weapon with a punch.

Ch. 439The Truth of the Empty Throne, a Bird That Had Lived for Eight Hundred Years

Lorne destroyed Uranus and exposed Imu as a parrot who had secretly sustained the World Government’s rule for eight hundred years. After ordering the bird’s capture and confession broadcast, he turned toward the still-unresolved confrontation at Marine Headquarters.

  • Lorne struck Uranus’s core with Haymaker, destroying the weapon and sending it crashing into the sea.
  • Lorne seized Imu and tore away its robe, revealing a small parrot with no fighting ability.
  • The parrot confessed that it had granted the Five Elders eternal life and explained how the twenty kings seized power and concealed the truth about the Celestial Dragons.
  • Lorne broke the Empty Throne and ordered Ryan to imprison the parrot and broadcast its appearance and confession throughout the world.
  • Dragon declared the old era over, but Lorne said the conflict remained unfinished while Sengoku and the hardliners waited at Marine Headquarters.

Ch. 440The dawn of a new era (finale)

Lorne defeated Sakazuki and helped end the World Government’s rule, then established a new order that replaced piracy with lawful Adventure Guilds. As the Fearless set sail for the East Blue, Lorne planned to return home and see Masha.

  • Sabo freed the slaves in Mary Geoise while Sakazuki refused to retreat, arguing that the Marines had to preserve order.
  • Lorne confronted Sakazuki at Red Port and defeated him with a Haymaker, prompting Sengoku to order the Marines to lay down their weapons.
  • Three days later, Sengoku resigned, the Celestial Dragon class and Heavenly Tribute system were abolished, and Dragon announced the New Union Code.
  • Lorne declared the end of piracy and established Adventure Guilds for lawful exploration and trade, sparking celebrations across the seas.
  • At the Fearless Fortress banquet, Lorne declined the role of Chief Arbitrator and ordered the Fearless to sail to the East Blue so he could see Masha.
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