The silver nothingness Imu had become was like an ever-expanding, hungry wound in the universe, devouring light, matter, energy, and even "existence" itself. The starlight and cold points of light that had flowed through the Empty Throne chamber surged frantically toward that nothingness like iron filings drawn to a magnet, disappearing without a trace. Even space itself began collapsing inward, groaning beneath the strain.
Absolute silence and devouring replaced the earlier clash of rules. This was Imu's final madness, and the most fundamental manifestation of the authority Imu wielded as the "Lord of the Empty Throne"-returning everything to nothingness.
"Brother!" "Lin Yan!" Ace and Luffy watched in horror as everything around them was rapidly consumed. The edge of the silver nothingness was spreading toward them at an astonishing speed! They tried to pull the exhausted Lin Yan back, only to discover their feet felt mired in a swamp, held fast by an invisible "gravitational pull of nothingness"!
Zoro, Sanji, and the others also felt their strength, and even their wills, being stripped away and sucked out. Their bodies became unbearably heavy, and even their thoughts began slowing. Robin discovered in despair that her knowledge of deciphering Ancient Script, Nami's memories of drawing sea charts, Usopp's imagination for boasting and lying... these most fundamental components of the "self" all seemed to be tugged by invisible tentacles, about to be torn from their bodies!
This was the terror of "Void Devouring"-it sought to erase not merely life, but every "meaning" and "trace" that life created, possessed, and treasured.
Ace and Luffy supported Lin Yan. His body had nearly collapsed after unleashing "Dawn's Light," the Nika Core had gone dark, and Joy Boy's Gift had burned away completely. He watched the silver nothingness devouring everything, and Imu's twisted, frenzied face faintly emerging at