"Are you ready to face your 'Reincarnation'?"
As Rayleigh's ethereal, elusive words fell, sounding almost unearthly, his entire figure began to blur and turn illusory.
He and the sword in his hand, he and the sea beneath his feet, he and the sky above his head seemed to merge completely into one at that moment!
An indescribable, profoundly mysterious "resonance of the Way" spread outward in every direction with him at its center.
Within the area shrouded by this "resonance," time seemed to slow, space seemed to freeze, and every law of physics began to fall into chaos and twist!
Aboard the Leviathan.
"Wh-what is this?!"
"I can't move!"
"Help! I feel like my soul is being sucked out!"
Every marine, Bullet included, discovered in horror that countless invisible shackles seemed to bind their bodies tight. They could not even move a finger!
Their minds still worked, but their bodies no longer belonged to them at all!
More terrifying still, they could feel an irresistible force drawing out their vitality, will, and even memories bit by bit, merging them into that distorted space!
"I-is this a master swordsman's 'domain'?!"
Vice Admiral Pokato's face turned ashen. He felt that everything he had learned throughout his life looked utterly laughable before this mythical sight.
This was neither Haki nor a Devil Fruit ability.
This was a personal domain of a higher order, formed by comprehending one's own "will" and "way of the sword" to their utmost limits, powerful enough to distort the rules of reality!
Within this domain, Rayleigh was an omnipotent creator god!
Anyone who entered it would have every karmic bond severed by his sword and be cast into eternal "Reincarnation," never to find release!
Aboard the Oro Jackson.
"Gwahahaha! How many years has it been? Rayleigh's finally using that