"The Time-Time Fruit is mine! It's mine!!!"
Big Mom's crazed roar, as anguished as a cuckoo crying blood, echoed over the sea that had already become a realm of death, yet sounded so powerless and hollow.
Yas turned a deaf ear to her roars.
His figure had passed through the thick vitrified strata and arrived before the ancient altar in the deepest reaches underground.
It seemed like another world here.
In stark contrast to the thoroughly purged scene of death outside, a trace of an ancient, peaceful, sacred atmosphere actually remained around this altar.
The altar was cast from an unknown metal that gave off a faint silver glow, its surface carved with countless intricate, mysterious stellar paths and sun-and-moon totems.
At the very center of the altar, an energy barrier made of pure light quietly guarded something.
Through that translucent barrier, Yas saw it.
It was a "God's Creation" that completely overturned his understanding of "Devil Fruits"!
It did not have the spiral-patterned fruit shape of a traditional Devil Fruit.
It looked more like a flawless, fist-sized mechanical heart composed of countless intricate, constantly rotating golden gears and translucent crystal prisms!
Inside that "heart," a deep, viscous, mysterious nebula, constantly shifting in color and seemingly containing the stars of the entire universe, pulsed slowly.
With every pulse, a faint ripple like a wave on water, visible to the naked eye, spread through the surrounding space.
Every pulse seemed to make the river of time pause and accelerate for an instant!
This was the "Time-Time Fruit"!
The supreme masterpiece capable of encroaching upon the laws of "time," created eight hundred years ago through the combined efforts of that mysterious Great Kingdom!
Yas quietly studied the fruit, and for the first time, a glint that could be called "appreciation" flashed through