"Witness the true terror of 'IQ'!"
Dr. Indigo's crazed, hysterical roar echoed across the silent sea.
He no longer hesitated in the slightest. He viciously plunged the dozen or so enormous syringes filled with strange green liquid into various parts of his body!
"Gaaaahhhhh!"
An inhuman, agonized scream erupted from Indigo's mouth!
His body seemed to have been injected with lava, his skin instantly turning crimson. Thick veins writhed and burst beneath his skin like twisted earthworms!
Then something even stranger and more horrifying happened!
His body began to "grow" wildly in a way that completely defied biological knowledge!
His flesh began fusing with the wooden deck of the Swan Flagship beneath his feet. Countless enormous, vine-like fleshy tendrils burrowed out of his body and sank deep into the hull!
Under the influence of that strange power, the enormous Swan Flagship seemed to come alive!
The hull's planks twisted and proliferated, sprouting faces that wailed in agony! The masts turned into enormous, twisted tentacles covered in barbs, flailing wildly through the air!
But that was not all!
With the mutated flagship at its center, a green wave of energy filled with an ominous aura spread wildly outward like ripples!
Everything touched by that energy wave began to undergo horrifying mutations!
Countless enormous, hideous plants resembling man-eating flowers instantly sprouted from the huge island remnants floating on the sea. They opened their gaping maws lined with sharp teeth and lunged at the Leviathan!
Beneath the surface, countless enormous, bizarrely shaped mutant Sea Kings were brought into being. They rammed the Leviathan's underside, producing a succession of teeth-grating crashes!
In just a few dozen seconds.
This sea of scattered rocks, originally no more than complicated terrain, had turned completely into a demonic realm filled with mutated creatures and man-eating plants!
"My God, what kind of power is this?!"
Inside the Leviathan's bridge, everyone was scared out of their wits by the hellish panorama before them.
"This is the 'IQ' serum? It can instantly turn an entire stretch of sea into a biological hell?!" Brannew's face was deathly pale, and even his voice trembled.
This vast, utterly unreasonable ability to transform the environment had already surpassed their understanding of Devil Fruits!
"Haha, hahahahahaha!"
At the center of the monstrous flagship, which had completely transformed into a hybrid of flesh and plants, Dr. Indigo's head protruded and let out deranged laughter.
He had lost all human form, becoming an ugly, enormous monster core fused with the entire ship.
"Do you see now, brat?!"
The face on the monster core stared fixedly at Yas, its gaze brimming with venom and satisfaction.
"In this hell I created, I am God! I'll watch my children tear you apart bit by bit! Devour you!"
"Your flesh will become the finest nourishment for this hell!"
Yet in the face of this apocalyptic scene, enough to drive anyone to despair.
Yas merely frowned again.
He glanced at the surrounding mutant creatures, all flailing claws and fangs with nothing behind their appearance, then looked at Indigo, who had completely lost his reason and turned into an ugly lump of flesh.
The impatience in his eyes had reached its absolute limit.
"Another flashy, hollow move."
His patience had finally run out.
"You're far too noisy."
Yas no longer wanted to play.
He slowly raised his right hand, spreading his fingers.
This time, no move gathered in his palm.
Only a tiny, almost imperceptible arc of pure black electricity flickered gently, seemingly capable of devouring all light.
It was his most fundamental, purest, and most terrifying power.
"Since you like hell so much."
Yas looked at the monster core, a trace of cold cruelty flashing through his icy blue eyes.
"Then I'll personally create a true Black Lightning hell for you."
The instant his words fell, Yas vanished from where he stood.
The next second, he appeared directly above the monstrous flagship as though he had teleported!
From high above, he looked down on the monster core below, which was still ranting wildly.
Then he thrust his right hand, flickering with a wisp of Black Lightning, forcefully downward!
Black Lightning: Planetary Devastation: Modified!
BOOM!!!
An indescribably terrifying gravitational force, powerful enough to warp space itself, erupted from Yas's palm!
Below him, the immense monstrous flagship made of flesh and plants could not resist that terrifying gravity for even a second!
The entire ship, along with the monster core at its center and the wildly growing tentacles and faces around it, was forcibly torn, compressed, and crushed together by that overbearing force in an instant!
"No! No! What is this power?! My body, my power!"
Indigo's screams, distorted by terror, rang out from the monster core.
He could feel his proud, enormous body, fused with the entire ship, being forcibly stripped from this world by a power he could not comprehend!
In just a few seconds.
The enormous monstrous flagship, along with every mutant plant and mutant Sea King within several thousand meters, was forcibly drawn into the air by that terrifying gravity. In the end, they were crushed into an enormous ball of flesh more than a thousand meters in diameter, constantly twisting and writhing!
And Yas hovered silently directly above that enormous ball of flesh, like a god who had created and now judged it all.
"It's over."
Yas looked at the ball of flesh below, compressed beyond recognition and retaining only a faint trace of life, without any pity in his cold eyes.
His lowered right hand suddenly clenched!
Bzzzzzzzt!
At that moment, the wisp of the most fundamental Black Lightning held in his palm detonated!
A pure, destructive torrent of black lightning poured violently into the enormous ball of flesh along that invisible gravitational channel!
There was no explosion.
There was no sound.
Under the utterly numb gazes of everyone aboard the Leviathan.
The instant that torrent of black lightning pierced the enormous sphere suspended in midair, composed of countless lives and materials, it became like a picture drawn on paper. An invisible hand wielding an eraser silently erased it, layer by layer, from the inside out!
Flesh, plants, wood, steel.
Under that ultimate destructive power, everything turned into black powder finer than dust and scattered on the wind.
In the end, it returned completely to nothingness.
When the last wisp of black dust dispersed.
The sky became clear again.
The sea became calm again.
It was as though that biological hell teeming with monsters had been nothing more than an illusion that had never occurred.
And just then.
Buru buru buru.
The sudden ringing of a Den Den Mushi broke the deathly silence.
The sound came from the briefcase Dr. Indigo had brought out of the captain's cabin earlier. By luck, it had not been swept into the gravitational core, and now floated on the sea not far away.
Yas's figure flickered, appearing beside the briefcase, and he scooped it up.
He looked at the Golden Den Den Mushi, which was still ringing incessantly, and pressed the answer button.
The Den Den Mushi's features squirmed, imitating an exceedingly arrogant, domineering face.
A man with long golden hair styled like a lion's mane and a cigar clenched in his mouth.
It was none other than one of this era's legends, "Golden Lion" Shiki!
"Hey! Indigo! What the hell are you dawdling around for?!"
Golden Lion's impatient, thunderous roar came through the Den Den Mushi.
"Have you got the stuff or not?! I don't have time to waste here with you!"
Listening to the vigorous roar over the line, Yas's lips curled into a cold smile full of amusement.
He brought the Den Den Mushi to his mouth and spoke slowly in an outrageously calm tone:
"Golden Lion Shiki?"
The roaring on the other end stopped abruptly.
"Who are you? Where's Indigo?!" Golden Lion's voice instantly turned cold and wary.
Yas chuckled. To Golden Lion, that laugh was filled with endless mockery and provocation.
"I killed your man."
"Your things are mine now."
"And your head. I'll be coming to take it myself soon, too, as my newest collectible."
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