Shane enjoyed this perfect sunbath.
An orb formed outside his body, just large enough to encompass the port.
Sunlight passed through unimpeded, while the thunder and pillars of searing light descending from the sky stood still.
Shane was not deliberately straining to block them. Rather, the awakened Age-Age Fruit was affecting his surroundings.
It sent these energy attacks from Uranus flowing back to thirty minutes earlier.
They seemed to be attacking continuously, but in reality, they would remain motionless for the next half hour.
Devil Fruit Awakening naturally consumed an exceptional amount of stamina. But before erasing the Five Elders, Shane had already drained their life force, then invaded their bodies with Armament Haki to seal them further, leaving the Five Elders crippled and Shane fully restored.
With that stamina sustaining him, he had nothing to fear from maintaining this awakened Age-Age Fruit field that turned time back thirty minutes.
This orb resembled the Age-Age Orbs previously extracted from human bodies, only it was more transparent, like the fields created when the Calm-Calm Fruit and Op-Op Fruit's abilities were used.
Inside the orb.
The Five Elders struggled, their bodies suddenly beginning to heal at an accelerated rate, seemingly with Shane's permission.
In truth, it was meaningless.
Under these circumstances, even if each of their five heads grew a new body, they would still die as long as their fused original body was exposed to sunlight.
But the Five Elders had nowhere left to turn. They clung to the fantasy that this would let them live a little longer.
"What are you running for? Isn't it nice to bask in the sun? Early morning is the most wonderful time. The air is fresh, the sunlight warms the heart, and exhaustion has just left your body, replaced by a brand-new possibility."
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