Arc 20The Awakening of God

Shane defeated Imu and the Heaven-Reaching Tree, then prepared the world for another catastrophe before entering a long sleep. Years later, Roger’s words launched the age of Sky Island, while signs of Shane’s return and a new threat emerged.

  • Shane fought Imu as disasters devastated the world, while he urged people to evacuate and preserve knowledge for the future.
  • Shane devoured the demonic wills of the Devil Fruits, overcame Imu, and finally swallowed the Heaven-Reaching Tree after Imu was consumed by it.
  • Shane compressed the incomplete Devil Fruit Tree into a fruit, ordered scientists to prepare technology for the coming catastrophe, and went to sleep in a giant tree in the sky.
  • Over the following years, the world rebuilt with advanced technology, while Roger and other powerful figures prepared for the next cycle of destruction.
  • At his scheduled execution in Loguetown, Roger directed people to Mary Geoise, proclaiming that God had left everything there and igniting the age of Sky Island.
  • Roger and others investigated the hidden City of Heaven, while a report identified Robin as God's daughter and suggested she had escaped from God Valley.
  • Luffy left Foosha Village to find the City of Heaven and wake God, then joined forces with a rescued swordsman to defeat a powerful Marine.
  • Garp warned Bogard that the world had only two years left and asked whether the Fifth-Generation Pacifista had appeared.
Chapters 476–500 Vol. 5 Read

Ch. 476Uranus, restarting the world

Shane fought Imu while natural disasters erupted across the world, threatening to destroy civilization. As people fled toward ships bound for the New World, Shane promised the trees would preserve humanity’s knowledge, resources, and hopes for a future revival.

  • Shane attacked Imu, who regenerated from his blows and declared that Uranus would destroy the world unless Shane submitted.
  • Shane condemned Imu for suppressing civilization for eight hundred years and preventing humanity from exploring space and developing new energy.
  • Earthquakes triggered Knock Up Streams, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, lightning, and magnetic disruptions across the world, including around Mock Town and Fish-Man Island.
  • Shane urged people to survive and board ships bound for the New World, while Sea Kings and ships from the Kingdom of D helped guide and evacuate them.
  • Imu reformed and claimed that humanity’s greed and selfishness made them powerful, while Shane said he had no time to deal with them.
  • Shane told the world that the Tree of Knowledge, Adam Tree, Sunlight Tree Eve, and Devil Tree would preserve knowledge, aid survival, and carry people’s hopes before he struck at Imu again.

Ch. 477You really won't listen to reason

Shane and Imu clashed as both awakened sealed power, each seeking to shape the world according to a different vision of civilization. The chapter left them confronting one another as gods of rival eras, with Imu intent on destroying the world and Shane refusing to accept blame for resisting.

  • Shane explained that he had mastered his Devil Fruits and Haki, then grew stronger as he attacked Imu.
  • Imu revived from Shane's blows and absorbed their damage, becoming stronger through the power of darkness and their Mythical Zoan form.
  • Shane and Imu both began undoing their seals, revealing that neither had yet reached their strongest form.
  • Shane and Imu set out their competing visions: Imu would destroy the world and create new life, while Shane would let humanity pursue its ambitions and expand beyond the world.
  • Imu tried to make Shane feel responsible for the world's destruction, but Shane rejected the accusation and cursed Imu.

Ch. 478Humanity, Despair

Shane argued that killing Imu was necessary to give humanity time to survive the coming planetary disasters, while Imu accused him of seeking power and tried to destroy the world. Imu expanded his darkness over Mary Geoise and called on humanity to despair.

  • Imu condemned Shane as immoral, but Shane said killing Imu would give humanity decades to prepare for disasters and possibly migrate to the moon.
  • Imu resented Shane's ability to unite the world and accused him of wanting to possess it forever.
  • Shane openly declared himself a god, and people across the world hailed him as their king and god.
  • Shane mocked Imu for keeping humanity weak and warned that an extraterrestrial civilization would target the strongest defender first.
  • Imu activated Uranus at full power, expanded his night-like form over Mary Geoise, and threatened humanity.

Ch. 479The world-annihilating flood

Shane and Imu clashed as Imu struggled to overpower him, while Shane refused to be moved by the threat of the world’s destruction. Imu unleashed a world-annihilating flood, and the chapter ended with the Blue Planet’s lands and seas engulfed in catastrophe as people tried to flee aboard massive ships.

  • Roger, Whitebeard, and Rocks attacked Imu, but Imu’s darkness absorbed Devil Fruit abilities and Shane intervened before Imu could strike back.
  • Imu stabbed Shane, but Shane was unharmed, seized Imu’s sword, and pierced Imu in return.
  • Shane blocked Imu’s next sword strike with Haki armor, leaving Imu unable to defeat him quickly.
  • Imu tried to make Shane care about the people and places threatened by the world’s destruction, but Shane refused to accept responsibility for Imu’s actions.
  • Imu accelerated the catastrophe, unleashing super tsunamis, magma, earthquakes, lightning, and other disasters across the Blue Planet.
  • A beam of light destroyed Enies Lobby, while the ark Noah and fleets built by Hachinosu and Water 7 attempted to carry survivors to safety.

Ch. 480Sorry, Imu

Imu drew his sword and challenged Shane, insisting that his pursuit of godhood was necessary to save the world. Shane dismissed Imu’s justifications, freed the Five Elders from his power, and restored them after Imu struck them down, leaving the complete group ready to fight as Shane’s retainers.

  • Imu drew his sword and declared that Shane would lose his chance to contend for God’s Throne.
  • Imu accused humanity of threatening the world and demanded that Shane answer whether he wanted to become a god.
  • Shane freed the remaining Five Elders with a command, and Saint Nusjuro joined them in confronting Imu.
  • Imu struck the Five Elders apart, but Shane explained that his Age-Age Power restored them to their previous state.
  • Shane brought back the two erased Five Elders, and the complete group declared that they had willingly become his retainers.

Ch. 481The More-More Fruit, awakened

Shane awakened the More-More Fruit and used its speed boost to fight Imu, while the D. Clan and Five Elders held back Imu’s forces. Imu survived Shane’s assault and changed into a more human form to challenge him directly.

  • Imu worried that Shane might use the Age-Age Fruit to travel into the past, but Shane dismissed the possibility and began awakening another Devil Fruit.
  • The Five Elders blocked Imu while Shane awakened his fruit, and Imu summoned Mechanical Giants to attack the D. Clan.
  • Shane’s awakening greatly increased his speed, allowing him to evade Imu’s sword strikes and overwhelm him with a barrage of punches.
  • Imu reassembled after Shane battered him apart, then changed into a knight-like human form and challenged Shane with his full strength.
  • Shane welcomed the renewed contest and laughed as he prepared to fight Imu.

Ch. 482Stronger with Every Battle

Shane used his growing powers to overwhelm Imu, whose Darkness Domain could not keep the Five Elders dead. Imu finally felt pain after eight hundred years and welcomed the sensation, even as Shane continued attacking him.

  • Shane turned Imu’s darkness against him, creating a vortex that stole Imu’s power and forming a new sun within the darkness.
  • The Five Elders taunted Imu while their younger and older counterparts watched, and Shane restored them after Imu’s Darkness Domain dismembered and devoured them.
  • Shane combined light, magma, heat, and Sun God Nika’s power to drive away Imu’s darkness and erase parts of him with each attack.
  • Shane felt the demonic wills cheering and declared that he could become their lord by devouring them.
  • Imu experienced pain for the first time in eight hundred years and laughed as the damage made him recover faster and grow stronger.

Ch. 483Imu's complete form

Imu revealed his complete form by drawing on the world’s accumulated darkness and challenged Shane, who awakened a power that let him consume Devil Fruit wills and turn them into greater abilities. Shane discovered he could also absorb Imu’s dark fruits and convert the world’s ambition and greed into power.

  • Imu transformed into a phoenix-and-dragon form bearing a dark tree of Devil Fruits and attacked Shane with greatly increased speed.
  • Shane began devouring the demonic will of the Munch-Munch Fruit, causing mouths to form around him and consume his body.
  • Imu slashed through one of Shane’s mouths and then unleashed millions of strikes, but Shane re-emerged and explained his newly unlocked abilities.
  • Shane demonstrated that he could absorb energy from sunlight, darkness, and air, then convert it into other forms of energy.
  • Shane bit into one of the dark fruits growing behind Imu and confirmed that he could absorb and transform the negative energy within it.

Ch. 484Demonic Will, devouring

Shane devoured the demonic wills of two more Devil Fruits, blending their abilities and growing stronger as he fought Imu. Imu unleashed a world-destroying attack on Mary Geoise, but Shane remained unharmed and confronted him over his self-deception.

  • Shane absorbed the demonic wills of two Devil Fruits, erasing the boundaries between his forms and using his abilities freely in each one.
  • Shane froze the sky, unleashed poison and thunder, and absorbed and returned Imu’s attacks as he continued to grow stronger.
  • Shane used Repel to remove one second of Imu’s memories, then Imu recovered them from a Light Palm behind his head.
  • Imu drew power from the world’s evil thoughts and memories of his former companions, insisting that he could not lose.
  • Imu drove his sword through the Red Line and shattered Mary Geoise, sending people falling toward the sea.
  • Shane emerged unharmed from the destructive energy and accused Imu of blaming others for his own choices.

Ch. 485Battle of the storm

Shane fought Imu as Imu drew power from the growing Devil Tree, which fed on the world's negative energy. Shane charged into the storm to confront Imu while rescuing people and restoring the old straw hat and nearby grave.

  • Shane absorbed Imu's attacks through his Alternate Space and joked about using Imu as a source of power.
  • Shane restored the straw hat with Age-Age Power and moved the flower-surrounded grave nearby, dismissing the Empty Throne as meaningless.
  • The Devil Tree engulfed Mary Geoise and the Red Line, grew from seawater and other materials, and absorbed the world's negative energy.
  • Imu lost control of the Devil Tree as vines connected Imu to it and mechanical Cyborgs appeared throughout the tree.
  • Shane challenged Imu's claims about clowns and audiences, then charged through the storm toward Imu.

Ch. 486Calling the thunder

Shane fought Imu, who had merged with the Devil Tree, and transformed into Thunder God by devouring the Rumble-Rumble Devil. As Shane absorbed the storm’s energy and began drawing out other darkness-type devils, Imu tried to protect them and attack him with her sword.

  • Imu revealed her powerful true form and challenged Shane, who said he would explore the world after defeating her.
  • The storm’s lightning accelerated Shane’s transformation into Thunder God, and he seized and devoured the escaping Rumble-Rumble Devil.
  • Shane absorbed the storm’s electrical energy, turned Imu’s storm into thunderclouds, and struck her with lightning.
  • Imu fired a crimson, Haki-infused blast at Shane, but he said he had unlocked the path to devouring demonic wills and godhood.
  • Two darkness-type figures emerged from Shane as the Dark-Dark Devil tried to escape, and Imu called them toward her and raised her sword to protect them.

Ch. 487Darkness extinguished, light reborn

Shane devoured the Darkness Devil and the vampire devil, then received Nika’s power of light. With the scales tipped in his favor, Shane prepared to strike Imu and end the battle.

  • Shane seized and devoured the Darkness Devil and the vampire devil, explaining that he had spent years preparing to dominate demonic wills.
  • Imu attacked Shane, but Shane endured the blows and grew stronger as his body recovered.
  • The seventh demonic will awakened as Sun God Nika and attacked Imu alongside Shane.
  • Imu tried to persuade Nika to abandon Shane, but Nika merged their powers and gave Shane the power of light.
  • Shane explained that Imu’s darkness came from human evil, then announced he would attack with all his strength.

Ch. 488Imu on the brink of death

Shane battled Imu by devouring the Devil Tree, but Imu fused with the tree and seized the ocean’s power to transform it into a world-threatening Divine Tree. Shane destroyed the tree and Imu’s body, yet Imu’s eyes reappeared elsewhere, revealing that he had survived again.

  • Shane unleashed purple lightning and a Darkness Vortex against the Devil Tree, devouring it while Imu struggled to stop him.
  • Imu warned Shane that the Fruits of God came from an elder and claimed that only a god could command the Mother Tree.
  • Imu fused with the Devil Tree, which absorbed seawater, grew rapidly, and countered Shane’s Darkness Vortex.
  • Imu declared his Ultimate Form and became part of the tree, leaving only his eyes and mouth before closing his eyes in a near-death state.
  • Shane punched a gigantic hole through the Heaven-Reaching Tree and killed Imu’s sleeping body, but Imu’s eyes soon appeared elsewhere and the tree remained unharmed.

Ch. 489The world's barrier

After Imu disappeared, Shane confronted the Devil Tree, which he renamed the Heaven-Reaching Tree, and sought to devour its power and become stronger. Shane trapped it behind barriers above the Red Line and began absorbing the Barrier Devil, while the tree continued to resist.

  • Shane faced the Devil Tree and declared that devouring all thirteen devils would let him surpass it and approach godhood.
  • Shane separated the Devil Tree from the world with a barrier and named it the Heaven-Reaching Tree.
  • The Heaven-Reaching Tree attacked Shane and tried to make him its host, but Shane enclosed it in a spherical barrier above the Red Line, severing its roots.
  • Shane began taking the Barrier Devil's power, causing barrier-shaped scales to appear on his body as his bones transformed.
  • The Heaven-Reaching Tree continued drawing energy through its distant roots while Shane told it that it could not escape the world's barrier.

Ch. 490Space Door

Shane trapped the Heaven-Reaching Tree’s hidden roots, cut off its power, and used the Door-Door Fruit’s spatial abilities to isolate and destroy it. The tree abandoned Imu to survive, and Imu died as Shane continued his attack.

  • Shane enclosed the Heaven-Reaching Tree’s hidden roots in barrier spheres, preventing them from escaping or reviving.
  • Shane erased the Door-Door Fruit’s Demonic Will and created doors that brought people caught in disasters into his Alternate Space, weakening the Heaven-Reaching Tree’s supply of negative power.
  • Shane split the Heaven-Reaching Tree into barriers and tore its pieces apart with spatial vortices.
  • The Heaven-Reaching Tree chose to devour Imu rather than risk its own survival, leaving Imu with only one eye and no control over the tree.
  • Shane summoned an Imu from a leaf, but dismissed them when they tried to save the original; the original Imu was devoured and died.

Ch. 491Please call me the Time Apostle

Shane fought the Heaven-Reaching Tree while survivors watched from the alternate space he had created. He devoured the Age-Age Devil and claimed the title of Time Apostle, but the Heaven-Reaching Tree remained as he revealed he had three more devils.

  • The Heaven-Reaching Tree took on Imu's human face and broke through Shane's barriers while Shane sheltered survivors in an alternate space.
  • Survivors discussed Shane's choice to pursue godhood by defeating the complete Heaven-Reaching Tree rather than using Nika's power to gather humanity's strength.
  • Shane awakened a new devil power combining Nika's imagination with temporal abilities and used it to resist the Age-Age Devil's attempt to erase him from the past.
  • The Age-Age Devil distorted the Heaven-Reaching Tree's future, but Shane used the opening to devour part of the tree and then consume the weakened devil.
  • Shane emerged from the darkness, told the Heaven-Reaching Tree to call him the Time Apostle, and warned that he had three more devils like that.

Ch. 492Replicate all things, summon all things

Shane devoured the Copy-Copy Fruit and the Tanuki Form’s Demonic Will, gaining greater power to replicate abilities and summon fighters as he battled the Heaven-Reaching Tree. The tree unleashed a growing black hole, while Shane summoned multiple Imu to defend against its next attacks.

  • Shane gained the ability to replicate thirty awakened Devil Fruit abilities at full power after devouring the Copy-Copy Fruit’s Demonic Will.
  • The Heaven-Reaching Tree broke its roots through the Barrier and gathered its remaining power to fight Shane.
  • The Heaven-Reaching Tree detonated its Dark-Dark Fruits to form a growing black hole as Shane expanded into a massive divine body and struck its main body.
  • Shane used Tanuki Form to devour another Demonic Will, strengthening his ability to summon powerful fighters.
  • Shane summoned multiple Imu and ordered them to block the Heaven-Reaching Tree’s coming attacks.

Ch. 493Extreme speed multiplication

Shane trapped the More-More Fruit’s demonic will with his barrier and Haki, then devoured it as the Heaven-Reaching Tree expanded. After absorbing the thirteenth demonic will, Shane grew to an enormous size and prepared to consume the tree himself.

  • Shane sent Imu and the other Imus to attack the Heaven-Reaching Tree while he prepared for battle.
  • The More-More Fruit’s demonic will appeared, using super speed and multiplication to enlarge the Heaven-Reaching Tree inside Shane’s barrier.
  • Shane explained that his Haki and barrier prevented the demonic will from escaping or controlling the fight.
  • The Heaven-Reaching Tree’s vines caught the More-More Devil, but it broke free and ran into Shane, who devoured it.
  • Shane absorbed the thirteenth demonic will, enlarged himself, and faced the Heaven-Reaching Tree as a dark vortex formed around him.

Ch. 494The ravaged New World

Shane devoured the Heaven-Reaching Tree and condensed it into a fruit, gaining the power to gather the world's greed as he prepared to balance it with reason and imagination. With Imu and the Celestial Dragons gone, he stood as the world's ruler while people emerged from the Alternate Space into the ravaged New World.

  • Shane transformed into a colossal monster and swallowed the Heaven-Reaching Tree, then suppressed it and compressed it into a fruit.
  • Shane recognized that the Heaven-Reaching Tree contained the world's greed and planned to combine its power with the Devil Fruit Tree's reason and imagination.
  • Shane returned to human form after Mary Geoise and the Heaven-Reaching Tree vanished, and he decided to strengthen his Haki before pursuing a higher form of life.
  • Shane stood alone on the former Red Line and reflected that the disasters had subsided, though the moon would fall again in more than thirty years.
  • People emerged from the Alternate Space and looked bewilderedly over the battered New World.

Ch. 495Infinite Energy and a New Throne

After defeating Imu, Shane claimed the Empty Throne, absorbed the Devil Fruit Tree, and ordered scientists to prepare the world for future disasters with new technology and infinite energy. He then withdrew to sleep on the giant tree in the sky, leaving Kaido and the others to carry out his plans.

  • Shane uprooted the incomplete Devil Fruit Tree, compressed it into a fruit, and swallowed it, beginning to refine its powers alongside the God's Tree within him.
  • Shane ordered Caesar, Queen, Judge, Stussy, and Vegapunk to advance science, replicate the Mother Flame, and build battleships and mechanical guards for the coming catastrophe.
  • Shane told his old friends he would sleep until they were ready to meet again, and Kaido worried that he might not wake for eight hundred years.
  • Shane tossed Joy Boy's straw hat to Kaido, then ascended to the giant tree in the sky as a storm shielded it from view.
  • Shane sat alone on the Empty Throne and dreamed of three years earlier, while Roger wondered whether the place where Shane slept had become a new Laugh Tale.

Ch. 496The approaching apocalypse

After Shane defeated Imu and the Devil Tree, he left the world’s rebuilding to others, while Vegapunk and Dr. Clover warned that the Blue Planet faced an inevitable catastrophe when the moon fell. The survivors began planning technological breakthroughs and choosing their futures, and the seas entered a long period of peace.

  • Dragon explained that Shane’s overwhelming power made him an unseen ruler whose return would keep the world in line.
  • Vegapunk, Dr. Clover, and Tsuru described the Blue Planet’s coming cycle of destruction and said survival would require escaping the planet or enduring the disaster with powerful technology.
  • Caesar praised the Mother Flame as a source of limitless energy, and Stussy led the scientists back to Hachinosu to pursue technological breakthroughs.
  • Stussy told Whitebeard that Hachinosu would build an orphanage, while Golden Lion chose Sky Island, Roger worked on modifying the Oro Jackson, and Kaido set off to challenge powerful figures.
  • Kong appointed Linlin as a Headquarters Admiral, and the seas enjoyed a long period of peace as powerful figures sometimes gathered on Sky Island to compete.

Ch. 497Please, wake up

Ten years after Shane fell asleep, a transformed world watched Roger face execution in Loguetown as the old powers gathered. Roger revealed that God had left everything at Mary Geoise, launching the great age of Sky Island while he silently pleaded for Shane to wake.

  • Over ten years, the seas and society were rebuilt with advanced technology, while Pacifistas and Sea Kings drove piracy from the oceans and into the skies.
  • Roger’s scheduled execution in Loguetown drew curious young fighters and legends including the God's Shichibukai, Golden Lion Shiki, Whitebeard Newgate, Kaido of the Beasts, and the fleet admirals.
  • As thunder roared, the crowd questioned Roger about his strength and demanded to know the location of his riches and authority.
  • Roger told the crowd to find Mary Geoise, where God had left everything, setting off the great age of Sky Island.
  • Roger silently begged Shane to wake because the world needed his power.

Ch. 498Those who sought God

Roger’s words about God prompted Sengoku, Tsuru, and Zephyr to warn that technological dependence was eroding humanity’s strength and leaving the world unprepared for destruction. They resolved to create a new age of prosperity and find and awaken Shane, while Golden Lion Shiki departed and the crowd grew eager to uncover the truth.

  • In Loguetown, Roger’s claim that God existed sparked questions about Mary Geoise and the forgotten history of the world.
  • Roger warned that technological weapons and comforts were diminishing humanity’s Haki, Devil Fruit awakenings, and spirit of adventure.
  • Sengoku and Tsuru described the disappearance of Caesar, Queen, Stussy, Judge, and Vegapunk, and feared their research into increasingly advanced Pacifistas and artificial intelligence could make humans machines’ pets.
  • Golden Lion Shiki dismissed the concern, saying people should pursue the lives they enjoyed, but Zephyr warned that civilization was counting down to destruction while everyone remained complacent.
  • Zephyr revealed that an earlier attempt to warn the public had ended in panic and memory erasure, and Sengoku called for a new age of prosperity to help the world find and awaken Shane.
  • Shiki flew away with his crew, while people in Loguetown became eager to uncover what had happened ten years earlier.

Ch. 499God's daughter, Robin

In Foosha Village, Roger and Garp discussed Shane’s hidden plans after the world learned that a girl named Robin had escaped from God Valley and might come from the City of Heaven. Roger revealed that his crew had long been searching for the City by tracking magnetic-field changes, and the chapter ended with the world awaiting God’s awakening in ten years.

  • Roger, Garp, and Rayleigh discussed Shane’s influence over the world’s current powers and wondered whether even their own actions were part of his plan.
  • A satellite Den Den Mushi reported that a white-haired girl with three Devil Fruits and Haki had escaped from God Valley and might have come from the City of Heaven.
  • The projection identified the girl as God's daughter, Robin, whose appearance resembled someone who had disappeared with Shane.
  • Roger revealed that the City of Heaven could be found by following the magnetic-field changes it left behind, and said his crew had known this since more than twenty years earlier.
  • Roger left to pick up Ace after training, while Garp realized a new storm was beginning and that God would awaken in ten years.

Ch. 500Luffy sets sail

Ten years after Roger revealed God and the City of Heaven, Luffy set out to find them in a world where their history had faded into legend. Garp revealed that the world had only two years left to survive and asked whether the Fifth-Generation Pacifista had appeared.

  • Luffy left Foosha Village, saying he would find the City of Heaven and wake God to grant his wish.
  • Luffy explained that D was in his name and offered the rescued Moss Head Swordsman the same name; the swordsman accepted it as a symbol of goodwill.
  • The swordsman and Luffy fought a powerful Marine wielding a High-Tech Nano Battle Axe and defeated him.
  • Garp kicked the imprisoned swordsman into the sea, then told Bogard that the world could survive for only two more years and their strength was insufficient to leave the star system.
  • Garp asked whether the Fifth-Generation Pacifista had appeared.
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