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Within Imu's Time Stop domain, only his darkness could still struggle and resist.
At that thought, Blackbeard could not help feeling a burning sense of "destiny"
surge through his chest.
"The Dark-Dark Fruit?"
Imu cast a sidelong glance at Blackbeard, making no effort to conceal the disgust in those eyes.
"What a revolting ability."
-You're one to talk.
The powerful fighters gathered around wore grave expressions, but they could not help sharing the same thought.
When it came to being "revolting"
, what could possibly surpass an ability that froze time at will?
Still, their silent complaints changed nothing.
The flames of war had reached the summit of the Red Line. The last buildings of Mary Geoise stood just behind them, and their enmity with the Celestial Dragons had long since become a matter of life and death.
Other than giving everything they had to drag this "God" of the Celestial Dragons
off the Throne, they had no way back.
"Gum-Gum-"
With Gear Fifth activated, Luffy spun at a speed that defied all reason. His legs stretched into white whiplashes, tearing through the air as they lashed out!
Once again, he brazenly opened the battle.
"Quick!"
"Keep up!"
Somehow, clusters of strangely shaped Pine Trees had sprouted along the nearly vertical cliffs of the Red Line, stubbornly rooting themselves in the cracks.
More than a dozen figures in white coats used those branches as footholds, racing up the cliff.
Sakazuki led the way.
The fighting below the Red Line had already ceased, and the Navy's senior fighting forces were now hurrying toward the Final Battlefield.
Gales tore through the curtain of rain. Within hours, hundreds of thousands of rabble had been reduced to wreckage lying in pools of blood.
Those captains with bounties in the hundreds of millions,