"Huff, huff..." Rayleigh's forehead veins bulged, and he breathed heavily, his chest heaving. Seeing Noah and his group appear in the distance, his face turned extremely grim.
"I'm just a retired old man, and I've never offended your Liberator Organization. Is it necessary for you to be so ruthless?"
Vic stopped.
Noah slowly walked towards Rayleigh.
Lilian also let Luffy and his two brothers run towards Rayleigh.
The atmosphere grew increasingly oppressive.
What do you want to be when you grow up?
"Nani?" Sabo was taken aback.
Rayleigh's expression changed. " Luffy, don't..."
" Rayleigh, do you want to die right now? I didn't ask you, so shut up!" Noah's icy voice was like a bone-chilling wind.
In that instant, Rayleigh felt as if he were facing death.
No, his Observation Haki was already frantically warning him that if he spoke again, he would die instantly.
Noah turned his head and calmly looked at Luffy, Ace, Sabo: "What do you want to be when you grow up? Or what are your dreams?"
Luffy, instantly fired up, roared in response, "You bastard, I'm going to be the Pirate King! I'll defeat you and avenge my grandfather!"
"Are you sure you want to become the Pirate King?" Noah asked again very seriously.
"That's right!" Luffy replied without hesitation.
The next second, Noah's iron sand instantly wrapped around and bound Luffy's body.
Rayleigh brandished his sword, but was restrained by Vic. He could only anxiously shout, "Lord Noah, Luffy is just a child, he was just joking..."
Die! Die with your ridiculous dreams!
The iron sand tightened instantly, squeezing hard all over Luffy's body.
"Ahhh... I... I'm going to become... the Pirate King!"
Boom! Luffy's body erupted with a terrifying Conqueror's Haki, even causing a spatial tremor in the underworld, with white light and lightning spreading in all directions.
Knock knock knock...
A sound like drumbeats echoed in the empty inner world.
Luffy's hair and clothes began to turn white, and white ribbons wrapped around his body.
"Hahaha... this is so funny..."
Noah laughed, " Nika, the Sun God?"
A hint of joy flashed in Rayleigh's eyes. "Is this the Child of Prophecy?"
" Nika, the Sun God?" Lilian was eager to try, and terrifying light and heat began to emanate from her body.
Luffy laughed loudly, looking at Noah: "I'm going to knock you away!"
"Hahaha... Nika! I'd like to see how much Conqueror's Haki you still have sealed inside your fruit!" Noah instantly activated his Awakening Strong-Strong Fruit.
Strength Amplification! Thousandfold Strength!
boom!
Luffy's stomach twisted and caved in instantly, and his body flew backward for more than ten kilometers.
The next moment.
Knock knock knock...
The Drums of Liberation grew increasingly rapid, and Conqueror's Haki erupted wildly. Luffy laughed as he did a sit-up, "Hahaha... I feel incredibly powerful!"
"Yeah?"
Iron Sand Hell! Meat Grinder!
Iron sand, imbued with Conqueror's Haki, enveloped Luffy.
Luffy lifted the ground, attempting to use his ability to rubberize the environment.
However, Noah's attack speed was too fast.
Left with no other choice, Luffy had to use Armament Haki to cover his entire body before rushing towards Noah from mid-air.
" Bone Balloon! Iron Fist!"
Seeing the Armament Haki and Conqueror's Haki constantly emanating from Luffy's body, Noah knew that this was the power transformed from the Human-Human Fruit, Model: Nika using the power of faith.
" Magnetic Field Rotation - Reverse Fist!"
Fists collided.
The enormous, jet-black bone fist resembled a deflated balloon.
Before Luffy could react, Noah had already appeared above him and punched him on the head.
Boom! Luffy's head was smashed into his chest cavity, but the properties of rubber prevented him from dying.
The next second, Noah grabbed Luffy's arm.
" Heat Absorption!"
Using the power of the Temperature-Temperature Fruit, Luffy's body heat was instantly drained, and every cell in his body was frozen due to the loss of heat.
However, the drumbeat within its body continued stubbornly.
Boom! A fist, imbued with Conqueror's Haki, struck Noah's face, but Noah remained completely still.
"Has it finally come out? Nika the Sun God!"
"Hahaha... Junior, why did you do this?" Nika, who had taken over Luffy's body, laughed, but his eyes were filled with cold killing intent.
"Because I dislike fate, and even more so, I dislike the existence of another god! Let me see how much power you still have!"
The two fists, wreathed in Conqueror's Haki, collided once more.
boom!
Rayleigh, watching from afar, had a conflicted expression. "That fruit actually has its own will?"
Vic, who was keeping an eye on Rayleigh, sneered, "Hahaha... How laughable. Is that brat still himself? He's nothing but the shell of the Sun God Nika."
Rayleigh was speechless.
" Luffy..." Ace trembled all over.
Sabo, however, became somewhat hysterical, roaring at Lilian and Joshua, "Aren't you the Liberators? Why are you attacking us? I'm a member of the Revolutionary Army too!"
Joshua coldly looked at the blond brat. "It's very simple. Our conflict is irreconcilable. Garp was killed by us, the Liberators. Red-Haired Shanks and the Red Hair Pirates were also wiped out by our organization. And the Kuja Pirates outside were also wiped out by us. So, can we let bygones be bygones for that brat named Monkey D. Luffy?"
"What?!" Rayleigh clenched his fists. " Shiki is one of yours! Impossible, he won't submit to you..."
Joshua coldly continued, "Now we're going to eliminate them completely. As that brat's sworn brothers and mentors, what do you have to say?"
"We..." Sabo was speechless for a moment. He knew Luffy's personality; clearly, the conflict between the two was irreconcilable and would only end with the complete death of one of them.
Meanwhile, the battle in the distance intensified.
Even though Nika was resurrected through Luffy's body using the Impure World Reincarnation technique, and also mobilized the Conqueror's Haki sealed within his Devil Fruit, as well as the power of faith accumulated over thousands of years, he still couldn't defeat Noah.
Because Noah not only became a god among men, but he could also borrow the Awakening power of the 22 Major Arcana Apostle.
" Heat Absorption!"
" Solar Furnace!"
Noah absorbed the heat released by Nika with his left hand, while manipulating bacteria and corrosive power with his right.
" Corrosive Bacteria!"
Sizzle...
Nika watched as the Armament Haki armor on his body began to show pitted and corroded spots, then suddenly expanded and exploded.
" Thermal Expansion! Blower!"
A shockwave of heat spread in all directions, blowing away the surrounding Corrosive Bacteria.
" Fist of Destruction!"
" Sun Fist!"
Nika's fist, brimming with terrifying heat, met the attack head-on.
Boom! Nika was sent flying more than ten kilometers away, his left hand shattered, but he quickly used Life Return and Armament Haki to repair his arm.
Whew...
'This is bad. This body's life force is being rapidly depleted. This can't go on.' Nika could already sense that Luffy's lifespan was rapidly dwindling.
How much longer can your body hold out?
Noah's cold voice drifted slowly from not far away.
"Junior, what kind of Devil Fruit User are you?" At this moment, Nika also began to take Noah seriously. In ancient times, he had come into contact with most Devil Fruit User, but he had never seen a user with such comprehensive abilities as Noah.
"I don't have the habit of explaining things to dead people."
In an instant, a fist had already smashed into Nika's face.