Rumble~
To escape the giant snake's brutal attack, Robin chose to leave temporarily. After a while, she returned to the spot, but saw no trace of the two people and the deer.
"This is a real headache." Robin, wearing a hat and resting her cheek on her right hand, exuded an intellectual beauty even when troubled. She sighed, "It would be alright if I were the only one alone."
If everyone gets separated from the group, that cute little guy named Chopper will be very scared.
There's no need to worry about the other two...
"What should we do? Let's just wait for them at our destination."
Although it's highly unlikely they'll actually see him, given their terrible sense of direction, it's still a good thing they managed to catch Chopper.
She chose to travel alone.
The Shrine of God.
"Have they reached the bottom yet?"
Enel lay back in the chair, asking with a happy expression.
"Yes, they are already waiting, led by the three priests' trials, plus fifty divine soldiers led by the chief of the divine soldiers—that's the whole force mobilized."
A hint of confusion crossed the attendant's face. "God, is it really necessary to be so cautious? The opponents are just the Shandians and a few Blue Sea people."
"Hahahaha, festivals are meant to be lively, and you're underestimating the potential of aerial combat."
Enel wore a knowing smile, as if he had everything under control.
"Potential?" the attendant asked, puzzled.
"Yes, that's right, you'll see soon enough, hahahahaha, we have fifty divine soldiers and three divine officials, fifty-four people in total including myself. There are twenty Shandians have come, six people from the Blue Sea who have entered the forest, and a retreat team of four, no, three, I think."
Enel counted the number of people with his right hand and held a banana in his left, asking the maid to peel it for him. "That old man is no longer able to fight. There are eighty-three people in total. This is a chaotic battle that will determine whether we survive or not."
Hahaha, after three hours, how many people will be left? Give me your guesses!
The maid said coquettishly, "Honestly, you always play those kinds of games..."
"Whatever! You guess?"
Enel said with a grin.
"Oh, I don't understand," the maid replied truthfully.
Enel, eating a banana, said with a rather displeased expression, "Just guess based on your feeling. Fine, you give it a try."
The bearded attendant who was called upon spoke up, "Well, putting aside the three priests, those fifty divine soldiers are also very strong and will not be easily defeated."
However, the enemy seems to be evenly matched with the priests in strength. If there are three hours left, thirty people will be defeated, meaning that about fifty people will remain.
Enel swallowed the banana, holding the peel in his hand, and said, "Hahaha, I see, fifty people."
However, wouldn't that be too naive? You're underestimating this battle!
"So, God, what are your thoughts?"
The servants dared not contradict this capricious god.
"Alright, I'll tell you!"
Enel sat up, raised his hand, and said, "In three hours, only five of these people will be able to stand on this island."
The battle has begun in the forest below.
boom.
A cannonball whizzed past his face, but the Shura, Knight of the Sky, riding the giant bird, snorted coldly. His three-zhang-long bird, sitting Fuza, flapped its wings in perfect harmony, easily dodging the cannonball.
Shura's spear instantly swung towards a Shandia warrior, though the warrior managed to barely defend against it with his shield.
However, as Shura unleashed a pillar of fire from his lance, the warrior was instantly engulfed in flames.
"Everyone be careful, that's the Shura, Knight of the Sky!"
"The area he is in contains String Cloud that are difficult to see with the naked eye, yet are extremely resilient. Do not approach him."
Whoosh, the answer to the Shandia warrior was a flame that stretched for over ten meters.
Shura sat on Fuza giant bird, which straddled the battlefield and spewed out a long stream of flames, forcing the warriors to retreat.
There's a flaw.
With a swoop, the giant bird beneath Shura swooped down, and the lance in his hand flashed like a cold light, instantly piercing through the stomach of a Shandia warrior who was dodging the flames.
Just as the opponent struggled to attack, the spear swung and sent the warrior flying.
"Damn it, we're surrounded by String Cloud, our speed is drastically reduced here."
Bang! Bang!
Braham, the leader of the Shandia warriors wielding dual pistols, raised his hand and fired two flashbangs, the intense white light blinding everyone.
He tried to block Shura's gaze, but from within the white light came the roar of another leader, Kha'Zix with a mohawk and sunglasses.
"Don't use the Flash Dial..."
puff!
"Hahaha, fools, you weaklings without any Mantra actually dare to try to restrict me using a method that no one can see?"
With the sound of Shura's mocking laughter and being pierced echoing from within the white light, another Shandia warrior fell.
"I'm not stupid," Braham calmly after firing the shot. "You're the one who fell for the trap."
In the blinding white light, a figure swooped down towards Shura at high speed, a shield in one hand and a rocket launcher in the other—it was their leader, Wyper.
Did you think I wouldn't notice?
Shura snorted coldly; his Mantra had already noticed the great warrior rushing towards him at high speed.
Confident in himself, he charged straight at his opponent without flinching.
However, because his eyes were blurred, he did not immediately see the other party voluntarily discard their shield and weapon.
puff!
The sound of the flaming lance piercing through flesh startled even Shura himself. Why didn't he defend?
With his shoulder pierced by a lance, Wyper reached out and firmly grabbed Shura's shoulder, while simultaneously pressing his other hand against Shura's chest.
" Impact Dial?"
Even so, the priest Shura still didn't think he would lose.
He immediately used his other arm, which was not holding a gun, to block the other person's hand, only to suffer minor damage from the Impact Dial.
It was utterly insignificant to him.
"Wrong, it should be 'Reject Dial )."
From the deep, hoarse voice came an irresistible, immense force, like a roaring river or a collapsing mountain.
Before Shura could react, a dull, thunderous impact rang out.
Katcha!
With a cracking sound, the arm that Shura had been using to block his way broke instantly. The shattered arm was pressed against his chest by Wyper's palm, causing his ribs to snap in a series of rapid cracking sounds. He coughed up blood and crashed to the ground like a cannonball.
Boom!
As Shura slammed into the ground, a crater the size of a house was created in the ground.
The unconscious figure in the pit was the first loser of this celebration.
This is the first flaw of Mantra: what good is the ability to predict attacks?
As long as we can't stop it!
" Wyper, you can't keep using the Reject Dial) anymore, your body can't take it!"
"Shut up, didn't we already prepare for this?" Wyper retorted, completely unconcerned about his wounds.
"What's a mere shoulder?"
Ignoring the piercing wound the size of a bowl, Wyper picked up the weapon from the ground and said, "Now that the priest is no longer fixated on the trial, if we continue forward, we'll be trapped in the same trial."
"The situation is bad. We should split up and meet at the Shrine of God."
With a resolute expression, Wyper led the way, leaving the area and venturing into the forest.
The silent forest suddenly became lively.
Robin walked along the tree roots as thick as the ground, glanced back, and said, "What a commotion. What happened?"
"Forget it." She wasn't interested in those things and turned to look at the ancient ruins in front of her, buildings that were almost blending into the forest.
"Is it alright to stay in the forest? I hope the city ruins there are intact."
She murmured to herself and continued walking forward.
Smack
A figure descended from the sky and landed on a stone tablet; it was a soldier under Enel, known as a divine weapon.
A mobile suit equipped with Breath Dial on its feet and Slash Dial in its hands.
"Woman, this road leads to the Shrine of God; you are not allowed to go any further."
The beautiful woman's presence prevented the divine soldiers from attacking immediately.
Robin, unmoved, looked up and snapped, "Get down from there! Don't you understand the immense value of these ruins?"
"Huh? What did you say? If you don't want to leave, I have no choice but to obey God's command and use this Slash Dial on the Shandians and you Blue Sea people..."
Before the divine soldier could even finish his lines, six arms sprouted from his feet, waist, shoulders, and the back of his neck, all twisting together with force.
" Seis Fleur, Twist."
Yes, it instantly becomes a physical Twist.
Fortunately, Robin wasn't a bloodthirsty person, which prevented the divine weapon from being defeated and killed.
"This is..."
Wiping away the vines covering the stone tablet in front of him, Robin carefully read the ancient text.
"The city's monument? Shandora?... It was a prosperous city in the 402nd year of the Sea Calendar, 1100 years ago, and it perished 800 years ago."
"This corresponds exactly to the Void Century,' a period of history erased by the government. Perhaps this island..."
Robin's lifeless heart suddenly stirred with excitement; perhaps the lost Poneglyph on Earth could be found here.
She can unravel the mystery of the blank century!
"Who?" Robin suddenly turned his head and looked behind him.
"Indeed, it is someone special," the tall, imposing soldier leaped over and chuckled, "A lovely little girl."
"So it was you who easily wiped out my divine weapon?"
The three-meter-tall, three-meter-waisted superhuman glancing at the superhuman lying to the side with his eyes rolled back, and at Nico Robin holding a notebook and a pen.
"I just took down a Shandia chieftain, and then I unexpectedly ran into an interesting woman from the Blue Sea."
Faced with the captain of the divine weapon who was in an offensive stance, Robin simply put away her paper and pen and pointed at him.
"Under your feet."
"Underfoot?"
Looking at the ruins that had been trampled out of the wasteland by the enormous weight of his fall from the sky, the divine soldier chief Yama looked bewildered.
"You think you can distract me by being mysterious?"
"Don't underestimate me just because I'm not a priest. It's only because I haven't mastered the Mantra yet. In terms of strength, I'm no match for a priest!"
"..." Robin wanted to say that wasn't the reason, but she didn't, and sighed softly, "Forget it, discussing the importance of history with a brute like you is like casting pearls before swine."
Yama didn't understand the words, but he knew he was being mocked, and he immediately flew into a rage, shouting, "Insolence! Take this Ten Consecutive Slashes combo!"
With a light leap, its body, weighing several hundred pounds, suddenly pounced.
At the same time, Yama pulled out ten Slash Dial with both hands, equivalent to ten swordsmen charging up and slashing at the same time. Just as he himself said, this divine soldier captain was by no means weak.
Facing Yama charging towards them like a tank of flesh, Robin raised an eyebrow, glanced at the ruins, and said, "Don't you have any reverence for history?"
"A real man never dwells on the past. If you like it so much, then disappear with that bunch of junk!"
Yama's words enraged Robin, and she crossed her arms.
A circle of arms appeared around Yama as he lunged forward, two hands blindfolding him, while the other hands deftly Twist the Slash Dial in his hand.
"Hey, wait a minute!"
Ten fierce slashes shot out from the shells, attacks capable of splitting rocks and shattering stones instantly striking their owners.
Having taken a hit from his own Ten Consecutive Slashes combo, Yama collapsed to the ground, his massive body sliding limply forward until he crashed into a nearby tree.
Smack
Several arms hoisted Yama, whose face was covered in blood, up, while Robin stood with one hand on his hip, reprimanding the brute in front of him.
"Although history is cyclical, it is precisely because we remember history that humanity has been able to develop and move forward."
Yama looked pained and said, "I understand, I won't do it again, please forgive me."
"I will never forgive you," Robin replied solemnly.
"Hmm... In that case, I'll kill you!"
Seeing that pleading for mercy was useless, Yama immediately turned to murder in a fit of rage. Just as his right hand grabbed Robin's waist, it was immediately pulled back.
She turned around calmly.
Kacha, Kacha.
"Aaaaaah!!!"
Arms reappeared on the captain's shoulders, grabbing his fingers and twisting them backward.
Unless the difference in strength is so great that it's like an ant trying to shake a tree, humanoid creatures can only obediently surrender in front of this intelligent beauty wearing a cowboy hat.
"Get lost."
"A Hundred Flowers in Full Bloom: Delphinium!"
She crossed her arms.
Arms raised towards the sky appeared on the ground, forming a series of tracks.
The obese captain was like a sphere hurtling along above, rolling all the way to the edge of the island with a long, drawn-out scream, before being tossed outwards by the arms.
Begin practicing freefall exercises.
"That's really going too far." Robin still couldn't forgive that guy for destroying the ruins, and turned to walk deeper into the ruins.
"Interesting."
A flash of lightning, and a figure appeared high above the ruins. Enel sat Fuza on a tree branch. "This woman's power..."
She might be one of the last five standing.
"There's still a little while, so let God enjoy your struggling dance one more time."
As he spoke, he felt something was strange; there were clearly two more voices, so why couldn't he find them?
Where did it go?
Oh well, everything will be destroyed when the final celebration arrives.
Enel's relaxed expression turned cruel.