Black thunderclouds rapidly spread across the sky, with layers of enchanting electric snakes spreading and darting through the gaps in the clouds.
What is that?
Nami tilted her head back, her eyes calm. So much had happened today that she had lost all sense of shock.
My mind is filled with one thought; it seems like anything can happen without me having to worry about it.
"Those are thunderclouds." Enel explained to the two with a hint of pride, " The Ark Maxim is powered by me, releasing thunderclouds containing extremely strong electric currents. The energy of these clouds will continue to increase and slowly shroud Angel Island and the Upper Yard in darkness."
Finally, at my command, I transformed into countless bolts of lightning, reducing this place to ashes.
Enel said, waving his hand, "That's it."
A bolt of lightning struck the thunderclouds.
In an instant, the lightning, which had been fine, gathered together like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea, forming a long, bright, and dazzling chain of lightning like a waterfall, which crashed down.
"Hahaha~"
Enel let out a delighted laugh.
Nami asked in shock, "What did you do?"
"It's nothing, just playing a prank on the angels."
Enel answered calmly.
Luffy shouted, "Does being a god give you the right to take everything away from others?"
"That's right, even life and the earth are the same."
Enel replied coldly, not wanting to continue the small talk, "The celebration is ready, and as an uninvited guest, it's time for you to bow and leave!"
"OK,"
Luffy, covered in blood, bared his teeth and looked fearlessly at the big-eared man opposite him.
"Just get out of here in your spaceship right now."
"We finally made it to the Sky Island, and now there's thunder and dark clouds. I haven't even told Uncle Diamondface that we found the City of Gold, and that he beat my companion up like that."
"That won't do! I'm a god!"
Enel stretched his shoulders, his eyes suddenly turned cold, and lightning flashed as he thrust out his golden Trident, leaving only a blur in his wake.
Luffy immediately launched a counterattack, Enel surprisingly released his grip, discarding his weapons during this crucial close-quarters battle.
Enel took Luffy's punch head-on, grabbed his arm, and flew backward. It was clear that he deliberately chose to retreat and deflect the force at that moment.
" Lightning Metallurgy!"
The liquid-like gold not only absorbed the impact on Enel, but also bypassed him and surged towards Luffy.
Luffy's expression changed, and he tried to retreat, but his Riot Games was immediately enveloped in gold.
"Hot! Hot! Hot! My hand!!"
The entire Riot Games was integrated into the gold. Fortunately, the gold formed quickly, otherwise, it wouldn't have been just a hot object.
In that case, the roles of offense and defense have already reversed.
Clang.
A huge golden ball landed on the deck of the ark and was kicked aside by Enel.
"Phew~~ Hahaha."
"What are you laughing at? Ah, I can't pull it out!"
Luffy tried his best to kick the golden ball away from his arm, but he couldn't get it off no matter what he did.
Enel smiled, realizing his mistake. "I am a supreme god; there's no need for me to lower myself to the level of a monkey like you from the Blue Sea."
As he spoke, he couldn't help but catch his breath a few times; his physical strength was nearing its limit.
Fortunately, the script proceeded according to his plan.
"You bastard! Keep fighting me!"
Luffy shouted, feeling that this man had no backbone at all.
Enel scoffed, "I refuse."
"What if you turn around and bite me? Wouldn't that be a bad deal?"
" Lightning Flash."
Although Enel's lightning and all his derivative abilities cannot harm Luffy, they can be transformed into shockwaves that affect the golden sphere, sending the massive sphere crashing into the ark.
"This golden ball is a reward for your strength."
Glug glug~~
The giant golden ball rolled onto the ark, and the immense force acted on Luffy. Although Luffy used his other hand to desperately cling to the deck, preventing himself from falling, he managed to stay afloat.
"As long as you are restricted, no one can oppose me."
Enel spoke lightly, but he was already afraid inside.
Actually, after he sealed Luffy's hand with gold, the best thing he should have done was to press his advantage.
However, for the first time in my life, I was driven to the brink of despair, for the first time I was beaten so badly, for the first time...
Too many unexpected events have led this man, who considers himself a god, to choose a cowardly way of dealing with things.
" The Maxim Ark will never fall."
Enel spread his arms wide, "I will journey to my own Fairy Vearth."
"As for you, you will join the entire Upper Yard in bombarding Blue Sea. I am invincible!"
"What a joke! There are countless powerful monsters in the ocean below that are stronger than you!"
Luffy yelled, "Someone like you!"
"Shut up," Enel casually unleashed a bolt of lightning that shattered the deck.
"You bastard!" Luffy was dragged off the spaceship by the golden ball.
" Luffy!"
Nami gasped in surprise.
Enel was about to speak when the woman in front of him suddenly vanished. "?! Is that so? So you guys didn't die. Whatever, escaping down there was just a preparation for death."
"Doctor, I need a doctor."
Chopper, covered in wounds and leaning on a wooden staff, arrived at the ruins. His shouting as he walked made Shiraishi raise his eyelids.
Is this the legendary saying that a doctor cannot heal himself?
"What a coincidence, we also need medical treatment."
Sanji, charred black, appeared on one side of the woods, Sanji Usopp was also charred black, startling Chopper so much that he quickly dropped his stick.
"Ahhhhh, put him down quickly, I'm going to give him CPR."
"Ahem, Chopper, I see Tang."
"Don't die, Usopp!"
Haha, aren't you guys full of energy?
Shiraishi laughed and lowered Nami from his arms to the ground.
"Hmm." Zoro, with his abnormal physique, and Wyper, the great warrior of Shandia, also woke up.
"Mr. Shiraishi, now is not the time to laugh. We must shoot that ship down immediately!"
Nami urgently sought help.
"Don't rush, leave it to him."
Shiraishi looked to the other side, where a huge golden sphere rolled in.
That looks so familiar... Nami's eyes transformed from Belly's to, " Luffy!!"
"That big-eared monster is really awful; he got this huge lump of gold into my hands."
Luffy complained, "Couldn't you just take it down?"
He glanced at Shiraishi as he said this.
Don't you think this is a great weapon?
Shiraishi answered by spreading his hands.
"I see." Luffy suddenly understood, then frowned. "The question is, how do we get up there?"
boom.
A bolt of lightning as thick as a water vat struck not far away, Nami, Chopper, and the newly awakened Usopp tremble.
Lightning flashed and thunder roared as dazzling beams of light crashed down, relentlessly ravaging the land thousands of meters above the ground.
Faced with such a terrifying disaster, it felt like the end of the world.
Usopp said in a trembling voice, "Well, let's find a safe place..."
Where is there a safe place now?
Shiraishi shrugged and pointed to the huge vines beside him, "Only by defeating that guy can we be safe."
This vine runs through the entire Sky Island, extending high into the sky; if used as a bridge, it would certainly work.
"Oh!" Luffy didn't wait for Shiraishi to finish speaking before dragging the golden ball and running along the vines.
"Hey, wait a minute, I told Nami to ride the Waver for you."
Shiraishi's words failed to reach Luffy's ears.
Dark clouds loomed overhead, accompanied by flashes of lightning and thunder.
" Mamaragan!"
Enel, standing atop the Ark Maxim, spread his arms wide, his face filled with rapture.
"See? This is the true power of God."
"Prostrate yourselves before my omnipotent power, mortals, and be mercilessly destroyed by me, yahahahaha~"
"Run!"
"Everyone, run! This country is about to be destroyed!"
On Angel Island, everyone rushed to the port.
If they were still skeptical of Conis's words before, then the indiscriminate lightning strikes falling from the sky now serve as the best wake-up call.
If you don't want to die, run!
"Hurry, get to the end of the clouds!" "Forget about supplies, lives are the most important!"
"Set sail! Set sail!"
" The White Berets is still in the city..."
On the other side of the Upper Yard, in a place that forms a triangle with Angel Island.
In the Hidden Cloud Village, nestled among the clouds, the chieftain sensed something was wrong and ordered, "Everyone, leave the village immediately!"
"But, Chieftain," the warriors who went to war have not yet returned.
"Yeah, Wyper, Kha'Zix, Braham, Raki..."
"They, they..."
"Everyone, get on the boat and leave the village immediately."
The chief reiterated his order, "They are warriors, not children who need protection!"
Boom!
A bolt of Lightning Flash as thick as a bucket crashed down. Seeing Enel's signature ability land on the village, the Shandians of Hidden Cloud Village no longer hesitated.
"Let's go!" "Sail out of the boat!" "Everyone, get on board!"
Due to the lack of supplies, Shandia had little luggage to prepare and simply ran towards the sea of clouds outside.
"Chief, you should get on the ship quickly too!"
As more and more thunderbolts fell, the old chieftain, draped in a wolf's skin, turned to look at the warrior statue in the center of the village.
That was Kalgara, the great warrior who made a promise to Noland, an adventurer from the Blue Sea, four hundred years ago.
He vowed to forever light the lamp of Shandora for Noland, the expedition's admiral and botanist, who had saved all of Shandia from Tree Fever, guiding his friend's return.
However, when Shandora was swept into the air by the giant Knock Up Stream at an altitude of 10,000 meters, she faced the surging Angel Island warriors.
The warrior, already severely wounded in the Knock Up Stream, fought to the death, only to fall to the blades and spears...
From then on, the light of Shandora was extinguished for 400 years.
"How ironic,"
The old chieftain looked at the thunderclouds filling the sky above. The place where the most Lightning Flash struck was not their Hidden Cloud Village, but rather the Angel Island side that served the gods.
"Two races that fought for four hundred years were ultimately wiped out by a single, willful individual."
Faced with the ever-twisting and accumulating lightning in the sky, and the thunderbolts crashing down, both Shinobi Island and Hidden Cloud Village had no choice but to flee in terror.
"Please bless us, Great Kalgara..."
"Yay hahaha~~~"
The wild laughter echoed in the air, and the Lightning Flash constantly falling around him made the person who laughed appear like a god or a demon.
"That's it, that's right!"
Enel looked down, and although the ground was as small as an anthill filled with hot water, his Mantra was filled with clear sounds of crying, wailing, pleading, and despair.
"This is the sky, the realm of the gods. People, trees, soil—everything is in the way!"
Hiss, Enel suddenly felt a stinging pain in his body and frowned.
"And those monkeys from the Blue Sea."
Even after being struck down by his own lightning, this group of blasphemous fools showed no fear whatsoever.
"I'll show you what true despair is."
"Hey, am I seeing things?"
Usopp rubbed his eyes hard, pointing at the void in disbelief, "What the hell is that?"
"Yes, you're not seeing things."
Shiraishi nodded, "Anyone who isn't blind can see it."
Above Angel Island, amidst the pitch-black thunderclouds, an enormous, jet-black ball of lightning slowly condensed and detached from the clouds.
The lightning sphere, hundreds of meters in diameter, was enormous; its mere appearance immediately drew the attention of everyone and everything.
Destruction, death, and utter helplessness—these were the only thoughts on everyone's mind upon seeing this black ball of lightning.
Within that giant ball of lightning, one could vaguely see countless bolts of lightning flashing and crackling, as if it contained all of nature's lightning in a condensed form.
"Hey, hey, hey, no way."
Sanji didn't even notice when the cigarette he was holding fell to the ground. "Are all the monsters on the Grand Line like this?"
Crocodile had only been on the Grand Line for a month, controlled a sandstorm that swept across thousands of miles.
Before them stood Enel, wielding the destructive power of thunder, and various monsters took turns appearing, nearly forcing the Straw Hat Pirates's nerves to steel.
Zoro gripped the hilt of his sword, gritting his teeth. He was barely capable of cutting through steel, and the Calamity before him was blatantly telling him, "Can your sword cut through lightning?"
"Don't panic, it's not a big problem."
All around, Lightning Flash as thick as buckets rained down, and not far away, a giant, pitch-black ball of lightning slowly descended.
At this point, Shiraishi remained the most relaxed. He had no intention of stopping it; only disaster could make people abandon their original barriers. Let Enel, their common enemy, resolve the conflict between Angel Island and the Shandians.
"That's what we're watching Luffy's performance for."
"Hahaha, Kong belongs to me!"
"Those who still won't give up, just watch from below! My power is terrifying!"
Enel swung his arm downwards, and the jet-black lightning ball in the air suddenly fell down.
" Raigo!!"
The blinding light, the melting heat, and the tearing shockwaves completely engulfed and swallowed the entire island.
All the buildings collapsed instantly, ships turned into floating duckweed that flew, burned, and evaporated in the air, the atmosphere wailed, the clouds trembled, and the entire Cumuloregalis was enduring the pain of destruction.
White filled the entire field of vision, silence filled the ears, and trembling permeated everything.
A few seconds... maybe ten seconds... or even several tens of seconds later, everyone finally regained their sight, only to find emptiness before them, nothing at all.
The entire Angel Island vanished without a trace in the Lightning Flash, and a massive shockwave pierced through the clouds, proclaiming to everything what ultimate destruction truly meant.
Enel's power shocked the inhabitants of Angel Island and also the Straw Hat Pirates in Upper Yard.
Shiraishi turned to look at the people standing under the giant vines beside him. "What spectacular fireworks! What are your thoughts?"
"I want to go home."
Usopp was in tears, longing for the young lady who was waiting for him back home, wondering if he would ever see her again in this lifetime, and so on.
He grabbed Shiraishi's leg and cried out, "When danger comes, you must save me first!"
"Calm down," Sanji said, reaching for the cigarette but not realizing it was lit by the mouthpiece.
"Don't worry, Luffy can handle it."
Shiraishi raised his head, preparing for the banquet afterwards.