In the depths of darkness, Imu sat on a stone seat.
He had been using the Black Turn Domination to observe the battle situation in Elbaf.
As the Holy Knights were defeated one by one, the Five Elders also began to retreat in defeat.
The giant warriors began to slowly assemble.
Defeat in this war was only a matter of time.
Imu tapped the armrest of the stone seat lightly with his fingers.
The air Flower Room suddenly cooled down.
A layer of white frost had formed on the walls, and even the candle flame had shrunk to the size of a small blue dot.
" Joy Boy! Eight hundred years ago, you wore the same smile, trying to overturn everything."
Imu whispered, his voice like bubbles rising from the bottom of an abyss, cold and slow.
Looking at Luffy's smiling face through the Black Turn Domination, Imu slowly stood up.
A long black robe trailed across the ground like the night sky, and wherever it passed, the patterns on the stone slabs seemed to be activated by some force, gleaming with a dark light.
He walked towards the deepest part of the Flower Room.
There was an ancient altar there, the patterns on the stone pulsating like blood vessels, each line wriggling as if it were alive.
Imu placed his hand on the center of the altar.
A beam of black light shot into the sky.
It pierced through the dome among the Flower Room, through the architecture of Mary Geoise, through the rock layers of the Red Line, and shot straight into the sky of the New World.
Dark clouds began to swirl over Elbaf.
The Five Elders also sensed the power emanating from afar.
Their bodies seemed to be injected with new energy; the power of the Black Turn Domination surged, and their bodies began to mutate.
Saint Nusjuro's Kitetsu fully drawn, and countless distorted human faces appeared on the blade, each one screaming silently.
The body of the Saint Warcury swelled to twice its original size, and its skin cracked open, revealing the black scales beneath.
Saint Garling's eyes turned pure black, without a trace of white. Every time he clenched his fist, a portion of the surrounding air would be drawn away.
The Five Elders transformed, revealing their fully Mythical Zoan, shrouded in black mist, like five evil gods crawling out of the abyss.
"They've arrived."
Gaban's pupils constricted.
"This is the true form of Black Turn Domination."
The Five Elders ' strength, speed, and recovery ability increased several times over.
Luffy was blasted hundreds of meters away by Saint Garling's sword, and Zoro's sword Kitetsu with Saint Nusjuro, leaving his entire arm numb.
Sanji's black flames were shattered by a single slap from Saint Warcury.
But Luffy quickly got back up.
His laughter echoed across the battlefield, growing louder and louder.
Black and red Conqueror's Haki Inazuma erupted from his body like a volcano, intertwining with Gaban's purplish-black Inazuma to form a massive Conqueror's Haki barrier.
Zoro's Demonic Aura Nine-Sword Style has reached its peak, with green demonic flames simultaneously appearing on all three swords, intertwined with Conqueror's Haki Inazuma.
Sanji's black flames burned brighter and brighter, and his entire right leg turned into a black Fire Pillar of fire.
The Conqueror's Haki swept over like a tidal wave.
The black mist Black Turn Domination began to dissipate under the impact of the Conqueror's Haki.
The Five Elders ' wounds stopped healing quickly, and for the first time, a look of terror appeared on their faces.
Kitetsu broke half of Saint Nusjuro 'Zoro Kitetsu sword.
Sanji kicked Saint Warcury Sanji the mountainside, where black flames crackled and burned on his body.
Saint Garling was pierced through the chest by Gaban's axe, and black blood gushed from the wound.
For the first time, fear arose in the hearts of the Five Elders.
Their most relied-upon Black Turn Domination was actually pushed to its limit by these "mortals".
Just then, the sky suddenly went dark.
A massive bolt of black lightning descended from the sky, tearing the entire sky above Elbaf apart.
It was as thick as a black stone pillar hanging from the sky. The moment it hit the ground, countless tiny black lightning bolts rained down from the surrounding forest.
The earth was reduced to scorched earth.
A pentagram magic circle slowly appeared in the sky, with black lightning at its five vertices connecting heaven and earth like five chains.
The entire sky seemed to have been forcibly drawn shut with a black curtain, even suppressing the flames.
Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked up at the sky.
Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, Gaban, the giant warriors, and even the CP forces being besieged in the distance all raised their heads.
The Five Elders, who had retreated to a safe position, looked up at the magic circle with expressions of disbelief on their faces.
"This... this is impossible... Imu actually came in person..."
They know best what this means.
Eight hundred years.
Imu never left the Flower Room.
Now, he has arrived.
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The black flames drifted down from the center of the magic circle.
The first blossom landed on an ancient tree that had stood for a thousand years.
The ancient tree did not burn.
Enveloped in black flames, it twisted and deformed silently, its bark cracking like skin, revealing countless tormented human faces through the fissures.
Those faces were screaming, wailing, and silently opening their mouths, like souls forever imprisoned in wood.
Then came the second, the third, the tenth, and the hundredth.
Black flames rained down from the sky.
The entire village was transformed into a tapestry that was torn apart and rewoven.
Houses twisted into claws as they burned, roads writhed like snakes, and even the air was distorted into visible, shrill ripples.
Wherever the black flames passed, everything inanimate came to life, transforming into hideous demonic minions.
The giant warriors used all their strength to resist.
Their swords and axes slashed at the monsters corrupted by black flames, but before the blades even touched the monsters, the black flames had already spread up the blades, burning and burning until even the blades became part of the monsters.
A giant warrior's arm was covered in black flames, and within seconds his entire arm transformed into a tentacle covered in teeth.
He screamed and tried to pull it away with his other hand, but the tentacle turned and bit his throat.
The children collapsed one after another. They were already exhausted from the effects of the Nightmare-Nightmare Fruit, and now, under the aftereffects of Imu's Conqueror's Haki, they didn't even have the strength to stand. One by one, they fell down, their faces pale, their bodies convulsing, as if their souls had been ripped away.
Nami and Chopper desperately dragged the children to safety.
But the black flames drew ever closer, and their escape route grew ever narrower.
" Luffy--!" Nami's scream was almost inaudible amidst the shrieking.
Luffy charged into the black flames.
With all Gear Fifth activated, Conqueror's Haki Inazuma an impenetrable barrier around him.
The black flames crashed against the barrier, making a sizzling sound, like a red-hot Tekkai falling into water.
"Get out of the way!"
His fist slammed out, and black and red Inazuma tore through a patch of black flames.
But more and more black flames fell from the sky, endlessly.
Luffy felt his stamina rapidly depleting.
The duration of the Gear Fifth was incomparable to before; Imu's black flames were like a slow poison, gradually eroding his life force.