The arrival of Roy and his companions caused the Giant Tribe warriors to feel a significant reduction in pressure.
The demonized giants, now Black Turn Domination, were subdued by Zoro Sanji, who had retreated; some were bound, others knocked down.
Now, bound by Seastone chains by the soldiers of Hachinosu, it can no longer stir up any waves.
Saul led a group of children back, with Robin and Chopper helping him.
"Leave this to us."
The captain of a hundred-man squad from Hachinosu walked up to Saul.
"Lord Roy orders all non-combat personnel to immediately retreat to the safe rear area."
The wounded Giant Tribe are already being evacuated.
Saul nodded, picked up the two children, and walked away.
On the battlefield of the Five Elders, Saint Warcury has been driven mad.
His body was repeatedly blasted by Kaido and Bullet, and the Black Turn Mark on his chest was torn open by Conqueror's Haki Inazuma.
Black blood gushed out like a fountain, and his recovery speed could no longer keep up with the increasing damage.
"How dare you... How dare you..."
The voice of Saint Warcury was forced out of his throat, filled with anger and fear accumulated over eight hundred years.
"Why wouldn't you dare?"
Kaido smashed down with his club, shattering half of Saint Warcury's head.
Black blood and Bone Crusher splattered in all directions, even Kaido was splattered with black blood all over his face.
But Saint Warcury's claws also pierced Kaido's abdomen.
Kaido grunted and swept his dragon tail, sending Saint Warcury flying.
He took two steps back and glanced down at the wound on his abdomen.
The wound was healing, but the black flames still lingered around its edges, slowing down the recovery process.
"That old bastard has so many tricks up his sleeve." Kaido cursed, brandishing his Hassaikai and charging forward again.
On the sea, the three Pluton Battleship have completed the clearing out of the CP fleet.
The explosions on the sea ceased, leaving only a few wrecked ships still crackling and burning, billowing black smoke into the night sky.
Roy looked up at the sky.
The situation on the battlefield has become clear.
The Five Elders are besieged, the entire CP has been wiped out, the Holy Knights have been destroyed, and the Giant Tribe are being evacuated.
Now only one question remains.
Imu.
Boom!
Another deafening roar echoed from the center of the battlefield.
Roy's gaze swept over. Luffy and Loki were simultaneously blasted away by Imu's attack.
Luffy tumbled through the air more than a dozen times, and when he landed, his two legs plowed two scorched furrows into the ground.
Loki barely managed to steady himself by plunging the handle of Iron Thunder's hammer into the ground, and he knelt on the ground, panting heavily.
Imu slowly emerged from the black flames, his black robes mostly torn, but his aura was even stronger than before.
Roy hovered in mid-air, his Observation Haki tightly focused on the battle between Imu, Luffy, and Loki.
When Imu gets serious, he's a completely different person.
Nineteen eye-shaped ribbons unfurled from behind him, shimmering and moving faintly in the air.
The ribbons seemed to have a life of their own; each one had a half-closed eye embedded at its end, gleaming with a cold light in the darkness.
Luffy and Loki were thrown off balance by this sudden change.
An eye on the ribbon opened, and a streak of light shot out, coiling Luffy's right leg like a snake.
Imu's long sword came slashing down, but Luffy desperately pushed off with his left leg.
"What is this thing?!"
Luffy dodged the ribbons while shouting, his body like a piece of paper in a storm, being chased left and right by the black ribbons.
Loki's situation isn't much better.
He tried to smash the ribbons with the Iron Thunder, but just as the hammer was about to fall, two ribbons suddenly disappeared and reappeared wrapped around his wrists.
A feeling of weakness he had never experienced before spread along his wrist, and his grip loosened, almost causing Iron Thunder to slip from his grasp.
"Damn it!" Loki gritted his teeth and forced a tighter grip on the Iron Thunder.
Imu watched the two struggle in the ribbons and snapped his fingers.
A beam of black light shot from an eye on a ribbon and struck the ground.
The ground instantly cracked open, and countless black hands surged out of the cracks, reaching out to grab Luffy and Loki.
"That's so unfair!"
Luffy leaped out of the encirclement of black arms, his fists pounding into the ground, shattering all the black hands.
But the next moment, even more sinister hands emerged from the ground.
Loki's Iron Thunder, crackling with Lightning, blasted the ground within a radius of tens of meters into dust.
The black hand disappeared, but Luffy in front of him was also knocked back by the aftershock.
"Hey! Can't you watch where you're going?!" Luffy yelled.
"You're the one who's in the way!" Loki retorted.
Before the two had even finished arguing, Imu's next attack had already begun.
Imu clasped his hands together in front of his chest, and black mist surged, from which divine weapons materialized.
Spears, swords, axes, halberds, bows, shields, maces, whips, rings, bells... more than a dozen black artifacts of various shapes floated around Imu, each exuding a chilling aura.
"Go."
Imu it a gentle push.
More than a dozen divine weapons shot towards the two of them at the same time, moving as fast as black meteors streaking across the night sky.
"Not good!"
Sensing the ominous aura emanating from these weapons, Luffy and Loki simultaneously dodged.
Luffy's body moved like a leaf caught in the wind, tumbling and leaping among the divine weapons with a chuckle, each weapon grazing past him.
His Observation Haki was partially suppressed by Imu's Conqueror's Haki, but his instincts and reaction speed still allowed him to avoid most of the attacks.
Loki didn't dodge; instead, he swung his Iron Thunder, its head crackling with Lightning, to meet the incoming artifact head-on.
Each collision produced a deafening roar.
The black artifact was smashed away, and the Lightning on the Iron Thunder was also shattered.
Loki's arm ached from the impact, and he gritted his teeth as two large craters were stomped into the ground beneath his feet.
"Hey kid! You'd better help me out!" Loki roared.
Luffy descended from the sky and kicked away a black longsword that was about to pierce Loki's head.
"I'm helping them!"
As Luffy spoke, his fist slammed into a black mace flying toward Loki's chest.
The two of them were struggling to deal with Imu's artifact.
Imu's body also moved.
He seized an opening and appeared behind Loki like a ghost.
Loki brandished his Iron Thunder, attempting to turn and retaliate.
But Imu is faster.
Black Blade drew a semicircle in the air, deflecting Iron Thunder's hammer, and then pressed himself against Loki's chest.
"Oh no!"
At that moment, Loki saw Imu's hand, emanating black mist, reaching towards his forehead, and a sense of foreboding suddenly arose in his heart.
He thought of his father.
The father who was Black Turn Domination, and became a mindless monster.
Imu's fingers had already touched Loki's forehead.
In that instant, a white figure crashed into them from the side.
Luffy used all his strength to knock Imu away.
Imu's hand brushed past Loki's forehead, just missing him.
His fingertips brushed against Loki's skin, leaving a faint black mark on his forehead.
"Get out of my way!" Imu swung his sword at Luffy with a backhand Luffy.
Luffy couldn't dodge in time and could only concentrate all his Conqueror's Haki in front of him to form a barrier.
The Black Blade struck the barrier, and Conqueror's Haki Inazuma and black flames exploded simultaneously.
Luffy and Loki were both thrown back by the shockwave, rolling on the ground more than a dozen times before coming to a stop.