Roy closed his eyes.
The Davy Jones Origin he brought back from Laugh Tale was fully activated within him at this moment.
Thick black mist erupted from his body, shooting into the sky like a volcanic eruption.
The third heart pounded wildly, its "thump-thump-thump" sound like an ancient war drum.
Black mist condensed around him, forming a set of black divine armor.
The divine armor covered his entire body, revealing only his pair of indigo eyes.
Telekinesis and soul power intertwined around him, like two translucent dragons slowly swimming around him.
His aura reached an unprecedented height at that moment.
That's no longer within the realm of "human beings".
That is a god.
The true god, belonging to darkness and the earth.
" King of Darkness," Roy whispered.
Luffy watched from the side, grinning.
He took a deep breath, and the Nika Origin within his body was fully activated.
White Flame Clouds rose from beneath his feet and surged around him.
The Gear Fifth steam and Conqueror's Haki completely merged, and his body began to swell at that moment—
Ten meters, fifty meters, one hundred meters --
A white giant, about the same height as Imu, took shape beside Roy.
His golden vertical pupils shone like two small suns, and his rubbery body and Conqueror's Haki blended perfectly together. He stood there like a sun rising from the sea.
" Sun God." Luffy's voice rolled out from the white giant's throat like a rumbling thunder.
One black, one white.
Two figures rose into the air side by side, rushing towards the thousand-meter-tall fused form of Imu.
The final battle that will determine the fate of the world has officially begun.
"Boom--!!!"
Three figures collided in mid-air.
Black, white, and red light exploded simultaneously, illuminating the entire Red Line as if it were daytime.
On the ground, the cadres who were retreating stopped at the same time and looked up at the light that was constantly colliding thousands of meters in the sky.
Kaido, carrying the Hassaikai, slowly grinned:
"That's outrageous... This is what real combat is like."
Jhin and Queen behind him exchanged a glance, both seeing the same shock in each other's eyes—
They've followed Kaido for so many years, and they've never seen Kaido look at any battle with that kind of gaze.
Shanks stood beside him, the flask empty, but he showed no sign of leaving.
Those eyes stared into the air, their pupils reflecting a tricolored light.
Ben Beckman stood behind him, arms crossed, saying nothing.
" Luffy," Shanks whispered, "Don't let me down."
Hawk Eyes stood a little further away, his Black Blade Yoru, slashed diagonally in front of him.
He squinted at the two black and white figures in mid-air, a complex light flashing in his golden pupils.
He could sense that the power those two were now displaying far exceeded the scope of "pirates".
That was a war between gods.
In mid-air, the battle reached its climax.
Imu's eighteen ancient abilities were like eighteen knives, slashing down from all directions simultaneously.
Black flames, Lightning, spatial cutting, Gravity Suppression, Mental Shock...
Each one is enough to destroy a fleet.
But Roy's Darkness Domain was like a giant black net, swallowing up all those attacks.
The black flames were devoured by the darkness, the Lightning was absorbed by the power of darkness, and the spatial slicing shattered against the Telekinesis: Barrier.
Luffy's Nika Power is even more straightforward.
His body twisted, folded, and stretched like rubber, assimilating all the attacks that fell upon him.
His fist, enveloped in white Flame Clouds, slammed into Imu's scales one punch after another.
The two of them, one on the left and one on the right, worked together more and more seamlessly.
Imu attacks Roy, Luffy punches him from the side.
Imu slashed Luffy, but Roy's Darkness Domain deflected the attack.
The three men fought from a thousand meters in the air to ten thousand meters in the air, and then fought back down to the top of the Red Line.
Each collision created a massive crater, and the entire Red Line trembled in fear at the sight of these three battling it out.
On the ground, the ruins of Pangaea Castle collapsed one after another in the aftershocks.
The officers each restrained their troops and withdrew to a safe area.
Tesoro stood on the deck of a Pluton Battleship, watching the lights colliding endlessly in the sky thousands of meters high, his little abacus nowhere to be found. He pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses and muttered to himself:
"Boss, you're risking your life..."
Kyros stood beside him, his Float-Float Fruit powers stabilizing the surrounding space to prevent the aftershocks from affecting the soldiers below.
For the first time, a serious expression appeared on the face of this taciturn man.
No one could get involved.
This is a battlefield for top-tier combat power.
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10,000 meters above the ground.
The three figures were still clashing.
Roy's black divine armor already had several scratches.
Imu's punch, enveloped in black flames, cleaved a gash in the divine armor on his left shoulder. Black mist seeped from the wound, only to be forcibly suppressed by the power of the Dark-Dark Fruit.
Luffy in an even worse situation.
His white giant form was covered in wounds; one eye was burned shut by black flames, and his left leg had been cut by space during the previous collision, leaving a deep gash that exposed bone.
But neither of them backed down.
Imu stood in mid-air, eighteen pairs of eyes coldly watching the two indestructible insects.
The eighteen abilities within him surged faster and faster, and his moves became increasingly ruthless.
"Die!"
He roared, unleashing all eighteen of his abilities simultaneously.
Black flames surged from his right hand, condensing into a massive black sword.
Lightning struck down from his left hand, like a giant purple dragon.
Space distorted around him, and countless invisible blades slashed toward Roy and Luffy from all directions.
Gravity pressed down on them like a mountain. The Mental Shock struck their brains directly.
This is the strongest attack that combines the lifelong skills of eighteen kings.
Roy's eyes were incredibly sharp.
The Darkness Domain surrounding him surged at that moment, like a giant black net, covering all the attacks aimed at him.
The black flames were swallowed by the domain, the Lightning was absorbed by the power of darkness, the spatial blades shattered into powder upon impact with the Telekinesis: Barrier, and gravity was forcibly pushed back by his Telekinesis.
The Mental Shock was blocked by the soul barrier of the Soul-Soul Fruit.
However, his body was also forced back repeatedly by this wave of attacks.
Luffy's side is even more direct.
His body was flattened into a thin pancake by the attack, and he was blown backward like a white sail.
But he is, after all, Nika, rubber, and freedom.
That "pancake" was riddled with bullets, charred by black flames, and smoking from being struck by Lightning.
It bounced back up in a few breaths.
"Whee."
Luffy poked his head out of the smoke and dust, still grinning with his usual carefree attitude.
Is that all you've got?
Imu's eighteen pairs of eyes narrowed simultaneously.
He started to panic.
He had combined the power of eighteen kings and believed he could crush everything.
But these two boys before me, one is darkness, the other light; one devours everything, the other twists everything.
His attack landed on Roy, but was absorbed by the Darkness Domain.
His attack landed on Luffy, but was deflected by his rubber body.
He fought for a full half hour, but didn't even manage to scratch either of them.