Chapter Summaries

Loki transformed into a demon and attacked Vic, while Iron Thunder became a giant squirrel and fled rather than let Loki wield it against their allies. Imu joined the fight and cornered Vic between herself and Loki, but Vic blocked both of their punches with an invisible space barrier.

• Loki grew bat wings and an arrow-tipped tail, then attacked Vic with Iron Thunder.
• Iron Thunder turned into a giant squirrel, escaped Loki's grasp, and refused to fight Vic.
• Vic wounded Loki's arm and realized Loki had not received an immortal body from Imu.
• Imu attacked Vic alongside Loki, trapping him between the two giants.
• Vic struck the air on both sides and stopped their fists with a space barrier that cracked under the impact.

Luffy used the Drums of Liberation to disrupt Imu’s Laws and force Loki out of his demon form, while Vic inferred that Luffy’s Nika power could counter Imu. Imu summoned two identical figures to aid her, leaving Vic facing a more difficult battle.

• Vic escaped Imu and Loki’s converging attacks as their fists collided and shook the valley.
• Luffy grew to giant size, began beating his chest, and unleashed the Drums of Liberation, unsettling Imu and causing Loki to revert from his demon form.
• Vic recognized that Luffy’s drumbeats countered Imu’s Black Turn Domination and urged Luffy to keep playing.
• Imu attacked Luffy with her trident, but Vic blocked the thrust and mocked her apparent loss of control.
• Imu summoned two enormous figures identical to her transformed form, each armed with a black Devil Trident.

Vic fought the original Imu while Luffy and Loki battled her clones, but Imu kept summoning more clones and restoring them from fatal wounds. Outnumbered and struggling to hold their ground, Luffy and Loki faced mounting pressure as Vic prepared to reveal his full strength.

• Vic kicked the original Imu away from her clones and pursued her, while Luffy and Loki took on the two clones.
• Loki struck one clone with Iron Thunder, and Luffy damaged another with a punch that inflicted internal harm.
• Imu summoned four more clones, leaving Luffy and Loki surrounded by three opponents each.
• Vic cut a clone in half with a space-shifted slash, but Imu's power fused the clone back together.
• Loki transformed into his Human-Beast Form and fought defensively, while Luffy also struggled to hold off three clones.
• Vic decided he would have to reveal his strength.

Vic revealed his God Realm strength and defeated Imu with a surprise attack using the Divine Staff and the perfected Law of Lightning. Imu’s death left the gathered fighters realizing that the war was over and a new era could begin.

• Vic said that he and Imu were evenly matched apart from Haki, then charged her with his twin blades.
• Vic used a spatial ripple to appear behind Imu and discharged the Divine Staff against her neck, leaving her badly wounded but alive.
• Imu realized Vic had secretly reached the God Realm and recognized his Law of Lightning as the source of a past Law fluctuation.
• Vic pierced Imu’s forehead with black lightning, killing her and causing her six clones to dissipate.
• Shanks and Dragon struggled to believe Imu was dead, while Garp and Sengoku reflected on the victory and the coming new era.

After Imu returned from apparent death, she unleashed more clones while Vic fought her with the Law of Lightning. Luffy and Loki gained allies, but Imu sent another wave of clones into battle, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Barnett wondered whether his adventures were ending as Kizaru welcomed the chance to retire after the war.
• Imu's presence vanished, and the people in the valley celebrated their victory until a surge of Conqueror's Haki knocked many unconscious.
• Imu revived through the Law of Immortality, confronted Vic, and summoned ten clones to attack Luffy and Loki.
• Vic resumed his assault on Imu, who used Haki to defend herself against the perfected Law of Lightning.
• Shanks and Dragon joined Loki, while Ace and Garp joined Luffy, turning the fights against the clones in their favor.
• Imu sent fifteen more clones to reinforce the battle, bringing the total to twenty.

Vic continued fighting Imu while waiting for the mysterious black-robed expert, but Uranus arrived and saved Luffy from Imu’s clone. Imu identified the giant Western dragon as an Ancient Weapon, and Vic realized it had likely hatched from the egg on Laugh Tale.

• Vic rejected Imu’s taunts and charged at her again, hoping the black-robed expert would come to help defeat her.
• A fifth clone emerged and attacked Luffy, but a beam from the horizon destroyed it before it could strike him.
• Nami recognized the approaching winged creature as Xiao Guai, and the dragon landed and killed another of Imu’s clones.
• Imu identified the Western dragon as Uranus, one of the Three Ancient Weapons, and tried to make Vic distrust his allies.
• Vic dismissed Imu’s attempt to sow discord and concluded that Uranus had hatched from the giant egg left on Laugh Tale.

Uranus arrived at the battle and destroyed Imu’s clones before joining Vic in attacking her, but her Haki and Law of Immortality kept her from being seriously hurt. As the fight remained deadlocked, an ancient robot left by Joy Boy appeared on the horizon.

• Uranus attacked and defeated Imu’s clones, easing the pressure on Luffy and the others.
• Luffy revealed that the Straw Hats had brought Uranus back from Laugh Tale, and Garp punched him for calling it emergency food.
• Vic and Uranus attacked Imu together, but they could not break through her Haki or overcome her healing.
• Garp held back as Vic, Uranus, and Imu fought to a stalemate for another quarter of an hour.
• An ancient robot that Vic had found near a Poneglyph flew toward the battle, and Vic recognized it as one left behind by Joy Boy.

Emet answered Luffy’s Drums of Liberation and released stored Conqueror’s Haki that overwhelmed Imu, allowing Vic and Uranus to attack her. Imu survived their combined assault and emerged from a pentagram formation, then fixed her attention on Emet.

• Jinbe and Franky recognized the approaching giant robot as Emet, who had flown to Luffy after hearing the Drums of Liberation.
• Emet opened a knotted rope and unleashed Joy Boy’s stored Conqueror’s Haki, freezing the valley and leaving Imu on her knees.
• Vic seized the chance to strike Imu with his black-lightning-wreathed Divine Staff, and Uranus fired a white beam that engulfed her.
• A huge pit remained where Imu had fallen, but after several breaths a heartbeat sounded and Imu emerged from a pentagram formation.
• Imu recognized Emet as one of Joy Boy’s ancient war robots and glared at him after realizing he had unleashed the Haki.

Vic, Uranus, and Garp destroyed Imu with their strongest attacks after Emet’s knot released Joy Boy’s Conqueror’s Haki, but Imu resurrected again and attacked both robots. The chapter ended with the three God Realm fighters hindered by her Conqueror’s Haki as she struck at the robots.

• Imu tried to destroy Emet, but Vic and Uranus repeatedly stopped her while another ancient robot arrived carrying a knot that stored Joy Boy’s Conqueror’s Haki.
• The knot’s Haki stripped Imu of her defenses, and Garp joined Vic and Uranus in launching their strongest attacks.
• Their combined attacks annihilated Imu, and the fighters waited tensely to see whether she would resurrect again.
• A powerful wave of Conqueror’s Haki swept across the area, weakening most of the fighters as Imu reappeared through a pentagram formation between the robots.
• Imu threw her Haki-coated Devil Trident at Emet and plunged her clawed fingers into the other robot’s head.

Vic, Garp, and Uranus struggled to penetrate Imu’s powerful Haki defenses while Vic entrusted Luffy with finding her weakness. Their combined attack finally broke through and injured Imu, but she survived.

• Vic found the two ancient robots destroyed and failed to locate a third knot inside them.
• Vic’s slash cut Imu in half, but she reappeared unharmed and questioned how he and Garp had hidden their breakthroughs to the God Realm.
• Vic told Luffy to watch Imu for a weakness, then joined Garp and Uranus in a prolonged assault that failed to break her defenses.
• Vic, Garp, and Uranus unleashed a combined attack that sent Imu flying and left her with a twisted arm and blood at her mouth.

Vic and his allies attacked Imu with Luffy’s new move, but Imu revived and revealed she had held back because she feared Luffy might match Joy Boy. Imu unleashed her full strength and began targeting the group, while Vic arrived beside Garp to send him away.

• Vic spotted the repaired ancient robot, called Luffy into the fight, and charged at Imu.
• The robot released Joy Boy’s Conqueror’s Haki, and Luffy, Vic, and their allies attacked Imu while she was weakened.
• Luffy’s new, powerful attack killed Imu, but she soon revived and dismissed the threat he posed.
• Imu unleashed her full Conqueror’s Haki, wounded Uranus from a distance, and charged at Garp.
• Garp countered Imu’s trident with a Haki-coated punch and remained mostly unharmed.
• Vic opened a spatial barrier beside Garp and offered to send him away.

Imu overwhelmed Vic, Garp, and Luffy, leaving all three gravely wounded as she moved to kill them. Vic briefly returned to fight her, but Imu struck him in the head and he lost consciousness.

• Vic tried to shield himself from Imu with a Space Barrier and then a Space Passage, but she shattered both and punched him away.
• Imu defeated Garp with five punches, leaving him barely alive, then turned on Luffy.
• Imu pierced Luffy's chest with her trident as he struggled against her Conqueror's Haki.
• Vic emerged from a spatial ripple and attacked Imu, forcing her to release the trident and evade his blade.
• Imu caught Vic's blade and punched him in the head, knocking him unconscious.

Vic awoke inside a Sea King with severe injuries and no Dimensional Ring, then absorbed the creature’s Primal Spirit to heal himself. After escaping, he discovered he had gained an initial grasp of the Laws of Time and perfected the Law of Space, though he remained unsure where he was.

• Vic woke in the Sea King’s stomach, found his legs missing and his skull cracked, and realized his Dimensional Ring was gone.
• Vic stunned the Sea King and absorbed its Primal Spirit for several hours, regrowing his legs and healing his skull without killing it.
• Vic recovered the Divine Staff and Blood Wither, then used the Law of Space to escape the Sea King’s stomach.
• Vic emerged above a quiet sea and sensed that the world lacked vitality, fearing Imu’s purge had destroyed his family and friends.
• Vic explained that his perfected Law of Speed and Slowness had given him an initial grasp of the Laws of Time and triggered the perfection of the Law of Space.
• Vic merged the Laws of Time and the Law of Space, producing a faint Power of Spacetime that was too weak to transport him to another spacetime.

Vic discovered that he had arrived in the world 700 years ago, during the World Government’s effort to erase the Celestial Dragons’ origins. He investigated the Bridge Nation’s forced labor system and traveled through familiar East Blue locations before finding World Government warships carrying gold to Mary Geoise.

• Vic identified the era as Sea Circle Calendar year 813 after finding displaced people from the Bridge Nation and learning their memories of being brought there by the World Government.
• Vic found the Bridge Nation under construction and learned that captives built the bridge while their children were taken away and sent to live elsewhere without knowledge of the erased history.
• Vic chose not to intervene, fearing that changing history would prevent him from returning to his family and friends.
• Vic visited Loguetown, Laipe Island, Shimotsuki Village, Foosha Village, and Cocoyasi Village, finding them unlike the places he knew from the later era.
• Vic detected five World Government warships, boarded one unnoticed, and learned that its cargo of gold had been collected from the Goa Kingdom and was bound for Mary Geoise.

After waiting until the warships reached the Grand Line, Vic silently killed everyone aboard and took their cargo, including two Devil Fruits. Determined to prepare for Imu by cultivating Haki over the centuries ahead, he built a Primal Spirit-gathering array on an island and made it deadly to visitors so he could train undisturbed.

• Vic hid aboard the warships for a month, gathering Primal Spirit with Pure Gold and cultivating Haki while waiting to leave the East Blue.
• After the warships reached the Grand Line, Vic killed everyone aboard, looted their cargo, and found two Devil Fruits, including the Speed-Speed Fruit.
• Vic returned to the waters near where the Sea King had swallowed him and chose an uninhabited island for Haki cultivation.
• Vic refined the warships' gold into Pure Gold and buried it around the island and beneath its center to draw in Primal Spirit.
• Three years later, after repeatedly driving away visitors with illusions, Vic used the Divine Staff to fill the island with lightning and thunderclouds, then resumed cultivating Haki.

After more than five hundred years of training on Raijin Island, Vic brought his Haki to its pinnacle and realized that his training had created the island’s altar and lightning patterns. He later mastered the Laws of Time, gained control of the Power of Spacetime, and felt compelled to return to the moment that would complete the final loop.

• Vic reached the absolute pinnacle of Armament Haki and Conqueror's Haki, using Haki Emission to hold lightning in place.
• Vic discovered the island’s three-tiered altar and realized his training had created its steps and forged the Divine Staff’s altar with leaked Haki.
• Vic took the Divine Staff, used the Law of Lightning to restore Raijin Island’s orderly lightning, and refined stolen gold into Pure Gold for the island’s safe areas.
• Vic traveled through space and spent a little over a hundred years bringing his Laws of Time to great perfection.
• Vic returned from his breakthrough inside the Soul Tree with control of the Power of Spacetime and felt he needed to return to an earlier moment to complete the final loop.

Vic emerged from seclusion in 1463 and watched Roger, Rayleigh, and other legends rise, including the events of God Valley and the fates they changed. Eight years later, while traveling to comprehend new Laws, Vic followed a young Bullet, who mistook him for a bounty hunter.

• Vic visited Foosha Village and Loguetown, finding Garp and Roger at the start of their lives at sea.
• Vic witnessed Roger and Rayleigh meet and saw the era’s rising figures, including Rocks, Harald, and Shakky.
• Vic watched the God Valley Incident, where Imu drove Rocks berserk, Roger and Garp stopped him, and Garling struck the final blow before Rayleigh and Gaban intervened.
• The God Valley Incident changed the paths of Shanks, Kuma, Ginny, Ivankov, Blackbeard, Dragon, Roger, Rayleigh, and Shakky.
• Eight years later, Vic followed fifteen-year-old Bullet, who confronted him as a suspected bounty hunter.

Vic advised Bullet to pursue strength after learning that betrayal had left him without direction, then witnessed Roger's execution and the start of the Great Pirate Era. He returned to Yarlin Town to see his childhood self and staged the Claw Pirates' raid as an illusion while protecting the townspeople and his parents.

• Bullet told Vic that his commander had betrayed him, prompting him to destroy the army and country, and Vic urged him to grow stronger through combat.
• Vic later learned Bullet had joined and then left the Roger Pirates.
• In Sea Circle Calendar 1499, Vic watched Roger's public execution in Loguetown and heard him announce that his treasure awaited whoever found it.
• Vic traveled to Yarlin Town and watched the child Vic and Rebecca with Ann while Orens worked at the town government office.
• When the Claw Pirates attacked, Vic trapped the town in an illusion, transported those who appeared to die to safety, and ensured Vic's parents were safe elsewhere.

Vic watched his younger self’s journey and intervened to restore key events, including supplying the Speed-Speed Fruit, redirecting Marine ships, and preventing Kaido from killing him. After young Vic obtained the Divine Staff and Dimensional Ring, Vic stopped interfering and let him face future crises on his own.

• Vic followed young Vic’s training and placed the Speed-Speed Fruit in Baiyisi the Tiger’s safe, ensuring his past self would obtain it.
• After Rebecca’s grandmother died, Tsuru came to the East Blue, and Vic and Rebecca joined the Marines.
• Vic redirected young Vic’s assessment warship to the island of the Divine Staff and accidentally let his past self sense him.
• When Kaido threatened young Vic, Vic released his aura and drove Kaido away, realizing he had returned to correct his past and preserve his established path.
• Vic altered Marine Headquarters’ communications to route young Vic toward the Dimensional Ring and tossed Ain’s Devil Fruit to her.
• After young Vic obtained the Divine Staff and Dimensional Ring, Vic let him face Golden Lion and other dangers without further intervention.

Vic intervened in the Empty Throne room to save Sabo and Cobra from Imu, then confronted Imu while concealing his identity from his past self. He kept the Five Elders pinned as he stalled for the Revolutionary Army to escape, and the chapter ended with him appearing beside Imu to strike.

• Vic traveled through time to observe his past self, then returned to Titan Island to cultivate the Gravity Laws while his past self rose to power.
• Two years into his seclusion, Vic sensed danger at Pangaea Castle and found Imu attacking Sabo and Cobra while his past self was trapped.
• Vic knocked Imu's tail aside and ordered his past self to evacuate with Sabo and Cobra, then stopped Imu and the Five Elders from pursuing them.
• Vic pressed the Five Elders to the floor with Armament Haki and confronted Imu, who held back from fighting to avoid damaging Pangaea Castle during the Reverie.
• Vic announced that he would attack, vanished from Imu's sight, and appeared beside her.