Above the Eastern East Blue, the horizontal rift had expanded to a point where it blotted out the sun. The dark red vortex surging within it resembled the throat of a greedy beast, radiating a devouring will that made all things tremble. The torrent of Rift Demons grew increasingly violent, even including towering, dark red commander-level beings. They roared, and each impact caused the Blood-Red Defense Line to tremble violently.
Inside the command center, the atmosphere was heavy as iron. On the strategic sand table before Sabo, the crimson zone representing the demonic tide was visibly eroding the last bastions. The platinum flames of Ace's fist flickered, Luffy's eyes, hidden beneath his low-brimmed Straw Hat, were sharp as knives. Everyone understood that the final judgment was imminent.
"The energy reaction in the rift has reached a critical point!" The intelligence officer's voice was hoarse with despair. "According to Allen's last message, that 'red' being... is about to complete its descent!"
Just then, Allen, who had been standing silently in front of the observation window with invisible spatial ripples flowing around him, slowly turned around. In the depths of his eyes, the silver-purple light had transformed into a profound Chaos, his left eye seemed to have the faint light of dawn, and his right eye seemed to contain the shadow of eternal night.
"The time has come." Allen's voice was calm, yet carried an undeniable resolve, clearly reaching everyone's minds. " Sabo, execute the first order of the ' Final Protocol.' Ace, Luffy, the command of the defense line is yours. Until I return, not an inch of ground will be yielded."
" Allen, you..." Long Gang was about to speak.
"I'm going to 'repair' the cracks," Allen interrupted him, a faint, almost Void smile playing on his lips. "Or rather, to buy our world a final bit of time."
Before he finished speaking, he had already taken a step forward. It wasn't Geppo or Shave, but rather his figure blurred and merged into the Void. The next moment, he appeared directly in front of the destructive rift. Compared to the enormous, suffocating blood-red vortex, his figure was as small as dust.
" Torch Dragon: Anchor to the Universe!"
Allen pressed his hands together, and a low murmur seemed to echo from the end of time and space. Centered on him, an invisible yet incredibly powerful spacetime force field suddenly unfolded, neither an attack nor a defense, but a forceful stabilization and solidification of the spacetime structure around the crack! At the edge of the wildly expanding crack, the purplish-black energy that was tearing everything apart seemed to have crashed into an invisible solid wall, and its expansion suddenly halted!
From the depths of the rift came a terrifying roar filled with overwhelming fury! The red being, which had not yet fully descended, was enraged! A giant claw covered in dark red scales and wreathed in destructive energy suddenly emerged from the rift and grabbed at Allen! The mere pressure it exuded was enough to nearly shatter the minds of countless warriors on the distant defensive line!
Allen neither dodged nor evaded, but the power of light and darkness in his eyes suddenly erupted.
"The Paradox of Light and Darkness: The Collapse of Order!"
His left eye blazed with the light of dawn, transforming into a pure torrent of information that washed over the energy composition of the giant claw, dissecting its order; his right eye was enveloped in eternal night, releasing absolute Void and silence, eroding the very foundation of its existence! Light and darkness, two extremely contradictory forces, did not simply overlap, but rather formed a bizarre field of logical paradox, acting upon the giant claw!
The terrifying giant claw abruptly froze, its dark red light flickering violently, as if its own energy flow rules were caught in an irreconcilable conflict! Its grasping motion was abruptly stopped!
"Roar--!!!" The being deep within the rift went completely berserk, with more giant claws and twisted limbs trying to squeeze out of the rift. The entire rift trembled violently, and the spacetime anchoring field that Allen had set up let out a mournful cry of being overwhelmed!
A trickle of golden blood spilled from the corner of Allen's mouth, but his eyes remained cold and calm. He formed hand seals, and the illusory image of Torch Dragon around him roared to the sky.
"With this body, I will break free from shackles! Spacetime Closed Loop - Suppression!"
He actually burned his own spacetime origin and Power of Fortune, transforming them into countless silver-purple Divine Chains of Order. Like the most resilient vines, these chains wrapped around the limbs of the terrifying being that was trying to squeeze out, pulling it back and imprisoning it firmly at the entrance of the rift! At the same time, he constructed a temporary Spacetime Closed Loop that enveloped the entrance of the rift, greatly slowing down the flow of time inside and buying precious time for the outside world!
At this moment, Allen transformed himself into a lock, single-handedly stopping the collapse of the heavens! He became the final bulwark between the two worlds!
"Now!" Sabo roared hoarsely from the command post!
Ace transformed into a platinum meteor, Luffy Gear Fourth, and all the strong warriors and soldiers launched an unprecedented and desperate counterattack against the demonic tide that had temporarily lost its command and fallen into chaos due to Allen's sacrifice!
The final outcome of the war remained hanging by a thread. But Allen, at his own cost, forcefully reversed the balance of power in an instant, securing for this world... a final glimmer of hope. On the stage of time and space, he, with a mortal body, stood shoulder to shoulder with the gods, performing his final swan song.