The eerie green light gathering at the bow of the Abyss Fleet reached its peak, like countless dying stars on the verge of exploding. The next moment, a torrent of destruction erupted!
That wasn't a dense beam of energy, but a far more terrifying, dark green tide of light, like a viscous liquid! Wherever the light tide passed, space itself groaned under its strain, eroding and cracking. The allied forces' forward-deployed automated turrets and detection buoys, like ice and snow under the sun, were instantly swallowed up and melted away, leaving not even a trace.
"Intercept! Maximum power output!" Sabo commanded from his flagship.
The protective shields of all coalition ships instantly increased to overload status, and various colored lights lit up, constructing a fragile yet dazzling barrier of light in the Void.
"Boom--!!!"
The dark green light surged violently into the allied forces' defenses!
The violent energy impact caused the entire Void Rift to tremble! The allied fleet's protective shields flickered erratically, like candles in the wind. Many small frigates on the front of the impact had their shields shattered after only a few seconds, their hulls rapidly dissolving in the dark green light, turning into expanding fireballs and scattered metallic dust.
"Left Wing Frigates No. 3 and No. 7 remain silent!"
"Right-wing energy overload! Rotation is needed!"
Casualty reports came in instantly, and the brutality of war was laid bare before everyone.
"We can't just keep getting beaten up!" Luffy roared.
" Jinbe! Charge in!" Allen ordered simultaneously.
The Thousand Sunny, with its modified engine roaring, defied the aftershocks of the energy impact and, like a salmon swimming upstream, boldly broke through the Allied defenses, heading straight for the vanguard of the Abyss Fleet!
" Gum-Gum -Gum Giant Thunder Axe!" Luffy's body swelled up, and his enormous rubber feet, wrapped in Conqueror's Haki's Haki, slammed into a leading Devourer warship with thunderous roar!
"Boom!" The warship's thick armor was crushed by the force of the impact, the energy patterns instantly dimmed, and a violent explosion occurred!
" Three-Sword Style: Black Rope: Great Tornado!" Zoro transformed into a green storm of sword blades, charging into the enemy ranks. Enma's slash easily tore through the Devourer's armor, engulfing the surrounding small enemy ships and shredding them into pieces!
" Diable Jambe - Supreme Meat Grinder - Purifying Flame!" Sanji transformed into a whirlwind of white flames. The World-Purifying Flame at his toes had a natural advantage against the energy of the Abyss. The enemy ship that he kicked melted its armor like wax, and its internal structure exploded in a chain reaction!
" Fire Fist - Flame Commandment!" Ace unleashed a flurry of punches, platinum flames weaving into a massive net that temporarily blocked the burst of light in a section, buying the allied fleet behind him a precious respite.
Allen did not rush to attack. He hovered above the Thousand Sunny, and silver-purple spacetime power spread out from him.
"Space-Time Ritual: Severed Realm!"
A transparent barrier spanning several kilometers, with runes shimmering along its edges, instantly rose up, forcibly deflecting and refracting several dark green beams of light that were attacking from the side, protecting the flanks of the Thousand Sunny and a portion of the allied ships behind it.
Their advance was like a wedge driven into a dark green tide, instantly drawing a large amount of firepower and greatly relieving the pressure on the Allied defenses.
"Follow up! Provide fire support for the Straw Hat Pirates!" Sabo seized the opportunity and commanded the Allied fleet to concentrate its firepower, covering the area where the Thousand Sunny had penetrated and clearing out the enemy ships around it.
The war instantly entered its most brutal, meat-grinding phase. Beams flew everywhere, explosions raged, and the wreckage of warships scattered like raindrops. Roars, explosions, the sound of ships tearing apart, and the malevolent whispers of the Abyss intertwined to create a symphony of destruction.
Brook's Chill of the Underworld created an opportunity for a charge; Usopp's long-range Seed disrupted key enemy ships; Nami's small-scale weather control disrupted enemy formations; Franky's heavy firepower cleared out approaching enemies; Chopper darted across the battlefield, providing emergency medical care to wounded Allied soldiers; Robin's clones appeared and disappeared across the battlefield, precisely destroying enemy ships' energy nodes or rescuing trapped crew members...
Everyone is doing their best.
However, the Abyss Fleet was simply too numerous. Like an endless tide, wave after wave relentlessly assaulted the coalition's crumbling defenses. The Devourer behemoth's mouth-like structure opened, releasing smaller but extremely fast, self-destructive " Gnawer " drones, which swarmed towards the coalition ships like locusts, carrying out suicidal ramming attacks.
The Allied casualties continued to rise, and their defensive lines were constantly being pushed back.
"At this rate... we won't last much longer..." Nami said hoarsely, looking at the energy reserves and battle damage report.
Just as the Allied forces' defenses were about to be breached, the Temporal Overseer fleet, which had been observing the situation quietly, finally made its move.
But their goal is not the Abyss.
Several pale beams of light, imbued with a strange, solidified power, shot out like precise Scalpel towards several key points on the battlefield—not attacking enemy ships, but rather towards several Allied flagships that were fighting fiercely and whose energy fluctuations were violent, as well as... Luffy and Allen, who were rampaging through the enemy ranks!
[Excessive energy reaction and trajectory deviation detected... 'Purification' protocol executed.]
The cold, icy thought echoed once more.
The Temporal Overseer, at this critical moment, have chosen to attack the Allied Forces!
Wherever the pale beam of light passed, space seemed to freeze, the flow of energy became sluggish, and even Luffy's ferocious Conqueror's Haki seemed to be shackled by an invisible chain!
"You—!" Ace's eyes widened in fury as he tried to stop them, but he was forced back by several pale beams of light.
Allen turned around abruptly, looking at the pale beam of light that was attacking him, carrying the suppressive power of the laws, then at the endless Abyss fleet in front of him, and his companions struggling to hold on behind him.
A desperate situation... a truly desperate situation!