The beam of light erupting from the heart-shaped crystal was like a sword piercing the heart of darkness, causing the Lord of the Dark Abyss to roar with a primal force, a roar a mixture of excruciating pain and rage. The entire floating Sky Island no longer trembled, but began to tilt and collapse! Huge rocks and cloud fragments peeled off the island's edges, plummeting into the boundless sea of clouds below.
"Oh no! That guy's desperate and he's going to destroy the whole island!" Usopp screamed, clinging tightly to a crystal pillar.
The pressure on the outer defenses instantly increased. The remaining cloud beasts abandoned tactics and launched suicidal explosive attacks. Dark purple energy spread like a plague, attempting to contaminate everything. The bodies of several giant crystallized cloud beasts began to expand unstablely, their energy cores overloaded, and they were about to turn into the most terrifying bombs.
"We must stop them!" Zoro slashed his three swords, unleashing a massive net of sword energy. " Three-Sword Style: One Thought, Three Thousand Pound Phoenix!" The storm of sword energy attempted to keep all the self-destructing cloud beasts outside.
Sanji's " Diable Jambe " formed a barrier of flames, but faced with such a dense barrage of suicide attacks, he began to struggle. General Franky's armor was already covered with signs of corrosion.
At this critical moment—
Inside the Crystal Tower, Allen, who had been concentrating with his eyes closed and focusing most of his power and consciousness into the seal, suddenly opened his eyes!
His eyes no longer held their usual gentleness and determination, but instead burned with the majesty and fury of Torch Dragon surveying the mortal world. A boundless aura, far surpassing any previous moment, erupted from him!
[Full Power: Portgas D. Allen - Estimated Power Level 28500+]
"In my time and space, how dare you act so presumptuously!" Allen's deep voice seemed to Echo with the passage of time.
He didn't leave the spot; he simply raised his right hand and gently clenched it towards the Void outside the tower.
"The Law of Time: Local Slowdown!"
Without a sound, the space within a radius of several thousand meters centered on the crystal tower turned gray. All the cloud beasts that were charging and self-destructing, as well as the giant cloud beasts that were about to explode, suddenly slowed down their movements by more than ten times, as if they were stuck in sticky glue! Even the raging Dark Abyss energy within them was forcibly slowed down!
This doesn't completely stop time, but rather greatly slows down its flow! This consumes a huge amount of energy, but the effect is immediate! The pressure on the external defenses suddenly eases.
"This... this is..." All the Winged Tribe and the Straw Hat Pirates (except Luffy ) stared in shock at this almost miraculous scene. They knew Allen was strong, but they never imagined he was strong enough to directly influence the concept of time!
"Well done, Allen!" Luffy laughed, taking the opportunity to punch a giant cloud beast that had been slowed down, sending it flying.
But this was just the beginning. Allen knew that slowing down time was only a temporary solution; the root cause was the Lord of the Dark Abyss beneath the earth. While his consciousness was fighting against the evil entity inside the seal, he was also multitasking, unleashing another ability outwards.
"Spatial Law: Mirror Image Isolation!"
With his left hand, he drew a complex symbol in the air towards the slowed-down cloud beasts outside the tower, which contained unstable Dark Abyss energy. The next moment, the space where these cloud beasts were located seemed to be cut and folded by an invisible force, their figures became blurred, and then instantly disappeared from the main space! They were forcibly exiled by Allen to a temporarily created miniature mirror space attached to the main space!
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The continuous explosions echoed dully within the mirror space, but the violent energy surges were firmly locked by the spatial barrier, unable to affect the real world in the slightest!
With a mere gesture, he averted the greatest external crisis! This is the power of a strongman whose combat strength approaches 30,000 and who has begun to grasp the Laws of Space and Time!
However, Allen's face also paled slightly. Maintaining internal purification, external time slowing, and spatial exile simultaneously was an unprecedented test of his mental and physical strength.
He dared not stop, and once again plunged his main consciousness into the depths of the seal.
Deep underground, the Lord of the Dark Abyss sensed the terrifying power that Allen had just unleashed, a power far exceeding its current state, as well as the spacetime authority that made even its very essence tremble. For the first time, a clear fear appeared within its mad will.
"No... impossible... how could there be an individual in this world that has touched the fundamental laws... what exactly are you?!" The evil creature's mental roar was filled with disbelief.
"I am the Guardian, and also the Undertaker." Allen's consciousness manifested as a booming voice, echoing through the dark space. "Your existence ends here!"
Allen no longer held back; he connected with the deepest power of the Torch Dragon Fruit within him, simultaneously triggering a deeper understanding of cosmic energy gained after resolving the interdimensional invasion incident.
"In my name, I draw upon the light of the stars to perform ultimate purification!"
He no longer merely infused Light of Purification, but instead used himself as a coordinate to guide the pure, vast, and vibrant stellar energy from the Xinghai! At the same time, the light and darkness powers controlled by Torch Dragon were pushed to their limits, with the light transforming into the most intense purifying flames and the darkness into the deepest abyss of devouring!
The Power of the Stars, the Light of Purification, the flame of the Torch Dragon, and the darkness of devouring—under Allen's masterful control, these four forces merged into one, transforming into a dazzling waterfall of stars that crashed into the core of the Lord of the Dark Abyss along the crack!
"No--!!!"
The Lord of the Dark Abyss let out a desperate wail. Its darkness, its madness, its corrosiveness, under the scouring of the galaxy that had merged with multiple supreme powers, melted and disintegrated rapidly like ice and snow meeting the sun! It tried to struggle, but it was suppressed by an ancient seal on the outside and purified by the galaxy guided by Allen on the inside. Its defeat was inevitable.
The massive dark purple energy mass began to shrink rapidly, erasing the distorted faces and frenzied consciousness one by one. Finally, with a reluctant, subtle cracking sound, the core consciousness of the Lord of the Dark Abyss was completely annihilated, leaving only a pure but ownerless wisp of Dark Energy, sealed firmly in place, its activity reduced to zero.
The collapse of the floating Sky Island stopped, the dark clouds in the sky quickly dispersed, and sunlight shone down again. The red light in the eyes of all the remaining cloud beasts went out, and they returned to their dazed state, floating aimlessly in the air.
The crisis is over.
Inside the Crystal Tower, Allen let out a long sigh of relief, his body swaying slightly, clearly exhausted. But he had successfully turned the tide single-handedly.
Robin immediately stepped forward to support him, his eyes filled with shock and concern.
The Winged Tribe elders and all the survivors, looking at the clear sky and the safe and sound holy land before them, and then at the tired yet upright figure inside the crystal tower, involuntarily knelt down.
"Thank you... Great Guardian! You saved our world!"