The Shadow Realm

The situation in the battle has now become very clear.

Half of the God Valley remained below, Loki stood on the island, his height reaching the sky.

Everyone else was flying in the sky.

With only Imu remaining on the enemy side, the Quincy flew over, but didn't get very close, only forming a large encirclement.

John, Ganzui, Gloriosa, Newgate, Maron, Kaido, and Keel.

Seven people occupied seven positions.

And at the center are Imu and Kaya.

Imu glanced around, his gaze lingering briefly on Keel, who had transformed into a divine bird, before quickly looking away and returning to Kaya.

"Your men are not bad," Imu said.

"Where are your subordinates? Besides the Holy Knights and the Five Elders, do you have anyone else?" Kaya asked Imu.

Imu remained silent, and despite being surrounded, he remained calm and composed.

He released his grip on the Holy Life Spear and then pulled weapons from his demonic aura, both those he had used before and those he hadn't.

After the various weapons were taken out, they floated around him, forming a circle.

He pulled out eighteen weapons in one go.

"The Grudge Demon Sword! The Sword of Anger! The Void Sword! The Chaos Sword! The Sea God Sword Holy Life Spear! The Xingtian Axe! Muramasa! Honebami Tōshirō..."

All the weapons spun half a circle, like sharp arrows aimed straight ahead.

Imu raised a hand and looked at Kaya.

"I still cannot kill you, but I cannot allow you to continue, at least not until that time... You cannot act recklessly any longer!"

You can no longer act recklessly!

Um?!

Imu was startled, and the last sentence was emphasized, with Kaya saying it along with him.

"I can see everything, and everything I see and understand becomes ineffective. Everything in this world exists for my own gain!"

Kaya stretched out his hand and grasped at the air.

Bang!

Imu, which was just about to swing, froze, and he exploded into pieces! Along with the dozen or so weapons, he shattered into fragments!

Blood, flesh, and metal fragments flew everywhere, and Imu, who had just been standing in the air, vanished in the blink of an eye.

In an instant! Or just a fleeting moment!

A sense of dread welled up in the hearts of the others. Imu had just been preparing to make his move, was suddenly dead? Dead in a way they couldn't comprehend?

So, they defeated the World Government? Did they really do it that easily?

"As expected..."

Kaya held Imu's head in his hand. Imu's eyes were still open, but they had become lifeless, as if he had lost his soul.

This is probably not Imu's true form, or rather, Imu has more than one body.

However, this should have dealt a heavy blow to Imu.

That guy's already bad condition will probably be made even worse by this battle.

If we attack the Holy Land...

Um?!

Kaya suddenly frowned and covered his forehead.

His pupils merged again, and the feeling of being like God looking down upon all things quickly receded like the tide.

Isn't that enough? The erosion of the world? In the end, was it simply because the time was too short?

He realized he was rushing things. He hadn't fully figured out this world yet. He'd read Pirate King, but the manga wasn't finished yet!

In other words, he knows only a part of the world's past and future.

If you're not omniscient, you can't be omnipotent.

At that moment, he understood that to fully unleash the power of the Almighty, he first had to become an omniscient being in this world.

Just as the Kaiser Gesang says, the sealed King of the Quincy will need nearly a thousand years to return.

This is a massive ceremony in itself.

Kaya lowered his hand, his expression returning to normal.

He came to God Valley intending to force Imu to reveal himself. Now that the Five Elders are dead and Imu has been seen, he failed to kill him in one go, so he can be considered to have won half the battle.

Yhwach will be killed by Zangetsu, but such a future is impossible for him!

"Gentlemen."

Kaya turned around, looked at the others who had remained silent, and smiled, a smile that sent a chill down everyone's spine.

"Come visit my country."

Everyone returned to the ground.

In the God Valley, everything had fallen into disrepair, resembling an ancient ruin rather than a bustling nation that had been just half a day before.

As soon as they touched the ground, Ganzui collapsed from exhaustion, and the others were also panting heavily.

The Vollständig has long been dispelled.

Keel reverted to his four-legged, eight-feathered divine bird form, transformed back into a human, and lay on the ground unconscious.

Loki, too, saw his Spiritual Power dissipate on its own, his size rapidly shrink, and then he collapsed to the ground.

Seeing this, John, who was kneeling on the ground, felt relieved. The greater the power, the greater the consumption. Keel and Loki collapsed on the spot, but they could barely retain their consciousness.

"God Valley is gone. What are your plans now?" Newgate asked in a deep voice.

Newgate is in the best form.

"Didn't I tell you to come visit my country? Even though there's nothing there yet."

After saying this, Kaya waved his hand forward.

A pitch-black opening appeared in the air, from which black energy flowed out, spreading downwards and connecting with the shadow beneath Kaya's feet.

"Let's go." Kaya led the way inside.

The others were puzzled, but no one dared to refuse. Even Newgate hesitated briefly before following them into the shadow entrance.

Then...

They traveled through time!

Anyone who frequently travels through time knows that it's hardly a remarkable experience.

First, I felt dizzy, like I was carsick. My brain and body seemed to separate, and I couldn't feel my feet touching the ground or my thoughts.

Then came a descent, like turning into a bird, or a feeling similar to riding a roller coaster.

After completely losing all sense of front, back, left, right, up, and down, and with the brain's perception of everything in chaos, a sudden sense of worldly clamor washes over me.

It's like the game got stuck while loading, and after a while, you suddenly find yourself in the game, with all sorts of sound effects and the ongoing match content all at once!

The world changes the moment you open and close your eyes.

Welcome to the Shadow Realm.

Kaya opened his arms and spoke as if he were the master.

This is a pitch-black world, with no sense of direction; both the sky and the earth are pure black.

The distance stretched endlessly, the sky seemed infinitely high, and the ground... If they weren't actually standing on the ground, they would have thought it was a void or a black hole.

Another dimension? Or some other place?

Kaido patted his head, dispelling the drowsiness and fully waking up.

"What?" Newgate instinctively rejected the place.

Everyone else was watching, but there was nothing to see, because there was nothing there; the blackness was so intense it seemed to swallow one's gaze whole.

Wasn't this the God Valley? Someone was trying to recall where they were.

Next, Kaya needs to give an introduction.