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"It appears that my capable crew members have dealt with Uranus."
After seeing Imu's expression, Alex couldn't help laughing and said, "Compared to the previous appearance of being neither dragon nor human, you really look much more pleasing to the eye now."
Listening to Alex's teasing, Imu slowly got up after its powerful ability instantly healed all the injuries on its body.
Although it didn't open its mouth, it was more doubtful in its heart.
The reason why it specially released Uranus was not only to protect Mariejois, but also because Uranus was superior to Pluton in terms of mobility and destructive power.
So as long as it trapped the most influential Alex in this alien dimension, Uranus could be in an almost undefeated situation.
Even though Pluton still had Alex's subordinates, Uranus has the world's best technology, top-level lethality, powerful energy barriers, and the source of self-healing that it bred within it. How could it be subdued by the opponent?
But the ending was like this, and even the time was less than half an hour after it and Alex entered this space, which was simply unexpected, and even unthinkable.
But fact is fact. After living for so long, Imu won't let this kind of thing affect its entire mindset.
"It's really something I didn't expect."
After the words fell, the space of this plain suddenly shattered, followed by a flash of light, and quickly transitioned into a new space.
The warm and bright sun shone down from all directions.
In the space, a huge mysterious ancient tree appeared, and the roots of the plant close to the ground were thick enough to be tens of meters wide.
At some point, Imu was already sitting on a throne made of vines and leaves with a crown formed of tree thorns on its head.
This scene... the Garden of Flowers?!
According to his impression, Imu's base located in Pangaea Castle, the Garden of Flowers, is a natural fairyland with such fragrance of birds and flowers.
The next moment, under Alex's slightly surprised eyes, Imu changed from its original normal appearance to a half-tree humanoid appearance in just a few seconds.
Noticing Alex's subtle expression, Imu smiled lightly and said, "I thought it might be Joy Boy's heir who would see me like this, but I didn't expect you to be the first."
"I really didn't expect that your transformations are so weird that you like to become either an animal or a plant."
"In the face of strength, appearance is meaningless. You should know this."
Imu held the demon blade and disappeared from the canopy of the tree. The next moment, it suddenly appeared behind Alex and slashed away with one blow.
Within half an hour, he had already understood Imu's attack method. Alex imbued Akazakura with Haki and turned around to slash.
CLANG!
During the confrontation of weapons, strong winds swept through.
"What?"
Alex frowned slightly. The fruit power imbued in Akazakura had disappeared visibly to the naked eye.
Feeling suspicious, Alex increased his strength and slammed Imu back away.
Landing gracefully and steadily, Imu almost seemed to be integrated with this natural space, and said, "It seems that you have noticed it too."
Not only the effect of his abilities disappearing, but also feeling the weakening of Akazakura itself, Alex asked, "The tree is causing this??"
"Smart." Imu praised and continued, "Since you have seen the records left by Joy Boy in the ruins, you should know the origin of Devil Fruits."
"The sacred tree." Alex looked at the huge tree that created this space. "But hasn't it been destroyed?"
The person who destroyed it was Imu in front of him.
After all, it obtained the power to overthrow the great kingdom. Naturally, just in case, it also destroyed the sacred tree that could manifest people's desires into abilities.
"Its original form has indeed been destroyed, but since you can create artificial Devil Fruit, how difficult is it to create a tree with new abilities?"
Imu stretched out its hand, and immediately the huge branches of the tree consciously swayed toward it.
As if feeling the touch, or feeling that victory was in its hands, Imu revealed a storyteller's demeanor at this moment and said, "Want to hear it? Joy Boy was surprised... the real story of that era."
"I don't have any interest." Alex said lightly. "Actually, if it wasn't for the information about you and Uranus, I wouldn't even have much interest in the so-called Laugh Tale, unless it was transformed into historical documentation after I took control of the world."
"How dare you say that."
Imu glared at Alex, as if resentful that he had interrupted its rare interest - the first time it had taken the initiative to tell others about its exploits.
"Do you know? Although this new sacred tree has lost the ability to form Devil Fruits, it still retains the influence over fruit powers."
In the end, it seemed that it still wanted to let others know about the creation it made, and Imu said, "It can suppress the abilities of all ability users except me, and can increase my own power."
"Under such circumstances, do you still have the confidence to win?"
"Certainly."
Alex smiled slightly, and terrifying energy erupted from him instantly, causing the surrounding ground to crack apart.
BOOM!
With a light kick from Alex's foot, the ground instantly burst into a sound like an earthquake.
The gravel on the ground was kicked up by this foot, and then surrounded Alex's body under the effect of the Float-Float Fruit.
"What?!"
Imu's expression changed.
Whoosh!
All the crushed stones turned into boulders hundreds of meters in size in an instant, roaring toward Imu with a sharp sound of breaking through the air.
Holding the demon blade in its hand, it condensed energy and slashed directly.
The huge meteorites coming like a violent storm were shattered into pieces.
The moment the meteorites were destroyed, Alex, who had already come behind Imu holding Akazakura, suddenly cut out.
In an instant, all life force within a thousand-meter radius was drained.
With Observation Haki, Imu caught Alex's attack and raised its hand.
But just as it was about to make a defensive move, that feeling instantly spread throughout its body.
The last second it was still sensing with Observation Haki, but the next second the attack was already bombarding its body.
"How can this be?!"
Knowing that it had been attacked, Imu immediately mobilized its internal Armament Haki and Conqueror's Haki to build defenses in less than a second.
However, Alex's blow still caused it to be almost cut in half at the waist.
The long-lost pain and the almost severed waist made Imu's pupils dilate.
This guy in front of me can actually kill me!