The lightning sphere thrown towards Imu was simply met with a raised hand. As if brushing away garbage, she lightly touched it, and the lightning ball, like a ping pong ball, was effortlessly batted aside.
"Mu's power is beyond your imagination. Compared to Joy Boy, you are still too weak. It is only because Mu feared Joy Boy too greatly that I treat you as if you were him," Imu said.
"I am not Joy Boy! I am Luffy! Monkey D. Luffy!" Luffy shouted, sprinting through the air and charging straight at Imu with a punch.
Thud!
His fist slammed into the black armor, which remained completely unscathed. Instead, his own hand swelled up, red and hot.
"Fuuu Fuu Fuuu!!" Luffy kept blowing on his fist.
"So hard! Why does it hurt so much?" Luffy exclaimed in surprise.
"Death Stare!"
Imu lowered her head to look at Luffy. Their eyes met, and Luffy sensed danger.
BOOM!
A violent explosion detonated right above Luffy's head. Amid the smoke of the explosion, Luffy's body fell, reverting from his Gear Fifth Nika state.
"Luffy!!!"
Usopp cried out in shock. "How is that possible? Luffy is strong! He can't be defeated just like that!"
"Hmph, that is Imu-sama. The Creator God. The savior who has existed in this world since 1,500 years ago. If not for Lord Imu's appearance, the world would still be enslaved by aliens. If Lord Imu hadn't saved the world, where would humanity be? The world would be far, far worse than it is now."
The blonde woman fighting Usopp spoke. She was from the Shepherd Family of Saint Ju Peter.
"1,500 years ago?!!! You must be joking! How could anyone in the world live that long?" Usopp exclaimed.
"Who said Imu-sama is human? We lowly humans are merely Lord Imu's servants. You are nothing but her slaves. Your very lives were granted by her. Without Imu-sama, from the moment you were born, you would have been nothing but livestock."
"It was Imu-sama who saved this world, who liberated your lives. Instead of being grateful, you dare to defy Imu-sama's commands." the woman from the Shepherd Family said.
Her words stunned both the Red Hair Pirates and the Straw Hats. Never had they heard such a story, someone alive for fifteen centuries, someone credited with saving the world.
"What a load of bullshit!"
A voice sounded behind them. A black pentagram magic circle appeared, accompanied by an eruption of black lightning. An overwhelming wave of Haki crashed down, making everyone feel suffocated.
The appearance of this Haki made everyone present feel terrified and oppressed. The sky darkened immensely at this moment, and an evil aura spread.
Crack!
A thunderbolt struck down from the sky. From within the black pentagram magic circle, a figure stepped out, holding a severed head in his hand.
"This thing is really useful."
The figure walked out and tossed the head in his hand aside.
Both Shanks and the Figarland guard captain he was fighting widened their eyes simultaneously.
The head rolling on the ground was none other than Shanks's father, Sain Figarland Garling, former commander of the God's Knights, and now one of the Five Elders.
"What savior? She's just a demon. A pitiful little demon who fled here from another dimension, lording it over this world for a thousand years. The moonfolk enslaved this planet, but don't act like she's any better. She's the same, just another tyrant who wants to enslave the world."
"Roy!!!"
Seeing the person who emerged, Nami and the others from the Straw Hat Pirates exclaimed.
"That… that's the teleportation circle only those Imu-sama marked can use! How did he come through it?!" the guards cried out in shock.
Their teleportation ability was a gift from Imu, communication and long-distance transport marked by her power. Only the Five Elders, the God's Knights, and her personal guards carried such marks.
So, how had Roy used it? He clearly wasn't marked.
Imu turned to look at Roy. Their eyes met.
"Big toad, we meet again. Still, I have to admit, you really do resemble him. Satan, was it? Should I call you Imu… or Nika?" Roy said with a laugh.
"Nika?!!" Nami was confused.
"Isn't Nika the Sun God?" Usopp said.
"Luffy's fruit is the Sun God Nika Fruit. What connection does this person have with Nika?" Sanji was full of curiosity.
"It can't be..." Beckman thought of something. As one of the smartest men in the world, he connected many dots.
"You probably never imagined it. The legendary Nika, who saved the world, is actually this person. 1,500 years ago, the people living on this planet were ruled by people from the moon. Everyone in the world was reduced to slaves."
"In desperation, facing those self-proclaimed gods, the moonfolk, today's Skypieans, humans prayed not to the heavens, but to hell. The so-called magic circle was really a summoning circle."
"Luckily, a demon heard the summons and appeared from another dimensional space. It was this one."
"Her arrival broke the moonfolk's rule, ending a cataclysmic war. That was the first appearance of Nika."
"But the races of the world couldn't admit they were saved by a demon, so they called her a god, the Sun God Nika."
"In truth, she was a devil who replaced the moonfolk's reign with her own tyranny, enslaving the world for centuries."
"When people rose to resist, they invoked the Sun God once more. Their will and desires manifested, birthing the Sun God Fruit, bringing new hope and ideals."
"Joy Boy ate that fruit nine hundred years ago and fought her in a war that shook the world. But Joy Boy was defeated."
"That is the true history, one hundred years erased, and six hundred more rewritten."
Robin trembled with excitement. "So that's it! No wonder in the First World of Elbaf, there was no sign of Nika, only a crowned figure. That crowned one was Nika! In the Second World came Joy Boy, the one who ate the fruit. The true Nika… is her!!"
Everyone looked at the demon-like Imu. It was hard to imagine that this person was actually the Nika who had once saved the world.
"How did you get here?" Imu turned to look at Roy and asked.
"Before killing this thing, I made him activate the teleportation circle to see if I could traverse it. Apparently, I can. And I also discovered one of your secrets," Roy said with a grin.
Imu's expression flickered, for the first time showing unease.
"You don't mean…" she whispered, eyes betraying a trace of panic.
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