While the remaining Priests and God's Soldiers were being hunted down.
Over with Eneru.
At this moment, he was being swung left and right on the rubberized ground by Luffy, like a giant snot.
As a Logia user, how many years had it been since he experienced the feeling of falling face-first and still getting hurt?
And now, his two cheeks were swollen like a pig's head from being slammed left and right.
Not only that, but other parts of his body had also been abused by Luffy to the point of being unrecognizable.
He looked even more terrified than a quail, constantly begging Luffy loudly:
"It's too exciting!"
"I'm not playing anymore!"
"I'm not playing anymore!"
"Stop!"
"Please stop!"
Luffy was having fun when he suddenly heard Eneru's voice and said, displeased, "Not playing anymore?"
"I just got started!"
"And didn't you say you wanted excitement?"
"How is this much excitement enough?"
As he finished speaking, Luffy began to torment Eneru with even greater force.
This scene made the Straw Hat who had arrived nearby, as well as the Shandia and God's Soldiers fighting nearby, sigh in sympathy for Eneru.
"Why do I suddenly feel that this God is so pitiful!"
"I feel the same way!"
"To be honest, I'm starting to feel a bit of sympathy for this guy who calls himself God."
"No choice! Who told him to unfortunately encounter a monster like Luffy!"
"Truly… too miserable!"
Everyone shook their heads and sighed in unison, mourning for Eneru.
Bang!
After kicking Eneru away like a rubber ball once more, Luffy saw.
Eneru suddenly transformed into a bolt of lightning, instantly creating distance between himself and Luffy.
Then, Eneru frowned in extreme anger, gritting his teeth, and said in a low voice, word by word, "You mere monkey from the Blue Sea, you are truly too presumptuous!"
"I am God!"
"How dare you insult me, who is God, in such a way!"
"Prepare yourself… to face the wrath of God!"
As Eneru finished speaking, everyone saw his body suddenly transform into a blazing, dazzling white ball of lightning.
A surging, immense energy erupted from within that ball of lightning.
Crack!
Crack!
Bursts of thunderous roars rang out continuously, making everyone's hearts tremble.
And as the white lightning gradually faded.
Everyone saw that Eneru had now transformed into a giant lightning titan.
His aura at this moment had also become stronger than ever before.
"Two Hundred Million Volts - Thunder God!"
Eneru, transformed into a lightning titan, roared.
Bursts of thunderous crackling sounds emanated from within his body, as if his words themselves were like thunder, striking fear into people's hearts.
At this moment, Eneru's confidence once again soared to its peak. In this form, he felt that he was an invincible existence.
He looked at Luffy opposite him and arrogantly shouted, "How about it, Blue Sea monkey?"
"Do you see it?"
"This is my true power."
"You are merely a Paramecia ability user; how could you possibly defeat my strongest Logia?"
"I am God!"
"The strongest in nature… the one who controls lightning… God!"
"I am… the invincible… God!"
Eneru roared loudly, proclaiming his divine status and identity to everyone.
And his actions indeed had an effect.
Looking at the incredibly imposing Eneru, the God's Soldiers once again ignited hope.
They all cheered for Eneru.
"Lord Eneru, defeat that Blue Sea person!"
"Lord Eneru is invincible!"
"Lord Eneru is the strongest!"
"Lord Eneru is the true… God!"
Not only the God's Soldiers, but even the Shandia warriors stopped fighting at this moment, once again focusing on the battle between Luffy and Eneru.
Eneru's current stance still made them subtly worry for Luffy.
For them, ordinary mortals, the lightning of nature was too terrifying.
Moreover, Eneru had now seemingly transformed into lightning itself.
"Can he win, Straw Hat?"
"You must win, Straw Hat!"
"The fate of Sky Island rests on you, Straw Hat!"
"You absolutely… must win!!!"
The Shandia people shouted frantically, pleading with Luffy.
Meanwhile, Luffy, looking at the imposing Eneru opposite him, smiled calmly and spoke.
"Indeed, as a being of lightning, you can be considered a Thunder God!"
"But..."
"You're not the only one who's a God!"
Hearing Luffy say this, everyone was drawn in, their gazes turning towards him with curiosity.
Then, they watched as Luffy suddenly beamed, spread his arms, and looked up at the sun in the sky, saying,
"I am..."
"The Sun God!!!"
As soon as he finished speaking, everyone saw a world-shaking aura suddenly erupt from Luffy.
Surging energy was released from his body, even tearing up the ground nearby.
Luffy suddenly leaped up.
His figure instantly appeared hundreds of meters in the sky.
And it just so happened to be silhouetted against the red sun.
As if he had merged with the sun.
Then, Luffy stretched his right hand back, as if he was going to reach into the sun itself.
And as he stretched his fist backward, that fist also continued to grow larger.
Vast energy continuously surged towards that fist.
It even caused the surrounding clouds to be stirred and drawn in, gradually attaching themselves to it.
Under the reflection of the fiery red sun.
It seemed to form a swirling red inflammation cloud, like a black hole.
At the very center of the inflammation cloud, a colossal, pitch-black fist the size of a warship slowly emerged.
"Come on! Thunder God!"
Luffy looked down at Eneru below, a smile on his lips and his eyes full of confidence.
Eneru, seeing this scene, had his competitive spirit thoroughly ignited.
He also began to gather power, and in the blink of an eye, surging lightning gathered in his right fist, looking equally astonishing.
He looked up at Luffy, who seemed to have merged with the sun in the sky, and shouted loudly,
"What Sun God? Thunder God?"
"There is only one God in this world..."
"And that is I... God Eneru!!!"
With a heart-wrenching roar, Eneru, holding his giant lightning fist, leaped up to the same height as Luffy.
Luffy, meanwhile, swung his right fist forward to meet him.
"Ah ah ah ah..."
The roars of the two simultaneously resounded between heaven and earth.
Making everyone present hold their breath in anticipation.
Even people far away on Sky Island saw the fiery red and the dazzling white light about to collide, and they all focused their attention.
Boom!
A deafening roar, shaking the entire Sky Island, suddenly erupted.
The entire Apayado fell into a frantic tremor.
Surging energy continuously spewed forth between the fiery red and the white light.
Stirring up violent gales.
Everyone on Sky Island, including all those present, watched the heart-stopping collision with bated breath, their hearts pounding in fear, all marveling at the immense power of those two energies.
However...
What made everyone's shock escalate yet another notch was...
The white light, which they found terrifying to even imagine, was completely extinguished almost immediately upon contact with the fiery red, unable to hold on for long.
In the blink of an eye, only the dazzling fiery red remained in the entire sky.
And everyone on Sky Island saw at that moment a Straw Hat-wearing shadow, seemingly merged with the sun, reflected within that fiery red.
Everyone stared at this scene, remaining motionless for a long time.
Time seemed to stop at that moment, and the air was eerily still.
However, after a moment of silence, the crowd completely erupted.
The Shandia Tribe warriors cheered wildly as if they had gone mad.
"He won! Straw Hat really won!"
"That's great! Eneru has finally been defeated!"
"This way... Sky Island and Apayado will not be destroyed!"
"Straw Hat is too strong, you saved Sky Island, you saved Apayado, you are the benefactor of Sky Island!"
"Straw Hat, you are the true God, the Sun God!"
"Sun God!!!"
The Shandia Tribe people looked at the figure reflected in the sun, shouting the name of the Sun God frantically.
Wapa's pupils were also shaking in shock at this moment, his expression incredibly excited.
Apayado was saved.
Sky Island would not be destroyed.
The opportunity to ring the Shandora Bell, which he had always pursued, was now within reach.
Looking at the figure reflected in the sun, Wapa used all his strength to squeeze out a few slurred words.
"Sun....God!!!"
Gan Fall looked at Luffy's figure, his heart also stirred, and his eyes even became moist.
As the former God of Sky Island, his feelings for Sky Island ran deep.
And Luffy had helped him protect the entire Sky Island, so he was naturally extremely excited and grateful.
At this moment, he held back his tears and exclaimed emotionally,
"I always believed... this day... would surely come!"
"Straw Hat, you are the true... Sun God!!!"
Although the Straw Hat did not show the same level of excitement as others, seeing Luffy defeat a God who was disliked by everyone, their faces were also filled with joy.
"Luffy, well done!"
"sugei! Luffy!"
"As expected of our Captain! Luffy!"
Where there was joy and celebration, there was also despair and fear.
On the side of the God's soldiers, each of them was filled with immense fear and disbelief, looking at the "Sun God" in the sky.
"Lord God Eneru... was defeated?!"
"This isn't real, this can't be real! Lord Eneru is an invincible God! How could he possibly lose?"
"But that Straw Hat said he is also a God, and even the Sun God!"
"So the Thunder God lost to... the Sun God?!"
"Is Straw Hat... the true God?!"
Just as everyone was filled with immense shock and emotion.
Dong!
Suddenly, a melodious and beautiful bell chime, like a song, rang out at this moment.
The bell chime spread throughout Sky Island, and it seemed to reverberate between heaven and earth.
Everyone on Sky Island was stunned at this moment, listening to the beautiful bell chime.
And the Straw Hat, Gan Fall, the God's soldiers, and all the Shandia, especially Wapa, were suddenly taken aback.
Everyone saw at this moment that after Eneru was sent flying by Luffy, he crashed into a distant cloud.
And from within the cloud, an incredibly massive, dazzling golden bell flew out at this moment.
Dong!
Another beautiful sound, like a song, rang out.
At this moment, everyone came to their senses, immersed in the beautiful and melodious bell chime.
The Straw Hat members' faces were all beaming with smiles.
"How pleasant to the ear, this sound."
"What a wonderful sound! What is this sound?"
"~ That golden bell, could it be the one Nuo Lan Du spoke of?!"
"Really? That means this sound is the sound of the golden bell that Nuo Lan Du heard?!"
"Golden City... truly exists on Sky Island!!!"
Gan Fall, including Conis and the residents of Sky Island, were also immersed in this bell chime at this moment.
"This sound... is the earth singing?"
"Is this sound... a miracle?"
"Does God... truly exist?"
If one were to say who was most excited to hear this sound.
It was undoubtedly the Shandia people.
Each of them was incredibly excited, their pupils trembling uncontrollably, their eyes filled with hot tears.
Especially Wapa and the tribal chief.
"Great Warrior Kalgara, do you hear it? The echoing sound of the Shandora Bell."
"We finally lit the Shandora Bell! Montblanc Nuo Lan Du will surely receive our message, Great Warrior Kalgara!"
In the sky, Luffy's lips curled into a smile, and the figures of Cricket, Shoujou, and Masira appeared in his mind as he chuckled,
"Did you hear it?"
"Golden City... truly exists!!!"
...
East Coast of Jaya Island.
Cricket, Shoujou, and Masira, along with their subordinates, stood on the shore, their faces all beaming with excitement and joy.
"Old man, that sound just now..."
Shoujou and Masira simultaneously said to Cricket with surprise.
Cricket smiled and nodded.
"Yes! There's no mistake!"
"That kid really found it for us!"
Everyone looked up at the sky.
In the sky, a huge shadow wearing a Straw Hat appeared.
After defeating Eneru,
the remaining few God's Warriors quickly crumbled.
Luffy also landed on the ground at this time, arriving beside the Straw Hat.
Suddenly, to the shock of the entire Straw Hat,
they saw Luffy's face visibly aging, his skin appearing to peel off and sag downwards.
This sight immediately filled everyone with extreme worry and shock.
"Luffy?! What happened to you?"
"Are you okay, Luffy?"
"How did you suddenly become like this?"
"Is this an illness? Or what's going on?"
"Illness? Doctor! Doctor!"
"Aren't you the doctor, Chopper!"
"Ah? Oh, right! I'm the doctor!"
Just as everyone was in a panic, Luffy spoke weakly.
"I'm fine, it's just that this move consumes too much, and there are some side effects, so I'm a little tired, that's all."
"Let me try to eliminate this side effect."
As Luffy was speaking,
Thump-thump!
Thump-thump!
A drum-like sound suddenly beat and echoed from his heart.
The next instant,
Luffy's body seemed to reverse in time; his peeling and sagging skin began to retract, quickly returning completely to its original state, and his body also regained its previous pure white color.
At this moment, Luffy did not rush to deactivate his Fifth Gear state.
Instead, he suddenly closed his eyes and began to meditate.
During the recent change, he had, through his heaven-defying comprehension, gained a slight understanding of how to eliminate this side effect.
Just like how he eliminated the side effects of the other gears before.
Fifth Gear required a large amount of energy to maintain.
And the rapid aging, the side effect of being completely drained, even made him feel as if his life force was being drawn away.
So what Luffy needed to do was to make the maintenance of Fifth Gear only require his own stamina and energy, and nothing else.
Because he had already eliminated several side effects, Luffy understood his own body extremely well.
Soon, a notification appeared in his mind.
"Your comprehension is heaven-defying. Through meditation and enlightenment, the side effect of your ability 'Fifth Gear' has been eliminated."
Upon receiving this notification, Luffy was instantly overjoyed.
"It worked!"
As he spoke, he also opened his eyes.
Then, he deactivated his ability.
Grrr...
The moment he deactivated his ability, besides feeling a bit hungry and lacking much strength, he felt nothing else.
At this moment, the other members of the Straw Hat Crew gathered around him, showing their concern.
"Has the side effect been eliminated?"
Luffy nodded, smiling slightly, and said,
"It's been eliminated. I'm fine now!"
"It won't happen again in the future."
Everyone immediately breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this.