The other four monsters also spoke in cold voices.
"Slaughtering Celestial Dragons, sinking Marineford... you cannot be left alive."
"Daring to threaten the World Government and demand treasure... you are too audacious."
"After we erase you, none of your subordinates will escape."
"Douglas Bullet, Shiryu, the Pirate Empress, Nico Robin... do they think they're safe with you? That they can escape judgment? How foolish!"
Luo Chen's clone looked back and sneered, "Five beasts, four-so-called knights who are neither human nor ghost, and three Admirals—two of whom are my defeated foes, and one who can only kill cannon fodder."
"You think you can kill me with just this sorry lot?"
"What a joke."
'This is just a clone, what's the Gorosei putting on an act for?'
'With all of them here on Sabaody Archipelago... Holy Land, Mary Geoise must be undefended, right?'
Once this clone of his was defeated, his main body would instantly get the news. He'd summon a few meteorites over Mary Geoise. He wanted to see if they could smash Imu.
Luo Chen's clone's eyes narrowed. In fact, he had a way to contact his main body right now.
A strip of wood formed in his palm. He carved a line of text on it with his finger, then tossed it into the Kamui dimension.
However, this time, the Kamui space opened very slowly. The spatial opening was also very small.
He glanced at the white-suited CP0 agent. It was likely due to this person's ability.
A Kamui this slow was unusable in battle.
He would be struck by the enemy before he could even transport his body into the other dimension.
...
In the skies above the New World.
Inside the cabin of the "Fallen Star Godfall," which was in front of the dozens of Wood Dragons.
Luo Chen stopped his movements, his eyebrows raising slightly.
It felt like someone was "knocking" from inside the Kamui dimension.
His right eye rippled with a black vortex, and a strip of wood fell out of the swirling dimensional space.
On the strip of wood, a line of text was carved.
[Mary Geoise undefended. Send meteorites, fast.]
"Was this written by the clone on Sabaody Archipelago?"
Luo Chen realized it instantly.
His Kamui dimension was connected to his clone's.
And only his clone could agitate the Kamui dimension in a way the main body would perceive.
In front of him, Hancock, who had been lying on the bed, turned her head, panting as she asked, "Why... why did you stop... Luo Chen?"
Luo Chen gave a helpless smile. "Something urgent came up. Wait for me in the room."
With that, he got dressed. A spatial vortex appeared by the bed.
Luo Chen stepped into it, and his figure vanished.
Boa Hancock stared blankly for a moment, the flush not yet faded from her gorgeous face, a picture of stunning beauty.
She could only obediently get dressed and wait for Luo Chen to return.
...
Sabaody Archipelago, Grove 1, near the Human Auction House.
Luo Chen's clone's taunts instantly drew the fury of the crowd.
The Gorosei's eyes were cold. As the highest authority in the World Government, when had they ever been cursed at like this?
'Beasts?'
The five of them seethed with killing intent.
The four members of the God's Knights also had cold expressions.
The red-haired, masked Shamrock said in an icy voice, "I will cut out your tongue later, so you can never spout nonsense again."
Aokiji and Kizaru—one was no longer lazy, the other no longer slacking.
Their expressions were dark.
Clearly, Luo Chen's "defeated foes" remark had enraged them.
This was equivalent to killing them and then whipping their corpses in public.
As Marine Admirals, they had never suffered such humiliation.
Akainu's face turned to magma, hot bubbles roiling, his expression grim.
'Killing cannon fodder?'
'Him?'
'Thinking about it... in the Summit War, I killed a few dozen nameless pirates and two Marine deserters. Today on Sabaody, I killed two Supernovas. They really do seem like cannon fodder.'
Sakazuki's eyes turned chillingly cold... 'He says I kill cannon fodder. The Fifth Emperor, Luo Chen, isn't cannon fodder, is he?'
Directly in front of Luo Chen's clone, under the broken Yarukiman Mangrove, the white-suited CP0 man shouted:
"Everyone, kill him quickly!"
"The surrounding space has been temporarily locked by me. All spatial teleportation abilities are unusable!"
Hundreds more golden chains emerged from his right palm, spreading into the void in all directions like a birdcage.
The entire space, for several hundred meters, was reinforced and tightened.
This was also why the Gorosei and the others hadn't attacked immediately.
Luo Chen had been fiddling with a strange strip of wood.
They had been waiting for the CP0 to completely lock down the space.
Now, the time was ripe. They could make their move!
Seeing the Gorosei, God's Knights, and the three Marine Admirals about to move, Luo Chen's clone acted first.
He had thought of a way to break the space lock.
One second before the enemies charged, Luo Chen's clone raised a hand, aiming it at the golden chains crisscrossing the sky.
"Shinra Tensei!"
Luo Chen yelled in his mind, simultaneously activating his Armament Haki.
He would combine the invisible, repulsive force of Shinra Tensei with Armament Haki.
'Haki is, itself, an ethereal form of energy. It should be able to combine with the repulsive force of Shinra Tensei.'
The invisible, repelling force merged with the Armament Haki, and unexpectedly transformed into waves of pitch-black, arched shockwaves.
These black, arched shockwaves radiated from Luo Chen's clone as the center, rushing towards the void in all directions.
Endlessly, they slammed into the surrounding golden chains.
"Clang-clang-clang..."
The golden chains, condensed from a fruit ability, actually rang out with the sound of metal.
They were knocked about in the air by the energy wave that combined Shinra Tensei and Armament Haki.
The next moment, cracks appeared on the hundreds of golden chains, and then they shattered, exploding into a golden shower that filled the sky.
"How is that possible?!" the white-suited man couldn't help but cry out, losing his composure.
'His fruit ability... was shattered?'
The Gorosei, God's Knights, and the three Admirals' expressions also changed.
The space lock was broken.
What was that attack Luo Chen just used?
A combination of repulsive force and Armament Haki?
Not far away, the space around Luo Chen swirled into a vortex, and his figure then vanished from his original spot.
Saint Saturn's expression changed drastically. He roared, "He's running! Kizaru, find him!"
It was a no-brainer. The first thing Luo Chen would do after breaking the space lock was run.
Facing so many of them, not running would be stupid; it would be suicide.
Kizaru hesitated for a moment, then unhurriedly transformed into golden light and shot into the sky.
He was a little afraid of being tricked by Luo Chen and captured again.
The others unleashed their Observation Haki to its fullest, covering Sabaody Archipelago and the nearby seas.
They didn't know if they could find Luo Chen, who possessed Observation Killing. They could only try.
No one wanted to let Luo Chen get away.
Just as Kizaru shot into the sky, the space behind the white-suited CP0 man began to twist.
The God's Knights' commander, Shamrock...
Akainu, Aokiji...
The Gorosei... all whipped their heads around.
A wood blade, wreathed in black and red lightning, emerged from the spatial vortex, slashing horizontally at the white-suited man's neck.
The Ushi-Oni-formed Saint Saturn roared in a thundering voice, "Behind you!"
His eyes were filled with disbelief.
'Is Luo Chen insane?'
'He has to know that spatial teleportation has a limited range; he can't teleport too far at once. Kizaru, from his position in the sky, would most likely be able to spot where he teleported to.'
'The most rational course of action for Luo Chen is to flee using continuous short-range teleports.'
'If he was fast enough, even if Kizaru saw him, he might not be able to catch him.'
'But now, not only did Luo Chen not flee... he's still trying to kill someone?!'
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