Seeing Gorosei Saturn's shocked and furious expression, the white-suited CP0 man instantly sensed the danger.
Although his Observation Haki gave no warning, the sound of an attack from behind and Saint Saturn's expression both made it clear that Luo Chen's target was him.
He also didn't understand why Luo Chen wasn't fleeing.
'He's still trying to kill me?'
'Is Luo Chen really not afraid of death?'
At this moment, the white-suited man had no time to dodge. He could only wrap his entire body in Armament Haki.
He wasn't sure where this blow was aimed.
Perhaps his head, perhaps his neck, or perhaps his torso.
'It's over...' Despair filled the white-suited man's heart.
Just moments ago, he had hastily blocked one of Luo Chen's God's Avoidance attacks.
The result was that his left arm, wrapped in Armament Haki, was severed.
The current situation was the same as before—a hasty defense.
He couldn't block this blow.
"Pfft!"
The sound of tearing flesh clearly reached the white-suited man's ears.
He felt a coldness on his neck, which went numb as if electrocuted, followed by a sharp pain and a sensation of hot liquid.
Immediately, the world before his eyes began to "flip."
The light in the white-suited man's eyes quickly dimmed.
He saw his own headless body, still standing in place.
'I've been beheaded...' This was his final thought.
...
"Thud—"
The headless body pitched forward, slamming into the ground as blood sprayed from the severed neck.
Luo Chen's clone glanced at the corpse, his right eye rippling.
A spatial vortex quickly swallowed the white-suited man's body.
A smile appeared on his face.
'This battle is already a win.'
'I took out a CP0 powerhouse whose ability countered mine.'
'And I got his body.'
'Once resurrected with Impure World Reincarnation, he'll be another powerful asset.'
'I wonder if that space-locking ability can seal the Gorosei's and Imu's teleportation magic circles?'
'If it can, I'll be able to cut off the enemy's escape route.'
"Bastard!"
The Gorosei were furious.
Luo Chen had killed a CP0 agent while surrounded by all of them, which made them feel deep shame and anger.
Saint Saturn roared in anger. His humanoid upper body completely disappeared, and he transformed into a spider-Ushi-Oni monster, with only a human face remaining.
His body grew even larger, and he spat out several streams of deep purple venom.
Luo Chen's clone stood still, turning his torso intangible.
The streams of venom passed through his body, striking the ground a dozen meters behind him.
"Boom! Boom! Boom..."
The moment Saturn's venom touched the ground, it caused massive explosions.
A white shadow, as fast as a ghost, charged out. It was the bald Gorosei, transformed into a skeletal horse.
As he charged, his upper body turned humanoid. He drew the long sword at his waist, and the blade radiated an icy chill.
Facing this strike, Luo Chen's clone still didn't dodge, standing his ground.
Swish—
The chilling blade passed through his waist as if slashing a phantom, failing to cause any damage.
A trace of frost condensed on the white line the blade left in the air.
The bald Gorosei's face showed his shock.
'It passed through again?'
As if refusing to believe it, he began a series of rapid, continuous slashes.
One bright slash after another left afterimages on Luo Chen's body, but none could inflict any damage.
This made the bald Gorosei's expression turn extremely ugly.
'He can't be hit? Why?'
He tried to use his Observation Haki, but the moment it touched Luo Chen, it was crushed.
In the distance, the voice of the God's Knights' commander, the red-haired Shamrock, came from behind his mask:
"He has Observation Killing. We can't see the trick."
"But it must involve spatial power."
"Every one of Saint Nusjuro's slashes is wrapped in Armament Haki. A simple intangibility-type Devil Fruit ability would have been nullified."
"Most likely, Luo Chen is transporting his body to another dimension, leaving an afterimage."
"Armament Haki cannot reach into a different dimension."
Hearing this, the other Gorosei's faces darkened even further.
The only user with the ability to lock down space had just been killed by Luo Chen.
Now, none of them possessed spatial powers.
"Let me try."
The girl in the cloak, with her mouth and shins wrapped in bandages, spoke up.
Her bi-colored, mismatched eyes locked onto Luo Chen, and she raised her hand.
A strip of what looked like a bandage extended from her palm. The very tip of the strip was shaped like an arrowhead.
This arrowhead strip shot towards Luo Chen, then suddenly stopped in mid-air. A spatial ripple appeared in front of the arrowhead.
The arrowhead-band plunged into the spatial ripple.
In the vision of the Gorosei and the three Admirals, the girl's arrowhead strip seemed to have vanished into another dimension.
Only the end of the strip remained connected to her palm.
"Commander," the girl said.
Shamrock understood. He swung his long sword, wrapping it in a sword aura.
The sword aura shot out, clinging to the strip extending from the girl's palm, as if it were a predetermined track.
Where the strip vanished, the sword aura also vanished instantly.
Not far away, Luo Chen's clone's expression changed slightly.
His Observation Haki had seen one second into the future.
The part of his body in the Kamui dimension would be targeted by an arrowhead strip.
A sword aura would then follow the arrowhead's track and ultimately hit his body.
His gaze shifted to the cloaked girl.
'Junko.'
'The Arrow-Arrow Fruit user.'
'She can lock onto enemies with her arrows.'
'Attacks that follow the arrow's path cannot be dodged.'
'This is a ridiculously overpowered ability.'
Luo Chen's clone hadn't expected that her arrow could even penetrate the Kamui dimension.
'Interesting,' Luo Chen's clone muttered.
Inside the Kamui dimension, wood quickly grew from his detached torso, creating another Wood Clone.
The Wood Clone wrapped its hands in Armament Haki, grabbed the arrowhead strip rushing towards it, and yanked hard with both hands.
The arrowhead strip shattered.
The sword aura that Shamrock had unleashed, now like a headless fly, struck a random spot in the Kamui dimension.
Outside, Junko's eyes showed a trace of surprise. She said:
"My arrow was destroyed in the other dimension."
Shamrock and the other Gorosei frowned.
They now understood why Luo Chen had been able to capture two Admirals.
This guy's abilities were too versatile.
His main body was outside facing Saint Nusjuro's barrage of slashes, yet he still had the spare energy within the other dimension to shatter Junko's attack.
Saint Saturn said coldly, "Attack together. All fruit abilities consume stamina."
"Luo Chen can't use that intangibility forever. Tie him down."
"Wait for him to be exhausted or show an opening."
Shamrock nodded. "We will coordinate with Junko and attack his body in the other dimension."
"Good," Saint Saturn said, and was the first to charge.
His many spider legs moved rapidly, closing the distance to Luo Chen in an instant.
The giant sandworm burrowed into the earth, preparing to attack from underground.
The snake-bird hybrid monster, Itsumade, flew into the sky.
The tusked-boar-formed Gorosei charged Luo Chen, following closely behind Saint Saturn.
Junko extended multiple arrowhead-bandages from her hand, targeting Luo Chen's head, torso, and limbs.
Shamrock and the other three God's Knights members used Junko's arrowhead strips to launch their attacks.
Akainu also attacked decisively.
Aokiji looked at Luo Chen, then at Rayleigh and the Supernovas nearby, and said:
"I'll take care of them."
With that, without waiting to see if the Gorosei agreed, he headed straight for Rayleigh.
In the sky, Kizaru's mouth twitched.
'Kuzan doesn't want to fight Luo Chen?'
'Has his faith in the World Government's justice been shaken?' Kizaru knew in his heart that Aokiji couldn't be afraid.
Rather, he believed that Luo Chen was different from those unpardonably evil pirates.
Perhaps, in Kuzan's heart, Luo Chen was no longer an enemy.
Kizaru shook his head slightly and fired a single, token laser beam.
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