"Gloriosa, take Shakky and leave first," Charlotte Linlin said without looking back, her gaze fixed on Samaz.
"Linlin, what about you..." Gloriosa supported Shakky, her beautiful eyes unable to hide her worry.
Charlotte Linlin's lips curled into a confident arc. "Don't you know how strong I am? Besides, this island is about to become a literal meat grinder. In the coming battle, I might not be able to spare the attention to keep you safe."
Gloriosa gave her a deep look and hesitated no longer. A pair of pure white wings instantly unfurled from her back. She grabbed Shakky's waist, and with a flap of her wings, she turned into a streak of light, quickly disappearing into the sky.
It wasn't that Samaz hadn't thought of intervening, but Charlotte Linlin's tangible killing intent pinned him firmly in place. Cold sweat soaked his luxurious robes, making it difficult for him to even move a finger.
Once the two had left, Charlotte Linlin's gaze turned completely cold, as if she were looking at a dead man.
"Hey! I think we can actually have a good talk..." Samaz forced a strained, ugly smile, attempting a final negotiation.
However, what answered him was the sharp cry of a sword tearing through the air!
A massive pinkish-purple sword beam slashed out from Charlotte Linlin! Everywhere the sword beam passed—standing Marines, houses, trees... everything was instantly split in two!
Samaz bore the brunt of it, his waist sliced clean through!
"All done..." Charlotte Linlin habitually prepared to turn and leave, but her brow suddenly furrowed. Her sharp senses detected something unusual.
Looking back, she saw that Samaz's body, severed into two halves, wasn't bleeding. Instead, an ominous black mist was emanating from the cut, and the two halves were actually healing slowly!
"Ah~ I've been found out!" On the ground, Samaz's upper half suddenly opened its eyes, his face wearing a mixture of pain and twisted smugness.
"That really hurts! You barbaric woman, how can your Haki be so strong!"
Although he cried out in pain, a sense of fearless arrogance reignited in his eyes.
"You're not dead?" Charlotte Linlin was somewhat surprised. She examined the eerie black mist.
"Is this the hidden power of the Celestial Dragons? Or rather... a gift from that 'Imu'?"
She stroked her chin, wearing the contemplative expression of a researcher.
"Hehehe..." Seeing her silent, Samaz thought she was wary, and his tone returned to its previous arrogance.
"I am a noble God's Knight. How could I possibly die easily at the hands of a low-life like you? So, why don't you just pretend you never saw me and leave? It's the best choice for both of us."
"No." Charlotte Linlin slowly shook her head, looking down at him with a glimmer of interest in her eyes, as if she had discovered a new toy.
"I'd actually like to see just how many 'ways of dying' your so-called Immortal Body can endure."
Hearing this, Samaz's smug expression instantly froze. Immortality didn't mean he wouldn't feel pain!
For the next few moments, this area turned into Charlotte Linlin's private testing ground.
"Wait! We can negotiate... Ahhh—!"
The first round consisted of Red Lightning containing the "Disintegration" attribute. Like countless whips, it lashed against Samaz's healing body. Each strike carried the property of Disintegration, making him feel as if his body were collapsing at an energy level.
"Bastard! Bitch! Do you know who I am?! The World Government won't let you get away with this!!" The intense pain caused Samaz to completely drop his facade and scream curses.
Boom!
What answered him was even more violent lightning, disintegrating the parts that had just healed once again.
In the second round, Charlotte Linlin drew the nodachi at her waist, its blade wreathed in black electrical arcs.
"No! Stop! I was wrong! I shouldn't have cursed at you just now! Spare me!" Sensing the terrifying aura within the black arcs, Samaz's curses turned into terrified pleas for mercy.
As the sword beam swept past, the healing speed of the struck areas slowed down significantly, with residual destructive energy lingering.
"How did I offend you? Where exactly did I offend you?! Let me go!!"
Watching his wounds slowly squirm to heal only to disappear again, this torture—akin to death by a thousand cuts—instilled a bone-deep fear of Charlotte Linlin in Samaz.
In the third round, Charlotte Linlin's massive nodachi, coated in top-tier Armament Haki, slammed down!
"Pugh—! I was wrong! I was really wrong! I'll never go after beautiful women again! I'll go back and cultivate my character!!"
Samaz's voice had become weak and powerless, his body smashed into even smaller fragments... Red, black, and Purple Lightning roared in turns, interspersed with sharp sword beams.
In this hellish scene, Samaz's pleas for mercy went from arrogant to desperate, growing fainter and fainter.
Looking at Samaz on the ground—already hacked into pieces yet still trying to pull himself together under the shroud of black mist—Charlotte Linlin's eyes gleamed with even greater interest.
"The Disintegration of the Red Lightning, the destruction of the Purple Lightning, the devouring of the Black Lightning... all can cause effective DMG. The Black Lightning can even briefly suppress it, but none can completely eradicate this 'immortality' rooted in the level of rules. Only slashes containing Conqueror's Haki can most effectively delay its repair speed."
She murmured to herself, analyzing the results: "An Immortal Body, combined with the eternal life potentially granted by the Ope-Ope no Mi... the hidden rule-based powers of this world are indeed not to be underestimated."
Her gaze fell upon the nodachi in her hand.
"A pity the 'Concept Devouring' trait hasn't awakened yet; otherwise, it should be able to fundamentally counter this rule-based immortality."
She felt a slight pang of regret, but then her eyes became sharp as blades again, looking down at the pile of squirming 'parts' on the ground.
"But it doesn't matter... You're dead today. Not even Jesus himself could save you from me!"
As soon as she spoke, the nodachi in her hand dissipated into specks of purple light. Within her eyes, the Three-tomoe Runes symbolizing the lightning element suddenly emerged and rotated, emitting an eerie glow.
Immediately after, a destructive aura far exceeding what came before erupted from her body. The hilt of a purple longsword slowly emerged from her ample chest.
The moment that hilt appeared, a terrifying pressure that touched the fundamental rules of the world descended upon the area!
"H-how?! This power... impossible!! How could such a power exist in this world!"
On the ground, the head of the shattered and listless Samaz seemed to experience a final burst of lucidity. With only his head remaining, he twisted incessantly, trying to crawl away from this terrifying woman.
He felt a terrifying aura from Charlotte Linlin that he had never felt before—the aura of death!
"No! Don't! Ahhh!!!"
Samaz let out the most shrill and desperate wail of his life! But his wail was drowned out by the massive Purple Lightning.
[Now! This is the Moment of Extinction! No Thought! Severance!]
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