Chapter 230: Despair a Step Too Late! The Strongest Prison Break Team Assembles
As the immensely heavy Sea Stone gate collapsed with a roar, kicking up clouds of ancient dust.
The group stepped over the ruins and officially entered the abyss of Impel Down Level 6 (Infinite Hell).
Unlike the levels above, which were filled with cruel punishments like boiling blood pools, extreme ice and snow, or brutal poisonous insects, there were no flashy tortures here.
What met their eyes was only an impenetrable, eternal darkness and a suffocating, absolute silence.
Because those imprisoned here were all legendary pirates who had committed heinous crimes and had even been forcibly erased from the poneglyph by the World Government.
Time seemed to have come to a complete standstill here, with only despair spreading in silence.
However, the group's forced entry was like throwing a boulder into a stagnant pool, instantly shattering the silence.
Deep within the dark cells, countless eyes flickering with vicious, greedy, and insane light lit up, staring fixedly at these unexpected guests.
Immediately after, some emaciated veteran pirates began to shake their chains, emitting cold and mocking cackles:
"Hehehe... So living people have actually broken in here? What rare guests."
"Hey, you brats over there, come over and entertain me. I've almost forgotten what the air outside smells like..."
Listening to the noisy and grating clamor all around, Tatsuya, walking at the very front of the group, frowned slightly.
He stopped and lifted his head slightly.
That pair of pitch-black eyes instantly transformed into the scarlet Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan in the endless darkness.
Accompanied by the slow rotation of the eerie patterns, a killing intent, cold and filled with a destructive aura as if it were tangible, instantly swept across the entire vast space of the sixth level.
Those major criminals who had been mocking them just a second ago felt as if they had fallen into an ice cave under this terrifying mental pressure that struck directly at their souls.
The entire Infinite Hell instantly fell into dead silence, and those veteran pirates hurriedly clamped their mouths shut.
They could no longer make a single sound, fearing they would anger this god of slaughter who had appeared from nowhere.
Luffy and Sabo paid no attention to the major criminals around them.
The brothers, their eyes bloodshot, ran frantically along the corridor toward a special cell deep inside.
"Ace!"
"Ace! Where are you? We've come to save you!"
Sabo took the lead and rushed to the front of the cell marked with Ace's number.
He couldn't wait to find a key, and his hands instantly transformed into pitch-black, powerful Dragon Claws.
Accompanied by the sound of tearing metal, the indestructible Sea Stone cell door was ripped open by him with the most violent methods, creating a large hole.
However, when the door was roughly pulled open and the two, full of hope, rushed in, they both froze in place upon seeing the scene inside the cell.
What met their eyes were only empty stone walls and a cold, damp floor.
In the center of the cell, only a few thick and heavy Sea Stone chains were left scattered randomly.
Apart from that, there was no one.
"How could this happen..."
Luffy's mind went blank instantly, and the sound of ringing in his ears occupied all his hearing.
His knees went weak, and he knelt blankly on the cold stone floor, his wide-open eyes filled with unacceptable despair and confusion.
Sabo, standing to the side, gritted his teeth so hard that his gums bled.
He swung his right fist violently, smashing it with a "bang" against the hard wall beside him.
His knuckles instantly broke and bled, but he seemed not to feel the pain. His scarred face was filled with regret and a painful distortion:
"Damn it! Damn it!!"
"We were just a little bit away! Just a little bit more and we would have made it!"
Just as the two brothers were on the verge of breaking down.
From the heavy shadows of the opposite cell, a dull sound of chains clashing violently suddenly rang out. "Clatter..."
The burly former Seven Warlords of the Sea, "Knight of the Sea" Jinbe, who was pinned to the wall by thick Sea Stone chains, slowly raised his head.
He looked at the brothers on the opposite side who were nearing a breakdown and let out a long sigh:
"Don't waste your energy, young men."
"You... arrived a step too late."
In the anxious gaze of Luffy and Sabo, who suddenly turned around.
Jinbe's blue face was full of sorrow, and he continued in a low voice:
"Just a moment ago, brother Ace was taken by Magellan's subordinates and the Vice Admiral sent from Marineford onto the exclusive elevator leading to the surface."
"Calculating the time, at this point, he must have almost arrived at the Marineford escort warship above Impel Down."
Hearing these words, Luffy, who was kneeling on the ground, suddenly lifted his lowered head.
He reached out his dust-covered hand, pressed firmly on the brim of his Straw Hat, and hid most of his face in the shadows.
But in his eyes, which were staring fixedly at the ground, the original confusion and despair were instantly swept away, and a fiercer, crazier fighting spirit burned anew.
"Since he is not here..."
Luffy gritted his teeth, stood up slowly from the ground, and growled word by word.
"Then we chase after him! We'll fight all the way to Marineford! I will definitely save Ace!"
Sabo, standing to the side, also straightened his body again.
He took a deep breath and forced the tears in his eyes back:
"That's right. Even if it means chasing to Marineford."
"Even if we have to chase to the ends of the earth, we will definitely bring him back!"
Just in this grim atmosphere, a low, hoarse sneer suddenly came from the dark corner of the next cell.
"Kuhahaha... What touching brotherly love."
"What? Want to go to the big stage on the surface and cause a scene?"
Accompanied by the heavy, dragging sound of footsteps, the former Seven Warlords of the Sea, Sand Crocodile, Crocodile, slowly walked out of the shadows into the faint light.
On his face, which bore his signature horizontal scar, hung a wild and unrestrained smile:
"The passage outside is now filled with nets and traps. How about bringing me along, Straw Hat?"
"I can help you clear the way ahead."
"As a condition of exchange, you let me out."
"I want to take the head of that old man, Whitebeard."
Hearing this familiar voice, Luffy turned his head sharply.
In his mind, the desperate tears of Princess Vivi and the innocent citizens ravaged by war in Alabasta flashed instantly.
Luffy instinctively clenched his fists and shouted a flat refusal:
"It's you, you bastard Crocodile! Don't even think about it, there's no way I'll let you out!"
But just as Luffy was preparing to continue cursing, a long, powerful hand rested steadily on his shoulder, stopping him.
Tatsuya calmly walked past Luffy and strolled through the quiet hell to the front of Crocodile's steel cell.
He lifted his chin slightly, looking down coldly at this hero who had been reduced to a prisoner.
"You can come out and be our vanguard thug, Sand Crocodile."
Tatsuya's voice carried no emotion, and those eerie Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan eyes rotated slowly.
"But, if you dare to make any unnecessary moves along the way..."
Before he finished speaking, a terrifying mental pressure far beyond ordinary imagination was instantly and unreservedly pressed onto Crocodile's shoulders.
Feeling the true terror of facing the abyss of death, the arrogance on Crocodile's face stiffened instantly.
He realized clearly that with just one thought from this young man before him, he could be doomed forever.
A drop of cold sweat slid down Crocodile's forehead involuntarily, and he stared fixedly at the unfathomable black-haired young man before him.
He smacked his lips and finally rationally suppressed the arrogance in his heart:
"Ah... what a heart-stopping growth speed, Crimson Lotus... Deal."
Seeing that both sides had reached an agreement, Inazuma, who was standing at the back, immediately walked forward.
His hands instantly transformed into huge shears, and accompanied by a crisp clicking sound, he cut Crocodile's sturdy cell door into pieces in no time.
At the same time, Jinbe on the opposite side also pleaded with Luffy in a deep voice, hoping to be released as well.
His blue face was full of the determination of someone ready to face death:
"I want to go too! I want to save brother Ace and help Father Whitebeard!"
"In this war, I wouldn't hesitate to give my life!"
Tatsuya did not hesitate at all.
He turned around, drew the black blade "Shusui" from his waist with a backhand, and the blade's light flashed through the cell like a bolt of black lightning.
Accompanied by a crisp "clink" sound, the thick Sea Stone chains that had trapped Jinbe for so long were cleanly cut off by him on the spot with one strike.
Thus, in the deepest part of this dark and lightless hell, a team capable of making the entire world tremble was born.
Crimson Lotus Victor, Revolutionary Army Chief of Staff Sabo, Straw Hat Luffy, along with two high-ranking Revolutionary Army cadres, Ivankov and Inazuma.
As well as Crocodile and Jinbe, the two powerful former Seven Warlords of the Sea.
This terrifying lineup, which could be called the "strongest prison break team in history," was officially assembled in the Infinite Hell.
The group did not delay for a moment; they turned around simultaneously and charged ferociously toward the stairs leading to the upper levels.
...
Just as this prison break team was preparing to break out upward.
The scene suddenly shifted to the gate of Level 1 of Impel Down.
"Boom!!!"
Accompanied by an earth-shattering, terrifying explosion, Impel Down's supposedly indestructible gate.
Was actually blasted into rubble and debris from the outside by someone using extremely violent means.
In the billowing, pungent smoke, a burly man with a massive frame, full head of black hair, and missing a few teeth, wearing a black cloak and leading a group of vicious subordinates who also exuded a dangerous aura, swaggered in, stepping over the ruins.
The man looked up at the gloomy, cloud-covered prison dome above.
He opened his arms and let out his signature arrogant laughter:
"Ze-hahahaha! Finally inside!"
"Boys, buck up! Are you ready to welcome our New World?!"
The Blackbeard Pirates, at this moment, officially invaded this world's number one underwater super prison
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