Chapter 136 I'll Always Be Yours, The Captain's Wrath
The deck of the Going Merry was now a complete mess.
The ships that were once filled with laughter and joy are now covered with shocking scorch marks left by lightning strikes.
Nami knelt in a pool of blood in the center of the deck, her hands covered in blood, trembling as she pressed on the charred, penetrating wound in Viktor's chest.
"Idiot...you big idiot!!"
Large tears slid down her cheeks, dripping onto Viktor's bloodless face.
"Who told you to be so stubborn... Why did you have to carry it all alone..."
"If you die... I will never, ever forgive you..."
Beside her, Sanji and Usopp lay unconscious on the ground, their bodies emitting smoke.
But Viktor's injuries were undoubtedly the most severe—he had taken a direct hit from tens of millions of volts of lightning and suffered penetrating wounds.
Fear gripped Nami's heart like a cold hand.
Her psychological defenses completely crumbled, and she even hesitated to reach out and check Viktor's breath, fearing that the result would cause her to break down.
"Calm down... Nami... You're the navigator... You have to save him..."
Nami, fighting back tears, frantically tried to treat Viktor's severe electric shock and bleeding wounds using the only first-aid kit left on the ship.
"Let go... let go of the knife..."
Although Viktor was unconscious, he still gripped his knife tightly in his right hand.
His fingers were stiff and spasming from the intense electric shock, and his knuckles turned white.
Nami used a lot of effort, even breaking her fingers until they ached, before she finally managed to take the knife from his hand and put it aside.
Seeing Viktor's once strong body now covered in charred wounds, Nami's hands trembled violently.
But when she looked up at the distant sky, her eyes, behind her tears, became more resolute than ever before.
Just then.
"Everyone----!!!"
A loud, energetic shout broke the silence.
Luffy finally escaped that damned giant python, and burst out of the forest covered in leaves and slime.
He twitched his nose as he ran:
"It smells so good! I smell barbecue... Is dinner ready...? Huh?"
The smile on Luffy's face froze completely the moment he saw the view on the deck.
There was no barbecue, no banquet.
What came into his view was Sanji lying in a pool of blood, his life hanging in the balance; Usopp, his body charred black; and Viktor, barely breathing.
And then there's Nami kneeling in a pool of blood, covered in blood and tears.
"..."
Luffy didn't shout or yell as usual, nor did he jump around in a panic.
He slowly stopped and lowered the brim of his straw hat.
The shadows obscured his eyes, making it impossible to see his expression.
But the surrounding air seemed to drop to freezing point in an instant.
A suffocatingly low pressure emanated from the captain, who was usually so jovial.
"...Who did this?"
The voice was deep and suppressed, like a volcano about to erupt.
Seemingly sensing Luffy's intense aura, Viktor, who had been unconscious, twitched his fingers slightly.
"cough..."
Viktor struggled to open his heavy eyelids.
He tried to sit up, but the movement aggravated his wound, and Nami hurriedly pressed him down: "Don't move! The wound will reopen!"
"Ahem... Don't make that deadpan face, Captain."
Viktor's voice was hoarse, but he still managed a weak smile:
"He's not dead yet..."
Luffy looked up abruptly, saw Viktor awake, and the gloom in his eyes dissipated for a moment before he immediately asked:
"Victor! Was it that so-called 'god' who did it?!"
"ah..."
Viktor took a breath, a cold smile curving his lips:
"That guy... is a lightning man who ate the Rumble-Rumble Fruit. Although I repelled him, I couldn't stop him."
"He went to the top of the 'giant bean vine'...where his ark was moored, and he wanted to destroy the floating island."
At this point, Victor looked at Luffy, a glint of light flashing in his eyes:
"Luffy, listen up."
"Lightning may be invincible... but your rubber body is a non-conductive insulator."
"You are the only natural enemy in this world who can ignore his lightning."
"Go, Captain."
Victor pointed to the overcast sky above:
"Only you can beat him up."
"Smash that guy... right down from the sky!"
"Is that even a question?!"
Luffy roared to the sky, his voice echoing through the heavens.
Without any hesitation, he adjusted his straw hat, turned, and sprinted towards the giant bean vine, his retreating figure burning with a flame of rage.
"Enel!!! Wash your neck clean and wait!!!"
Watching Luffy's departing figure, Victor felt as if a huge burden had been lifted from his shoulders, and his body went limp again.
He turned his stiff neck and looked around.
Nami was looking at him with tears streaming down her face, her hair disheveled, and her whole body in a sorry state.
"Victor! That's great…you're awake…"
Nami cried out, her voice filled with lingering fear:
"I'll take you away right now... Let's escape... Forget about the gold, as long as you live..."
Victor did not speak.
He doesn't even have the strength to lift his upper body now.
But when he looked at Nami's face, which was crying for him, an overwhelming emotion welled up inside him.
Sudden.
Viktor extended his still-functioning right hand, his scorched palm, and gripped Nami's nape with precision and strength.
"Why?"
Nami was taken aback.
The next second.
Viktor suddenly pulled the unsuspecting Nami towards himself.
Nami cried out in surprise and lost her balance, falling downwards.
Before she could react, Viktor fiercely sealed her lips with his.
"Ugh!!"
This wasn't the usual gentle, half-hearted approach, nor was it flirting.
It was a deep kiss filled with the madness of surviving a catastrophe, tinged with blood, asserting sovereignty, and offering reassurance.
Both of them had a metallic taste of blood in their mouths, but at that moment, neither of them cared about that.
Nami stared wide-eyed in surprise at Viktor, who was standing right in front of her.
Then, tears welled up in the corners of her eyes again, and she slowly closed them.
She didn't push him away; instead, she gripped Viktor's tattered clothes tightly with both hands, responding to him passionately and clumsily.
The two seemed to be using this method to confirm that they were still alive and that the temperature was real.
a long time.
Lips separate.
Both of them were breathing rapidly.
Viktor, panting heavily, stared intently at Nami, whose face was now completely red. His usually calm gaze had turned fiery.
He extended his thumb and wiped the blood from Nami's lips, a wicked smile playing on his lips:
"...You are mine."
"Those long earlobes... I can't take you away from you."
Hearing this domineering yet somewhat childish declaration, Nami felt like she was about to burst into flames.
Her body went limp, collapsing against his bandaged chest, burying her face deep inside, too afraid to look up at him.
What began as quiet sobbing turned into angry, self-deprecating punches—light, playful blows.
"...rogue."
Nami's voice was muffled, yet it conveyed a deep and unwavering attachment:
"I will always be yours."Chapter 137 The Ark's Maxim! A Prelude to Despairing Thunder
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"
An unprecedentedly loud roar resounded through the sky, as if the spine of the sky had broken.
At the summit of God's Island, the shrine that symbolized supreme power collapsed completely amidst the violent tremors.
Amidst the flying rubble, a bizarrely shaped and enormous ark, entirely made of gold, slowly rose into the sky.
Ark's "Proverbs".
It shimmered with a dazzling golden luster, appearing both sacred and greedy in the sunlight.
The enormous gears spun wildly, driven by lightning, spewing out billowing black smoke—thunderclouds created by the chemical reactions generated by the lightning.
"Yay! Hahahaha!!!"
Enel sat lazily on the golden throne at the top of the ark, striking the thunder drum behind him with his golden staff.
"Sizzle sizzle..."
A terrifying two hundred million volts of lightning flowed through his body and continuously injected into the Ark's power reactor.
In the blink of an eye, the originally azure sky was completely covered by inky black cumulonimbus clouds.
The entire floating island instantly plunged from daylight into darkness, the oppressive atmosphere making it hard to breathe.
Enel, gazing upon this apocalyptic scene, spread his arms wide and uttered a haughty monologue:
"What a beautiful sight! Be terrified! Despair!"
"With this 'Proverb' and my boundless power of lightning, I am the true, omnipotent god of this world!"
"Whether I head to that dreamlike 'infinite land' or blast this sky island into the sea, it's all up to me!!"
...
Meanwhile, at the base of the giant bean vine.
Zoro, Robin, Chopper, and the blood-soaked "War Demon" Waipa finally reunited here.
"Gah! Gah gah!!"
A black crow flapped its wings and flew swiftly from afar, landing on Chopper's antlers.
It's Clay.
It returned breathlessly with the latest battle intelligence:
Luffy is still on his way, while on the battlefield over there... Victor, Sanji, and Usopp have all been defeated!
"What?!"
Upon hearing this news, Zoro paused in wiping his sword, his brows furrowing instantly into a deep frown, his expression becoming extremely serious.
"Even the first mate was taken down? It seems... that long-eared bastard is more troublesome than I thought."
Robin looked up at the golden ark overhead, which blotted out the sky, and the ever-expanding black thunderclouds. His tone was calm, yet stern:
"That ship...it's not just a means of transportation. It's creating thunderclouds."
"If we don't stop him, everyone here will be swallowed up by lightning when the thunderclouds cover the entire island."
"But..." Chopper was almost crying, "It flies so high, how are we going to get up there?"
"Cough...cough cough..."
Waipa coughed up blood and struggled to her feet, her body covered in wounds.
His legs were trembling, but the fire in his eyes burned even more fiercely.
"Whether it's a god... or an ark..."
Vaipa stared intently at the sky, her voice hoarse but resolute:
"Only I...only I want to light the lamps of Shandora myself!!"
"This is the regret of the great warrior Calgara, and it is the homeland we must reclaim! Even if it costs me my life... I will take it down!!"
Looking at this man who could barely stand, Zoro remained silent for a moment, then placed his hand on the hilt of his sword:
"That ship is powered by lightning. If you cut off its power source, it will fall."
Just then, Enel, seemingly testing the power of the Ark, gently pointed his finger at Angel Island below.
"Let me show you... God's punishment."
"Thousands of thunder!!!"
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The black clouds instantly boiled, and countless thick bolts of lightning poured down like a torrential rain!
There was no specific target; it was indiscriminate carpet bombing!
In the distance, on Angel Island, the once peaceful streets were instantly turned into a sea of fire.
Houses collapsed, trees were charred, and countless residents screamed and fled amidst the lightning and fire, as if in hell.
"Sizzle!!"
A bolt of lightning veered off course and struck directly at the base of the giant bean vine.
"Dual Sword Style: Ascending the Tower!"
Zoro's eyes flashed, and he instantly drew his sword and swung it, using two sword energies to forcefully deflect the lightning strike.
"hiss..."
Even after deflecting the attack, Zoro's arm was still numb from the impact, and his hand throbbed with pain.
"An attack of this scale... is it never going to end?!"
"Wow! Fur enhancement!!"
Chopper was so frightened that he instantly turned into a giant fur ball, shielding Robin from some of the flying debris and electricity:
"This is a force that humans simply cannot contend with!!"
Looking at their homes wantonly destroyed, and at their people and islanders howling in agony amidst the thunder and fire.
Vaipa's eyes instantly turned bloodshot, and her reason was completely consumed by rage.
Enel!!!!
He roared and, ignoring his physical limits, pressed the already overloaded "Pulse Shell" back onto his right arm to recharge it.
"I'm going to kill you!!"
Vaipa activated the Wind-Spitting Shell beneath his feet at full power, transforming himself into a blur as he forcefully charged towards the ark high in the sky along the almost vertical giant bean vine.
"Hey! You brute! Calm down!" Zoro shouted.
But Vaipa had already rushed out.
There's no other way.
Zoro sighed, tightened his bandana around his arm, and bit down on Wado Ichimonji.
He turned to look at Robin beside him, his eyes sharp:
"Although I don't like working with people... that earlobe bastard is just too arrogant, it makes me furious."
"Hey, woman, you'll cover for me, right?"
Upon hearing this, Robin's lips curled into an elegant yet dangerous smile, and he crossed his arms over his chest:
"With pleasure, swordsman."
"Let's go too."Chapter 138 The Demon's Resolve! A Single, All-Out Attack
On the vast golden deck of the Ark "Proverbs", a gale howled and thunderclouds pressed down overhead.
Zoro, Robin, and Waipa, following the giant bean vines, finally rushed onto the spaceship that symbolized despair.
"Strike first, strike hard!"
Robin crossed his arms over his chest, his eyes cold.
"Six-Flower Slap in Succession!!"
Countless fair arms sprouted from Enel's shoulders and neck like flower petals in an instant.
He cleaved his hand into a knife, gripped his vital points tightly, and exerted force to try and snap the neck of that arrogant god.
"it's useless."
Enel didn't even glance at it.
"Sizzle—"
The moment he exerted force with his arm, his body transformed into a ball of ethereal lightning.
Robin's arms grasped nothing at all, as if he had grabbed at thin air.
"Natural elementalization…that's really troublesome." Robin frowned.
"Now!!"
Taking advantage of the brief opening created by Robin's interference.
Zoro had already leaped high into the air, his arms bulging with muscles, and the three swords combined into a powerful aura.
"One-Sword Style, Thirty-Six... Two-Sword Style, Seventy-Two..."
"Three-Sword Style: 108 Troublesome Phoenixes!!!"
boom!!
A blue slash wave, thicker than ever before and spiraling in shape, tore through the air on the deck, its sharpness capable of slicing through steel, and slashed straight at Enel's face.
Faced with a blow powerful enough to cleave a warship in two, Enel remained seated, making no attempt to dodge.
He simply extended one hand.
"Too slow, swordsman from Qinghai."
"Bang!!"
The hand wrapped in lightning actually caught Zoro's sword energy.
Immediately afterwards, a violent burst of lightning erupted, shattering the blue slash into pieces.
"What?!" Zoro's pupils shrank.
"As a return gift... 20 million volts of discharge!!"
Sizzle sizzle sizzle!
The blinding blue light travels through the air.
"Waaaaah!!"
Zoro, who was in mid-air, was struck head-on by high voltage electricity, fell onto the deck while covered in black smoke, and almost dropped his sword.
"Damn it... my body... is numb and I can't move..."
Zoro gritted his teeth and tried to stand up, but his muscles wouldn't obey him at all.
Robin, who was standing nearby, was also thrown away by the aftershocks of the lightning burst and crashed against the golden railing in the distance.
"Hahaha! This is the difference between mortals and gods!"
Just when Enel thought he had solved all the problems and was preparing to continue operating the Ark...
A figure covered in blood, as if crawling out of hell, rushed towards him through the billowing smoke.
"War Ghost" Vaipa.
His bloodshot eyes were fixed on Enel's physical form.
"Hmph, is it you again, you stray dog?" Enel raised his hand, ready to unleash his electric shock.
"Gotcha!!"
Vaipa disregarded her own safety and lunged forward.
With a sudden flick of his left hand, he unleashed a jet-black chain inlaid with some kind of special stone, which instantly wrapped around Enel's neck and body.
"Sizzle...hmm?"
Enel was about to transform into his elemental form when he was horrified to find that his body had become incredibly heavy and he could not mobilize the power of lightning.
"This is... Seastone?!"
Enel's pupils dilated sharply, and for the first time, a look of panic appeared on his face: "The power... is gone?!"
"That's right! This stone was prepared to kill you!!"
Vaypa roared, taking advantage of the moment Enel lost his powers.
He stepped forward and pressed the fully charged, dangerously emanating seashell on his right palm firmly against Enel's chest.
That spot was the very place where Victor had punched me, and it was still throbbing with pain!
"For the Great Warrior Calgara!!!"
The vows of their ancestors and the blood and tears shed by their people over the past four hundred years flashed through Vaipa's mind.
"For the sake of a four-hundred-year wait!!!"
He poured all his life force, all his soul, into this strike:
This attack... will kill you!!!
"Push back!!"
boom-----!!!
A dull, heart-stopping bang.
A massive, powerful white shockwave, visible to the naked eye, pierced through Enel's heart at point-blank range!
That terrifying power even pierced through the golden throne behind Enel, and also blasted a large hole in the thick deck of the Ark!
"Snap!!"
at the same time.
Because the recoil force of this attack was ten times that of the impact, Vaipa's right arm bones were completely shattered in an instant, and blood gushed out like a fountain.
"Puha—!!"
Enel's eyes rolled back, foam came out of his mouth, and he couldn't even scream.
His massive body swayed, then fell backward with a thud to the ground.
High in the sky, where only the wind could be heard, Enel's powerful heartbeat echoed...
It has stopped.
quiet.
A deathly silence.
"Ha ha..."
Zoro lay on the ground, panting heavily, looking at the fallen god: "Is he... dead?"
Vaipa lay on the ground covered in blood, her right arm hanging limply at her sides.
He looked at the sky, a relieved smile on his face:
"It's...it's a success..."
"The lights of Shandora... finally..."
Everyone thought they had won.
Robin, who was in the distance, also breathed a sigh of relief and stood up while holding onto the railing.
However.
As Robin looked at Enel's corpse, her archaeologist's intuition suddenly gave her a strange sense of unease.
"No...that's not right."
Robin's pupils contracted sharply.
Only ten seconds passed.
"Sizzle... sizzle..."
Tiny blue arcs of electricity suddenly began to flicker on Enel's body as he fell.
The electric current wasn't attacking; rather, it was acting like a pacemaker, automatically stimulating the heart that had stopped beating.
one time.
Two times.
Thump...thump...thump!
A powerful heartbeat once again echoed on the deathly silent deck.
"It's...it's come back to life?!" Zoro stared wide-eyed in disbelief.
Under the despairing gazes of everyone, Enel sat up straight from the ground like a zombie.
"call..."
He exhaled a long breath, twisted his stiff neck, and made a series of cracking sounds.
Then, he turned his head, his eyes, now bright again, looking mockingly at the terrified Vaipa:
"Oh...that really startled me."
Enel touched his chest:
"Just now, I almost went to another world."
"If I weren't a lightning person, I could give myself a heartbeat..."
despair.
True despair overwhelmed Vaipa like a tidal wave.
The desperate attack, risking his life, only managed to "startle" the god.
Enel stood up, his entire body crackling with lightning, his terrifying pressure even more violent than before:
"As a return gift... you can all die."
"Thor!!"
It was at this suffocating, utterly despairing moment.
"Buzz buzz buzz—"
It wasn't thunder.
A strange whooshing sound suddenly came from the sea of clouds below the ark, as if something was rapidly approaching.
A red figure grabbed the top of the towering bean vine and, with its amazing elasticity, shot vertically into the sky at a height of ten thousand meters!
"Rubber rubber——————!!!"
The boy's roar pierced through the thunderclouds, drowned out the thunder, and resounded throughout the entire sky:
"E-ni-lu!!!!!"
Enel subconsciously raised his head.
What came into his view was a boy wearing a straw hat and with an angry expression.
Enel frowned.
He sensed that this rubber boy who had fallen from the sky... was sent by heaven to restrain him—
The only natural enemy!Chapter 139 Natural Enemies! Rubber vs. Lightning
On the golden deck of the Ark "Proverbs", a fierce wind howled.
Using the elasticity of the giant bean vine, Luffy crashed heavily into the center of the deck like a cannonball.
Without uttering a single word, he lowered his body and fixed his furious eyes on Enel on the throne.
"Rubber rubber—pistol!!"
Luffy suddenly stretched out his arm and punched Enel straight in the face.
"madness!"
Enel watched Luffy charge towards him, a cruel sneer curling at the corner of his mouth.
He didn't even try to dodge; he simply struck the thunder drum behind him with his golden staff.
"Didn't you see what happened to those people? In this realm of God, resistance is futile."
Although he spoke with disdain, for some reason...
As he watched the straw-hatted boy charging towards him without fear, Enel felt an unprecedented sense of unease.
To dispel this unease, he did not use low voltage as he had used to toy with others, but instead directly mobilized terrifying energy.
"Disappear, you insects!!"
"100 million volts of discharge!!!"
Rumble—!!!
A massive blue lightning bolt, several meters in diameter and powerful enough to melt rocks, engulfed Luffy's tiny figure in an instant with a deafening roar.
"Luffy!!!"
Chopper, riding Waver below, covered his eyes and screamed in fright.
Zoro and Vaipa were forced to close their eyes by the blinding light, their hearts turning cold.
A lightning strike of this magnitude would instantly vaporize not only humans, but even steel.
However.
As the blinding lightning subsided, the smoke and dust on the deck slowly settled.
Enel's previously confident expression froze.
In the center of the charred deck, Luffy remained in his punching stance, standing unharmed.
He even managed to free up one hand and, looking utterly bored, stick his little finger into his nostril and pick at it.
"ah?"
Luffy snapped his fingers, looking at Enel with a blank expression:
"What's wrong? Was that an attack? It just feels a little numb."
quiet.
The whole world seemed to collapse at that moment.
Enel's pupils contracted sharply, and then—
"Pop!!"
His eyes really bulged out of their sockets, his tongue was sticking out, his chin slammed heavily onto the golden floor with a "thud," and snot was running down his face.
That once proud and aloof divine face was now completely distorted into an extremely shocking "facial expression meme".
"Why...why?!?"
Enel let out a piercing scream; this scene completely shattered his worldview.
"What...what are you?! Why is lightning ineffective against you?!"
Luffy tilted his head and, quite naturally, stretched his cheeks out, making them look very long:
"Because I am—a rubber man!"
"Rubber…?" Enel's mind went blank; this substance had never existed on Skypiea.
"Rubber Machine Gun!!!"
Before Enel could recover from his shock, Luffy's attack had already arrived.
This time, it's not just the elasticity of rubber.
Luffy's fists turned pitch black in an instant—that was Armament Haki!
Bang bang bang bang bang bang!!!!
Countless black fist shadows rained down on Enel's face and body like a storm.
"Ugh! Whoa!!"
Enel, a Logia-type Devil Fruit user who considered himself an omnipotent god, never imagined that he would be so badly beaten by a physical attack.
Every punch landed squarely on his body, leaving him bruised and swollen, his teeth flying out.
"asshole!!"
Enel endured the excruciating pain, his body transforming into lightning as he attempted to escape by becoming an elemental and creating distance.
"Don't even think about running!!"
Luffy reacted quickly, grabbing Enel's ankle as he had just transformed into his elemental form and forcefully pulling him back:
"We also need to avenge Nami... and Viktor and the others!!!"
"Bang!!"
Luffy headbutted Enel hard on the forehead.
Driven to the brink of despair, Enel, amidst excruciating pain, finally forced himself to calm down and regain the battle intelligence befitting a powerful warrior.
"Damn it... since lightning is ineffective..."
Enel broke free from Luffy's grasp and retreated rapidly.
He looked at the golden staff in his hand, a ruthless glint in his eyes.
"Sizzle sizzle..."
The terrifying electric current generated intense heat, instantly melting and deforming the golden staff in his hand, eventually transforming it into a sharp and scorching hot trident.
"Since lightning can't kill you, then I'll cut you in two with heat and a sharp blade!!"
Enel, wielding his scorching trident and using his fully activated "Mind Network" to counter Luffy's straightforward attacks.
"left!"
Enel anticipated Luffy's move and stabbed down hard with his trident.
"Ouch! It's so hot!"
Although Luffy is an insulator, rubber is vulnerable to slashes and even more vulnerable to high temperatures.
The burned skin instantly turned red and swollen, and burns began to appear on the body.
"It's no use! Your next move is a right hook!"
Enel dodged the attack with a cold smile and slashed Luffy's arm with his halberd.
The situation reversed instantly.
Luffy was chased and desperately dodging on the deck, his intentions completely seen through by his opponent.
Just then.
"Buzz—"
A Veyron came rushing up from below.
Chopper activated his "brain-enhanced" form, making his small body appear exceptionally intelligent.
It circled the ark in its Waver, shouting:
"Luffy!! Don't even think about it!!!"
"His mind network reads your thoughts and intentions! If you think before you attack, he will see right through you!!"
Chopper recalled a scene from the Ball Trial:
"Rely on your reflexes to fight!! Fight like an idiot!!"
"Just like when I faced that ball before!"
"Don't think about it..." Luffy muttered to himself as he dodged.
Suddenly, Luffy stopped moving.
His expression instantly became blank, his mouth slightly open, his eyes unfocused, as if his soul had been ripped out.
"Rubber... spacing out."
"Huh? Giving up the fight?" Enel charged forward, trident in hand. "Die!"
However, when he stabbed at Luffy, Luffy's body twisted in an extremely bizarre and illogical way, barely avoiding the attack.
"What?" Enel was taken aback.
Luffy started punching the air randomly, his fists bouncing off the golden wall with completely chaotic trajectories.
"I can't...read his intentions at all?!"
Enel panicked, "Is this guy's mind completely blank?!"
Just as Enel made a mistake due to his unpredictability.
Although Luffy's previously blank expression remained unchanged, his body's instincts detected an opportunity.
"Rubber rubber—whip!!"
Without thinking, Luffy lashed out one of his legs like a whip.
"Bang!!!"
The kick landed squarely on Enel's side.
"Cough!!"
Enel screamed in agony as he was kicked away like a golden cannonball, crashing into the thick golden walls of the Ark, where he couldn't be pulled out.
The battle has been suspended.
Luffy scratched his head, his eyes regaining their clarity, and stared blankly at Enel embedded in the wall:
"Ah. I kicked him away."
Zoro, watching this scene from below, twitched his lips and muttered with a black line on his face:
"You really are spacing out... that kind of mindless fighting style..."
"I really envy you, a single-celled organismChapter 140 A Rhapsody of Despair! Thunderous Appearance
On the golden deck of the Ark "Proverbs", there was utter silence.
"Cough cough..."
Enel slowly crawled out of the human-shaped crater that had been smashed open.
His once proud face was covered in dust and blood, and the composure he once possessed as a god was long gone.
He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and looked at Luffy, who was preparing to launch another attack not far away. His eyes became more sinister and fearful than ever before.
"Physical attacks are ineffective... Lightning is also ineffective..."
Enel gritted his teeth, his brain racing:
"Since I can't kill you, then I'll seal you away! Let gravity punish you!"
"Zzzzz!!"
Enel's golden trident liquefied once more, and this time, he plunged his hands into the gold on the deck.
"Lei Metallurgy - Golden Peony!!!"
A terrifyingly high temperature erupted instantly.
The surrounding gold melted instantly into molten gold under the heat of the lightning, and like living tentacles, it instantly enveloped Luffy's outstretched right arm.
"It's so hot!!" Luffy yelled, trying to shake it off.
But it was too late.
The liquid gold rapidly cooled and solidified, transforming in the blink of an eye into a massive, solid golden sphere several meters in diameter, which tightly gripped Luffy's arm.
"Ugh!!"
The immense weight instantly caused Luffy to lose his balance, and he tilted to one side.
"This is a gift for you!"
Enel teleported in front of Luffy, his eyes flashing with cruelty, and kicked the giant golden ball hard.
"Take this gold and get back to Qinghai!!!"
"Bang!!!"
The immense kinetic energy, combined with the weight of the golden ball itself, sent Luffy and the ball flying off the edge of the ark.
"Waaaaaah!!!"
With a long scream, Luffy plummeted like a meteor, crashing through the clouds below and disappearing into the vast sea of clouds.
...
After eliminating this single, and biggest, obstacle.
"Hmph, the annoying bugs are finally gone."
Enel straightened his disheveled appearance, and with thunderous drums behind him, he transformed into a bolt of lightning and soared into the sky.
He opened his arms as if embracing the whole world.
"Ark's Proverb... Full power output!!"
Rumble!...
Inside the massive ark, the core power reactor was running at full speed.
The enormous chimney spewed out thick black smoke, which was not ordinary smoke, but thunderclouds containing a high concentration of electrical charge.
Within minutes, a colossal, pitch-black spherical thundercloud slowly formed, covering the entire sky above Angel Island.
That was a shadow powerful enough to plunge the world into darkness.
Enel hovered beneath the black sphere, like a demon god capable of destroying the world, his voice carrying across the entire Sky Island through the lightning:
"Can you hear that? The wails of mortals."
"Hahaha!! What a wonderful rhapsody of despair!"
Enel looked down upon the masses below, proclaiming his final verdict:
"You have successfully angered me... So, prepare for God's ultimate punishment!!"
"All life on this island, along with the island itself, will turn to dust! Return to nothingness!!"
"Lei Ying!!!"
The immense sense of oppression plunged the inhabitants of Angel Island on the ground into utter panic.
People watched the black ball of lightning slowly descending from the sky, feeling its destructive aura.
They dropped what they were holding, knelt on the ground in despair, and prayed, waiting for the end of the world to come.
...
The scene cuts back to the edge of God's Isle, to the Going Merry.
on deck.
Viktor, severely injured, lay on Nami's lap, unable to move.
However, his keen senses allowed him to clearly perceive the terrifyingly high static field in the air.
"Ouch... my head hurts so much..."
At this moment, Sanji and Usopp, who had been unconscious, also woke up.
When they opened their eyes and saw the enormous black sphere that blotted out the sky, the two were instantly dumbfounded, their minds going completely blank.
"Hey, Sanji..."
Usopp stared blankly at the sky, forgetting to wipe his snot running down his face.
"If that thing... falls... are we going to die?"
"call..."
Sanji lit a cigarette with trembling hands, took a deep drag, and narrowed his eyes slightly:
"Go die if you want, you long-nosed thing. I still want to live..."
Although he said that, the hand holding the cigarette was trembling slightly.
This scale of power has exceeded the limits of what human beings can resist.
"Waaaaah..."
Nami hugged Viktor tightly, tears welling up in her eyes once more.
"Victor…we're doomed…if that lightning ball hits, even the ocean will evaporate…"
Viktor felt Nami trembling, and reached out his stiff hand to gently pat her back to comfort her.
He struggled to lift his head, his red eyes fixed on "Lei Ying" in the air, and murmured softly:
"What a terrifying natural disaster... To develop natural elements to their fullest potential has reached such a level..."
"He's really... a strong person."
A calculating glint flashed in Viktor's eyes.
If Enel dies... then the "Rumble-Rumble Fruit," which is at the pinnacle of Logia-type Devil Fruits, will be reborn.
If she could get that... Nami might become a true powerhouse.
With that thought in mind, Victor turned his gaze toward the giant bean vine.
There, against the backdrop of this despairing darkness, a tiny figure is running frantically against gravity.
"Don't cry, Nami."
Viktor's lips curled into a weak yet confident smile:
"Look over there...our captain...hasn't lost yet."
...
Giant bean vines.
Luffy did not fall back into the Blue Sea as Enel had predicted.
At the moment of his fall, he used his rubber arms to grab onto the outstretched leaves of the giant bean.
Although the golden ball, weighing hundreds of tons, caused him immense suffering, it also became his heaviest weapon at this moment.
"Aaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!"
Luffy roared as he sprinted down the vertical bean vines.
He dragged the enormous golden ball behind him, carving a deep furrow in the massive blade, sparks flying everywhere.
"I'm not going down there!!"
"I'm going to... send you flying!!!"
"Luffy!!!"
Just then, the roar of engines came from the sky.
Chopper, piloting the nimble Waver, skillfully circled in mid-air to provide support:
"Get up here quickly!! Let's rush in!!"
"Chopper!!!"
Luffy seized the opportunity and leaped onto Waver's back seat.
"Thump!!"
The combined force of the hundreds of tons of golden ball and Luffy's impact caused even Waver to let out a mournful cry, almost being directly crushed into the sea of clouds.
"It's so heavy!!!" Chopper screamed, his little hooves twisting the accelerator tightly.
"Charge!! Chopper!!"
"Ohhhhhh!!!"
Chopper floored the power, and the Jet Shell emitted an overloaded shriek.
Waver traced a difficult yet resolute arc through the air, carrying the boy burdened with gold and hope, heading unhesitatingly towards the thunder sphere that brought despair to the world, towards the high and mighty god...
They charged forward!