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OPI Chapter 78: The excitement of the Five Elders
🕑 Added 2023-12-12 21:39:47 +0000 UTCThe dumbfounded Kaido immediately reacted and knew that now was not the time to continue to struggle. He saw Sengoku approaching in his Golden Buddha form and before he could attack him. He quickly changed into his Human-Beast form, and then desperately fled in the other direction without looking back.
He wasn't that stupid, he knew that with his current strength, he didn't stand a chance against Sengoku. He had to find a way to escape.
"Damn it, Linlin, Whitebeard, wait and see! Sooner or later I will collect this debt from you."
"What kind of thing is this? They were obviously the ones who made the first move, but when I followed suit, they left immediately? The battle I imagined was a top-level super melee, rather than being beaten by top-level combatants."
“Hey, Kaido, since you’re here, come with me!” However, Kaido wanted to run, but someone wanted him to stay. With a violent sound of breaking through the air and a surging sonic boom, Garp stood in the way and showed two rows of neat white teeth to him.
“Old guy, get out of here!” Kaido was furious, he blinked anxiously, and without saying a word, he smashed the mace in his hand, and bright purple lightning flashed on it.
"Shuron Hak..."
[Boom!]
Before Kaido could finish his attack, a dark black fist, imbued with Busoshoku Haki, directly punched the air, bursting into a clear ring of white mist, with black and red electric currents. Impact with the Hassaikai created shock waves one after another, while the sea below boiled like an erupting volcano.
A huge sound of metal colliding resounded throughout the whole place, and then the mace exploded completely, and the fist, which glowed black and red under the electric light, hit Kaido's cheek forward.
For a moment, his neck was stretched and twisted by the punch.
The next second, the whole person spun at high speed like a top, flew back, directly hit a pirate ship, and was buried in the ruins.
At this time, the most scared people were the pirates who were already on the battlefield and were about to participate in the battle. Seeing that both Big Mom and Whitebeard were gone, and Kaido was defeated in one blow, they decided to flee.
"Withdrawal!"
"Quick, back off!"
"Let's not fight anymore, we can't!"
One by one, the pirate captains no longer thought about One Piece or the Pirate King. They desperately wanted to escape back to their own ships, and then withdraw from the battle as soon as possible.
“Trash, you have nowhere to escape!”
Sakazuki, who had already melted countless pirates, had a gloomy face, looking at the fleeing pirate ships in the distance with murderous intent, and slowly raised his arms that had been kept in a molten state.
"Ryusei kazan!"
[Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!]
With each blow, a ball of burning lava was launched, at an incredible speed, in a matter of ten seconds he had already shot hundreds of them.
As the pirates tried with all their might to defend themselves from the magma attacks, Borsalino once again turned into points of light and appeared in an instant at an altitude of hundreds of meters.
The diamond-shaped golden flash appeared again.
“Yasakani no Magatama~~”
Borsalino’s lazy and drawn-out voice echoed, and instantly a dense burst of flashes more intense than the magma bombardment covered a large expanse of the ocean.
"Wow!"
Seeing such a terrifying and spectacular scene, thousands of royal families, nobles, civilians, navy, and pirates from all over the world in front of the projection screen burst into an uproar.
Especially the fish-men and merfolk on the Fish-man Island, the entire island was completely silent. At this moment, their contempt for human power was completely shattered by the lava and flash.
Fear took over all of them.
The camera turned.
When all the lava rain and flashes of light finally settled and the sea, which had been shaken intensely, gradually returned to calm, the people realized that there were very few pirate ships in the sea.
The battlefield is cleared!
[Roar!]
A high and shrill dragon roar once again attracted thousands of eyes.
Kaido had transformed back into a gigantic blue dragon rising into the sky, but everyone could see that he had nowhere to go anymore.
Sengoku and Garp had blocked him from above and below, closing all his escape routes unless he managed to break the interception of one of them, but the outcome was already decided.
Kaido knew deep down that he was doomed this time, but even so, he didn't want the Navy to get away with it. He had to make them pay a sufficient price.
Therefore, his gaze was directed towards the two cargo ships marked 'One Piece', then he opened his mouth, and a glow began to appear.
"Bolo Breath!"
A fiery and majestic dragon's breath shot out from Kaido's mouth, forming a long column of fire.
At this moment, one of the large cargo ships suddenly burst out with a scarlet light, and then the surrounding seawater turned into a scarlet color at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The instant the fiery breath descended, red waves gushed out and formed a huge crimson 'inverted bowl' that covered the two cargo ships, colliding directly with the column of fire.
[Boom!]
Then, as expected, Kaido was subjected to a double attack by Garp and Sengoku, under the gaze of thousands of spectators.
"Aaaaaaahhhhh!!!"
The heart-rending screams continued unabated.
King, Queen, and Kaido's other subordinates in Onigashima were completely confused when they saw such a scene. They just stared blankly, not knowing what to do or what to say.
At this time, King, who was the second-in-command, spoke.
“Are the people on the island watching this live broadcast?”
Queen smoked a cigarette and said in a deep voice: "No, this country basically has no contact with the outside world. Even the News Coo can't fly here. That's why we pay special attention to what happens outside."
"That's good." King took two steps forward, glanced at all the crew members with cold eyes, and said coldly: "From now on, it is forbidden to discuss this matter, and it is not allowed to be disclosed to the outside world. If I hear a word, don’t blame me for being ruthless, do you hear me clearly?”
"Uh, yes, yes, we heard you clearly!"
"We heard it clearly!!"
The group of pirates present nodded repeatedly and did their best to ensure that no one dared to raise objections to King's order.
“What’s next?” Queen asked, blowing out a puff of white smoke.
"Wait." King approached and smashed the Den Den Mushi directly.
"Kaido will find a way. We just need to wait for the captain to return. Before that, we will completely seal off the connection between Wano and the outside world, even more thoroughly than before."
"Especially, we can't let that Kozuki Oden know about this, otherwise, we will all die." As he spoke, he looked towards Wano Country.
On the naval fleet side, Kaido has been handcuffed and shackled with seastones, and then put into a cell in the cabin of a warship. Garp is sitting on a chair, eating senbei and reading a newspaper.
Kaido, from within, gave up. Meanwhile, for the citizens of different countries, with the end of this surprising battle at sea, the live broadcast had come to a temporary end. It would take several days to return from here to the G-1 base.
…
Holy Land Mary Geoise.
After they finished watching the live broadcast, Imu took Mihawk to the depths of Pangaea Castle.
Although he has been in that body for a little over two years, after inheriting all the memories, emotions and powers of the previous Imu, he has different feelings towards Mihawk, the boy he watched grow up.
Simply put, the previous Imu raised Mihawk like a son, and the same applies to him now, but he is still considered more of a candidate for the next Five Elders.
"Clear the place for an hour." Imu ordered the maids present in the room 'Between the Moon'.
"Yeah!" The maids responded respectfully, bowing before quickly leaving with the others. The term 'clearing the place' meant that, during that time, no one was to approach it no matter what happened.
Mihawk, following Imu, walked in silence. His sixth sense told him that something big was about to happen.
"Here is enough." Imu announced when they arrived near a piano, looking at the starry sky and the moon. Even if it was daytime outside, this place always simulated night.
Mihawk didn’t speak, he just stopped and waited.
In the next instant, Imu directly opened the Star Map and placed the previously activated small Dimensional Gate about five meters in front of him.
"This is what I want to show you: a portal that leads to other worlds."
Saying this, Mihawk's golden eyes suddenly trembled.
…
An hour later, the Dimensional Gate was no longer there.
The main reason he brought Mihawk here to see the Dimensional Gate was because he had the qualifications, being one of the next Five Elders he was interested in. Also, he wanted to test the words that he had prepared to make public the existence of the Dimensional Gate to the Five Elders tonight.
Let Cipher Pol officially start selecting the first batch of agents to enter the first Dimensional Gate.
Originally, Imu had planned to talk to the Five Elders after the Levely was over. But as he was delayed, her curiosity increased.
"Is it dangerous? We can send some CP agents to investigate, right?"
Furthermore, he had the feeling that destiny was urging him to take the first step towards the universe and the countless worlds.
If that was the case, then so be it!
...
Close to midnight.
“Greetings Imu-sama!”
The five people half-knelt in the cold hall, offering their respects to the master of the Empty Throne, who stood high above.
When the atmosphere calmed down, Imu's voice reached the ears of the Five Elders.
“Grand Line is a sea area where geomagnetism, celestial phenomena, sea currents, and air currents are extremely chaotic, and ordinary navigation technology and navigation experience cannot be relied on. People cannot determine their own and target positions, and they are always faced with the threat of extreme natural disasters and huge sea monsters.”
The Five Elders listened quietly. They believed that what Imu-sama said must have its reason.
“If the little great sea route is like that. So the universe where there are billions of stars and is so vast that we cannot imagine its size, must be even more chaotic and dangerous."
"These are my reflections from seven hundred years ago."
Hearing this, the Five Elders lowered their heads and looked at each other with their peripheral vision, because they did not understand what the teacher meant.
“One day, I accidentally noticed the recording pointer, which can record the magnetism between islands and use it to guide the correct direction to the next island.”
"So, there is also an invisible magnetic field between the stars?"
The five people half-kneeling on the ground were slightly shocked.
“After that, I spent four hundred years perceiving the internal and external magnetism of this planet, and then another three hundred years perceiving the stars in the universe, looking for similar magnetic information.”
"..." The Five Elders, upon hearing this, could not contain their astonishment and raised their heads instinctively, amazed and astonished at the divine and mysterious figure.
If he could do that, Imu-sama's perception and Haki would be terrifying!
Imu continued speaking unhurriedly: "Two years ago, I finally located a star with a magnetic field similar to this planet and connected the 'magnetic lines' to create interstellar wormholes that allow instantaneous travel."
"I called it a Dimensional Gate!"
Although Imu had finished speaking, the Five Elders were completely stunned, they were half kneeling on the ground not knowing what to do, or rather, they were digesting the shocking information they received.
For a time, the dark Empty Hall returned to silence again, until Warcury, who was in the middle and in charge of the Government Affairs Council, hesitantly asked.
“Sir, that Dimensional Gate...”
Before he finished his words about fifty feet away from the Five Elders, on the red carpet, a faint bluish starlight appeared, quickly expanding to the naked eye.
Then a rectangular portal three meters high and two meters wide was formed. However, the starlights quickly disappeared, and in their place, an image of green mountains, blue waters, and clear skies appeared.
"Cough, cough, cough, so you mean that the landscape we see on the other side of this Dimensional Gate is another world?"
"Correct."
Such a light response made the five's hearts beat wildly.
