kvmb Chapter 671: Im, the Goddess of the Earth!
Chapter 671: Im, the Goddess of the Earth!
Im hovers above the shattered ice field.
His previously calm, pale face contorted violently at this moment.
A series of low laughs rolled down his throat.
The laughter quickly grew louder.
It eventually escalated into near-manic laughter.
There wasn't a trace of warmth in that voice.
Only hatred that has been suppressed for eight hundred years.
And a twisted ecstasy.
He opened his arms.
The black cloak-like demonic energy exploded wildly in all directions.
The dark red air currents turned into thick smoke, completely obscuring half the sky.
The air crackled with a deafening bang.
The cold winds on the ice field were forcibly torn apart by this airflow.
The immense wind pressure blew in all directions.
The soldiers on the battlefield were so blinded by the wind that they couldn't open their eyes.
Their eardrums buzzed amidst the hysterical laughter.
Im seemed to be declaring something to the heavens.
Eight hundred years of silence, eight hundred years of forbearance.
At that moment, it all transformed into overwhelming resentment.
The laughter shook the ice on the ground, causing it to crack repeatedly.
Countless tiny ice shards were swept into the air.
Both Whitebeard and Rocks sensed the madness in the laughter.
This supreme king of the world.
Finally, at this moment, he tore off his mask of indifference.
It revealed its most primal and brutal nature.
The laughter still echoed in the void.
Im's body surface began to change.
A strange light surged beneath his skin.
That wasn't the dark, reddish-black color of demonic energy.
Instead, it has an ancient luster that is a blend of dark gold and dark red.
These lusters quickly merged into intricate patterns.
The patterns resemble ancient, living vines.
They started spreading from Im's forehead.
They crawled past the corner of his eye.
It climbed over his neck.
It spread down his chest to his limbs.
These patterns exude an extremely weathered and ancient feel.
That is an imprint of an era far older than eight hundred years ago.
When these dark gold patterns light up.
The surrounding temperature did not decrease; instead, it became unusually hot.
It was a dull and primal heat.
It was as if the lava deep within the earth was stirring restlessly.
At this moment, a long-dormant ancient mark was forcibly awakened by Im.
The dark golden light was somewhat dim.
However, it stood out starkly against the black demonic aura.
This power is completely different from pure demonic energy.
The demonic energy was filled with corruption and destruction.
This new force, however, appears incredibly stable.
It is like an indestructible mountain, towering ten thousand feet high.
This is the imprint of the earth.
It is one of the most primitive authorities in the world.
Evil and solemnity merged perfectly at this moment.
10,000 meters above the ground.
The cold wind howled.
Chen Ye stood quietly on the back of the divine eagle.
His clothes fluttered fiercely in the strong wind.
His calm eyes were fixed intently on what was below.
He had already pushed his Observation Haki to its limit.
An invisible network of perception completely enveloped Im.
Chen Ye could clearly feel the rhythm of those dark gold patterns.
Each flash exudes a chilling pressure.
"This power..."
Chen Ye silently recited in his heart.
He found the power emanating from these patterns to be extremely strange.
Its nature is completely different from that of demonic energy.
That uneasy premonition grew wildly in his heart like weeds.
Demonic energy is an external impurity.
This dark gold power seems to be the very foundation of the world.
Chen Ye attempted to use his mental power to analyze the pattern.
However, his senses could not proceed beyond a meter of Im.
The space there seemed to be forcibly compressed.
The Observation Haki was deflected elsewhere by the force of gravity.
Chen Ye couldn't see through the source of this power.
This made him feel a rare sense of anxiety.
This world king has been hidden for eight hundred years.
He has far too many cards to play.
Even Chen Ye, who is a Go player.
It was also impossible to see the direction of all the clues.
The situation seems to be sliding into an unpredictable abyss.
This feeling of being out of control made his eyes turn somewhat cold.
Im's laughter grew louder and louder.
A completely different power exploded from his body.
This power is not as cold and sinister as demonic energy.
On the contrary, it is incredibly heavy.
It was as solid and heavy as a physical object.
This force carries the weight of oppression from the depths of the earth.
The sea breeze was completely suppressed in that instant.
The air around the battlefield became thick and heavy.
Below, the sea is surging and turbulent.
Under this immense pressure, they actually began to retreat to both sides.
The waves pushed outwards in layers.
The dark seabed was exposed around the battlefield.
Those silts that have never seen the sun for thousands of years.
And the strangely shaped reefs were all exposed to the air.
The earth is commanding the ocean to make way.
The ocean could only obediently retreat.
Seawater piled up in the distance, forming a wall of water hundreds of meters high.
They cannot flow back under the pressure of gravity.
This is absolute pressure from gravity.
It made it difficult for the warriors on the ice field to breathe.
Their bodies seemed to have become several times heavier.
Some pirates even lay down on the ground.
Their bones groaned under the strain.
This scene was like a miracle, yet also like the end of the world.
Air becomes difficult to inhale into the lungs.
Every breath felt like swallowing sand and dust.
This is the oppressive power of the Earth God.
It is not fancy, but it can physically crush all living beings.
Even distant icebergs began to crack and sink under the force of gravity.
On the edge of the battlefield.
Whitebeard sensed the terror of this power.
His tall frame trembled slightly.
His legs sank deep into the hard ice.
To steady himself, he gripped the Murakumo-giri tightly with both hands.
It plunged heavily into the solid ice on the ground.
With a loud bang, shards of ice flew everywhere.
The blade of the Murakumo-giri was stuck firmly in the ice crevice.
For the first time, Whitebeard's expression became so solemn.
His eyes were fixed on Im in mid-air.
"This aura... is definitely not as simple as demonic energy."
The white-bearded man said in a deep voice.
His voice sounded deep and hoarse in the gravitational field.
Rocks, standing nearby, was also feeling unwell.
His arrogant demeanor subsided considerably at that moment.
The violent, dark red energy emanating from him.
It shrank back into its body under the pressure of gravity.
Lox stared intently at the dark gold patterns on Im's body.
He squeezed out a sentence through gritted teeth:
"That old guy actually had something like this hidden away."
As a powerful entity that once attempted to dominate the world.
Rocks had an extremely profound understanding of power.
He could feel the law-level pressure behind this power.
This is beyond the realm of ordinary people.
This is the power of the gods.
Im's power has once again shattered their understanding of what's possible.
The course of this war is becoming increasingly unpredictable.
The central area where the power erupts.
Im remained indifferently suspended in mid-air.
But the shattered ice field below seemed to sense its master.
The entire ice field began to tremble violently.
Countless massive ice rocks detached from the ground.
They slowly floated into the air, drawn by an invisible force.
Under the pull of gravity.
Ice and rocks collided with each other in mid-air.
They then shattered into countless tiny ice shards.
Then, the ice shards sank back down.
They cycle endlessly in the twisted gravity.
The Earth's gravity was completely altered at that moment.
Im seemed to have become the will of this land.
Those floating ice rocks were his weapons.
The surrounding space was distorted due to gravity.
The density of the air becomes extremely uneven.
This creates countless optical refractions visible to the naked eye.
This visual impact.
The Allied soldiers watching from afar turned pale.
Faced with such immense power.
The resistance of ordinary people seems meaningless.
The tremors of the earth were muffled and oppressive.
It was as if the entire island could collapse and sink at any moment.
Ice shards formed strange trails in the air.
They slowly rotated around Im.
The earth tremors grew more and more violent.
It was as if some enormous creature was about to wreak havoc underground in Elbaf.
Luffy stood opposite Im.
His gigantic Nika body still emitted a white light.
However, the gravitational fluctuations that Im unleashed were too strong.
The pure white flames dancing on Luffy's body suddenly flickered backward.
The white flames were almost extinguished by the immense pressure.
His body also sank slightly in the air, a few meters.
But the drums of liberation within him roared once more.
dong dong!dong dong!
The sound echoed like thunder across the battlefield.
The pure white flames burned tenaciously once more.
And it burned even more intensely than before.
Luffy squinted and carefully examined Im.
His eyes looked somewhat serious.
He had a vague feeling that this guy was different from before.
But there was no fear on his face.
Instead, an excited smile spread across his lips.
Luffy stuck out his tongue and licked his dry lips.
"...You've become amazing too."
Luffy's voice was full of excitement.
This is the intuition and joy of a battle maniac.
No matter how strong the opponent is.
He only wanted to meet challenges with his own fists.
Nika's power, under immense pressure, actually unleashed an even stronger life force.
This gives Luffy's white flames a strange texture.
He was ready to continue the fight.
He used the elasticity of rubber to partially alleviate the pressure of gravity.
He pointed at Im and shouted.
The white flames on his body had a viscous texture under gravity, but the temperature kept rising.
Im finally stopped laughing.
He slowly lowered his head.
A pair of dark red eyes coldly locked onto Luffy.
With his gaze.
The surrounding gravity increased again.
The earth's power within Im continues to surge.
This force even affected the Sword of the Codex in his hand.
The jet-black blade of the Codex Sword began to change.
The dark red demonic energy that originally flowed on the sword.
At this moment, it was forcibly suppressed by the power of the earth.
A dark golden luster appeared on the surface of the sword.
Those ancient written barriers have also been stained with this color.
The longsword emitted an extremely heavy hum.
The sound was like countless boulders rubbing against each other in the air.
This suggests that this new power shares the same origin as the Sword of the Codex.
The longsword tilted slightly.
The seabed below then collapsed down several meters again.
Im unleashed his murderous intent without reservation.
The Sword of the Codex, empowered by the power of the earth.
It has already qualified to sever the white flames of the sun god.
This time, he will not give Nika any more chances.
The sword light was slightly deformed by the distortion caused by gravity.
It exudes a dual oppressive force of destruction and heaviness.
Chen Ye, high in the sky, held his breath.
He knew he couldn't wait any longer.
He must figure out the nature of this force.
Chen Ye closed his eyes and focused all his senses.
His Observation Haki was rapidly compressing in his mind.
Finally, all that perception was compressed into a needle.
The needle of spirit pierced through numerous obstacles.
It avoided the violent, dark red demonic energy on the outside.
It also penetrated that distorted gravity protection layer.
The moment the needle of spirit touched that core power.
An extremely ancient, vast, and somber scene.
It suddenly exploded in Chen Ye's mind.
The core of that new power.
It actually emitted a law fluctuation that Chen Ye was extremely familiar with, yet also extremely wary of.
This is not some mutated demonic energy at all.
Rather, it is the most primal authority in this world.
In that instant, Chen Ye's expression changed drastically.
He suddenly opened his eyes.
His pupils shrank to the size of pinpoints.
His eyes were filled with unprecedented shock.