Driven by Roy's telekinetic power, the Ark Maxims continued to rise.

As the ship passed through the last layer of clouds, the white air currents it stirred up cascaded down to both sides like a waterfall, refracting a rainbow of colors under the sunlight.

On the deck, everyone wrapped themselves up tightly in their clothes, feeling the chill brought by the sudden drop in temperature.

Yamato shivered, snuggled closer to Pea, and muttered, "Why is it suddenly so cold?"

Roy stood at the bow of the ship, his psychic field silently expanding to envelop the entire vessel.

The biting cold outside was kept out, and the temperature on the deck slowly rose.

He glanced back at the crowd and said, "It'll get colder up there. Hold on tight."

As soon as he finished speaking, Ark Proverbs accelerated abruptly.

The ship began to tremble, initially just a slight shaking, but soon turned into a violent rocking.

Yamato grabbed the mast, Pea tied himself to the railing with vines, and Bagges's burly body was shaken from side to side.

"Captain!" Tezzolo shouted, "Won't this ship fall apart?"

Roy ignored him and expanded his psychic field to its full extent.

A semi-transparent protective shield emerged from the surface of the ship, quickly expanding into a double-layered structure—the outer layer resisting high temperatures and the inner layer insulating against cold.

Just then, the temperature on the outer layer of the ship's hull rose sharply.

The moment it broke through the atmosphere, the surface of the Ark Maxim glowed with a scorching red light.

The entire ship resembled a burning meteor, streaking into deep space with a long trail of flame.

The light changed from red to orange, then from orange to gold, and finally transformed into a seven-colored tail flame, leaving a dazzling ribbon of light behind it.

The color of the sky is changing rapidly.

Deep blue—violet—ink black.

In just a few breaths, the familiar blue sky above disappeared completely, replaced by a deep, suffocating blackness.

Thousands upon thousands of stars densely covered the entire sky.

The starlight was cold and pure, without atmospheric refraction or cloud cover, and was presented nakedly to everyone.

Yamato was the first to throw away his spiked club, then lay face down on the ship's railing, head tilted back, mouth agape enough to fit a fist.

She counted a few stars and gave up, then turned back to Roy and shouted, "Roy! There are so many stars! I can't count them all!"

The pea floated in mid-air—or rather, was lifted up by weightlessness—clinging frantically to the railing, its eyes fixed on the starry sky above, murmuring, "The books only show a few hundred stars... there are at least..."

"Several hundred million."

Olvia's voice came from inside the cabin. She was holding a notebook, her glasses reflecting starlight, and her tone was filled with barely suppressed excitement.

"Every star here is a planet."

Enel's body was enveloped in spontaneously surging thunderclouds, subtly resonating with the light of a distant nebula.

He squinted, sensing the energy fluctuations emanating from the depths of the universe, and whispered, "The lightning clusters here... are different."

Hawkeye, unusually, put down his black knife.

He stood on the ship's railing, gazing up at the Milky Way stretching across the sky, and remained silent for a long time.

The Red Earl walked to his side, leaning on his cane, a childlike smile appearing on his aged face:

"Having lived for so many years, this is the first time I've felt that the world is much bigger than I imagined."

Barrett walked over, grumbling, "The biggest scene I've ever seen in my life is fighting with Whitebeard—"

Before he could finish speaking, he saw the blue planet below.

The Ark Proverb has flown a long enough distance that the blue planet that nurtured everyone is now quietly suspended in the black sky.

The outline of the continent, the color of the ocean, and the texture of the clouds are all clearly visible.

Barrett's voice was stuck in his throat.

"That's..." He swallowed hard. "That's where we came from?"

Roy stood at the bow of the ship, gazing at the blue planet that was growing smaller and smaller, a feeling he couldn't quite put his finger on.

In his past life, he could only see such images on a screen.

Now, he watched as the Earth shrank in his field of vision, becoming a blue marble, suspended in endless darkness.

"Captain," Tezzolo leaned closer, his voice trembling slightly, "Are we really flying to the moon?"

Roy nodded: "Scared?"

"I'm not afraid," Tesoro scratched his head, "it just feels... a little unreal."

Roy didn't say anything more, turned around and went into the cabin.

The stored compressed air is released through a circulation system, creating a breathable environment inside the protective enclosure.

Everyone then felt their breathing become easier, and the stuffiness they had felt earlier gradually disappeared.

The chaos caused by weightlessness continues.

Yamato crashed into the mast again, rubbing his head and cursing.

The peas tied themselves to the railing with their vines, drifting back and forth like kites.

Bages's burly body also lost control, and he flailed his limbs frantically.

Enel, Tesoro, and Crocodile were the first to adapt.

The three of them almost simultaneously transformed into elemental forms, traversing the deck completely unaffected by weightlessness. Tesoro chuckled, "So this is one of the advantages of being a Logia-type user?"

Enel chuckled, "The Logia type is really good."

Hawkeye's feet were firmly planted on the ground, he didn't move an inch, as if weightlessness had no effect on him.

The Red Earl tapped his cane lightly, each step perfectly timed, as elegant as a dance.

With a slight movement of his mind, Roy created a stable gravity zone on the deck.

Those staggering fellows finally regained their footing, and Yamato breathed a sigh of relief: "I almost thought we were going to float up into the sky."

"We're already in the sky," Pea whispered.

Just as everyone was gradually adapting to the space environment, Red Earl's Observation Haki suddenly issued a warning.

He suddenly looked up at the pitch-black void in front of him.

"Something's coming." His voice was calm, but everyone could hear the gravity in it.

Roy activated his Observation Haki, sensing that dense energy reactions were rapidly approaching the area ahead.

The next second, everyone saw it.

Meteorites of all sizes are hurtling in from the depths of darkness.

The small ones are only the size of a fist, while the large ones are as big as an island.

They carried with them the deathly stillness and destructive aura of space, covering everything in an overwhelming, dense mass, like a silent downpour.

"Holy shit!" Barrett cursed. "How are we supposed to dodge this thing?"

Roy had no intention of hiding.

"Tezzolo!"

"clear!"

Tesoro leaped out of the shield, spread his arms, and lightning surged around him, the golden arcs of electricity particularly dazzling in the darkness.

"A volley of thunderbolts!"

boom--!!!

Countless bolts of lightning shot out from his palms, making no sound in space, only dazzling flashes.

The small meteorites were struck by lightning and instantly shattered into fragments, turning into a fine dust cloud.

But the larger ones are still pushing forward.

Upon seeing this, Hawkeye drew the black blade at night, and a green slash shot out across the sky.

Without air resistance or the influence of gravity, the slash was so fast it was almost invisible, striking precisely the largest meteorite.

A silent explosion.

The meteorite, the size of an island, was cut in two, its cut surface as smooth as a mirror.

The two halves of the wreckage slid past the sides of the Ark Maxim, the debris they kicked up being deflected by Roy's psychic shield.

Count Red also waved his arm, and blood-red sword energy shot out from his cane, drawing strange arcs in space.

The medium-sized meteorites were cut by the sword energy and shattered into small pieces like tofu.

The three of them worked together and managed to tear a passage through the meteorite swarm.

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