The arrival of Roy and the others made the giant warriors feel a significant reduction in pressure.

The demonized giants, now under the control of the Dark Ones, were subdued by Zoro and Sanji, who had retreated; some were bound, others knocked down.

Now, bound by sea stone chains by soldiers from Beehive Island, it can no longer stir up any waves.

Saul protected a group of children as they retreated, with Robin and Chopper helping him.

"Leave this to us."

The captain of a hundred-man squad from Beehive Island walked up to Sauro.

"Lord Roy orders all non-combat personnel to immediately retreat to the safe rear area."

The wounded giants are already being evacuated.

Sauro nodded, picked up the two children, and walked away.

On the battlefield of the Five Elders, Saint Vochuli has been driven mad.

His body was repeatedly blasted by Kaido and Bullet, and the black mark on his chest was torn open by Conqueror's Haki lightning.

Black blood gushed out like a fountain, and his recovery speed could no longer keep up with the cumulative damage.

"How dare you... How dare you..."

The voice of the Holy Vocuri was forced out of his throat, carrying the anger and fear that had accumulated over eight hundred years.

"Why wouldn't you dare?"

Kaido smashed down with his club, shattering half of Vochury's head.

Black blood and bone fragments splattered in all directions, even Kaido was splattered with black blood all over his face.

But Vocuri Saint's claws also pierced Kaido's abdomen.

Kaido grunted and swept his dragon tail, sending Vorchiri flying.

He took two steps back and looked down at the wound on his abdomen.

The wound was healing, but the black flames were still lingering around its edges, slowing down the recovery process.

"That old bastard has so many tricks up his sleeve," Kaido cursed, brandishing his Eight Precepts as he charged forward again.

On the sea, the three Pluto warships have completed the clearing out of the CP fleet.

The explosions on the sea stopped, leaving only a few wrecked ships still burning with crackling flames, billowing black smoke into the night sky.

Roy looked up at the sky.

The situation on the battlefield has become clear.

The Five Elders are besieged, the entire CP has been wiped out, the Knights of God have been destroyed, and the Giants are being evacuated.

There is only one question left.

Im.

Boom!

Another loud explosion rang out from the center of the battlefield.

Roy's gaze swept over. Luffy and Loki were simultaneously blasted away by Im's attack.

Luffy tumbled through the air more than a dozen times, and when he landed, his two legs plowed two scorched furrows into the ground.

Loki barely managed to steady himself by plunging the handle of Ironhide's hammer into the ground, and he knelt on the ground, panting heavily.

Im slowly emerged from the black flames, his black robe mostly torn, but his aura was stronger than before.

Roy hovered in mid-air, his Observation Haki tightly locked onto the battle between Im, Luffy, and Loki.

When Im gets serious, he's a completely different person.

Nineteen eye-shaped ribbons unfurled from behind him, moving faintly in the air.

The ribbons seemed to have a life of their own, each with a half-closed eye embedded at its end, gleaming coldly in the darkness.

Luffy and Loki were thrown off balance by this sudden change.

An eye on the ribbon opened, and a streak of light shot out, coiling around Luffy's right leg like a snake.

Im's long sword came down in a swift motion, but Luffy managed to deflect it by pushing off the ground with his left leg.

"What is this thing?!"

Luffy dodged the ribbons while shouting, his body like a piece of paper in a storm, being chased left and right by the black ribbons.

Loki's situation isn't much better.

He tried to smash the ribbons with the iron hammer, but just as the hammer was about to fall, two ribbons suddenly disappeared and reappeared wrapped around his wrists.

A feeling of weakness he had never experienced before spread along his wrist, and his grip loosened, almost causing Tie Lei to slip from his grasp.

"Damn it!" Loki gritted his teeth and forced himself to grip the Iron Mine tightly again.

Im watched the two struggle in the ribbons and snapped his fingers.

A beam of black light shot out from an eye on a ribbon and struck the ground.

The ground instantly cracked open, and countless black hands surged out of the cracks, reaching out to grab Luffy and Loki.

"That's outrageous!"

Luffy leaped out of the encirclement of black arms, his fists pounding into the ground, shattering all the black hands.

But the next moment, even more sinister hands emerged from the ground.

Loki's iron thunderbolt, imbued with lightning, crashed down, turning the ground within a radius of tens of meters into dust.

The black hand disappeared, but Luffy in front of him was also knocked back by the aftershock.

"Hey! Can you watch where you're going?!" Luffy yelled.

"You're the one who's in the way!" Loki retorted.

Before the two had finished arguing, Im's next attack had already begun.

Im clasped his hands together in front of his chest, and black mist surged, from which divine weapons materialized.

Spears, swords, axes, halberds, bows, shields, maces, whips, rings, bells... more than a dozen black artifacts of various shapes floated around Im, each exuding a chilling aura.

"go."

Im gave it a gentle push.

More than a dozen divine weapons shot towards the two of them at the same time, moving as fast as black meteors streaking across the night sky.

"not good!"

Sensing the ominous aura emanating from these weapons, Luffy and Loki simultaneously dodged.

Luffy's body moved like a leaf caught in the wind, tumbling and leaping among the divine weapons with a chuckle, each weapon grazing past him.

His Observation Haki was partially suppressed by Im's Conqueror's Haki, but his instincts and reaction speed still allowed him to avoid most of the attacks.

Loki did not dodge, but swung his iron hammer, the head of which was wrapped in lightning, to meet the incoming artifact head-on.

Each collision produced a deafening roar.

The black artifact was smashed away, and the lightning on the iron thunder was also shattered.

Loki's arm ached from the shock, and he gritted his teeth as two large craters were stomped into the ground beneath his feet.

"Hey kid! Why don't you lend a hand!" Loki roared.

Luffy descended from the sky and kicked away a black longsword that was about to pierce Loki's head.

"I'm helping, aren't I!"

As Luffy spoke, his fist slammed into a black mace flying toward Loki's chest.

The two of them were struggling to deal with Im's artifact.

Im's body also moved.

He seized an opening and appeared behind Loki like a ghost.

Loki brandished his Iron Mine, intending to turn and retaliate.

But Im is faster.

Black Blade drew a semicircle in the air, deflecting Iron Lightning's hammer, and then pressed himself against Loki's chest.

"Oh no!"

At that moment, Loki saw Im's hand, emanating black mist, reaching towards his forehead, and a sense of foreboding suddenly arose in his heart.

He thought of his father.

The father who was dominated and controlled by the Black One, and became a mindless monster.

Im's fingers had already touched Loki's forehead.

In that instant, a white figure crashed into them from the side.

Luffy used all his strength to knock Im away.

Im's hand brushed past Loki's forehead, just missing him.

His fingertips brushed against Loki's skin, leaving a faint black mark on his forehead.

"Get out of my way!" Im swung his sword at Luffy with a backhand motion.

Luffy couldn't dodge in time and could only concentrate all his Conqueror's Haki in front of him to form a barrier.

The black blade struck the barrier, and Conqueror's Haki lightning and black flames exploded simultaneously.

Luffy and Loki were both thrown back by the shockwave, rolling on the ground more than a dozen times before coming to a stop.

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