I am the Bandit King of the East Sea.

Im's pupils dilated slightly.

She stomped her foot so hard that the ground cracked, and she flew towards Sieg like a cannonball.

"I only have 1% of my power left," Sig said softly, his black hair dancing wildly in the wind.

The Emperor Engine becomes more powerful under intense and stressful conditions.

Sigurd, at full health under normal circumstances, forcibly accelerated his heartbeat and controlled the Emperor Engine to speed up by using his Life Return ability.

But not in a crisis.

Fear, tension, anger... intense emotions and tense situations are always the best fuel for an emperor's engine.

For example... right now!

Bang bang bang!

My heart pounded like a tsunami, my breath was like hot steam, and my body felt like it was cast in steel.

At this moment, Sigurd suddenly exuded a strong sense of oppression. His continuously activated Conqueror's Haki caused the air to crack, dark red lightning to emerge, and the ground beneath his feet to tremble and groan.

When Sigma unleashed his full telekinetic power in the past, he possessed a terrifying sense of oppression that made Barrett uneasy. Now, even before he has made a move, Sigma already exudes an oppressive aura no less than Sigma's.

The terrifying, heart-pounding roar, like a tsunami, was extremely penetrating, almost echoing throughout the entire battlefield, causing countless people's hearts to skip a beat at that moment.

"this..."

Roger and Whitebeard, the strongest members of CP0 and the Navy, leaders of various forces, both overt and covert...

These top experts were each engaged in their own battles, but at this moment they were all shaken by the heart-pounding tsunami that swept across the entire arena. They couldn't help but turn their heads and look in the direction of the sound, only to see a tall figure, like a demon or a god, standing on the shattered earth, his blood boiling and surging to the heavens.

They reached a consensus.

"This long war of attrition has reached its most critical moment."

Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!

Im felt a strong sense of urgency as she rushed toward Sig. Even though she was moving as fast as lightning, she felt that the distance between her and Sig was still too far, too far!

Teng!

She saw eerie black flames rise from Sieg's body, transforming into the phantom of a giant black flame dragon coiled behind the man.

On his chest and both legs, the intertwined tree-like tattoos emitted a faint green light. As the light shone, the blazing sun above his head seemed less intense.

He raised his large, fan-like hand and blocked Im's path of attack.

“Too slow.” His gaze was calm.

Im's fist landed in his palm, like hitting a mountain head-on!

boom!

Ever since being blasted by Uranus, Sieg has embarked on a path of relentless armor stacking and health regeneration, until this very moment.

Armament Haki, enhanced!

A body made of iron, open!

Armament Haki Gloves activated, Adam Tree abilities stacked!

Life Return - Dragon Scale Form, activate!

Boom! Boom boom!!

His intense blood and qi surged to the heavens; his breathing was like a fierce wind, his footsteps like thunder, and his boiling aura was as hot as a volcano.

It was like a raging sea of ​​fire.

Im could even see that the wounds that had just opened on Sig's body were healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

This scene even reminded her of her own Devil Fruit ability, causing a sudden jolt in her heart.

This healing speed... is it an ability similar to mine?

Im imitated telekinesis during the battle, and is the man in front of her, who claims to be the demon himself, also copying his ability?

Her pupils suddenly contracted, just in time to see Sieg raise his head and meet her gaze.

Despite being ten meters tall, she felt as if she were being looked down upon by the man in front of her.

At this moment, Sieg opened his mouth as if he wanted to speak, but no sound came out.

This is not actually speaking, but singing a silent ballad.

The familiar, invisible demonic sound flooded his mind; it was the exact same song as the Bat King's before, causing Im to momentarily lose his senses.

No matter how her body evolved, it seemed unable to completely resist that singing voice that seemed to strike straight to the soul.

"Give me some face."

"Die."

In that fleeting moment of confusion.

A fist the size of a clay pot slammed into Im's abdomen!

Sig has been stacking not only defense and healing.

The jet-black fist pierced the air with a piercing explosion, and dark red lightning crackled like ribbons in the torn air.

The earth arched like waves, and countless sharp spikes pierced the air from below.

In mid-air, thousands upon thousands of flying swords were once again swept up by an invisible force. Dark Armament Haki was transmitted from a distance, dyeing the sword tips black. This rain of black swords seemed to cover the sky as it pierced towards Im's entire body.

Then, raging black flames surged from Sieg's body, as if he had transformed into an abyss, with endless black flames surging from all directions.

boom!

The violent airflow pierced and overturned the floor beneath her feet. The ten-meter-tall Im's body arched in pain. In that instant, the attacks from all directions made her feel as if she were back in the seven-person siege an hour earlier, as if the whole world was her enemy.

"He's not at his last gasp...why?"

"The seven illusions he created earlier using the Bake-Bake Fruit were merely a subset of him, a part of him. But now, he is the true end for everything concerning Sigurd..."

He is... a mountain!

The mountain was a towering mountain that Im glimpsed in his childhood, reaching into the clouds and whose height he could not fathom.

Eight hundred years have passed, and she has become Im, while the mountain still seems to be towering, vast, and boundless.

The moment that thought crossed his mind, the taut string in Im's mind snapped.

As her mind went blank, a pale green flame of life emanated from her entire body; this was the last remaining portion of the life force she had absorbed from ten thousand people.

boom!

Boom!

The two enormous figures collided repeatedly like meteors, causing the earth beneath their feet to continuously crumble.

The floor, reinforced by Barrett's abilities, was easily torn and pierced like paper during their battle, and the entire Kronos ship seemed to tremble beneath their feet.

Amidst the deafening roar, deck after deck of cabins was breached. Im briefly lost consciousness for a second, his ears filled with the whistling wind, his thick back slamming against the floor.

She seemed to see countless people glancing sideways at her from the battlefield, the Five Elders' vacant stares, and the CP0's lifeless eyes...

When she came to her senses, she only saw the Kronos spaceship in the sky flying rapidly away from her sight.

Her figure fell like a shooting star, crashing onto the sea.

Boom!

The sea surface suddenly dipped downwards, followed by towering waves hundreds of meters high, creating a deafening roar.

Im's battered body sank heavily into the ocean. His limbs, which had been full of strength, gradually lost control and began to weaken.

"It's the ocean..."

Im's eyes glazed over for a moment.

Eight hundred years ago, she spearheaded the "Endpoint" project, causing the world's oceans to be contaminated with Seastone particles, making her the nemesis of those with special abilities.

However, she later became a power user herself.

The ocean is the nemesis of ability users; it is a fatal weakness that even the most powerful ability users cannot escape.

Even if she had already evolved organs that could breathe in the ocean and would not drown or suffocate, she would still be unable to move due to exhaustion and would simply sink slowly into the abyss thousands of meters below the sea.

Now, as the strongest ability user, she has fallen into the ocean that she herself polluted years ago.

Im's body plummeted downwards.

A sense of powerlessness enveloped her. She was unable to move because she was in the ocean and her body was broken and mangled, but she would not die because of it; her consciousness remained.

Will she continue to fall until she reaches the bottomless abyss, thousands of meters below the sea, where she will be forever lost...?

wrong.

"I am immortal..."

Im has lived for eight hundred years, and she can live for another eight hundred or a thousand years in the abyss.

Given enough time, there will always be a day when they rise again.

Perhaps it was a reckless salvage ship, or perhaps it was a sea monster that swallowed her body as a meal.

The darkness of the abyss will eventually end.

Because she is immortal.

As Im, with such thoughts in mind, gradually fell into an abyss where sunlight could not penetrate.

The seawater was suddenly violently disturbed, and something was rushing towards her at an extremely fast speed.

Im struggled to open his eyes.

Sig was enveloped in jet-black flames, as if endless flames were pushing aside the surrounding seawater. Then he reached out and grabbed Im's shoulder.

"Sorry, there won't be a second season." Sig's lips curled into a smile.

At that moment, Im suddenly trembled slightly.

Her abilities disappeared.

It felt similar to being captured by Rocks's clone with "Dark Water," rendering him unable to use his abilities.

In Sieg's left hand, a wine bottle appeared.