One Piece: Starting with the execution of Pirate King Roger

"Pathetic." Gion sheathed her sword, her expression indifferent.

As a future general candidate, monsters of this caliber pose no threat to her.

However, this is just the beginning.

The strong stench of blood spread instantly, seemingly stimulating the nerves of the entire island.

"Roar!!"

"Awooo—!!"

"Hiss—!!"

Suddenly, a dense roaring sound came from the depths of the jungle, rising and falling, as if a hornet's nest had been stirred up.

The earth began to tremble, as if a thousand troops were charging in.

"Looks like we're not very popular," Renn said casually.

In the blink of an eye, countless scarlet eyes lit up in the shadows of the jungle.

A ferocious and enormous Tyrannosaurus Rex, a saber-toothed tiger as big as a small mountain, a giant wild boar covered in sharp spikes... surged out from all directions, a dark mass that surrounded the two.

They didn't cooperate with each other; in fact, they were even tearing at each other. But the moment they saw humans, all the monsters focused on one thing and rushed over, drooling.

"There are quite a lot of them."

Gion frowned slightly and gripped the hilt of her sword again. Killing all of these creatures wouldn't be difficult for her, but if they continued killing like this, it would probably take up a lot of time.

"I'll do it."

Raine stepped forward and stood in front of Gion.

He glanced at the monsters around him, who had lost their minds due to the IQ plants, a hint of impatience flashing in his eyes. He then raised his right hand, extended his index finger, and pointed the tip at the densest part of the horde.

"Zizzi-"

A terrifying high-voltage current was frantically compressed and condensed at his fingertips, emitting a teeth-grinding buzzing sound.

"call out--!!!"

A beam of blue-white lightning, only as thick as a finger, shot out from his fingertip in an instant!

The lightning beam traveled at extreme speed, leaving a straight vacuum channel in the air.

It pierced through the skull of the first dinosaur in an instant, followed by the second, the third...

The bolt of lightning seemed to have a life of its own, rapidly refracting and leaping through the horde of beasts!

Any monster touched by the lightning didn't even have time to scream before its body instantly stiffened, followed by a burning smell emanating from the inside out, its brain and heart being instantly cooked by the high voltage.

In the blink of an eye.

The lightning dissipated.

The dozens of ferocious beasts that had surrounded them were now all frozen in their charging stances, lying stiffly on the ground, black smoke billowing from their bodies, none of them able to move.

Total annihilation.

"Let's go."

Raine blew on a non-existent cigarette from his fingertips as if he had done something insignificant, then stepped over the corpses and walked deeper into the island.

Gion watched this scene, a strange light flashing in her eyes. Although she could also wipe them all out, the terrifying efficiency and effortless ease with which Raine performed this was indeed a unique advantage of Logia-type users.

The two ventured deeper into the island, heading straight for the high ground in the center.

The scenery along the way became increasingly bizarre and fantastical.

This island is like a mad laboratory forgotten by the Creator.

Renn saw a giant Venus flytrap, at least thirty meters tall, opening its crimson maw—large enough to swallow an elephant—and swallowing a passing mutated wild boar whole. In the nearby swamp, several enormous, almost eerily brightly colored flowers were spewing pale purple miasma, and around them lay the corpses of several small, stray beasts, their bodies rapidly rotting.

The laws of biology here are completely distorted. Plants are no longer static backgrounds; they possess a greater degree of aggression and territoriality than wild beasts. And those predators who should be at the top of the food chain are constantly at risk of becoming prey here.

"These plants are growing...too fast."

Gion watched as a vine strangled a rhinoceros to death in a few seconds, her expression grave. "It's like compressing hundreds of years of evolution into just a few days."

"That's the magic of these special plants."

Rein's gaze swept over the twisted plants, his Observation Haki forming a fine net that covered the entire island.

He is searching.

Try to find the traces left by the golden lion.

however……

Ten minutes later, the two stood on a high point in the center of the island, overlooking the entire island's terrain.

Renn opened his eyes, his brows furrowing slightly, a hint of undisguised disappointment flashing in his eyes.

"No……"

In his perception, the entire island was filled with violent, primal life force, but apart from the mutated beasts and IQ plants, there was no sign of human activity.

There was no laboratory, no palace, and no man with a ship's wheel stuck in his head.

"It seems... that golden lion has never been here before."

This island is currently just a pure, primitive monster paradise.

"How is it?" Gion noticed that Rein was in low spirits. "Did you find anything?"

"The environment is too harsh."

Ryan withdrew his gaze and solemnly presented the conclusion of the investigation:

"The beasts here are too strong and have an extremely high aggression drive, plus the pollen in the air that can drive people mad... This place is simply not suitable as a training ground. If we throw these recruits in here, let alone train them, it would be lucky if even one-tenth of them survive."

"Let's keep this area a restricted zone."

Gion nodded; this was indeed a reasonable judgment.

Renn shook his head, sighed, and a hint of regret crept into his voice:

"I thought I might encounter some surprises, but it turned out to be nothing. Let's go. When we get back, have someone keep an eye on this area of ​​the sea. If they spot any unusual celestial phenomena or unidentified vessels approaching, then notify me."

"This time... it seems I'm not destined to be with that person."

Renn waved his hand and took the lead in walking down the mountain.

Although Gion sensed something was amiss in Rein's words, she didn't press the matter further.

The two retraced their steps and soon emerged from the jungle into a wide-open plain.

Once you cross this plain, you'll reach the coastline.

however.

The moment Renne stepped into this open area.

"call--"

The wind stopped.

The sea breeze that had been whistling in my ears seemed to be forcibly paused by some terrifying force in that instant.

The whole world fell into a suffocating silence.

Even the wild beasts that roared deep in the jungle seemed to sense something, and all of them shut their mouths, trembling and lying on the ground, whimpering in fear.

That's the biological instinct of fear of apex predators.

Immediately afterwards—

it's dark.

It was not obscured by dark clouds, nor was it the sun setting in the west.

Instead, a huge shadow descended from directly overhead, completely swallowing up the light within a radius of several miles!

"What's going on?!"

Gion looked up in shock.

The next second, her usually calm and pretty face instantly lost all color.

Her pupils contracted sharply, reflecting a terrifying scene that resembled something out of a myth.

"Ray...Rayne!! Look at the sky!!!"

Renn suddenly stopped and looked up.

The thick clouds overhead were being violently torn apart by an invisible giant hand!

An island.

A massive, sky-covering floating island, accompanied by rolling winds and thunder that seemed capable of crushing everything, slowly descended from the clouds with an incomparably domineering presence!

It was a mountain! A piece of land! A world that fell from the sky!

It hovered in mid-air, its enormous shadow like a colossal beast devouring light, completely enveloping the ocean and land below. The rocks at the bottom of the island were jagged like the fangs of a monster, and countless thick chains hung down, colliding wildly in the gale, producing a deafening metallic roar.

"That is……"

Raine stared intently at the island looming overhead, his pupils not filled with the fear one would expect, but instead bursting forth with a chillingly ecstatic light.

There is absolutely no need for confirmation.

In this world, there is only one force that can make such a huge island float in the air against gravity.

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Ryan suddenly laughed, his laughter still clearly audible amidst the roaring wind, full of unrestrained wildness.

"I knew it... I knew my intuition was right!"

"I didn't expect you to show up at my doorstep just when I was about to go back!"

"What?" Gion stared at him in disbelief. Under the devastating wind pressure, she even lost her balance. "You know what that is?!"

Renn did not answer.

He stood in the middle of the plain, facing the enormous island with unparalleled kinetic energy, and slowly lowered his center of gravity.

"Zheng—"

With a flick of his left thumb, he opened the guard of the fine sword at his waist.

"Zizzi-"

A burst of violent blue lightning erupted from his body, like excited thunder dragons, frantically pouring into the blade!

"Om-"

The jet-black Armament Haki flowed upwards like water, frantically intertwining and merging with the high-voltage lightning, ultimately dyeing the originally silver-white blade a deep and dangerous dark purple!

The blade trembled, emitting a mournful cry of unbearable strain. The surrounding air began to distort due to the intense electromagnetic field, and countless tiny pebbles floated against gravity around Renn before instantly turning to dust.

A chilling aura began to gather around him, compressed to its limit.

"Raine! What...what do you want to do?!" Gion sensed the terrifying aura and shouted, "That's an island that fell from the sky! Get out of the way!!"

Faced with such terrifying mass, individual combat power seems so insignificant. Even a general, when confronted with an attack of this magnitude, would instinctively try to avoid its impact.

But Renn didn't move.

He watched the approaching rocky base, the despairing shadow that seemed capable of crushing everything, and his smile grew wilder, the lightning in his eyes threatening to pierce the heavens.

"Hide? Why should we hide?"

"Since the sky has fallen..."

Renn stomped his foot on the ground!

"boom!!!"

The solid rock beneath their feet instantly collapsed, blasting open a huge crater tens of meters in diameter!

Using this terrifying reaction force, combined with the propulsion of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, he transformed into a streak of purple lightning flowing upstream, advancing instead of retreating, and actually heading towards the fallen floating island, like a meteor defying the heavens, soaring into the sky!

"Then...split it open!!!"

Chapter 112 Just Embers of an Old Era (Please Subscribe)