"Land! Such a huge piece of land!" people in Loguetown, East Blue, exclaimed in shock.
"The Red Line... has disappeared," Crocus, standing on Laboon's head at the entrance to the Grand Line, watched the collapsing Reverse Mountain.
"The... the Four Blues are connected!" At Amazon Lily in the Calm Belt, Glorriosa witnessed the scene before her. The land of Amazon Lily extended outwards, connecting with other landmasses.
"The Calm Belts are gone too! There's wind!" Others noticed this. Wind was blowing from the east. This was the Calm Belt, yet wind had appeared.
Impel Down, located in the same Calm Belt as Amazon Lily, was also undergoing drastic changes.
Magellan had left Impel Down. The current Warden was Hannyabal.
"Why do I feel like Impel Down is rising? What's happening?"
Hannyabal ran outside. When he looked down, he was instantly dumbfounded.
Originally, only the top platform was above sea level. A while ago, when the sea level rose, they had added another layer. But now, he found himself standing hundreds of meters in the air.
Impel Down had become a tower, its base exposed. He could see the coastline below.
"Impel Down is exposed? How is that possible?"
"Warden! Look over there! The Gates of Justice!"
Hannyabal heard his subordinate's shout and looked over. The Gates of Justice were also exposed on land. They could finally see what the Gates of Justice truly looked like.
The giant whirlpool was still there, but much smaller. There were still many parts of the world that were ocean.
Originally, the world was 80% ocean. Now, vast stretches of land were exposed, reducing the ocean's area to only about 60%.
Especially with the emergence of five massive continents, it was truly staggering.
The receding waters, the collapsing Red Line... the world was truly connected.
People all over the world were shocked, unable to comprehend what was happening before their eyes.
On Lodestar, large areas of land were also exposed. The formerly extreme weather suddenly calmed down. Without the sea, without the Red Line, without the Calm Belts, the once most turbulent sea area became incredibly quiet.
Only in the sky, due to the clashes of Conqueror's Haki, dark thunderstorms raged.
Facing the combined assault of Roy and Luffy, a ball of solar flame appeared in Imu's hand. The flame's temperature was extremely high, and within it was the form of a small tree.
"What is that?" Luffy got burned, writhing on the ground in pain, blowing on his fist repeatedly.
"That is the Sunlight Tree Eve, the origin of this world. I never thought you would extract Eve. It seems the world's changes are likely due to Uranus over there, combined with the Eve in your hand," Roy said.
In the First World, the appearance of demons and the exhaustion of Eve's energy had twisted her power into that of devils.
In the Second World, Joy Boy had sacrificed his life to destroy Eve, stripping her of energy, leaving only the demonic force behind.
Now, sensing crisis, Imu had uprooted Eve from the depths. The sea god's hated demon had disappeared.
This meant evil Fruits would no longer be able to regenerate. No new Devil Fruits would be born in the future.
Imu was reclaiming all the demonic power to engage in a final death struggle with them.
Hum~~~
The air rumbled like a pressure cooker about to burst.
Pfft! Pfft! Splurt
Everyone present spat blood, including Roy. Because his body had become so massive, he endured even greater pressure.
He spat out a mouthful of blood. Blood seeped from all his joints. In an instant, Roy's body deflated like a balloon, shrinking from the size of an ancient giant down to a normal person.
"Mu is the master of this world! How could mere ants like you compare? The world shall return to me! Order shall be rebuilt! The world as it is now, Mu shall rule it once more!" Imu declared. The small sapling in her hand radiated sunlight so intense that all who faced it could barely endure it.
Her Royal Guards, though bloodied, smiled. They knew they had won. Imu would reign again, and they, as her loyal servants, would become gods' chosen guardians
The members of the Red Hair Pirates and Straw Hat Pirates were filled with despair. Before such overwhelming power, they couldn't even maintain their stance.
"That monster can't be defeated," Beckman muttered, his brilliant mind finding no way out.
Yet Shanks still hadn't fallen. He forced himself upright, bloodied but unbroken.
"I will not… yield so easily," he said hoarsely, lifting his gaze toward Im.
"Divine Might."
IImu looked down at him. An overwhelming force pressed down on Shanks.
Squelch!
Shanks' Haki shattered directly under her pressure. Suffering from the backlash, he spat blood and collapsed.
"Conqueror's Haki may be the pinnacle of human will, but in the realm of gods there is something higher, Divine Might. Before it, all Haki is but illusion."
"How could ants like you challenge Mu's power? The world's order will be restored. Only Mu's believers need remain. In another hundred years, humans will sprout again like weeds."
"By then, people will have forgotten this history, forgotten everything that happened during this time."
"Mu... will still be the god of this world. The world will once again..."
A massive fist smashed into Im's face. Her crazed expression froze, the suffocating pressure vanishing in an instant.
"Who?!"
Her enormous body reeled backward, stunned. She turned in disbelief to see a small white figure.
A fist, not large at all, but packed with such force it had sent her flying.
"Luffy!!"
"Captain!"
"Heh, I knew it."
Roy wasn't surprised by this scene. Why was Imu afraid of Joy Boy? Why was she afraid of the Sun God?
Because even Eve that Imu relied upon also needed the Sun.
Just like Enel's lightning had no effect on Luffy, Imu, possessing the Sunlight Tree Eve, couldn't affect him either. The same principle.
The Divine Might that crushed Conqueror's Haki was ineffective against the Sun God.
It was Roy, the false god, who had been affected.
His body had been suppressed, but now he had finally recovered. Luffy had bought him time.
"I don't care what god you are! You're just an evil person! You're the one who messed up the world! like this! You're the one who killed Uncle Cobra!" Luffy said angrily.
"I'm going to punch you flying!"