"A strange aura… who is it?!"
Almost at the very moment the power of the Six Paths began to take shape, the women on Amazon Lily—Karina and the others—along with the Observation Haki users in Wano, all turned their gazes toward the direction where Link was.
"Link!"
Nami, with her unparalleled Observation Haki, immediately locked onto the source like a god's perspective.
Hearing her words, Karina and the others let out a sigh of relief. The fear that had unconsciously surfaced on their faces slowly faded away.
Then, astonishment appeared on all their faces.
"Link's aura has changed? I thought someone had invaded Amazon Lily."
"So powerful… so terrifying. Even from this distance, it feels suffocating, like he's on an entirely different dimension!"
"Has Link's strength grown again?"
"He's already the strongest man in history, yet he can still grow stronger. Has he become a god?"
…
On the balcony of the palace on Amazon Lily, Link sat cross-legged in midair.
Yes—defying gravity, he sat suspended in the sky.
Until now, Link's only way of flying was through the wooden dragon soaring in the air. Otherwise, he would ride Shirahoshi, Karina, or Kozuki Hiyori in their Mythical Zoan forms.
But now, without relying on anything, he floated freely, liberated from gravity.
It was like the power of the Paramecia-type Float Float Fruit—mastery over the rules themselves.
In truth, it was something else entirely… a privilege.
A privilege of transcending the world's ceiling, reaching a higher dimension of strength and existence—the privilege of flight.
Link's body radiated a blue flame-like aura, chakra made tangible.
Unlike the violent energy of his Wood Release, this flame was calm and gentle.
Yet this gentle aura terrified Karina and the others, and even the strongest in Wano could sense it.
Unless the Sage of Six Paths himself appeared, no one could truly understand what this aura meant.
Yin, Yang, Wind, Fire, Water, Earth, and Lightning—the seven chakra natures—were merging, elevating into a higher realm.
And in the process of this fusion, the world itself granted Link the privilege of flight.
What kind of transformation would his body undergo once the fusion was complete?
—
Time passed, no one knew how long.
Suddenly, the blue flames around Link shifted.
The aura flowed like liquid, covering his entire body from head to toe.
The blue glow slowly turned white, forming a long white robe, black pants, and boots.
At the collar of the robe, six black tomoe appeared.
His long black hair flowed down his back, contrasting with the white garments.
Then, black liquid manifested from nothing, condensing into a small black sphere that floated behind him, ignoring gravity.
One sphere formed, then another, until nine black orbs hovered at his back.
When the spheres stabilized, Link finally opened his eyes.
His black pupils had transformed.
In Sage Mode, his pupils had turned golden.
With the Sharingan, they became crimson with tomoe.
With the Mangekyō Sharingan, the pattern changed again.
But now, his sclera had turned purple, rippling with three concentric rings.
Within the two innermost rings, three black tomoe adorned each—six tomoe in each eye.
The Six Tomoe Rinnegan.
Landing softly, Link rose from his cross-legged posture and raised his right hand.
In his palm, black liquid condensed, identical to the orbs behind him, quickly shaping into a black staff.
Holding the staff, he tapped its end lightly against the floor, his expression calm, his gaze unfathomably deep.
"He disappeared… what happened?!"
"Impossible, I clearly saw Link with my electromagnetic waves, but I can't sense his aura anymore!"
"What's going on? Let's check quickly!"
…
Karina and the others rushed toward the balcony, their faces pale with shock.
Nami, using her ability to teleport through electromagnetic fields, appeared before Link in an instant.
"Link, your hair turned white… and your aura is gone?"
Looking at him—his face and skin unchanged, but his eyes and hair transformed—Nami asked urgently.
At her words, Link seemed to return to himself. He glanced down, tightened his grip on the black staff, felt the changes in his body, and smiled faintly.
"You can't sense me anymore? That's normal. After all… I'm no longer in the same dimension."
"Not… the same dimension?"
"Link, what do you mean?"
Nami and the others stared blankly.
"The literal meaning."
Without further explanation, Link floated upward, leaving the balcony, soaring beyond Amazon Lily.
Seeing him fly unaided, like the Snake Princess herself, the women were stunned.
Exchanging glances, Karina immediately shifted into her beast form and led the others in pursuit.
Link stopped above the sea, gazing down at the surging waves.
One of the black orbs drifted from behind him to hover before his face.
He whispered softly: "Amenotejikara."
The next instant, the black orb vanished.
BOOM—
A deafening explosion shook the world, startling Karina and the others, and even the residents of Amazon Lily trembled.
The sound was so great it could be heard even in Wano.
Karina and the others stared in disbelief, their mouths agape.
The sea below had been gouged open, as if half of Onigashima had been erased from the map, leaving behind a colossal, bottomless crater.
Unlike the black craters carved by the sheer physical might of Sage Art: Wood Release—True Several Thousand Hands, this one radiated pure annihilation.
The aura of destruction within it seemed to reduce all creation to dust.
And indeed, it had.
The seawater touched by the blast vanished instantly, erased by the power of rules themselves.
Like a Kekkei Mōra, born from the fusion of seven chakra natures, yet beyond it—like the Truth-Seeking Orbs of the Sage of Six Paths—an SSS-level technique that could obliterate all existence.
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