"King of the world?"
The entire world froze.
Before anyone could react, the live feed pulled back and split into two screens.
On one side Link atop a white pegasus, on the other the world's most prosperous city.
Most people on earth had never seen this city.
Those who had recognized it at once.
"Mary Geoise!"
All over the world people blurted out the name, including some within Mary Geoise itself.
Outside Mary Geoise, people had already noticed the mythical beasts in the sky, and agencies and powerhouses alike were moving.
Now, those inside its buildings also saw through visual transponder snails that someone had invaded the Holy Land.
And that intruder was the strongest being in the world, the strongest in history.
In an instant, the entire Holy Land Mary Geoise fell into chaos.
Many Celestial Dragons who looked down on humanity were hurriedly gathering to flee to shelters.
Of course, plenty of foolish Celestial Dragons tried to order their men to seize Link and the beasts—only to be dragged toward shelters by those same men.
Not only the Holy Land Mary Geoise—uproar swept the globe.
Link had appeared at the World Government's headquarters and introduced himself as the King of the World. Even a fool could see the strongest man alive meant to strike at the World Government.
Wherever there were visual transponder snails, crowds gathered at once—from great powers down to ordinary folk.
Some watched with eager expectation, others with fear.
The former were naturally those of the common classes; the latter were World Government loyalists, such as the more than 170 member nations.
As Mary Geoise sank into disorder, the Link on screen moved.
With black hair like a waterfall and a long black robe, Link suddenly rose from the pegasus into the air.
His waist-length black hair turned white before the naked eye.
Like it, his black robe remained.
More crucially, his black eyes—sclera and pupils—became rippled purple, with six black tomoe within.
Then nine black spheres appeared from nothing behind him.
A black staff likewise appeared in his hand.
Seeing Link's form, countless faces went slack—among them the powerhouses in Mary Geoise who had locked onto him.
"Transformation? Isn't he a Logia Mori Mori no Mi user? Why animal-type traits?"
"Could he, like Marshall D. Teach, have broken the world's rules and become a dual–Devil Fruit user?"
"Possible. Or he's mastered human modification and turned himself into a dual–Devil Fruit user. After all, the Impaler Pirates have a clone of the Pirate Empress, a Paramecia Fuwa Fuwa no Mi user."
"Hiss… so this is the secret why Link the Impaler can crush other Emperors and become the strongest in history?"
"......"
While the world argued,
the next second every face went blank again. From the weak to the strong, even superpowers near the world's ceiling, their worldview was refreshed.
Link looked down over the Holy Land Mary Geoise, one hand gripping the black staff, the other slowly opening his palm.
From a special angle, it looked as if his hand enclosed all of Mary Geoise.
Then Link murmured, "Divine—Tree World Advent!"
No need to set foot on the ground, no need to touch a thing. The unseen yang power that neither naked eyes nor so-called Haki could perceive seeped through the air into the Red Line.
Rumble…
The world's most prosperous city suddenly shook violently.
Even the visual transponder snails floating in the air seemed rattled, their images quivering on screens worldwide.
Though the tremor could not match the Gura Gura no Mi's world-upending force, to see such a scene in the Holy Land stunned countless souls.
In the next second, eight hundred years of World Government prestige began to crumble.
As the quake rolled across the city—seemingly across the entire Red Line—countless cracks split the ground.
Even at great distance, those fissures were plain to see.
Then innumerable green tendrils, as if from the abyss, surged up from those vast rifts.
Each green tendril was larger than the mangroves of the Sabaody Archipelago.
In moments, the prosperous city became a forest of green tentacles.
When they stopped writhing, those leafless super-roots extended dense vines downward.
Soon the vines drew back.
This time they carried white cocoons one after another.
Some cocoons had not fully closed. Look closely and you would see inside them people who could not move.
Some faces were blank; some tried to struggle, all in vain.
Among them, powerhouses across the world seemed to spot many familiar yet strange faces.
There was Steel Bone Kong, the Commander-in-Chief; the newly minted Admiral Ryokugyu; the God's Knights, and so on…
All were superpowers of the seas.
Now, before those branches, even superpowers had no strength to resist.
If only one had X-ray eyes—then the shock would be greater. It wasn't just superpowers who could not resist.
Except for the Five Elders with their special abilities, and that King of the World who has ruled for eight hundred years, every person atop the Holy Land Mary Geoise had been sealed without resistance by Tree World Advent.
Such is Link's Wood Release now.
Senju Hashirama's Wood Release was formidable indeed—the true number one beneath the Six Paths.
But if Hashirama had fused Uchiha Madara's extreme yin power, what change would have come?
The Rinnegan would, of course, appear, and Wood Release would evolve into something no less than the Rinnegan.
With extreme yang power, Wood Release sealing reached its peak.
After fusing extreme yin power, that sealing would break through dimensions themselves—an unexpected delight Link discovered once his strength solidified.
With mastery of Six Paths: Chibaku Tensei, he could use Yin–Yang Release to blend yin power into Wood Release, giving it sealing that instant-kills all.
Even a superpower, once bound by a branch, would at once be stripped of everything and become a Tree World Advent cocoon.
The only difference from the Infinite Tsukuyomi version is that these cocoons will not turn into White Zetsu.