"Well then, you can die! Poison Dragon!"
The Hero-King burst into laughter, as if he had just heard the most amusing joke in the world.
"Truly an interesting fellow. It has been a long time since this king has been made to laugh so heartily by the insolent words of a mere brute!"
Although he was laughing, the Hero-King's cold killing intent did not diminish in the slightest. For the golden king before him, pleasure and the will to kill were essentially the same.
When pleasure transformed into killing intent, it became unstoppable.
At that moment, three poison dragons transformed into the sharpest of blades and lunged toward the Hero-King. The very air was filled with a scorching heat, enough to engulf the golden king in an instant.
However, facing Magellan's furious assault, the Hero-King showed not a trace of fear.
He simply sat calmly upon his throne, lazily resting his chin on his right hand, watching Magellan approach as if he were watching an exceptionally boring clown performance.
He lifted his left hand, took a goblet and fine wine from a golden ripple, poured a third of the glass, and began to savor it alone, paying Magellan no mind whatsoever.
"Come then, insolent challenger! This king will not stoop to such vulgarities as saying he will defeat you with a single finger. This king doesn't even need to lift one! Now, allow me to show you the true majesty of a king!"
Magellan's poison dragons attacked with overwhelming force.
Despite the great enemy before him, the Hero-King remained composed, sipping his red wine.
His ruby-red eyes, looking straight at the unstoppable onslaught, were filled with pleasure. Only a king who has enjoyed all the splendors of the world could understand such a feeling that transcends common sense.
The instant the poison dragons drew near, golden ripples, as dazzling as the sun, appeared. Several golden treasures shot out like cannonballs at extreme speed, completely obliterating the unstoppable poison dragons.
"Hmph, a Devil Fruit user, are you?"
Magellan ignored this. The shattered poison dragons instantly reformed, seemingly endless. However, as soon as the dragons' heads took shape, an even greater rain of treasures blasted them, causing them to disintegrate in an instant.
"Such speed... what is this ability!"
Magellan frowned. The bombardment from the Hero-King's treasures was faster than he had imagined.
In a moment of distraction, three more golden treasures shot towards him. In a panic, he rolled to dodge, looking somewhat pathetic. In contrast, the Hero-King remained seated on his throne from beginning to end, even savoring his red wine.
Every time Magellan unleashed a poison dragon, the Hero-King's King's Treasure would destroy it with even greater speed. Thus far, Magellan had been on the defensive, taking a beating.
"I just need to get closer, get within my range... then one fatal blow. First, I have to deal with that strange ability!"
"Is that all? Mongrel, you arrogantly challenged this king, yet this is all the skill you possess? As a final performance for a clown, it is far too comical!"
Magellan did not reply, instead spitting out a dense barrage of poison globs that flew towards the golden king.
"Poison Pufferfish!"
However, they were still intercepted mid-air by the downpour of treasures. The poison gas Magellan released was also instantly blown away by the wind pressure from the speeding treasures. The Hero-King didn't even need to formulate a counter-strategy.
But Magellan was indeed getting closer to the Hero-King.
Using his poison globs and dragons to counter the Hero-King's bombardment, Magellan dodged desperately, painstakingly closing the distance to the Hero-King on his throne.
"Little mouse, don't think you can be so arrogant just because you have some ability! In here, I am the law!!"
Facing the approaching Magellan, the Hero-King revealed a pleased expression.
He calmly continued to unleash the King's Treasure.
Twenty, forty, eighty... The cluster of treasures shone brilliantly, spreading out in the void like a star-filled sky.
"Let's see how long you can remain so relaxed!!"
Magellan glared. Countless treasures rained down, but he dodged them with incredible speed.
In just a few seconds, he was close to the golden ship and continued to charge forward.
The Hero-King couldn't be bothered to look, continuing to swirl the red wine in his hand and taste it delicately.
The closer Magellan got to the Hero-King, the fiercer the barrage of treasures became. Although he was injured, he managed to dodge them all. Most of Magellan's venom was being used to deal with the treasures.
"I see. You believe that by closing the distance, you can launch an attack on this king?"
The next second, the composed Hero-King was within arm's reach, still tasting his red wine.
Magellan snorted coldly, raised his right hand, and slammed it down from the air!
"It's over! Venom Demon: Hell's Judgment!!"
In an instant, crimson venom erupted, forming a giant, skeletal figure around Magellan's entire body. The giant stood in the void, and a massive hand instantly descended to cover the Hero-King.
"Die! Little mouse!"
With a roar that shot towards the heavens, the giant palm slammed down.
That moment of certain victory, which should have been a fleeting instant, seemed to last forever, as if frozen in time. As if time itself had stopped—
No, in fact, it was not time that had stopped, but he himself.
The instant the giant palm was about to touch the Hero-King, Magellan's hands, feet, shoulders, waist, and even his arms were bound by sturdy chains.
"Chains of Heaven!"