179: Crazy War
“Do you even deserve it?” These three words, like a final judgment from the abyss of Hell, crushed the last shred of dignity from the Four Emperors Red-Haired Shanks! Everyone in the world, all those who were watching this war through the Den Den Mushi, clearly heard this extremely humiliating question, and everyone’s minds went blank.
A sea emperor, powerful enough to make the World Government wary, hailed as the strongest Conqueror’s Haki user, was actually… publicly called trash and garbage in front of the entire world?
This was no longer just a provocation.
This was a naked, thorough trampling and subversion of the world's existing order and power system!
And Lin Fei clearly had no intention of giving this world any chance to breathe or think.
Under Shanks’s gaze, a mixture of horror, rage, and humiliation, amidst Ace’s furious roar from beneath the execution platform, and in the distant, desperate eyes of Whitebeard, who had been pulled from the sea by the Marines and was on the verge of death.
Lin Fei slowly turned around, his indifferent gaze falling upon the two “keys” on the ground, whom he considered burdens.
He stretched out his hand, and an invisible telekinetic force, like two unseen giant hands, effortlessly lifted Ace and Luffy from the ground, suspending them in mid-air.
The Sea Stone handcuffs, in front of this power, shattered inch by inch like paper!
“Brother… little brother…” Ace regained his strength, and raging flames ignited around him, but he found that no matter how he struggled, he could not budge the power that was restraining him in the slightest.
“Let Ace go!” Luffy’s body was also wildly stretching and changing, with Gear Second and Gear Third fully activated, but it was all in vain.
“Brotherly love? How touching.” A cruel and emotionless smile appeared on Lin Fei’s face.
He looked at these brothers who were still trying to protect each other in their desperate situation, and gently nodded.
“Since you two want to be together so much, then I’ll grant your wish.”
“Go to Hell together and be good brothers!” The moment his voice fell, his clasped hands suddenly clenched!
Crack—!!!!
There were no screams, no struggles.
Only two clearly audible sounds of bones shattering, like snapping dry branches!
The raging flames on “Fire Fist” Ace’s body, and his brother Luffy’s rubber body, filled with infinite potential, were meaningless in the face of this absolute telekinetic power that could distort space and ignore all physical Law.
Both their necks were instantly snapped.
The divine light in their eyes quickly dimmed.
The flames that once struck fear into countless pirates, and the light of hope that carried the Will of D, were completely extinguished at this moment.
The two still-warm corpses were casually tossed onto the execution platform by Lin Fei, like two broken sacks.
Silence.
The entire world fell into an absolute silence that lasted for ten seconds.
Immediately after!
“Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah—!!!!” A roar, unprecedented and filled with endless rage, sorrow, and killing intent, erupted from beneath that star capable of destroying the world!
It was Red-Haired Shanks!
He could no longer maintain the composure and calmness befitting a Four Emperor!
An unprecedented, condensed to the extreme, terrifying Conqueror’s Haki, as if to dye the heavens and earth black and red, surged from his body like a volcano, even temporarily pushing aside a sliver of the terrifying oppressive force of the world-destroying star!
His single arm gripped his beloved sword “Gryphon” at his waist!
Streaks ofDark lightning, like living venomous snakes, frantically coiled around the blade of the famous sword!
“You… deserve to die!!!” Shanks poured all his life’s strength and fury, all his Haki and swordsmanship, into this single sword strike!
He swung his blade fiercely, and a terrifying slash, as black as ink yet flickering with crimson lightning, as if it could cleave even gods in two, tore through space, ignored distance, and angrily slashed towards Lin Fei on the execution platform!
Divine Avoidance · Heavenly Punishment!!!
This was beyond his usual “Divine Avoidance,” infused with endless killing intent, his strongest strike in his entire life!
However, facing this terrifying slash that would make any strong person change their expression.
Lin Fei didn't even twitch an eyelid.
Only Lu Zhifei beside him, with light lotus steps, calmly stepped in front of him.
She simply raised her hand.
From the divine weapon halo composed of a twelve-pointed star behind her, the heavy rune representing the [Earth Divine Shield] suddenly lit up!
Buzz—!!!
A massive divine shield, entirely composed of golden, flowing energy crystals imbued with sacred Law, appeared out of thin air before her!
The next second, the pitch-black world-destroying slash violently collided with the seemingly thin golden divine shield!
Boom——————!!!!!!!!
A deafening roar, like a great bell, echoed throughout the entire world!
There was no explosion, no shattering.
The terrifying slash, capable of felling even gods, upon colliding with the golden divine shield, was as if it had struck an eternal, unmoving wall of lamentation; all its power was instantly absorbed, decomposed, and dissipated into nothingness!
And on that golden divine shield, not even the slightest crack appeared!
“What?!” For the first time, Shanks’s eyes revealed an emotion called “despair.”
And this despair was quickly replaced by another, even more insane, even more reckless will to destroy!
“Woah woah woah woah woah woah woah woah!!!!” It was Whitebeard!
Having witnessed his last “son” die tragically before his eyes, this already heavily wounded and dying old man completely descended into madness!
He burned all his remaining life force, unleashing the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit without reservation, indiscriminately, pouring it out wildly across the entire Marineford!
Crack, crack, crack!
The earth was cracking, the sky was shattering, and the sea was surging backward!
The entire Marineford island, in the face of this mutually destructive power, began to tilt and sink uncontrollably!
This was the strongest man in the world’s final, and most desperate, wail!
And amidst this terrifying scene, like a clash of immortals and the end of the world.
A cool and elegant figure, like a graceful Grim Reaper, quietly stepped onto the battlefield already covered in blood and corpses.
It was Lin Mengzi.
In her eyes, aDark blue soul fire gently flickered, her gaze sweeping over the corpses of the strong individuals who had unfortunately fallen in the previous battle.
“Diamond” Jozu, shattered by Lin Fei’s palm… Pirate captains whose chests were burned through by Akainu’s magma… Even those Marine Vice Admirals who were caught in Whitebeard’s shockwaves and died tragically…
“Death is not the end.” She stretched out her fair hand, as if caressing rare treasures.
“Struggle is also futile.”
“In this underworld, you are all my soldiers.”
“In my name, rise!” [Descent of the Underworld]!
A vast and boundless netherworld power, filled with the Law of death and Rebirth, swept across the entire battlefield like a silent tide, with her at its center!
Countless corpses began to tremble.
Diamond fragments re-condensed.
Scorched flesh healed again.
Their eyes reopened, but within them, there was no longer any light belonging to the living, only the most absolute, most humble, eternal submission to this Queen of the Underworld before them!
“Diamond” Jozu, the former commander of the Whitebeard Pirates’ Third Division, was now her most indestructible undead bulwark!