At this moment, Lily and the others had just arrived at the foot of the mountain. She turned her head and saw Sage amidst the moonlight, raising his right fist high and pressing his left hand on his right arm.
"That stance..." Lily was stunned, her big eyes growing even larger.
"Ah, that's..." Marika, carrying the Golden Throne, gently smiled, her suddenly widened eyes illuminating her face.
"Whoa!" Renedia was astounded, staring at the center of the moon.
When it comes to the East Sea, it wasn't the most perilous, but it was definitely the most awkward battle. The strength of that Navy Hero was always etched in their minds.
It wasn't Zephyr; the fight with Zephyr was dangerous but not awkward. If Sage hadn't stopped Lily back then, Zephyr would have died.
The real embarrassment was at Bridge Kingdom...
The Navy Hero who destroyed the bridge with one punch...
Garp!!
Haki rapidly gathered and coiled around the right fist, flowing as black as flowing fire, constantly condensing, tightly adhering, gradually forming a black flame covering the fist's surface!
Sizzle!
At that moment, two black lightning bolts briefly exploded from the fist, spreading outward.
It wasn't Supreme King's Entanglement.
Because it was short-lived. This level of haki black flash...
Is the extreme utilization of Armament!
That Supreme King's Entanglement, which only a few can master, Sage wanted to learn it. But now he couldn't fully control Supreme King, couldn't even pinpoint to shake people, only choosing directional release.
Supreme King's Entanglement was too early for him.
But he could achieve extreme Armament, mastering all the haki techniques, uniting them, also capable of releasing brief black lightning.
Just like Garp at Bridge Kingdom...
That move was deeply etched in his mind!
"Fist Bone..."
Sage's body, illuminated by the moon's center, shot down like a meteor, focusing intensely on the mountain below, his fist occasionally flickered with black lightning, forcefully smashing into the mountain body.
"Galaxy Impact!!"
Boom!!!
The whole Stone Island erupted with tremors greater than tidal waves, and at the center, the mountain shook like an earthquake. From Sage's fist, cracks spread rapidly throughout the mountain, and at that moment, it fractured!
With only one punch, Sage blew away most of that towering mountain!
"Hahaha, hahaha! That's it!!"
Sage leaped in the air, laughing wildly, drawing the attention of everyone in Royal City.
The shattered mountain, an ominous figure in the moonlight, under that wanton frenzy in mid-air, looked like a calamity descending in the night.
Catastrophe!
He tightened his fist again, drawing upon the extreme usage of haki, trapping him in temporary stagnation, rekindling in his hand, glaring fiercely as he shot down again.
"One more punch!"
Boom!!!
This time, Sage's fist shattered the remaining mountain remnants, blasting a massive crater into the earth and destroying nearby structures, like a meteor impact forming a large pit.
"Third punch!!"
Sage inhaled deeply, once more interrupted by brief stagnation, redistributing haki as he continued descending from the crater above.
"Fist Bone: Galaxy Impact!!"
Boom!!!
A massive wave of air erupted from Royal City's center, blowing Lily and the others, pushing them backward uncontrollably, almost lifting them off their feet.
From the center of the mountain, Royal City sprawled, forming a colossal pit occupying a third of the city area, resembling an abyss, dark and bottomless.
"Come out! Bring the gold out!"
Sage shouted into the abyss, "Golden Country...is mine!!"
In the depths of the endless abyss, pairs of eyes reflected the black moonlight, gradually filled the pit, revealing expressions of surprise and disbelief.
Running and scrambling quickly to the pit's edge, Las shivered at Sage's roar, instinctively taking out that skeletal Gold Coin.
Dimly, the skeletal Gold Coin emanated a light, causing a shine in Las's eyes and revealing another vision.
In the unseen abyss, pairs of eyes struggled to look upward, continually advancing toward that thumb-sized glow.
Even though they kept falling into the abyss, they never gave up, constantly advancing toward the only visible light, longing to see the sun they hadn't seen for so long.
Until reproduction, until death, generation after generation, the sun became legend, yet they never abandoned the sight of that sole brilliance.
Three hundred years of waiting, three hundred years of yearning, three hundred years of generational propagation, three hundred years of era transformation, three hundred years of inherited will...
At that moment converging at the peak, breaking through to that tiny gleam, then...
The light suddenly enlarged, becoming larger than they desired, vastly boundless, effortlessly climbable.
But the light also gradually vanished, transforming into a dazzling night, only myriad stars, and a moon like a silver wheel.
It wasn't the sun they wanted, but...
"I don't care!"
Las gripped the skeletal Gold Coin fiercely, and that strange luminance vanished instantly. Fueled by the sensation from the vision, veins bulged as he shouted:
"Even in the black night, Master Sage is my sun!!"