"Pity."
Imu's tone was icy, yet a trace of smugness flickered in her eyes:
"You cannot kill me."
Raiver smiled faintly.
"Hah, as if you could kill me either."
Those words seemed to touch a nerve.
Fury ignited in her eyes.
Her third eye flashed with red light!
A laser beam, highly condensed from Conqueror's Haki, shot forth!
Its speed was akin to teleportation!
It streaked straight toward Raiver!
Raiver immediately activated Voidification!
His body merged into space, turning transparent and ethereal!
The crimson laser passed through his voidified form!
BOOM—!!
Countless crimson Haki lightning bolts erupted and scattered in all directions!
Thunderbolts rained down from the sky as if doomsday had arrived!
Centered on the explosion, everything within several kilometers was utterly annihilated!
Icebergs instantly evaporated and melted into nothingness!
The thick ice layer shattered into countless tiny ice crystals in an instant, then was erased without a trace!
As if they had never existed at all!
When everything finally settled—
Raiver's transparent, voidified body slowly solidified and reappeared.
Completely unscathed.
"Why? Why?"
Imu was utterly baffled by what she saw.
Wasn't Haki supposed to surpass Devil Fruit abilities?
Why had her strongest Conqueror's Haki attack failed to harm him in the slightest?
Seeing her bewildered expression, Raiver's lips curled slightly upward.
He offered no explanation.
Voidification meant retreating into a 3.5-dimensional space.
No attack from the three-dimensional space could harm him.
This was suppression at the level of fundamental rules.
It couldn't be explained simply by "Haki surpassing Devil Fruit abilities."
Finding practical combat ineffective, Imu shifted to psychological warfare.
"Since you chose to protect Ohara, you must already know about the Void Century, right?"
She spoke slowly, her voice tinged with implication:
"After all, those scholars followed the Roger Pirates to the Final Island."
"I'm curious—even Joy Boy was defeated, so how dare you oppose me?"
Raiver chuckled lightly.
"Joy Boy never ate a Devil Fruit like mine.
The fact that you cannot harm me is my greatest confidence."
Imu smiled meaningfully.
"That remains to be seen."
She said slowly:
"You must already know about Uranus, right?"
Raiver's gaze sharpened slightly.
"It is a terrifying weapon capable of shattering the entire world."
Imu's voice carried a hint of pride:
"I wonder if your Fengtian Empire... could withstand a single strike from Uranus."
"You wouldn't dare!"
Raiver's eyes instantly turned cold and fierce!
He was enraged!
"If you dare destroy my territory—"
"Then I will annihilate your Mary Geoise!"
"Feel free to test me!"
As he spoke, his Space Fruit power erupted at full force!
Instantly, the entire space trembled and shook violently!
As if struck by a magnitude-ten earthquake!
The ground split open, forming massive chasms hundreds of meters wide and hundreds of kilometers long!
Kilometer-high icebergs rapidly crumbled and collapsed!
Everything sank, crumbled, and disintegrated!
In less than half a minute—
The entire Arctic Circle was reduced to flat ground!
Sea water surged back, attempting to engulf it!
Imu hovered in mid-air, watching this scene of utter destruction with a grave expression.
She finally realized—
This man's power was far more terrifying than she had imagined.
If he wished, he truly could destroy Mary Geoise.
And she had no confidence in stopping him.
Imu remained silent for a long time, then slowly spoke:
"I can make an agreement with you."
"From now on, neither interferes with the other, like well water not mixing with river water."
Her voice carried a hint of unprecedented compromise:
"How about it?"
Imu intended to cease hostilities with Raiver, waiting until she found his weakness.
Raiver looked at her.
Those crimson eyes showed no emotion whatsoever.
After a long while—
"Agreed."
His tone was flat.
Before gathering the powers of the Sun God Nika and the Dark God Nika, fighting Imu would only waste time and energy.
Imu said nothing more.
A massive inverted pentagram array appeared beneath her feet.
The Abyssal Magic Circle activated.
Black light enveloped her—
In the next instant, she vanished from the spot.
Raiver hovered alone above the shattered Arctic.
Cold winds howled, sea waters churned.
He raised his right hand, lightly tracing a line before him.
A Space Gate unfolded.
Beyond the gate was the Sky Palace of the Fengtian Empire.
He stepped through, disappearing from the Arctic.
...
Late night.
Sky Palace, Hall of Heart Cultivation.
Space rippled, and Raiver's figure appeared within the grand hall.
"Your Majesty!"
Two figures almost simultaneously rushed into his embrace.
Xingmian and Xingwan.
Raiver reached out, gently ruffling their hair.
"I am fine."
Beside them, the aquarium suddenly splashed with water.
Two mermaids leaped from the water, also flying into Raiver's embrace.
Zi Xi, Lu Yi—Raiver's two most cherished mermaid girls.
"Your Majesty, you have returned," Zi Xi softly said, her voice like heavenly music.
"We were so worried about you," Lu Yi nestled against his chest.
"Your Majesty, to the hot spring pool, we shall welcome you back and soothe your mind and body."
Raiver looked at their expectant eyes and smiled slightly, "Today, I shall follow your wishes."
Within the vast hot spring pool, steam misted.
The exotic flowers and rare plants along the poolside emitted faint, refreshing fragrances.
Raiver reclined comfortably on a lounger crafted from mutton-fat jade, his upper body floating above the water.
Xingmian and Xingwan surfaced, one on each side.
Zi Xi and Lu Yi submerged into the water; as mermaids, they could breathe underwater.
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Marine Headquarters, Marineford.
The fleet dispatched to O'Hara in the West Sea to execute the Buster Call returned with only one-third of its original strength.
At that time, Conqueror's Haki swept across the entire scene, everyone fell unconscious, and then they were swept into the suddenly torn Spatial Rift.
Over half were instantly shredded by Spatial Turbulence; those fortunate enough to survive were randomly transported to various places around the world.
Some appeared thousands of meters high in the sky, some plunged into the deep sea, some were exiled to desolate islands, and some even crashed directly onto the decks of Pirate Ships.
Akainu was among them.
At the moment he was sucked into the rift, he performed Elemental Transformation, thus avoiding being torn apart.
When he landed, his body crashed onto the deck of a Pirate Ship.
Filled with rage and with no outlet for it, he unleashed a Great Eruption with a single punch, obliterating and melting the entire pirate ship along with the hundreds of pirates aboard.
Only floating wreckage and charred corpses remained on the sea surface.
Marines High Command Conference Room.
The five vice admirals who participated in the Buster Call were gathered together.
Akainu and Aokiji appeared as calm as ever, while the other three were wrapped head to toe in bandages.
Without the protection of a top-tier Logia-type Devil Fruit, surviving their return was already a stroke of luck.
Sengoku sat at the head of the table, remained silent for a moment, then spoke gravely:
"The Five Elders have just ordered the cancellation of the Buster Call on Ohara.
From now on, without their direct command, no action is to be taken against the Fengtian Empire or any forces under its banner."
As soon as the words fell, Akainu slammed his fist on the table and roared angrily:
"They were the ones who ordered the Buster Call, and now they're the ones canceling it. What exactly do they want?"
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