"This is Imu's world! It has no need for meddlers like you!!"
Imu, transformed into a giant monster, roared fiercely. "You will be reduced to ashes under Imu's power, just like Joy Boy and Davy Jones!"
While roaring, the colossal monster opened its mouth and spewed a black beam of light directly at Roa.
"Heh? When it comes to beam clashes, this Roa has never feared anyone!"
Roa laughed heartily, opening his mouth to spew a beam as well.
Various powers mixed together, finally emitting a dark-toned light wave of different colors.
Boom!!
The two forces collided with a thunderous impact.
Two torrents containing destructive power smashed violently against each other in the sky. At the moment of contact, time seemed to freeze, and then, a soundless but soul-shattering roar suddenly exploded!
At the core of the collision, space itself twisted and shrieked under the unbearable strain.
Light was frantically devoured and torn apart there, forming a constantly expanding, dark energy sphere. The edges of the sphere were lined with flickering black arcs and multi-colored energy debris.
Rumble—!!!
A substantial shockwave spread frantically in a perfect sphere in all directions, centered on the point of collision.
The energy turbulence was like billions of invisible sharp blades, shattering the atmosphere.
A piercing whistle mixed with a low thunder, playing a dirge for the sky.
The sky itself seemed about to be fractured by the explosion.
Below, on the Uranus.
When the massive chaotic sphere appeared in the sky, the members of the Pirate Alliance were preparing to deal with the remaining Marine forces.
After the Five Elders and the Holy Knights were dealt with, the remaining Marines couldn't cause any major trouble.
There was no way around it; the power gap was already huge, and now it was a chasm.
However, it was at this moment that a strong wind suddenly descended.
"Ugh!!"
Doflamingo's gigantic purple golem was pushed back and bent over by the violent shockwave, trembling constantly. "What is that?!"
It wasn't just him; the entire colossal Uranus was pushed downwards, making everyone on the deck experience the feeling of freefall.
"It looks like the real battle is just beginning!"
Shiki waved his hand, causing the descending Uranus to float again.
His eyes and face were filled with solemnity.
What an exaggerated presence!!
Are those two guys really still human?
In the sky above.
The intense explosion gradually dissipated.
Roa, who had been forced to retreat a considerable distance by the explosion's air currents, slowly exhaled. "Whoa, not bad. This is starting to get interesting."
"Roa!!"
The giant monster flapped its wings and broke through the air, its astonishing speed completely disproportionate to its enormous size.
Black currents of air surged around its sharp claws, which clawed towards Roa with a simple, unadorned strike.
Roa met the attack with an equally simple sword slash.
Both were unremarkable attacks, but the moment the claw and the blade collided, the world instantly lost all sound.
Because all the surrounding air was instantly blown away by the powerful shockwave, creating a vacuum.
"Haha! Now that's more like it!"
Roa burst out laughing.
It was very strange.
The area around them was now a vacuum.
But both of them could still float in the sky using the wings on their backs.
And when Roa burst out laughing, Imu could still hear his voice.
"For so many years, I've always considered you the final hypothetical enemy. If you were so easily cleaved by me, I would be very disappointed!"
"Still spouting nonsense!"
Sharp tentacles shot out from the demon's back, stabbing towards Roa again in a world-enveloping barrage. "To Imu, to this world, you are no different from Joy Boy and Davy Jones!"
"All unwanted scum!!"
Roa twitched his mouth.
Surging flames rose out of thin air, instantly incinerating all the tentacles.
Shiva's flames—this was the power to end an epoch!
"You're really getting worked up for nothing."
Roa said with interest, "The man who came closest to conquering the world was Davy Jones, and the one who defeated him was Joy Boy."
"Who are you, the cleanup crew, to be throwing out threats here?"
"Shut up!!"
A giant trident condensed out of thin air, wrapped in black air currents, and smashed towards Roa. "Imu's affairs do not require your commentary!"
Roa merely smiled and met the attack with his sword.
This collision, too, shook the heavens and the earth.
"Davy Jones, or Joy Boy, they were just failures!"
"Imu is the final victor! Imu is the master of this world!!"
"Roa, you can't change anything!"
Roa did not speak, only constantly retreating and blocking Imu's attacks.
At the same time, he recalled the whole truth he had witnessed on Laugh Tale.
The story must begin many, many years ago.
Just as Roa originally suspected, everything originated from the Birkans on the Moon.
When the Birkans, who possessed highly developed scientific technology, migrated to the Blue Star, all the fateful encounters began.
The Birkans split into several factions after arriving on the Blue Sea.
One part remained on the Sky Island, who would become the future Sky People.
The people of Jaya Island below the Sky Island were also a branch of theirs.
A larger portion, led by their royalty—the Lunarians—reestablished a nation on the Blue Sea named Birka.
In that era, the Blue Sea was arguably a collection of barbarians.
However, because the sea level had not yet risen, the world was still dominated by land, so communication was not as difficult as it would be in the future.
Therefore, when the nation of Birka was established, it naturally caused a considerable shock to the surrounding countries.
Initially, the Blue Sea people were just curious.
But after the Birkans established a prosperous nation and developed an unprecedented civilization, a change finally occurred.
Birka was simply too unique in this world at that time.
And being special sometimes leads to rejection.
Thus, a war targeting the Birkans began.
Perhaps they simply found them an eyesore, perhaps they wanted to plunder their wealth, or perhaps they wanted to seize their technology. No one knew the specific reasons.
But it is known that initially, only a few countries participated, but later, as the Birkans achieved successive victories thanks to their technology, more and more countries were drawn in.
The Birkans were, after all, outsiders. They had no friends in this world. When the great war broke out, the question of right and wrong lost meaning; for most countries in this world, they were invaders.
Furthermore, they possessed technology that made everyone salivate.
It must be said that although the Blue Sea was barbaric and backward at that time, the individual strength was not inferior to the present at all.
Even the people living in that era used Haki.
Although the Birkans held an absolute advantage in technology, once the battle progressed to close-quarters combat, they were often routed.
Though the Lunarians were formidable, they were still insufficient against true Haki masters.
One side relied on technology, the other on personal martial power. The two sides fought fiercely.
The final result was a peace negotiation.
Both sides realized that continuing the fight would only lead to mutual destruction, so they chose a truce.
Then, meaningful communication officially began.
The Birkans began to learn the various cultures of the Blue Sea, and Haki was introduced.
At the same time, the technology mastered by the Birkans gradually began to spread across the sea.
From then on, development became the main theme of this world.
However, human desire is always hard to satisfy.
While everyone was using the technology obtained from the Birkans to develop their own countries, some people always wanted to turn technology into weapons to realize their ambitions.
Joy Boy did not know who started the war first.
In any case, in the distant, forgotten past, someone created an energy system called the Sun Engine.
Based on this, a new weapon was born.
Even the Birkans had never imagined that the power of a weapon created by technology could one day reach such a world-destroying level.
It is said that this power was by no means inferior to the weapons that would be called Ancient Weapons in the future.
The faction that mastered the new weapon began to expand recklessly.
No one could stop their progress.
Humans, Fish-Men, Merfolk, Minks, Tontattas, Giants...
One race after another was conquered by them.
These arrogant conquerors believed no one could stand alongside them, and all the conquered were turned into slaves.
Even the Birkans were forced to retreat step by step.
It was at this time that a miracle was born.
When all the slaves fell into despair, hoping only for someone to save them, a breakthrough result emerged from a classified research project of the Birkans.
A fruit was born.
It was the first Devil Fruit in the world.
Originally, the Birkans only wanted to create a fruit that could conveniently perform Lineage Factor modification.
But the prayers of the slaves changed everything.
The one who ate this Devil Fruit was a giant named Elbaf.
In the protracted war, this giant, who insisted on fighting the conquerors for the liberation of the slaves, finally awakened the true power of that fruit.
Thus, the original Sun God was born.
It was only then that the Birkans realized they had created something extraordinary.
However, at that time, this fruit that changed everything was not yet called a Devil Fruit, and the original Sun God was not cursed by the sea.
But regardless, from then on, the tide of war finally began to turn.
The resistance forces, led by the original Sun God, began their counterattack.
Even the conqueror faction, which controlled ultimate weapons, began to suffer continuous defeats.
Because, in addition to the Sun God, the Birkans had also created an equally powerful weapon—the future Uranus.
A floating battleship modified based on the ship they had used to travel from the Moon to the Blue Star!
Feeling that defeat was imminent, the conqueror faction modified the Sun Engine into a new kind of weapon.
It was not a weapon against people, but a force used to destroy the world.
They named it the God of the Earth.
No one knows what that weapon looked like, and how it exerted its power is unknown.
Joy Boy only said that on that day, the entire world roared, and a terrifying force nearly flipped the world upside down.
The continental plates of the entire world suffered severe damage, and the land in most regions began to sink, thereby forcing a ring of land encircling the world to rise, which would become the future Red Line.
The sinking continents also caused the sea level to rise, and the world was flooded by the sea for the first time.
Since then, the ocean gradually became the main theme of the world, with land taking a secondary role.
This was the world's first near-destruction.
This great war directly interrupted the previously flourishing process of civilization.
Few people survived worldwide, and even fewer technologies were preserved. Civilization suffered a direct break.
After this war, the Birkans also became fearful of the consequences that an unchecked expansion of technology could bring.
They sealed away Uranus, moved their nation to the high Red Line, and gradually isolated themselves from the world.
The world then began to rebuild.
The technology that had gradually spread throughout the world slowly vanished, and people returned to a barbaric era.
However, the legends of the Birkans still circulated across the sea.
Occasionally, people who reached the Red Line and saw the nation established by the Birkans would wonder if they had arrived at the mythical country of the gods.
Thus, the Lunarians who governed that nation were gradually rumored by the people of the world to be gods.
The world thus continued to develop forward.
Although technology stagnated and breakthroughs in navigation were difficult, the now-re-flourishing human race also began to explore the world.
Voyages became common.
Then, a certain man appeared.
Not Joy Boy, but a man named Davy D. Jones.
That guy was a mad ambitious man.
Nine hundred years ago, the start of the Void Century, was inaugurated by this man's arrival at the Birka Kingdom.
Yes, it was still the Birkans.
Their existence truly and completely changed the history of this world.
In fact, during that long period, the Birkans, who had nothing to do on the Red Line, had been researching the power possessed by the Sun God.
Based on the Lineage Factor they had once obtained from Elbaf, they created two things.
One was a tree, a tree that could grow various fruits with miraculous powers.
The other was a dragon, a dragon used to restrict the eaters of these fruits.
No one knows what Davy Jones did in the Birka Kingdom. In any case, when he appeared in this world again, he was accompanied by a dragon and had also become an incredibly powerful Devil Fruit user.
The Birka Kingdom, unable to revive Uranus in time, was shattered by him, and the Lunarians were pulled down from the altar of gods.
Then, Davy's journey of conquest began!
Just like in the era long ago, Davy Jones, controlling an unparalleled weapon, could not be stopped even by the Birkans.
He conquered one island after another, enslaving one kingdom after another.
To ensure his rule was not shaken, he prohibited everyone in his territories from sailing, confining everyone to their original islands. In this way, the whole world remained fragmented, and no one could stop him.
However, a man who was unwilling to be restrained and wanted to regain freedom defied the command of that supreme king. He set sail on a ship.
His homeland, the country controlled by Davy Jones, used a new term to describe this person who illegally sailed out.
They called him, Pirate.
That first pirate in history was named, Joy Boy.
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