Lucian's words—
weren't just arrogant.
They were pure contempt.
This wasn't a challenge to a Yonko.
It was a declaration of extinction.
"Mamamamamama!!!"
Charlotte Linlin's enormous body convulsed, trembling not just from rage,
but from an unprecedented humiliation that pierced deep into her bones.
Her bloodthirsty eyes were overtaken by madness and shame.
She had ruled these seas for decades.
She had built Totto Land into a vast empire.
She was an Emperor of the Sea.
When had she ever been shamed like this?!
Before the eyes of the world—
her headquarters was obliterated in a single blow.
Her strongest officers—defeated with a single glance.
"You little brat… you've really pissed me off now!!!"
Her voice turned sharp and shrill, twisted by fury.
Her Emperor's Haki, infused with boundless rage, exploded into the sky,
shattering the surrounding ruins into dust!
"Zeus! Prometheus!"
At her command, two polar-opposite energy beings took shape in the sky.
On the left—
Thundercloud Zeus, grinning with menace.
Its body swelled larger than ever before,
black clouds crackling with purple lightning.
On the right—
Sun Prometheus, ablaze with roaring fire.
No longer a simple fireball—
it was now a true man-made sun,
so hot it warped the very air around it.
These were her most powerful Homies, forged from her very soul—
extensions of her will and power.
"Come, my servants!"
Linlin raised her left hand, summoning Zeus.
With her right, she gripped Emperor's Sword—Napoleon, now grown into a massive blazing blade.
Prometheus melted into Napoleon's blade—
ZzzzzzRRRRHHH—!!
Fire and steel fused, forming a massive greatsword,
over 100 meters long and wreathed in apocalyptic flames.
The sky went dark.
Zeus spread across the heavens, blotting out the sun.
Stormclouds gathered from every direction,
plunging Totto Land into a doomsday twilight.
Red flames and violet lightning danced across the sky,
painting a hellish, spectacular scene.
Charlotte Linlin, with lightning in her left hand and fire in her right,
raised the fused Emperor's Sword high.
"Die, you little brat!!"
Spear Of Elbaf — Ikoku Sovereignty!!!
She brought the sword crashing down.
BOOOOOOMMMMM!!!
A slash forged from lightning and fire,
powerful enough to split the sky,
hurtled toward Lucian like divine judgment.
Wherever it passed—
the land cracked.
The clouds above—cleaved in half.
The kind of power that could wipe an island off the map.
Lucian didn't move.
He didn't even change expression.
He simply looked up—
at the blade of extinction bearing down on him.
Behind him—
the towering Sun God Apollo Phantom
became almost solid.
Holy.
Sovereign.
Ancient.
It radiated across the entire battlefield.
Lucian slowly lifted his right hand, fingers spread—
not at the slash,
but at Prometheus, the fire Homie fused with the sword.
And then—
he closed his hand.
HUMMMMM—!
A power beyond comprehension,
outside the bounds of natural law,
erupted from his palm.
Prometheus—the artificial sun—
let out a human-like shriek of terror for the first time.
It trembled violently,
as if meeting its divine natural predator.
"Mama? Prometheus?!"
Linlin's eyes widened.
She felt her soul-link with Prometheus
being forcibly severed by a superior power.
And then—
Prometheus—
screaming in fear—
ripped itself free of her sword,
flying straight toward Lucian's open palm.
It struggled.
It resisted.
But that godlike gravity—
was irresistible.
The fire Homie, born of a Yonko's soul,
was drawn into the golden glow of Lucian's palm—
and erased.
Not even a spark remained.
"PROMETHEUS!!!"
Linlin screamed.
Without Prometheus—
the apocalyptic slash lost its fire.
The flames vanished.
Only pure lightning remained.
Lucian raised his left hand.
Toward the skies.
Toward Zeus.
He casually unleashed an attack—
a ray of the Sun God's light.
In an instant,
endless light and heat burst upward from his body.
The dark clouds—
were vaporized.
Purged.
Cleansed.
In just one second—
Totally consumed.
The end-of-days sky over Totto Land—vanished.
Sunlight returned.
Zeus shrieked,
shrinking rapidly under the holy light.
He became a tiny, shivering cloud,
and fled behind Linlin in terror.
Her strongest strike—
nullified.
"No… no way…"
Linlin stared at her empty hands—
at Zeus, now cowering behind her—
her mind blank.
Her powers.
Her Homies.
Her pride—
all made into a joke.
In horror,
she unleashed her last trump card—
The core, the most terrifying ability of the Soul-Soul Fruit.
Her eyes turned blood-red,
and she fixed Lucian with a soul-piercing stare.
"Life or Death!!!"
Soul Incantation!
A direct trial of the soul.
If the target feels even a flicker of fear—
their lifespan is ripped away.
Instant death.
For the first time—
Lucian showed a reaction.
A slight smile—
almost mocking.
He spoke—
with the authority of a god mocking an insect.
"A mere Yonko...
dares peer into my soul?
Dares to test… my fear?"
As his words ended—
HUMMMMM—!!!
A psychic shockwave
exploded outward from Lucian—
Invisible.
Intangible.
But saturated with overwhelming divine will.
He didn't resist Linlin's curse.
Instead, he countered it—
with something far more brutal.
He didn't dodge.
He didn't deflect.
He overwhelmed her soul with his own.
"AAAAAAAHHHHHH—!!!"
Linlin screamed as if struck by a billion volts of lightning.
Her massive body reeled backward.
From her eyes.
From her nose.
From her ears.
From her mouth.
Seven trails of blood poured out simultaneously.
It wasn't physical.
Her soul was being torn apart.
She screamed—
louder and more painfully
than she ever had at sea.
No more rage.
No more pride.
Only terror.
Lucian walked toward her.
No one dared move.
He raised his right hand.
In his palm—
a flickering golden flame began to take shape.
It pulsed with the power to
purify all evil,
or
erase all existence.
"It's over."
His voice was utterly flat.
As if simply stating a fact.
This strike would
end an Emperor of the Sea.
And just as that flame descended—