Akainu's eyes were nearly spewing fire as he roared in anger, "Borsalino, Garp, you actually surrendered to a pirate?"
"You have guarded justice for decades, yet today you bow your heads and surrender to a pirate. Aren't you ashamed?!"
Kizaru looked helpless and said nothing.
He knew how deeply Sakazuki loathed pirates.
No matter how he argued now, it would be useless.
Garp also ignored him.
The World Government using Tsuru's safety to force him to participate in the war had already crossed his bottom line.
Garp felt a heartfelt disgust for such a World Government.
Moreover, he had long since quit the Marines.
Luo Chen was also different from those pirates who went out to sea voluntarily to pillage.
Surrendering to Luo Chen was not that difficult for Garp to accept.
Topman Warcury, one of the Five Elders, twitched his mustache and said angrily:
"After we return, we will definitely kill Tsuru. Garp, you will regret your choice today."
He turned to glare at Borsalino: "Kizaru, no matter if you go to the heavens or the earth, we will put a bounty on you and kill you!"
Luo Chen stood on the forehead of the Thousand-Armed Martial God Giant, sneering coldly:
"Still dreaming about the future? You have no future."
With a thought, Kizaru and Garp broke free from the gravitational binding and regained their freedom.
The two moved away from the Five Elders and arrived on the back of the wood dragon to regroup with Aokiji and Nico Robin.
Luo Chen spoke no more; the one thousand Kamui giant swords that obscured the sun slashed down from the sky.
He manipulated the power of Wood Release to grow numerous towering giant trees, sheltering the Sea-Suppressing Star Hub below.
The power of this strike was terrifying, enough to sink an island.
In the sky, the first to meet Luo Chen's attack were the father and son, Garling and Shamrock.
The two had not yet been completely bound by the Chibaku Tensei and were at a certain distance from the Five Elders who had become the gravity sources.
The long swords in their hands were wrapped in Armament Haki, and coordinating with their Great Swordsman-level swordsmanship, they combined their forces to slash toward the sky.
Luo Chen's eyes were cold, and his whole body erupted with a sharp edge that seemed to want to cut the world apart.
This heaven-shaking sword intent radiated from the Thousand-Armed Martial God Giant, enveloping Shamrock and his father.
The long swords the two were slashing suddenly froze in mid-air, vibrating violently as if they wanted to break free from their masters' control.
Garling and Shamrock looked bewildered.
In the sky, one thousand Kamui giant swords crashed down at this moment.
Their sword moves were blocked, and it was too late to dodge again.
The moment they made contact with the Kamui giant swords, blood burst from their bodies, and their figures flew backward like cannonballs, crashing into the sea below.
Seeing them defeated so easily, the Five Elders and the remaining members of the God's Knights showed astonishment on their faces.
Only the bald Elder, Nusjuro, who was also a swordsman, perceived where the problem lay.
He looked shocked, staring tightly at Luo Chen.
Just now, that sword intent was extremely powerful!
"Did he break through to the Sword Emperor realm? How is it possible, at such a young age..."
Nusjuro was uncertain and filled with disbelief.
Only the realm of the Sword Emperor could explain that sword intent just now.
It was the only explanation for why Garling and Shamrock, two top-tier Great Swordsmen, suddenly froze in mid-air.
Somasz and Chiringomu of the God's Knights looked terrified.
They wouldn't die, but they would likely be chopped into mincemeat.
That kind of pain was real.
Akainu gritted his teeth, staring dead at the thousand giant swords in the sky, welcoming the arrival of death.
Within the attack range of the giant swords, he was the only one without an immortal body.
Not long after becoming the Fleet Admiral, he was about to die in battle.
Akainu was unwilling, but to ask him to surrender to Luo Chen like Kizaru and Aokiji...
He was absolutely unwilling.
"Failing to kill all pirates, it really makes one unwilling..." Akainu whispered in his heart, welcoming death.
The "sky" condensed by the thousand Kamui giant swords crushed down.
Space distorted, Armament and Conqueror's Haki surged, and sword intent cut the skin.
The Five Elders and the members of the God's Knights bound in the air were instantly submerged by the "ocean" of giant swords.
Screams resounded through heaven and earth.
Blood and severed limbs fell into the sea.
Under the deterrence of Luo Chen's [Conqueror's Domain], Devil Fruit abilities could not be used.
The seven individuals—the Five Elders and the God's Knights—could only use Armament Haki to resist hard.
Akainu had a soul within him; tortured by the [Soul's Lament] of Luo Chen's Conqueror's Haki, he couldn't even use Armament Haki.
His body was cut in two and fell toward the sea.
Luo Chen extended wood vines from his palm, grabbing Akainu's two falling body parts and bringing them back nearby.
Space distorted, placing Akainu's corpse into the Kamui dimension.
Just like before, he dispatched a clone to take him for Impure World Reincarnation.
To allow Akainu to exert his full strength from when he was alive, a living pirate sacrifice with a bounty of at least four or five hundred million was needed.
Currently, the number of sacrifices in the prison was insufficient.
He had to let Akainu be reanimated in an incomplete state first.
In the future, when a suitable sacrifice was caught, he could be reanimated again.
"Should I try using the bodies of the God's Knights?"
"I'm just afraid of accidents, of Imu controlling the reanimated person."
Luo Chen focused on observing the front.
The bodies of the Five Elders and the God's Knights were shattered under the slashes of the thousand giant swords.
They attempted to regenerate their severed limbs.
But they found they couldn't do it.
Luo Chen applied the "Conqueror's Seal" technique in his slashes; the wounds were covered with a layer of Conqueror's Haki.
The connection between soul and flesh was cut off at the wound by the Conqueror's Haki.
They couldn't regenerate like before.
The bodies of the Five Elders and the God's Knights were chopped into piece after piece, scattering down into the sea.
Unknown how much time passed, the Martial God Giant's thousand giant swords slowly stopped and withdrew behind its back.
In the air, the figures of the Five Elders and the God's Knights were gone.
On the back of the wood dragon, Aokiji, Kizaru, and Garp widened their eyes slightly.
"Are they dead?" Kizaru asked with some surprise.
The Five Elders and the people from the God's Knights failed to regenerate their physical bodies and fell into the sea.
Observation Haki couldn't detect their presence either.
It seemed they were all dead.
Aokiji frowned tightly, "Imu hasn't acted yet; they might not necessarily be dead, right?"
Garp gazed at the sea below.
Many years ago, during the battle to crusade against Roger and Rocks in God Valley, he saw a mysterious and powerful existence possess Jaygarcia Saturn.
That person should have been Imu.
After Imu descended, the members of the God's Knights, who had been heavily injured by Rocks and even cut into several segments, all had their severed limbs regenerated.
So, he shared the same view as Aokiji.
Even if the Five Elders and the God's Knights were chopped to pieces and fell into the sea...
They might not truly be dead.
Imu had not been defeated.
It was unlikely that the Five Elders and the God's Knights would die.
Robin held a visual transponder snail, aiming it at the spot in the sea where the Five Elders and the others had fallen.
She reminded them in a very low voice: "Bullet, get ready, Imu should be descending soon."
Hearing this, Kizaru, Aokiji, and Garp looked at her in astonishment.
Bullet?
Since the start of the great battle, Douglas Bullet had not appeared.
They thought he just happened to not be in Totto Land.
Listening to Robin's words, it seemed Bullet was in a certain place, deliberately waiting for Imu to descend on Totto Land.
And, he was not alone.
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