Blue lightning streaked through the gloomy corridor, and Luffy stopped when he reached a wide area.
His gaze fixed ahead.
Standing at the entrance to Impel Down's Crimson Hell was a man with blue-purple striped skin, ferocious bull horns, crimson pupils with black eye shadow, a black overcoat, a sinister expression, and a dangerous aura like potent poison radiating around him!
"Magellan!"
Sabo reached behind him, pulling out his steel pipe, his expression solemn!
"Sabo,"
Luffy took out the burnt corner of Ace's Vivre Card from his straw hat and placed it in Sabo's hand!
"He's mine, Ace is yours!"
Luffy shielded Sabo behind him. Magellan in Impel Down was undoubtedly an Admiral-level fighter!
Furthermore, with the immensely powerful Venom-Venom Fruit, his danger level was no less than Akainu's Mag-Mag Fruit!
"Straw Hat, I already know your objective. As the Warden, I must capture you!"
"Your fate... ends here!"
Magellan's entire body glowed with purple poison. The toxin, capable of corroding the floor, began to gather like flowing water, gradually forming several poisonous dragons that shot out!
"Poison Dragon"
Luffy took a step back with his right foot, the ground beneath him cracking. Top-tier Armament Haki enveloped his fist. The air exploded as he punched straight out!
"Bone Fist"
The external Armament Haki shattered the poisonous dragons with overwhelming force. The Iron Fist, carrying a shockwave, heavily struck Magellan!
Magellan's Observation Haki gave a warning, and as if by reflex, Armament Haki covered him! His blood began to still, and his skin hardened!
"Iron Body"
Boom!
The Iron Fist slammed into Magellan's abdomen, producing a metallic clang. A circular shockwave emanated from behind Magellan!
The next instant, Luffy appeared before Magellan, his black pupils glowing red.
His right leg, covered in Armament Haki, swept heavily across Magellan's waist!
"Boom!"
Magellan was sent flying, crashing heavily into the wall!
Sabo moved like a blur, vanishing from his spot in the blink of an eye.
Magellan noticed, but he was powerless. The young man before him was like an insurmountable mountain, blocking his path!
'I can only rely on you, Hannybal!'
Magellan roared, and the purple poison turned blood-red. The floor instantly corroded and changed color.
Three feet around Luffy became a sea of blood-red poison. The poison transformed into a massive monster, engulfing Magellan!
"Venom Demon"
A faint sense of crisis came from his Observation Haki. Luffy smiled slightly, forming his right hand into a fist, faint blue electric arcs coiling around his entire body. "Now this is interesting!"
The poison surged like a giant wave, but the electric arcs passed through unimpeded. Luffy punched the giant poison monster!
"Boom!"
A powerful shockwave shattered the giant monster, revealing Magellan's figure within.
"Hiss!"
Magellan endured the pain, grabbing Luffy's arm with Armament Haki. Nine blood-poison dragons charged at Luffy!
"Boom!"
Luffy was slammed heavily into the wall, and blood-red poison covered his skin!
'Hiss! That really hurts!'
Luffy felt like his nerves were about to explode. As expected of the Venom-Venom Fruit, which makes him use the toilet for ten hours a day, it was truly fierce!
However, looking at the panel before him...
Constitution +0.1
Constitution +0.1
...Luffy's eyes gleamed. The poison brought pain and damage, but the lineage factor brought vitality!
In other words, as long as he could endure the pain, he could farm points endlessly... until his body developed resistance!
Luffy looked at Magellan as if he were an experience monster!
...Meanwhile, in Crimson Hell!
Sabo moved nimbly, darting through the first level.
"Damn it, even if I know Ace is on the sixth level, this labyrinthine prison's exit is really hard to find!"
In the monitoring room, nearly ten jailers stared at the screens!
"Still no sign of Straw Hat's accomplice?" Hannybal, with his purple hair tied high and black facial markings, clad in gold-trimmed armor, asked with a fierce gleam in his eyes.
"Uh, on the first level, only Buggy the Clown is on the loose. We've already sent the Jailer Beasts, Masira, to capture him!"
..."—Ah!"
A figure in black and white prison uniform, with a red nose like a clown, darted through the corridor.
Behind him was a large group of Masira, wielding giant axes!
Sabo heard Buggy's scream, and his Observation Haki spread out. His eyes lit up!
Buggy fled frantically. Even if he was occasionally struck, his Buggy Ball-Buggy Fruit's ability to split himself into pieces meant he remained unharmed.
However, suddenly, another group of Masira appeared in front of Buggy!
It was over. He was caught between two fires.
"Hahahaha, it's all your fault for not letting us out. Now... you'll get a good interrogation!" The prisoners laughed gleefully.
Just as Buggy despaired, Sabo leaped from the ceiling. His steel pipe, whistling through the air, easily swept away a large number of Masira!
Buggy looked bewildered. Sabo grabbed him by the collar, his feet on the wall, scaling it like a martial artist in a wuxia novel, moving like a blur!
"I need your help with something!"
"Please tell me, boss!" Buggy decided to cling to this powerful figure, as only the wise adapt to circumstances.
"I want to go to the next level. Do you know the way?"
"Eh?" Buggy's eyes widened... In the monitoring room,
"Fo-found him!"
"Where?" Hannybal's face lit up with surprise. "As long as I take down that intruder, the Warden's position will be mine!"
"Uh, he's... he's gone again!" The jailer stammered in response.
Hannybal fell silent. He took out a den den mushi. "Sadi-chan, you absolutely must guard the fourth level!"
"Don't worry. If the intruder dares to enter the fourth level, I'll make him understand what true fear is!" A perverse female voice came from the other end!
...Sabo's figure was as fast as lightning. With Buggy guiding the way, they finally arrived at the safe passage to Level 2 – the Forest of Bladed Needles!
Trees and grass formed by red spikes, with poisonous spiders crawling on them.
Countless bodies lay in the Forest of Bladed Needles, their despair before death still faintly discernible.
"Are... are we really going?" Buggy swallowed hard.
"Although this is an escape route, no one would ever escape this way... This passage leads to an even more terrifying hell... Only those who want to return from hell to the surface would use it; no one would want to go from the surface into hell!"
"Is that so?"
Sabo pulled down his hat brim. "Because of something, I now have no choice but to go to 'hell'!"
Sabo carried Buggy, flying at high speed at a low altitude. In a short while, they saw a bottomless cavern!
The two rushed in without hesitation!
...Holy Land Mary Geoise,
In an exquisite white villa, the renowned Seven Warlords of the Sea were gathered!
"Blackbeard" Marshall D. Teach was enjoying a cherry pie with a look of pure pleasure!
"Heavenly Yaksha" Doflamingo watched the feigning sleep of "Hawkeye" Mihawk with amusement, his tone full of provocation.
"Oh my, oh my, for the World's Strongest Great Swordsman to so actively respond to the World Government's summons? How incredible, fufufu!"
Hawkeye, however, had no intention of conversing with him, remaining aloof and solitary like a lotus in mud.
Empress Boa Hancock gently bit her sleeve, her face etched with lingering worry.
Gekko Moriah let out a "Kishishishi" laugh, hoping to gain some advantage in the upcoming war.
"Tyrant" Kuma leaned back in his chair, looking at the Bible in his hand.
What the Shichibukai intended to do was unknown, but one thing was certain... they would not wholeheartedly assist the Marine!