"Damn, it's Sea Stone!"
"Isn't he a Devil Fruit user? Why can he use a sword made of Sea Stone!"
As the blue stream of light pierced Mars Saint, it directly entered his body from his wound, like an extremely sharp long needle completely piercing his massive body, even lodging in his internal organs!
After the Sea Stone long sword entered his body, the black light that originally enveloped him suddenly dissipated.
This black light was a Devil Fruit ability, restrained by Sea Stone. When the Sea Stone long sword pierced Mars Saint's body, it naturally could no longer be used!
In other words, his life-saving teleportation power was interrupted!
"Damn it!!!"
The dissipation of the black light on Mars Saint's body meant that the life-saving teleportation power within him could not be activated, and his retreat path was cut off!
Most importantly, the black light on Saint Saturn and Nasujuro Saint did not dissipate, and they both had no idea that Mars Saint's teleportation had been broken by Nox.
After all, they had never imagined that this teleportation ability, which had existed for who knows how many years, had never gone wrong!
"Whoosh!!!"
As a result, after both Saint Saturn and Nasujuro Saint were teleported away, only Mars Saint was left to face Nox alone!
Holy Land Mary Geoise:
"What's going on, only you two came back, where is Mars Saint?"
Peter Saint looked at Saint Saturn and Nasujuro Saint who had been teleported back, frowning as he asked. He felt like something bad was about to happen!
"What? Mars Saint wasn't teleported back?"
Saint Saturn and Nasujuro Saint looked around in shock, especially Saint Saturn, who had personally activated the teleportation for the three of them. He had confirmed that the teleportation on Mars Saint had been activated by him!
Once the teleportation was activated, it could teleport people back to Holy Land Mary Geoise in an extremely short time, less than half a second, and this kind of teleportation would not be interrupted.
In other words, even if they were attacked within that half-second, the teleportation power would not be interrupted and would still teleport them back to Holy Land Mary Geoise. Furthermore, the Gorosei were all very confident that no one could kill them within half a second.
So this move was their life-saving technique that made them completely fearless of any enemy.
Who would have thought that a life-saving technique that no one had been able to break for hundreds of years was now actually broken by Nox!
"We encountered Nox's ambush and had no choice but to activate the teleportation to escape back. Now that Mars Saint isn't here, it's highly likely he was left there!"
Mars Saint said with an extremely grim expression.
"What? Doesn't that mean Mars Saint is in danger!"
Peter Saint said in shock.
"Can we all be teleported over now?"
Nasujuro Saint asked Mars Saint.
"Yes, but I need a little preparation time!"
Mars Saint nodded.
Saint Warcury said.
Immediately, the four Gorosei took action. Mars Saint was left alone there, and it was highly likely he would not survive. If they didn't go to his rescue, Mars Saint would 100% die!
Whether it was rescuing Mars Saint, who was their colleague, or figuring out exactly how Nox had interrupted their teleportation ability, both were extremely important to them.
If they didn't figure out how Nox had interrupted their teleportation ability, the four Gorosei would probably not even dare to leave Holy Land Mary Geoise again. Who knew if Nox had specifically ambushed them outside?
On the other side:
After Mars Saint was pierced by the Sea Stone long sword, his body immediately began to regress, reverting from his perfect Itsumadeni form back to human form. Most of the power on his body was suppressed.
After Nox in the sky saw the black light on Mars Saint's body dissipate, the Haoshoku Haki that had originally spread out to suppress Mars Saint immediately dispersed.
At the same time, that terrifying Haoshoku Haki all attached to his body, and blood-red lightning wrapped around his entire body, transforming into lightning armor, completely concealing all of his own aura.
"Whoosh!!!"
With a fierce flap of the wings behind him, Nox transformed into a streak of blood-red light and dove down at extreme speed!
"Damn it, my teleportation ability was interrupted by Sea Stone!"
With his life-saving trump card broken, Mars Saint was now panicking immensely. He had already personally experienced the terror of Nox before, and now being restrained by Sea Stone, it could be said that this was the most panicked he had been in so many years!
Mars Saint endured the intense pain and the fear from having his teleportation interrupted, gripping the sword hilt with one hand, preparing to pull the sword out!
However, just at this moment, Mars Saint suddenly felt a fatal threat, but his Kenbunshoku Haki was unable to pinpoint the source of the danger!
His body subconsciously wanted to twist away, but unfortunately, the Sea Stone long sword was stuck in his body, and seventy percent of his strength was suppressed!
"Rip!!!"
A dark red long sword directly broke through his skin, muscles, and pierced into his heart. If he hadn't twisted his body slightly at the critical moment, his heart would have been directly pierced by this sword!
"Gurgle!!"
Mars Saint could clearly see the sword body from the front; this was precisely Nox's Seven Star Sword, and the moment this demonic sword pierced his body, it greedily devoured the blood within him like a blood demon!
Three seconds, he could clearly perceive that in just three seconds, this demonic sword would completely devour the blood within him. His immortal body, suppressed by the Sea Stone long sword, was completely useless!
"Splurt!!!"
Mars Saint endured the intense pain, grasping the blade of the Seven Star Sword with one hand to prevent it from stirring his wound, and with the other hand, with immense willpower, he directly pulled the Sea Stone long sword out of his body!
After the Sea Stone long sword was pulled out, Mars Saint instantly felt the power within his body completely recover.
"Crack!!!"
Just as Mars Saint was about to charge forward and then pull out the Seven Star Sword inserted in his body, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his back.
It was Nox who drew an azure blue spike from his waist and pierced it into Mars Saint's body. The spike had a mechanism within it. After piercing Mars Saint's body, five short barbs would extend sideways within Mars Saint, making it impossible for Mars Saint to easily pull the spike out like he did with the Sea Stone long sword before.
To pull it out, he would need to tear out the muscles next to the spike as well. Such intense pain was truly unbearable for ordinary people.
Most importantly, these were all made of Sea Stone. The handle was covered with a special alloy, allowing Nox to isolate the effect of the Sea Stone and greatly suppress Mars Saint's Devil Fruit ability!
Mars Saint never expected that Nox would go to such great lengths to deal with him, using two weapons both made of Sea Stone on his body.
The power within his body was suppressed again, and he didn't even have the strength to resist Nox.
"Splurt!!!"
It wasn't over yet. After Nox let go of the spike, he tightly gripped the hilt of the Seven Star Sword with his left hand, using his own vampire power and the power of the Seven Star Sword's Blood-Blood Fruit to fully absorb the blood within Mars Saint's body.
The five fingers of his other hand transformed into vampire claws, piercing towards Mars Saint's back like five sharp spikes.
Mars Saint's body, whose power was suppressed by Sea Stone, was easily pierced by Nox's sharp claws like a piece of ordinary steel, and then he frantically devoured the blood within Mars Saint's body.
"Nox, spare me, I can..."
Mars Saint was truly scared to death at this moment. He could clearly sense Nox's killing intent towards him and could see the arrival of the grim reaper.
As long as no accidents happened, he was truly going to die this time!
He himself was most clear about his immortal body; it was nothing more than the power granted to him by the Devil Fruit.
Now that power was suppressed by the power of Sea Stone, he had no so-called immortal body at all. Nox could truly kill him at this moment.
As a Gorosei, he had lived for too long. The longer he lived, the more afraid of death he became. This was absolutely true for the Gorosei.
So he didn't want to die. The only one who could save him now was Nox, who wanted to kill him. Although he knew Nox couldn't possibly let him go, this was his only chance, and he didn't want to give up!
Even if he had to abandon his dignity, even if Nox asked him to become an informant within the World Government, he would agree without hesitation.
Mars Saint, who had lived for so long, clearly knew that nothing was more terrifying to him than death. As long as he could live, he could do anything!
"I think it's more beneficial for me if you die!"
A slight smile curved up Nox's lips. He urged his blood-absorbing power even more frantically, devouring the blood within Mars Saint's body extensively!
This time, he wanted Mars Saint dead. After all, he wasn't sure if Mars Saint had any tracking devices on him, and if he let him live, would the Gorosei of the World Government directly teleport over to save him?
Or perhaps the mysterious Imu would personally step in to deal with Nox.
Therefore, even though Nox was very interested in the various secrets of the World Government, information about Imu, and intelligence about Uranus, he did not dare to let Mars Saint live.
Because the risk of letting Mars Saint live was too high; the disadvantages completely outweighed the advantages.
In other words, even if he obtained the memories in Mars Saint's mind, he would only understand the World Government better; he couldn't rely on these memories to make himself stronger.
In the end, this World respects strength. Only his own powerful strength was the true guarantee!
Mars Saint felt the blood within his body being frantically devoured. Not only the blood in his flesh, but even the blood in his bone marrow was forcibly drawn out by the opponent.
"No"
Amidst his frantic, unwilling roars, Mars Saint had no power to resist at all. Soon, under Nox's frenzied blood absorption, he turned into a skin-and-bones dry corpse and died completely at Nox's hands!
"Captain..."
"Captain..."
"Father..."
After Saint Saturn and Nasujuro Saint were transferred away, Bullet, Ashura Doji, and Rhea immediately ran to Nox's location, wanting to tell Nox about the disappearance of Saint Saturn and Nasujuro Saint, and also to check on Nox's situation.
But they didn't expect that they would happen to witness the scene of Nox killing Mars Saint.
That was a Gorosei, yet he just died before their eyes.
And what shocked Rhea even more was Father's current state; it was clearly the state of a Zoan type transformation into human-beast form.
This indicated that Father had eaten a Devil Fruit. This was simply too shocking for her; she had never heard that her Father had eaten a Devil Fruit.
Rhea, as Nox's daughter, didn't even know that her Father had eaten a Devil Fruit!
"Whoosh!!!"
Nox drew out the Seven Star Sword, and Mars Saint's corpse fell to the ground. Then, he stepped on it forcefully, and Mars Saint's dry corpse was instantly crushed into countless fragments, completely disappearing.
After all, Nox had devoured all the blood within Mars Saint's muscles and bones. Once the essence of the entire body had completely dissipated, the corpse would become extremely fragile, like something that had withered after being weathered by time, which was why it was so easily destroyed.
"Saint Saturn and Nasujuro Saint ran away?"
Seeing Bullet and the others arrive, Nox put away the Sea Stone long sword and the spike made of Sea Stone before asking them about it.
"That's right, Captain. After a black light enveloped them, they instantly disappeared!" Bullet replied.
"Father, you killed a Gorosei? And you ate a Devil Fruit?"
Rhea asked curiously after circling Nox twice.
"Didn't you see it? Why ask? My strength has already reached its peak. To improve further requires long-term accumulation. Eating a Devil Fruit is the fastest way to increase strength. The reason I didn't show it before was simply because no one could force me to use my Devil Fruit power."
Nox chuckled as he patted Rhea's head.
"Hmph, Father, I'm already grown up, stop patting my head!"
Feeling her hairstyle was about to be messed up, Rhea irritably slapped away Nox's large hand and said.
"Hahahahaha, yes, yes, Rhea is all grown up!"
"Since you're grown up, then come home with me. Gorosei Mars Saint died because of you. The entire World Government is going to go crazy next, and you won't be able to leave the Limitless Sea anymore!"
Nox chuckled.
He hadn't expected that this plan to hunt down a Gorosei had actually succeeded. This indicated that the immortal body possessed by the Gorosei was not absolute; it was merely a relative form of immortality. As long as the right method was found, they could be killed.
For example, suppression with Sea Stone was a very good method.
This also showed that Imu, who had lived for eight hundred years, could also be killed.
In the Pirate World, he was only able to live for so long by using the power of a special Devil Fruit. As long as there was an opportunity, just like with Mars Saint, using Sea Stone to suppress the opponent, Nox could also kill them.
It was just that the difficulty of killing Imu was countless times greater than the difficulty of killing Mars Saint!
"Alright then, I understand!"
Hearing that her food journey was over, Rhea sighed and could only reluctantly follow Father home.