"John, I hope you know what's good for you!"
Nox looked down at John from the sky above the island, sighing in his heart.
Logically speaking, as the Captain of the Limitless Pirates, knowing that John could not possibly submit to him, he should have captured John alive, then replaced his mental will, allowing his own people to control John's body.
After all, John possessed the powerful ability of the Human-Human Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Devil Form, and his own strength was also top-tier. If Nox could gain this, it would be another top-tier combatant loyal to him.
However, Nox did not do so.
He remembered that when he first joined the Rocks Pirates, it was by enduring under John's hand that Rocks had made an exception and chosen him as an Executive Officer.
Later, on the Rocks Pirates, John had also tried to recruit him, and failing to do so, he had not offended him. They even often held banquets and drank together. It could be said that John was one of the few people Nox could sit down and drink with.
Therefore, as long as John did not infringe upon his interests, Nox would not actively kill John. After all, as time passed, there would be fewer and fewer people in this World he could drink with.
"Damn it, something really happened at Impel Down!"
Not long after John left, Sengoku arrived at Impel Down with his men. Looking at the dilapidated gate of Impel Down, Sengoku didn't even wait for the warship to get closer, directly using Moonwalk to fly into Impel Down.
"Explain clearly, what exactly happened here!"
After arriving at Impel Down, Sengoku found a few surviving jailers and questioned them.
"Fleet Admiral Sengoku, it was the Limitless Pirates, it was Nox, it was Esdeath, they defeated and captured Warden Magellan, and released many prisoners!"
When the jailer saw Sengoku, his heart immediately settled down, and he then reported the information he knew.
"Damn it, it's that guy Nox again!"
Hearing the jailer's words made Sengoku grit his teeth with hatred for Nox, but he didn't dare to let the Marine go after Nox. He could only report this matter to the Gorosei and let the Gorosei worry about it.
Anyway, Impel Down was not a subordinate organization of the Marine; it was directly under the World Government, so all the losses would not be counted against the Marine.
North Blue, Grayson Island:
Aramaki was trapped in the Dark Night Domain and subjected to Drake's torrential and bizarre attacks. At this moment, if it weren't for the continuous life force provided by the Mori Mori no Mi supporting him, he would have probably already fallen to the ground.
"Ahhhhhhh, go to hell!"
Forced into a corner, Aramaki roared frantically, rapidly unleashing his ability as if his stamina was limitless.
"Flower World Descent!!"
In an instant, green light covered the earth, and colossal, ancient trees rose from the ground. These ancient trees, tens or even hundreds of meters tall, covered an area of a thousand meters.
Within this range, Aramaki could clearly sense that his previously suppressed Kenbunshoku Haki had finally recovered.
Red flowers bloomed on the tops of the ancient trees, emitting an intensely fragrant scent. Once an enemy inhaled this scent, they would unknowingly be poisoned and experience hallucinations.
"Wood World Strangulation!"
After his Kenbunshoku Haki recovered, Aramaki could clearly sense Drake's location. With a thought from Aramaki, all the trees in the entire forest began to move. The trees transformed into gigantic tentacles, surrounding and strangling towards Drake's position.
"Just a final death struggle!"
Even facing the siege of hundreds or thousands of massive wooden tentacles, Drake could still flexibly dodge the countless attacks from the branches with ease.
More importantly, this forest was also under the shroud of the Dark Night Domain. Trees couldn't trap the power of the dark night because it was all-pervasive!
As Drake exited the range covered by Aramaki's Wood World, he instantly vanished from his original spot and then appeared above the Dark Night Domain, looking down at Aramaki below.
The black lightning on the Futsu no Mitama was perfectly attached to the sword body, perfectly combining with his own dark night power and Haki.
As Drake spread his wings and rapidly swooped down, all the power of the entire Dark Night Domain was mobilized.
"Horizontal Sword Technique: Ten Directions Annihilation!"
The dense dark power of the entire Dark Night Domain was completely diluted, then continuously condensed and compressed into ten giant dark shadow slashes, each a hundred meters long.
As Drake swooped down, the ten slashes rapidly cut towards Aramaki in the center of the Wood World from ten different directions.
Wherever the dark shadow slashes passed, all the ancient trees were easily cut down like straw.
Aramaki's final boasted ultimate move was powerless against Drake's ultimate move and was easily destroyed.
"No!!!!"
Seeing this scene, Aramaki roared in despair, frantically mobilizing all his power to block the ten dark shadow slashes, even trying to dodge.
But no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't block the ten dark shadow slashes. Moreover, the ten dark shadow slashes could even turn, leaving him no room to dodge!
"Rip!!!" × 10
The ten dark shadow slashes simultaneously tore apart the wooden sheath that had protected Aramaki so tightly, and also tore apart the Busoshoku Haki that covered his entire body.
At this moment, Aramaki was like a prisoner being forcibly subjected to slow slicing, his entire body was severely cut by these ten dark shadow slashes.
"Pfft!!!"
A large mouthful of blood gushed from Aramaki's mouth. With a dispirited expression, he still stood firm without falling, relying on his immense vitality.
"This is the end!"
However, at this most crucial moment, Drake, holding the Futsu no Mitama, descended from the sky like a long-planned Grim Reaper, slashing down from Aramaki's brow, as if to split him in two.
At this moment, Aramaki was completely frozen in place, watching with wide eyes as Drake slowly put away his Futsu no Mitama in front of him.
"Bang!!!"
Facing Drake's cold and indifferent gaze, Aramaki's body fell to the ground. The dense vitality within him completely dissipated, and endless darkness surged into his body, completely sealing all his vitality.
"I'm not reconciled!!"
Until the moment before his vision turned dark, Aramaki couldn't believe that he had actually lost just like this, lost so completely, without even a chance to escape!
"No one cares about the unwillingness of a loser. You can only blame yourself for being too weak!"
Drake seemed to have heard what Aramaki was thinking, and he snorted coldly. Immediately, Aramaki's entire body was completely enveloped by darkness, and then moved into the shadow behind Drake, hidden away.
"Leader, all World Government personnel on this island have been completely wiped out!!"
Lafitte flew over, flapping his bat wings, and said.
"Clean up all traces of our Reverse Current Sand, then retreat. Marine reinforcements should be coming soon!"
Drake said.