Chapter 445: Uranus Descends, Is Gao Wen Dead?

Kaido's lips curled into a grin.

Even though he sensed Gao Wen's killing intent, even though he knew clearly that facing the man before him, he possessed no power to resist.

Yet his will would not allow him to bow his head in submission here.

Having roamed the seas for decades.

Kaido had been defeated, left disheveled and desperate, and had even been chased by the Marines like a rat with its head covered.

But he had never once backed down!

"That is truly regrettable."

Gao Wen sighed; Guanshi Zhengzong flashed with a cold gleam, and just as he was about to slice off Kaido's head, he felt an indescribable chill pressing down from the sky!

Even someone as strong as Gao Wen felt his hair stand on end at this moment!

He suddenly raised his head, seeing only countless stars piercing through the clouds and plummeting from the horizon!

The Den Den Mushi in his arms rang at this moment; after answering, Rayleigh's anxious voice came through the receiver:

"Gao Wen, flee quickly; the World Government will activate that Ancient Weapon and erase everything in Britannias, even you..."

"No need."

Gao Wen swallowed hard:

"I have already seen it!"

The other end of the line instantly fell into dead silence.

"What... what is that thing?!"

Everyone around them likewise raised their heads at this moment, gazing up at the high sky.

That chill, which even made Gao Wen feel terrified, nearly pressed them until they could not breathe!

"Hahahahaha—!"

Kaido's arrogant laughter rang out at this moment; his eyes stared straight at the sky, bursting forth with an incomparably mad will:

"Gao Wen!"

"It seems this time, we are going to hell together!"

"You plotted against the World Government, and they have plotted against you as well!"

"At the World Martial Arts Tournament, just when we fight until exhausted, they activate the Ancient Weapon; this is preparation to bury everyone!"

"If I remember correctly, the coverage of this thing can easily encompass an entire country!"

"Even a monster like you cannot escape!"

The crowd, realizing what was happening, were instantly struck with extreme terror.

They had never seen an Ancient Weapon before.

But this was Britannias; the inland sea occupying nearly half of this country's territory had formed in merely two short years, and the cause of all this was the Ancient Weapon.

To utterly erase nearly half of a nation's land was no different from a divine miracle.

"Flee!"

A desperate, suppressed shout erupted from Kid's mouth.

Paying no heed to anything else, he immediately manipulated metal, carrying Straw Hat as they sped away, reaching the gates of Camelot in the blink of an eye.

But when he raised his head, he saw only that in the high sky, at the very limit of vision, the clouds were simultaneously torn apart by a pillar of light connecting heaven and earth!

Before his eyes...

There was nothing but despair that destroyed everything!

"Are you kidding me!"

"How can my dream come to an end right here!"

While everyone panicked, only Gao Wen raised his head, quietly watching the sky.

Facing Uranus once again.

In his heart, there was only a momentary panic, followed immediately by calmness; he strained to open his eyes wide, staring at the final weapon above that resembled the end of days.

"So that's how it is..."

"So that's how it is..."

"So that's how it is..."

Sighing three times in succession, Gao Wen's spirits grew ever higher:

"What I have been waiting for was never for the Martial Arts Tournament to breed a powerhouse capable of rivaling me, or even helping me take that step."

"After all, how could a being who is also human allow me to take that inhuman step?!"

"What I have been waiting for is you!"

Everything from the past two years floated up in Gao Wen's mind.

Only at this moment did he finally understand that ever since confronting Uranus's attack in Britannias two years ago, doubt had arisen in his heart.

Doubt regarding the sword in his hand, regarding his own power, regarding his own Dao!

How could human strength contend with a natural disaster?

When this thought arose in his heart, yet he remained obsessed with seeking equivalent weapons to counterbalance the World Government and oppose the Ancient Weapons held by the Celestial Dragons.

The gate leading to mythology naturally closed itself to him.

At this moment, Gao Wen suddenly realized that there was no fundamental difference between himself and Crocodile.

What Crocodile feared was the New World, those people called monsters.

And what he himself had always dreaded were those destruction weapons submerged in history, capable of being called natural disasters!

This moment was an unprecedented crisis that even made Gao Wen feel terrified, yet it was likewise the opportunity to take that step.

"Hahahahaha—!"

Nearly manic laughter erupted from Gao Wen's mouth.

Accompanying the moment he realized he had always strayed into a misconception and returned to the right path, the Conqueror's Haki that had been suppressed for so long began to climb step by step...

Wild increase! Fierce increase! Violent increase!

Kaido, still pinned beneath Gao Wen's feet, felt that what stood upon him now was not a human, but a mountain.

Yet that weight was no longer something a mountain could describe; it was a continent, an ocean—in short, absolutely not a human!

What was even more terrifying was that the oppressive pressure brought by the Conqueror's Haki was still rising with nearly no upper limit, becoming so thick within the blink of an eye that it was visible to the naked eye!

"What is he doing?!"

Kaido was terrified to the extreme, straining to widen his eyes to take everything in, yet all he saw was a expanse of crimson red.

"He wouldn't be so arrogant as to think that with merely his flesh and blood, he could oppose such a natural disaster?!"

"Absurd!!"

"Simply too absurd!"

The next instant.

The Heavenly King descended upon the world.

Camelot, along with everything within a radius of several dozen kilometers nearby, was completely devoured!

Vegetation, buildings, mountains, rivers, the earth...

That pillar of pure white light seemed like a natural disaster of destruction; anything it touched melted away in an instant.

The projection Den Den Mushi preset near Camelot died immediately, unable to withstand the extreme heat.

The crowd saw only a flash of pure white light falling from the sky before the projected screen went black.

They did not know what had happened, but that heavy, almost apocalyptic sense of oppression made them uneasy, made them fearful, and even more curious about everything currently occurring in Britannias!

"What happened? What exactly happened in Britannias?!"

"Is that light which swallowed everything divine punishment?!"

"No!"

Someone, face filled with horror, recalled everything that had occurred in Britannias two years ago!

"No, that is..."

"I have seen that thing before, two years ago, also in Britannias!"

"It erased nearly half of Britannias's territory from the map; that inland sea currently in Britannias was formed at that time!"

"An Ancient Weapon!"

"It is absolutely an Ancient Weapon!"

The Bartering Bar.

Lei Li stared blankly at the Den Den Mushi in his hand, holding his breath for a moment.

He remained stunned for a long time, harboring no hope whatsoever that Gao Wen could survive.

The power of an Ancient Weapon had already surpassed the imagination of the people of this era.

After all, that thing was originally created not to be used as a weapon, but for some other purpose.

It is just that the ultimate use of many creations in this world often runs counter to the original intent of their makers.

This is the tragedy of humanity.

"Is this the end of Knight Gao Wen?!"