Chapter 464: World Shock, Another Possibility!

No matter how unbelievable the facts before her eyes seemed, the pain radiating from the wounds all over her body forced the old woman to recognize that everything happening before her was real.

And the more clearly she saw what was unfolding, the more terrified the old woman became, fixated on that man who had single-handedly lifted an entire nation into the sky.

"Monster, monster!"

The old woman nearly lost her sanity; her fear of Gao Wen, at this moment, had almost reached an insurmountable peak.

She could not imagine how much power it would take to forcibly tear a nation off this planet.

But she knew that in the eight hundred years of World Government rule—no, even before the World Government, in those nearly mythical histories that existed only in scattered rubbings of Poneglyphs—there was absolutely no such existence to be found.

Revenge?!

Don't make me laugh.

Attempting to resist such immense power is nothing but seeking death!

With almost not a shred of hesitation, the old woman leaped directly down from the high sky, plummeting fiercely toward the sea below.

Her mind had never been so clear; so clear that she could even feel the scorching air tearing at and blowing across her wounded flesh, causing fresh pain.

Yet, in the very next instant, the old woman's expression suddenly turned pale.

She sharply raised her head to look at the distant sky.

There she saw a youth with wings sprouting from his back and a face seventy percent similar to Gao Wen's, gripping the heavily injured and dying King of Calamities, Jin, as he sped over from afar.

In the blink of an eye, he approached the border of Britannias!

"Seraphim?!"

The old woman recognized S-Dragon.

She knew full well that during the previous World Martial Arts Tournament, had Gao Wen not intervened to disrupt it, this youth would have had the potential to claim the championship; even a monster as powerful as Kaido might not have been able to suppress him.

Just as the old woman was about to leap away,

an extremely sharp blade energy swept past her side, striking the gradually ascending continent and chopping down countless rocks.

"Originally, I was just following Vegapunk's request to retrieve King of Calamities Jin, but I didn't expect this unexpected bonus; 'Big Mom' Charlotte Linlin, one of the former Four Emperors, should be able to satisfy me slightly, shouldn't she?!"

The old woman felt the hair on her entire body stand on end; when she turned her head again, she saw the mockery in S-Dragon's eyes.

Feeling the boiling fighting spirit emanating from S-Dragon, the old woman, knowing there was no retreat left, steeled herself for a fight to the death:

"Brat!"

"Since you are seeking death, I shall grant your wish!"

Boom—rumble—!

The rising continent obscured the figures of the two; when they appeared again, a fierce slaughter had already begun.

A clash between two individuals both possessing legendary combat power should have been a shocking spectacle capable of tearing the sky and shaking islands, yet at this moment, no one was paying attention to this battle!

Before everyone's eyes, there was only Britannias, ascending into the high sky!

"Am I dreaming?!"

At the edge of the battlefield.

On a surviving pirate ship, an elderly pirate held his head in both hands, staring blankly into the distance, almost convinced he hadn't woken up yet.

But whether it was the lingering heat in the air or the increasingly violent rocking of the pirate ship beneath his feet, everything reminded him that what lay before his eyes was not a dream, but reality happening on the sea!

"Britannias actually managed to do something like this?!"

"Do gods truly exist in this world?!"

"Or could it be..."

"Some kind of advanced technology buried within history?!"

"Lifting a nation—no, a whole continent—into the sky, is there anything... wait, no!"

A pirate suddenly realized something and looked excitedly at the continent rising into the sky in the distance.

It was because he realized that apart from the Celestial Dragons' moon-bound ships, he had another choice: Britannias!

No matter how much the sea level rose, it could never submerge an island that was already located in the sky.

And the Britannias of today was precisely the largest sky island in the world.

"Britannias—no, Knight Gao Wen—is showing us another possibility!"

"To survive, one does not necessarily have to rely on the World Government and live like a slave."

As these words landed, the hearts of the pirates on the deck suddenly skipped a beat; looking at the gradually ascending continent in the distance, their eyes turned completely red.

"That's right!"

"The mainland of Britannias spans a thousand li in every direction, enough to support tens of millions, even hundreds of millions of people!"

"Whereas the World Government's moon-bound ships can only carry one hundred thousand people; after that quota of one hundred thousand is carved up by the Celestial Dragons, the high-ranking officials of the World Government, and the nobles of each allied nation, how much will actually remain?!"

"Perhaps not a single spot will be left!"

Everyone's hearts jumped in shock, yet they could not refute this.

Having first survived the bombardment of the Ancient Weapons and then witnessed with their own eyes the miracle of Britannias ascending to the sky in broad daylight, they gradually regained their sanity.

They also gradually understood just how slim the possibility was of obtaining a chance to board the Ark from the hands of the Celestial Dragons.

Compared to that, the possibility of stepping onto Britannias was far greater; besides, who could guarantee that Britannias could only lift this one continent?!

What if this was merely the beginning?!

Everyone's hearts beat faster and faster; some even wished they could defect on the spot.

Compared to the Celestial Dragons' moon-bound Ark, Britannias was the true salvation!

Survivors on the sea began to stir; among them were powerful individuals capable of flight who started attempting to step onto that continent.

Grasping the only salvation after the sea sank.

But very soon, they discovered that hope lay in the future, and they could not grasp it yet.

What they first needed to face was the massive tsunami triggered by Britannias ascending into the sky.

Waves hundreds of meters, even a kilometer high, surged forth from behind in relentless succession, utterly crushing everything in their path!

……

Further away.

Katakuri continued to stare in a daze at Britannias, which was gradually ascending into the sky in the distance.

He was so shocked he was speechless.

Smoothie, Cracker, and the others likewise wore expressions of stupor.

Simply because this scene had surpassed the limits of their imagination; even within their most frantic fantasies, no one had ever conceived of such a thing.

Yet now, it appeared before the world just like that!

"Could there... really be such a thing?!"

Perospero swallowed hard, feeling as though he were witnessing a myth!

No, tens or even hundreds of years from now, this would become a myth!

Britannia, which had accomplished all this, was destined to become a kingdom within those myths. After all, most myths that circulate throughout the world originated in precisely this manner.

Yet even the myths recorded in texts lacked the sheer shock of what was unfolding upon the sea at this very moment.

"This is absolutely not something humans can achieve!"

Smoothie murmured.

Though her strength was not top-tier, she had still witnessed clashes between the strongest experts.

The power of those monsters was sufficient to shake heaven and earth, yet they could absolutely not lift an island this massive into the sky. Even in theory, it was impossible.

However, Smoothie's judgment was denied by Katakuri in the very next instant:

"No!"

"Someone can do it. At least within my knowledge, Jin Shizi once accomplished something similar."

"It's just that the scale differs too greatly; they are almost not even in the same dimension."

"The Float-Float Fruit?!"

The figure of Jin Shizi flashed through Perospero's mind:

"Come to think of it, the Float-Float Fruit should have already been reborn somewhere in the world. If someone obtains it, a new ability user could indeed accomplish something similar to what Jin Shizi did."

"But it's still impossible to achieve this level!"