Chapter 270

"Fire from the heavens!"

Countless enormous fireballs fell from the sky, crashing down toward Luo En in the air.

A brilliant light flashed through Luo En's azure-blue eyes.

The repulsive force that erupted instantly blasted apart those incoming fireballs.

The Aunt cleaved through the air with a single sword slash aimed at Luo En!

"Nation's Might!"

A massive purple slash tore through the air, cleaving toward Luo En with an utterly ferocious and overbearing posture.

Luo En did not hesitate, swinging the black blade in his hand.

"Fierce Change. Full Moon of the Heavens."

The enormous black crescent slash collided with that purple slash, erupting into a dazzling sword-light too blinding to look at directly, as the two sword auras annihilated and shattered one another.

Immediately after.

The Aunt, her eyes blood-red, stomped heavily beneath her feet.

Her massive body leapt high into the air.

Both hands gripped a greatsword wreathed in thunderous flames and black-flame Conqueror's Haki.

She brought it down in a slash toward Luo En.

Luo En raised the black blade wrapped in Flowing Sakura Conqueror's Haki.

The black blade and the greatsword collided.

Clang!

The shattered ground within a thousand meters below suddenly sank downward!

A shockwave from the collision of sword pressures spread outward like ripples, and everywhere it passed, the earth split apart in layer upon layer!

Both Luo En and the Aunt had dazzling red light gleaming in their eyes.

The black blade and the greatsword, each carrying two terrifying sword pressures, clashed again and again — like two armies of cavalry charging head-on, neither yielding!

Blood-colored lightning born from the clash of Armament Haki and Conqueror's Haki lashed out in all directions like ten thousand thunder whips!

Endless streams of fire rose skyward in a spiraling vortex, accompanied by a gale of sword aura!

The fierce gale blasted away the boulders, dust, and snapped giant trees within a thousand meters.

The earth beneath the two, under this unceasing clash, gradually split open with a massive fissure.

And it kept widening and lengthening.

As if to split this Cake Island clean in two from the middle.

Luo En, his long hair whipping wildly behind him, stared down at the Aunt below and spoke calmly: "The Nations may not take part in this war, but neither are they permitted to do anything during this period. Otherwise… the Nations can just wait to be destroyed."

Hearing this, the Aunt narrowed her eyes: "Boy, are you threatening me?"

"This is a warning."

After Luo En finished speaking in a calm tone.

His overwhelming sword intent at the Great Sword Master Perfection realm fully erupted as well!

The crimson sword momentum on the black blade in his single-handed grip surged violently!

Under the Aunt's horrified, stunned gaze.

The force on that hard, heavy black blade shattered through the power contained in her greatsword Napoleon like a hot knife through butter, slashing the greatsword from her hands and sending it flying.

Katakuri, who had sustained some injuries, had just climbed out from a pile of rubble and looked up.

Only to see a thick, massive, incomparably heavy black slash descending from above!

With matchless momentum.

It sent the Aunt's enormous body falling from the sky to the earth like a meteor!

Katakuri's face went pale with terror!

Then he watched as that black sword aura slammed viciously into the enormous fissure below that nearly ran across Cake Island.

The earth trembled.

Under Katakuri's horrified gaze, it completely split Cake Island in two from the middle.

Luo En in the air sheathed his blade, cast a sideways glance at him, then, with one hand holding aloft that crimson road-sign stele, flew off into the sky.

Katakuri stood on the shattered ground, staring blankly at the sky.

"Mother… lost?"

"So this is the Traveler, no…"

"Is this the power of one who can be called a 'Demon King' by the World Government…?!"

……

After the Aunt crawled out from the fissure in the earth.

She stared at the Cake Island before her — split open down the middle, its mountains and rivers shattered, a scene of utter devastation — and clenched her fists so hard her teeth nearly shattered from the grinding.

"Traveler… Luo En!"

Cake Island had been destroyed.

The crimson road-sign stele had been seized.

The explosion of the Seeking-Road Jade had left Perospero and the other 34 ministers seriously wounded, and the Three Sweet Commanders had each suffered injuries of varying degrees.

Even more members of the Nations perished directly in this battle.

The dessert soldiers suffered especially heavy losses, and many souls on Cake Island vanished into nothingness.

The Nations, one of the Four Emperors' forces, had suffered grievous losses!

………………

After snatching that crimson road sign from the World Government.

Luo En piloted the skyship toward Punk Hazard, which lay closer to the Red Earth Continent on the New World seas.

Soon.

Luo En arrived above Punk Hazard at ten thousand meters, the island still blanketed in poison gas from the World Government's experiments.

His All-Clear World and Observation Haki spread downward in an instant.

In a heartbeat, the full picture of the island surfaced in Luo En's mind.

The news had leaked out, just as expected.

This unmanned island, controlled by the World Government and used by M. Caesar Clown for human experimentation, was now empty of both Caesar and his test subjects. Deep within the research base, someone had planted a massive quantity of Dyna Rocks with devastating destructive power. Should those fragile glass vials shatter, the substance inside would come into contact with the air…

Luo En opened his eyes, a cold smirk curling across his lips.

The World Government truly lives up to its name — ruthless to the bone.

Luo Bin noticed the shift in his expression and asked, "What's wrong?"

"This island has been packed with Dyna Rocks."

At the name, Luo Bin's face changed at once.

Nami asked, puzzled, "Dyna Rocks? What are those?"

Conis, Bonney, and Kuina also turned questioning looks toward Luo Bin.

A cold bead of sweat slid down Luo Bin's brow as she answered, "If I remember correctly, it's a scientific weapon developed within the Marines. It's sealed inside delicate glass containers, but the moment the glass breaks and it touches air, it triggers a massive explosion. They say its power rivals an Ancient Weapon — a chunk the size of a palm, exposed to air, can blow a small island off the map…"

Conis and the others felt a tremor in their hearts at Luo Bin's words, and Kuina's clear eyes narrowed.

"Rivals an Ancient Weapon…"

"Can blow an island off the map…"

Nami couldn't help but swallow hard. "What a terrifying thing — the World Government is secretly manufacturing something this dangerous?!"

"Looks like the World Government planned to use those things to blow this island — and us along with it — straight to kingdom come…"

A cold sweat beaded on Bonney's forehead. "That's downright sinister."

"This is war. To win, they'll stop at nothing."

Luo En said, planting one foot on the railing, and turned to grin at the women. "I'll be right back."

……

234 — Ice Imperial Arm, returning the favor.

When Luo En landed on Punk Hazard — still untouched by the clash between Akainu and Aokiji that would one day turn it into an island of ice and fire.

The system's prompt chimed in his mind at once.

【Beep. Detected that the host's current location meets the sign-in conditions. Sign in?】