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Chapter 688: The Hunters Wait for the Fire to Go Out
Just as Chen Ye was thinking
Luffy regained his footing.
The soles of my feet shattered the ice.
A golden streak trailed behind.
Like a comet that is dying out.
All the strength in my body flowed into my legs.
He charged toward Im.
The giant sword dragged along the ground.
The sword tip sliced through the ice.
White debris flew everywhere.
The trajectory has deviated.
It was off by half an inch.
My left foot landed a beat too late.
My right foot deviated two degrees from the target.
At extreme speeds.
A minor error became a fatal mistake.
The straight gold thread curved into an arc.
The body cannot maintain the explosive rhythm.
The white flames on the outer layer of the giant sword also thinned further.
The thickness decreased sharply.
Only a thin layer remained, clinging to the spine of the sword.
The flames were burning.
The metallic base color of the sword is visible through the blade.
The power of the sun god has been exhausted.
But he continued to accelerate.
Luffy gritted his teeth.
He leaped up from thirty meters away from Im.
The giant sword was pulled up from the ground.
The remaining white flames struck Im's head.
It was extremely fast and had a tricky angle.
Ten minutes ago, it would have been enough to tear open the dark gold shield.
Not today.
Im did not use the shield.
He didn't raise his hand.
The King of the World turned slightly to the side.
The greatsword grazed the edge of Im's robe.
The white flames burned in an arc.
I didn't touch anything.
The sword's edge was half an inch away from Im's neck.
Half an inch became an insurmountable barrier.
Luffy landed there.
My feet slipped two steps.
Golden light shimmered on his shoulders.
He immediately adjusted his center of gravity.
The greatsword swept horizontally from the left.
Im leans back.
The sword's edge sliced across three inches in front of him.
The wind pressure lifted the stray hairs on Im's forehead.
Luffy didn't stop.
Using the force of the rotation, he lifted the giant sword.
It pierced Im's chest.
Im moves sideways.
Just one step.
The displacement was less than half a meter.
The sword tip missed its target again.
The giant sword pierced the void.
The air was torn open with white cracks.
Healing.
Three swords.
All efforts were in vain.
Previous attack density.
This was enough to force Im to deploy his protective shield.
just now.
Im only used a sideways lean and lateral movement.
They neutralized the entire attack.
Before drawing the sword.
Im has already determined the landing point.
The sequence of muscle contractions.
The direction of the shift in the center of gravity.
The angle of the foot pushing off.
When one is full of energy, speed masks it.
Now it's open for anyone to read.
Im did not retaliate.
He could have easily intervened.
It has a huge flaw.
Im chose the cruelest method.
dodge.
Let Luffy exhaust himself.
He squandered the remaining power of the sun god.
The charge accelerates Nika's form, causing it to collapse.
Im doesn't need to do anything.
Where is the station?
Luffy will burn himself dry.
This is the hunter.
His will wouldn't allow him to stop.
I pedaled again.
Golden light surged from her legs.
His body was launched towards Im.
The fourth sword strike missed its target.
The fifth sword strike missed its target.
The sixth sword strike missed its target.
The greatsword was swung, consuming the white flames.
The life force of the sun god is waning.
Abrupt decline.
Like a crack in a dam.
It started leaking water.
The crack widened.
The entire dam wall collapsed at the same time.
Luffy hasn't collapsed yet.
But he is getting closer and closer.
Im floats back to its original position.
No more than three steps were moved.
His scarlet eyes followed Luffy.
Calmly, like watching a performance.
There was no intent to kill, and no interest.
A purely computationally precise examination.
Luffy is no longer a threat.
It was merely prey that had fallen into a trap.
On the icy battlefield.
Loki knelt behind the shattered ice.
The weapon broke.
Half of the blade was stuck in the ice.
He held half of it in his hand.
The knuckles are turning white.
A strip of cloth was wrapped around his chest.
A wound deep enough to expose the bone.
Left behind by the Blackwater Monster.
He looked up at the sky.
Golden light weaves through the clouds.
It is sometimes bright and sometimes dark.
Luffy charged toward Im.
White flames and lightning.
Each swing of the sword tears through the clouds.
"They're still fighting."
Tie Lei supported himself against the collapsed ice wall.
Tilting your head back and bending your neck to its limit.
His left arm was dislocated and hung limply at his side.
He gripped the ice wall with his right hand to support his body.
"The captain is still attacking."
"Im keeps retreating; you can see he's dodging."
Loki narrowed his eyes.
Im leaned back and moved sideways.
The movements were too small.
It looks like the original is still.
Luffy's golden light traced an arc.
Full of aggression.
"He's winning."
Loki gripped the broken sword tightly.
"Luffy is winning."
The decay of the golden light inside is not visible.
The spasm in the shoulder and back after swinging the sword was not visible.
The thickness of the white flame is reduced to that of the skin.
The slowing of the heart rate is not visible.
That's exhaustion.
The coalition soldiers looked up at the sky.
He raised his weapon and struck his shield.
Shout Luffy's name.
Bloodstains and exhaustion on his face.
There is light in his eyes.
That is hope.
illusion.
Luffy continued his attack and still had the upper hand.
The last line of defense.
A golden figure in the sky.
It was already a trapped beast with one foot on the edge of a cliff.
10,000 meters above the ground.
Chenye floated above the clouds.
Cross your arms in front of your chest.
Eyes slightly closed.
He unleashed his Observation Haki.
It covers the entire battlefield.
The living organisms resembled dancing points of light.
Strength, weakness, speed, and authenticity are all readily apparent.
Luffy was once the brightest star in the net.
The golden-white flames of the sun.
It has extremely high density and a powerful pulsation.
A young star.
The brightness decreases extremely rapidly.
A precipitous drop.
The pulsating frequency of the power of the sun god.
Thirty seconds ago, there were twelve breaths per minute.
Now it's down to seven times.
The golden lines on the skin have faded.
This is burning.
Nika maintains his form by burning his life force.
The wick of the oil lamp is still there.
The oil is almost burned down.
My gaze shifted to Im.
The Im light spot is completely different.
A deep, dark gold.
Heavy, slow, and cold.
Magma deep within the Earth's crust.
It contains the power to reshape the landscape.
Something is moving again deep within the Im light spot.
A blanket of darkness.
Pure, primal darkness.
It does not contain any known color system.
It curled up deep inside its body.
Slowly waking up.
It rotates again.
very slow.
Each rotation.
The space became more viscous.
That darkness distorted the laws of physics.
Chen Ye's heart skipped a beat.
That legend.
The sky over Mary Geoise will turn black.
The sky itself turned black.
It lasted for three days and three nights.
The witness died mysteriously afterward.
The highest taboo.
Anyone who mentions this will be executed.
I used to think it was a political myth.
Now you see that patch of darkness.
It rotates inside the body.
It releases a faint aura.
It does not belong to the Sword of the Earth God's Codex.
Something older.
Older than a hundred years of blank space.
Older than Joy Boy.
It is older than the red earth itself.
Chen Ye opened his eyes.
The pupils contracted to their maximum extent.
While locking in the darkness.
The Observation Color transmits the information.
A ripple appeared deep within Im's pupils.
Less than 0.1 seconds.
A cold laugh.
Im sneered again.
A deep, primal pleasure.
The hunter who had been waiting for a long time.
Finally, they saw their prey walk into the trap.
Satisfy.
I understand everything now.
Im has never been hit.
From the moment I grasped the first-generation divine weapon.
A plan.
Let Luffy fight.
Unleash the power of Nika to burn.
They thought they had won.
Wait until the fire is completely burned.
He fell back to being an ordinary person.
The divine weapon turned back into metal.
The hope is to build upon the illusion.
Only then will Im make a move.
The spinning darkness is the trump card.
Waiting for the moment when I am completely exhausted and fully awake.
Something more primitive and terrifying.
Demonization.
Its existence has been confirmed.
It's not a rumor.
It is restarting.
No action was taken.
The domineering aura of dark gold was suppressed again.
The energy in the meridians of the right arm is withdrawn.
The drawn sword was pushed back into its sheath.
The blade resists friction against the sheath wall.
His hands were as steady as if they were made of iron.
We cannot act now.
Im will seal off the darkness.
Demonization paused.
Nika's power is depleted and irreversible.
Im held his trump card.
Luffy is doomed.
The only chance.
The moment Im reveals his hand.
Exhausted, he instantly unleashed his demonic transformation.
Darkness surged from within him.
The old forces have been withdrawn, and the new forces are not yet fully developed.
Defend against extremely short windows.
The window lasts only a fraction of a second.
That's enough for Chen Ye.
So he has to wait.
The knife is hidden low in its sheath.
Wait until the prey exposes its soft belly.
Close your eyes again.
Accuracy is pushed to the limit.
The node remains locked.
Record the acceleration curve.
Predict the time of awakening.
Calculate Luffy's burn time.
Two countdowns.
The flame of life and demonization.
Whoever reaches the finish line first loses.
In the center of the battlefield.
Luffy's sword strike missed again.
Split through the void.
The white flames dissipated.
Im moved half a step to the side.
Let this attack pass.
He staggered forward, his body swinging but missing its mark.
The clouds beneath my feet shattered.
He stopped.
A deep-seated vigilance within the soul.
The action is locked in an instant.
Nika's instincts.
The most primal intuition of the Sun God's bloodline.
Sensing predators.
The body has already reacted.
The aura emanating from Im's body.
dark.
It is slowly rotating and reviving.
Completely different things.
The fire of the sun god is inherently hostile.
Luffy looked up.
There was no smile on his face anymore.
The intermittent laughter stopped.
Golden eyes stared at Im.
Im hovered a dozen meters in front of him.
The robes swayed gently in the wind.
His face was expressionless.
Beneath the calm surface of the lake lies a deep abyss.
Tighten your fingers.
The hilt of the sword made a metallic clanging sound.