Chapter 314 Imu's Desperate Last Stand

Imu's Desperate Last Stand

Imu turned to look at the battlefield. The battles of the other kings had their ups and downs, making it impossible to determine a victor for the moment, but on the main battlefield, the Gorosei and the others from God's Knights were retreating in defeat.

There were simply too many officers present, including powerful Emperor-Assistant level figures like King, Marco, and Katakuri. This was especially true for Saint Garling, who had first been besieged by the Pirate King's right and left hands and was now being besieged by the three Hancock sisters.

At this moment, he was already in a perilous situation, struggling to resist petrification attacks under Hancock's powerful charm.

Imu took a deep breath as if making a firm decision, and several black magic circles appeared above the Gorosei and God's Knights.

In the face of a crisis concerning their own life and death, Imu would never allow their power to be dispersed among those weaklings, causing them to reveal a weakness—even if the price was the death of those people.

The members of the Gorosei and God's Knights felt the chill coming from the hexagrams. Satan Saint, who had transformed into a giant Gyuki, had his pupils contract; this terrifying scene reminded him of the death of another member of the Gorosei.

"Lord Imu, please don't," a member of God's Knights who should have died long ago and only lived by Imu's grace cried out in terror.

Imu ignored their pleas for mercy and said in a cold tone, "Mu shall take it back."

As Imu's words fell, the pitch-black hexagram magic circles floating above their heads expanded. The four members of the Gorosei whose lifespans had long since been exhausted followed in the footsteps of Saint V. Nusjuro, turning directly into skeletons.

Only the relatively younger Saint Garling did not die after being stripped of his power; instead, he fell weakly to the ground. Without the protection of Imu's demonic energy, he was soon turned into a stone statue by Hancock.

Saint Shamrock, who was fighting the other members of the Red Hair Pirates, was also affected by the stripping of the Deep Sea Covenant. His momentum plummeted significantly, and the members of the Red Hair Pirates and Beckman, who had been watching, seized the opportunity.

A bullet infused with Conqueror's Haki coating was fired, knocking him unconscious.

Beckman said to the rest of the Red Hair Pirates, "This person should be Shanks's older brother. Tie him up first and wait for Shanks to return to see how to handle him."

Imu's reclamation of their power caused the already precarious front line to collapse instantly. Without the combat power of God's Knights and the Gorosei, the CP0 trained by the World Government weren't even worthy of being speed bumps in front of the Allied Forces.

In the rush to reclaim the dispersed power, Imu did not notice that in the black mist they absorbed, many shadows that did not belong to them seemed to be mixed in.

As more and more power was reclaimed, the wound on Imu's chest that had been pierced by Hera gradually recovered, and the black flames on their back began to burn again.

Not only that, but their figure continued to grow larger. As the originally dispersed power gradually converged, the part of the Devil Fruit's power that had been missing before returned to their body.

On their bronze skin, the dense eye-like patterns lit up with a crimson glow, and their bones emitted a tooth-aching cracking sound.

The black wings on their back unfurled layer by layer, becoming even more massive. The feather blades on the wings were like pitch-black blades, and the horns on their head grew wildly like they were breaking through the earth, curving like the horns of a demon god.

Behind them, a long demonic tail covered in bone spikes lashed out violently, smashing the space into ripples of distortion.

Their robes shattered completely under the impact of power, replaced by ink-black scales covering the entire body, each one shimmering with an ominous luster.

Imu's form completely transformed into a pitch-black demon god that stood between heaven and earth. At this moment, they had a human face, demonic horns, black wings, a long tail, and scales covering the body.

In their eyes, it seemed as if an apocalyptic black fire that could burn everything was burning, and the black mist swirling around them could even swallow light.

Imu roared toward the sky, and behind their neck appeared the black flame clouds unique to the awakening of Zoan-type Devil Fruit users. The true form of the Zoan · Mythical Zoan Type · Devil Fruit was revealed on this battlefield.

Pitch-black mist suddenly appeared on Perona and Uta, who were working hard to maintain the barrier outside. The black mist, as if alive, quietly spread along their hair and skin.

It seemed to want to unknowingly corrupt the two of them.

Fortunately, Hera's clones nearby timely summoned the City of Devouring Time, swallowing the black mist on them so they weren't affected by Imu inside the barrier.

With the manifestation of Imu's demon form, the entire mirror space seemed unable to bear this powerful body and began to vibrate violently, even showing cracks.

Perona and Uta, who were struggling to maintain the mirror space, spat out a mouthful of blood, and streams of thick black mist seeped out from the cracks in the mirror.

Hera's clones quickly flew up, each summoning their own City of Devouring Time to block the black mist seeping from the cracks, preventing it from affecting the outside world.

Hera looked at the fully Mythical Zoan Imu and remarked, "Good grief, there's actually a third stage."

Without stopping her movements, she thrust her saikū into the ground within the barrier. A massive white magic circle spread outward from saikū, and behind her, the massive Main Body of the ability was summoned once again.

The white dial of the ability grew larger again as space power was injected, directly replacing the original mirror space and merging into the space, stabilizing it once more.

But Hera didn't lock down this space without paying a price; the departure of the ability meant she couldn't mobilize space power again for a while.

Hera had already anticipated this situation. Her remaining twenty-plus clones all emerged from the City of Devouring Time, flying in the air and surrounding Imu.

Imu, sensing these clones that only had half of Hera's power, did not take them seriously. Their massive body lunged straight for Hera's Main Body.

Hera felt the aura of her own City of Devouring Time within Imu's body and smiled. As her figure retreated, her height gradually shrank.

At this most critical moment, she actually took the initiative to withdraw from the Shadow Gathering state.

"I was waiting for the moment you couldn't help but take back the power of others. Didn't you notice that besides your own power, something else has mixed into your body?"

The black shadows of the City of Devouring Time spread wildly within the barrier, connecting with the other clones to create an oval black screen, enveloping Imu within.

Hera's Main Body and clones directly released their Conqueror's Haki. In an instant, more than twenty streams of the same source of Conqueror's Haki converged together.

This Haki was even more massive and domineering than the fusion of the top-tier Haki of the eleven people at the very beginning.

Even for Imu, who had already entered the Mythical Zoan form, their sprinting figure couldn't help but pause for a moment. For Hera, that was enough.

Countless muskets emerged from the City of Devouring Time enveloping Imu. What made Imu even more terrified was that their Observation Haki could sense that the bullets being loaded were all coated with Conqueror's Haki.

"Let's use these bullets I've prepared for so long to end your era, Imu. Three Thousand Worlds."

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