Chapter 375: The Foundation of a Monster! The Life-Burning Empress and the Despairing Soul

In mid-air, Luffy's fists, covered in pitch-black Armament Haki, turned into a sky full of afterimages.

A move, "Gomu Gomu no King Kong Gatling," rained down like a torrential downpour.

Every punch carried monstrous strength enough to shatter mountain rocks.

At the same time, the Full-Body Susanoo controlled by Tatsuya swung that mountain-splitting, sea-parting giant Chakra sword, forming a perfect pincer attack with Luffy's assault, pouring down upon Big Mom.

Facing these two overwhelmingly powerful attacks, Big Mom swung her Emperor Sword, "Napoleon," parrying left and right.

The dull sounds of weapon clashes and the thundering impact of muscles erupted continuously over the sea, creating a deafening roar.

The turbulent air currents whipped up hurricanes over the sea, and the dazzling firelight illuminated the dim sky as if it were broad daylight.

Under their tacit and unreserved fierce assault.

Big Mom's tough skin, feared by the world and known as the "Iron Balloon," finally could not withstand such high-intensity, continuous strikes.

Accompanied by a faint groan, a slight crack appeared on the surface of that invulnerable skin.

A trickle of bright red blood slowly spilled from the corner of Big Mom's mouth.

Seeing this incredible scene, the Totto Land fleet officers watching from the flagship were shocked, and sounds of panicked gasps rose one after another.

The high-and-mighty Emperor of the Sea was actually bleeding; this shattered their inherent perception of Big Mom's invincibility.

On the other hand, the Straw Hat on the thousand sunny were greatly encouraged, their cheers resounding across the sea.

However, Tatsuya, who was at the center of the battle, felt no joy at all.

His crimson Mangekyo Sharingan spun rapidly, and his keen insight allowed him to catch a trace of dangerous fluctuations crazily gathering inside Big Mom.

Without hesitation, Tatsuya abruptly extended the giant hand of his Susanoo, grabbed Luffy, who was preparing to press the attack, and retreated rapidly to the rear.

The next second, a deep black Haki, several times more violent than before, erupted from Big Mom's body!

This tangible Emperor-level pressure spread outwards like a landslide.

The invisible pressure actually forced the sea surface within a hundred meters to sink down by over ten meters, forming a massive vortex of sunken seawater!

Big Mom extended her thick finger and slowly wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth.

She raised her head, and a murderous light that made the soul tremble shone from her bloodshot eyes.

As one of the Four Emperors who had reigned over the New World for decades, she had been injured today by two brats who had been out at sea for less than a few years.

This unprecedented humiliation made her open her true trump card without hesitation.

"Soul Pocus!"

Big Mom tilted her head back and let out a sharp, ear-piercing screech like a night owl.

This terrifying incantation turned into a sickle for reaping lives, not only forcibly pulling out the souls of the heavily wounded Totto Land grunts lying on the ground nearby.

She even slammed her hand towards her own chest.

In the horrified gazes of everyone, Big Mom grabbed out a mass of substance emitting a strange light.

That was a whole year of her own lifespan!

Without any hesitation, she opened her bloody mouth and swallowed it down without a second thought.

The moment she swallowed the lifespan, Big Mom's already massive body, like a mountain of flesh, surged in size again.

The muscles on her body bulged high like coiling dragons, filled with explosive power.

Her entire body was wrapped in tangible, violent flames and pitch-black Conqueror's Haki lightning, even the surrounding air was torn apart by this power.

Her eyes lost their human pupils, turning into a mindless, pure white.

At this moment, Big Mom radiated an endless aura of brutality, like a bloodthirsty demon that had just crawled out of the eighteenth layer of hell, making one feel despair at a single glance.

Big Mom, having surged in size, grabbed Prometheus the sun in mid-air, and forcibly fused its flames, which were capable of incinerating all things, with the Emperor Sword Napoleon in her hand.

In an instant, a terrifying giant flaming sword, hundreds of meters long and burning with raging fire, swept out.

Where the blade pointed, the seawater was instantly evaporated into a sky full of white mist!

Facing Big Mom's violent offensive capable of destroying heaven and earth, Tatsuya's eyes narrowed slightly.

He exerted the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan in his eyes with all his might, pushing his ocular power to the limits of his body.

Massive purple Chakra rose into the sky like a pillar of light, as Tatsuya unleashed the strongest move he could currently perfectly control.

"Susanoo: Judgment of the Thunder God!"

The Full-Body Susanoo raised both hands high, tightly gripping that huge Chakra longsword.

In an instant, three destructive powers began to intertwine on the blade:

Deep, hard Armament Haki covered it like armor, and ear-piercing, deep blue lightning, sounding like a thousand birds chirping, wrapped around it.

Furthermore, the never-extinguishing "Amaterasu" was attached to the edge, emitting a terrifying, heart-palpitating heat!

The giant Susanoo sword, carrying three extreme powers, and the Emperor Sword "Napoleon" in Big Mom's hand, which had fused flames and souls, slammed into each other in mid-air with the force of colliding meteorites!

"Boom—!!!"

A dazzling, intense light erupted at the center of the collision, like a second sun falling onto the sea, instantly stinging the eyes of everyone present.

The sea surface was instantly pressed down by tens of meters by this unimaginable, terrifying wind pressure.

The giant waves that were kicked up seemed to want to swallow the whole world, and the intense roaring made everyone's eardrums ache.

However, in this collision of the top-tier power of the New World, Tatsuya's long-standing shortcoming was exposed.

He had not awakened Conqueror's Haki.

Big Mom's blade was wrapped in extremely violent, high-level Conqueror's Haki lightning.

This Emperor's power, which reigned supreme over everything, formed an insurmountable suppression during the stalemate.

Although the combination of Armament Haki and Chakra was powerful, it still appeared somewhat inadequate under the impact of the Conqueror's Haki infusion.

After a brief stalemate, Tatsuya was ultimately unable to withstand this terrifying foundation that belonged to an Emperor of the Sea, accumulated over decades.

Accompanied by a crisp "crack" sound, huge cracks appeared on the armor of the massive Full-Body Susanoo.

Immediately after, Big Mom's unreasonable monstrous strength, together with the impact of Conqueror's Haki, poured down, sending Tatsuya, along with the broken Susanoo, flying away fiercely.

Tatsuya, like a meteor that had lost control, slammed heavily into the distant sea, kicking up a sky full of spray, and was instantly swallowed by the turbulent seawater.

"Tatsuya!"

Seeing his comrade-in-arms ruthlessly knocked away, Luffy's eyes widened, and he shouted out in burning anxiety.

But Big Mom did not stop her pace of attack.

The giant flaming sword in her hand did not lose momentum and continued to slash mercilessly towards the direction of the thousand sunny.

In order to protect the companions behind him who had entrusted their lives to him, Luffy had no choice.

He gritted his teeth, faced the suffocating heatwave, and stepped forward resolutely.

Luffy pushed the power of "Gear Fourth" to the absolute limit his body could withstand, crossing his arms to protect himself in front.

He let out an unyielding roar, forcibly blocking this terrifying flame slash with his flesh and blood.

After a violent energy explosion, Luffy exhausted the last bit of his strength, finally dispersing the aftermath of the slash.

But Luffy, who remained in mid-air, was gasping heavily, sweat pouring down like rain.

The Haki that was originally abundant in his body was being consumed rapidly like flowing water, and the Gear Fourth form was already difficult to maintain for much longer.

Big Mom stepped on the thundercloud Zeus, her massive body hovering in mid-air.

She held the burning giant flame sword high, like a world-destroying demon.

She looked down at the panting Luffy from above, with a cruel grin in her pure white eyes, approaching step by step:

"Mamamama! Straw Hat!"

"Your farce ends here!"

"Here, this pirate game of playing house should end!"

"Obediently hand over your lifespans!"

Seeing their Mama display such an invincible posture, knocking away that arrogant Vice Captain with just one blow, and steadily suppressing Straw Hat.

The Totto Land pirates, who had been somewhat cowering from the Straw Hat alliance's attacks, instantly had their morale greatly boosted, and fanatical cheers resounded throughout the entire sea area.

Big Mom's eyes were bloodshot as she pointed the burning giant sword towards the Thousand Sunny ahead:

"Kill them all for me! Leave none alive!"

The high-ranking officers and many sons of the Totto Land pirates, as if injected with adrenaline, crazily launched an all-out counterattack.

On the sea, the eldest son, Perospero, waved his cane, and a sky full of candy rain arrows obscured the sky.

sweet commander Smoothie swung her long sword, and a huge moisture slash cut through the waves.

Biscuit Knight Cracker summoned an endless army of biscuits like a tidal wave.

This joint offensive, capable of destroying a country, swept towards Zoro, Sanji, Nami, and the others on the deck from all directions, covering the sky and earth.