FWF Chapter 697: Are You Prepared to Perish?
Chapter 697: Are You Prepared to Perish?
Leviathan's four claws gripped the frozen ground.
The solid ice emitted a sharp, metallic whistling sound.
The massive body rolled forward.
With each step, the ice surface cracked and groaned like a spiderweb.
Its ferocious bony fins stood upright in rows on its back, with dark golden light shooting straight up from the base of the fins to the top, like fully charged death conductors, swallowing up all the sparse light around it.
Darkness surged across its surface.
Thick, corrosive black mist seeped from the gaps in the scales and spread along the ice surface.
Wherever it passed, the ice hissed and melted.
The air was thick and sticky; breathing felt like swallowing shards of glass.
Im's voice boomed from the giant maw.
"Since that's the case..."
The sound wave is the shock wave.
In the distance, the ice wall shattered into pieces, crashing into the retreating crowd. Several remnants of the Divine Knights, unable to dodge in time, were forced to their knees, their armor dented, blood gushing from their mouths and noses. Their warhorses neighed and collapsed, their legs broken.
"Then you can all just die!"
This is not a language.
It is divine punishment.
The blackwater monsters on the ice plains all bowed down, emitting mournful cries of submission. Even Garin Saint was pressed into the ice pit by the oppressive force, unable to move, his maniacal laughter frozen into a distorted expression. The retreating remnants of the navy were thrown into chaos; some dropped their weapons, covered their ears, and crouched down, while others vomited on the spot.
Fear is contagious.
Cracks appeared in the retreating ranks.
Then, a second sound resounded across the ice field.
Chen Ye stood in the air.
Not a single step was retreated.
A colossal body, interwoven with gold and black, stood as firm as a rock, blocking the battlefield directly above. Crimson flames flowed along his silhouette, intertwining with the darkness of Erebus to form a barrier, cutting off the overflowing pressure. The storm that struck his body was split into two streams and bypassed, leaving a calm behind him.
He did not make the first move.
He spoke.
"Im".
The sound wasn't loud.
But it filled the entire ice field.
Leviathan's blood-red giant eye contracted.
Chen Ye looked down with his eyes lowered.
Behind the colossal golden-black figure, the sky was ripped open by his power. Crimson-gold light poured down, landing on his shoulders like a divine robe.
"Before you came"
He paused in his speech.
"Are you prepared to perish here today?"
The ice field was quiet for a moment.
A fleeting moment.
But that was enough to make everyone understand the weight of those words.
The white-bearded man's hand stopped on the hilt of the Murakumo-giri, his brow suddenly furrowing. Rocks narrowed his eyes. Shanks stopped abruptly in the distance, turning back to look at the sky, his gaze complex.
This is not a provocation.
It is a verdict.
Im has ruled the world for eight hundred years, always judging others. It sits on its empty throne, deciding life and death, looking down upon all living beings. No being has ever dared to utter the word "fall" to it.
But Chen Ye said so.
It sounds like a statement of fact.
Leviathan's bony fins all exploded.
A burst of dark golden light erupted, the patterns on the black scales swirling wildly, so fast that only a blurry, dark golden afterimage remained to the naked eye. Im's will overwhelmed his bestial nature. The ancient demon ceased its probing, its gathering of power, its calculations.
It chose the most direct form of catharsis.
The giant mouth opened wide.
A dark torrent surged forth.
A pitch-black torrent, thirty meters in diameter, churned within fragments of dark gold laws.
Each one is enough to flatten a town.
The air was sucked out, forming a pitch-black, empty conduit. The ice surface was ripped up beneath the torrent, shattered by black cracks, and then dragged into the torrent by gravity and swallowed up.
The attack did not spread out.
No coverage.
There is only one goal.
Chenye's chest.
Im no longer cares whether it will affect his own people.
What it wants is Chen Ye's life.
The torrent was less than 100 meters away from Chen Ye.
Nothingness arrived first.
The golden flames on Chen Ye's body were pressed inward, and their light dimmed visibly.
Chen Ye raised his right palm.
A giant golden-black hand spread out in front of him.
Crimson flames surged from his palm. Erebus darkness seeped through his fingers.
The two forces converged, rotated, and merged.
A circular barrier was instantly formed.
The outer layer is a flowing crimson gold divine flame, responsible for burning.
The inner layer is the swirling Erebus darkness, responsible for devouring.
The dark torrent crashed into the barrier.
No sound.
All sounds were swallowed up.
The impact point exploded with a silent shock.
Fragments of the Dark Gold Law frantically rammed against the barrier, attempting to tear apart the cycle of golden flames and darkness.
But the crimson flames shattered its outer shell.
Erebus darkness devoured its core.
The torrent was split into two streams.
A stream purified by the crimson-gold divine flames was peeled away and burned away layer by layer, like paper being burned.
A stream, swallowed by the darkness of Erebus, was expelled along the circulation channels at the edge of the barrier, transforming into harmless black mist.
Only a single ripple spread across the surface of the barrier.
Like a pebble thrown into a lake.
Chen Ye did not retreat an inch.
His massive, golden-black body hovered in the air, his right palm supporting the barrier, his left arm hanging at his side. The dark torrent was dismantled, diverted, and digested before his palm, like river water crashing against a bridge pier.
Leviathan is still spewing.
The dark torrent lasted for a full five breaths.
Five breaths later, the torrent stopped flowing. Chen Ye withdrew his palm, the barrier dissipated, and a few strands of golden flame flickered at his fingertips.
The distant ice field was deathly silent.
Then the white-bearded man laughed.
He burst into laughter. Newgate tossed aside the ice shards pressing down on him, unleashing a sweeping attack with Murakumo-giri, shattering three attacking black water monsters. He looked up at his figure high in the sky, laughing with unbridled joy.
"Gurarara! Good lad!"
Rocks didn't laugh.
He stared at the trace of the dark cycle, his dark pupils shrinking to pinpoints.
Fight poison with poison.
To swallow darkness with darkness.
This person's control over darkness has reached the point of being able to counter Leviathan.
Seeing the island-destroying torrent halted, the remaining allied troops regained their footing. Some picked up their weapons, others helped their comrades to their feet, and they began to move in an orderly fashion behind the ice cliffs.
Chen Ye didn't look at them.
His attention remained fixed on Leviathan.
But his power is not only used in battle.
Just now, a wisp of crimson-gold divine power slipped out, flying low over the ice surface.
Flying over broken ice.
Flying over ravines.
Fly to Luffy's side.
Luffy lay on the edge of the abyss, his breathing weak. His Nika form had faded, and his skin was covered in cracks.
The crimson gold divine power transformed into an invisible giant hand, lifting up Luffy and the first-generation divine weapon he was clutching tightly.
The large hand carried him, moving along the ice shards for cover.
Marco transformed into a blue flame and charged forward.
But he was pushed away.
A gentle yet irresistible force.
This is a warning.
Marco stopped.
He couldn't help.
Leviathan caught a glimpse of the golden light out of the corner of his eye.
The giant, blood-red eye suddenly turned and locked onto Luffy.
Its massive tail rose, sweeping across with earth-shattering power.
The tailwind arrives first, and the air pressure plows deep furrows on the ice surface.
Chen Ye moved.
He raised his left arm, and a jet-black chain shot out from his palm.
The chain got tangled at the end.
Chen Ye pulled hard.
He forcibly deflected the giant tail's trajectory.
The giant tail crashed onto the deserted ice field, blasting out a huge crater hundreds of meters in diameter.
But Luffy isn't on any of those lines.
He was placed behind the ice rock.
Safe.
An invisible hand gently lowered him down, and the first-generation divine weapon pierced into the ice, supporting his upper body.
His fingers never loosened their grip on the sword hilt.
From beginning to end.
Chopper rushed out of the cover.
He carried a medical kit, ran incredibly fast on his short legs, and his eyes were full of tears.
A hand stopped him.
Zoro's hand.
He pressed his left palm against Chopper's forehead, forcefully stopping the reindeer.
"Let me go! Luffy—"
"no."
Zoro's voice was flat. But he was looking at the sky.
The aftershocks from high above could strike at any moment.
"Going there now will only hold him back."
Zoro withdrew his hand and placed it on the hilt of his sword.
"wait."
Chopper bit his lip.
Her eyes welled up with tears.
But he stopped.
Chen Ye, high in the sky, separated a pure solar divine power.
It's not divine power used in battle.
It is a warm, gentle, and vibrant golden power.
Like a glowing firefly, it circled the battlefield and flew towards Luffy.
It landed on Luffy's chest.
Infiltrate.
Luffy's body suddenly arched.
The parched land received its first rain.
Golden divine power repaired the torn capillaries, restarted the stalled internal organs, and finally rekindled the flickering flame of life deep within the heart.
The flame flickered again.
The bleeding tear began to close.
The ashen skin faded, and the color returned.
His hand holding the sword.
From trembling.
To stabilize.
Then fasten it tightly.
The first-generation divine weapon emitted a clear and resonant sound.
Luffy's eyelids twitched.
Leviathan's blood-red giant eyes turned.
It saw that faint golden light.
The pure aura of the sun god Apollo.
This is something Im absolutely cannot tolerate.
Leviathan's bony fins rose up again.
Dark gold patterns flowed wildly.
Anxious.
For the first time, anxiety appeared in those ancient red eyes.
Im feels no fear. But it has never encountered such a situation before.
An enemy destined to die is saved by another unpredictable variable.
That variable is qualified to confront it head-on.
Two sun gods.
They stood on the same side again.
Im's voice came from deep within Leviathan's throat, low and furious.
"Damn it"
The darkness of Leviathan forcibly contracted.
The patterns on the scales are all pressed against the bony fins.
It is gathering strength.
Prepare to unleash an attack even more extreme than a torrent.
Its giant eyes were fixed on the spot where Luffy had recovered.
Chen Ye saw that gaze.
Im wants to gamble.
Du Chenye cannot attack or defend simultaneously.
He forcefully bypassed him and locked onto Luffy again.
They were willing to endure Chen Ye's counterattack.
If we can deliver one more devastating attack before Luffy fully recovers.
Chenye's massive golden-black body stood between Luffy and Leviathan.
He did not move aside.
They didn't intend to move aside.
Leviathan's darkness was compressed to its limit within the bone fins.
Im is gathering his strength.
In calculation.
They were preparing to break through Chenye's defenses using the most extreme methods.
Everyone on the ice field felt the growing terror.
Luffy leaned against the first-generation weapon, and the flame of life flickered again, but he was far from fully recovered.
Leviathan's energy storage is nearing its critical point.
time is limited.