One Piece: The Strongest Trait System novel Chapter 301

Chapter 301: [301] : The Secret of the Black Blade is Revealed!

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Drip!

The Five Elders, under Rowen’s gaze, trembled uncontrollably, their entire bodies drenched in a cold sweat that dripped to the floor.

It wasn’t just the shock from the horrifying power that had crushed Uranus—it was the man watching them, the terrifying Haki in his eyes.

To be stared down by a man wielding Haki of this caliber—his gaze alone slowed their movements and shook their very minds.

They were not on the same level as this man.

"Y-You can’t kill us..."

Finally, Warcury—the one with the strongest Haki among the Five Elders—managed to speak.

But the words he spoke were the epitome of cowardice.

To rely on immortality to avoid death—for the Five Elders, this was the ultimate disgrace.

But they had no choice.

Though they had always been arrogant and untouchable, looking down on the world like gods, before this man, they were just as insignificant.

They had no doubt that if not for their immortality, with Rowen’s current strength and Haki, killing any one of them would be no more difficult than crushing an insect.

In fact, after seeing that horrifying attack, the Five Elders suspected that even if all five of them worked together, they would still be defeated at his hands.

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"..." A glint flashed in Rowen’s eyes.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

Tyrannical, crimson-black lightning materialized in the air, forming five sharp blades that pierced directly into the bodies of the Five Elders.

Immediately, the Five Elders screamed in agony.

The pain from a Legendary-Class Haōshoku attack was countless times more frightening than any attack they had suffered before.

With their pain tolerance untested for so many years, they couldn’t endure such agony. They could only scream their lungs out to slightly ease the torment.

"IMU-SAMA!"

The Four Elders besides Saturn could only cry out mentally, desperately hoping Imu would cancel the summoning and let them return to the Holy Land Mariejois.

Saturn’s face was filled with despair.

The other four had an escape route if Imu dispelled the summoning...

But he had come here by ship!

For him, there was no escape!

"IMU-SAMA, YOU... YOU CAN’T ABANDON ME." Saturn could only try to find a sliver of hope in his despair, begging Imu for help.

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"HMPH!!!"

WHOOSH!!

In the Room of Flowers, Imu’s eyes were bloodshot.

Failure.

This operation... was a complete and utter failure.

The combat forces under his World Government had been almost entirely wiped out.

Though the God’s Knights had not yet been deployed, after the clash between the two sides, Imu knew very well that even if he sent all the God’s Knights now, it would be futile, completely meaningless.

Even Uranus’s attack had been destroyed by Rowen.

And the Mother Flame, which the traitor York had stolen and given to the World Government, had limited energy. To activate Uranus again would be impossible in the short term.

Terminating this operation was the wisest choice—

"Sky Sovereign... you win this round!" Imu’s eyes were bloodshot as he dispelled the Baphomet Fruit.

With the ability dispelled, the Four Elders besides Saturn began to disappear, preparing to return to Mariejois.

The Four Elders sighed in relief.

Finally, they could return to the Holy Land, no longer having to face this monster, Sky Sovereign Rowen, no longer having to suffer the torture of his Haki.

But Saturn’s face was filled with despair.

Imu had not summoned the God’s Knights to this battlefield, but had dispelled the summons of the other four, letting them return to Mariejois.

This meant... he had been abandoned by Imu!

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"Kamui!" 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

At this moment, the space around the Four Elders who were returning to Mariejois suddenly twisted violently!

Their return was halted.

This scene filled the Four Elders with horror.

The space they were in was literally twisting!

The Door-Door Fruit, combined with the power of other Devil Fruits... Sky Sovereign Rowen was controlling the entire space.

"Can’t cause direct damage?"

Rowen was a little regretful, but not surprised.

Though he had developed a power similar to Kamui from the Naruto world by combining the Door-Door Fruit and Munch-Munch Fruit, allowing him to directly warp space.

The problem was that the bodies of the Five Elders in this space were just manifestations from the Immortality Operation’s space—and Rowen couldn’t pinpoint the coordinates of that space.

Even if he completely twisted this space, he still couldn’t cause real damage to the Five Elders—

But he could temporarily stop their return.

After all, the spatial transformation during their return and summons happened in this dimension. As long as it happened in this dimension, it could naturally be affected by the Door-Door Fruit and the Munch-Munch Fruits.

Of course, completely stopping their return was also impossible.

After all, for the Five Elders and Imu, they only needed to dispel the Baphomet Fruit, and the return process had already begun.

The summons was the Devil Fruit’s ability, which consumed Imu’s stamina and power. But the return was a simple dispel, making the Devil Fruit ability disappear, letting everything return to normal.

Just like in the original story, when the ancient robot released Joy Boy’s Conqueror’s Haki, causing Imu, who was unprepared, to be injured.

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BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

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VMM!

CRACK!

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG!

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