area51novel Chapter 1726 Ape God Spear
Chapter 1726 Ape God Spear
The marshals of the Warring States period were known for their decisive and astonishing actions.
In his Nika form, Luffy was irresistibly blasted away by the golden Buddha palm right before everyone's eyes, forced out of the core battlefield of Marineford, and turned into a dim shooting star rapidly disappearing into the distance.
The sacred meaning contained in that Buddha's light seemed to have an extraordinary suppressive power over Devil Fruit users.
Luffy didn't seem to be knocked away; rather, he seemed to be stuck to the giant Buddha's palm print, unable to escape and instead swept along by it, flying backward against his own will.
To anyone with a discerning eye, this scene is undoubtedly the most awe-inspiring interpretation of the power of Buddha.
To try and rescue the Pirate King's son right under the nose of the Fleet Admiral would be tantamount to repeatedly trampling on the Navy's reputation, and Sengoku would never allow such a thing to happen.
On the execution platform, Ace watched helplessly as the golden palm print bearing his brother flew further and further away, eventually turning into an almost invisible point of light on the horizon, until it completely disappeared into the sky.
His eyes were bloodshot, and a hoarse growl escaped his throat. His body, bound by sea stone shackles, trembled violently with extreme anger and helplessness.
A golden streak of light shot back from the horizon at almost instantaneous speed, reappearing above Marineford. The light subsided, revealing the figure of Kizaru Borsalino.
His gaze fell in the direction where the golden Buddha's palm had disappeared, and then he glanced down at the city tower, where the Buddha's light still shone, as if a true Buddha had descended upon the Warring States period.
His tone remained leisurely, "That astonishing surge of power just now... it was the Warring States Marshal! What a terrifyingly oppressive feeling!"
He had just been thrown away by Luffy, and when he adjusted his posture and rushed back, he just happened to brush past the giant Buddha's palm print that had pushed Luffy away.
If the change of direction hadn't been fast enough, it would have crashed head-on.
"With the marshal personally overseeing things, things are much easier now!"
On the city wall, Sengoku blasted Nika Luffy out of the battlefield with a single palm strike, but there was no arrogance on his face. He still had that compassionate yet majestic Buddha-like appearance.
He slowly withdrew his right hand, and the dazzling golden light on his arm receded like a tide, revealing the normal skin and marshal's uniform underneath.
Just before the vast Buddhist power was about to completely dissipate, the right fingers of the Warring States gently flicked the remaining faint golden light in the air.
"The execution cannot be interrupted, continue..."
As he flicked his fingertips, those few tiny golden specks of light silently drifted down and burrowed into the two executioners whose internal organs were damaged.
Originally slumped on the execution platform, their faces suddenly flushed with a kind of last burst of energy, and these two men, who should have been completely unconscious, actually moved.
First, his fingers curled slightly, then his arms and torso, in a stiff and strange posture, he slowly and unsteadily stood up.
But at this moment, the expressions of the two executioners who stood up again were completely different from before.
Their faces showed no trace of human confusion, but rather a twisted expression of extreme ferocity. Their eyes had completely lost any human emotion, leaving only a pure golden light.
They are no longer the executioners they once were.
The two picked up the two cold, heavy, and enormous execution weapons that had fallen onto the execution platform before they were put back on.
They turned around and, with stiff steps, walked once again toward Ace, who was bound by chains and kneeling in the center of the execution platform.
"Do not……!"
"stop!!"
The pirates who witnessed this scene from afar roared in shock and anger, desperately trying to rush over, but were held back by more naval officers.
At this moment, everyone's heart was in their throat once again.
Admiral Kizaru, who was preparing to leisurely watch the battle, suddenly raised an eyebrow, and the usual nonchalant expression on his face vanished instantly, replaced by a solemn look.
His incredibly powerful Observation Haki suddenly allowed him to clearly detect a familiar aura not coming from afar, but from the very top of the sky directly above.
Borsalino abruptly raised his head, his pupils behind his sunglasses contracting sharply.
Suddenly, the straw-hatted boy who had just been blasted away by the Warring States Marshal's palm strike seemed to have broken free from the Buddha's palm's suppression and returned.
He had clearly set his sights entirely on the Supreme Commander of the Navy.
Luffy's roar, filled with boundless rage, crashed down like thunder from the high clouds above, instantly drowning out all the noise of the battlefield: "Don't hurt Ace!!"
At that instant, everyone, whether navy or pirate, strong or wounded, instinctively and involuntarily looked up at the dark sky above.
Above Marineford, the clouds, which had been illuminated by the interplay of fire and energy, were now enveloped by an unimaginably massive shadow that was rapidly expanding and pressing down.
The shadow expanded at an alarming speed, spreading from a black dot to cover half the sky in the blink of an eye, and it was still spreading wildly.
It not only enveloped the naval headquarters fortress, but also completely obscured the vast surrounding sea and the desolate moon in the sky.
The entire Marineford battlefield instantly plunged from the flickering flames of war into an even more oppressive darkness.
"What...what is that?!" Countless terrified screams rang out.
Those with sufficiently strong Observation Haki—such as Whitebeard, Marco, Jozu, the three admirals, Garp, and Vice Admiral Tsuru—were able to barely penetrate the thick cloud cover and see the actual outline of the shadow that blotted out the sun.
That looked like the outline of a fist?!
Boom!Boom!Boom!
The drums of liberation sound once again!
But this time, its rhythm was unprecedentedly rapid, unprecedentedly intense, and unprecedentedly high-pitched.
That was no longer the joyful drumbeat, but the clarion call of a decisive battle, the prelude to destruction, and Nika's furious roar.
Every drumbeat seemed to strike directly on everyone's heart, causing the weak to feel their blood boil and the strong to feel their minds shake.
Luffy's voice seemed to come from beyond the heavens, carrying a resolute determination to tear everything apart.
"ape--"
"god--"
"gun!!!"
The moment the last word fell—
The sky seemed to have collapsed!
That fist, so large it blocked out the moonlight, enveloped the entire Marineford, and was wrapped in endless black and red lightning, a pure white fist larger than anyone could comprehend.
With a terrifying power that could crush everything and reduce all things to nothingness, it crashed down from the heavens like a world-destroying pestle thrown down by a god, crashing down on Marineford below.
Luffy's all-out, ultimate attack, the Monkey God Spear, is conservatively estimated to be enough to wipe the entire Marine Headquarters, along with its ports, fortresses, towns, plazas... everything off the map with a single punch.
This is not an exaggeration.