area51novel Chapter 1677 Above the Bones
Chapter 1677 Above the Bones
The skeletal giant is almost entirely made of bones, and there's even a person on the back of the Founding Giant!
This discovery was not difficult for the person involved, who was near the Sabaody Archipelago and possessed Observation Haki, to notice.
It was less like a person and more like an oversized white balloon, rolling comically around on the spine.
The three retainers of the gang—Juvia, Atomic Samurai, and Sani—immediately locked onto the incongruous object using their keen Observation Haki.
That white balloon is Luffy in his Nika form.
Thanks to the unparalleled elasticity and adhesion of its rubber body, it bounced like a highly bouncy ball, yet never fell off its thousand-meter-high spine.
Suddenly, the middle of the white balloon writhed violently, and then with a "poof," three figures were flung out.
It was Kidd, Capone Becky, and Hawkins, who had somehow quietly returned to the vicinity!
It turns out that when Eren hurt himself, triggering the Founding Titan's transformation, in that devastating moment, Nikka Luffy reacted with lightning speed and instinctively did something to protect his comrades.
He stretched his rubbery body to its limit, forming a huge, elastic protective sac that enveloped the three closest people, including Kidd, inside his belly.
He used his own body as the first and only barrier, enduring the terrifying explosion that was enough to flatten the island.
If it weren't for this, Kidd and his two companions would probably have already been reduced to ashes in that destructive light and heat.
The three people who were spat out clung tightly to the Founding Titan's thick, mountain-like spine.
They were desperately breathing in the thin air, their faces flushed red, their lungs heaving violently like broken bellows, and they were on the verge of suffocating.
It wasn't because Nika was holding her in her stomach and she couldn't breathe, but because the explosion caused by the appearance of the Founding Titan consumed a large amount of oxygen in a short period of time, creating a temporary vacuum.
The suffocating feeling of suddenly having air sucked out, with their lungs burning but unable to inhale anything, made them all roll their eyes.
Fortunately, as Devil Fruit users who can navigate the high seas, they are all physically strong enough, and in order to cope with the danger of falling into the sea, they have almost all learned how to hold their breath underwater.
Unexpectedly, this life-saving skill came in handy in today's situation.
"Cough! Cough cough cough—!!" Kidd coughed wildly, feeling like his throat and lungs were on fire.
He suppressed his discomfort and subconsciously spread his biomagnetic field ability outward, trying to figure out his surroundings.
The more he sensed it, the uglier his expression became.
In his perception, he was standing on a creature that was indescribably enormous and exaggerated.
The magnetic field emitted by the creature's skeleton was so long and seemingly boundless that, sensing downwards from the thick spine beneath one's feet, the altitude was at least a thousand meters.
"What...what the hell is this?" Kidd struggled to his feet and began to look around at his surroundings.
As far as the eye could see, there were huge, pale white ribs that stretched out to both sides like branches of a mountain range, and behind them, the spine rose up in an endless line.
He felt as if he were in a white desert made up of giant biological skeletons, an endless sea of bones that made him feel incredibly small.
Because he was atop the Founding Titan's body, his vision was limited by his position, and he couldn't see the full picture of his surroundings for a moment. Therefore, he didn't immediately connect the terrifying presence beneath his feet with the Founding Titan.
Kidd quickly checked on the others. Capone Becky's huge head looked a little dizzy, and he was rubbing his temples with his relatively short hands.
Hawkins appeared to be in the best condition of the three; although his face was somewhat pale, his breathing was steady.
They were probably his scapegoats; several of them were quietly eliminated in the previous attack, taking some of the damage for him.
As for Luffy, he lay on the cold spine like a lump of mud, white steam constantly rising from his mouth, looking half-dead.
It seems that taking the brunt of the explosion with his body was extremely taxing, even in Nika form.
"Where did Allen go?" Kidd gasped for breath, looking around and seeing only endless white bones.
His memory was still stuck on the moment when the golden lightning bolt descended from the sky and completely covered Allen's figure. After that, his memory was briefly interrupted, and when he opened his eyes again, he found himself in this godforsaken place.
He was certain he was still within the Sabaody Archipelago. Looking down through the huge gap between his ribs, he could see the Sabaody Archipelago below, enveloped in a layer of pale blue bubbles.
“Let me hear what the people on the island are saying,” Capone Becky said, closing his small eyes and fully activating his newly acquired telepathic abilities.
In that instant, his mental power transcended physical distance and descended upon the Sabaody Archipelago below.
His consciousness seemed to stand shoulder to shoulder with the survivors on the island, gazing at the sky, and he could clearly hear their inner thoughts.
"What...what a terrifying giant!"
"The legendary primordial giant, the power of the Human King is too great..."
"Does the Founding Titan intend to destroy the Sabaody Archipelago as well?"
The terms "Founding Titan" and "King of Men" appeared extremely frequently; almost everyone present was talking about them.
Capone Becky wasn't stupid; he instantly realized the seriousness of the situation.
When he withdrew his telepathic abilities and opened his eyes again, a rare look of panic appeared in his small eyes, which were extremely disproportionate to his enormous head.
His voice was a little hoarse, "That bastard Eren has turned into the Founding Titan."
"We are on his body right now!"
"what?!"
Kidd and Hawkins shouted almost in unison, their faces instantly filled with disbelief.
Is the enormous skeletal monster under your feet actually a human in disguise?
Is it Alan Yeager, who always looks so melancholy?
Capone Becky had neither the time nor the inclination to joke about this. "The creature beneath our feet is Allen. This guy is really reckless, actually using the power of the Human King here."
His words reminded Kidd and Hawkins of information that Skyfall had previously revealed: Eren was the King of Men, also known as the Founding Titan, who had collaborated with Doflamingo and nearly destroyed the world.
The Human King is an extremely dangerous and uncontrollable biological ancient weapon.
Just then, Luffy, who had been lying on the ground, sat up with a groan.
His eyes, which had been somewhat dazed from overexertion, gradually focused, and he began to exclaim, "Hey, where am I? There are so many bones."
Kid looked serious and didn't answer Luffy immediately.
His sharp gaze swept across the surroundings, as if searching for something, and he said in a deep voice, "Let's put Allen's matter aside for now."
"The Five Elders should also be right at the center of the explosion. Judging from this situation, were they blown to smithereens in one fell swoop?"
If those five immortal monsters were taken down in one fell swoop by Eren's unreasonable transformation into the King of Men, it would undoubtedly be great news for the pirates present.
This not only averted the immediate deadly crisis, but also meant that one of the biggest obstacles on the road to Marineford had been removed.