One Piece: Surrounded at Marineford? Just kidding!

Chapter 288: The Perfect Authority of the Gods!

Shanks caught the figure falling from the sky with his arms.

At this moment, the hands of this "Four Emperors" of the new world were trembling.

He lowered his head. The girl in his arms had her eyes closed, and the demonic markings on her cheeks had faded, leaving her deathly pale.

"Ship's doctor! Quickly!"

Shanks' voice was so hoarse it cracked.

Ben Beckman and Yasopp surrounded him, and the ship's doctor, carrying a first-aid kit, slid to his knees and rushed to him. The stethoscope was pressed against his chest, and a few seconds later, the doctor's body went limp, and he collapsed to his seat.

"She collapsed from exhaustion, but her life has been saved, boss, she's alright."

In a word.

Shanks' tense shoulders slumped.

He handed Uta to the ship's doctor, straightened up, and turned around.

The worry on his face disappeared.

All that remained was a somber atmosphere, as if a storm was brewing.

He looked up at the sky.

Chen Ye hovered ten meters above the ground, slowly adjusting his cuffs, crushing the Demon of Song as if he were merely flicking away a speck of dust.

The battlefield was dead silent.

The sky is filled with the leaves of dawn.

The ground is occupied by the Red-Haired Pirates.

Amidst the ruins lay a disheveled navy.

Borsalino stood on the broken mast, his yellow striped suit tattered, his brown sunglasses half-broken, revealing eyes that no longer held any languor.

He stared intently at Chen Ye in the air, his Adam's apple bobbing.

He is a user of the Glint-Glint Fruit.

But that man possessed both light and darkness.

A darkness that makes your soul tremble.

"This monster..."

Borsalino raised his hands in a gesture of surrender, but this time his tone was weak and feeble.

"Plus the entire Red-Haired Pirates... Yeah~ Sakazuki's salary for me isn't enough to keep me fighting like this."

He looked at Fujitora, who was not far away.

Fujitora leaned on his cane and sword, a purple gravity aura flashing beneath his feet, and two lines of bloody tears streamed from his tightly closed blind eyes.

The hellish scroll he had just seen had a profound impact on this benevolent general.

"Brother Yixiao, it's time to leave."

Borsalino said in a low voice.

"If we don't leave now, these old bones of ours might really be buried here."

Fujitora remained silent.

His Observation Haki allowed him to clearly "see" the floating man.

That's beyond their capabilities!

Not reconciled.

They assembled four generals and launched the Buster Call, only to be played like fools, and ultimately had to rely on pirates to resolve the situation.

This is a disgrace to the Navy.

But Fujitora knew even better that the Navy was no longer capable of fighting.

Forcing a war would mean total annihilation.

"……retreat."

Fujitora squeezed out two words through gritted teeth.

"All troops, listen up! Take the wounded and the bodies of your fallen comrades! Withdraw!"

The order was given, and the surviving sailors helped the wounded and dragged the bodies toward the remaining warships.

They fled in panic, like a pack of defeated wild dogs.

Borsalino transformed into a golden light, sweeping Momousagi and Chaton aboard the warship. Fujitora used gravity to raise the sails of several still-functioning ships.

A few minutes later, the fleet disappeared on the horizon.

The battlefield is now only inhabited by pirates.

Once the naval presence had completely disappeared, Shanks sheathed his famous sword, "Griffin."

Click.

A crisp sound.

As the blade was sheathed, his suffocating aura of dominance also subsided.

The Red-Haired Pirates' officers maintained their battle formation.

Everyone stared at Chen Ye in the air.

He saved Uta.

But the danger emanating from him was a hundred times more terrifying than that of the demon king from before.

"Although you are dangerous..."

Shanks was the first to break the silence.

"But... thank you, Mr. Chenye. Thank you for saving Uta."

If Chen Ye hadn't intervened, he might have had to kill his own daughter.

Chen Ye's heterochromatic pupils shifted, her gaze settling on him.

There was nothing in his eyes.

Don't misunderstand.

Chen Ye's voice was very calm.

"I just think it's too noisy here."

"That ugly, dark thing is annoying, that's all."

As he spoke, the black and white wings on his back retracted, and he fell like a feather.

He landed.

Invisible ripples spread out.

The pebbles on the ground rolled to both sides on their own.

The members of the Red-Haired Pirates instinctively took a half-step back.

Chen Ye ignored them, his gaze sweeping past the crowd to a pile of ruins in the corner.

There lay a huge figure.

Douglas Barrett.

The "Demon's Heir" lay unconscious like a rag doll in a pile of rubble, a horrifying penetrating wound in his chest, black demonic energy still swirling around it.

Chen Ye walked towards Barrett.

"What are you going to do?"

Chen Ye didn't stop walking; she merely glanced at him indifferently.

Click!

Without warning, the barrel of the flintlock pistol in Beckman's hand shattered and exploded into a shower of sparks.

Beckman's pupils contracted sharply as he stared at the gun handle in his hand, cold sweat soaking his back.

He didn't even see how Chen Ye made his move.

Shanks raised his hand to stop Yasopp and shook his head at the crowd.

Chen Ye walked to Barrett's side and looked at this remnant of the old era.

"Want to become the strongest in the world? A simple obsession, but unfortunately, it led you down a narrow path."

Chen Ye murmured to himself.

He stretched out his right hand, and a golden light shone from the tip of his index finger.

With a flick of a finger.

Golden light entered Barrett's brow.

Without a wound or a sound, a complex golden mark flashed by and then disappeared.

After doing all this, Chen Ye withdrew his hand.

He lifted his foot.

boom!

A muffled thud.

The unconscious Barrett was kicked away like a tattered sack, arcing through the air before crashing down at the feet of the Red-Haired Pirates.

"This remnant of the old era is yours."

"Take him back to Impel Down or throw him into the sea to feed the fish, it's up to you. Just don't let him cause any more trouble; he's an eyesore."

Shanks looked at Barrett at his feet, then at Chen Ye, and clenched his fists.

Chen Ye directly handed over this huge hidden danger, this bargaining chip in negotiations with the Navy or the World Government, to them.

A system notification sounded in Chen Ye's mind.

[Ding! Hidden Quest: End the Rebellion of Eregia - Completed.]

[The host has been detected overwhelming the Devil of Song with absolute power and successfully intimidating the Four Emperors and the Marine Admirals.]

[Task Evaluation: Perfect (S+)]

[Rewards being distributed...]

[Congratulations, host, you have obtained 100% of: The Divine Authority of Apollo, the God of Light (Complete Version)!]

boom!

As the system's voice faded, the power within Chen Ye, which had been calming down, surged once more.

An endless stream of information flooded my mind.

The sun, heat energy, purification, life, destruction.

All concepts related to light are within his grasp in a single thought.

Light and darkness formed a perfect closed loop deep within his soul.

Chen Ye closed his eyes.

When he opened his eyes again, the golden vertical pupil in his left eye and the black vortex in his right eye lit up simultaneously.

An even more terrifying and vast pressure swept across the entire battlefield.

"Hmm!"

In the Red-Haired Pirates, apart from Shanks and Beckman, the ground beneath the feet of the others cracked inch by inch, almost forcing them to their knees.

Chen Ye turned around, his back to the crowd.

wow-

The powerful airflow made it impossible for the red-haired group to open their eyes, and the Red Fox was shaking violently.

He tilted his head slightly and looked towards the distant horizon.

Red Earth Continent.

Mary Geoise.

"Tell those five old men..."

Chen Ye's voice wasn't loud, but each word was like a bell, echoing throughout the sea and causing ripples to spread across the water.

"And that guy sitting on the Void Throne..."

Shanks' pupils shrank to pinpoints.

The Void Throne!

That guy!

Chenye actually knew about the existence of "Imu"!

Chen Ye ignored his shock, his face filled with pure arrogance.

"Wash your neck and wait."

"This is just the beginning."

The words fell.

boom!

A deafening sonic boom.

Chen Ye transformed into a shooting star, a tapestry of light and darkness, tearing through the clouds and soaring straight into the sky.

A black and white trail was left in the sky, lingering for a long time.

And somewhere in the deep sea below.

In the pitch-black abyss.

It resonated with the divine authority that Chen Ye had just unleashed.

Glug glug...

A string of huge bubbles emerged from a crack in the seabed.

Immediately afterwards, a visible ripple spread rapidly along the ocean current.

It was an ancient and heavy rhythm.

Like some giant that has been asleep for eight hundred years.

Startled by the aura of "God".

He rolled over.

Ancient weapons are about to make their appearance.