Boom!
The entire Mary Geoise was shaking violently. The constantly collapsing earth had already left the once serene and peaceful paradise in ruins.
Dark clouds flashed with lightning and thunder in the sky, and over the sea, the previously calm surface churned with countless abyssal whirlpools.
At the highest point of the Red Line, the foundation of Mary Geoise, countless cracks had spread.
As the red, hard earth continuously crumbled, it revealed a dark green that had not seen sunlight for countless years—the Sunlight Tree Eve.
In a scene akin to the apocalypse, Garp lay on the ground, his completely dead cells beginning to revive and regenerate with the continuous output of Reverse Cursed Technique.
His heart, which had been gradually quieting, also began to regain vitality, beating strongly and powerfully.
Garp's mind became clearer and clearer, his gaze fixed on the young man in front of him, his eyes flashing with incredible shock.
"Renji! You… you brought me back to life?" Garp said in astonishment.
Renji didn't act overly modest. "How could I let you die so easily, old man?"
Although he didn't understand the principle, Garp knew that such power likely came at an extremely high cost.
"Renji, if possible, Sengoku's injuries…"
"Don't worry. With me here, not a single person will die." Renji said lightly, as if stating the most ordinary fact.
Garp's heart trembled. He knew that Renji absolutely had the ability to make his words come true.
A few seconds later, Garp's body returned to its state before the battle began. Of course, the depletion of Haki was not restored by Reverse Cursed Technique. But this alone was already incredible to Garp, who had been prepared to die.
Under the shocked gazes of Garp and Akainu, Renji likewise came to Sengoku's side, placing his hand on the latter, and then, as expected, the parts of his body that had been turned to ash by the chilling energy unleashed by Nusjuro rapidly recovered.
When Sengoku slowly woke up and opened his eyes, his eyes flashed with immense shock, and he immediately said, "Renji! Have you also come to heaven?!"
"Hahaha, Sengoku, take a good look at where this is." Garp burst into laughter, tears glistening in his eyes.
Nothing made him happier than his old comrade-in-arms returning from the dead.
Hearing this, Sengoku looked around: the gravely injured Akainu, the headless skeleton centaur lying on the ground, and the apocalyptic scene all around him.
Clearly, he was still in Mary Geoise.
"Renji, are we not dead?"
"Of course not."
Renji stood up, then looked at Akainu, placing his hand on the latter's shoulder. As Reverse Cursed Technique activated, he seemed to be sighing. "I never thought that with your justice, you would do such a thing."
Akainu seemed a bit embarrassed by what was said, but he didn't refute, merely frowning and saying, "If you use all your power to heal us, what will we do next?"
Immediately, the three men's gazes all turned to Renji.
Renji paused for a moment, then smiled slightly.
It seemed they had misunderstood. In reality, this much use of Reverse Cursed Technique was not much of a drain on him now.
"Don't worry, as I am now, I am the strongest."
Garp grinned, clenching his fist. "We'll win, kid."
"We will win."
Renji turned around, his azure eyes taking in the entire situation of Mary Geoise.
His incredibly majestic voice resounded within a ten-kilometer radius. "You're right here, aren't you, Imu?"
Boom!!!
An incredibly dense, crimson Haki transformed into a towering pillar of light, shooting straight up to the top of the cloud-covered sky, as if a peerless monarch had descended upon the world. The sky trembled, and the sea bowed down.
In the depths of the Holy Land, Imu's eyes trembled with disbelief.
Renji, how did he know of my existence?
That Conqueror's Haki, which could almost be directly touched, left Sengoku, Garp, and Akainu all incredibly shocked.
Sengoku exclaimed, "The scale of this Haki... It's even more terrifying than those few guys combined earlier. But who is this Imu you mentioned?"
Garp asked, "Just how strong are you now, kid?"
Akainu secretly clenched his fists. "Is this your true strength, Renji?"
Feeling the solid, crimson Conqueror's Haki, Nusjuro's brows furrowed into a knot, muttering words like "impossible."
"Damn it, why can't my head recover?"
At his severed neck, there was a faint, dark power preventing Nusjuro's recovery.
In the sky, two figures fell like massive meteorites. They were the Sandworm and the Bull Spider, who had just been sent flying by Garp's Haki storm.
Garp and Sengoku, sensing the anomaly in the sky, stepped forward, their eyes fierce.
"What troublesome guys. Sengoku, have you thought of a way to deal with these immortal fellows?"
Garp clenched his fist. Although his body had fully recovered, he had little Haki left.
Sengoku frowned. Although he was known as the Resourceful General, he found this ability, even more troublesome than the Phoenix Fruit, quite thorny.
"I haven't thought of any good solution for the time being."
"In that case, we'll just have to punch them away." Garp grinned.
Sengoku was speechless, but at present, this really seemed to be the best solution.
"Leave it all to me."
Just as the two were eager to try, a voice sounded from the sky.
"Renji, although you're strong, don't be careless. These guys are immortal." Sengoku reminded him.
"Don't worry, just watch." Renji's eyes flashed with a glint.
If he wasn't mistaken, the Gorosei's immortality should be dependent on Imu. Ordinary Haki or Devil Fruit abilities directly hitting the Gorosei would likely have no effect.
Then, let's try Cursed Energy first.
His hand extended, then he clenched it towards the Sandworm and the Bull Spider.
"Saturn, by the time we fall, the battle should already be over, right?" Peter's voice came from an unknown part of his body.
'After this is over, with Renji gone, it will be time for the Seraphim to act.' Saturn didn't reply. He had already begun to think about what would happen after tomorrow.
Just as he was about to respond, a terrifying red pillar of light suddenly shot up into the sky.
The two Gorosei looked at the red pillar of light with incredibly shocked eyes, saying in an unbelievable tone, "This is Conqueror's Haki? How can there be such terrifying Conqueror's Haki? It must surpass even Joy Boy."
Before they could be too shocked, they heard Renji's voice, and then they looked at each other.
"I didn't mishear, did I? He just said Imu?"
"How could he know of Imu-sama's existence? He…"
Before he could finish speaking, a colossal suction force suddenly locked onto the two Gorosei in an instant, and then, to the shock of the two beasts, pulled them violently downwards.