Th-this… how is this even possible?!
Setting aside the identity of the "Celestial King Uranus", that outer shell wrapped around it was a genuine, real moon!
And it actually got blown away with just one punch…
Completely reduced to dust?!!
Shano, however, ignored what she was trying to say.
He lifted his head to glance at the sky, and then his body suddenly swelled, muscles bulging like mountains. In the blink of an eye, he transformed into a Giant a full hundred meters tall!
Muscles knotted, veins crawling like dragons and snakes; just by standing there, the terrifying pressure radiating from his body even made the surrounding space of the universe faintly distort.
Swish!
In the next instant, the Giant vanished from where he stood, unleashing a terrifying speed infinitely close to light. In just a few blinks, he'd already arrived near distant Saturn's orbit.
Around that gaseous giant planet, dozens of satellites orbited. Among them, one icy rocky world, roughly the same size as the former moon.
The hundred-meter Giant let out a savage grin, stretched out his right hand, spread his fingers, and made a loose grasp at that satellite—
Rumble rumble rumble!
The very next moment, this celestial body with a diameter of over three thousand kilometers was forcibly torn free of Saturn's gravitational shackles by him, dragging a long tail of ice debris as it hurtled toward Earth!
Finally, it came to a steady halt right above Imu's head, the enormous shadow completely engulfing her.
The whole process took only a few seconds.
The seas of Pirate World had just begun to show a few faint reactions from the moon's disappearance, when they immediately calmed back down again.
"..."
Imu stiffly raised her head, staring blankly at Shano, who had reverted to human form and was standing there with his hands in his pockets.
In that moment.
She finally realized what kind of terrifying existence she was truly facing.
All the pride she'd accumulated over eight hundred years collapsed in an instant. Those trump cards she'd been so proud of, those carefully arranged schemes, in the face of such might…
How utterly ridiculous!
"You."
She gave a tragic smile and rasped, "You… what on earth are you?"
"What kind of question is that?"
Shano frowned. "I'm human. Of course I'm human. What, you can't tell?"
Old hag, seriously no manners.
He was one eighty-five, sword brows and starry eyes, handsome and clean-cut, the textbook template of a pretty boy—how exactly did he not look human?
"..."
Imu opened her mouth, then stopped, pressing her lower lip. Suddenly, with a thud, she dropped to her knees.
Of course, there's no "ground" in outer space, but that didn't stop her from making that motion.
"Mu… no, I surrender."
Imu lowered her head and spoke, trembling, "From this moment on, I'm willing to serve you as my lord, as slave and servant, to be driven as you please."
Since her pride had already been shattered completely, since under this absolute crushing Power, the initiative over life and death had long since left her hands…
Her pride was completely shattered; in the face of absolute Power, the control over life and death was no longer hers.
"Oh?"
Shano raised a brow. "The dignified King of the World, actually willing to be someone else's slave? That's not really your style."
King of the World, huh?
Imu's gaze went a little vacant. If someone this weak like herself was fit to be called a king, then what would he be? King of the Galaxy?
"In the face of death, dignity is meaningless."
Imu said bitterly, "Besides… being able to serve an existence like you might actually be my honor instead."
She lifted her head and pleaded, "As long as you're willing to spare my life, I can tell you everything! About the blank hundred years, about the ancient weapons, about Joyboy and my past, about the secret of the D clan! You… you definitely want to know these hidden truths, right? I can tell you all of—"
Pfft!
Before she could finish, her head flew high into the air.
The expression of disbelief was frozen on that delicate face.
"Like I give a shit."
Sliding his Tachi back into its scabbard, Shano glanced at the head floating in space. "What D clan, what Joyboy—who exactly told you I'm interested in any of that?"
There's something wrong with her.
Compared to all that, the orange trees back home he'd seen during the board-swap—whether they'd ripened yet or not—were way more attractive to him.
"..."
Imu's lips twitched, as if she still wanted to say something, but in the end, her consciousness completely sank into darkness.
For eight hundred years she'd ruled the world from the shadows, the Heavenly Celestial Dragons' gods, the master of the Void Throne—
Saint Nerona Imu fell here and now!
Shano watched in silence for a moment. He had originally thought about taking this head back to Mary Geoise, but then on second thought, this was ultimately Queen Lily's stolen body.
So in the end he let it go, casually flicking his finger. A torrent of Supreme King swept forth, turning the drifting headless corpse in space—head and all—into ash.
Then he fully opened his Observation, confirming there were no lingering souls or anything like that.
Only then did everything feel properly wrapped up.
Shano turned around, staring at the slowly rotating blue planet beneath his feet. This was the first time he'd seriously taken in this world's scenery from outer space.
Though there was a bit less land, it still looked quite a lot like Earth in the end—breathtakingly beautiful.
On such a beautiful planet, the people living on it should have been able to enjoy lives just as beautiful.
"Time to head back."
He smiled, murmured softly to himself, and with a flash of his figure, suddenly vanished into the universe.
......
The battle in space ended so fast…
That by the time Imu's head had already turned to ash, the slaughter within the Holy Land Mary Geoise had yet to come to a halt.
The afterglow of the setting sun spilled over the ruined Pangu City, coating this once resplendent hall of power in a layer of blood-red light.