Chapter 124: Ten Years of Chaos! Amatsuki Toki Appears
The tightly closed palace.
The pitch-black figure sat silently upon the Empty Throne.
Before the throne were embedded 19 weapons—this was from the 20 Kings of eight hundred years ago.
The King of Alabasta did not come to the Holy Land Mary Geoise; the other 19 settled here, and these weapons were the legacy left behind by those Kings.
Among them were naturally many famous blades.
But to Imu, who had already grasped transcendent power,
They were utterly useless.
He narrowed his eyes slightly, gazing at the tightly shut doors.
"I originally thought that degraded fruit should be in the possession of the little girl from the Amatsuki clan. Now it seems the fruit's bearer changed hands at some unknown point."
"Azure Emperor Lotte... quite an interesting little brat."
"Let me see what moves you can still make next."
The pitch-black figure rose from the throne.
Slowly walking toward the depths of the garden, eventually disappearing completely within the palace.
Ten years later.
Time passed like a white colt flashing by a gap.
In just ten short years, the entire sea had already experienced countless conflicts.
Whether it was the battles between Golden Lion Shiki and the Roger Pirates, the establishment and growth of the Whitebeard Pirates, or Charlotte Linlin's expansion of power in the New World.
And Kaido's sudden rise afterward.
It was no exaggeration to say.
These ten years were undoubtedly the most chaotic decade in the entire sea.
Those monsters who had waited since the Rocks era now turned everything upside down in this newly arrived era.
But among these people.
There seemed to be one missing figure—the one known as the Azure Emperor Lotte.
He was said to be the greatest genius under Rocks, yet in these ten years, not even half a rumor of his deeds had spread, causing many to begin doubting.
Had Lotte already died?
After all, a genius like him couldn't possibly remain unknown for a full decade.
But no matter how much ordinary people speculated,
The World Government's top bounty poster still bore Lotte's portrait.
This was the bounty updated shortly after God Valley.
Honestly, when this bounty first came out, it caused an absolute uproar.
5 billion berries.
That was Lotte's updated bounty.
Even in the entire history of Marine Headquarters, such a bounty amount had never appeared before—it was simply unbelievable.
It was almost as if he single-handedly.
Raised the entire subsequent bounty evaluation standard.
Whenever people began doubting Lotte's life or death, the World Government's bounty posters continued to increase without pause.
This genius who had shone brilliantly in the Rocks Pirates.
Had never truly died on the seas.
...
Somewhere in an unknown sea area.
A lone small island stood amid the crashing waves.
With a mysterious fluctuation, two figures suddenly appeared on flat ground.
A handsome young man in casual clothes with two swords at his waist, and a beautiful girl in a kimono with onion-green hair.
Both fainted in the jungle.
With only their current strength, it was impossible to maintain consciousness in that river of time. This situation was completely normal.
Moments later. The young man, whose physique far surpassed the girl's, naturally woke up first.
He slowly opened his eyes. The blood-red tomoe spun back and forth, gradually restoring full awareness.
When Lotte realized where he was.
He immediately stood up without hesitation, looking around in all directions.
Everyone knew he had traversed a full ten years of time. The changes to everything would undoubtedly be massive. Even Lotte didn't dare be careless.
After all, Imu's ability was too bizarre.
Even with his current power, he was still temporarily helpless against it.
But it wasn't completely without countermeasures. When it came to time-space powers, the Mangekyo Sharingan and Rinnegan could undoubtedly bring some changes.
As long as he continued to improve them.
For Lotte,
It would also serve as a trump card capable of defeating Imu.
Lotte scanned the surroundings and noticed the beautiful girl lying beside him.
Though momentarily stunned by her beauty, he felt the woman's appearance seemed somewhat familiar, but for the moment he couldn't quite place it.
He simply set the thought aside for now.
Turning his attention to the attribute panel.
[Name: Lotte]
[Age: 19 (Time Frozen)]
[Bloodline Ability: Hashirama Cells (Mastery 60%) (Recovering)]
[Skills: Wood Release (Current Power Limit A+), Three Types of Haki (Advanced 10%), Flame Dance Dual Sword Style (Advanced 10%), Sun Breathing Technique (Mastery 55%), Voice of All Things (Mastered), Three Tomoe Sharingan (Mastered)]
[Inventory: Flame King / Shodai Kitetsu (Supreme Grade Swords), Eternal Youth Pill ×3]
[Combat Power: 30000-43000]
[Overall Evaluation: Normal-state strength is slightly below Vice Admiral level. Logically, full recovery to peak should take half a month, but due to time ability freeze, it requires longer. Fortunately, it only needs waiting. Perhaps shift focus to check-ins first.]
[Special Remark: Misfortune begets fortune; fortune begets misfortune.]
Lotte narrowed his eyes slightly upon seeing this.
Just as the system said, he indeed sensed the stagnation in recovery.
Though this didn't affect his actions, it was bad news for regaining strength. It seemed Imu had prepared a countermeasure.
Likely released the moment he disappeared.
The duration of the time pause shouldn't be too long. During this period, he truly needed to stabilize first and carefully think of ways to defeat Imu.
Before having power to rival Imu.
Lotte naturally had no intention of exposing himself in the World Government's sights.
So all actions needed to be kept simple.
While Lotte was deep in thought.
The onion-green-haired girl also seemed to frown slightly. She slowly woke up and opened her hazy crystal-clear eyes.
Raising her head, she saw Lotte beside her.
She was momentarily stunned, then her eyes widened sharply.
As if startled, she quickly stood up, drew the samurai sword at her waist, and stared warily at Lotte.
"Who are you!"
"Why are you here?!"
The girl was extremely puzzled. Logically, she shouldn't have brought anyone along.
Why did she wake up to see a young man here?
Lotte raised an eyebrow and explained.
"I was just wandering around here and happened to see you, miss."
"If I were really a bad guy, I would've acted already. Why would I wait for you to wake up?"
The onion-green-haired girl thought about it and realized it made sense.
She sheathed her sword, bowed slightly to Lotte with an apologetic look, and said.
"I'm very sorry, sir."
"I am Amatsuki Toki. May I ask you a question?"
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