I'm the Great Pirate, and I'm waging the Holy Grail War!

Chapter 316 Human Evil Manifests, Ea Sword Activated

Deep within Pangu City, between the Void Thrones.

Im stood in the center of the altar, with a blood magic circle spreading throughout the space beneath his feet.

The Five Elders knelt at the edge of the magic circle, their foreheads touching the ground, their bodies trembling slightly from the excessive draining of their life force.

Behind them, the skeleton called Stubborn Rot was slowly sitting up.

"Soon—" Im's voice echoed in the empty hall, calm and undisturbed.

"The last three —"

Just then.

boom!!!

A huge hole was blasted open in the outer wall on the east side of Pangu City by lava!

Amidst the scorching heat and rubble, Akainu Sakazuki stepped inside.

His navy coat was tattered, lava slowly flowing across his skin, and his face was unusually hardened from the long march.

Bai Qi stood silently behind him, his murderous aura restrained, yet he appeared even more sinister.

"The Five Elders!" Akainu's voice boomed like thunder in the hall, "Explain yourself!"

One of the Five Elders, the financial warrior Nassuke Sei, barely managed to raise his head, his face deathly pale: "Sakazuki? How dare you trespass—"

"I'm asking you!" Akainu stepped forward, his lava footprints sizzling as they were imprinted on the ground.

"What exactly is this so-called absolute order?! To solidify the world, obliterate all possibilities, and turn all life into inanimate objects pre-ordered on your menu—is this the justice you desire?!"

The Environmental War God, Marcus Mazs, gasped as he spoke: "Foolish—this is a necessary sacrifice—for survival amidst the collision of two worlds—"

"To continue?" Akainu laughed in fury.

"Is becoming a monster like Big Mom, who only knows how to devour, considered survival? Is being like those civilians you used as experimental subjects, who eventually became walking corpses, considered survival? Or is it—"

He pointed to Im in the center of the altar, and the skeleton that exuded an ominous aura.

"Becoming that kind of thing, is that considered existence?!"

Im slowly turned his head.

"Akainu Sakazuki. Your absolute justice shares some similarities with my order. However, you are limited by your human perspective and ultimately cannot comprehend higher forms of existence."

"I really don't understand!" Akainu roared, his body surrounded by boiling lava.

"I died once in Alabasta! I only understood when I was resurrected by that smoke mirror."

"Life is life precisely because it has infinite possibilities! It has the right to choose! It has the opportunity to make mistakes and correct them!"

"To freeze everything in stone is not justice; it's a tyranny more cruel than any pirate or tyrant! It's a crime against humanity!"

After he finished speaking, the entire hall fell into a deathly silence.

The Five Elders stared at him in astonishment, as if they did not recognize this general whom they had always regarded as their sharpest weapon.

Im was silent for a moment, then suddenly chuckled softly.

"Interesting. A near-death experience has given you such insight. Unfortunately, it's too late."

He raised his hand.

"Your anger, your doubts, your awakening—these are excellent anchoring materials. With your heroic spirit, offer your final value for the eternal order."

The magic array shone brightly! Countless chains of law shot out from the cocoon, like living venomous snakes, coiling towards Akainu and Bai Qi!

"Don't even think about it!" Akainu roared, his giant lava fist slamming into the chains. "Great Fire Breath!"

Bai Qi drew his sword at the same time, and the dark killing intent transformed into a tangible sword aura as he slashed out!

However, those chains were not physical attacks.

They pierced through the lava and killing intent, directly entangling the very existence of Akainu and Bai Qi!

Akainu felt his consciousness, memories, power, and even his belief in justice being forcibly ripped away!

Bai Qi's murderous aura was also being frantically absorbed by the chains, and his heroic spirit body began to become transparent!

"Ughhhhhh—!" Akainu knelt on the ground, lava-like blood seeping from his seven orifices, but he held on tightly, glaring at Im.

"You—you won't—get away with it—!"

"Struggle," Im said calmly. "The stronger the emotion, the more stable the anchor."

The forty-seventh point of light suddenly lit up steadily!

Within the light, crimson lava and pitch-black killing intent could be vaguely seen intertwined.

Akainu's body began to petrify, starting from his feet and spreading upwards.

He took one last look at his disappearing hands, and it was as if through the hall he saw the sea outside that he had once sworn to defend with his life.

"I'm sorry—" he uttered with his last breath. It was unclear to whom he was speaking.

Bai Qi let out a very soft sigh and then completely disappeared.

Sakazuki, the Red Dog, transformed into a solidified lava statue, becoming the forty-seventh anchor point of the cocoon.

Almost at the same time —

"Hahaha!!! Looks like I've arrived just in time!"

On the other side of the main hall, the wall seemed to be corroded by an invisible force, melting out an irregularly shaped large hole.

Marshall D. Teach, the man with the black beard, strode in laughing. Behind him were no men, only a thick cloud of deep blue mist.

In the thick fog, the tentacles of a giant octopus could be vaguely seen.

A terrifying figure, whose face looked as if it had been soaked and dried by seawater, appeared and disappeared in the fog.

That was none other than Davy Jones, captain of the Flying Dutchman!

"The power of Davy Jones' curse, plus the portion of death authority left behind by that Azrael guy—I've been preparing for this for a long time!"

The black-bearded man spread his arms wide, darkness and vibrations swirling around his hands, his eyes filled with a frenzied greed.

"Im! Hand over your order, and that so-called human reasoning! Let my pirate code become the new foundation for devouring two worlds!"

Im watched him quietly.

"By stitching together the concepts of otherworldly spirits and death—is this an attempt to use chaos to erode human reason?"

For the first time, Im's voice carried a hint of sarcasm: "Ignorance is bliss."

Behind him, the skeleton called Stubborn Rot slowly stood up and instantly appeared in front of Blackbeard and Davy Jones.

The skeleton raised a bone hand.

There was no magical fluctuation, no overwhelming aura.

There is only one kind of conceptual blockade.

"Freedom is locked up," "Dreams are stifled," and "Possibilities are completely denied."

These concepts, like an invisible giant wall, crashed down!

"What—?!" The black-bearded man's maniacal laughter froze on his face. The darkness surrounding him solidified instantly, beginning to backfire on him!

His prized Dark Fruit's devouring power was laughable and futile!

Behind him, David Jones let out inhuman screams.

The spiritual foundation, composed of deep-sea resentment and curses, began to crumble inch by inch under this conceptual suppression!

The octopus's tentacles turned to ashes, and its decaying body vanished rapidly like a weathered sand sculpture!

"No—impossible! My ambition—my plan!!" Blackbeard's eyes were bloodshot as he desperately tried to activate his Devil Fruit power, but he couldn't even create a ripple around himself.

He felt that his very existence was being forcibly defined as wrong and rejected by the order!

"Ambition? Dreams?" Im's voice came from behind the skeleton, chilling to the bone.

"Your only value lies in becoming an anchor point, a negative example for maintaining order and stability."

More chains emerged from the cocoon, piercing through Blackbeard's futile resistance and binding him and the collapsing David Jones.

"Ugh—! Dad—!!" Blackbeard roared in frustration, the feeling of his body and soul being ripped out at the same time was excruciating.

Before his consciousness completely succumbed, his last thought transformed into a powerful sense of unwillingness and obsession, spreading outwards like invisible ripples!

In the eastern seas, Rocks, who was engaged in a fierce battle with Garp and Roger, suddenly stopped.

His wild smile froze instantly!

"Marshall—!!" He roared to the sky, his attack suddenly becoming several times more frenzied, forcing Garp and Roger to retreat repeatedly.

"Im—!! I'm going to kill you—!!"

Inside Pangu City, the forty-eighth point of light suddenly lit up! Within the light, the afterimages of darkness and endless ambition churned.

Marshall D. Teach, with his insane plan, becomes the anchor point alongside Davy Jones.

Im lowered his head and looked at the center of the altar's magic circle.

He saw those figures struggling to climb and charge upwards on the red earth.

Luffy, Dragon, Sabo, Ace, Law, Kid, Shanks —

"Just one more," Im said softly.

"Then I will use myself as the catalyst, the order accumulated over the past eight hundred years as the fuel, and the manifestation of human evil and corruption as the means." He opened his arms, his body slowly floating into the air, gradually overlapping with the skeletal remains behind him.

"To complete this ultimate ritual that isolates us from collision, solidifies eternity, and severs all unnecessary possibilities!"

The cocoon's radiance reached its peak at this moment!

The forty-ninth point of light, centered on the fusion of Im himself and human evil, burst forth with pure white light that engulfed everything!

The Cocoon of Absolute Order—Final Stage, Initiated!

Buzz—! ! !

An indescribable buzzing sound reverberated throughout the world! It wasn't a sound, but a tremor of the very rules of nature!

Centered on Pangu City, a pure, ethereal white halo instantly spread out!

Sweeping across the red earth, across the ocean, across the islands, across the sky and the clouds!

Wherever the halo passed, nothing was destroyed, but rather—frozen.

Running naval and revolutionary soldiers, frozen in their charging posture, are like sculptures.

Falling snowflakes, splashing waves, burning flames, rising dust—all were frozen in that instant.

The artillery fire remained at the muzzle, and the blades froze in mid-air.

Throughout the entire world, except for those Masters who have made contracts with Heroic Spirits and whose bodies contain concepts from another world.

All other living and non-living things, their changes and possibilities, were instantly frozen!

Time seemed not to have stopped, but the future was locked. Everything would remain forever in this moment.

"It's done—" Im, whose body was mostly fused with the decaying skeleton, uttered a magnificent sound that blended two distinct timbres.

"Seven hundred and twenty seconds remain—order will completely cover the surface of the world, severing all entanglements with the human reason on the other side."

"At that time, the heroic spirits will dissipate, and the contractors will lose their anchor—all variables will return to eternal stillness."

Below, Luffy and his crew, who were struggling to climb the cliffs of the Red Line, felt an irresistible, heavy pressure descend upon them, making their movements incredibly sluggish.

The flames on Ace's body flickered, and Sabo felt as if the water pipe in his hand was incredibly heavy.

Even top-tier powerhouses like Sengoku, Garp, and Dragon experienced a sudden drop in speed.

"I can't move—I can't move—!" Luffy gritted his teeth, his rubber body tense, but he couldn't break free from the omnipresent constraints of order.

"It's that cocoon—" The dragon raised its head, looking at the blinding white light at the top, its eyes blazing with an indomitable flame, "It's stripping the world of its possibilities!"

"Is it too late? —" Merlin frowned. He could feel the magic being rejected by the world itself, and the illusion was difficult to maintain.

Inside Pangu City, Im looked down at the ants struggling slowly below, without any emotion.

"The final struggle is futile. Let it stand still here, a dream called freedom and aspiration."

However, at this moment when it seemed everything was about to end—

"As expected—it has come to this. The ultimate order is in complete opposition to freedom—"

Gilgamesh stopped his usual sneer, and a dangerous golden light flashed in his crimson snake eyes.

"Hmph, disgusting perfection, turning all my living things into specimens in a display case, utterly boring!"

Joan of Arc gripped the banner tightly, her face filled with worry: "The Servants' connection with this world is being forcibly severed!"

Soon, we will also—"

"I know." Dieter interrupted Joan of Arc, took a deep breath, and stepped forward, the wind whipping his white robes.

"I have never claimed to be a god or an arbitrator," he murmured to himself, as if declaring to someone.

"I came here, causing changes, setting up a gamble—in the end, I am just a human being who does not want to see either of the two worlds end in such a tragic way."

He raised his right hand, palm up.

"Having lived in the world of One Piece for so many years, I understand better than anyone the allure of this sea, which lies in its unpredictability and the flame in everyone's heart."

"Im—you have no right to extinguish it."

Light gathered in his palm.

"Queen of Heroes! Joan of Arc," Dilt said without turning his head.

"I've been waiting impatiently for a long time, you bastard!" Gilgamesh grinned, golden ripples spreading wildly behind him.

"May the Lord guide us, may our faith endure!" Joan of Arc slammed the banner to the ground, and holy radiance shone forth.

Dieter leaped from a height of ten thousand meters!

It transformed into a pure white meteor that pierced through the heavens and earth, crashing straight into the absolute order domain that enveloped Pangu City!

At the same time.

"Listen!" Gilgamesh's voice resounded through the heavens, filled with unprecedented seriousness and fervor.

"Narrive at the beginning, before the creation of heaven and earth —"

"Even nothingness offers its congratulations—"

"With my Ea sword—I will tear the world apart!"

Heaven and earth are in discord, the star of creation (EnumaElish)!

A spiraling pillar of light, wreathed in red magic, erupted from the tip of the Ea!

It arrived late but arrived early, and the pure white meteor that Dilt had transformed into forcibly tore a crack in the halo of absolute order!

"What?!" Inside Pangu City, Im and Wanfu suddenly looked up and saw the red spiral tearing through the sky.

And the pure white light that followed slammed into the outer barrier of the Cocoon of Order!

Dilt's figure appeared in the pure white light. He pushed forward with both hands, resisting the solidification process of the cocoon of order, and confronting the absolute order power of Im's stubbornness head-on!

"Dilte—" For the first time, Im's voice showed a change in emotion, a mixture of cold anger and a hint of confusion.

"To claim to be an observer and arbitrator, yet to personally intervene in the final outcome of variables? How foolish!"

Your actions violate the rules of the game you yourself set!

"Rules?" Beads of sweat appeared on Dilt's forehead, clearly indicating the immense pressure of confronting the entire Cocoon of Order, yet his smile remained unchanged.

"I've said it before: the ultimate goal of gambling is to find a third solution. When the house realizes the gamblers are about to be wiped out by the table itself, isn't it normal for them to flip the table themselves?"

He suddenly increased his power output, and the pure white light band shone even brighter, actually stopping the expansion of the cocoon of order for a moment!

"Moreover—" Dilt's voice, through the surge of power, clearly reached the Red Earth below, entering the ears of every Master who was still struggling.

"I've never been some lofty god! I'm just like you, a person who cries and laughs, gets angry and hopes, and cherishes possibilities!"

"Gentlemen!" he roared.

"You are the very possibility of this world! Im tried to extinguish it with order, Blackbeard tried to distort it with chaos, Arjuna tried to eliminate it with judgment—but you all walked your own paths and proved your choices!"

"Now, this is our last chance!"

"I will use my power to block the solidification of absolute order for you for the last 720 seconds!"

"With everything you have—your dreams, your comrades, your will, all your possibilities!"

"Go find it! Go create it!"

"That transcends order and chaos, it belongs to the pirate world itself!"

"The Third Future!!!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the pure white light around Dilt became so intense that it seemed to be burning, clashing with the cold cocoon of order!

Below, at the crack in order torn apart by the Exorcism Sword, the omnipresent solidified pressure showed a slight loosening!

Luffy suddenly looked up, his eyes shining brightly.

The flames on Ace's body suddenly surged higher.

Sabo gripped the hose tightly.

Dragon, Roger, Garp, Shanks, Hawkeye, Law, Kid—all the powerful warriors still fighting had their flames reignited in their eyes.

"Did you hear that!" Luffy roared, his rubber arm suddenly extending to grab a protruding rock above him.

"Uncle Dilt is buying us time!"

"Only seven hundred seconds—" Luo gasped, his R0OM domain unfolding with difficulty, "but—that's enough!"

"Charge—!!!" Ace transformed into a fiery meteor, rushing towards the top of Pangu City, which was so close at hand!

"For freedom!"

"For the future!"

"For all possibilities!!!"