Uchiha Puppet Master, Starting from One Piece.

The tremor wasn't an earthquake, nor a tsunami precursor; it was more like the island itself responding to something from afar.

Bai Yu's Rinnegan opened again.

This time, a reddish-gold light overflowed from his eyes, not a gentle light, but a blazing light like lava, with substantial temperature and impact.

The light spread through the air, outlining some extremely complex geometric shapes around everyone.

Those geometric shapes weren't drawn by Bai Yu, but rather formed naturally as the red and gold light spread, as if some kind of rule was automatically completing the construction of these shapes.

Every graphic is so precise it's outrageous. The angle of every line, the length of every line, and the angle between every line are all as if they were calculated by a supercomputer.

"Spatial migration of groups?"

Artoria's voice was very soft, but Shiraha heard it.

Bai Yu did not answer, but his silence itself was the best answer.

The crimson-gold light suddenly expanded outwards at this moment, not like an explosion, but like a flower blooming in an instant. All the geometric shapes stretched outwards at the same moment, enveloping Bai Yu and everyone around him.

The light disappeared.

It was as sudden as it appeared.

Along with the light, Shiraha, Artoria, Shanks, Loki, Mihawk, Jabba, Retsu Unohana, Rangiku Matsumoto, and their companions also vanished.

The patch of ground where they had just stood, with its dense weeds and wildflowers, remained intact after the light faded, as if those people who had stood on that patch of grass had never existed.

Only the faint, indescribable scent lingering in the air testifies to what had happened here.

Red Earth Continent.

In front of Pangu City.

The purple pillar of light still stands between heaven and earth, extending from the ground to beyond the atmosphere, like a giant pillar that penetrates all levels of the world.

The color of the beam of light was slowly changing, with more and more black showing through the purple. This black was not pure black, but a color that was deeper than darkness, a color in which even light could not survive.

Vegapunk's image transmission system is now operational.

At that moment, every video Den Den Mushi in the world received a signal—not an ordinary signal, but a special signal that Vegapunk had optimized for many years, theoretically capable of real-time video transmission over the globe.

All the video Den Den Mushi that were still in operation looked up.

All the screens connected to these video Den Den Mushi lit up.

Everyone watching these screens, whether ordinary civilians or nobles, pirates or marines, residents of islands or people on ships adrift at sea, saw the same scene.

Scenes in front of Pangu City.

A force of over 100,000 soldiers, lined up in neat rows.

The twelve figures of the Knights of God stood at the forefront, each with a different posture: some had their arms crossed, some held their swords with one hand, some carried their weapons on their shoulders, and some closed their eyes as if in meditation.

But they all have one thing in common—their gazes are all directed in the same direction.

The main gate of Pangu City.

The Five Elders stood not far behind the Knights of God. Their positions were slightly behind Im's avatar before it was destroyed, not out of fear, but because after Im's avatar was destroyed, the Five Elders had an extremely brief exchange that no outsiders knew about.

The outcome of that exchange put each of them into a more vigilant state.

They knew Bai Yu would come.

They even knew that Bai Yu would arrive soon.

But they didn't know how Bai Yu would arrive, how many people he would bring, or how much information Bai Yu possessed about Pangu City, Im, and that dark golden sphere.

All these unknowns made these five elderly men, standing at the pinnacle of world power, unlike any other moment in their lives.

They are no longer the Five Elders who are high above and have absolute control over everything.

They are five old men waiting for an unknown storm.

"The signal now covers the entire globe."

One of the Five Elders spoke in a low voice, his voice altered by some kind of energy field around the purple pillar, becoming deeper and more hollow than usual.

"Vegapunk's system is indeed very useful. The image clarity is even higher than we expected, and the latency is almost negligible. The whole world is watching Pangaea, watching us, and watching this army."

The other person nodded.

"Then let the whole world see what happens to those who rebel against the world government."

He remained silent for less than three seconds after he finished speaking.

Because at this moment, the space in front of Pangu City changed.

It was not a slow change, nor a gradual change, but a dramatic change that happened in an instant, as swift and decisive as turning the pages of a book.

A crimson-gold light burst forth from the void.

Those geometric shapes reappeared, this time not on the distant island, but in the square directly in front of Pangu City, in the open space between the hundreds of thousands of troops and Pangu City, in that area illuminated by purple pillars of light, an area where no one dared to set foot.

The light was brighter than ever before.

It was so intense that even powerful figures at the level of a naval admiral had to squint their eyes slightly.

Then the light faded.

Bai Yu stood at the very front.

His Rinnegan was fully activated the instant the light dissipated. A red-gold star slowly rotated in his pupils, each rotation causing a visible distortion in the surrounding space.

Artoria stood to the right of Bai Yu. The Holy Sword had completely materialized, and most of the patterns on the golden blade that served as limiters had disappeared. The remaining patterns were fading away one by one at a visible speed.

Red-haired stood to the left of White Feather. Griffin had been half-drawn out by him, and the exposed section of the sword reflected an unreal, almost phantom-like purple light under the illumination of the purple beam.

Loki stood a step behind Shanks. His enormous body appeared even larger than usual at this moment, not because his size had changed, but because the aura unique to giants and connected to the World Tree emanating from him was amplified to its extreme at this distance.

Mihawk stood a step behind Artoria, his black sword already drawn, the tip pointing to the ground. The aura of sharpness that could almost cut through space emanated from the blade, causing the naval commanders closest to him to instinctively take a half step back.

Jabba stood at the very back. He didn't draw any weapons, but his hands were already out of his pockets, hanging at his sides with his fingers slightly bent, as if they were about to grab something.

Retsu Unohana, Rangiku Matsumoto, Robin, and Mirajane stood at opposite ends of the line.

They didn't stand at the very front or the very back, but rather in a position that would allow them to support anyone in the team immediately—a positioning instinct developed through countless life-or-death battles.

The entire process, from the first red-gold light appearing to the last person fully revealing themselves, took less than two seconds.

Two seconds is not even enough time to take a single breath on the battlefield.

But in those brief two seconds, the hundreds of thousands of neatly arranged troops in front of Pangu City experienced a commotion that was almost imperceptible to the naked eye.

The commotion wasn't at the level of sound, but at the level of breath; it was the change in breath that occurred when hundreds of thousands of people simultaneously adjusted their breathing, tensed their muscles, and focused their attention in the same direction.

The change might be completely imperceptible to ordinary people, but for the twelve members of the Order of the Gods standing at the front of the line, it was as clear as if someone had rung a bell in their ears.

The Five Elders reacted more violently than the twelve others.

It wasn't because they were stronger, but because they knew more. They knew what Bai Yu's Rinnegan meant, they knew the position of those eyes in the power system of this world, and they knew that those eyes could do more than just transfer people from one place to another.

Spatial transfer.

This is a possibility that the Five Elders have analyzed, deduced, and prepared for countless times in their intelligence reports.

But when this possibility actually became a reality, they still felt something that wasn't fear, but was close to it. Because spatial teleportation meant that Bai Yu could appear anywhere in this world at any time, that any defense system would be useless in front of Bai Yu, and that all the defenses they had carefully set up were just lines drawn on the beach, which would be wiped out by a single wave.

Bai Yu raised his head.

His gaze passed over the hundreds of thousands of neatly arranged soldiers, over the twelve members of the Divine Knights, over the Five Elders, over the walls and towers of Pangu City, and directly into the deepest part of the city.

It was thrown towards the location of the dark gold sphere.

He knew the sphere was there.

He could even feel the extremely slow pulsation that the sphere was undergoing at that moment, feel the immense life force contained within the sphere, and feel the permanent beacon connecting this world and the Void Throne of Im being slowly and irreversibly activated.

time is limited.

Bai Yu withdrew his gaze and looked at the hundreds of thousands of soldiers lined up neatly in front of him.

He saw the soldiers' eyes.

Some eyes hold fear, some hold determination, some hold confusion, and some hold fanaticism.

But regardless of their emotions, these soldiers did not retreat, did not flee, and did not abandon their weapons.

They stood there, facing what could be described as an invincible enemy in this world, and they still stood there.

These soldiers are not bad people.

Bai Yu understood this in an instant.

They were soldiers, military men, people who obeyed orders. Most of them didn't even know what the World Government was doing, didn't know about Im's existence, didn't know the true nature of the Empty Throne, and didn't know what they had been protecting for so many years.

They simply grew up in a world ruled by this world government for eight hundred years, accepted the rules of this world, believed what this world told them, and then put on this uniform, picked up this weapon, and stood here.

If possible, Bai Yu didn't want to kill them.

Chapter 248 The Tower at the End of the World

It wasn't because Bai Yu was soft-hearted or indecisive, but because every soldier killed meant one less bit of life force in this world, and meant that Im could draw more power from Pangu City.

Moreover, on a more fundamental level, these soldiers were also victims of Im, only they themselves were unaware of it.

"Artoria".

Bai Yu's voice wasn't loud, but at that moment, in the vast, almost empty square in front of Pangu City, his voice clearly reached the ears of everyone present.

It wasn't because his voice was loud, but because of the power of rules that his voice carried, making it impossible for anyone to ignore his words.

Artoria took a step forward.

Her holy spear was now fully unleashed. The last few limiter markings on the spear disappeared completely at this moment, and golden light burst forth from the spear, like a small sun being born in Artoria's hand.

Those golden rays were not ordinary light, but magic power condensed to the point of almost becoming a physical entity. Each ray of light contained enough energy to destroy a small island, but under Artoria's control, this energy was perfectly confined within a range of less than one meter around the Holy Lance, without the slightest leakage.

At that moment, the eyes of the Five Elders all focused on Artoria.

They did not know the woman's identity.

But they knew she wasn't from this world, or rather, not from this planet.

They knew that the gun in her hand was not a weapon that should exist in this world, because a weapon with such terrifying energy should not exist in this world.

But they didn't know the gun's true power, the sword's full name, or what would happen after the gun was summoned in this world.