One Piece: A Guide for Ordinary Players

In situations like these, to make a decisive move, one must rely on methods such as overwhelming power, the advantage of superior or inferior fruits, or the power-up created by the protagonist's aura.

Robert's current application of the "evil-repelling patch" to his lightning attribute is a precise application of the underlying logic of the One Piece world, namely that spiritual will can influence the material world.

When the vast majority of people in the world believed that lightning could suppress all evil, Robert's power had already reached the same level as Haki, becoming one of the ways to break the invincibility lock.

Im is now extremely weak. He has lost too many contractors in a short period of time. Every time Robert's lightning strikes him, it uses the demonic power he uses as a medium to affect his already severely injured soul.

There is a way to avoid being harmed by Robert's lightning: completely abandon the power of the demon.

Im gritted his teeth and decided to give it another shot.

He used the secret technique to suppress his injuries one last time, a technique that came at a price; each use damaged Im's foundation, causing irreparable deep damage.

Moreover, activating such a secret technique consumes too much energy. In Im's current state, he can only activate it once more at most, and the duration is only a short minute.

Im must use this minute to completely eliminate Robert's threat, otherwise he won't need to worry about whether his foundation is damaged. If he's dead, what's the point of caring about his foundation?

The moment the arcane spell was activated, Im ignored Robert's lightning strike and, after using his domineering aura to weaken the elemental damage as much as possible, resolutely activated Demon Teleportation!

Robert felt his target, which he had been holding onto, suddenly disappear and reappear in another place not far away a few seconds later.

With a smug smile on his face, Robert completely entrusted the direction of his body's movement to the attraction between positive and negative electrons.

Using the electrons he left on Im as positive charge, Robert converted his entire elemental body into negative charge, and his body was instantly attracted away from the area shrouded in black mist by Im.

This demonic black mist could only block Robert's five senses, but it could not interfere with the physical laws he firmly believed in.

When Im's body reassembled from the pentagram magic circle, the first thing he saw was Robert's repulsive smiling face.

The lightning struck in an instant, and without the slightest hesitation, Im activated the teleportation array once again.

His body turned into black mist and disappeared from the spot. Not long after, he reappeared from another magic circle a few meters away. This time, Robert didn't even move and his smile was even wider.

The so-called one blast, then decay, and exhaustion.

If Im had put in all his effort from the beginning and fought Robert to the death, with his nearly thousand years of accumulated power, even if Robert were seriously injured, he might not have been a match for him.

However, at the beginning, Im was too proud of his status to bring himself to fight Robert, a peasant, to the point of mutual destruction.

This weakening of his resolve gave Robert's men the opportunity to wipe out his contractors, further exacerbating Im's injuries.

If Im were to use his last secret technique to suppress his injuries and rush up to fight Robert to the death, given Im's resources, he could at least fight Robert to the death.

But Im was already scared, and once the thought of running away took hold, it was difficult for him to turn back and fight to the death.

Im kept moving between the various teleportation arrays, but even though seven or eight pentagram patterns lit up one after another, Im's body never left the square.

Robert was no longer in a hurry. While he was showering Im with lightning, he was explaining things to him:

"I've put in a lot of effort to collect the teleportation arrays you've left all over the world over the years."

"After all, I am not omniscient. I only know that there is a pentagram magic circle in Elbaf and there is also one in the Valley of Gods back then. I really don't know where else this magic circle is."

"So I first contacted Moonlight Moria. After the Battle of God Valley, he took the remaining half of the island and turned it into the terrifying three-dimensional sailing ship. I got a teleportation array that you left behind from him."

"Then there's the royal palace in Elbaf. I waited until Junzi and Shamlock used this magic circle to reach Elbaf before I had Little Oz dig it up along with the floor tiles and bring it back. Otherwise, you would have discovered my little trick ahead of time."

"As for the location information of other magic arrays, I have to commend the CP department for its rigorous work attitude. They have truly achieved the goal of leaving a record of their work. Over the past few hundred years, every magic array they have set up has eventually formed a written mission report, which is stored in the CP headquarters' database for future reference."

“It just so happens that one of my collaborators is a high-ranking official in the CP department. I used her connections to access relevant information, and then spent a lot of effort to dig out these formations one by one from all over the world and send them here.”

"So I think you don't need to bother anymore, because unless someone can draw a new array on the spot, no matter how many times you teleport, you can only appear in this square!"

Im stopped his futile attempts; during the time he kept trying to teleport, the duration of the arcane spell had quietly passed.

Robert's words had completely extinguished his hope of escape. Im simply gathered all his demonic energy into his body, stared intently at Robert, and his Conqueror's Haki surged. He finally decided to fight Robert with his own strength.

Robert also withdrew his lightning and unleashed his Conqueror's Haki to its fullest extent, colliding with Im's aura from a distance.

Im thought that as the king of the world, he would be no weaker than anyone else in terms of Conqueror's Haki. Even Nika, the current sun god, would not be his match without sufficient accumulation. He had already proven this in Elbaf.

But he was horrified to discover that Robert's Conqueror's Haki was starting to overpower him, and what was even more terrifying was that Robert's Haki was growing stronger at a visible rate!

"How is this possible! How could your domineering aura have increased so quickly in such a short time!"

Robert's expression at this moment even carried a hint of holiness:

"Because from the very beginning, this battle wasn't fought between me and you; your enemy is the counter-revolutionaries of the whole world!"

"My companions are constantly increasing!"

Chapter 76 Shining Robert Spirit Bomb

Im couldn't understand why Robert was shouting slogans at this time, as if he was trying to crush himself with morality.

He assumed that Robert was unwilling to reveal the reason for his increased strength, lest he be able to exploit and defeat him.

But what he didn't know was that what Robert said was actually the truth. The reason he dared to speak the truth openly was because even if he told the truth, Im couldn't do anything about it.

Robert ultimately chose the "Sparkling Wildfire" skill, which enhances Conqueror's Haki, as the option with a maximum of 400 points in his mental attributes. As soon as this passive ability was applied to Robert, he instantly felt the enhancement.

According to the description of this skill, as long as there is someone who fights alongside Robert, 30% of that person's spiritual belief will be added to Robert's Conqueror's Haki, causing the weight and total amount of his Haki to increase in tandem.

So Robert experimented to see what it really meant to fight side by side. As someone who had watched all sorts of anime since childhood, Robert knew all too well how much room there was for such ambiguous descriptions to exploit.

Now, he is no longer the clueless newbie who first arrived in this world. Standing at the pinnacle of his strength, there is no one left to teach him anything. Instead, he is a pioneer, and anyone who shares his experiences can benefit greatly.

When one's strength reaches a certain level, many things fall into place naturally, as if one has resonated with the principles of heaven and earth.

Robert can now clearly feel that the cheat he has always relied on—the various skill options provided on the attribute panel—is not a way to make him master skills that others cannot, but rather clearly points out multiple possibilities for the development of his abilities.

Every choice you make will be understood naturally by someone in this world without the help of the attribute panel. The attribute panel is only there to let you know intuitively which path you can take.

The same goes for the option of starting a prairie fire; Robert only needed to think about it briefly to figure out its underlying logic.

The so-called fighting side by side probably doesn't require everyone to get together to fight a common battle; it's enough to face the same enemy in spirit.

For example, the Spirit Bomb in Dragon Ball; people all over the world imagine giving their energy to Goku to save the Earth.

For example, the Shining Form that Ultraman Tiga transforms into when facing Gatanothor is an image that children all over the world imagine lending their light to Tiga.

Robert, standing on the shoulders of giants, could easily figure out how to maximize the power of this move without even thinking.

So when Robert gathered all the forces around him to fight the final battle against Im, the Revolutionary Army only sent Sabo as their representative. As for the others, they are currently scattered around the world helping Robert to unite the spirit of the rebels.

Overthrowing the World Government was not Robert's mission alone. It was impossible to expect him to take down the behemoth that had ruled the world for over eight hundred years. Every oppressed person should contribute their own strength.

Now, Robert isn't really forcing them to take up arms and go to the battlefield. He just needs everyone to launch a spiritual revolution. The more radical ones can hold a march or demonstration, while the timid ones can stay at home and make wishes, hoping that Robert will win a great victory.

Over the years, the Revolutionary Army has not accomplished nothing; its members responsible for spreading revolutionary ideas to ordinary people are spread across every member state of the World Government.

Although Dragon couldn't understand why Robert was giving him the task of mobilizing the whole world to cheer him up, it didn't stop him from solemnly ordering his men to carry it out.

There are countless things in the world of One Piece that are hard to understand. Robert may not have accumulated much else over the years, but his reputation is solid.

No matter how unreasonable his demands were, he ultimately proved with results that everything he did was not without purpose.

Especially when Robert explicitly told Dragon that he would use the collapse of the Red Line as a signal for action, and that the Navy, the world government's largest violent organization, would be tied down by him and unable to carry out a crackdown, Dragon really couldn't think of a reason to refuse.

If Dragon could incite those already dissatisfied with the World Government to mentally support Robert, resulting in the destruction of Mary Geoise and the collapse of the Red Line, coupled with the Navy standing by and not interfering in the revolution, then Dragon could guarantee that everyone would not only mentally support him, but would also shout "Robert is awesome!" while rebelling.

Now, all of Robert's promises have come true. Hela's artillery fire blasted a huge gap tens of kilometers wide in the Red Line, and the resulting giant waves completely submerged the nearest Sabaody Archipelago. Fortunately, the Revolutionary Army had been notified in advance and had already evacuated the island's inhabitants.

As Robert had said, the Navy did not launch a large-scale operation. The vast majority of its forces were transferred to the New World by Aokiji. Half of them were stationed in Dressrosa, while the other half returned to reinforce the Navy Headquarters and are currently in a standoff with the pirates of the Cross Guild.

The navy that symbolically suppressed the rebellion consisted of inexperienced men from all over the world, remotely commanded by the newly promoted Admiral Fujitora.

Now, this general has also been tripped up by the dragon himself, and the two are easily fighting a tacit battle on a deserted island.

Over the years of their covert operations, the revolutionary army had developed a set of effective methodologies for inciting public sentiment. Instead of using any righteous rhetoric to persuade people to pray for Robert, they simply acted as charlatans.

Long before Robert took action, the Revolutionary Army around the world began to spread propaganda, saying that as long as everyone silently supported the revolution in their hearts, a miracle would occur, completely shattering the Red Line that blocked the four seas, and destroying the Celestial Dragons and the World Government who oppressed ordinary people.

So when news came that Mary Geoise and the Red Line had been destroyed by Hela's fire, people all over the world no longer needed the Revolutionary Army to continue their deception and spontaneously contributed their spiritual faith.

Because the revolutionary army said that defeating the Red Earth Continent was only the first step. As long as everyone continued to make wishes in their hearts, the next step would be to overthrow the three mountains that were pressing down on the people!

Im is now truly panicked. Robert's aura continues to rise, and the Conqueror's Haki he exudes is no longer just ordinary mental pressure. The red and black lightning bolts are already able to distort reality and have begun to entangle with Robert's own lightning power.

Im, no longer with that poker face that seemed to never show any emotion, spoke to Robert with a hint of madness:

"You can't kill me, no one can kill me, you have no idea what the truth of this world is!"

Robert shrugged indifferently: "I don't really care about the so-called truth. Luffy is the one who cares about the truth of the world, so he has already set off to find the One Piece."

"And given our relationship, he will definitely share the so-called truth with me after he figures it out."

"All I want to do right now is kill you and then take a proper vacation. You have no idea how tired I've been these past two years."

"As for your statement that no one can kill you, I just want to tell you one thing: everyone dies eventually, and you are no exception."

Im burst into laughter: "What if I said I'm not human?"

Robert: You're pretty ruthless, aren't you? When you get angry, you even curse yourself?

Chapter 77 You're so arrogant, aren't you? You're practically immortal!

Im thought Robert was being hypocritical, so he put on an expression that suggested he knew everything:

"Don't you want to know what happened during the blank century? Don't you want to know why I can grant others the power of immortality?"

Robert countered with a question to Im: "Then do you want to know where I come from? And why I know so many secrets that even you don't know?"

Im was taken aback by Robert's question, because he seemed to realize that Robert really had no desire to find out the answer to the question he was asking.

Just when he thought he could distract Robert with those questions, Robert's momentum continued to rise, completely suppressing the Conqueror's Haki he was releasing.

Moreover, seemingly to demonstrate his complete disinterest in these issues, Robert even began to actively unleash lightning towards Im. The mixed lightning, a blend of the power of the laws of lightning and top-tier Conqueror's Haki, could reduce Im's already meager health by a mere touch.

More importantly, Im discovers that Robert is genuinely uninterested in the Void Century, but he himself is truly curious about Robert's origins.

Im couldn't understand how someone who was just a slave captured and sold by pirates two years ago could have driven himself to such a state in such a short time.

He didn't even appear in any prophecies. Neither the Halle Canon of Elbaf nor any other cultural traditions or proverbs mentioned this petty thief who suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

Even half a month ago, Im didn't take Robert seriously. In his view, the sun god Nika and the world-destroying black dragon Nidhogg, who were about to reunite, were his biggest threats.

"Who exactly are you?"

Robert burst into laughter, and the crimson lightning on his body became even more violent with each laugh:

"I am Chinese!"

Im's expression was blank. He had controlled the world government for nearly a thousand years and knew everything about the countless islands and countries around the world, yet he had never heard of China.