One Piece: A Guide for Ordinary Players

Robert looked into Im's eyes and said, word by word, "You don't know my country, do you? So you can't understand why you lost to me."

"Before today, you wouldn't even believe you could be pushed to this point!"

"You can't bear to give up your power, you can't bear to give up your status, and you especially can't bear to die."

"You probably never dreamed that there is a country whose people spend their entire lives hoping for a grand and magnificent death!"

Im stared at Robert with wide eyes, as if he were looking at a madman.

Just as he was reeling from Robert's illogical words, Robert revealed a sly smile: "There's a flaw!"

Robert's Conqueror's Haki no longer needs any special techniques to be wrapped around a weapon; his body itself is now a weapon wrapped in Haki and lightning.

Im was only distracted for a moment before Robert's attacks rained down on him.

From the very beginning, Robert had a question: unless Im could master some kind of shameless skill that could make anyone he pointed at die, there were simply too many Devil Fruit abilities in the world that could take him down.

Among them, the most representative are Kizaru's Glint-Glint Fruit and Robert's Rumble-Rumble Fruit.

Both of these fruits are so fast that no one can beat them. Unless the difference in Haki level between the user and the enemy is too great, and the user gets knocked out by Conqueror's Haki as soon as they get close, Robert really can't imagine how he could lose after mastering such extreme speed.

Now Robert truly believes he is invincible. He has weakened Im, the nominal King of the World, to the extreme, while he has amplified him to the strongest possible level.

Im was indeed beaten without any chance to fight back. Even though he had cultivated a top-level Conqueror's Haki through his status as the ruler of the World Government for eight hundred years, he was still just a small boat in the vast ocean of people's war.

Robert's domineering aura completely enveloped the faint red light emanating from him, leaving no gap whatsoever.

Im wanted to retaliate, but he couldn't even find Robert's body. Endless red lightning was tearing at his body and soul from all directions.

Once Robert's attack began, it gave no one a chance to breathe. After bombarding the area for more than ten minutes, the raging thunder gradually receded back to Robert's side.

At the very center of all the attacks, not a single trace of Im's body could be found, as if he had been completely erased from both the physical and mental levels, leaving no trace of his existence.

Robert curled his lip. Chinese culture does indeed value sacrifice, but he clearly had the upper hand. Why should he perish together with him? It was ridiculous that Im would reveal a flaw because of his casual nonsense.

But then he frowned, because he could sense Im's presence again!

With a thought, Robert pierced through the air and arrived at the location of the aura. His brows furrowed even more, for before him stood a square stone building, the Flower Room that Little Oz had dismantled from Mary Geoise and transported to Mermaid Island!

Robert strode confidently into the flower room. Im was panting heavily, half-crouched on the ground. His eyes, though bloodshot, held a deep mockery as he looked back at Robert.

"I told you, no one can kill me!"

"I am the embodiment of evil in the world. As long as there are people in this world, evil will not be eliminated!"

"As long as evil thoughts are not eliminated, I will never die!"

Robert tapped his brow with a troubled expression: "That's really difficult. Let me think if I have any experience from other works that can help solve your situation."

The concept of immortality is a well-established element in Japanese anime. When it was confirmed that Im's Devil Fruit ability had Devil attributes, Robert knew that this old friend who had been with him for over a decade would most likely follow the same path.

But Robert was standing on the shoulders of giants. Majin Buu from Dragon Ball, Kaguya Otsutsuki from Naruto, and Muzan Kibutsuji from Demon Slayer, all claimed to have immortality, but in the end, they all met their demise.

If Robert believed that only the protagonist could defeat the final boss when he first arrived in this world, he has now completely abandoned these unrealistic escapist thoughts.

"You must have never played Diablo, right?"

Robert's startling remarks left Im momentarily bewildered; his final words were utterly baffling.

"Although I was prepared for the worst when I chose Fishman Island as the location for the final battle, that's just how people are; they won't give up until they've tried all the wrong options."

"Now that I believe I can't kill you, let's try a different approach."

Are you afraid of the dark?

As Robert asked his question, he slammed the door to the flower room shut!

Chapter 78 I can't be a Nephalem, but I can be a Horadrim!

A faint singing voice came through the headphones, seemingly providing accompaniment for this decisive battle.

A smile appeared on Robert's face. As he closed the door to the flower room, locking himself and Im inside, he signaled to his companions to proceed with the previously agreed-upon final plan.

The song was sung by Uta, and it resounded throughout Fishman Island through an amplification device that Robert had specially commissioned Vegapunk to make, but it couldn't be heard at all by the Flower Garden.

Before entering the room, Robert had left a small leaf made of parchment at the entrance, with a name written on it—Don Quixote Rosinante.

The person Law respects most is a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit user, the Silent-Silent Fruit user, who can create a silent domain that completely isolates sound from both inside and outside the domain.

Singing fills the Fishman Island now, but during the day, all that can be heard is the sound of Robert unleashing lightning.

Im is completely unaware of everything outside, and is even still wondering what Robert meant by Diablo.

On the outside Fishman Island, all the living people except Robert and Im have been evacuated. Even Uta, who was singing, only showed half of his body through the portal.

Long before Im arrived at Fishman Island, all the people of the Ryugu Kingdom on the island had already been taken away by Princess Shirahoshi in an ark. Later, even the CP agents on the island were hypnotized by Uta's songs and then put on a slave ship and sent away from there.

When Robert realized that he could not eliminate Im through conventional means and decided to use the final measure, the team of experts he had summoned to deal with the Devil Contractor also began to evacuate using Robert's Door-Door Fruit.

The companions Robert found trusted him completely. They didn't engage in pointless struggles like "if you don't leave, I won't leave" or "we'll all live and die together." When Robert revealed his plan and confidently said that he would survive, everyone believed him unconditionally.

Uta's singing voice spread in all directions through the loudspeakers that covered the entire island. As her pitch rose higher and higher, it gradually resonated subtly with the semi-circular coating that enveloped Fishman Island.

Fishman Island is protected by two layers of coating, with a hollow air layer between them. Only by entering through the correct waterway can one successfully reach the shore.

Meanwhile, the coating that had protected Fishman Island for thousands of years was undergoing the most severe test in history. The inner coating and the singing began to resonate, and finally, at the moment it reached its limit, it exploded with a snap.

The remaining outer layer of coating was instantly squeezed into a bizarre shape by the immense water pressure, but the singing did not stop. Instead, it continued to adjust the audio, attempting to destroy the last barrier outside Fishman Island.

On the distant Noah's Ark, all the citizens of the Dragon Palace Kingdom stared intently at their homeland, where they had lived for hundreds of years, their eyes filled with reluctance.

The prophet, Lady Shirley, gave a self-deprecating laugh, trying to dispel her current sorrow: "It seems my prophecy was inaccurate after all. The one who ultimately destroyed Fishman Island wasn't some guy in a straw hat..."

Those who participated in the siege of the Knights of God on the island have now been transferred to the Ark. Da Luo's strength is limited, so the closer the teleportation distance, the easier it is. In this abyss ten thousand meters below the sea level, the only coordinates closest to Fishman Island are the giant Ark.

Although Uta's singing was achieved by destroying the outer coating of Fishman Island through amplification equipment, in order to adjust the audio on the spot, Da Luo stayed by her side, opened a portal connecting Fishman Island and Ark Noah, and closed the portal the moment the seawater poured down.

Redfield, who hadn't made a move until now, stood right behind Uta, his eyes peering through the portal toward the direction of the flowers. Although he couldn't see anything from that distance, he couldn't help but look in that direction.

Karina stepped forward and took the teacher's arm. Although she didn't say a word, the strength in her hand conveyed what she wanted to say.

Uta's singing rose a few more octaves, and the outer coating finally ruptured under the combined impact of sonic resonance and deep-sea high pressure, causing tens of thousands of tons of seawater to pour down instantly.

Redfield reacted quickly, pulling Uta back from the other side of the portal, while Ronaldo immediately closed the portal.

Everyone on Noah held their breath, staring intently at the apocalyptic scene before them.

Located at a depth of 10,000 meters above sea level, Fishman Island, having lost its protective coating, faces far more than just being submerged by seawater.

The seawater pressure here can reach over 100 megapascals, equivalent to 1,000 atmospheres, and each square centimeter has to withstand more than one ton of pressure.

If we had to make an analogy, it would be like having the weight of over two thousand elephants standing on one person's back. Even in a world like One Piece where people possess extraordinary powers, it would be difficult for anyone to withstand such pressure on their own.

The moment the seawater crashed onto Fishman Island, the entire beautiful kingdom was instantly crushed into ruins, leaving not a single intact building in sight.

Meanwhile, in the Flower Garden, Im had already been killed and resurrected for the third time by Robert's lightning strike, which was completely infused with Conqueror's Haki.

His power was already extremely weak, but as Im said, Robert could only weaken him without limit, but could not completely erase him from this world.

Suddenly, a huge tremor came from the flower room, and then cracks appeared in the room that even Little Oars, who had eaten the Dragon-Dragon Fruit, couldn't destroy.

Im's expression, which had just been reborn, suddenly froze, as his Observation Haki was frantically warning him!

After being killed by Robert three times, the threat from Robert could no longer trigger Im's Observation Haki. Now, his intense sense of crisis came from all directions, and this feeling was even stronger than when he was warning of Robert's lightning. It was frantically reminding Im that he was really going to die in the crisis to come!

"What did you do!"

Robert remained calm and unhurried, maintaining his original rhythm as he attacked Im with lightning.

"You haven't played Diablo, so you don't know that in another world, there are some demons with similar abilities to you."

"They cannot be killed no matter what. Even if they are barely killed by powerful humans, they will be resurrected in the abyss."

Do you know how the people of that world deal with these unkillable demons?

Im didn't want to answer at all, and Robert didn't expect him to, so he simply muttered to himself:

"People found something called a Soul Stone and sealed the demon inside it. Immortality became the most vicious curse."

"This Fishman Island is the Soul Stone I created for you."

"Enjoy the endless loneliness that comes with endless life, Im."

"You deserve this!"

Chapter 79 Mutual Destruction

The space between the flowers must have been specially reinforced to withstand the enormous water pressure at a depth of 10,000 meters in the deep sea.

However, the people who built it at the very top of the red earth continent could never have imagined that one day it would sink to the bottom of the sea, so the waterproofing between the flowers is rather mediocre.

Seawater rushed into the room through the cracks in the rocks, and the composure that came with immortality was gone from Im's face.

He had simply never considered this possibility before, but now, with just a little thought, he immediately guessed Robert's plan.

Anyone who has eaten a Devil Fruit will be naturally restrained by seawater. Even fish-men who can breathe with gills and have lived in the deep sea since childhood will lose their ability to swim after eating the fruit.

Whether it's Jack the Drought of the Beasts Pirates or Van Dyken IX, who has been entangled with the mermaid princess Shirahoshi for over a decade, both of them ate Devil Fruits while in fish-man form. From then on, whenever they fell into the water, they became like humans, weak and powerless, and could only let themselves sink to the bottom of the sea.

Their only advantage is that they can still breathe through their cheeks, so they can wait for someone to come to their rescue.

But Im is clearly not a fishman, so he would really drown if he were sunk to the bottom of the sea!

Robert's inspiration came from a 2020 movie called The Old Guard, in which the female protagonist is an immortal being who will not die no matter what harm she suffers.

She and her immortal sister were condemned as witches and subjected to execution in the Middle Ages, but the Church found that neither hanging nor burning could kill them, so they had to build an iron coffin and sink the protagonist's sister Quinn into the deep sea.

Quinn was repeatedly drowned and reborn in this coffin, suffering torment for five hundred years.

The flowers of today are so similar to the iron coffin that imprisoned Quinn, and Im can perfectly embody Quinn.

The immense pressure, while not destroying the flower room, forced water to rush into it from all directions, and the water reached Im's knees in just a dozen seconds.

Im was already exhausted from being repeatedly struck by Robert's lightning, and now the seawater was pouring over him, making his condition even worse.

Im had considered using the huge space between the flowers, which was ten meters high, to avoid being completely submerged in water, but the negative effects of the lucky fruit were only now beginning to take effect.

Bad luck isn't something that makes someone fall out of nowhere—it's not as overpowered as some kind of bug. When a person is in an extremely safe environment, lying flat and motionless, even if their bad luck is as bad as the protagonist in Final Destination, no fatal injury will befall them. At most, they might just get a bit of a choking fit.

However, if the unfortunate person is placed in a complex and dangerous environment, and is also involved in a battle, then the situation is completely different.

The rope always breaks at its thinnest point. Im is now slipping and choking on water as he breathes, as if the whole world is against him.

The source of all this disaster was Robert, who was floating in the air and continuing to bombard Im with lightning.