One Piece: Surrounded at Marineford? Just kidding!

Chapter 675: Nika's Weapon

Chen Ye was suspended three thousand meters in the air.

The dark gold aura at the fingertips solidified into a tangible form.

He stared at the sword at the edge of the ice field.

The thin ice on the scabbard cracked.

Just one more breath.

The knife will end up in Luffy's hands.

Luffy is missing weapons.

He just happened to have it.

The chess player does not touch the chess pieces.

Bystanders should not interfere in the game.

He has followed this rule for many years.

But Luffy is about to collapse.

The Sword of the Codex firmly blocked his attack from half a step away.

Every punch missed Im's face.

At this rate, Luffy's white flames will eventually run out.

A dark gold aura spread from Chen Ye's fingertips to his entire right arm.

Observation Haki pinpointed the location of the sword.

With a single thought, the blade will pierce through the air.

The idea had just taken shape.

A tremor came over.

Not from the battlefield.

It did not originate from the ice.

The tremor was extremely subtle, yet it penetrated the entire world.

Chen Ye stopped moving his fingertips.

The dark gold aura suddenly froze at the summit.

His Observation Haki detected the source of the tremor.

World Tree.

Chen Ye suddenly turned his head.

My gaze pierced through the wind and snow, through the rain clouds, through the three thousand meters of empty space, and landed on the giant tree that stretched between heaven and earth in the distance.

The World Tree soars into the clouds, its roots penetrate the seabed, and its canopy disappears above the clouds.

This tree has stood in Elbaf for countless millennia.

At this moment, it is trembling.

It wasn't the tree that was trembling.

It was the sword stuck in the tree trunk.

Chen Ye saw it.

The massive longsword that had pierced deep into the trunk of the World Tree was now trembling violently.

The sword is tens of meters long and as wide as a city wall, and the hilt is so weathered that its shape is no longer recognizable.

From high above, the giant sword looks like a rusty nail driven into a tree trunk.

It has been silent for too long.

So long that everyone forgot it existed.

So long that the giant's child thought it was just a scar.

But now, it's awake.

The thick moss covering the sword began to peel away.

layer.

Another layer.

The gray-green moss cracked open, revealing the dark, dull surface of the sword underneath.

The peeling process accelerated, with moss fragments mixed with decaying bark cascading down.

As the moss fades, the ancient blade is revealed.

That's not iron.

It was a material that Chen Ye had never seen before, with a deep, faint glow on its surface.

The blade was smooth and clean, without any patterns, yet a faint glimmer seemed to flow slowly.

The fighting on the battlefield paused for a moment.

Luffy withdrew his giant white flame fist and turned his head to look at the World Tree.

Im tightened his grip on the Codex Sword slightly, and a glint flashed in his dark red eyes.

Whitebeard stood at the edge of the ice field.

Murakumo Kiri was planted at his feet.

The tremor emanating from the World Tree made the hairs on his body stand on end.

"This is……"

The white-bearded man's murmurs were swallowed by the wind and snow.

Then he saw it.

After the moss peeled away, a ray of light shone from deep within the greatsword.

White light.

It wasn't sunlight, it wasn't lightning.

It is a pure white to the extreme, without temperature or shape, yet it warms the soul.

A white light shone from the middle of the sword and spread along the blade to both ends.

Where the light shines, the withered brown vines are illuminated into a translucent silvery-white.

The white-bearded man's pupils shrank to pinpoints.

He spent his entire life adrift at sea.

I've seen the darkness of the Dark-Dark Fruit, the cracks of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, and the magma and ice of the Admirals.

But he had never seen this kind of white before.

This white color reminded him of a legend.

The legend of the sun god.

"That sword..."

The white-bearded man's voice squeezed out of his throat, trembling.

"Is it responding to Luffy's power?"

The words fell into the wind and snow.

Clearly and distinctly.

Rocks stood not far away.

This man has been arrogant ever since his resurrection.

At this moment, his lips were pressed into a thin line as he stared intently at the giant sword that emitted a white light, his breathing shallow and slow.

He was holding his breath.

Everyone on the battlefield held their breath.

Chen Ye hung motionless high in the sky.

The dark gold aura at my fingertips has dissipated.

He didn't take it back.

The World Tree's tremors were too strong, directly dispersing the aura he had gathered.

But Chen Ye didn't care about any of that.

His Observation Haki was like a giant net, covering the trembling greatsword from all sides.

He needed to find out what that sword was.

Why did it suddenly awaken during Luffy's tough battle?

What was that white light?

The senses touched the sword.

Chen Ye froze.

An aura surged from the depths of the sword, piercing through his Observation Haki and directly entering his spiritual world.

That aura felt so familiar.

No, they are of the same origin.

It's exactly the same as the Nika power on Luffy.

ancient.

free.

Scalding hot.

Like a sun that had been pressed under a stone for eight hundred years, it finally burned through the stone.

Chen Ye's breathing became rapid.

His Observation Haki continued to penetrate deeper, and he sensed an extremely thick seal at the core of the sword.

The patterns on the seal are exactly the same as the runes of the laws controlled by Im.

This sword was sealed to the World Tree eight hundred years ago.

Eight hundred years.

This number exploded in Chen Ye's mind.

Eight hundred years ago, at the end of a hundred-year blank period.

Joy Boy has fallen.

Nika's lineage was cut off.

Im established a world government.

If this sword was sealed to the World Tree eight hundred years ago...

So the owner of this sword was someone from eight hundred years ago.

So, the owner of this sword...

Chen Ye dared not think any further.

But the answer is already there.

He abruptly withdrew his Observation Haki, his chest heaving violently.

At the same moment, Im also moved.

He was originally facing Luffy, with the Codex Sword held horizontally in front of him.

A white light shone from the direction of the World Tree, and Im's sword-wielding motion abruptly stopped.

It wasn't Luffy who forced them to stop.

He stopped it himself.

Im slowly turned his head.

Dark red eyes pierced through the wind and snow, landing on the awakened greatsword.

Chenye saw Im's eyes.

In Im's eyes was fear.

A deeper, more primal fear.

An enemy whom we thought was long buried has crawled out of his grave.

Im recognized that aura.

For eight hundred years, everything he has done can be traced back to the same root.

The root of that problem lies within the trunk of the World Tree.

It was within that giant sword that he had sealed away for eight hundred years.

He thought he had completely eliminated the threat.

He was wrong.

"impossible……"

Im's voice was squeezed out from between his teeth.

He didn't look at Luffy, nor at Chen Ye; all his attention was fixed on the trembling giant sword.

The sword of the code trembled slightly in his hand.

Luffy sensed it too.

He was gathering white flames, and the power of the sun god in his chest was burning like a furnace fire.

The moment the World Tree's tremor reached his body, the white flames on his chest jolted violently.

It's resonance.

The Nika power within Luffy has been awakened.

White flames exploded from his chest, spreading wildly along his limbs, fiercer and brighter than before.

Luffy looked down at his chest.

Then he looked up at the World Tree.

He saw the giant sword.

They also saw the white light moving across the sword.

Luffy's eyes lit up.

It's not the kind of brightness you see during battle.

It is a purer, instinctive light.

A child who has never seen his father suddenly sees a sword engraved with the family crest.

He didn't understand what that meant.

But something deep within his bloodline responded for him.

He instinctively loosened his fist.

Spread your five fingers and slightly raise your palm towards the World Tree.

That movement was very natural.

The white light from the giant sword suddenly surged.

"Wow."

Luffy let out a low gasp of surprise, his eyes widening in astonishment.

He could feel the sword.

It is not about seeing with the eyes, nor about perceiving with sight or hearing.

It was felt through the white flame in my chest.

The sword was calling to him.

Luffy felt an invisible line being pulled tighter between the white flame on his chest and something in the World Tree.

The white light grew brighter and brighter.

The giant sword that had pierced the World Tree trembled even more violently, causing the entire tree to shake.

Large patches of moss and bark collapsed.

The ancient sealing patterns peeled off the sword layer by layer, turning into dark red fragments.

The faint light on the surface of the blade changed from a dim, moon-white to a blazing, golden-white.

The light pierced through the clouds, drawing a dazzling white pillar of light between heaven and earth.

Whitebeard instinctively took a half step back.

The aura emanating from the greatsword was so strong that it made his bones feel heavy.

He gripped the hilt of the Murakumogi sword tightly, the veins on the back of his hand bulging, and muttered to himself.

"This power... is no weaker than that brat's."

Lockes did not speak.

He just stared intently at the giant sword, the white beam of light reflected in his dark red pupils, and his Adam's apple bobbed up and down.

Im's hands trembled again.

Chen Ye saw it.

The hilt of the Codex Sword emitted a faint metallic hum as Im gripped it.

That was not an infusion of power.

It was the hand holding the sword that was trembling.

Im, a being who has been asleep for eight hundred years and looks down upon all living beings.

His hands were trembling.

Chen Ye hung motionless in mid-air.

His mind was racing.

The power of Nika, which shares the same origin.

A seal from eight hundred years ago.

The apprehension in Im's eyes.

When all the pieces are put together, they form an incredible answer.

The white light broke through the last layer of the seal.

The greatsword emitted a deep hum.

The sound wasn't loud, but it pierced through the entire world.

Chen Ye slowly exhaled, his voice squeezed out from between his teeth.

"That's... the weapon of the first Nika."