One Piece : Glory To The Fleet Admiral

Chapter 173: Today, Either You Die, or I Perish!



In the Flower Room.

A female guard clad in silver armor rushed into the garden in a state of extreme urgency, dropping to her knees with a thud in front of a pavilion.

Inside the pavilion, Im, fully cloaked in a robe and wearing a mask that revealed only their dark red eyes, was calmly flipping through the pages of a thick book, seemingly oblivious to the commotion.

"Im... Im-sama!"

The female guard, prostrating herself outside the pavilion, spoke in a trembling voice.

"Fleet... Fleet Admiral Orion has returned!"

Seeing this, the guard mustered her courage and looked up at Im, pointing at the enormous birdcage hanging in the sky.

"Im-sama, Orion is too arrogant! Not only did he have Hancock eliminate CP0 agent, Guernika, but he also had Doflamingo unleash his Devil Fruit ability to isolate the Holy Land with this birdcage!"

"Im-sama, you can't let him continue like this! If he dares to isolate the Holy Land with a birdcage today, tomorrow he will surely—"

Before the guard could finish, Im abruptly closed the book, their gaze sweeping toward her.

The moment Im eyes fell upon her, the guard felt her body stiffen, instantly losing the ability to speak or control her movements.

She remained frozen in her speaking posture, completely immobilized.

The only part of her that could still move was her eyes, now filled with terror.

After a brief silence, Im placed the book on the stone table beside them and spoke in a cold tone.

"Who gave you the courage to come here and babble in front of me?"

Before their words even faded, a cloud of black and red flames silently bloomed, instantly enveloping the guard.

"AHHHHHHHH—"

As the flames engulfed her, a piercing scream erupted.

The guard, wrapped in the fiery cloud, began to emit thick smoke as her body withered at an alarming rate, eventually turning into a pile of bleached bones.

After executing the noisy guard, Im turned their head to look at the fully formed birdcage that now completely isolated the Holy Land from the outside world.

Their dark red eyes narrowed slightly and a calm voice emerged from beneath their mask.

"Summon the Five Elders. Tell them to come to the Flower Room."

***

"What's going on?"

At the Marine headquarters in the Holy Land, a large number of Marines were drawn to the sudden appearance of the massive birdcage high above, rushing out of their barracks.

Having just clashed with the CP organization, many of the Marines were still bandaged.

However, they were now in a state of high excitement, paying no heed to their injuries as they surged out of the barracks and gathered in the open area in front of the building.

"A birdcage?"

"Has the Holy Land been invaded?"

"Who could be so bold as to come to the Holy Land at a time like this!"

The Marine soldiers who arrived at the clearing were bewildered, and voices filled with confusion rose one after another.

"Whoever it is, tell the brothers to grab their weapons and prepare for battle!"

"Battle? Who are we fighting? Who else would dare do something like this in the Holy Land besides our Fleet Admiral?"

"The Fleet Admiral has returned?"

"What are you all standing around for? Hurry and go welcome the Fleet Admiral!"

As the more perceptive soldiers in the crowd realized what was happening and took the lead in running out, the other Marine soldiers quickly snapped out of their daze and followed suit.

Just as the Marine soldiers began to run, the ground suddenly shook violently and the massive birdcage hovering over the Holy Land began to close in.

Countless threads, unstoppable, carved deep trenches into the ground as they moved toward the direction of Pangaea Castle.

Everything in their path—whether man-made forests or massive boulders—was effortlessly severed by the threads.

In an instant, thick smoke began to rise.

"Fufufufu, this feeling is amazing!"

Doflamingo, who was controlling the birdcage, cast aside the gloom of being overpowered by Orion since entering the Marine Headquarters.

Watching the birdcage close in, he let out his signature sinister laugh with unbridled arrogance.

After a bout of laughter, Doflamingo eyes suddenly sharpened, and he spoke word by word.

"Holy Land! I have returned!"

BOOM—

Suddenly, the ground shook violently for no apparent reason. Before Doflamingo could react, the ground beneath his feet rapidly bulged and then exploded.

A massive sandworm burst out of the shattered ground at an astonishing speed.

Accompanied by the rising black flames, a gaping mouth aimed directly at Doflamingo, intent on swallowing him whole.

"Fufufufu, Fleet Admiral Orion didn't lie to me. The Holy Land really is home to a bunch of monsters!"

Facing the enormous sandworm that was lunging to devour him, Doflamingo didn't dodge or retreat.

Instead, he calmly raised his hand and struck forward from a distance.

"Overheat!"

With a cold shout, dozens of nearly transparent threads shot out from Doflamingo's palm at an incredible speed.

Thud, thud, thud—A series of sounds echoed as bodies were pierced and severed.

The giant sandworm, which had just rushed in front of Doflamingo and was about to devour him, was instantly sliced into dozens of pieces by threads, falling to the ground.

As the sandworm body was severed and crashed to the ground, its broken form immediately evaporated into wisps of black mist.

Then, a figure stepped out from the black mist—none other than the recently rotated Agricultural God, Shepherd Ju Peter.

"Huh?"

Caught off guard by the unexpected resurrection, Doflamingo froze momentarily.

Before he could regain his composure, Shepherd Ju Peter face came into view, causing his pupils to contract sharply.

"Saint Shepherd Ju Peter!"

Recognizing the figure, Doflamingo instinctively blurted out the name, his mind flashing back to the time he had faced the Five Elders in order to return to the Holy Land and become a Celestial Dragon.

Recalling the humiliation he had endured to become a Celestial Dragon, his fists clenched tightly, his face twisted with anger and his gaze beneath his sunglasses grew increasingly cold.

"Doflamingo!"

The resurrected Shepherd Ju Peter took a step forward, his aura as one of the highest authorities of the World Government fully unleashed.

His piercing eyes locked onto Doflamingo as he spoke with a murderous tone.

"Even if you've found a new backer, the Holy Land will not tolerate your insolence!"

Before his words could fully settle, Shepherd Ju Peter voice suddenly intensified and a violent wave of energy surged from beneath his feet, sweeping outward.

"Take down the Birdcage and I might spare your life!"

Feeling the overwhelming pressure of the incoming energy, Doflamingo didn't retreat—instead, he stepped forward.

With a single step, he unleashed his Conqueror's Haki without restraint, blocking the oncoming wave of energy.

Boom—

The collision of the two powerful energy waves instantly created a shockwave centered around the two of them. The clash caused the very air to tremble, and the shockwave spread out in all directions at an astonishing speed.

Wherever it passed, the CP0 members who had been petrified by Hancock Devil Fruit ability shattered into pieces, only to be swept up by the violent energy and flung into the sky.

"Hehehehahahaha—"

"The High and mighty Five Elders, you who call yourselves gods—you're nothing more than this!"

Having blocked Shepherd Ju Peter pressure with his Conqueror's Haki, Doflamingo took another step forward, one hand in his pocket.

"Thinking back to the time I had to bow and kneel before you, I can't help but want to twist your heads off."

Screech—

Suddenly, a sharp and clear cry rang out from the distance.

Following the sound, a massive serpent-bodied, bird-headed monster with enormous wings shot into the sky from the direction of Pangaea Castle at an incredible speed.

As the cry grew louder, the monster descended from the sky, landing on the automated walkway with a thunderous crash.

The rolling flames and clouds it carried surged out like a raging sea, enveloping the area within a hundred meters.

"ORION!"

"Today, it's either your death or mine!"

As the deep voice fell, a figure stepped out from the rolling flames and clouds—it was none other than the recently rotated Environmental God, Marcus Mars.

As soon as Marcus Mars emerged from the flames, the surrounding air seemed to freeze and then an unparalleled Conqueror's Haki erupted, sending waves of black and red flames and clouds scattering in all directions.

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