Meanwhile, Seth, Robin, and Kaori roam the [Pangaea Castle]. Robin leads the group as she knows how due to her devil fruit, the Hana Hana no mi. She used it to spy on everything going on in the castle. You could tell she has eyes and ears in pretty much every room in the castle. Some rooms have some sort of shield protecting them. She assumes that these rooms are the five elders and IM as she cannot find them in the rooms she spies on.
The three have been walking around the castle for several minutes and are still a long way from the upper floors where Robin's rooms cannot create from her body members to spy on. Of course, they looted the rooms that contained all kinds of wealth like precious objects, berries, materials, devil fruit…
They eventually get to the floor where Kong's office is located, and they know it from the ice there. This means that they soon arrived on the top floor of the castle. They arrive at the penultimate floor, a set of luxurious rooms that include bedrooms, playrooms, celestial dragon "play" rooms ...
They stop walking and look at the people in front of them. Before they stood the five elders in all their glory. Former GM executives are IM's last line of defense. The elders are strangely held from the oldest to the youngest.
To the far left is Ryu, the oldest of the elders. He is bald, with glasses and a white gi. He holds a saber with a guard similar to the Sandai Kitetsu. The sword is the Shodai Kitetsu, the first Kitetsu manufactured sword and one of the 12 Saijo Ô Wazamono.
To his right is Kenji, the second elder. He is bald, has large birthmarks on his forehead. His head is bald, and he has a large white mustache similar to Gold D Roger's. He is wearing a black suit.
Then there is Clovis, a tall and thin older man. He has very long white hair as well as a long white beard and a long descending mustache. He also wears a black suit.
Then there is the second youngest elder, Kazama. He is a strong and short man. He has a scar on his face's left side, white dreadlocks sticking out of his black hat. He is also holding a cane.
Finally, the youngest elder, Alexanders. He has blond hair, a beard that is also yellow, and a scar on his chest. He also wears a costume like all the other elders except Ryu. His suit is open without a tie.
"Your path ends here," says Clovis
"You won't be a problem for IM-sama anymore," Kenji says.
The elders pounce on Seth, Robin, and Kaori. Ryu attacks Seth with his haki-covered katana. Kenji launches a wave of ice towards Robin, supported by Clovis, who appears under Robin of the spikes of earth covered with haki. The last two elders attack Kaori with Alexander having his fist covered in flames, which heats the room suddenly, making the atmosphere unbearable. Kazama supports him with his lengthening cane and allows him to attack Kaori from afar.
Our heroes defend themselves and fight back. Seeing that they don't have enough space to fight after Seth, Robin, and Kaori's first retaliation, Clovis puts his hands on the wall next to him.
"Ground Shift" Clovis changes the structure of the lower floors. Holes open up under Robin, Kaori, and elders except for Ryu. The holes take them to different levels of the castle, separating the elders and the heroes.
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Clovis and Kenji under the frozen floor by Kuzan in front of Robin. Clovis modified the first floor into a single large room. The huge room is flooded with light, thanks to the countless windows on the walls.
Kenji steps forward and transforms into a huge white monkey. An ice storm rises upstairs. Kenji extends his arm, and blocks of ice fly towards Robin. Robin dodges some blocks and destroys the rest. Suddenly, she lowers her head and sees a black stone sword piercing the air she was in. She distances herself from the two elders.
'The Saru Saru no Mi, Model: Yeti and the Chikyu Chikyu no mi. It goes easy if they don't have aces up their sleeves.
"Illimited Fleur: Army of Cthulhu." Robin declares, crossing his arms. Several creatures appear alongside Robin. An army of identical hideous monsters stands tall. The creatures are several feet tall, almost reaching the ceiling. They have several pairs of wings spread across the top, middle and lower back. The deep dark green monsters have huge sharp claws, several horns on the face. But that's not what shocks the most about these monsters. What is hideous to ordinary people are the long, long tentacles on the chins of watches and wander through the air as if they had their own lives.
Kenji and Clovis are shocked at the power Robin shows. They feel that the creatures alongside Robin are mighty, extremely mighty.
"Army of Cthulhu, you can feast with its two old men," Robin said with a macabre smile. The two elders, the two people who are on top of this world, only below IM, are terrified for the first time in their lives.
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On one of the castle's first floors, a fight occurs between Kaori and Alexanders with Kazama. Alexanders uses his fire to complement his melee combat, while Kazama uses his magic cane to attack both from a distance and from near. Kaori uses her magical powers from her deity of Thoth to fight the ancients. She uses her magic to train several animals, constructions to help her in battle. The elders, annoyed that Kaori is hiding behind his magic, decide to fight seriously.
"We'll see what you can do against the fire of my sun." declares Alexanders with a column of fire bursting from the ground and melting everything around. (AN: I know that if Alexanders uses the fire of the Sun, the whole castle, even the earth, begins to melt because of the heat that it gives off only on the surface with these 5000 ° C or 9032 F. J ' have nerfed her power like Oda has nerfed Kizaru that can't go at the speed of light.)
Kazama glows with a bright white light that forces Alexanders and Kaori to cover their eyes. The light gradually fades, leaving Kaori to see Kazama in an outfit different from his usual costume.
Kazama's outfit consists of a brown coat with gold bindings, brown and black fur gloves. He wears blue pants and black shoes. He wears a tiger skin around his waist, which is held by a red ribbon. In his hands, his cane has become a red stick about his size.
"Let's see what you can do now that I'm using my Hito Hito no Mi, Model: Sun Wukong," Kazama said with arrogance and contempt.
Kaori smiles at the elders' lines. "You think yourself big using the power of the monkey king and the sun with your Taiyo Taiyo no Mi. Let me show you why I am called the goddess." Kaori answers with a cheerful smile.
Kaori makes three of her own, but each clone has a different trait. One of the clones with cow horns on its head. Another has feathers like hair and wings covered with blue feathers. The last clone holds a was scepter in one hand and an ankh symbol in the other. Kaori, meanwhile, holds a nine-string lyre.
"Let your divine punishment begin."
"Let your divine retribution begin."
"Let your divine judgment begin."
"Let your divine retribution begin."
Kaori and her clones speak simultaneously as if they are the same person, only their tone of voice is different. The tone of the Horned Kaori is gentle and maternal. The voice of the feathered Kaori is ancient and full of wisdom. That of the Kaori with the scepter is powerful and authoritarian. To finish Kaori's, the real one with the lyre is melodious.
Alexanders projects a wave of fire melting the ground in its path. Kaori's clone waves its scepter, and a wave of fire is also thrown. The two waves of fire make contact creating a powerful explosion raising thick smoke. A hole is created in the smoke by the passage of Kazama's staff, which has enlarged and widened. The staff made contact with the Horned Kaori, but she suffered no damage. The stick could not exceed the defenses of her skin. Kaori's latest clone uses magic to support her two fellow clones against the ancients.
Kaori takes advantage that her clones retain the elders. She begins to play the lyre. Soft, melodious music plays and resonates throughout the floor. The music enchants all who listen to it. It brings back the fondest memories of those who listen to it. The two elders resist the melody but gradually fall under its spell.
The elders become more and more distracted as they review their happiest memories. Finally, their distraction was too great.
Kaori's clone holding the scepter slams her scepter hard on the ground. A huge pillar of fire shoots out of the ground beneath Alexander's, unable to dodge due to the distraction of Kaori's melody and the magical support provided by Kaori's winged clone.
"Your fire is too weak to consume me, the owner of Taiyo Taiyo no Mi, the lodge of the Sun." Alexanders said with power turning into a flame to resist Kaori's flames. In turn, he spurts a column of fire under Kaori's clone, who tries to reduce him to ashes.
The two fire users find themselves in fire pillars, but Alexanders starts to burn while Kaori remains her. He realizes that these flames are weaker than those of the Sun.
"AAAAAHHHHHHHH" Alexanders' cries of agony echoed throughout the floor and on the surrounding floors. Alexanders' final thoughts are about Kaori's flames burning him.
The column of flames stops, the fire disappears to make room for nothing. There's nothing left of Alexanders, GM's youngest elder, not even a pile of ash.
Kazama, also distracted by Kaori's music, seals his end. Distracted by the sound of Kaori's lyre and the winged Kaori's magical attacks, he can barely dodge the horned Kaori's fist. It is projected through the walls of the room. He ends up in the debris, injured. He gets up and barely stands. He stands on his staff. His body is filled with more or less serious injuries. He sees Kaori with horns approaching him. Knowing that he is going to die, he decides to put everything in this last blow. He extends his staff behind him. The staff lengthens and widens so much that it ends up blowing up the wall behind Kazama with part of the upper floor.
The stick stops expanding. Kazama then throws his powerful arms towards Kaori with horns. With the stick sticking out of the castle, he blows up the walls that stand in his way. If the blow hits, it's not just the Kaori clone with the horns that take the blow but all of the Kaori.
The horned Kaori on the passage of the staff, she also extends her arm behind her. His arm then shines with a heavenly light. She throws her arm, and her fist makes contact with Kazama's staff. A powerful shock wave is created, which spreads throughout Mary Geoise. On Kazama's staff, a crack appears, which begins to spread all over the staff, which eventually shatters into pieces. Kazama collapses to the ground with his arms exploding in shock from Kaori's blow. But that's not what killed him. The wound that killed him is a hole that lies in his chest.
Kaori's clones vanish in flames, feathers, and light, leaving Kaori alone, who continues to play the lyre.
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On the second to last floor, Ryu and Seth look at each other. The other elders, Robin and Kaori, have just been transported to the lower floors by Clovis.
"Didn't you prevent Clovis from separating you?" Ryu asks quietly.
"I see no reason to prevent him from making his move when he is only simplifying our work. Even though we are a good team, now they can let go and enjoy their fights." Seth answers calmly.
"Hmph, young people, always so arrogant. Either you underestimate us greatly, or you overestimate your women. I admit that you are strong, even very strong. You are the biggest threat to IM-sama. But the five of us, we can kill you. "
"Why do you think Clovis separated you. Like that, we can kill your wives who are less powerful than you before we finish you." Ryu declares confidently.
Seth smiles at Ryu but doesn't comment on the elders' plan.
"What if we start our fight instead of talking."
"If you want, but the fight is not going to be interesting. I will block you the time for the others to come back so that we can kill you. Why not be smart and not be disturbing to the others and let yourself be done? kill." Ryu said with a wise voice.
"Hahahaha," Seth bursts out laughing upon hearing Ryu's words.
"You're old, but you still have a sense of humor. Me who thought you were the most serious of old." Seth laughs.
Ryu shakes his head and decides not to speak with Seth anymore. For him, it is useless. He unsheathes his katana, which has a blood-red blade with black patterns. He puts himself on guard and runs towards Seth. He cuts his katana from top to bottom, from right to left.
The blade moves closer to Seth's left shoulder. Seth doesn't dodge the blade and lets it cut him. The blade passes through Seth with Ryu. Ryu, with his neutral expression, turns to a smiling Seth.
"Even with Haki, I get through you. Your technique is powerful, but every technique has a flaw, and I will find yours before I kill you."
"You're right; my technique has a flaw, but it's up to me to find out and you to find out," Seth says.
"You attack before I can draw my weapon. Do you have any honor as a swordsman?" Seth asks.
"Honor is for the dead and the weak. The winner becomes king and makes history while the loser is dead and is portrayed as the devil." Ryu retorts.
"Words full of wisdom. And you, are you the king or the devil?" Seth asks, disappearing.
Ryu doesn't respond to Seth. He warns himself and tries to predict Seth's next attack. But he can't predict where Seth will attack him even with his mastery of Kenbunshoku Haki.
Above him, a golden spear appears and attempts to pierce it. Ryu manages to dodge and cuts his katana in the direction of Seth's arm. But he goes through him again. Ryu keeps attacking Seth. He cuts pierce from different angles but can't seem to hurt Seth. Either Seth blocks his spear and retaliates, or his attack passes through Seth. This situation begins to annoy him.
Ryu distances himself from Seth by several meters. He cautions, but his current guard is different from the guard he uses during combat. Ryu's katana lowered, the blade pointed down.
Seth is intrigued by Ryu's position. "What are you doing, old man? Are you giving up already?"
"I'm getting serious. I'm going to use my family's katana techniques for the first time in several decades. Everyone who saw them died under them."
"Prepare to die."
Seth puts himself in the same position as Ryu. The point of his spear down.
"Jade Arts: The Blooming Lotus." Ryu launches at Seth and cuts diagonally from bottom to top.
"The Lotus Flower: First Petal" Seth dodges the blow by backing up.
"The Lotus Flower: Second Petal" Ryu continues his movement by rotating his katana and making it go down from right to left. Seth steps aside to dodge.
"The Lotus Flower: Third Petal" Ryu points the katana blade at Seth and pierces him. Ryu walks through Seth, again. But that doesn't stop his technique.
"The Lotus Flower: Fourth Petal" Ryu cuts horizontally, turning to Seth. The latter blocks the cup with the body of his lance.
"The Lotus Flower: Fifth Petal" Ryu guards with his katana in Seth's arm, causing the spear to deflect from its position.
"The Lotus Flower: Sixth Petal" He uses the force of his hilt to turn around and cuts Seth off on his exposed side. The blade goes through Seth's side and comes out on his other side.
"Seventh petal."
"Eighth petal."
"Ninth petal."
"Tenth petal."
"Eleventh petal."
"Twelfth petal."
"The thirteenth petal."
"The fourteenth petal."
"The fifteenth petal."
"Sixteenth petal."
"Seventeenth Petal" Ryu continues his sequence by making a vertical cut that Seth blocks with his spear. Ryu kicks that hit Seth.
"The eighteenth petal" Ryu takes advantage of the inertia of his kick to jump with his left foot, which was on the ground. He spins horizontally and lands several cuts that deflect Seth's spear with the force of rotation. Some cuts hit Seth, but his heavy-duty armor blocks them.
"The nineteenth Petal" Ryu dodges a kick from Seth and takes the opportunity to pierce his leg on the ground. But the blade goes through Seth's leg.
"Twentieth Petal" Ryu cuts Seth diagonally and stops behind him. He sheaths his katana in its sheath.
Blood is flowing from Seth's left cheek. A cut is present from which black blood is flowing.
Ryu smirked. "The fault of your technique is time. You can't use your technique right away after using it. You have to wait a second before you can use it again. And even if a second is short, our power levels, a second is a lot and can decide the end of the fight. " He turns to Seth.
Seth smiles at Ryu. "Right, but now that you figure that out, how are you going to beat me. Your technique didn't kill me."
"Certainly but, The Flowering of the Lotus is only the first technique of The Art of Jade."
After this declaration, the fight between Ryu and Seth starts again.
As the fight progresses, several wounds appear on Seth and Ryu's body. They know that the fight is coming to an end and decide to end the fight with this last attack.
"Jade Art: Jade Dragon" Ryu launches at Seth with the tip of his katana towards him. A jade dragon forms around Ryu and rushes towards Seth.
Seth also launches at Ryu with his spear forward. The latter shines a red color, which gives it a bloodthirsty side.
Spikes of green energy emanate from the Jade Dragon and rush towards Seth. The latter continues to run towards Ryu while dodging and blocking the spikes of the dragon. The shocks that occur when the green tips and the spear meet shake the floors.
A burst of energy passes through Seth's defense and Seth. Seth and the Jade Dragon make contact, the tip of the katana and the blood spear clash. The tip of the katana goes through the spear, breaking the spear. The katana pierces Seth's armor and comes out of Seth's back.
Seth spits black blood on Ryu's body.
Plic Ploc
Blood flows down the blood-red katana and drops drop by drop to the ground.
"You shouldn't have used your technique for my burst of energy but my katana," Ryu said softly. Even though they are enemies, Ryu considers Seth a powerful individual and shows him the honor he owes him.
Seth doesn't respond and spits up blood again. After Seth coughs up the blood, a fine stream of Seth from Seth's mouth falls onto his broken spear.
A silence settles, Seth dies slowly. Ryu removes his blade from Seth's body and wipes it off before sheathing it. Seth falls to the ground on his back. He breathes hard and slowly.
Ryu kneels beside Seth and remains silent. He pays respect to a man.
Seth smiles one last time at Ryu before he stops breathing. Ryu seeing that Seth has stopped breathing, closes Seth's eyes. He puts Seth's hands on his stomach.
"May you rest in peace in death."
"You too, old man." Those words are the last things Ryu hears. These words are spoken in a soft voice, a voice he knows well—an angel's voice.
Ryu's vision eventually falls, and Ryu's life is extinguished.