World Mission, Sudden Invasion

Golden Flash frowned. Unlike what he had imagined, this body’s Soul Power was indeed unbelievably powerful, yet it contained very little mana.

He raised a hand. Waves rippled through the void behind him, and golden radiance began spilling out.

Gate of Babylon!

Though he had been defeated by that arrogant brat and absorbed into his body, he had never acknowledged White Face’s strength.

In the end, White Face had merely used tricks and a massive, near-miraculous spell to forcibly contain him.

The other party had not even been able to truly absorb his existence.

After taking over this body, which was as powerful as the avatars of heroes from the Age of Gods, he had then been defeated by this mortal with ice-blue hair.

Ridiculous. Absurd.

ICE, whose Armament Haki had been torn open by Over Soul’s attack and one arm forcibly melted away, coldly watched Mercenary Tao, whose aura had changed drastically once more. With his eyelids lowered and that arrogant expression on his face, Mercenary Tao seemed to regard him as some insignificant nobody.

His expression grew colder. The fear and reverence he had once felt toward Mercenary Tao’s string of victories gradually faded with these repeated clashes.

Mercenary Tao might indeed have been powerful in the past. Whether it was Mahakala’s crushing defeat or his battle against the Mad King, both proved that Mercenary Tao had already surpassed Reincarnators like himself and Mahakala by an entire level. He was a Reincarnator whose strength was nearly on par with His Excellency.

But things were different now!

No one knew what Mercenary Tao had encountered, but his consciousness had clearly dissipated. Right now, he was merely a puppet controlled by a group of weaklings and idiots.

"Heh, you really are looking down on me, huh~"

With his fear completely gone, ICE’s Haki grew ever stronger. The One Piece World’s power system was one of the most popular systems in the Infinite Dimension’s East District.

Haki in particular was highly sought after. Yet to train this power, which combined physical techniques with force of will, to its peak required not only immense resources, but also shaped a Reincarnator’s character and aura.

Even if some meek and timid person forcibly obtained Conqueror’s Haki through a scroll, they would struggle to unleash its true power.

Golden Weapons emitting intense fluctuations began appearing behind Mercenary Tao one after another. ICE had completely relaxed, and Sensen no Sen gave him total control over the rhythm of battle.

Whoosh—pfft!

A golden sword shot past ICE’s face like a laser and plunged into the Flame of Finality behind him, which resembled a tide of blackness.

Gilgamesh flicked his finger again, and countless Noble Phantasms burst forth like raindrops.

But ICE grew even more disdainful. Unless it was a pure numerical crush, an ability like Gate of Babylon was not all that powerful.

Bang!

Sand and gravel exploded beneath his feet as ICE vanished in an instant. Gilgamesh stood with his arms crossed, only sensing a terrifying pressure descending from above the next moment.

He sensed something unusual and reached his right hand back, preparing to draw his true weapon, but a furious roar had already come from overhead.

Galaxy Impact!

Amid the piercing shriek of the surrounding air, blazing Haki struck Bai Cangshu’s body first. With a dull impact beneath the night sky, everyone clearly saw Mercenary Tao’s body twist before being blasted away with a bang.

Boom!

The ground shook violently as a blazing-white shockwave spread outward in a ring for thousands of meters.

Mercenary Tao had vanished without a trace. Only ICE, the top-tier Reincarnator under the Great Sun of Finality, descended amid powerful Haki and Freezing Qi.

At that moment, everyone, including A Single Thought of Silk and Su Qingqiu, had no choice but to reevaluate ICE’s strength.

Thump, thump, thump…

Without showing it, ICE hid his only remaining right arm behind his back. The muscles throughout his body had begun to shrivel, and his heart pounded as though it were about to burst.

He had pushed his power to its absolute limit. The joy of defeating Mercenary Tao, along with the expectation that tonight would bring the Finality Empire a glorious victory, twisted ICE’s usually calm face.

That joy and thrill even allowed him to sense that faint, elusive power once more. A layer of illusory ripples burst forth from within him.

That’s right. I’m strong. This Infinite Dimensional Game isn’t a Paradise belonging only to certain people. I’m strong too. The future of this world is a future I will take part in!

Waves of aura began radiating from ICE’s surging heart.

Even Tan Zhishan, surrounded by black flames as though he had become an Emperor of Flames, glanced over slightly at the sight.

But in the next instant, the icy sword intent made Tan Zhishan’s heart sink. Looking at Sen Xia in the distance, blood still staining her face, he felt an inexplicable chill.

This woman definitely possessed some special authority or trait. She was likely the type whose strength increased more terrifyingly the more heavily injured she became.

At the beginning, he had basically felt that he held the advantage. Though he had been wounded by her sword, his unique Cursed Womb: Heaven-Bearing Blood granted him instantaneous regeneration.

As long as he ensured he was not completely annihilated by a single strike, he could use the wounds left by her slashes as a medium to continuously inflict curses. In fact, once the damage accumulated to a certain extent, he could use Causality Law to forcibly Curse Kill her directly.

Though the Great Sun of Finality had always appeared to be using the Title Ability Finality to suppress others in battle, his compatibility with that powerful authority was not actually very high.

Tan Zhishan’s strongest ability came from the Puella Magi Madoka Magica world: Causal Curse Kill: Contract of Termination. It was likewise a high-tier ability imitated from a Native World, one that had absorbed the properties of karmic Causality Law.

It was a conceptual Curse Kill ability, ranked as high as S+.

Its only flaw was that the target needed to possess powerful karma or have some causal entanglement with him.

The reason he had continuously allowed Sen Xia to attack was because this powerful woman had accumulated pitifully little karma. Azure Sky’s group of madmen were probably really going through all kinds of mission worlds indulging in some dream of saving the world…

Pfft!

A figure appeared in the air, a massive gash opening across her neck as blood sprayed out.

It was Abyssal Shadow · Bevani, who had been hiding in the dark void. She clutched her wound and tried to struggle, but a figure that seemed not to exist had already approached from behind. The Heart Demon, Midnight Watch, grabbed Beverly’s head with both hands.

Beverly’s entire body quickly began to tremble. Murky water then flowed from her skin, and moments later, she died outright.

Among the many High-tier Reincarnators present, Beverly was unexpectedly the first to die.

Beverly had been the only High-tier Reincarnator who actively chose to hide in the void and ambush weaklings outside the battlefield, yet this was also why she was the first to lose her life.

The absurd irony of the situation made people want to laugh.

"Heh, heh."

A crisp, mechanical laugh rang out, like someone who had no desire to laugh forcing themselves to chuckle twice.

Standing at the edge of the massive crater, ICE looked up in stunned confusion. His Observation Haki had not sensed the location of whoever had laughed.

He abruptly turned around and saw only a girl barely one meter sixty tall, her silver-gray hair nearly trailing across the ground, walking over from the direction of the town.

Over there, the Mecha that had caused such a commotion had somehow already been split in two. The other East Xia Hound, Song Xian, lay on the beach nearby, blood flowing from his body, his fate unknown.

Buzz!

A blood-red blade condensed beside the girl’s right hand. Her Battle Aura had been condensed to the extreme, without even the slightest bit leaking out.

ICE’s pupils contracted. The muscles across his body swelled in an instant as Conqueror’s Haki coiled around his fists and Armament Haki completely covered him.

"You’re Life of Silence…"

Pfft!

The girl stepped past ICE, crouched down, and looked at Mercenary Tao lying in the crater with his eyes still closed, his mouth making all kinds of strange sounds.

"Oh, so you really did lose consciousness. That’s a little… regrettable."

Blood sprayed from ICE’s chest and neck. His pupils trembled violently before he slowly collapsed.

On the other side, Tan Zhishan’s body stiffened. He turned around and saw the girl holding a blade formed from scarlet Battle Aura.

"Life of Silence… you want to kill me…"

"Now, here?!"