This was not just the outcome of a single battle; it was the signal of the end of an era, the first ray of dawn piercing through eight hundred years of dark iron curtain!
Shanks' earth-shattering strike, a sword that condensed a lifetime of conviction, had severed far more than just Satan Saint's individual life force and immortality.
It was struck against that suffocatingly thick absolute iron curtain that had enveloped the world for eight hundred years—the one known as "The Divine Right is Inviolable, the Celestial Dragons are Supreme."
It tore open the first clear, deep, and blood-drenched... crack!
Light was now, with difficulty but determination, shining through that crack!
The hearts of the entire world beat violently for this single strike! The eyes of the entire world were fixed behind that crack—what was coming next? A deeper counterattack from the darkness, or... a brand-new dawn?
No one knew.
But the wheels of history, because of this sword that pierced a divine heart, had already let out an irreversible, deafening... roar!
Akainu stood frozen in place.
His massive fist, enveloped in scalding, dark-red magma, had originally been carrying a killing intent and fury that could destroy everything, preparing to deliver the final fatal blow to the heavily injured Kaido opposite him.
At this moment, it was forced to a dead halt in mid-air! The magma was like a frozen flame sculpture; the scorching droplets even forgot to continue falling, stretching out brief dark-red filaments in the air before solidifying.
On that face of his, which was always as stern and resolute as cast iron, inscribed with an unquestionable belief in "Absolute Justice," there now clearly emerged—for the first time ever—a look of...
Extreme astonishment and... profound wavering!
His eyes, which usually burned with the fiery rage of a lava lake, now seemed as if they had been plunged into ten-thousand-year-old profound ice; his pupils constricted and dilated violently due to the intense shock in his heart!
His gaze, fixed and uncontrollable, bypassed Kaido in front of him, bypassed the chaotic battlefield, and locked onto that scene in the distance that looked like a picture of the end of the world—
Satan Saint... one of the Gorosei... that "God" who symbolized the highest authority of the World Government, represented the foundation of the World Government's eight-hundred-year rule, and possessed a bizarre immortality that even he found troublesome and feared... was actually... pierced through the heart?!
That sword... Red-Haired Shanks' sword... had just like that, deeply and indisputably, sunk into the chest of a "God"?!
The hideous spider body stiffened, trembled, and black blood slowly seeped out... All of this was silently and cruelly announcing a possibility that Akainu had never truly considered in his heart, or rather, had subconsciously avoided:
Could a "God"... actually be defeated?
Could they even... die?!
The impact brought by this fact was like an invisible hammer heavier than a mountain, ruthlessly and without reservation smashing against the indestructible cognitive barrier Akainu had built out of "Absolute Justice" and "The Supreme Authority of the World Government"!
"Crack—!"
He seemed to hear the sound of something shattering deep within his heart.
It was the shaking of his faith in the foundation of the world order, the sprouting of doubt regarding the absoluteness of power and authority!
So... those "Gods" who seemed to stand eternally at the apex of the world, unquestionable and inviolable, were not truly immortal?
So... they could also be dragged down from their altars, they could also bleed, be defeated, and even... be killed?!
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