Chapter 475: Story's End, Stubborn People
Joy Boy, who gained the Nika ability, was gradually worshipped as a deity by the people at sea.
Everyone knew that wherever the drums of revolution sounded, change would come. Everyone could smile because of it.
That man was just like the sun, bringing light to this world, illuminating all darkness.
"Sun God."
Brett said calmly. "That's what people called him then."
"Sun God, Nika?"
Aokiji frowned. "Now that you mention it, I seem to have heard this name somewhere."
"The World Government has been suppressing this name."
Teacher Zephyr spoke calmly at this time. "Everyone who tried to investigate this name was executed."
"I see."
Aokiji nodded lightly.
Not surprising at all.
"However, while Joy Boy brought liberation to places across the world, the Lunarian people similarly didn't stop."
Brett said. "They began using military force to conquer countries across the sea."
"Thus this world unprecedentedly began converging into two enormous groups."
"Joy Boy and his companions who wanted to liberate the entire world, and the Lunarian people who wanted to rule the entire world as gods, conducted a protracted war during that era."
"Even if Joy Boy and his companions mastered Devil Fruit power, that shouldn't be a reason to oppose that thing, right?" Aokiji asked with a somewhat surprised frown.
Having just personally experienced the weapon the Lunarian Clan once controlled, Aokiji didn't think predecessors from eight hundred years ago possessed strength far superior to theirs.
"That's because the remaining Birkan scientists similarly created super weapons for Joy Boy."
Brett said. "In Water 7, scientists and shipwrights there forged the strongest warship."
"At Fish-Man Island, scientists strengthened the mermaid princess's ability to communicate with Sea Kings, making her the true King of the Deep Sea."
"At the Treasure Tree Adam's summit, scientists used cutting-edge Lineage Factor technology to create the King Who Soars the Sky."
"Ancient Weapons?" Akainu already understood.
"That's right, Ancient Weapons."
Brett nodded lightly. "Sky, sea, deep sea. The trinity of power prevented even the Lunarian Clan from easily achieving victory."
"However?"
Aokiji urged Brett to continue.
"However, the Sky King's lifespan had limits."
Brett sighed. "Perhaps because its power was too astonishing, as an artificial creature, its lifespan wasn't even as long as an ordinary human's."
"After confronting for approximately twenty years, the Sky King died of old age."
"The balance of power shattered in an instant."
"Though the Sky King left behind an egg, there obviously wasn't time now to let this child grow up smoothly."
The Lunarian Clan realized this excellent opportunity. Thus total war erupted again.
Though they had Devil Fruits, though they still had the other two Kings, the great kingdom Joy Boy assembled still retreated steadily.
The war seemed to be reaching its finale.
"Then, at this time."
Brett said. "The traitors also welcomed betrayal."
"The Lunarian Clan's numbers weren't large. To rule vast territories, they needed many humans to help."
"So that Imu united this group of people again?" Aokiji asked.
Brett nodded. "Some hated the Lunarian Clan's brutal rule. Some wanted to seize more power. Besides Imu's own nation, there were twenty total. These nations united together."
Aokiji and Akainu simultaneously maintained silence.
On this sea, even children only a few years old knew the World Government was initially formed by twenty kings. These nations' royal families became the original Celestial Dragons.
"Speaking of it is somewhat incomprehensible. Imu and company chose to cooperate with Joy Boy." Brett said this.
"Eh? No way?"
Aokiji looked shocked.
These two groups actually had a foundation for cooperation? Wasn't everything caused by that Im guy?
"That's why I said it's somewhat incomprehensible."
Brett shook his head. "At the critical moment of life and death, Joy Boy chose to believe."
"Probably because at that moment there was no other choice."
Aokiji sighed leisurely. In that case, the future could already be seen.
"Initially, both sides cooperated quite happily. Imu's side constantly undermined the Lunarian people, letting Joy Boy's group continue surviving precariously."
"Such difficult confrontation continued for quite a long time."
"Joy Boy and his companions waited for the new Sky King's birth. However," Brett paused. "The Sky King's egg disappeared."
"Stolen by Imu?" Aokiji said straightforwardly.
"Joy Boy and friends hid the egg on some fool's back. But that fool was deceived."
Brett nodded. "Time flew by again for several years. Im launched another betrayal."
"But this time against the Lunarian people."
"He brought dragons soaring through the sky to attack the Lunarian people's sky castle."
"No matter how solid a fortress, it cannot resist erosion from within."
"The Lunarian people's sky ship indeed possessed unmatched power. But when the parrot opened the door to let the heavenly dragons in, the Lunarian people quickly lost resistance."
"Imu defeated the gods ruling this world. The remaining Lunarian people surrendered to him. He thus seized that unmatched sky ship."
Brett finally sighed. "Thus naturally, the war reached its ending moment. The heavenly dragons that reversed the world situation also became the symbol of the clan called gods."
With both the invincible sky fortress and the King of the Sky, how could Joy Boy and his companions possibly resist Im?
The great nation was annihilated. Those who pursued freedom were completely erased from the world.
In the final moment, all Joy Boy could do was record this long history, entrusting everything to future generations.
"..."
The story was finished. Akainu and Aokiji remained silent.
Until much later, Aokiji finally spoke with some sentiment. "This is truly a story that makes blood boil, yet also brings endless sighs."
"..."
Akainu suddenly raised his head at this time. "How do we know you're not deceiving us?"
Truly stubborn enough.
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