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His blade, saturated with dense Conqueror's Haki, descended with the apocalyptic force to split the island.
Gunko and the others launched coordinated strikes from the flanks.
A pitch-black arrow sank into the ground, aiming to burst up from beneath Jin and impale him. Doflamingo's lethal threads snaked along the floor, ready to spring the trap.
But Jin's Observation Haki was absolute. Even in the swirling chaos of a multi-front melee, he could perfectly predict and anticipate every single vector of attack.
He spun Shusui in a blinding arc, creating a perfect, spherical defensive perimeter that effortlessly parried the incoming assault.
And then...
BZZZZZZZT!
A deafening clap of thunder rattled the prison walls. Countless serpents of pure, crackling electricity erupted from Jin's body, transforming the immediate area into a devastating domain of lightning.
The terrifying electrical storm surged outward like a tidal wave, ripping through the corridor with absolute, unbridled fury.
CRACKLE!
Even a grazing hit from a stray arc of lightning sent a jolt of agonizing pain through Doflamingo's body, his wounds smoking as his rapid regeneration kicked in.
The damage output was absurd! It defied all logic!
Doflamingo couldn't wrap his head around it. In his experience, electrical attacks were never this potent. He should have been able to tank this easily.
But Jin's lightning was monstrously powerful.
Is the Rumble-Rumble Fruit really this strong?
It was a common misconception. The raw output of a Devil Fruit was intrinsically linked to the physical and spiritual capacity of the user.
The stronger the user's foundation, the greater the power they could draw from the fruit.
Take Ace's Flame-Flame Fruit, for example.
Many dismissed it as a mediocre Logia, claiming it was practically useless.
But theoretically, the Flame-Flame Fruit had the potential to be one of the most destructive Logias in existence, easily rivaling the Rumble-Rumble Fruit! Fire and lightning—they were primal, devastating forces of nature.
So why couldn't Ace boil the ocean dry?
Because his own stamina and life force were the fuel for those flames. He could, at maximum output, envelop an island-sized area in fire. But against the vast, boundless expanse of the sea, it was a drop in the bucket.
Some theorized that a flame's temperature could be increased indefinitely. While theoretically true, in practice, energy cannot be created from nothing.
Every degree Ace raised his flames demanded an exponential toll on his physical stamina and willpower.
This principle applied to all Devil Fruits—the Rumble-Rumble, the Ice-Ice, the Tremor-Tremor. They all functioned on the same fundamental law.
A Devil Fruit possessed immense, latent potential, but its actual output was strictly bottlenecked by the user's intelligence, willpower, and physical constitution.
Simply put: the stronger the host, the more devastating the Devil Fruit's power.
In Jin's hands, the lightning generated by the Rumble-Rumble Fruit was magnitudes more terrifying than anything Enel could have ever produced.
This was true, apocalyptic, divine lightning!
Bolts of electricity rained down, subjecting the entire squad of God's Knights to a grueling, agonizing barrage.
Their immortal bodies constantly regenerated the damage, but the relentless, searing pain left them battered and severely compromised.
In the heart of the electrical storm, Jin was an unstoppable force. He lunged forward, his blade carving a deep, bloody gash across Garling's arm.
Garling's eyes widened in profound alarm. No wonder this man dared to openly challenge the World Government. His combat power had already eclipsed the Yonko tier!
BOOM!
Jin's hair whipped wildly in the gale as he seized a momentary opening. His fist slammed into Gunko, violently shattering half of her arm and sending her crashing through a solid stone wall.
A skeletal scythe swept down, forcing Jin to momentarily halt his advance.
In the next second, Gunko exploded from the rubble. Two massive, leathery bat wings had sprouted from his back, ending in an arrow-shaped tail. He was now wielding a massive trident that dwarfed his own body.
And then, Imu descended.
She floated down from the gaping void in the ceiling, her dark golden eyes sweeping across the battlefield.
She frowned slightly.
Instead of engaging Jin directly, she drifted toward the rear of the corridor, locating the immobilized rioters and the critically wounded Magellan.
"Who is that??"
"That thing... it looks like a demon!"
The prisoners stared in absolute terror.
Imu looked down upon them with cold, god-like disdain.
"Experience the absolute domination of God, you wretched slaves!"
She raised a hand, summoning a levitating grimoire adorned with a glowing pentagram.
"Demonic Covenant!"
Imu targeted Magellan first. She enacted the "Demonic Covenant," forcibly transforming him into a warrior blessed with an immortal body.
At the cost of a significant portion of his lifespan, a massive magic circle flared beneath him. His grievous wounds instantly knitted closed.
But his will was entirely subjugated. He was now a puppet of Imu.
Immediately after, an even larger magic circle erupted across the entire level, plunging the prison into an abyssal darkness and unleashing a tide of suffocating, malevolent energy.
"Dark Conversion: Domination!"
The magic circle and the malevolent aura completely swallowed the rioting prisoners.
Moments later, a horde of twisted, "demonized" inmates began clawing their way out of the darkness.
Under Imu's absolute control, they joined the puppet Magellan, forming a horrific "Demonic Legion" that immediately charged at Jin.
The exertion was immense. The physical vessel Imu was utilizing—the body of Gunko—swayed violently, and the grimoire faded significantly. The toll for invoking such power was evidently steep.
But the sheer scale and horror of the resulting army was staggering.
"What in the hell is that??"
Bullet and Redfield watched the horrific transformation in stunned disbelief.
"The World Government commands this kind of power?? It's unbelievable. It's like something straight out of a nightmare!"
RUMBLE!
The massive horde of demonized inmates stampeded forward. Even as Jin's lightning rained down upon them, they charged with absolute, mindless ferocity, completely devoid of fear.
Jin took a slow, deep breath, planting the tip of Shusui firmly into the stone floor.
After capturing Saint Killingham, Jin had subjected him to extensive analysis. He had developed a solid theoretical framework for how to counter and dismantle Imu's demonic abilities.
This was the perfect opportunity for a field test.
He synced his consciousness perfectly with the demonic carrier.
Deep within the carrier's engine room, the boiler flared to life, aggressively burning through ten thousand soul crystals. A torrent of golden, ethereal flames erupted, supercharging the steam engine.
VMMMM...
Centered on Jin, a colossal heptagram magic circle materialized, its intricate lines tracing through the air in brilliant, golden fire.
"Woooooooooom..."
A deep, resonant hum, like the majestic song of a deep-sea whale, echoed through the prison. A massive, spectral projection of the ironclad warship materialized above the magic circle.
"What... what is this??"
Garling and the Knights stared in absolute horror.
"Is this... the true depth of his power??"
A primal tremor of fear vibrated through their very souls.
The golden flames, riding the arcs of Jin's lightning, rapidly expanded outward.
Hsssss...
The flames struck the God's Knights first. A searing, bone-deep agony instantly forced them to retreat.
Next, the flames washed over the vanguard of the "demonized" inmates.
The reaction was instantaneous and horrific. The golden fire didn't just burn their flesh—it incinerated their very souls. They were rapidly reduced to charred skeletons, collapsing to the floor, completely hollowed out.
"GAAAAAH!"
Magellan let out a tortured howl. The golden flames were aggressively burning away the malevolent aura and the demonic brand etched into his soul.
But because the corruption had already seeped so deeply into his being, the cleansing fire was agonizingly burning him alive in the process.
Jin theorized that Nika's "Drums of Liberation" possessed a similar, purifying property capable of breaking this kind of "demonic" subjugation.
That was likely why Imu and the World Government viewed Nika as the ultimate existential threat.
It was a shame Luffy hadn't awakened his Nika form yet—Jin would have loved to study the interaction.
For now, his method relied on the brutal, unyielding purification of the "Golden Soul Flames" to physically burn away the demonic brand and the corruption, rather than simply neutralizing the ability.
Within the golden heptagram, the terrifying Demonic Legion was rapidly being reduced to ash and bone.
The sheer scale of the destruction left everyone speechless.
Even Imu and the Five Elders, observing the battlefield via telepathy, were visibly shaken.
Jin stood at the absolute epicenter of the magic circle.
Wreathed in blindingly bright golden flames, he took a slow, deliberate step forward. The very earth seemed to tremble beneath his boots.
The oppressive aura he projected was absolute.
There was no hesitation.
Realizing the situation had catastrophically devolved, Garling, Shamrock, and the remaining Knights frantically activated their teleportation circles, desperate to initiate a tactical retreat.
The power Jin commanded vastly exceeded their worst-case scenarios.
Unable to comprehend the nature of the golden flames, they dared not risk further engagement.
Jin unleashed a torrent of lightning to intercept their escape, but Magellan, still fully dominated by Imu and now transformed into a skeletal, venomous demon, threw himself into the line of fire.
His crimson venom radiated intense heat. It was highly corrosive—anything it touched was instantly infected and rapidly dissolved.
Jin hesitated. He was, ultimately, still a being of flesh and blood. His physical defense was virtually impenetrable, but his resistance to supernatural toxins wasn't nearly as absolute.
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