Chapter 364 - 203

AI Model: gemini-3.1-flash-liteChapter 203: RED (10): A Gale of Attacks Shatters the Demon King, Pluton's Single Blade Suppresses the Murky Tide!Totem Gika steadied its form.Its countless "eyes" focused on Luffy, revealing for the first time a fluctuation of emotion akin to "scrutiny" and "interest."Immediately following this, all the broken musical instruments on its body—the neck of a violin, the bell of a trumpet, the remnants of a harp—suddenly began to vibrate in unison!There were no musicians, no breath, yet these remains emitted sound.It was not music, but rather an aggressive noise—extremely distorted, amplified, and mixed with the grinding of metal, the splintering of wood, and the screeching of airflow!Hum—! Hiss—! Screech—!Countless visible, spiral-shaped, distorted sound waves shot out from those instrument remains!They were murky in color with treacherous trajectories; some straight as spears, some winding like snakes, some spreading like nets, shrouding Luffy from all directions!Wherever the sound waves passed, even this space, already beginning to collapse, rippled. Parts of its color and form were "erased," revealing a deeper void beneath."Sound wave attacks?" Luffy's eyes narrowed, and he pushed off with his feet!"Soru: Teleport!"His figure vanished from the spot instantly, leaving behind only a faint afterimage.The next moment, he appeared above and to the side of the Demon King, moving so fast that most of the sound waves missed, and the few that tracked him were narrowly dodged thanks to the flexibility of his rubber body.The air grazed by the sound waves left behind lingering, scorched-looking black trails."Tsk tsk, is Armament Haki useless?"Luffy pondered briefly; the recovery ability of this thing was fucking even weirder than the Gorosei!"Then let's try this—!"In Luffy's eyes, a golden-red light, like a volcano suppressed to its limit, suddenly erupted!He twisted his hips violently, his rubber body winding up with endurance beyond its limits, pulling his fists to his waist, knuckles facing forward.The aura permeating his body changed instantly... it was no longer just simple fighting spirit, but a majestic, supreme pressure that stood above the rules!Hum—!Above his fists, the air was forcibly compressed and twisted!A massive, solid Conqueror's Haki cross-star, its edges burning with fierce golden-red flames, condensed and bloomed out of thin air in front of his fists!Crackle—!Centered on Luffy, the entire Uta World, which had already begun to collapse, let out an unbearable wail!Luffy's Conqueror's Haki, honed through countless battles and now at its peak, forcibly struck and shook the foundations of this different world—constructed from "musical laws" and "Demon King authority"—in its most primitive and violent form!"Haaah—!"Luffy roared, his power having reached its peak!The cross-star wreathed in Conqueror's Hakisuddenly collapsed and condensed, transforming into the purest, most domineering torrent of will. Like a living, golden-red angry dragon, it coiled around his fists, which were already covered in top-tier Armament Haki, black as ink!Pitch black and golden-red intertwined, the ultimate "quality" and supreme "momentum" fused perfectly, emitting a destructive golden light that made space itself twist and was blinding to behold!The Haki wrapped around them was like boiling thunder-plasma, constantly bursting with fine black lightning and emitting a rumbling, thunderous roar!This was a judgment poured with the will of a king!"Gum-Gum—"Luffy's figure vanished.His speed, bolstered by Conqueror's Haki, soared to an extreme that could not be captured by the naked eye or conventional perception!His arms turned into countless afterimages that tore through space!"—Advanced Armament Haki: Gale of Attacks!!!"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang—!!!!The attacks, in the same instant, descended from above, below, left, right, front, and back—from all dimensions and all angles—like a destructive meteor shower, striking every vital point of Totem Gika's massive body simultaneously!The knuckles wreathed in Conqueror's Haki and Armament Haki smashed through the core torso formed by murky musical scores. The golden-red light pierced inside, burning the roiling black noise-energy within into shrill screams!Every strike brought more than just physical destruction!The Conqueror's Haki wrapped around the attacks acted like the most domineering virus, deeply invading the "concept" of the Demon King's existence with each strike, brutally impacting and tearing apart the "Law of Dissonance" it relied upon to survive!Golden-red Haki lightning surged and exploded crazily within the Demon King's shattered body, emitting a harsh, mournful sound completely at odds with the tone of this world—like glass shattering and metal scraping!In that instant, Totem Gika's massive, constantly writhing and deforming body seemed to be pierced and pinned in place by countless golden-red thunderbolts from different dimensions!Its attempt to mobilize the noise power of the entire world to defend, repair, and counterattack was completely disrupted, interrupted, and scattered by this omnidirectional, no-blind-spot, saturated attack that was so fast it distorted the sense of time!"ROAAAAAAR—!!!!"The Demon King let out an unprecedented shriek, mixed with pain, anger, and... a hint of disbelief!This shriek itself turned into a distorted sound wave attack, but as soon as it left its body, it was brutally dispersed and annihilated by the omnipresent Conqueror's Haki shockwaves and Armament Haki afterimages!BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM—!!!!The explosive sounds of the attacks finally merged into one, turning into a continuous, terrifying roar that seemed intent on shattering the entire world!Centered on the Demon King, a massive golden-red storm of destruction, composed of pure destructive energy and chaotic Haki currents, suddenly took shape!The sky, the cloud layer of musical scores already riddled with cracks, finally let out an unbearable roar—like the breaking of continental plates—under the dual crushing force of the destructive storm below and the Conqueror's Haki pressure above!RUMBLE—!!!The entire firmament collapsed!——————————The real world, the ruins of Elegia.Uta's body began to tremble violently!She kept her eyes tightly shut, her face pale as paper, beads of cold sweat seeping from her forehead. The eerie song summoning the Demon King now carried a painful tremor.The dark golden musical score in her hand was now emitting an ominous, ghostly light, and it was getting hotter and hotter, as if it were about to burn through her palm!The air was filled with an oppressive fluctuation, similar to the dissonance in Uta World, that made one extremely uncomfortable.Uta's shadow was stretched and twisted behind her, vaguely revealing a hideous silhouette with multiple eyes and limbs!Subsequently, a Song Demon King, looking utterly disheveled, appeared before everyone.Rayleigh:...Yamato:...Law:...Sanji froze, one hand on his forehead, his curly eyebrow arching as he said with a hint of helplessness,"That Idiot Captain is messing around again!!""As expected, it's impossible to count on him to follow the plan!""ROAR—!!!"Seemingly thoroughly enraged by Luffy, Totem Gika let out a roar that was even more massive and chaotic.It no longer relied solely on the remains of musical instruments; its entire body began to swell and deform violently!Those murky, tattered pages of the musical score flew and combined frantically, forming an immensely huge noise shield covered in blasphemous runes in front of it!At the same time, the sound-wave ribbons behind it proliferated and coiled rapidly, transforming into dozens of noise whips resembling giant octopus tentacles, lashing out and coiling toward Rayleighand the others in a wide-area attack!Before the tentacles even arrived, the sense of stagnation and the stinging pain in the soul caused by the disruption of laws had already reached them!"Hiss, an area-of-effect attack? That's really absurd!"In an instant, Yamato and the others clutched their heads, their expressions filled with pain, their brains feeling as if they were being stabbed by countless steel needles.They could only watch helplessly as the tentacles lashed toward them."Too careless... This isn't something you can fully defend against just by 'not listening.'"A calm voice, carrying a hint of helpless amusement, rang out in front of them.Silvers Rayleigh had, at some point, quietly stepped forward, perfectly positioning himself between all the young people and the incoming frenzy of black tentacles.He maintained his casual standing posture, his coat even a bit worn, his graying hair fluttering lightly in the sea breeze.Facing the evil corruption and physical attacks that could cause even great pirates to suffer a mental breakdown, he merely raised an eyebrow slightly, his eyes showing not a shred of tension,but rather a sense of realization like "as I thought," along with a faint reproach for the juniors' lack of experience."It seems you still need to practice Haki, especially the deep application of Observation Haki and Armament Haki."His tone was as if he were critiquing a lackluster swordsmanship exercise.The moment his words fell, the lazy and casual aura around Rayleigh vanished.Replacing it was a terrifying aura—one that had weathered countless storms, settled over decades, and returned to simplicity, yet remained supreme and domineering!He did not erupt with towering flames of energy, but centered on him, the space within a radius of several dozen meters seemed to solidify.Those incoming noise tentacles and the pervasive evil corruption field seemed to crash into an invisible, absolutely impassable Wall of Sighs; their speed slowed abruptly, and their forms became somewhat blurred and unstable.Rayleigh's right hand rested casually on the hilt of the seemingly ordinary longsword at his waist.The movement was light and natural, as if he were just preparing to draw it casually.However——Clang!!!A sword chime, incomparably clear and seemingly capable of severing time and space, rang out suddenly!Dark-red Conqueror's Haki erupted from between Rayleigh's fingers as he gripped the sword, and from the junction between the hilt and the scabbard!They did not flow away in all directions, but instead, as if possessing life and will, precisely and violently coiled tightly around the blade about to be unsheathed!In an instant, that ordinary longsword transformed into a dark-red thunderbolt that devoured light!Dark-red and pitch-black intertwined, emitting an absolute majesty that stood above all things!Rayleigh merely turned his wrist slightly, toward the surging ocean of black noise composed of countless writhing tentacles ahead, and casually—swung his blade."Kamisari."He softly uttered the two words; his voice was plain, yet it seemed to carry an ancient decree.The blade light plunged straight into that churning, surging ocean of black tentacles.And then—For an instant.Time seemed to have been severed by this single slash for a brief moment.All the noise tentacles attacking the group—whether those already close at hand, those just emerging from the shadows, or those still churning in the back...froze in their movements.Immediately following, just like the snow of early spring encountering the fiercest sun of midday.Those black tentacles, formed from the filthiest noise, the most evil will, and the most twisted laws, dissolved silently and at an incredible speed, starting from the point of contact with the blade light, under the astonished gaze of everyone.They turned into the tiniest, meaningless black specks of light, and then these specks also quickly dimmed and dissipated, as if they had never existed.In the blink of an eye, the frenzy of black tentacles that had just been blotting out the sky and causing despair was gone without a trace.Only the faint, rapidly fading fluctuations remained in the air, along with an area that appeared exceptionally "clean" and even somewhat "vacant" after being "purified" by the blade light.The inverted musical staff black aura spreading around Uta seemed startled and contracted violently.Her own trembling also lessened slightly; although her face remained pale, the agony of the corruption between her brows seemed to ease for a moment.The stabbing pain and maddening whispers in the minds of Yamato and the others subsided abruptly along with the disappearance of the tentacles.They shook their heads, regaining clarity, and looked at the gray-haired old man in front who was sheathing his sword as if he had just casually shooed away a few flies, their eyes filled with shock and awe.Rayleigh slowly exhaled a breath, his supreme, domineering aura instantly vanished, returning to being that seemingly ordinary old coating craftsman.He looked back at the recovering young people and smiled:"Don't space out. The Demon King's corruption has only been temporarily interrupted; it is far from over. Seize the time and do what you need to do."The calm words were more inspiring than any war drum.The real battle, after Rayleigh's "Kamisari" slash, entered a new stage!!