Chapter 1882 Turning the World into a Cold Tomb: The Battle Between Ace and Garp!
Chapter 1882 Turning the World into a Cold Tomb: The Battle Between Ace and Garp!
Ace initially smiled, recalling the first time he ate food from the Little Master world, but soon his smile vanished.
Aokiji was alright; although he ate attentively, he at least maintained basic table manners.
But Garp... he swept everything away like a whirlwind!
Not only did he eat quickly, but his appetite was also astonishingly large; towards the end, Ace even redeemed no less than twenty dishes the size of giant shumai from the chat group, but Garp just lit up his eyes, muttered "Oh? This is interesting," and then devoured them at an astonishing speed.
Only after the mountain of snacks on the table was completely devoured and the drinks in their teacups were emptied did Garp finally let out a loud, satisfied burp.
"Wow, this is great! I haven't had anything this satisfying in ages!"
Garp leaned back in his chair, looking quite relaxed, and his eyes were fixed on Ace.
"Alright, you brat, stop hiding it."
"If you have anything to say, just say it."
"Did you see it?"
Ace's expression froze slightly, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes.
Don't try that on me.
"At first, I really thought you'd changed your ways and started a legitimate business, but do you think I don't know what you're really like at heart?"
"Although I don't know what you've been through since you went to sea, are you content to be a law-abiding merchant?"
Garp gave a soft hum.
"Your appearance has indeed changed, your temperament has changed, and even your way of speaking is different from before, but you will never be content to become just a businessman."
"Originally, as long as you didn't fly the pirate flag and didn't burn, kill, or plunder, I wouldn't have said anything to you."
"But look at your reaction just now, humph."
"Even though you didn't become a pirate, I'm afraid you're harboring other thoughts in your heart, aren't you?"
Ace listened to Garp's words, a helpless yet knowing smile on his face.
As expected of the old man.
They guessed that so easily.
He suppressed his smile, his gaze hardening as he met Kapna's scrutinizing gaze and spoke frankly:
“You’re right, sir.”
"Or rather, the path I have chosen is more thorough and more extreme than the revolutionary army led by Mr. Long."
"The goal of the Revolutionary Army is to overthrow the World Government, break the existing order, and establish a new, more equitable regime."
"They are still fighting within the framework of 'ruling' and 'being ruled,' but they want to change the power holders and change the rules."
"But that's not what I want to do."
“I don’t want to overthrow anyone, nor do I want to become a new ‘ruler’; what I want to do is fundamentally change the ‘rules’ that govern the world itself.”
"To eliminate the root causes of war, suffering, and oppression in this world in a more direct and thorough way."
He paused, his gaze sweeping over Garp and Aokiji, whose eyes had suddenly sharpened, and slowly said:
"Moreover, compared to the revolutionary army, which is still groping in the dark and whose future is uncertain, I already have the power to achieve this goal."
"!!!"
Ace's words exploded in the air like a bombshell!
Garp's casual and lazy expression vanished instantly, his smiling eyes narrowed abruptly, and a terrifying aura, like that of a sleeping lion awakening, spread uncontrollably around him.
"You brat, what did you say?!"
Garp's voice was terrifyingly low, filled with disbelief, shock, and a hint of suppressed rage.
"More extreme than the revolutionary army? Changing the rules of the world? Eliminating the root causes of war?!"
"Do you know what you're talking about?"
Aokiji, standing to the side, still kept his hands in his pockets, but the lazy aura around him had completely disappeared.
The gaze behind the sunglasses was fixed intently on Ace.
"Eliminate the root causes of war?"
What is the root cause he refers to?
Navy? World Government? Celestial Dragons?
And what kind of power could give him such absolute confidence?
Ace remained calm, showing no surprise at Garp's reaction, and said in a nonchalant tone:
"I have mastered a power, a power that can fundamentally rewrite everyone's memories and cognition."
"Perhaps a very small number of people with exceptional abilities will be exempt, but this is insignificant to the overall situation."
He paused slightly, his gaze sweeping over the two men's drastically changed expressions, and continued:
“When the world is ‘ready,’ I will let an absolutely rational ‘life’ without any selfish desires or emotions manage everything.”
"Everyone will follow its guidance and build this world into the 'most perfect' form that it has calculated."
“There, there will be no oppression, no war, no injustice, no pirates, and no ‘unnecessary’ deaths.”
After speaking, Ace's gaze finally fell on Garp, and in that gaze was the most sincere expectation:
"Grandpa, please help me."
"Watch as I personally transform this world into the way it was meant to be."
"!!!"
Dead silence.
The air seemed to freeze at this moment.
Garp's body trembled violently, not from fear, but from uncontrollable rage!
His face, which had been smiling just moments before, was now flushed red, veins bulging on his forehead, and his eyes burning with a fury that could consume everything!
"Bastard thing!"
A roar like a volcanic eruption exploded from Garp's chest!
The monstrous, materialized Conqueror's Haki, mixed with overwhelming rage, swept out like a tsunami!
The entire cabin was shaking violently, and the terrace floor groaned under the strain!
"Ace, do you know what you're saying?!"
"Rewrite everyone's memories? Let a heartless monster rule the world? Is this the world you want to create?"
Karp's voice was hoarse and trembling as he took a sudden step forward, causing the ground beneath his feet to crack inch by inch!
"Are you trying to turn everyone into mindless puppets?!"
Alterate memories? Obey the commands of an emotionless puppet?
This is undoubtedly a desecration of "life"!
How could Garp tolerate this?!
"You want me to help you? Help you turn the whole world into a cold tomb?!"
"Answer me, Ace!!!"
"boom!"
Garp could no longer contain his rage. His fist, imbued with the power to shatter mountains and split seas, crackled with black and red lightning, and unleashed a brutal attack towards Ace with a single, unadorned strike and a will to crush everything!
Ace sighed softly as he watched Garp's punch, imbued with boundless rage and unwavering resolve, hurtle towards him.
So, is "altering memories" really understood as "erasing emotions"?
However, he never expected to be able to persuade the old man easily.
Ultimately, it all comes down to ability.
Ace's eyes narrowed, and the nine tomoe in his Rinne Sharingan suddenly accelerated their rotation, emitting an eerie purple light!
"boom!!!"
Garp's iron fist struck Ace squarely in front of him, but the expected scene of Ace being blasted away did not occur.
When the fist was only an inch away from Ace's body, it seemed to have hit an invisible and intangible yet indestructible barrier!
"Boom!"
A deafening roar, so deep it seemed to shake the very fabric of space, exploded.
Visible spatial ripples spread wildly from the center of the fist, instantly shattering the surrounding tables and chairs into dust, and causing the ground to crack and collapse downwards!
"Heaven's Hand Power!"
Ace's figure blurred for a moment in the spatial ripples, and the next instant, he appeared like a ghost behind Garp.
"Wooden Release: The birth of the tree world!"
"Boom!"
Countless massive trees, thick and brimming with powerful life energy, burst forth from the shattered ground like living pythons, coiling and strangling at Garp from all directions!
Its speed and range were so great that it instantly submerged Garp in a surging green ocean!
"Open it for me!!!"
A deafening roar echoed through the forest!
Pure and ultimate Conqueror's Haki mixed with Armament Haki erupted from his body like an exploding star!
"Boom boom boom boom!!!"
The giant tree that was coiling around the energy shattered into wood chips the moment it came into contact with the violent energy!
Garp's fists transformed into countless afterimages, each punch containing the power to shatter mountains, forcefully creating a vacuum zone in the boundless sea of trees.
His physical abilities and mastery of domineering aura have reached an inhuman level!
"Wooden Release: Wooden Man's Technique!"
Ace spoke softly, and the countless wood chips that Garp had blasted to pieces seemed to be summoned by an invisible force, instantly gathering, expanding, and reforming!
A colossal wooden figure, nearly a hundred meters tall, made entirely of incredibly hard divine wood, with a majestic face and entwined with blue dragon-shaped patterns, rose from the ground.
The wooden figure roared to the sky, and its huge wooden fist crashed down on Garp like a meteor. Wherever the fist passed, the air was compressed into a visible white explosion!
“Well done!!”
Garp neither dodged nor evaded, his knees slightly bent, the ground beneath his feet suddenly collapsed, his right fist pulled back, his muscles bulging like a coiling dragon, and black and red Conqueror's Haki and top-level Armament Haki wrapped around him like boiling magma!
"Fist bone·Meteorite!"
"boom!!!"
The wooden man's giant fist collided with Garp's iron fist in a straightforward and solid manner!
Time seemed to stand still for a moment!
The next moment!
An indescribable shockwave exploded from the point of impact between the two, instantly leveling everything within a kilometer radius—the remaining buildings, trees, and rocks.
Spiderweb-like cracks appeared on the giant wooden man's arm starting from the fist, and then it shattered. Garp was also thrown backward by the force of the impact, sliding hundreds of meters and carving two deep furrows in the ground.
"strong enough!"
"Fist Bone·Clash!"
Garp unleashed both fists simultaneously, transforming them into countless fist shadows capable of shattering mountains, pouring terrifying power onto the wooden doll without reservation.
"Boom boom boom boom!!!"
The wooden figure was shattered by Garp's attack.
"Kuzan, create a battlefield!"
After Garp finished, he roared at Aokiji, who was watching from a distance.
"learn."
Upon hearing Garp's words, Aokiji transformed into a streak of icy blue light and shot towards the sea. He placed his hands on the surface of the sea, unleashing his extreme freezing energy without reservation!
"Ice Age!"
"Crack, click, click!"
Centered on the blue pheasant, the vast sea froze rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the boundless blue waves transformed into an endless expanse of ice in just a few breaths.
"go!"
With a roar, Garp caused the ground beneath his feet to explode, creating a sonic boom that tore through the air as he charged toward the ice field!
Without any hesitation, Ace transformed into a dazzling golden streak and flew over as well; the two of them, one in front of the other, had already penetrated deep into the heart of the ice field in an instant, leaving the island far behind.
"Just right here!"
Garp suddenly stopped, turned around, and his violent fighting spirit soared into the sky as if it were a tangible force, stirring up the clouds!
He hadn't expected Ace to become so powerful; even he felt a bit of pressure.
No wonder he dared to tell him what he was going to do.
However, this level is far from enough to achieve what he said.
"Let me see just how far you can push me, old man."
Ace hovered in mid-air, unleashing his immense power of vision.
"Susanoh!"
"boom!"
As he spoke, a colossal, suffocatingly large purple energy shadow suddenly condensed and expanded behind Ace.
In the blink of an eye, a fully formed Susanoo, over 300 meters tall, clad in ancient Warring States armor, with wings of energy that blot out the sky and covered with a demon mask, stood on the icy plain.
Susanoo held a longsword burning with purple flames in its hand, and the high temperature emanating from the sword caused the ice beneath its feet to show signs of melting.
"Come on, take this punch from me!"
Garp laughed wildly, stepped into the Moon Step, and instantly appeared in front of Susanoo's chest.
His right fist was pulled back to its limit, his arm muscles bulged like a dragon, and black and red Conqueror's Haki and top-level Armament Haki intertwined. The space around his fist groaned in agony as it could not bear the weight!
"Fist Bone - Meteor - Breaking Boundaries!"
"boom!!!"
Garp's iron fist slammed solidly into Susanoo's chest armor!
"Crack!!!"
The incredibly tough Susanoo armor was blasted open by this punch, creating a huge hole tens of meters in diameter. Purple chakra fragments flew everywhere like meteors!
but.
"It's no use! Old man!"
Ace spoke calmly, his Rinne Sharingan swirling slightly.
The immense power of the eye surged towards the damaged area like a burst dam, and the huge hole was rapidly filled by the newly generated, more concentrated chakra at a speed visible to the naked eye.
In the blink of an eye, it was completely restored, as if it had never been injured!
"Interesting. Let's see if you can fix it faster, or if I can smash it faster."
Seeing this, Garp's fighting spirit intensified, and his fists transformed into countless afterimages as he launched a fierce and relentless attack on Susanoo from all directions!
"Fist Bone - Meteor Shower!"
"Boom boom boom boom!!!"
Countless fist shadows, powerful enough to shatter mountains, rained down on Susanoo's massive body like a storm; head, shoulders, arms, legs. Every punch landed with a deafening roar.
The entire Susanoo seemed to have become a purple sandbag that was constantly being destroyed and reassembled.
However, Ace remained firmly seated within the crystal on the forehead of Susanoo, his ocular power flowing inexhaustibly, ensuring that Susanoo's repair speed could always keep up with the pace of destruction.
Its massive flaming sword continued to slash, the sharp sword light tearing through the ice plains, forcing Garp to dodge frequently.
Where the sword's edge swept, the ice was neatly sliced open, revealing the seawater beneath, which had become scorching hot from the flames on the sword.
