With a mix of numerous powers, this mass that seemed to be spreading around the island completely transformed into a grey mist, displaying deathly silence.
As the mist rose, Lily didn't linger long, using Moon Step to launch herself towards the Death Star.
The people on the island below, whether Navy or Pirates, felt a chill when they saw the grey mist and instinctively ran towards the ships at the outskirts of the island.
"This mist..."
Sage furrowed his brows, raising his hand to look at his palm, and said with a smile, "It can even shake one's will, huh?"
Bang!
As he finished speaking, the extended hand blocked to the side, triggering a massive shock in the air and catching the sharp tusks of a boar that suddenly charged from the side.
"Ambush? You're foolish for trying? The mist can obscure my vision, but it can't block my Haki."
Sage sneered, grabbing the tusks and lifting the massive boar into the air with one hand. At the same time, he lifted his foot high, forming it into a battle axe shape and chopping down.
"Celestial Piercing Sea-Sharp Blade!"
Like a bolt of lightning appearing in the mist, it struck a sandworm emerging from the sand below, splitting the giant sandworm in half and causing an explosion at the midpoint, bursting open from the center of the sandworm, splitting it in two.
Before Sage landed, he bounced sideways with smoke rings under his feet, like a cannonball, piercing through Izumizan that attacked from above, smashing a hole in the giant bird's neck. After breaking through the hole, he stretched a hand backwards, embedding his fingers into the bird's neck and lifting it upward.
As he threw it out, a ring on his finger shattered, magnified by his abilities, and his arms instantaneously disappeared. The enlarged fragments wrapped in Haki and wind-fire-light formed black-red orbs, accelerating upwards.
"Tenma Dragon Star!"
Boom boom boom boom!
In the mist, Warcury and Mars were blasted into pieces after being thrown upwards.
Then, he swung his hand outward with great force, Haki forming almost a wind, pressing downward.
"It can't be blown away..."
Sage sneered at that direction, posing in the 'Gakuri Cannon' stance, the black light in the mist resembling a strange sun.
"Then let me show you something fierce!"
Filled with instant release, True Damage, shock, and penetration of Haki Shock, complemented by controllable wind-fire-light elements, forming a powerful large Light Bullet, blasting towards the side below.
His hand connected to the black-red light column between him and the Light Bullet.
A long-range version of Great Red.
"Tenmago Hado!!"
Boom!!
The Light Bullet exploded at low altitude, bringing stronger black-red light from the center of the mist that had expanded to half the island, amidst which Saturn's figure slowly dissipated in low altitude.
"No use, huh..." Saturn, with half a body lost, facing the destructive powers directly, raised his head to see Sage's figure in the mist.
"Your will hasn't waned a bit, I must admit, your willpower is the strongest we've seen so far."
Hearing this, Sage smiled confidently, "Of course, who do you think I am? My hometown has an old saying: 'Where there's a will, there's a way!'
His will is so strong that not even steel can take it away!
For others, things wouldn't go right, bad luck would hit even while drinking cold water, their will would have worn out long ago.
He has persisted until now, thriving without signs of depression because his willpower is so strong, he never felt discouraged for even a day.
No need for now, he's already on his way!
"Is that so? Truly could be called a hero."
Saturn, now reduced to just a head, suddenly glared, "But a hero like you is about to die here!"
The mist still hasn't dissipated, but Sage's vision suddenly blurred, clearly in mid-air, yet he felt the touch of seawater below.
He... hit the ground?
No, wait!
He's in the sea!
"When..."
Stunned, Sage looked down, only to see the suction from the sand below, along with the motion of the yellow spring, and the various powers and curses in the mist were growing stronger. Although he resisted with Haki, the time was enough for his body to fall into the sea.
A little seawater doesn't affect him, but if he sinks entirely into the sea, he's indeed unable to move.
"To deal with you, fighting is too slow, this is much better."
The Magic Array activated again, and the Five Elders appeared from the center of the array. Saturn restored his upper body to the Ushioni form, and said gravely:
"This mist, besides harming you, has another effect: it confuses your senses to the outside world."
"Is that so..."
Sage looked at the seawater that submerged his chest, realizing, "So even knowing I'm unaffected by ambushes, you insist on fighting me to distract my attention? Making me unknowingly reach the ground... no, this ground should be gone, right? The land was corroded, along with the island base, creating an artificial sea?"
The Five Elders didn't underestimate Sage, so in dealing with them, he remained vigilant.
But precisely because of this, they found a gap.
Saturn nodded, "Correct, sink into the sea. We know what you did in O'hara... no, Gares, this Technology Island should be the splendid vision you wanted. Taking this island as the price, let's sink your dream into the sea with it."
Fire seeds, Vegapunk, even if those things are taken away, it doesn't matter. Without crucial strength, they will all come back.