At the same time Big Mom was holding her family meeting, Ren crossed the sky and arrived above Totto Land.
The Judgment was still behind him. All it needed to do was clean up afterward.
It was best for him to handle the frontal assault personally.
His gaze swept downward, and an island covered in towering cake-shaped structures entered his sight.
Premonition Perception swept across it, capturing a large number of powerful presences.
They've gathered? Looks like the Limited Wishing Machine really is useful. As long as there's the slightest hint, it can push things along and create the result I want.
Ren narrowed his eyes.
He had made corresponding arrangements for the possible reactions Big Mom might take.
Judging by the result, things had gone just as well as expected. No accidents had occurred.
"Then, let's begin."
Violent energy surged from the transformed patterns, and a sphere of light appeared above Whole Cake Island.
The More-More Fruit amplified it a hundredfold, and the light sphere instantly expanded to a hundred times its original scale.
Terrifying energy lit up a solar wheel in the sky.
It was dazzling like a second brilliant sun!
"What is that?!"
"An astronomical phenomenon?"
On Whole Cake Island, residents of various races walking through the streets stared blankly at the sudden appearance of a second sun.
They did not think of it as the manifestation of a Devil Fruit ability, because that blazing sun was simply too dazzling. No one could possibly associate it with a Devil Fruit power.
Instead, they took it for some astronomical phenomenon they had never encountered before.
"Hey! Report this quickly! Why are there two suns in the sky?!"
The Chess Soldiers stationed on the island reacted swiftly and immediately tried to report to their superiors.
However… it was already too late.
"Let all of this dissolve into light!"
Ren, transformed into a blazing sun and suspended high in the sky, spread his arms. As he released Heavenly Might into the energy, boundless Armament Haki and Conqueror's Haki surged from his hands and coiled around the solar wheel.
In an instant, the halo turned pitch-black. Then it erupted with suffocating black radiance!
World-Ending Horn: Abyssal Sun!
Bzzzz—!
The black light was like paint, instantly coating the entire canvas known as Whole Cake Island.
The towering cake buildings were the first to dissolve into the black light, followed immediately by the Chess Soldiers on guard.
Afterward, the wildly erupting black light seemed to possess life of its own, avoiding the island's original residents.
Then it mercilessly erased the forests, coasts, ports, and every other location where enemy presences could be sensed!
All of this was completed in a matter of mere seconds. From the outside, it looked as though an "eraser" had swept across the entire island in an instant!
When the black light faded, the half-melted Whole Cake Island was greeted by an incomparably violent explosion.
Boom—!
High-energy instability transformed into intense heat that ignited the air. Layer upon layer of fire waves and shockwaves swept across the entire island in an instant.
If the original Whole Cake Island had looked like many huge cakes placed atop an enormous base, then now, over ninety percent of those huge cakes had melted, turning into gas that shot into the sky.
Those Homies and members of the Big Mom Pirates had vanished along with them.
Yet what was even more terrifying was that, under this overwhelmingly powerful strike, the island's original residents had not suffered a devastating blow!
"Not bad. Magnetic-field restraint plus Heavenly Might can already achieve this much."
Ren swept his gaze over the panicked civilians screaming across the land, then reached out and caught the returning Heavenly Might.
Protecting innocent people while throwing out a massive ultimate attack was no longer strange to the current him.
Just as Whitebeard had sensed, the improvements brought by two years of training were immense.
It was not only the most basic development and research into Haki. His Devil Fruit abilities and other aspects had improved as well.
For example, the second Devil Fruit Ren had chosen—the Magnet-Magnet Fruit—had undergone corresponding development.
What he valued in this fruit was naturally electromagnetism, one of the four fundamental forces.
From all sorts of angles, electromagnetism could be called a god-tier ability.
However, developing it to that degree was absolutely not something that could be done in just a few years, so he had chosen one specific direction—magnetic-field restraint!
Using the power of magnetic fields to restrain high-energy power was the result produced by this line of research.
And the improvement brought by that result was the scene before his eyes: crushing countless enemies without harming the insignificant ants.
Of course, that was not all!
The returning Heavenly Might transformed into a "light" in Ren's hand. Just looking at it made one feel an unbearable stabbing brilliance.
Or rather, it was like staring directly into the sun, painful enough that it could not be endured.
Ren himself did not display such a phenomenon, because this state of Heavenly Might had been achieved through magnetic-field restraint and electromagnetic interference.
The effect it brought was extreme heat!
Or rather—something nearly identical to the sun itself!
Well, I just wonder whether the ones over here… can make me go all out.
Ren gathered his thoughts and raised a hand to block in the direction he sensed.
Rumble—!
A massive bolt of lightning descended from the sky, roaring as it scattered before it could touch him.
A stunned expression appeared on Zeus's cloud face, and then he discovered in horror that he was uncontrollably flying toward the enemy's outstretched hand.
Electromagnetism surged, and magnetic-field restraint turned into a giant hand that seized the Homie cloud.
Then he landed in Ren's grasp.
"Let me go! Let me go right now! Do you know who I am?!"
Zeus struggled desperately, crackling with electricity all over, yet he could not break free in the slightest.
A trace of fear could not help but appear on that white cloud face, though his mouth was still trying to threaten Ren.
"I'm Big Mom's servant! If you hurt me, Mama won't let you off!"
"Oh? I'll let you see her right away."
Ren clenched his hand with one arm. Amid surging electromagnetism, he forcibly turned Zeus into a cloud spear.
Violent lightning energy was injected out of thin air, and in the next instant, a lightning spear tore open the sky.
Thunder roared furiously as it pierced the heavens and fell downward.
"Aaaaaaaah!"
Zeus screamed as he advanced, and within his field of vision was the continuously enlarging ground.
The enemy's previous attack had nearly destroyed the entire Whole Cake Island. The land was almost as devastated as melted cake.
However, under such circumstances, there were still "buildings" that stubbornly remained standing.
The instant he sensed the incoming attack, Perospero had already reacted.
He had mixed steel components into his candy and constructed one protective shield wall after another, resisting the sun-like light wave and the high-temperature fluid formed from the melted buildings collapsing down.
This bought everyone present time, allowing them to avoid the enemy's large-scale strike.
However, not everyone could withstand it, because attached to that light wave was an extremely heavy pressure of Conqueror's Haki.
Even with protection in place, eighty percent of the Big Mom Family members present had collapsed.
This made Charlotte Linlin, whose mood was already terrible, instantly fly into a rage.
She tore off her hat, Napoleon, and transformed it into a greatsword. Then she summoned an equally furious Prometheus and slammed him onto Napoleon.
Emperor Sword: Broken Blade!
Prometheus erupted in flames, covering Napoleon. The greatsword's blade extended and grew a series of fangs.
"Mama!"
"Prometheus, Napoleon, let's go kill the enemy who dared attack us!"
Charlotte Linlin was incomparably furious. She leaped up and split through the layered candy walls with one slash.
She opened a passageway leading to the outside world.
However, before she could even steady her footing, she heard a miserable scream and—lightning!
Boom—!
Charlotte Linlin flew back at an even greater speed.
"Who is it?!"
Perospero summoned a large amount of candy syrup and stared nervously in the direction the lightning had come from.
Within the crowd behind him, Brûlée, who looked like a witch, was busy moving the unconscious members of her family.
Electric light crackled as Ren followed close behind and set foot in the passageway breach.
He stood within the light and looked down from above. His indifferent gaze entered along with his words.
"Didn't I say it? Don't run around. I'm coming to find you."
Those light, drifting words struck Perospero's heart like a heavy hammer.
He widened his eyes in disbelief.
"Demon Ren?!"
What was going on?
He had not even gone over to cause trouble yet!
And the other side had already attacked them first?!
Which side was the Yonko here?
"One, two, three…"
Ren ignored Perospero and swept his gaze around, counting heads.
There was still more than one enemy in the field. He could only say that the quality of a Yonko force was indeed very high.
And in that opening, the surviving Big Mom officers instantly erupted into motion.
"Enemy! Kill him!"
"Cover Mama!"
"Avenge Katakuri and the others!"
Amid the chaotic voices was the killing intent of the Big Mom Pirates' officers.
The first to attack was the second daughter, Mondo. She swung her greatsword and rushed toward Ren, while Compote, Yashu, and other siblings supported her from the surroundings.
This was quite a clever move. After realizing the enemy's strength was immense, they switched to surrounding him.
But for Ren, before they reached a certain level of quality, tactics had already lost all meaning.
"There are too many of you. Just disappear."
He raised his hand. The patterns in his palm lit up, releasing terrifying energy.
The More-More Fruit amplified it immediately, turning it into an attack whose power and scale were equally terrifying.
Daytime: Scorching Light!
Dazzling light bloomed within this shelter, unstoppable like the noonday sun.
Whether it was Mondo's slashing greatsword or bullets coated in Armament Haki, all of them vanished within the wildly advancing light.
Even Perospero, whose strength was among the best of the siblings, could only hold out for a moment despite using everything he had.
As a candy ability user, what he feared most just happened to be high temperatures.
Boom—!
When the light and heat reached their end, what followed was a gigantic fireball detonated by the released extreme heat.
The entire candy shelter shook violently and spat out an enormous burning mushroom cloud!
Immediately after, raging flames wrapped in shockwaves completely tore apart the cake palace in the very next second!
A surging storm then rose and swept across the entire island.
"A brilliant sun, huh? It has a bit of the prototype already…"
Ren slowly withdrew his hand and looked indifferently at the ruins that had already turned into a pool of magma.
"Ren!"
From within the fire, a shrill scream rang out at this moment.
A battered Charlotte Linlin appeared not far away, standing atop Zeus and holding the Emperor Sword.
In incomparable fury, she swept her gaze around, yet she could not see any trace of her family.
"Stop looking. Their strength wasn't up to standard. It's normal that they couldn't withstand it."
Ren's tone was flat.
"Among the people under your command, only Katakuri was worth looking at. Unfortunately, he died on Kuja Island.
"But you don't need to feel sad. If nothing unexpected happens, you'll be reunited with them soon."
(End of Chapter)