Chapter 406: I Already Lack Nothing!
As his voice fell, the heart in Roy's hand was crushed.
"I will entrust my heart to you."
"When using the 'Perennial Youth Operation' in Mary Geoise, because my heart is not inside my body, it will not be affected by the operation's effects—destroy it, and you can kill me."
"Finally, you only need to do one more thing to my body, and you can guarantee that you will obtain that 'treasure'."
"..."
That was his final agreement with Rocks.
As Rocks's heart was crushed.
Roy then saw that Rocks's body inside the outer coffin, which originally still possessed "vitality", began to rapidly decay and rot.
His body wouldn't age, and possessed extremely strong recovery ability, unable to be destroyed through normal means.
But when his heart, which hadn't been modified by the "Perennial Youth Operation", was crushed, his life naturally reached its end.
In just a moment, his body was crushed into a mist of blood amidst the deep-sea water pressure.
The fragments of blood and bones flowed with the waves of the sea in an instant, vanishing without a trace.
That was Rocks's ending—as an overlord who dominated the sea for an era, he was born from the sea, achieved greatness from the sea, and ultimately dissipated into the sea as well.
And in the place where he originally was, only two things remained.
Those were a seed radiating a cyan glow, and a map.
Clearly—they were previously hidden inside his own corpse by Rocks using the power of the "Op-Op Fruit".
And right now...
VMMM!
Roy gently raised his hand and took that final seed.
He knew that that seed was the "Seed of the Earth" from the Pillar of Creation, sharing the same origin as the "Treasure Tree Adam" and the "Sunlight Tree Eve".
And there was no need for him to mention the meaning of that map—that must definitely be the location where the "treasure" Rocks collected for Roy was stored.
Roy picked up the treasure map, glanced at it, and was stunned.
"It's actually there? No, it's better to say, it really is there..."
Looking at the sea area marked on the treasure map, Roy revealed a matter-of-course expression after a brief moment of surprise.
And immediately following, Roy's gaze looked at another platform here.
There, stored by Imu, another "treasure" besides Rocks's corpse was also slowly manifesting.
That was... a crown.
The overall material of the crown seemed not to be metal or jade, but presented a texture as if it were ancient wood.
It was unknown how ancient it was, with distinct unsophisticated traces left by long years.
But bizarrely, just like this "Lunariar", this crown had clearly stayed in this deep sea for an unknown amount of time.
Yet it seemed to be still completely undamaged, as if it would exist forever.
[Lineage Factor Creation · Crown of the World]
[Wish · World Domination]
[Wearing this crown, one can obtain the power to "Dominate the World"]
And right now, the content manifested in the Fruit Encyclopedia plus the murals Roy saw on the Abyss sufficiently explained the origin of this crown.
It was the original treasure of this sea today.
In the past, the crown worn by the "destroyer" of the previous world and the creator of this world—that First King named "Davy Jones".
And at the same time, this crown was also the symbol of the "contract" Davy Jones established with Imu.
"Just as I guessed, as Imu's initial 'gold medal investor' back then, the benefits Davy Jones obtained from Imu were the greatest."
Analyzing the power this crown possessed through the Fruit Encyclopedia, Roy thought to himself.
Clearly, in order to gain Davy Jones's trust and also to obtain freedom from the shadow of the Pillar of Creation back then, the authority Imu granted to Davy Jones was indeed extremely massive.
"As long as one wears this crown made from the Pillar of Creation, they can obtain the 'wish' and 'Lineage Factor Source Energy' to grasp the entire world, and even the 'authority' to influence the Pillar of the World."
No wonder Imu would store this crown here—this crown was indeed something Imu absolutely could not tolerate falling into the hands of others.
But to Roy...
"In this way, the final puzzle piece is also complete."
Looking at the crown, the seed, and the treasure map in his hands, Roy understood in his heart: "I already lack nothing."
Thus, in this deep sea.
His gaze looked at the sea surface above, as if he could see the battlefield in Marineford.
On the battlefield right now, the battle was fierce.
Clang!
As swords and sabers collided, and weapons clashed.
The legion of the dead awakened from death by Imu through the "Ancient Coffin" and the grand army driven by The Zodiac continuously clashed.
It had to be said, among these dead awakened from the Ancient Coffin, there were actually quite a few familiar faces.
"Hey, that guy... the one with three pairs of arms, I think I remember hearing about him, a Marine from a hundred and twenty years ago, right?"
For example, right now, Loki blasted away a hideous Marine spirit in front of him, who had three pairs of arms and a face like a monster, with his hammer, while asking like this.
"That's right. At that time, the title rules for Marine Admirals weren't even perfected yet. This guy was the Admiral codenamed 'Asura'—the user of the Mythical Zoan Asura Fruit."
Jinbe beside him also similarly threw a punch and blasted away a Marine in front of him: "And this guy in front of me, seems to be the Admiral Candidate at the time, nicknamed 'Sea Burner'."
"Is that so... how troublesome."
Loki looked at that Marine in front of him—under the terrifying enhancement of the Nidhogg Fruit plus his own strength, half of the opponent's body had already been directly blasted away.
But right now, there was black mist from the Abyss lingering around his wound. Subsequently, his flesh and bones were seen regenerating rapidly, recovering as good as new in the blink of an eye.
"Even for a Mythical Zoan, that kind of recovery ability is clearly abnormal... it's the power of the Abyss."
Loki scratched his head: "Do I have to smash him to pieces?"
"Slicing them to pieces doesn't work either."
And right now, Hawk-Eyes beside them swept past like the wind.
He swung the Black Blade in his hand, sending an enemy in front of him who was also brandishing a sword flying with a slash: "I just tried it. He can also resurrect after being sliced to pieces."
And while they conversed.
On the battlefield, the massive bodies of the Giants continuously swung their weapons, every slash carrying mountain-splitting power.
The warriors of the Fish-Man Race used Fish-Man Karate, continuously advancing.
The arrows of the Kuja warriors were wrapped in Haki, helping with precise shooting from the rear.
But the entire battle situation was still at a stalemate—the bodies of all the "armies" appearing from the Ancient Coffin possessed immortality. Even if they were smashed to pieces, they would rapidly resurrect.
Of course, correspondingly, the situation on The Zodiac's side was also similar.
Whenever they were injured or killed, the starlight projected from the Aster would also precisely envelop their wounds, causing their scars to heal and recover, and even damaged weapons to be restored to their original state in the starlight.
This directly turned the battlefield into an unimaginable meat grinder—the two sides were like two inexhaustible tides, repeatedly clashing, annihilating, and resurrecting again.
And such a scene naturally horrified the people watching the live broadcast around the world.
Because even the most ignorant person would definitely know—even looking across the entire history of the sea, a war of this level is absolutely unique.
That was not merely a war between humans, or between armies.
But rather... a war between monsters and monsters, between the people of Gods and the people of Gods!