As if foreseeing something, he suddenly realized Fujitora had just unleashed a full-power gravity blade attack and hadn't yet recovered; a nearly imperceptible opening appeared!
Luke shot forward like lightning, seizing the fleeting moment.
Boom!!!
A terrifying punch struck Fujitora square in the chest.
His chest caved in, his face twisted in agony, and blood spewed from his mouth.
"Black Prison—"
Mid-air, as he was sent flying, Fujitora's eyes widened in rage and disbelief.
His white pupils were piercing, filled with unwillingness and fury.
"Impossible..."
And then, even as he remained on guard against Luke's relentless assault, he suddenly sensed something.
His gaze snapped toward a distant warship on the sea.
There, a towering figure stood with arms crossed, gazing indifferently over the entire battlefield.
At this moment, even Fujitora, an admiral from the Marine Headquarters, couldn't help but feel a chill surge through his heart.
"This monster... is actually this powerful!?"
It turned out that from the very beginning, the one he had been fighting... was merely a clone of Black Prison.
Unbelievable.
"Your Observation Haki is indeed strong. Even from such a great distance, you were able to detect my true body. But this is as far as you go."
At that moment, the Luke before him suddenly let out a cold laugh.
In a flash, he vanished and instantly appeared behind Fujitora.
Clang!!!
A terrifying black mist enveloped his entire body, seemingly absorbing and devouring even the surrounding light.
Luke's left hand, which was wrapped in Armament Haki and seemed to be cast in steel, suddenly grabbed Fujitora's extremely sharp cane sword.
At the moment when the powerful gravitational field enveloped him...
Buzz!
From Luke's right palm, a massive surge of darkness erupted, instantly forming a swirling vortex that radiated an infinite gravitational pull and pressed directly onto Fujitora.
"Black Vortex!!!"
"What!?"
"Urgh!"
Fujitora coughed up a mouthful of blood.
His terrifying white eyes were wide open.
His chest had been pierced mercilessly from behind by a dark, hideous, and extremely sharp claw that ripped out his heart.
It was shocking.
"What!?"
"Admiral Fujitora!!"
"How... Is this possible?"
"Damn you, Black Prison!!!"
The gruesome scene struck terror into the hearts of the surviving marines, who were still desperately resisting the onslaught of endless swarms of bloodthirsty bats.
They could hardly believe their eyes while an uncontrollable chill ran down their spines.
Fujitora, the monster who had risen to the rank of admiral through the world conscription, had been so easily defeated.
Buzz!
Crackle!
Electric sparks flickered.
Like a phantom, Luke, who had appeared behind Fujitora and impaled him with his hand, remained expressionless and cold.
"As an admiral, you've done all you could... Now, rest in peace."
Without hesitation, he crushed Fujitora's heart and withdrew his blood-drenched claws.
"Cough... Black Prison..."
There was no miracle.
Despite his unwillingness and despair, despite his attempt to struggle, Fujitora, with his life force severed, could no longer resist.
Thud!
His lifeless body collapsed while his breath faded away.
Even in death, he couldn't comprehend, wasn't the enemy a Shadow-Shadow Fruit user?
How could he summon an endless army of real, flesh-and-blood, undying, ever-multiplying vampire bats?
And why was he completely unable to use his Devil Fruit ability?
Swoosh!
In the blink of an eye, a massive wave of darkness surged forth and swallowed him whole.
The next second, at Luke's hand, a Devil Fruit had quietly appeared.
If anyone has seen the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia and memorized those patterns there, they will be shocked to find that it was none other than the Press-Press Fruit,
The very devil fruit that once belonged to Admiral Fujitora.
"To oppose me means only one outcome!"
Sweeping his gaze across the battlefield, Luke's eyes remained cold and ruthless.
The remaining marines were overwhelmed, unable to focus on anything but the relentless, bloodthirsty bats gnawing at them.
Darkness surged in Luke's right hand as he pressed it against the ground.
"Dark Abyss!!"
Swoosh!
In an instant, boundless darkness erupted and rapidly spread.
In the blink of an eye, it engulfed the entire island.
The sky itself seemed to be consumed, as though all light had been devoured.
The eerie, ominous darkness churned like a living mist, sending shivers down spines.
"Rumble..."
A formless gravitational pull emanated from the abyss, dragging everything caught within it.
Boom!
Across the entire island, buildings, marine facilities, weapons, and even the lifeless bodies of the drained marines were all slowly, yet inevitably, pulled into the darkness and were crushed mercilessly, reducing them into dust.
"What!?"
"Damn it..."
"What is this thing!?"
"It's like a bottomless swamp; we can't escape...!"
"Help...!"
"Aaaaahhhh!!!"
Even the surviving marines were thrown into panic.
But resistance was futile; they were dragged into the abyss, one after another, swallowed by the horrifying, inescapable darkness.
In mere seconds, the entire G-5 branch had vanished.
"Drip, drip..."
"Flutter... Flutter..."
Amid the aftermath, a few elite marine officers, those proficient in Six Style, managed to leap into the air using Moonwalk as they tried desperately to escape the abyss below.
But in the blink of an eye, a swarm of countless blood-sucking bats descended.
Screams filled the air as bodies shriveled into dry husks, plummeting downward.
Then, they were swallowed by the endless darkness.
"Flap, flap..."
A massive number of bats gathered together, merging into a gigantic blood sphere that drifted toward Luke.
A torrent of blood, like silky threads, flowed into his body.
It was a completely eerie and terrifying sight.
Whoosh!
After a while, a golden light streaked across the sky from afar.
The long-overdue Admiral Kizaru arrived, staring in shock at the now-flattened remains of the G-5 branch.
The vast and empty sea was all that remained.
He was stunned.
"This is...?"
A chill crawled up his spine.
"Bulu!" "Bulu!" "Bulu!"
Just then, an urgent Den Den Mushi call suddenly rang out.
Kizaru fumbled around for a while before finally pulling it out of his pocket and pressing the answer button.
"Moshi Moshi, this is Kizaru!"
"This is Kong. Borsalino, have you reached the G-5 branch?"
The Den Den Mushi, imitating the stern features of Fleet Admiral Kong: "We just received a report; Obask Luke himself made a move... He attacked the G-5 branch. The entire G-5 branch has suddenly lost all communication. Even Fujitora's Vivre Card... Has burned to ashes!"
"For safety reasons, immediately abandon the G-5 reinforcement mission and return to the G-1 branch to regroup with Sengoku!"