“It’s over…”

  “What a spectacur duel of swordsmanship!”

  “El’s strength keeps getting more incredible!”

  In the distant sky, a white, fluffy cloud floated serenely.

  Watg the fierce battle clude from afar, Uthan, Barry, Ryan, Gerd, and others couldn’t help but dra breaths.

  Witnessing the csh between two great swordsmen with their own eyes had been both enlightening and shog.

  “Of course! El is the stro!” Gerd decred with unwavering fidenbsp;

  She turo Zeus, her loyal transport, and gave an order. “Zeus, take us there!”

  “Yes, Gerd-sama!”

  When Zeus carried them to Alvia Isnd, the aftermath of the duel was unmistakable.

  The legendary Gale Swordsman, Baris Frank, bloodied and unscious, was bound tightly by thick, writhing vines, suspended helplessly.

  Meanwhile, El stood nearby, pletely unscathed, casually iing his spoils of battle—the exquisite bde 'Gale,' whi was no more than a collectible “figurine.”

  “Since he refuses to submit… let’s begin!” El erd and the others.

  “Hehe…”

  Gerd stepped forward with a mischievous glint in her eye. Activating her Soul-Soul Fruit, she effortlessly extracted the battered swordsman’s soul from his broken body.

  “Hmm, 52 years of life essence?” She chuckled lightly. “This guy sure is resilient!”

  Turning to Ryan, the stist responsible for many of their creations, she called out: “Ryan!”

  “On it… bring out the Munch Factory!”

  Ryan grinned wickedly as he activated his Munch-Munch Fruit, summoning from his factory a t three-to-four-meter-tall angelic robot, distinct from the others.

  This one was a six-winged, demonic variant of the standard seraphim, plete with horns resembling a devil’s.

  “I bestow upon you a new life,” Gerd announced with an air of ceremony, her voice filled with authority and a tinge of delight. “Rise as a fallen angel… 'Wrath of Sin—Samael!'”

  She pressed the captured soul into the robotic body, infusing it with a strange, radiant energy.

  “Master—”

  Moments ter, the six-winged, horned angel sprang to life. Its oy faow bore a human-like visage, plete with expressions.

  Falling to one khe resurrected Samael k beferd and offered his loyalty.

  “Another ‘Queen-css’ high-ranking Homie…”

  Gerd smiled with satisfa. “Now, with the gains from Impel Down, the 'Seven Deadly Sins' are finally plete!”

  Previously, Gerd had already used the souls of notable figures such as Holy Knight ander Saint Howard and Impel Down Warden Blood Prison Ian to create formidable Homies.

  Alongside these, she had harvested the souls of four other strong Impel Down prisoners, each rivaling Blood Prison Ian in strength.

  This final addition of Baris Frank’s soul had pleted the set.

  “Not bad at all!” El nodded with a smile.

  The 'Seven Deadly Sins' could be seen as an alternate version of the Warlords of the Sea. While it remained uaiher they could collectively rival the Navy’s top brass, they could at least stall the Wover’s mid-tier forces, allowing El and his team to focus on the most dangerous enemies.

  If Ryan mao replicate the ser on system from the Pluton blueprints, it would further elevate their bat power.

  “It’s about time to begin the phase of our pn.” El’s expression turned serious as he looked toward Ryan and the others.

  “With the 'Gale Swordsman,' a potential admiral, taken care of, the Wover won’t give us much breathing room. The uping steps are now in your hands!”

  El turo the t, light-blue-skinned fish-giant hybrid who stood at an equal height to himself.

  In a deep, firm voice, he asked, “Sebastian, this mission involves some risks. Are you ready?”

  Sebastian was a hybrid between a fishman and a giant, also known as a fish-giant.

  Sebastian—who had the features of a catfish—had been introduced to El by Sea Tiger Jien, a tiger-shark fishman and fellow practitioner of Fishman Karate.

  Impressed by El’s unmatched strength and ambitious visioian voluntarily joihe Fallen Angel Pirates.

  El ter granted him the Paramecia Water-Water Fruit, which allowed Sebastian to turn nd into a sea-like enviro, enabling him to swim through it freely and unleash devastating Fishman Karate and Jujutsu teiques.

  Though this ability meant he could no longer swim in real seas, it dramatically amplified his bat prowess on nd and gave him unparalleled stealth potential.

  Sebastian’s ability was crucial to the phase of El’s pn.

  “Don’t worry, Boss El. I’m fully prepared!” Sebastian grinned, baring his teeth.

  “My invisibility skills, bined with the Water-Water Fruit’s power to let me swim freely through solid ground, mean I avoid obstacles and move ued. As long as I’m careful, there won’t be any problems!”

  The Water-Water Fruit allowed Sebastian to transform any non-living solid material he touched into a liquid state while retaining its inal properties, enabling him to move through it as though it were water.

  As a catfish fish-giant, Sebastian also had a natural camoufge ability, simir to a chameleon’s, making him practically invisible in most enviros.

  The fruit’s abilities seemed almost tailor-made for Sebastian, making him the perfefiltrator.

  “Ryan, what about you?” El turned his attention to the stist.

  “Ha! Although we don’t have enough explosives right now, with Barry and his Mirror-Mirror Fruit, we quickly gather the necessary materials and produce as much as we need!”

  Ryan fidently pounded his chest.

  “As for the remote detonators, those are easy. I’ve desighem to work using Den Den Mushi, but I’ve also made special modifications. Even if someories to interfere with them using queror’s Haki, they’ll remaiional. The signal ’t be jammed!”

  With a sinister grin, he added, “If aries to block or destroy the devices with queror’s Haki, they’ll just trigger the explosives and blow Mariejois sky-high!”

  “Hehe… imagihe look on those Wover officials’ faces if their headquarters were obliterated,” Gerd chuckled.

  “That depends oher they behave themselves,” El said coldly, twirling the 'Gale' bde in his fingers.

  “Once we get the signal, we’ll blow up Marineford first. That should give them a little ‘shock therapy.’”

  Knowing the odds were stacked against them, El wasn’t shy about using scorched-earth tactibsp;

  “Barry, Uthan, you two are responsible for assisting them fully.”

  El ordered the Mirror-Mirror Fruit user Barry and the Door-Door Fruit user Uthan.

  “Help them infiltrate Marineford and Mariejois’ underground facilities. Once you’ve sent Gerd and me back to Totto Land, you’ll stay outside the kingdom.”

  “After assistiian and Ryan in their preparations, take an army of 10,000 Homies and hide in the Mirror World. Once you get the signal, strike Mariejois while its defenses are stretched thin!”

  “Yes, Boss!”

  Bleam