# Chapter 532: Magellan's Resolve
This massive poison giant, with its hideous demonic face, appeared and stared down at Ian with hollow eyes, sending a chill down one's spine.
However, Ian only glanced at the poison giant once before ignoring it, saying to Magellan: "You know your poison is useless against me! Doing this is meaningless; you'll only die faster from the intense exertion!"
"I know..." Magellan panted heavily. Using his Devil Fruit ability consumed a great deal of stamina. Under normal circumstances, if his body were unharmed, this amount of exertion wouldn't matter. But now that Magellan was severely wounded, continuing to use powerful Devil Fruit abilities was causing even him to show signs of fatigue.
"But I still can't let you rescue the criminals in this prison!" Magellan gritted his teeth and said. "Perhaps you see Impel Down as no different from hell, but do you realize that without Impel Down imprisoning these criminals, how could the people of the world live in peace?"
"I admit prisons have their positive side!" Ian said with a hint of sarcasm. "What you say is true, but likewise, do you know how many people in this prison were framed and wrongfully imprisoned by the World Government? Those criminals transferred from the Judicial Island—did they truly receive a fair trial? I've heard a saying: 'Judicial corruption is the greatest corruption.' Can you honestly swear with your hand on your heart that every criminal here truly deserves their punishment?"
"..." Magellan fell silent. He couldn't answer Ian's question.
Having spent so many years at Impel Down, he had naturally seen similar situations many times, so he knew Ian was telling the truth.
Shaking his head, Magellan said: "Perhaps what you say is reasonable, but still, Impel Down is my duty. No matter what reason you have for breaking in here, I must bring you to justice. Someone as dangerous as you—even if I can't stop you, I still have ways to prevent you from achieving your goal!"
"Oh!? What do you mean!?" Ian became alert upon hearing this.
"When necessary, I have the authority to execute all the prisoners in this entire prison!" After saying this, Magellan immediately reached out. The massive poison giant behind him let out a silent roar, then suddenly extended its body, rushing to the wall of the fourth-level prison and punching toward it with its fist!
A loud boom echoed, accompanied by a shaking sensation, as if the entire fourth level of the prison had been rocked by the poison giant's punch. The wall struck by the poison giant was smashed into a large hole, caving in significantly.
"Not good!" Ian was shocked. He had originally thought Magellan was using the poison giant for a final desperate struggle, but he never expected Magellan's true intention was to break through the wall!
Remember, this was the fourth level of Impel Down, the middle section of the prison, but in reality, it was already deep within the sea. Inside the prison, one might not feel it, but once the wall was breached, the immense water pressure outside would cause seawater to flood into the prison frantically. As the seawater continued to pour in, before long, the entire Impel Down would be filled with water, drowning everyone inside!
This was what Magellan meant by "executing all the prisoners"!
Ian had previously considered how to deal with Magellan. In his view, one super electromagnetic cannon shot would make Magellan wish he were dead, but Ian didn't dare use it because he was worried the cannon's power might be too strong and break through the prison walls.
And now, although Ian hadn't used the super electromagnetic cannon, Magellan had taken the initiative to target the seawater outside...
"Flame Killing Black Dragon Wave!" As soon as Ian reacted, he struck at the poison giant. The dancing black fire dragon roared out, its intense heat directly incinerating the poison giant, turning it into clouds of poisonous gas that spread through the air.
Ian no longer cared about the consequences...
After the poison giant disappeared, Ian quickly spread his Flame Wings and flew toward the hole the poison giant had punched in the wall, arriving to inspect it.
Upon inspection, he finally breathed a sigh of relief. Good! That punch hadn't completely broken through the wall!
Perhaps because the builders of Impel Down had considered the immense water pressure outside, the prison walls were exceptionally thick. The poison giant's punch had only penetrated about half the wall's thickness, with the other half still intact.
However, Ian also noticed that the poison left by the poison giant's fist was continuing to corrode the stone of the wall...
Ian turned back and looked at Magellan with some astonishment. Ruthless! This guy was also a Devil Fruit user himself. Once the prison was flooded with seawater, he would die too. For the sake of his so-called duty, he was willing to sacrifice even his own life?
"Wha... what's going on!?" A voice came. Ian turned to see Brook and Franky, both carrying large bundles on their backs containing the gas masks they had collected earlier. Needless to say, they had been trying to rescue people and hadn't seen what just happened.
"Franky! Use your fire to burn away that poison!" Ian instructed him.
"Oh! Got it!" Franky immediately realized the seriousness of the situation, dropped his bundle, ran over, jumped to the edge of the large hole, puffed out his cheeks, and sprayed flames at the poison.
If this corrosion wasn't stopped quickly, the remaining wall would become thinner and thinner. Eventually, unable to withstand the water pressure outside, the wall would break. Ian's flames were too hot; he was worried that if he did it himself, he might melt the wall instead, so he let Franky handle it. His flames weren't as powerful as Ian's.
Meanwhile, Ian, with a dark expression, flew back to the bridge and said to Magellan: "It seems you're determined to go down this dark path to the end. Since that's the case, I'll grant your wish!"
With that, Ian's figure instantly disappeared from where he stood. When he reappeared, he was at Magellan's chest, extending his right hand and plunging it into Magellan's chest!
Magellan had expended a great deal of stamina controlling the poison giant for that full-force strike, and with the wound on his abdomen still bleeding, his mind was already dizzy. Faced with Ian's attack, he couldn't dodge and was hit directly!
When Ian withdrew his hand, a blue, glowing orb appeared in his palm!
"Die!" Ian violently crushed the soul orb of Magellan in his hand!
With Ian's action, Magellan spat a mouthful of blood toward the sky, and his massive body crashed to the ground! Already severely wounded, now deprived of a tenth of his life force by Ian, Magellan could no longer hold on!
Landing from mid-air, Ian crouched down, seemingly checking whether Magellan was dead, pressing his hand against Magellan's body.
At the same time, a voice came from behind Ian, saying: "You're truly formidable. Magellan is beyond saving now, isn't he?"
Standing up, Ian said without turning around: "Shiryu of the Rain... enough with the nonsense. Hurry up and save people, then head to the sixth level! I don't know how much longer this wall can hold!"
Shiryu of the Rain had returned, holding the antidote he had found in Magellan's office. Although he wanted to step forward and check Magellan's condition to see if Ian had killed him, hearing Ian's irritated tone, he temporarily abandoned that idea and handed the antidote to Brook.
Ian also unleashed another tornado, dispersing more of the poisonous gas lingering in the air.
Franky had already burned away the remaining poison, jumped down to help Brook. However, he didn't participate in rescuing people. Instead, he picked up the gas masks and headed toward the row of cells on the fourth level. Many prisoners were still locked up here. Affected by the battle between Ian and Magellan, quite a few had inhaled the poisonous gas and were unconscious. There wasn't enough antidote for all of them, so gas masks were the best way to save their lives. As long as they wore the masks and breathed for a while, these people might slowly wake up. After all, Magellan's poison gas was hallucinogenic, not lethal...
Franky used the keys to open the cells and walked in, placing gas masks on the faces of those who had collapsed. However, when he entered one particular cell and was about to put a mask on a bald prisoner, the bald prisoner suddenly opened his eyes, reached out, and caught the gas mask, saying calmly: "I'll do it myself!"
"Alright!" Franky looked curiously at this bald prisoner, somewhat surprised by his physical condition, but said nothing and moved on to the next cell.
This bald prisoner put the gas mask on his head, sat cross-legged on the ground, and silently stared through the glass eyeholes at Magellan's motionless body across from his cell.
From his position, he could just see the wound on Magellan's abdomen where Shiryu had stabbed him. And at that wound, a faint light was flickering.
The same kind of light as the membrane that had appeared on Ian's body earlier...
"Hmph!" Under the gas mask, the bald prisoner let out a small snort: "Sir Crocodile, it seems you've indeed found a worthy partner to cooperate with..."