Chapter 788: Fusion Strike Detected In Transit
When this massive shadow appeared, everyone gathered in front of the live broadcast across the world also noticed it!
Although people were not at the scene, the moment that shadow arrived, every single image from the Video Den Den Mushi feeds darkened simultaneously, as if night had suddenly fallen. Both the sky and the sea became oppressively heavy at that instant.
Whether it was the Beast Pirates members or the reporters conducting the live broadcast from afar, they all instinctively raised their heads to look at the sky. The Video Den Den Mushi they carried were also tilted upward, causing people all over the world to look up along with them.
However... nothing was visible!
The sunlight had been blocked by a colossal object. The originally white clouds had turned pitch black. People only knew that something was above the clouds, but they couldn't see what it was!
But after seeing the area of that massive shadow, Ian, who was drinking a beverage, sprayed it out with a sputter.
He knew this was Uranus the Heavenly King arriving, but he really hadn't expected that Uranus's size would still exceed his imagination.
That Zunesha was already massive enough to carry a country, an island. Even if Zou was small, it had a circumference of at least ten kilometers. That meant Zunesha's back length probably exceeded that value, and its volume was even more unimaginable.
But its size probably couldn't compare to Uranus!
Although Uranus's true form hadn't been seen yet, the shadow it cast already covered all the surrounding sea areas.
This made Ian feel extremely astonished. Although he knew there were many enormous creatures in this world, Uranus being this huge was truly mind-boggling.
Thus, everyone gathered on Whole Cake Island was captivated, staring intently at the image, afraid to miss any detail.
At the same time, the entire Beast Pirates fell into a state of panic. Even Kaido stood up in shock and suspicion.
Doflamingo's cold sweat dripped down directly. He stared fixedly at the sky, dumbfounded, saying, "This... how is this possible!?"
Teach, still not reacting, asked foolishly, "Is it that old geezer Golden Lion Shiki? Where did he get such a huge floating island?"
"No! It's not that old geezer's floating island!" Queen the Plague looked up at the sky, his pupils constricted, and said, "It's something else!"
Before he finished speaking, a ferocious, enormous head suddenly broke through the clouds and emerged! It was a dragon's head filled with sharp teeth in its mouth!
"ROAR——!!!" As soon as it appeared, the dragon head let out a high-pitched roar that echoed across the entire sea. Then, accompanied by this roar, its body gradually emerged from the clouds.
Uranus the Heavenly King had finally appeared before people's eyes!
According to later statistics, at the moment Uranus appeared, at least one-third of the people watching the live broadcast worldwide wet their pants!
Although the reporters on site were also terrified and fell onto the decks, they still remembered their duties. The Video Den Den Mushi in their hands faithfully pointed at the sky.
Ian and the others widened their eyes, looking at this truly "giant" dragon. It was clear that this dragon was also very old. Its skin was as thick as a city wall, but many dried-out keratin layers could be seen on it. Moreover, numerous scars crisscrossed its body, arranged in a chaotic pattern on its skin. One of its eyes was rolled back, blind! Because there was a huge slash mark above that eye socket.
Several of its ferocious teeth were also missing. It seemed that the dragon tooth Ian and the others had obtained was one of the teeth that had fallen out.
These scars naturally couldn't have been left recently. The only explanation was that during the war that broke out in the blank century a hundred years ago, Uranus was not unscathed. Although it defeated the other two Ancient Weapons, it also suffered battle damage.
But these battle scars only made Uranus appear even more... terrifying!
After clearly seeing this giant dragon, even Kaido, no matter how confused his mind was, knew what it was. So he grabbed Doflamingo at his feet, squeezing his entire body, veins bulging on his arms, and roared, "Damn it! Didn't you say the Celestial Dragons couldn't activate Uranus!?"
Blackbeard Teach also came to his senses at this point, jumping and cursing, "Doflamingo! You bastard, are you trying to kill us all!?"
Doflamingo's bones creaked under Kaido's grip. He coughed up a mouthful of blood and shouted frantically, "Listen to me! Listen to me! We've all been deceived! Damn it, it's that bastard Ian! He tricked us all! The identity chip he returned back then must have been real, otherwise, there's no way to explain this!"
Kaido threw Doflamingo onto the deck like trash, causing him to spit blood again. But he also knew that blaming Doflamingo now was too late. No wonder they had reached the Red Line without seeing any Marine deployments. It turned out that the World Government and the Marines had long colluded with the Celestial Dragons, setting a trap waiting for them to appear.
"Boss, what do we do now?" Jack the Drought asked Kaido, his eyes bloodshot, staring at Uranus gradually descending in the sky.
"In that case, kill it!" Kaido roared with the same madness, "Kill Uranus the Heavenly King!"
It had to be said that although this was a crazy idea, it was a good one. Uranus was flying in the sky while they were floating on the sea. There was no way to escape. The only option now was to fight with all their might!
But at that moment, Uranus in the sky suddenly opened its huge dragon mouth toward the Beast Pirates fleet below.
What it spat out was not flames, but a... basin-sized ball of light!
After being spat out, this ball of light rapidly fell toward the sea surface. In everyone's eyes, just as it was still some distance from the sea, it suddenly exploded!
The first thing that erupted was an incredibly intense flash!
Even those watching through the Video Den Den Mushi were blinded at that moment! Ian was no exception. When that intense flash suddenly burst forth, he felt a sharp pain in his eyes, which were immediately stimulated into streaming tears!
"What the hell is this!?"
"My eyes! I can't see my eyes!"
Many people on Whole Cake Island covered their eyes, panicking and shouting. Ian quickly used Twin Heaven Return Shield to treat his own eyes.
In that instant, Ian felt as if he was staring directly at welding sparks without sunglasses, and it was even worse than that!
And this was the intense light that had been reduced after being transmitted through the images... The Beast Pirates members on site and the newspaper reporters suffered even more miserably. Many of them had their eyes truly blinded!
Whitebeard Old Man and Shanks were also stimulated by the intense light from staring at the image, their vision turning completely white. But Ian couldn't attend to treating them now. As soon as he could see again, he immediately turned to the live broadcast!
Somehow, perhaps because Video Den Den Mushi were special, their little eyes weren't blinded by the intense light, so the broadcast continued. But at this moment, the broadcast images were somewhat chaotic. The reason was that many reporters holding Video Den Den Mushi, shocked by the flash, were too terrified to hold the Den Den Mushi steady.
Among so many images, only one remained normal. It seemed that a reporter with strong professional ethics still remembered their duty...
But when he saw the image, Ian was completely stunned!
In the image transmitted by the Den Den Mushi, after the ball of light spat out by Uranus erupted with an intense flash, what followed was an earth-shattering explosion!
A massive amount of seawater was instantly vaporized. A powerful shockwave raised towering giant waves. But before the Beast Pirates fleet could be hit by the waves, they were already struck by the shockwave. In this violent storm, countless ships were directly flung into the air. Before they could fall, they had already turned into countless fragments.
As for the people on the ships, they had already turned into human torches, their entire bodies burning. Under the blast of the shockwave, their charred body muscles were directly blown away, turning into black skeletons. Then these skeletons began to disintegrate inch by inch, dissolving into the storm of the shockwave.
The Beast Pirates' hundred or so warships all vanished into smoke and dust in this explosion. At the same time, in Ian's eyes, a huge mushroom cloud slowly rose from the sea surface...
Finally, the shockwave spread to the location of the reporters in the distance. Then the entire live broadcast feed changed uniformly into sizzling snowflake spots... This meant that the reporters' ships had also been hit!
One strike! Just one strike, and the massive fleet of the Beast Pirates had been reduced to ashes!
The live broadcast disappeared. Many people hadn't even seen what had happened. But Ian, who had witnessed the entire process, opened his mouth wide, unable to close it for a long time!
"Damn! Damn!! Damn!!!"
After coming to his senses, Ian jumped up and down!
Regarding what Uranus's Devil Fruit ability actually was, Ian had many guesses. But he absolutely hadn't expected that Uranus's Devil Fruit would be...
The intense flash in the image, that huge mushroom cloud, and the powerful shockwave—what did all this represent? Ian, as a transmigrator, understood it better than anyone!
Thinking of the history Robin had deciphered, where the Moon People had once wanted to use Uranus as a substitute for energy, there was only one explanation!
A nuclear bomb!?
A fusion strike!?
I bought a watch last year! This is completely unscientific!
No wonder that dragon tooth had a strange, deadly power. Damn it, that was nuclear radiation!