One Piece: Surrounded at Marineford? Just kidding!

Chapter 254: Accelerate! Accelerate!

It's not that the wind has stopped.

It was something more domineering that forcibly pressed the pause button on the world.

Chen Ye walked to the base of the mainmast.

This black sailing ship is the masterpiece of the Whitebeard Pirates' craftsmen, made with top-quality materials.

But in the raging waves of the new world, it was still just a wooden boat that could break at any moment.

Chen Ye raised his right hand, his palm touching the cool, rough wood grain.

"Hold on tight."

The sound wasn't loud, but it felt like steel needles piercing Zefa and Kuzan's eardrums.

The moment Chen Ye's palm touched the mast, his black eyes changed.

The blackness faded away.

A chilling silver light filled his eyes.

That's not metallic silver.

It is the color of a galaxy flowing backwards, the color of a time-space collapse.

The trajectories of countless stars exploded and vanished in his pupils.

In a single second, he calculated billions of shipping routes.

A sharp, screeching sound filled the air, so subtle it made your teeth ache.

Like an invisible finger, it is scraping across the surface of the soul.

Centered on Chen Ye's palm, circles of transparent ripples spread along the wood grain, deck, and keel, instantly covering the entire ship.

The robust physical structure has been analyzed.

The wood is no longer wood.

Steel is no longer steel.

They turned into strings of cold data, enveloped and reconstructed by that silver power.

"This is……"

Zefa sprang up from the deck, his muscles instantly tensing like iron.

The veteran's intuition was pounding in his head.

A terrifying event beyond our comprehension is about to occur.

Kuzan ripped off his blindfold, his languid expression vanishing completely.

He scanned his surroundings warily, his pupils shrinking to pinpoints beneath his sunglasses.

The space around the ship began to distort.

Like a road baked to a scorching heat in summer, the air is boiling, and everything in sight is bent and burnt.

But this is the sea.

On the icy sea, space seemed to boil like water.

"Hurry up."

Chen Ye's voice rang out again, with an air of matter-of-fact calm.

next second.

boom!

The terrifying force of the push pinned the two of them firmly to the spot.

This is not acceleration.

This is as if the entire ship was grabbed by an invisible giant hand and thrown out from a stationary state.

But this force is also extremely strange.

Normally, such acceleration would tear three people on board to shreds instantly, and the ship would disintegrate on the spot.

But now, the ship is as stable as a rock.

The glass of rum at Zefa's feet remained perfectly still, without even a ripple.

All inertia, resistance, and gravity were erased by Chenye's rules.

"How...how is this possible?"

Zefa clung tightly to the gunwale with both hands, his knuckles turning white from the force.

He was horrified to discover that the scenery around him was no longer receding.

The sea has disappeared.

The sky disappeared.

The world became countless blurry, elongated, and colorful streaks of light.

That's the afterimage left behind after light is torn apart by speed.

The horizon, which was far away on the horizon and would normally take weeks to traverse, was now being "pulled" to our doorstep at a speed that defied the laws of physics.

Then, they were instantly left behind.

It's like someone holding a map of the ocean, pinching the starting point and the end point in their hand, and then folding it forcefully.

The distance between the two points is gone.

The sea was literally "folded" by this ship.

"Hey...you're kidding, right?"

Kuzan's sunglasses slipped down to the tip of his nose, revealing a pair of eyes filled with shock.

He subconsciously adjusted his glasses, his throat feeling dry and tight.

"This speed... even Kizaru couldn't achieve that with his Yata Mirror! He wasn't running on his own, this is running with a whole ship in tow!"

As a former admiral, Kuzan understands speed very well.

Kizaru's Glint-Glint Fruit is fast, but it's linear movement in an elemental form, so it can't carry heavy objects.

What Chen Ye is doing now is towing a sailboat weighing several hundred tons and two living people, speeding across the sea using teleportation.

This is no longer a voyage.

This is a "modification" of the definition of navigation.

Zefa stared intently out of the ship.

A pale silver barrier enveloped the ship, completely isolating it from the raging air currents and seawater.

The barrier is only a thin layer.

Outside the barrier, however, lies a turbulent flow of time and space powerful enough to tear steel apart.

"Is this... the true value of a 7.5 billion bounty?"

Zefa muttered to himself.

His lifelong understanding of power was shattered at this moment.

He used to think that having a hard enough fist and a strong enough domineering aura was the pinnacle.

What Chen Ye is demonstrating is the "right to interpret" this world.

Chen Ye slowly withdrew his hand, the silver light in his palm receded, and his pupils returned to black.

He patted the non-existent sawdust off his hands, as if he had only done something trivial.

"At this speed, we'll be there soon."

Chen Ye turned around, his hair fluttering slightly as the airflow distorted by the spatial barrier blew through him.

He looked at the two former generals, whose faces were blank, and said calmly.

"For those who know the rules, distance is just a parameter that can be changed at will."

"The so-called Grand Line is nothing more than a larger bathtub."

Kuzan took out a cigarette from his pocket, but the flame was extinguished by an invisible pressure as soon as it appeared.

He smiled wryly and put the cigarette away.

"Now I believe you, you really can bring down the Celestial Dragons."

"This power... it's practically cheating."

Zefa didn't speak, but just stared at Chen Ye's back, his eyes growing increasingly complicated.

He originally came with the mindset of "going to take a look," and even with a critical eye.

Now, scrutiny has turned into awe.

If Whitebeard was the strongest of the old era...

That Chenye is an unknown entity that transcends the times.

"Where are we going?" Zepha asked in a deep voice.

Baltiguet, the island of white earth.

Chen Ye casually uttered a place name.

Zefa's pupils contracted.

Revolutionary Army Headquarters.

A place that the world government has been searching for for decades but has not been found.

"Hold on tight, this is the last leg of the journey."

Chen Ye snapped his fingers.

The light around the ship suddenly accelerated, eventually turning into a pure white expanse.

……

The camera zooms out.

The gaze pierces through the clouds, crosses the doldrums, and traverses the red earth continent.

Ultimately, the focus shifts to the cloud, the sacred site of world power.

Mary Geoise.

Pongal Castle.

Between power.

There are no windows here, only ever-burning candlelight and a suffocating sense of oppression.

Five sofas, five elderly people who hold the reins of the world's destiny.

The atmosphere was so heavy it seemed to drip water.

"Bang!" A loud crash shattered the silence. Shepard X. Peter Saint (God of Agriculture), one of the Five Elders, dressed in a deep red suit with blond hair and a blond beard, slammed a report heavily onto the table.

The cover of the report prominently featured a photo of Zephyr's rebirth and Chen Ye's bounty poster with a faint smile.

"Absurd! Utterly absurd!" Peter Saint's voice was filled with suppressed rage. "That old bastard Zephyr, not only is he not dead, but he's regained his youth? What kind of intelligence is this? What are those CP0 idiots doing! Didn't they say he was definitely going to die?"