One Piece: The World's Strongest in Roger's Era

At the top of the Red Earth Continent, deep in the city of Mary Geoise Pangu——

Venus, wearing clogs, walked beside Oleini, moving forward on the huge stone staircase, while introducing:

"This place is under the Void Throne deep in Pangu City. Only here can you lead to the Void Throne. The huge stone statues on both sides are the guards of the Void Throne and are also the most powerful leaders of the Knights of God in history."

Oleini nodded, and silently, under the guidance of Venus, climbed the stone steps leading to the ultimate secret of the world. Behind Oleini was another old man with shaved hair, who was the Red Earl.

Only the Red Earl accompanied Oleini on this trip to the holy land.

The Red Earl alone is enough to reassure Lex.

Venus continued:

"Lord Yim exists in every moment. Time is enough to erase most things, but it cannot erase the true gods."

Oleni does not deny: "There is always something, above everything, above time."

Jin Xing was very pleased and added: "I believe that you will also be above everything else."

Oleini didn't reply, but just walked forward.

In a short while, the three of them had arrived under the Void Throne.

The ancient swords, covered with rust, were inserted in a disorderly manner under the throne of the void, guarding the throne that represented the supreme existence of this sea. These were the weapons of the first twenty kings.

The throne was empty.

Rays of sunlight were cast from the huge dome, spreading across the hall. Everything was silent, leaving only endless holiness and majesty.

Silence is above all else, and the throne is before you.

Oleini said nothing, but walked straight forward, stepping on the stone steps, and walked step by step to the Void Throne. Venus behind him was horrified and hurriedly stopped him: "Oleini, don't go there!~"

The Red Earl stood firmly beside Venus. His originally unleaked aura suddenly burst out the moment Venus opened his mouth. In just a moment, Venus seemed to be in a sea of ​​blood and corpses. Even though he had gone through hundreds of years and had mastered the ghost energy and sword skills, he could not resist the Red Earl's faint murderous intent!

Jin Xing shut up. He was tactful and said no more.

Oleini didn't care about what was happening behind him. He just walked straight to the empty throne and stared at it intently. He raised his right arm, clenched his five fingers one by one, and then hung them in front of his chest. He took a deep breath, suppressing the emotion called "excitement" that he felt for the first time in his life.

An extremely cold voice came from behind: "If you want to sit, sit down."

Nerona Im!! ~

Under the towering, trailing robe, Im's indifferent expression remained unchanged, without the slightest bit of life or emotion.

He took a step forward, passing Venus and the Red Earl at the stone steps, and arrived beside Oleini in the blink of an eye.

Oleini did not turn around, nor did he raise his head. His gradually steady breathing was enough to prove that he had regained his composure. He shook his head and said:

“That’s not what I’m after.”

Yimsu gently raised his hand and placed it on the top of Oleini's head, gently stroking the long, smooth blond hair of the blond boy in front of him. He asked back:

“Isn’t it good to have such power?”

Oleini's eyes no longer had the fiery look they had when they first came before the Void Throne, and only silent calmness and sighs remained:

"Power corrupts the soul more than time ever could."

Yim's beautiful face was slightly moved, and a trace of reminiscence flashed in his eyes. He remembered a person and a sentence from more than 800 years ago. He opened his mouth and said:

"That's not the answer Joy Boy gave here, about eight hundred years ago."

Oleini finally raised his head, looking past Imna's chest that was as full as a mountain, and stared directly into the dark red eyes of the living god of Qinghai, and asked curiously:

"What's the answer?"

Yim's nostalgia grew stronger, his eyes were empty, as if he had traveled back to that afternoon more than 800 years ago.

The sun also shines through the huge dome and falls under the void throne. The tall Joey Boy laughs heartlessly. At this moment, he has been completely defeated and successfully backstabbed by Im, but his cheeks under his huge straw hat are curved with a smile, and his mouth is tilted up in the shape of a 'D'. He is extremely cool:

"Ahahahaha! ~ How can power compare to freedom?"

Yim was very confused at the time, and he asked: "If you have absolute power, don't you have freedom?"

Joey Boy shook his head proudly:

"No way! ~ Power is for enslaving others, freedom belongs to everyone, how can it matter?"

Im didn't ask any more questions, but just waved his hand silently and ended Joey Boy's life. Everything about him was wiped out by Im in an instant, leaving only the huge straw hat, which slowly fell in front of the void throne under the sunshine. This was the last object in Qinghai that could prove that Joey Boy had ever existed.

Im turned around and walked firmly towards the empty throne in front of him, step by step, until he sat on it. The swords of the twenty kingdoms' alliance beside him had not yet stopped there. Im stared at the huge straw hat for a long time and could not make a sound for a long time.

Until the subordinates outside the hall came and knelt down to report: "Master Yimu, Joey Boy's men used the power of the Meat Ball Fruit to scatter huge stone tablets engraved with the history of the war all over the sea. We failed to stop them. Please forgive me, Master Yimu!!~"

Yimu just came back to his senses and said calmly: "Declare that you are innocent, go and pacify the rest of the sea."

"Yes!~"

Only when the hall was empty again, with only Im, a being that had long since left the human level, did He silently stand up, walk to the huge straw hat, and murmur:

"Why is it always like this? You willful fellow..."

Since that day, the huge straw hat has been locked by Im in the deepest part of Pangu City, never to see the sunlight, but it can never be erased from Im's memory.

Time passed quickly. More than eight hundred flowers bloomed and fell. Pangu City was already what it is today. The twenty swords in front of the Void Throne became rusty. However, Yim was not cursed by time and still looked so beautiful. His thoughts spanned eight hundred years and he asked the blond boy in front of him again:

"Oleni, what about freedom? Is it more attractive to people than power?"

"No, freedom, like power, is a desire that people have and should have. It attracts different people to do different things, but they are all pursuing similar answers and goals."

"Is that your father's answer?"

"No, it's just my opinion. My father is a complicated person. He pursues power and freedom, and he also carries a heavy burden called responsibility."

"how about you?"

Oleini smiled upon hearing this, a gentle smile, as gentle as the wind:

"As for me, I don't pursue freedom. I need power because I have greater responsibilities. I need power to protect my responsibilities. Of course, all of this is based on strength."

These were Oleini's heartfelt words, which softened Yim's eyes. He gently stroked Oleini's head:

"You are very good, Mu likes it very much."