"Tsk, too many souls stored..."

  Above the sea surrounding Impel Down, rge warships burned fiercely, thick smoke billowing into the sky.

  Wearing a Shinigami’s mask, cloaked, and wielding a scythe, Gerd stood atop Thundercloud Zeus, apanied by Sun Prometheus.

  Despite her ret growth in strength, allowio store more than 30,000 souls, the sheer number of powerful individuals in Impel Down far exceeded what even an equivalent number of Navy elites could provide.

  After creating tens of thousands of angeliies, most souls had to be temporarily stored within her creations, Thundercloud Zeus and Sun Prometheus.

  Even after harvesting the souls of thousands of Navy personnel from the st warship, her capacity was maxed out.

  The sheer scale of the haul from Impel Down and its surrounding forces was unimaginable.

  "You two, we're moving out!" Gerd shouted into the sky.

  "Got it!"

  High above, two enormous a pterosaurs circled rapidly, their massive wings cutting through the air with tremendous forbsp;

  "Whoosh!"

  Responding to Gerd’s call, the pterosaurs desded, creating powerful gusts of wind that scattered id snow.

  Transf into their human forms, the brad Jaded before Impel Down’s gate.

  "Mirror World... such a terrifyingly powerful ability!" the two giant brothers marveled, staring at the massive mirror before them.

  Through its gleaming surface, tless angel soldiers marched in precise formation, disappearing into its reflective depths.

  Beside them, hundreds of fierce-looking prisoners, now wearing Impel Down guard uniforms and heavily armed, cheered as they too ehe Mirror World.

  Finally free of their hellish impriso, their faces were filled with excitement.

  Even the sharp Bded Tree Homies and Needle Grass Homies created by Gerd in the Crimson Hell, the Wild Beast Homies fed from the corpses of creatures in the Wild Beast Hell, and the formidable Blue Goril Homies entered in orderly fashion.

  "Time to go!"

  Standing tall, fmes bzing behind his head, El smiled.

  Having already been waiting with Moss and the others, he greeted the returning Gerd and the giant brothers, who had been busy destroying Navy warships and stretg their wings.

  "These ships will do us no good," El said. "If the Navy ’t have them, let them burn."

  Even with the resources of the Underworld Hell Trading pany, which had been stockpiling ships on the Calm Belt for years, the Fallen Angel Pirates were far from g warships.

  "Ssh, ssh..."

  Wasting no time, El led the others into the Mirror World.

  The giants bent low to pass through the mirror, which was just rge enough to aodate their massive frames.

  "Crash!"

  The mirror shattered into tless shards.

  The remaining Homies tasked with overseeing Impel Down’s 5.5th floor ed up the debris, scattering it into the sea.

  Ihe Mirror World, tens of thousands of angeliies marched in formation.

  Sally, Barry, Moss, and Ryan rode atop Sphinx Homies, created from Wild Beast Hell creatures, leading the way with anding presenbsp;

  Not long after—

  High above the seas, on Sky Isnd Birka, the vast Atntis floated amidst the clouds.

  Before a t mirror fed from memory-shaped alloy, impervious to damage, a weling party waited in the forest: Tsuru, Linlin, Lily, Nef, Rock, Jien, Sak, Little Oars, and Stussy.

  "They’re here!"

  As Barry touched the mirror, opening a passage between the Mirror World ay, Uthan, Moss, Rock, and others emerged, riding Sphinx Homies.

  Behind them marched an army of angel soldiers and newly recruited members of the Fallen Angel Pirates, still wearing their Impel Down guard uniforms.

  The newers gawked at their surroundings iheir jaws dropping at the sight of Atntis.

  "Linlin—"

  "El-onii! Gerd!!"

  "Boss El!"

  ……

  El and Gerd, along with their panions, approached Linlin and the reeting them warmly.

  "El-onii, I’m sorry..." Linlin said apologetically. "Despite mobilizing all our forces and searg every er of Birka, we still couldn’t find the Logia Rumble-Rumble Fruit."

  "It’s fine," El replied with a casual smile. "Just leave a few Homies here to keep searg. For now, let’s head back to the New World."

  He wasn’t overly ed. With Ryan’s Munch-Munch Fruit allowing them to recim Devil Fruits, even if the Rumble-Rumble Fruit ended up ed by someone, El had no fear. Not everyone could unlock its full potential.

  "Wow, Boss El, is this really a Sky Isnd?"

  "It’s incredible! Like something out of a fairy tale!"

  The giant brad Jace were mesmerized by the dreamy paradise around them, with floating bubbles and massive attras. They stared i the giant-sized Ferris wheel and carousel, -designed for beings of their size.

  "They’re so huge—"

  "Even bigger than Gerd!"

  "El, did you recruit miants?"

  Tsuru, Lily, Nef, Rock, Stussy, and Little Oars looked curiously at the two t giants, both over 20 meters tall. Even Rufe, Sak, and Lillian couldn’t help but gape, marveling at the brothers’ enormous presenbsp;

  "Mama-mama-mama, so these are the giant warriors you rescued, El-onii?" Linlin asked, her i piqued as she studied Gad Jabsp;

  She had heard that El gave them the 'A Zoan: Quetzalcoatlus Pterosaur Form' and 'Pteranodon Form' fruits, two rare and powerful abilities recimed from Impel Down’s prisoners. Their presence exuded strength, suggesting they were formidable warriors.

  "Pfft, you really pulled off something incredible!"

  Dr. Kureha approached, eyes gleaming with curiosity. She couldn’t help but admire the sheer size of El’s army of over 10,000 angeliies.

  Over the past few days, Sak had been w tirelessly, crafting lifelike wax figures using his Wax-Wax Fruit, piling up tens of thousands of them in Atntis. They were awaitio return from Impel Down with the harvested souls to animate them into a massive Homie army.

  The scale of their operation was staggering.

  "Ohese figures are brought to life, the Fallen Angel Pirates’ power will reaimaginable levels," Kureha remarked. "Even the Navy, the dominant force of the seas, might find themselves overwhelmed."

  "Oh, it’s nothing special. We just emptied out Impel Down," El joked with a mischievous grin.

  "I bet the Wover and Marine Headquarters are losing their minds right now," Tsuru ented with a chuckle.

  She noticed only a handful of prisoners had emerged from the Mirror World, suggesting El had beeive. Most were likely carefully sed individuals with signifit strength but retively records.

  This brought a sense of relief to Tsuru.

  Even after leaving the Navy, she had no desire to associate with irredeemable criminals. El’s restraint reassured her that his ambitions didn’t include aligning with wless butchers and marauders.

  If he had gone down that path, Tsuru, who still upheld her sense of justice, would have been deeply disappointed and uo remain part of the Fallen Angel Pirates.

  "Let’s not dwell on that for now," El said, turning to Dr. Kureha with a smile. "I heard you and Linlin, along with Nef, have made some progress in your research?"

  "Kuhihihi, so you’ve heard already?"

  Dr. Kureha ughed softly, taking a small, marble-sized yellow pill from her pocket.

  "Thanks to Nef’s notes and her previous resear this field, I mao skip a lot of the groundwork and came up with this!"

  She held up the pill with pride.

  "I call it the 'Rumble Ball'!"

  "It alter the transformation wavelengths of Zoan-type Devil Fruits. However," Kureha cautioned, her tone being serious, "strictly speaking, it’s still a dangerous drug—a prototype with signifit risks. It needs further optimization and refi."

  Bleam