Awaken

A white thunderbolt passed by kel from the right as he sidestepped to avoid it.

"I thought you wanted to recruit me?"

"I have enough experience to know if someone will agree to work for me."

"Then why'd you even bring up the proposal?"

A large flame was launched at the white thunderbolts.

The flame...

𝑩𝒐𝒐𝒐𝒎!

It disappeared after making contact with the being's power but it did lessen the power behind the thunder by at least a little bit.

A wave of the being's hand caused the domain to almost break as a hail of different elemental powers came crashing down at kel.

Numerous water walls took form above kel, taking the brunt of the attack as the ground shifted and a haki clad fist came towards IM.

It was however in vain as it stopped an inch away from his face.

𝑷𝑶𝑾!

The punch with double the force sent kel flying away.

𝑼𝒓𝒓𝒓𝒏𝒈!

A fluctuation formed near kel as space slid like a curtain revealing kel.

Blood was coming out from his mouth and there was a gaping hole near his left kidney.

"I wonder how you're alive, the punch should've disintegrated your soul."

"Kekeke....even I don't know if something can truly kill me or not."

"What are you?"

"Is that even important?"

𝑹𝒖𝒎𝒃𝒍𝒆!

The red landscape now seemed white from the constant lightning spam.

"Your domain is impressive, although far from perfect. Whom does it belong to?"

"The world?"

"At least try to come up with a better lie. I can see that this power of your comes from a vestige, a remnant of something on par with me."

"Yea, it's the vestige of the world."

𝑩𝑶𝑶𝑶𝑶𝑴!

Beast bombs detonated upon reaching the lightning. A sword sliced through the debris and as the dust cloud cleared away.

Kel was seen crouching down without an arm now while IM stood in front of him with a few minor scratches.

"You don't seem to be lying reincarnator.....why?"

"Huh?"

"Why would you reveal such important information to me?"

"What important info?"

"You being from another world. This world still exists so the vestige is definitely form another world."

"How is that important to me?"

"...What do you plan to do with one piece?"

"Don't want it. What is that thing anyways?"

"A device meant to control this world."

"You mean to control the will of the world itself or something?"

"You catch on quick."

"How is that any different from the devil fruits. Aren't they just fragmented wills packaged into a fruit?"

"The devil fruits were created to contain the remnant aspects of the world. Discarded by the world itself when deemed useless."

"Huh?"

"In simple terms, powers of the devil fruits are trash in the world's eyes and joyboy was the trash collector. He went against the natural order of this world and created them with a one piece."

"O"

"The device fishes out remnant wills using an individual's haki. He could've accomplished his goals if not for me. I was the to bri-"

𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒊𝒊𝒊𝒏𝒈!

The space around them stretched apart as the both now stood few metes away.

"Quite an annoying power you have there. I can't even perceive it with my observation haki."

"I don't care bro, you basically just revealed all the world's forbidden information to me instead of killing me. You can stop the monologue now."

𝑩𝒂𝒂𝒂𝒂𝒏𝒈!

Wooden vines clad in haki wrapped aound IM's limbs. He could break out from them but it still takes a few seconds to break free from something with such dense armanent.

Those few seconds were not wasted by kel as he ran forward with all his 8Gates open.

He knew he was weak compared to this being but that doesn't mean he can't put up a fight.

𝑽𝒓𝒓𝒓𝒓𝒓....

Sage mode, Aura, Armanent, 8-Gates and chakra. All the various powers were [compressed] to a single point with the help of space manipulation.

The pressure exerted from these powers were causing a number on his body only to be healed before a single visible injury could be seen.

Swish.

"WA-

𝑩𝑶𝑶𝑶𝑴!

As the fist touched IM's face, the shockwave destroyed the last bits of the vestiges holding the domain together.

The sky lit up in different colors somehow visible from all corners of the planet.

It seemed mesmerizing as the vast array of colors painted the sky.

In place of the domain now stood a barren wasteland. A giant hole in the center was constantly sucking up the space.

It seemed like a blackhole had emerged. However no one noticed this abnormality as a voice resonated in their souls.

For the first time haki 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗱. The planet seemed to be going through a change.

Haki, the merged consciousness of every living being gained a subtle stimulus.

It wasn't the powers from the remnant wills in IM's powers nor the cumulative wills of every living being.

It was the vestige of a foreign world merging with the will of this world after latching onto its abundant energy.

On that day the world gained a bit of 'sight'.

The hole fixed itself and the clock moved.....

𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒌! 𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒌! 𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒌!

The gears moved in sync and a rhythm was created....

The island hidden in fog sunk deep into the ocean and poneglyphs started to rust all while the people of this world stayed in a trance from the sudden boost in strength.

This phenomena in the future would be known as [Awakening] where every sentient being gained access to haki.

A new age began on that day.

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Hand over those powers stones.