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Chapter 98: Reaching 60%! Impel Down Level Six!

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[Impel Down, Level Six: Eternal Hell]

Ian strolled through the cacophony of Eternal Hell as if taking a leisurely walk in a garden. Offers of bribes, promises of power, and even threats of death echoed around him, but he remained unfazed.

The already boisterous atmosphere of Eternal Hell intensified, then abruptly fell silent. A moment of chilling stillness hung in the air before it was shattered by a bloodcurdling scream.

"Hey! What happened over there?!" a prisoner shouted from a nearby cell.

"Hahaha! Just another dead man. What's the big deal? It's just a corpse!" Another prisoner, further away and oblivious to the true events, scoffed.

Those who hadn't witnessed the scene mocked and jeered. However, the prisoners in the cells surrounding Ian, including Shiryu of the Rain, were far from amused.

Ian had rejected Shiryu's offer and hadn't engaged him. While Shiryu was a bloodthirsty and violent individual, his targets were primarily other vicious pirates.

Even though he was a master swordsman capable of holding his own against thousands, he wasn't worth the effort of even a 1% increase in Ian's fusion rate. Moreover, Shiryu's future allegiance to Blackbeard and his subsequent atrocities hadn't occurred yet.

Therefore, Ian wouldn't harm someone who, at this point in time, hadn't committed any significant injustices. After a dismissive comment, Ian had left Shiryu to stew in the darkness of his cell. His imprisonment was likely due to some interference from the World Government and the Five Elders.

Those who had witnessed Ian's power firsthand were now silent, their faces pale with terror. They had seen the shadows at his feet, the darkness that clung to him, extending and transforming into monstrous tendrils, impaling and consuming those who dared to challenge him.

"What just happened?! What did you do?! What was that thing?!"

"Shadows? Impossible! The Shadow-Shadow Fruit belongs to Gecko Moria!" The prisoners, including Shiryu, cried out in disbelief, their shock quickly turning to fear.

"Aaaah! Stay back! What is that thing?! Please, I won't say another word! Spare me!"

"Please, have mercy!" The prisoners' screams and pleas echoed through Eternal Hell, but the encroaching shadows showed no sign of stopping.

The inmates of Level Six were the most heinous criminals in the world, each responsible for the deaths of hundreds, if not thousands, of innocent lives. Ian felt no remorse as he unleashed his power upon them.

The screams abruptly ceased.

A wave of crimson blood, like a tidal wave, washed across the floor. With a deafening crack, a dozen seastone-reinforced steel cages crumbled into dust, along with the dozens of prisoners trapped within.

They had been impaled and torn apart by the shadowy tendrils, their bodies reduced to mangled pieces of flesh and bone. A radius of several meters was cleared, and the prisoners in the surrounding cells finally understood what had transpired. The sight of the carnage filled them with terror.

Even pirates with bounties exceeding hundreds of millions gasped in horror. They were hardened criminals, accustomed to violence and bloodshed, but they had never witnessed such a brutal and merciless display of power. Only when faced with their own mortality did they truly understand the meaning of fear.