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**Chapter 1191: He Made His Move, Bringing Them Back!**
"Gurararara~~~"
"I didn't expect this old man to be the last one. It seems I'm truly getting old!"
Just as Garp, Shiki, Kuzan, Bullet, Hashirama Senju, Madara Uchiha, and the others were staring with dark expressions at the wildly laughing Freya.
A hearty laugh filled with vigor came over, instantly overpowering Freya's voice.
'Whitebeard'!
Everyone present subconsciously turned their heads to look at the source of the sound.
Compared to the true name Edward Newgate, everyone was clearly more used to his nickname.
They saw Newgate had already walked into the camp gate and was striding towards them.
However, they were immediately drawn to the little girl sitting on his shoulder.
Wearing a black and red Gothic-style short skirt, paired with black stockings and red high heels.
Her figure was slender and tall, and her face was delicate and lovely.
Only her large red eyes were filled with sorrow.
Giving her a melancholic aura, her mood seemed very low.
"Isn't that..."
Lieutenant Colonel Bradley, not far away, recognized her at a glance.
It was indeed the 'demigod' Rory Mercury who had previously come to the camp to negotiate on behalf of the chief god.
"Whitebeard, who is she?"
Garp suppressed the worry in his heart about the 'Gate' and asked with some curiosity.
"Gurararara~ My daughter I took in in this world, Rory Mercury. If you meet her outside in the future, take good care of her!"
Newgate laughed heartily with delight on his face.
He didn't mention much about Rory's matter.
After all, saying more to someone who had just been betrayed and abandoned by their 'family' was no different from rubbing salt in a wound.
But Rory Mercury on Newgate's shoulder couldn't help but recall the events that happened before.
Ever since she heard Emroy say that she could immediately grant the other party divinity.
She realized that this god, whom she regarded as her sister, or even her mother.
Had already decided to abandon her and replace her with a more powerful demigod.
This caused her to collapse and sit on the cloud mass in the air on the spot.
Her entire being was distraught, sinking into all the beautiful memories of the past.
She never looked at the battle below again.
Even if Emroy was pressed to the ground and fiercely hammered by Newgate's fist.
Even if Emroy's horrifyingly painful wails echoed throughout the wilderness.
Even if Emroy began to frantically beg for mercy and cry.
She even subconsciously screamed her own name, hoping a demigod would save her.
[Rory!!]
[Come down and save me quickly!]
[What are you doing! Why aren't you coming to save me!]
[Ahhhh, I just need a little time!]
Rory Mercury, hearing this, also had no reaction.
Because the light in her eyes was gone.
As the saying goes, the deeper the love, the stronger the hate.
Over nine hundred years of feelings shattered in one day, this blow was simply too great for her.
If Emroy hadn't said that sentence before.
Then Rory Mercury would definitely have rushed up at this moment, fighting to the death, just to buy her a sliver of a chance to escape.
But now she just stared blankly as Emroy was brutally ravaged and trampled upon.
Newgate had truly struck ruthlessly.
If Emroy hadn't been an innate god of this world, she would have been beaten to soul annihilation long ago.
Finally, the Sage of Six Paths, who couldn't bear to watch any longer, appeared and took her into the 'Benihisago'.
It wasn't until a 'boom' of a loud sonic boom startled Rory Mercury awake that she subconsciously raised her head and looked at Edward Newgate, who had flown in front of her.
"Child, would you like to chat with this old man about your story?"
Newgate had noticed Rory Mercury above him long ago.
When her aura suddenly surged with astonishing sadness, despair, suffering, anger, and other negative emotions, it made him take notice.
Seeing Emroy panic and call for help, while Rory showed no reaction.
Newgate realized this was another pitiful child.
The reason he said "another".
Was because all the sons he had taken in had tragic experiences of one kind or another.
Coupled with the fact that his own childhood wasn't much better, he had a strong sense of empathy for such pitiful children.
This was also the reason why Newgate had always wanted family, wanting to give orphans a father.
"Waaaaaah!"
And as soon as Rory Mercury saw Newgate's kind smile, her mood suddenly collapsed, her tears could no longer be held back, and she burst into loud crying.
As she cried, she began to stammer out her past, and the story of her and Emroy.
As if pouring out all the grievances and pain in her heart.
At this moment, although the age gap between the two was huge, Newgate was more like an elder patiently listening to the girl's story.
And Newgate also heard from Rory's words that the other party was nearly a thousand years old!
This surprised him greatly, but he could still maintain superficial calmness.
After all, he had seen countless hardships.
Moreover, from Rory's words, Newgate noticed that her disposition didn't quite match her age.
To say she was mature, she wasn't mature enough.
Her personality still carried childish playfulness, and she also liked to rely on a certain person.
To say she was innocent, she had no qualms about slaughter, but she placed great importance on feelings.
Just like now, because of Emroy's betrayal and abandonment, she was almost heartbroken.
She also said something about wanting to be a 'god of love', protecting all the love in the human world.
Yet she was clearly called the 'death god', having harvested countless human lives before.
Although most of them were evil people.
She was also the apostle of the 'god of death and trial'.
According to the laws of this world, she indeed had the authority to sentence evildoers to death penalty.
This point could not be opposed even by the Empire, the ruler of the continent.
After Newgate finished listening to Rory's story.
Seeing that this was a child who valued family, relied on family, and whose heart still desired family after being betrayed by her only family.
A nine hundred and sixty-one year old child.
Immediately, Edward Newgate's heart was also moved.
The next moment, a scene that Rory Mercury would never forget appeared.
"Become my daughter, Rory!"
Edward Newgate extended his right palm with a brilliant smile.
"From now on, I am your family!"
"You can bear the name of 'Whitebeard' and do whatever you want to do to your heart's content!"
"Old man will always love you, Rory Mercury!"
Every sentence, every word, Rory Mercury remembered clearly.
But she didn't remember how she stood up and then walked onto the other party's palm.
At that time, she only felt that old man's smile was so attractive to her.
Like a warm sun, comforting the sadness and suffering in her heart.
"From now on, I am no longer the apostle of a certain god, but just old man's daughter, Rory Mercury. Please take care of me."
Rory jumped down from Newgate's shoulder, gently lifting her skirt with both hands.
And performed a formal gesture of etiquette towards everyone.
"Look, this kind of matter doesn't matter at all!"
At this moment, Douglas Bullet impatiently waved his hand.
He wasn't interested in Newgate taking in a daughter, he just wanted to solve the problem of the 'Gate'.
"Whitebeard, you should have already defeated Emroy, right?"
"What about that Sage of Six Paths? Quickly release her soul and ask if she can open the Gate for us!"
"Right, right, Newgate, the situation is like this..."
Garp immediately explained the situation to Newgate.
"No, once Emroy is released, she might directly take away Rory's divinity, which would endanger her life!"
Edward Newgate immediately refused, his attitude very firm.
Then he pointed at Freya, "Besides, she refused, so how could Emroy, the one who 'closes the Gate', agree?"
"This..."
Kuzan, Madara Uchiha, Hashirama Senju, and the others exchanged glances.
Newgate's words indeed made sense.
Now everyone could only focus their gaze on Freya.
"Hehehehe, you want me to open the Gate?"
"Beg me~~"
Freya, held in Shiki's hand, had eyes full of mockery.
"Madara."
At this moment, Hashirama Senju spoke, and Madara Uchiha walked forward, understanding implicitly.
"Mm, I'll try to control her!"
Kuzan, Bullet, and the others saw that he seemed to have a method and cast expectant gazes.
Madara Uchiha was unfazed.
He quickly transformed his eyes into the eerie Mangekyo Sharingan and met Freya's startled and uncertain beautiful eyes.
"Genjutsu: Sharingan!"
He immediately activated the Uchiha Clan's most basic dojutsu.
But no matter how basic, with the enhancement of immense dojutsu power, it still had an effect that couldn't be underestimated.
Surging Yin Release Chakra, like an invisible torrent, poured into Freya's mind from a distance, attempting to control her spirit and consciousness.
"Hmph!"
However, Madara Uchiha suddenly let out a muffled grunt.
They saw him immediately look away.
But two lines of tears had already flowed from his eyes, as if he had been stimulated by something.
"Madara, what's wrong?" Hashirama Senju quickly supported him.
"A golden light suddenly bloomed in her mind and forced my dojutsu power out!"
Madara Uchiha said with a pale face, covering his eyes.
If his eyes hadn't been strong enough, he wouldn't just be shedding tears now.
If it were anyone else, losing their sight would be minor; even their brain could be burned out.
"Hehehehe~~"
At this moment, Freya looked at Madara Uchiha and sneered.
"To actually fantasize about manipulating a god's consciousness, a presumptuous fool!"
"You probably don't even know what divinity is, you— Ahhhhhh!"
But she was immediately gripped by Shiki's forceful palm, suffering unbearable pain and emitting piercing, unpleasant screams.
"Open the Gate!"
"Did you hear me? Open the Gate for this old man, otherwise I'll keep tormenting you like this!"
Shiki saw that Madara Uchiha's method didn't work, and he fiercely leaned in front of Freya and cursed.
"Ahhhhhh, No! No! You're dreaming!"
"If you dare, kill me! Kill me!"
Freya howled frantically and struggled desperately.
"Er Ahhh, you can't go back anymore, Ahhhhhh!"
On the other side, Newgate lowered his head to look at his newly adopted daughter, "Do you have a method? There are still many brothers and sisters on the home world side."
"I'm sorry, the 'Gate' can only be opened by those three innate gods." Rory Mercury shook her head shamefully.
Newgate smiled and said, "It's alright. I believe that Lord Imu will make a move!"
"Lord Imu?" Rory raised her head in doubt.
"Mm, you can think of him as the god of our world."
At the same time.
Otsutsuki Hagoromo, who was in invisibility in the void, was also in a difficult situation.
He really wanted to help the people below, but he was powerless.
Although he could return to the world at any time, that was through the Underworld Sea between the netherworlds.
But Garp, Newgate, Shiki, and these people are living beings, and it's impossible for them to enter the netherworld.
Moreover, even if they could soul out of body, would they leave their physical bodies in this world?
"However, that Lord Imu should have already foreseen this situation."
"Otherwise, why would he allow Warrior God Garp and the others to come in?"
Otsutsuki Hagoromo mused inwardly in his heart:
"Since Lord Imu can control the 'Star Gate', it shows that his attainment in spatial rules is extremely high."
"And it's so high that I can't even understand it now, so..."
Just as Otsutsuki Hagoromo's thoughts reached this point.
[Buzz——————]
A blue light so bright that it formed a light pillar even in the daytime environment.
Suddenly shot straight up into the clouds from a certain position on the Hill of Alnus.
In an instant, thousands of pairs of gazes throughout the entire military camp were forcibly drawn towards it.
Garp, Kuzan, Newgate, Bullet, and the others, who were closest.
After seeing the blue light rapidly spread, gradually forming a light blue, somewhat translucent square plane.
They immediately had their own speculations in their hearts.
Their eyes all revealed uncontrollable excitement and delight.
That person made their move, to bring them back!
"Gurararara~~~"
"I didn't expect this old man to be the last one. It seems I'm truly getting old!"
Just as Garp, Shiki, Kuzan, Bullet, Hashirama Senju, Madara Uchiha, and the others were staring with dark expressions at the wildly laughing Freya.
A hearty laugh filled with vigor came over, instantly overpowering Freya's voice.
'Whitebeard'!
Everyone present subconsciously turned their heads to look at the source of the sound.
Compared to the true name Edward Newgate, everyone was clearly more used to his nickname.
They saw Newgate had already walked into the camp gate and was striding towards them.
However, they were immediately drawn to the little girl sitting on his shoulder.
Wearing a black and red Gothic-style short skirt, paired with black stockings and red high heels.
Her figure was slender and tall, and her face was delicate and lovely.
Only her large red eyes were filled with sorrow.
Giving her a melancholic aura, her mood seemed very low.
"Isn't that..."
Lieutenant Colonel Bradley, not far away, recognized her at a glance.
It was indeed the 'demigod' Rory Mercury who had previously come to the camp to negotiate on behalf of the chief god.
"Whitebeard, who is she?"
Garp suppressed the worry in his heart about the 'Gate' and asked with some curiosity.
"Gurararara~ My daughter I took in in this world, Rory Mercury. If you meet her outside in the future, take good care of her!"
Newgate laughed heartily with delight on his face.
He didn't mention much about Rory's matter.
After all, saying more to someone who had just been betrayed and abandoned by their 'family' was no different from rubbing salt in a wound.
But Rory Mercury on Newgate's shoulder couldn't help but recall the events that happened before.
Ever since she heard Emroy say that she could immediately grant the other party divinity.
She realized that this god, whom she regarded as her sister, or even her mother.
Had already decided to abandon her and replace her with a more powerful demigod.
This caused her to collapse and sit on the cloud mass in the air on the spot.
Her entire being was distraught, sinking into all the beautiful memories of the past.
She never looked at the battle below again.
Even if Emroy was pressed to the ground and fiercely hammered by Newgate's fist.
Even if Emroy's horrifyingly painful wails echoed throughout the wilderness.
Even if Emroy began to frantically beg for mercy and cry.
She even subconsciously screamed her own name, hoping a demigod would save her.
[Rory!!]
[Come down and save me quickly!]
[What are you doing! Why aren't you coming to save me!]
[Ahhhh, I just need a little time!]
Rory Mercury, hearing this, also had no reaction.
Because the light in her eyes was gone.
As the saying goes, the deeper the love, the stronger the hate.
Over nine hundred years of feelings shattered in one day, this blow was simply too great for her.
If Emroy hadn't said that sentence before.
Then Rory Mercury would definitely have rushed up at this moment, fighting to the death, just to buy her a sliver of a chance to escape.
But now she just stared blankly as Emroy was brutally ravaged and trampled upon.
Newgate had truly struck ruthlessly.
If Emroy hadn't been an innate god of this world, she would have been beaten to soul annihilation long ago.
Finally, the Sage of Six Paths, who couldn't bear to watch any longer, appeared and took her into the 'Benihisago'.
It wasn't until a 'boom' of a loud sonic boom startled Rory Mercury awake that she subconsciously raised her head and looked at Edward Newgate, who had flown in front of her.
"Child, would you like to chat with this old man about your story?"
Newgate had noticed Rory Mercury above him long ago.
When her aura suddenly surged with astonishing sadness, despair, suffering, anger, and other negative emotions, it made him take notice.
Seeing Emroy panic and call for help, while Rory showed no reaction.
Newgate realized this was another pitiful child.
The reason he said "another".
Was because all the sons he had taken in had tragic experiences of one kind or another.
Coupled with the fact that his own childhood wasn't much better, he had a strong sense of empathy for such pitiful children.
This was also the reason why Newgate had always wanted family, wanting to give orphans a father.
"Waaaaaah!"
And as soon as Rory Mercury saw Newgate's kind smile, her mood suddenly collapsed, her tears could no longer be held back, and she burst into loud crying.
As she cried, she began to stammer out her past, and the story of her and Emroy.
As if pouring out all the grievances and pain in her heart.
At this moment, although the age gap between the two was huge, Newgate was more like an elder patiently listening to the girl's story.
And Newgate also heard from Rory's words that the other party was nearly a thousand years old!
This surprised him greatly, but he could still maintain superficial calmness.
After all, he had seen countless hardships.
Moreover, from Rory's words, Newgate noticed that her disposition didn't quite match her age.
To say she was mature, she wasn't mature enough.
Her personality still carried childish playfulness, and she also liked to rely on a certain person.
To say she was innocent, she had no qualms about slaughter, but she placed great importance on feelings.
Just like now, because of Emroy's betrayal and abandonment, she was almost heartbroken.
She also said something about wanting to be a 'god of love', protecting all the love in the human world.
Yet she was clearly called the 'death god', having harvested countless human lives before.
Although most of them were evil people.
She was also the apostle of the 'god of death and trial'.
According to the laws of this world, she indeed had the authority to sentence evildoers to death penalty.
This point could not be opposed even by the Empire, the ruler of the continent.
After Newgate finished listening to Rory's story.
Seeing that this was a child who valued family, relied on family, and whose heart still desired family after being betrayed by her only family.
A nine hundred and sixty-one year old child.
Immediately, Edward Newgate's heart was also moved.
The next moment, a scene that Rory Mercury would never forget appeared.
"Become my daughter, Rory!"
Edward Newgate extended his right palm with a brilliant smile.
"From now on, I am your family!"
"You can bear the name of 'Whitebeard' and do whatever you want to do to your heart's content!"
"Old man will always love you, Rory Mercury!"
Every sentence, every word, Rory Mercury remembered clearly.
But she didn't remember how she stood up and then walked onto the other party's palm.
At that time, she only felt that old man's smile was so attractive to her.
Like a warm sun, comforting the sadness and suffering in her heart.
"From now on, I am no longer the apostle of a certain god, but just old man's daughter, Rory Mercury. Please take care of me."
Rory jumped down from Newgate's shoulder, gently lifting her skirt with both hands.
And performed a formal gesture of etiquette towards everyone.
"Look, this kind of matter doesn't matter at all!"
At this moment, Douglas Bullet impatiently waved his hand.
He wasn't interested in Newgate taking in a daughter, he just wanted to solve the problem of the 'Gate'.
"Whitebeard, you should have already defeated Emroy, right?"
"What about that Sage of Six Paths? Quickly release her soul and ask if she can open the Gate for us!"
"Right, right, Newgate, the situation is like this..."
Garp immediately explained the situation to Newgate.
"No, once Emroy is released, she might directly take away Rory's divinity, which would endanger her life!"
Edward Newgate immediately refused, his attitude very firm.
Then he pointed at Freya, "Besides, she refused, so how could Emroy, the one who 'closes the Gate', agree?"
"This..."
Kuzan, Madara Uchiha, Hashirama Senju, and the others exchanged glances.
Newgate's words indeed made sense.
Now everyone could only focus their gaze on Freya.
"Hehehehe, you want me to open the Gate?"
"Beg me~~"
Freya, held in Shiki's hand, had eyes full of mockery.
"Madara."
At this moment, Hashirama Senju spoke, and Madara Uchiha walked forward, understanding implicitly.
"Mm, I'll try to control her!"
Kuzan, Bullet, and the others saw that he seemed to have a method and cast expectant gazes.
Madara Uchiha was unfazed.
He quickly transformed his eyes into the eerie Mangekyo Sharingan and met Freya's startled and uncertain beautiful eyes.
"Genjutsu: Sharingan!"
He immediately activated the Uchiha Clan's most basic dojutsu.
But no matter how basic, with the enhancement of immense dojutsu power, it still had an effect that couldn't be underestimated.
Surging Yin Release Chakra, like an invisible torrent, poured into Freya's mind from a distance, attempting to control her spirit and consciousness.
"Hmph!"
However, Madara Uchiha suddenly let out a muffled grunt.
They saw him immediately look away.
But two lines of tears had already flowed from his eyes, as if he had been stimulated by something.
"Madara, what's wrong?" Hashirama Senju quickly supported him.
"A golden light suddenly bloomed in her mind and forced my dojutsu power out!"
Madara Uchiha said with a pale face, covering his eyes.
If his eyes hadn't been strong enough, he wouldn't just be shedding tears now.
If it were anyone else, losing their sight would be minor; even their brain could be burned out.
"Hehehehe~~"
At this moment, Freya looked at Madara Uchiha and sneered.
"To actually fantasize about manipulating a god's consciousness, a presumptuous fool!"
"You probably don't even know what divinity is, you— Ahhhhhh!"
But she was immediately gripped by Shiki's forceful palm, suffering unbearable pain and emitting piercing, unpleasant screams.
"Open the Gate!"
"Did you hear me? Open the Gate for this old man, otherwise I'll keep tormenting you like this!"
Shiki saw that Madara Uchiha's method didn't work, and he fiercely leaned in front of Freya and cursed.
"Ahhhhhh, No! No! You're dreaming!"
"If you dare, kill me! Kill me!"
Freya howled frantically and struggled desperately.
"Er Ahhh, you can't go back anymore, Ahhhhhh!"
On the other side, Newgate lowered his head to look at his newly adopted daughter, "Do you have a method? There are still many brothers and sisters on the home world side."
"I'm sorry, the 'Gate' can only be opened by those three innate gods." Rory Mercury shook her head shamefully.
Newgate smiled and said, "It's alright. I believe that Lord Imu will make a move!"
"Lord Imu?" Rory raised her head in doubt.
"Mm, you can think of him as the god of our world."
At the same time.
Otsutsuki Hagoromo, who was in invisibility in the void, was also in a difficult situation.
He really wanted to help the people below, but he was powerless.
Although he could return to the world at any time, that was through the Underworld Sea between the netherworlds.
But Garp, Newgate, Shiki, and these people are living beings, and it's impossible for them to enter the netherworld.
Moreover, even if they could soul out of body, would they leave their physical bodies in this world?
"However, that Lord Imu should have already foreseen this situation."
"Otherwise, why would he allow Warrior God Garp and the others to come in?"
Otsutsuki Hagoromo mused inwardly in his heart:
"Since Lord Imu can control the 'Star Gate', it shows that his attainment in spatial rules is extremely high."
"And it's so high that I can't even understand it now, so..."
Just as Otsutsuki Hagoromo's thoughts reached this point.
[Buzz——————]
A blue light so bright that it formed a light pillar even in the daytime environment.
Suddenly shot straight up into the clouds from a certain position on the Hill of Alnus.
In an instant, thousands of pairs of gazes throughout the entire military camp were forcibly drawn towards it.
Garp, Kuzan, Newgate, Bullet, and the others, who were closest.
After seeing the blue light rapidly spread, gradually forming a light blue, somewhat translucent square plane.
They immediately had their own speculations in their hearts.
Their eyes all revealed uncontrollable excitement and delight.
That person made their move, to bring them back!
