"You don't think you can defeat me just by getting a Devil Fruit ability, do you? I must say, you're very naive, Shiryu of the Rain."
In the sky tens of kilometers away from G-1 Island, two figures, one black and one red, were entangled in a rapid, light-like battle. They collided several times, creating the roar of metal striking against each other.
King, with a pair of wide black wings on his back, flapped them with ease, flying in mid-air. He held his katana in one hand, occasionally slashing out with a blazing fire towards the rapidly moving Shiryu, forcing Shiryu, who had transformed into a blood-red dragon, to stop and retaliate.
Otherwise, even though he now had the power of the Chichi no Mi, a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit, and a body that was similar to a Logia-type in its elementalization, he could still be injured by King's slashes, which were full of high-level Haki.
Yes, perhaps not even Rorschach would have expected that after a year, the Devil Fruit ability of Aristos, whom he had killed on Sabaody Archipelago, would reappear and be obtained by Shiryu.
Shiryu had obtained this rare Special Paramecia-type Devil Fruit from a group of pirates in the New World not long after Rorschach had left Skypiea.
At that time, after being defeated by Gion in a challenge once again, he was feeling depressed. He went out to sea alone on a ship and encountered a group of pirates with decent strength.
The captain of that pirate ship, despite having a bounty of 200 million Berries, was brutally tortured and killed by a ruthless person like Shiryu, who gave him no chance to fight back.
All two hundred-plus people on the ship were slaughtered by Shiryu, leaving no one alive.
Then, Shiryu, like a bloodthirsty maniac, sat in a sea of corpses with a deranged smile on his face. He found a blood-stained apple from the blood-soaked deck and was about to lick his lips and eat it.
As a result, a very dramatic scene occurred.
The blood-stained apple in his hand developed a spiral pattern right before his eyes and slowly turned into a Devil Fruit.
This Devil Fruit was the Chichi no Mi, a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit.
After a year, it was reborn in the New World, thousands of miles away, and was obtained by the murderous Shiryu.
If Rorschach had known about this, he probably wouldn't have been too surprised.
Compared to Aristos, who killed simply for revenge, this madman Shiryu was a true bloodthirsty maniac.
If it weren't for a strong obsession with becoming stronger that was constantly forcing him to challenge stronger opponents, he probably would have been buried in magma by Akainu for his excessive obsession with killing.
It was completely normal for such a bloodthirsty person to be favored by the Chichi no Mi.
Unfortunately, even with the Chichi no Mi's ability, the current Shiryu still had a huge gap between him and King.
Whether it was Haki or physical strength, he was no doubt completely overwhelmed by King.
Especially in a place like this, where there was no land to stand on and he could only rely on his ability and physical strength to fly in the air, fighting a man who was born with wings and whose Devil Fruit was a Pteranodon form, Shiryu was at a huge disadvantage.
Seeing that Shiryu was only focused on fleeing forward no matter how much he taunted him, King shook his head. "Forget it. I'll just deal with you here. Although your strength is lacking, your ability is too unfriendly to the low-level soldiers."
By now, King had also seen the effect of Shiryu's Chichi no Mi's blood-sucking ability.
Earlier, a third of the three thousand pirates on the dozen pirate ships he led were killed by Shiryu's ability from a distance.
If King hadn't intervened in time, it was very likely that the remaining two thousand would have all bled to death.
It was also because Shiryu was fighting and sucking blood at the same time that the battle had lasted for so long without King being able to defeat him.
Such a strange ability, if Shiryu were allowed to enter the upcoming main battlefield, would definitely cause them a lot of casualties.
Although King didn't care about the lives of the weak, he was the second-in-command of the Beast Pirates and had to consider the grand cause of his boss, Kaido.
Therefore, Shiryu had to die.
Looking at Shiryu, who was spitting out a large amount of blood to increase his speed of escape, and had opened up a distance of several hundred meters in the blink of an eye, the flames that had been burning on the back of King's head suddenly disappeared.
The moment the flames disappeared, King's massive body, which was over six meters tall, suddenly shook. The pair of black wings on his back spread open with a swish, and he flapped them in mid-air.
"Whoosh!"
A gust of wind was stirred up by the flapping wings. King's body instantly disappeared from its original position, as if he had teleported. He instantly crossed four or five hundred meters, appearing in front of the charging blood-red dragon, holding his katana with both hands, and slashing it out.
"Karyuu'o!"
A massive amount of flame surged out from the katana in his hands. As he slashed, it condensed into a number of roaring, fiery red dragons that dragged their long bodies and flew through the air with bared fangs and brandished claws, charging head-on towards the torrent of blood that Shiryu had become.
The scorching, fiery dragons gave off a terrifying high temperature. The blazing flames warped the air within a radius of several hundred meters.
Under this terrifying high temperature, the blood that Shiryu had transformed into was constantly shrinking and evaporating.
In the end, he had to reveal his true form. With a slightly pale face, he held Raiu, used Moonwalk to ascend into the air, and slashed at the roaring, fiery dragons.
At this moment, he had very little Haki, physical strength, and pirate blood he had absorbed with his Chichi no Mi ability left.
But even so, there was no hint of fear on Shiryu's face.
He curled his mouth into a cruel, evil grin. He slashed and cut through a roaring fiery dragon, ignoring the scorching high temperature that was burning his skin and causing large blisters, and continued to madly charge forward.
Until he was in front of King!
He held his katana with both hands, and the little Haki, physical strength, and Oni aura he had left were all unleashed with this final slash.
"Oni Giri One-Sword Style! River of Blood from the Underworld!"
A crimson skull-like ghostly figure rose from behind him and roared at the sky. As he angrily swung his katana, a hundred-meter-long blood-red blade light tore through the air, shattered the four or five fiery dragons that King had slashed out, and split towards King's face.
King's eyes narrowed. The flames on his body furiously gushed out, gathering on the katana in his hands, forming a winding, hundred-meter-long crimson dragon.
The aura it exuded was several times stronger than the combined power of the dozen fiery dragons earlier!
"Goshu! Karyuu'o!"
"Roar!"
The hundred-meter-long fiery dragon roared at the sky, crashing head-on into the hundred-meter-long blade light that Shiryu had slashed out. The terrifying high temperature instantly incinerated all of Shiryu's clothes and hair.
Blisters appeared all over his skin, then burst and charred, and his skin cracked!
At this moment, Shiryu looked like a demon, and he was swallowed by the fiery dragon.
Just as Shiryu was about to be buried in King's Karyuu'o, a brilliant golden light suddenly shot out from the distance, carrying a sharp and unparalleled air current. It slashed down at the neck of the open-mouthed fiery dragon.
The fiery dragon's neck was cut open. It lost its momentum to continue biting, and Shiryu fell towards the sea below.
"Hmm?" King's eyes moved. He turned his head to look.
He saw a graceful figure rapidly flying through the air in the distance.
With her long and powerful legs stomping in the air, circles of airwaves exploded.
She swung the katana in her hand again, cutting through the air and creating a sharp whistling sound. It brought out a dozens-of-meter-long blade light that moved through the air like a living snake, in an arc, and slashed towards his neck.
"Hmph, so it's you. I thought it was someone else."
Facing such a sharp, snake-like blade light, King did not dare to be careless. He flapped his wings on his back, swung his katana, and slashed out a blade light that crashed head-on into the winding blade light.
"Boom!"
The blade lights and sword lights collided in mid-air with a loud bang and annihilated each other.
But the snake-like sword light did not completely disappear. Instead, it exploded and turned into fine, arc-shaped blade lights that continued to shoot towards King, forcing King to retreat again.
Taking advantage of this gap, Gion stomped her long leg. Her entire body turned into a long blur. Just as Shiryu was about to fall into the sea, she reached out and grabbed his shoulder. Her foot touched the sea surface.
"Bang!"
With a bang, a depression appeared in the sea. The rebound force propelled Gion to walk quickly on the water, charging at high speed towards G-1 Island.
The speed she displayed in that instant was so fast that even King couldn't catch up.
He could only continue to accelerate and get closer behind her.
The two of them, one in front and one behind, chased each other at high speed on the sea.
Over ten minutes later, Gion, who was covered in sweat, finally saw G-1 Island getting closer and closer.
It was also at this moment that Akainu, who was standing in the inner bay harbor with his arms crossed, coldly raised his head and looked at the sky above the sea in front of him.
At some unknown time, dark clouds had gathered from all directions in the sky several thousand meters above G-1 waters, constantly moving towards G-1 Island.
The ink-like dark clouds gathered more and more, like a thick city wall, bringing an extremely oppressive atmosphere that weighed on the hearts of the Marines gathered in the island's square like a huge rock.
Suddenly, a Marine with a pale face looked up at the sky, a look of unspeakable terror in his eyes.
"What's that?!"
"There's something moving in the clouds!"
"It's so big! Is it some kind of monster?"
In the clouds several thousand meters high, a huge, several-hundred-meter-long black shadow was moving with its body covered in blue scales, appearing and disappearing intermittently.
Sometimes a claw would be revealed, and other times a vague giant shadow.
As the thick, ink-like clouds gradually moved to a position directly above G-1 Island, the behemoth moving in the clouds became clearer and clearer, causing an involuntary sense of fear in anyone who saw it.
Just as the tens of thousands of Marines on the island were feeling uneasy, the dark clouds on the top of the sky parted, and a huge dragon head emerged from the ink-like clouds. It opened a pair of majestic, vertical pupils, opened its large, fang-filled mouth, and looked down below.
"A monster! There's really a monster in the clouds!"
"It's a dragon! It's a giant dragon!"
Some Marines with weak psychological tolerance were terrified to the extreme. Their faces were ashen, and their bodies were trembling.
However, that was not all.
In the clouds that covered half of the sky, thick bolts of lightning rumbled and flashed.
A thundercloud, several hundred meters in diameter, with countless bolts of lightning interweaving and moving through it, projected a huge figure that exuded a mountain-like heavy aura onto the ground as the lightning flashed on and off, enveloping half of the G-1 square.
As the thundercloud descended, the shadow that covered the ground gradually shrank.
But the bloated figure hidden in the thundercloud became more and more real.
Moreover, the terrifying aura it exuded became more and more frightening, making people feel a sense of awe.
"Mamamamama, there's only you here, Akainu. That's a shame. This time, you will be the first Marine Admiral to die."
The thundercloud parted little by little, and a bloated, fat woman finally appeared in the eyes of the Marines.
"It's... It's Big Mom, Charlotte Linlin!"
Someone said with difficulty, swallowing their saliva, their eyes filled with unconcealed fear.
Akainu snorted coldly as he watched Charlotte Linlin, who was riding a thundercloud, descend directly onto G-1 Island from the sky. He unclenched his crossed arms and clenched his right hand into a fist. A red light began to emerge from the cracks in his fist.
"You can't kill me, you fat hag with nothing but cream in your brain."
"How dare you! How dare you speak to Mama like that! You're asking to die!" As Zeus, the thundercloud under Charlotte Linlin's feet, finished scolding him, it met Akainu's extremely cold gaze. A large amount of cold sweat suddenly appeared on its very human-like face.
Zeus didn't understand why it still felt afraid of the man below.
It was a soul Homie that Mama had personally created with her own soul, one of Mama's strongest Homies.
But just by looking into the eyes of the man below, Zeus had the illusion that its soul was about to be disintegrated.
Its intuition told it that the man below was extremely dangerous!
"It's Kaido, and... Big Mom!"
"The two Emperors of the Sea of the New World have both appeared!"
Some of the Marines who had gathered in formations in the square looked panicked, while others looked shocked.
But although they were afraid and shocked, none of them dropped their weapons. Instead, they clenched them even tighter.
As the strongest branch of the Marines stationed in the New World, the Marines in the G-1 Branch were all elites who had been selected from countless battles and had been through the slaughter with countless brutal pirates in the New World.
In a sense, the fighting power of the G-1 Branch Marines was even more formidable than that of the elites of the Headquarters of the same rank.
In the lightning-filled clouds, the ferocious dragon that had descended opened its large, fang-filled mouth and let out a death declaration before the Grim Reaper began to harvest lives.
"Wororororo, wororororo!"
"Come! Slaughter! Fight! A war that will sweep across the entire world! Let everyone, regardless of rank, enter this most fair battlefield, and let strength decide who the master of this world is!"
Madness was released from its crimson dragon eyes with impunity. In its wide-open mouth, a dark red light exuded a terrifyingly dangerous aura, rapidly brewing, like a sun rising from the dark sky, tearing through the clouds.
In the next moment, the Azure Dragon breathed out, and a crimson pillar of flame, like a fiery lance, pierced through the gradually darkening sky and blasted straight down onto the G-1 square where the crowd had gathered!
"Heat Breath!"
(End of Chapter)
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