Before that voice could finish speaking, Red had already pierced through Rakuyo's head, and the vitality in his pupils completely vanished.
[Ding! Congratulations to the Host for killing Rakuyo! You have gained 54,500 Bounty points!]
As an elder captain of the Whitebeard Pirates, Rakuyo's bounty was even higher than Renji had expected.
"Captain Rakuyo!"
Amidst the mournful cries of the pirates, Namur and Kingdew finally turned their heads, just in time to see Rakuyo's eyes lose their light and his body slump softly to the ground.
The dazzling red orb, after piercing through Rakuyo's head, did not lose its power and swiftly moved through the battlefield.
Under Renji's extreme Cursed Energy control, piercing a head without any Haki protection barely consumed any Cursed Energy from this Red, so there was naturally no need to waste this Red by letting it explode there.
"Cough cough... To kill someone I'd have to fight for half a day, just like that, what a good kid." Yamakaji coughed, a look of appreciation in his eyes.
—
"Koby! Koby! Wake up!"
At this moment, Helmeppo was frantically shaking the semi-conscious Koby, unaware that a group of people, led by a red-nosed individual, was approaching him.
—
"Can we really still win?"
"Ace is probably dead, right?"
"So many people have been sacrificed, and in the end, pops is dead, Ace is dead, and the captains are all going to die."
On the battlefield, the pirates had fallen into complete panic, their fighting spirit completely gone, unable to even put up the most basic resistance, and fleeing in all directions.
Kingdew shouted, "Rakuyo!"
Namur said, "Renji! Damn it, it's this guy again!"
Fear appeared in the eyes of the two. The deaths of so many powerful comrades, let alone the ordinary crew members, made even them begin to have different thoughts.
Recalling the confident words spoken before the Marineford War began, the two captains' life beliefs had been completely shattered by Renji.
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"Yo, a full rout now, huh? Your... family."
Kizaru's gaze drifted, occasionally sweeping towards the dust.
As the smoke and dust slowly dissipated, Ace and Luffy's bodies lay motionless on the ground. Kingdew and Namur rushed over. The perceptive Fishman Namur bent down and began to check if Ace was alive.
"No breath..." Namur stood up, his face gradually turning horrified after looking up.
Listening to Namur's words, Kingdew remained silent.
"But his brother, Straw Hat, is still alive." Namur continued.
Ivankov and the others breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this.
Swoosh!
A Haki-infused diamond sprint scattered Kizaru's body.
Jozu's face was full of rage. After charging through the already elementalized Kizaru, the first person he saw was Renji, who had a smile on his face.
The current Jozu was no longer the rough-but-perceptive great pirate. His mind had completely lost its combat focus.
Upon seeing Renji, his eyes turned red, and his muscles bulged as he swiftly charged towards him.
"Yo. Is he treating me like air?"
Hearing that Luffy was still alive, Kizaru, whose body had re-coalesced, raised a finger and began to condense a laser, aiming at Jozu's path.
Whoosh!
Boom!
A terrifying explosion engulfed Jozu's figure. Then, with his entire body covered in diamond, he was blasted into the air. Following that, a flash of icy-blue light swept through, and an extreme chill instantly invaded Jozu's entire body. By the time he landed, he had already become a hard ice sculpture.
Countless pirates saw this and became even more flustered.
"Captain Jozu!"
"Even Captain Jozu..."
"The Admirals have also freed up their hands. It's over... Everything is over."
Aokiji exhaled as he looked at the ice sculpture of Jozu not far away. "Phew... This should be enough, right?"
Buzz!
A red orb flew rapidly, and even Aokiji only detected it less than half a second in advance.
"What is this?"
Boom!
The red orb plunged into Jozu's ice sculpture, followed by a violent explosion. Its terrifying power formed a white hemisphere with a diameter of tens of meters that spread across the ground, and the surging Cursed Energy engulfed Aokiji.
"My apologies, Admiral Aokiji." Renji smiled slightly.
Red, under Renji's control, swiftly traversed the battlefield several times. Renji, who had initially intended to kill Kingdew and Namur with it, changed his mind and decided to finish off Jozu first.
Otherwise, if Kizaru had a sudden whim and blasted him with a laser, he would have suffered a huge loss.
[Ding! Congratulations to the Host for killing Jozu! You have gained 105,000 Bounty points!]
As the pleasant sound in his mind rang out, Renji's Bounty points soared again.
"Then, next, only the two of you are left."
Renji turned his head, his azure eyes fixed on Kingdew and Namur, and his figure disappeared again.
"What's going on? Could it be that even Jozu..."
"Look up there!"
As Kingdew was in shock, Namur was the first to spot Renji in the air to their side.
"Hi, nice to meet you, please take care of me."
As Renji spoke, he raised a finger. Amidst a flash of red light, the Cursed Energy unique to Red surged around him, as if an invisible dark vortex was behind him, making him appear extremely eerie.
"Run!"
Kingdew shouted, but found that Namur had already retreated dozens of meters.
Kingdew cursed angrily. "Bastard!"
Under the continuous blows and Renji's pressure, the true nature of the pirates had been completely exposed. The thought of protecting comrades disappeared, replaced by the highest principle of preserving one's own life.
"Yes, just like that, turn your back to me."
Renji looked at Namur's retreating figure, growing excited. His finger, which had been aimed at Kingdew, shifted towards Namur.
"I heard that Fishmen have strong vitality?"
As his words fell, two consecutive Reds shot out towards Namur!
Boom! Boom!
Even an elite Vice Admiral of the Headquarters, fully utilizing Soru, couldn't dodge a Lv. 5 Red.
As Namur frantically fled, he only managed to see the red light reflected from the ground beneath his feet, and then he was swallowed by the deafening explosion.
Not hearing a 'ding' sound, Renji frowned.
No way? Really that tenacious?
Although it was an instant-cast Red and didn't consume too much Cursed Energy, it was still Lv. 5.
Just as Renji was about to follow up with another shot—
[Ding! Congratulations to the Host for killing Namur! You have gained 48,500 Bounty points!]
Bounty Points: 385,502
Looking at his Bounty Point balance, a smile appeared on Renji's face. Three hundred thousand Bounty points, he could finally upgrade an ultimate skill.
Compared to Renji's excitement, Kingdew trembled all over, his heart sinking continuously.