"As expected, the World Government would take advantage of the Limitless Pirates' war with the Marine to send people to invade Wano Country. Since you've come, don't even think about going back!"
Howard snorted coldly.
He himself was an Executive Officer who voluntarily stayed behind to guard the base camp, but he didn't expect anyone to actually invade the Limitless Pirates at this time.
"Eight Impact Fist Secret Skill: Blast Impact Fist!"
After Howard finished speaking, his feet immediately generated impact force, propelling him rapidly towards Pons and the other two. His Eight Impact Fist, combined with his own impact force, formed a violent shockwave.
It must be said that the Eight Impact Fist, passed down through generations of the Eight Treasure Marine and contributed by Chinjao, is very powerful in body art.
Apart from learning Rokushiki, most of the body art experts in the Limitless Pirates learned Eight Impact Fist.
"Storm Leg: Chaos!"
"Storm Leg: Hurricane!"
"Storm Leg: Line!"
The three CP0 agents had good teamwork. Seeing Howard charging at them, the three simultaneously kicked out their most powerful long-range attacks.
However, in front of Howard's impact force, all the light blue slashes they kicked out were shattered by the shockwave, and then the violent shockwave instantly enveloped the three of them.
The moment the shockwave enveloped them, the three CP0 agents immediately covered their entire bodies with Busoshoku Haki, but they were still shaken by the powerful shockwave force, causing intense pain throughout their bodies and sending them flying back dozens of meters.
"Howard, you deal with the leader. Leave the remaining two to us!"
Shakky and Toki Amatsuki walked out of the forest not far away.
Not long after these three CP0 agents entered the Limitless Sea, they were discovered by Shakky. This time, the main purpose was to see if these three had found Wano Country.
The facts proved that the World Government had now confirmed Wano Country as the core territory of the Limitless Pirates, so they dispatched CP0 to invade Wano Country while the Limitless Pirates were fighting externally.
"Okay!"
Howard naturally wouldn't object to Shakky's words. He knew that these two were the Captain's wives, and he wouldn't dare to object. Otherwise, when Nox next gathered the Executive Officers and Vice Captains for special training, he would be miserable.
Immediately, Howard targeted Pons, the strongest among the three, who was clearly their leader.
"Sister Shakky, leave the one on the left to me."
Toki Amatsuki drew the great sword Ama no Habakiri from her waist and pointed at Arthur.
After Nox's guidance, her swordsmanship and Devil Fruit abilities had made great progress, and she often trained in the Battle Pyramid. She was now much stronger than before!
"No problem. If you can't handle it, it's alright. I'll help you after I deal with my opponent."
Shakky walked towards the CP0 member on the right with a smile.
"Who are these two women?"
When Arthur and Sophie saw Toki Amatsuki and Shakky, they were stunned, because in the information they had about the Limitless Pirates' Vice Captains and Executive Officers, there was no information about these two.
"Never mind who they are, we'll each deal with one!"
"Shave: Ejection!"
Arthur looked at Pons, who had already rushed out to intercept Howard, his face gloomy. He immediately charged towards Shakky, determined to defeat this woman in the shortest possible time, and then team up with Pons to defeat that Executive Officer.
At the same time, Arthur's legs suddenly became like springs. By continuously stepping on the ground, he accumulated power and compressed the springs, then instantly released the spring tension, giving himself extreme burst power.
Facing the aggressive Arthur, Shakky didn't panic at all, and even showed a smile with an unknown meaning, calmly continuing to walk towards Arthur.
"Mirror Maze!"
As Shakky stepped on the ground and walked forward, square double-sided mirrors, ten meters wide, ten meters high, and ten centimeters thick, appeared within a five-hundred-meter radius.
These mirrors seemed to be set up randomly without any order, but they actually formed a special maze shaped like a palace.
Not only the sides but even the top was covered with a ceiling made of stacked mirrors, sealing off all areas and forming a closed maze.
When Arthur rushed in front of Shakky and threw a punch at her, Shakky instantly turned into countless mirror fragments.
Just now, Shakky had already transferred herself through a mirror. What remained in her place was merely a mirrored projection and a piece of mirror.
"Damn it, it's the power of a Devil Fruit."
When Arthur looked around and saw all these mirrors reflecting himself, his face was extremely grim.
He didn't expect the opponent's Devil Fruit power to be developed to such an extent. In just the blink of an eye, she had created so many mirrors, and he couldn't find where the opponent was at all!
"Since I can't find her, I'll just destroy all these mirrors!"
Immediately, Arthur's spring-like legs compressed again, then shot towards the nearest mirror. His arm also transformed into a compressed spring.
However, when Arthur approached the mirror, intending to smash it with a punch, a person exactly like him flew out of the mirror, and just like him, he was a spring man!
"Bang!!!"
The sudden change caught Arthur completely off guard. He was hit in the chest by the spring man's punch, and the powerful spring punch erupted, sending his entire body flying out, his eyes almost popping out.
"What's going on? How can that person look exactly like me and even possess my Spring-Spring Fruit power!"
Arthur never expected such a scene!
This spring man was created by Shakky using her mirror replication power to copy Arthur, and he could even possess Arthur's Devil Fruit ability. The most important thing was that the copied spring man's strength was exactly the same as Arthur's!
"Bang!!!"
As Arthur flew backward, Shakky rushed out of the mirror behind him.
Of course, this was also Shakky's own mirror copy. She could not only copy others but also herself.
"Storm Leg: Razor!"
The mirrored Shakky burst upwards, covered in Busoshoku Haki, and kicked Arthur in the back.
Arthur sensed the danger behind him, but his body couldn't dodge. He could only cover his back with Busoshoku Haki, but Shakky's kick was too powerful and forcefully tore through Arthur's Busoshoku Haki defense.
It left his back looking as if it had been sliced by a powerful Sword Master. With one kick, she shattered half of his shoulder bone and created a deep wound on his entire back, from his shoulder to his lower back, causing blood to spurt out.
"Moonwalk!!"
The intense pain in his back caused Arthur great agony, but he still gritted his teeth and quickly used Moonwalk to dissipate the force, preventing himself from continuing to fly backward.
However, when he stood firm, he found that the person who attacked him from behind was gone. All he could see was the person who looked exactly like him using the surrounding mirrors for spring jumps.
As a spring man himself, how could he not know this spring-charging technique? Once the opponent reached maximum elasticity and speed, they would definitely launch an attack on him.
Arthur wouldn't be foolish enough to fight that spring man. Being trapped here was the opponent's home ground, so the goal was to leave.
"Shave!!!"
Arthur chose a direction and immediately charged forward, smashing the mirror in front of him with a punch.
When he was about to smash the second mirror, the spring man, just like before, flew out of the mirror.
This time, the spring man's power had been fully charged and was terrifyingly strong. Arthur didn't have time to dodge and was hit in the chest with a punch again. This time, it hit his heart!
Instantly, his heart felt as if it was about to explode. He spat out a mouthful of blood, and his entire body flew backward just like before.
The mirrored Shakky still attacked from behind Arthur as before, but this time Arthur seemed to have anticipated it.
He forcefully twisted his body and punched towards Shakky, but Shakky was also prepared. She blocked Arthur's punch with one leg and kicked Arthur's head with the other, sending Arthur flying again. The powerful kick almost gave Arthur a concussion.
"Elastic Punch!"
The spring man's eyes flashed. As Arthur flew towards him, he punched Arthur again, sending him flying once more.
Facing the combined attack of Shakky and his own mirrored copy, along with the assistance of the Mirror Maze, Arthur was completely defenseless and was severely battered by the two working together.
The real Shakky was currently in the mirror space, sitting on a chair and drinking tea, calmly observing Arthur being beaten in the Mirror Maze.
"How boring. This CP0 is a bit weak, no wonder the mirror replication could copy his complete strength."
Shakky said.
She had hoped this CP0 would be stronger so she could test her own strength. Unfortunately, this CP0 only had the strength of an average Marine Vice Admiral, and there was no chance for her to use her true strength.
"It's over!!"
Two minutes later, Arthur's body was on the verge of collapse. Looking at the two people attacking him from the front and back, he closed his eyes in despair.
He should have known not to take on this mission. He should have known not to get promoted to CP0. He didn't expect to die here just after being promoted to a formal CP0 member!
"Pfft!!!"
The mirrored Shakky and the spring man, one in front and one behind, smashed his heart with a punch and kicked his neck, completely ending Arthur's life.
When Arthur died, the entire Mirror Maze rapidly dissolved, all the mirrors disappeared, restoring the scene to its original state, with Arthur's dead body lying on the ground.
On the other side:
"Why does this woman give me such a dangerous feeling!"
Sophie's internal alarm bells rang loudly as he watched Toki Amatsuki, holding Ama no Habakiri, running towards him, as if he would die as soon as she got close.
But strangely, this woman's speed wasn't fast, her physique didn't seem strong, and the only thing special about her was the sharpness of the sword in her hand; there wasn't much else remarkable about her.
However, Sophie trusted his intuition. The next moment, he transformed into his Human-Beast form, becoming a humanoid hound.
"Shave!!!"
Unable to sense the source of the danger, Sophie immediately retreated, increasing the distance from Toki Amatsuki. He needed to clearly determine the source of the danger before doing anything else.
"Shave: Blast Step!"
However, as Sophie retreated, Toki Amatsuki also accelerated, and her speed was even faster than his, closing the distance between them in the blink of an eye.
"Limitless: Fierce Dragon Sky Breaker!"
Ama no Habakiri instantly turned into a black blade. Toki Amatsuki, like a stream of light, instantly burst out with even greater speed. She unleashed a sword strike, charging forward like a swift dragon.
"Not good!!"
Seeing this scene, Sophie's internal alarm bells buzzed, a threat of death.
He didn't dare to take Toki Amatsuki's attack at all. He burst out with even greater power in his legs and rapidly retreated, trying to dodge this strike.
"Time Lag!"
Toki Amatsuki looked at his movements, and an invisible halo of time burst from her eyes. The halo shone on Sophie's body without him noticing.
Instantly, Sophie's time was forcibly slowed down a hundredfold. He was still retreating rapidly, but it was as if his entire body had been slowed down a hundredfold, moving very slowly.
At this moment, Sophie was horrified, because in his vision, it wasn't himself who had become slow, but rather Toki Amatsuki's speed had suddenly increased by a hundred times, so fast that he couldn't even perceive her figure.
"Swish swish!!!"
Toki Amatsuki's figure disappeared, a cold light flashed, and Toki Amatsuki's figure appeared twenty meters behind Sophie.
At this moment, the power of time on Sophie disappeared, and his body, like before, flew rapidly to the left rear.
"Bang!!!"
However, at this moment, Sophie's body was separated from his head. His face still carried the previous horror.
"Slowing down time by a hundred times allows the opponent to not even have time to release Busoshoku Haki. It's just right."
Toki Amatsuki said with a sigh of relief.
She had only started developing her Devil Fruit power in the past two years. Being able to instantly kill a CP0 agent comparable to an ordinary Marine Vice Admiral was quite impressive.
Her ability was very strong, but her own weaknesses were also very obvious. One was that her stamina was not enough for her to directly stop time, she could only slow it down. Another was that once she used her ability, her stamina drained rapidly like a opened floodgate.
Also, her own attack power wasn't strong. If she encountered a master of Busoshoku Haki, she wouldn't even be able to break through their defense.
Ultimately, it was due to her insufficient physical fitness and strength.
"But I've only trained for two years and I'm already this strong. I believe I'll definitely become even stronger in the future!"
Toki Amatsuki secretly encouraged herself in her heart.
Only one CP0 agent remained. Howard also quickly dealt with the strongest one among the three CP0 agents.
"Sister Shakky is amazing. She solved the enemy so quickly."
Toki Amatsuki was the fastest to defeat her opponent. As soon as Shakky's mirror space was released, she saw Toki Amatsuki waiting for her outside.
Shakky: "..."
You finished earlier than me, and you're saying this. You're not a true sister!
However, Shakky only complained mentally. She didn't really mind, after all, they were good sisters who had fought together.
"Sister Toki, you are truly amazing. You instantly killed your opponent, right?"
Shakky smiled.
She knew how strong her seemingly harmless Sister Toki's Devil Fruit ability was. She could instantly kill an ordinary Marine Vice Admiral.
Even an elite Marine Vice Admiral might be instantly killed if they didn't understand her ability.
It could be said that this power to control time was too powerful, too much of a BUG.
Without this ability, Toki Amatsuki might not even be able to defeat a Marine Rear Admiral.
"Hehe, that's because the opponent didn't expect me to have this ability."
Toki Amatsuki smiled.
"What else do we need to do?"
Howard asked after defeating his opponent.
"Clean up the bodies, and then we'll go back. We need to clear out a batch of spies in the Limitless Sea."
Shakky said as she walked over.
The appearance of these CP0 agents this time was just right to clear out some spies in the Limitless Sea who were difficult to deal with on a normal day.