"Puff puff!"
When he came back to his senses, Groliosa had been mercilessly penetrated by four long knives.
When her manpower was limited, even if she tried her best, she could only barely block Cosmo's slashing attack.
The four people who followed immediately gave her a fatal blow without hesitation.
She is not of the D family. Even if she wakes up, her will cannot be transformed into strength, and naturally no miracle will happen.
"It's too late!" Groliosa murmured softly, the power released from her body like a gate opening, and the walking stick in her hand fell to the ground with a bang.
Before Cozmo arrived, she had the opportunity to pursue the victory and eliminate Weibull in one go, but she missed it.
Under the influence of Dr. Kloba, she rejected the use of violence to solve problems from the bottom of her heart, and she did not have the habit of killing everyone.
If she could do it over again, she would definitely win by any means necessary!
"Ah."
Hearing this, Cozmo looked regretful: "It's indeed too late."
Due to a mistake in judgment, Groliosa did not adopt an effective strategy to reverse the situation of the battle, so she had to face a terrible situation of one against four.
This scene is very similar to Whitebeard who was besieged by the Blackbeard Pirates during the war, but the target was changed to Croliosa.
In addition, Cozmo didn’t think there was any possibility of a comeback in Guluoliosa.
Even if the opponent defeats Weibull, they will still face the siege of the Red Heart Pirates' cadres, and the scale of victory lies in their hands!
"Do you... have any last wishes?" Aaron asked.
Perhaps it is difficult for Cozmo to understand at his age, but when he was young, Groliosa was the object of admiration of brothers Aaron and Abel.
Beautiful, powerful, and with amazing potential.
In just a few years after going to sea, he surpassed his predecessors and took the position of captain of the Nine Snakes Pirates as a supernova.
Killing their former idol with their hands made the two of them a little sad, as if they had cut off their past and youth with their own hands!
"Ahem~" Groliosa coughed violently, a trace of ridicule flashed across her face.
Her wish is to end this war and allow Nine Snake Island to continue to exist, but this is obviously impossible.
The purpose of the Heart Pirates is very clear. It is not just to deal with Hancock, and they will never be allowed to survive.
This is even more true for Blackbeard, who wants to get the sweet fruit.
"Are you the ones responsible for those Neptunes outside the island?"
I had been focusing on the battle just now, but I didn't realize it until now. Unknowingly, the entire Nine Snakes Island has been surrounded by dense sea kings.
This is obviously unreasonable.
You know, for the safety of citizens when they go to sea, most of the nearby Neptune species have been cleared away, and even if there are only a few here and there.
In addition, such a large number of sea kings gathered in one place, but there was no roar at all, which is also very unusual!
"That's right!" Aaron nodded.
This is the windless zone, and it is also the nest of the Neptune species. There are countless Neptune species, and the number of powerful Neptune species is even more astonishing.
Using the ability of mind transplantation, Luo replaced several of the overlord-level Neptunes with people from the Heart Pirates.
After all, the cadres of the Heart Pirates are not as good as the other Yonko Pirates. If they want to become the new Yonko, they must use external forces.
And occupying a piece of land in the windless zone as a base camp for controlling the Neptune class is a good choice!
the most important is,
As the navy retreats to the four seas and rebuilds the holy land at the other end of the red road, there are no overlord-level forces in the first half of the Grand Line, and it is a terra incognita comparable to the New World.
It is much easier to win a few pieces of territory in the first half of the Grand Line than to snatch food from the mouths of other Yonko in the New World!
What's more, the balance has long been broken.
With the destruction of the Hundred Beasts and the Big Mom Pirates, only the Senga Pirates and the Blackbeard Pirates are left in the New World.
Perhaps it won't be long before a fierce all-out war breaks out between the two sides to determine the overlord of the new world!
Looking at it this way, Blackbeard's purpose in coming to Nine Snakes Island was not only to seize the sweet fruit, but also to seek a way out.
"Lost..."
Hearing this, Groliosa closed her eyes in pain.
Compared with the Red Heart Pirates, who were ambitious and used all means to develop their own power, the Nine Snakes Pirates, who were content with the status quo, were at a disadvantage from the beginning.
One side is taking the initiative to attack, and the other side is reacting passively!
In the past, Groliosa thought it was a limitation of talent, because Hancock's strength could not go any further.
But!
Thirteen years have passed since Hancock became the King of the Shichibukai.
Over the years, Nine Snake Island has seen almost no growth in terms of population or territory, and even the way of living has not changed at all. It is still the same old routine from hundreds of years ago.
Including the cadres of the Kuja Pirates, they are also based on the original selection mechanism. Those who stand out from the citizens of Kuja are not actively discovered and recruited by Hancock.
In the final analysis, Hancock is just a conservative king, not a pioneer!
This is definitely not an era where we can live in peace if we just keep to ourselves, and no one can stay out of it.
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the other side,
"呲呲～"
The power of darkness swept across the earth, covering a radius of several hundred meters. Except for the three people fighting, no one dared to get close.
at the same time,
Above the sky, a scorching flame was burning, as if it had replaced the sun, scorching the earth.
Blackbeard looked at Dalis in mid-air with a proud look on his face, and a vibrating halo of light was condensing above his fist.
"Air shock!"
Rumble——
The next moment, the atmosphere made a harsh and shattering sound, and the billowing shock waves rushed away like a tsunami, and even the clouds were shattered.
"This guy!"
Seeing this, Luo curled his lips and gave Blackbeard a meaningful look.
Not only Luffy, but also Blackbeard has become much more terrifying than his original trajectory. This kind of power has even surpassed Whitebeard during the war.
As expected, this is the ability of Patrick, a former member of the Blackbeard Pirates, which increases the power of the shock tenfold!
In this way, Blackbeard has collected four devil fruit abilities.
"Room~"
With a hook of his index finger, huge boulders rose up from the ground, blocking Dalis' path from all directions.
"It's just an earthquake, a piece of shit!"
Pa~
Daris did not dodge, but simply stretched out her palm to calm the terrifying shock wave.
Its visual impact is no less than that of a frail ant that easily blocked a crazed tyrannosaurus!
"Tangled with Overlord's color?!" Luo's eyes were solemn and he was so surprised that he couldn't speak.
He could clearly see that there was a certain distance between Daris' palm and the shock wave, and there was no actual contact between the two.
not only that,
This shock wave was like being strangled by someone's neck. The thunder was loud and the raindrops were small, so it did not exert its original power.
He should have found the source of the vibration by listening to the sounds of all things, and then used his own overlord-colored domineering energy to destroy the source from the inside with the same vibration frequency!
Because the frequency is the same, there seems to be no ripple.
As if to confirm Luo's guess, Dalis' figure flashed and her slender thighs suddenly kicked against the stone wall created by Luo.
Wow! ! !
Huge boulders hundreds of meters high collapsed and shattered into countless large and small rocks.
These stones fell back to the ground and were swallowed up by the deep darkness in the blink of an eye, disappearing without a trace.
"Get down-"
The shock of being proud of being belittled by his opponent made Blackbeard's expression even more ferocious.
He is a majestic Yonko, and it is long past time that he just betrayed the Whitebeard Pirates.
The majestic dark gravity surged forward, and even someone as strong as Daris couldn't control herself and flew towards Blackbeard.
"Heh~"
"Idiot, fighting is not a game of competing abilities. It is simply asking for death!" Without any resistance, Dalis let her body be attracted by gravity.
Invalidating abilities is indeed a nightmare ability for esper users, especially senior esper users who have become dependent on Devil Fruit abilities.
but……
That only requires the other party to be able to touch you. Simply closing the distance is completely useless.
"This guy!"
Blackbeard's expression suddenly changed, and he couldn't help but recall the battle with Whitebeard.
Even though Whitebeard's vibrations were restricted by the Dark Fruit, he still suppressed him with his powerful fighting skills and physical abilities.
In this case...
Blackbeard raised his arm, and a shocking halo gathered again.
Bang!
After the two sides got closer, Blackbeard punched her. The impact from close range was earth-shattering and poured violently onto Daris.
Strangely, the shock wave passed through Daris' body without any hindrance, without causing any harm.
"Sweet shock!" Daris shouted.
Immediately afterwards,
A red heart petrified the shock, then turned 180 degrees, lifted the petrification, and rushed towards Blackbeard, who was close at hand.
Daris has extremely rich combat experience, especially her use of sweet fruits, which far exceeds that of Hancock!
"Do you think you can defeat me with just a half-finished will?"
"JOYBOY!!!"
Rumble——
The 'sun' in mid-air expanded for a while and suddenly exploded above their heads.
The huge explosion shot up into the sky with a wave of heat, turning the battlefield into a scorching hell, instantly submerging both warring parties.
The terrifying impact force and the terrifying high temperature caused the layers of the earth's surface to break apart, and then turned into a fluid like magma.
at the same time,
A semicircular shield was quietly born, limiting the heat wave to a radius of several hundred meters!
A showdown between the strongest men of the sea with full firepower is not something that the newly recruited bastards of the Red Heart Pirates can withstand. If they are not careful, they will all be wiped out, and even the cadres must be careful to avoid it.
…
a long time,
The flames dissipated and the ground was scorched black. Only Dalis and a strange black sphere remained in place.
Kaka~
Then, the black sphere shattered, revealing Blackbeard's figure.
When he saw Dalis' intact appearance, he was obviously stunned.
"impossible?!!"
Blackbeard's eyes were about to split open, as if he wanted to eat people.
That level of explosion and high temperature is simply not something humans can withstand, and Dalis is not a natural ability user.
Even he, the instigator, needs the help of darkness to defend himself. How could the other party remain unscathed?
"What's so strange!"
Daris carelessly played with the remaining flames on her fingertips. The flames did not seem to cause any harm to her. "How can an ugly guy like you understand the gentle heart of a human being?"
In this world, most people know the temperature of the human body, but few people know that the soul also has temperature.
Angry, negative, silent...
The temperature of an object petrified by the sweet fruit will be fixed at the moment of petrification, which is also the temperature closest to the soul.
"No matter what the ups and downs of emotions, the temperature of the human soul is always constant, because if it is too high or too low, it will hurt you."
"Since you want to seize this ability, you should know that after the sweet fruit awakens, even the natural type can be petrified!"
Not petrification on a physical level, but spiritually, petrifying the soul of the flame, thus changing its temperature.
As long as you are strong enough, you will not be burned even if you stand on the surface of the sun!
Of course, it was also because of this that Tiantian Fruit was chosen by her.
To put it bluntly, this is the ultimate devil fruit that is not inferior to the Nika Fruit.
"Petrified body and... petrified mind!" Blackbeard muttered to himself, with a flash of greed in his eyes.
As far as he knows, the sweet fruit is the only special fruit with two fruits, and there are many special stone statues in his hometown.
Maybe it's fate.
Originally, he only thought of it as an ordinary decoration. It wasn't until he met a stone statue that could communicate spiritually that he realized that the truth was so horrifying.
Since ancient times, mankind's desire for eternal life has always existed, especially after the fall of the Kingdom of D eight hundred years ago.
At that time, facing the all-out siege by the Tianlong people, some people from the D clan gathered together, trying to exchange immortality for a breakthrough in strength.
However, not everyone can set foot in this forbidden area, so those people settled for the next best thing and found Dalis.
On the one hand, through petrification, the useful body is preserved and waits for the opening of a new era.
On the other hand, let the mind continue to be active and become stronger over time.
Unfortunately,
They overestimate what they can bear.
For eight hundred years, being imprisoned in the body day after day, unable to hear, see, or smell, and could only perceive changes in the outside world through sight, hearing, and color, drove everyone into madness!
A hundred years of life is not only the law of nature, but also the limit of the soul.
Forcibly breaking the rules will bring many negative effects, becoming twisted, weird, and incompatible with other people!
Even Im and others who were able to move freely had some changes, not to mention a group of people whose hearts were imprisoned.
When all of a person's desires cannot be realized, and they can't even find an outlet, there is probably only destruction left in their hearts!
However, everything has two sides. This kind of suffering is torture, and it is not an evolution that gradually breaks away from the human category!
The peculiarity of the royal family of D is that they are born with dual wills.
At that time, he accepted the soul of that senior and made it exist in the body as a third personality, thus knowing more secrets.
When he joined the Whitebeard Pirates, he was just a somewhat special boy. How could he have planned so carefully for a Devil Fruit?
All his plans were made by the third personality, the man who had experienced many hardships and had his soul trapped in the stone statue for eight hundred years.
This is the origin of the flag of the Blackbeard Pirates!
It is true that there are many cadres in the Blackbeard Pirates, but most of them are trash fish of barely decent quality, and there are only a few core members.
Blackbeard never worried about this.
As long as he seizes the ability of the sweet fruit, he will instantly have an extremely terrifying revenge army - the resentful spirit named D!
The only trouble is that those stone statues were petrified because they were attracted by their beauty. After grabbing the sweet fruit, the petrification was caused by either ambition or personality, which may not necessarily eliminate the petrification.
However, Blackbeard had already planned for this:
As long as Hancock's blood factor is obtained, he can clone one and unlock the petrification of those people.
The growth cycle of clones is extremely long, similar to that of humans. Even the clone soldiers catalyzed by Germa will take five years.
But he is different. Poison Q's 'aging disease' already has some clues, and it can be developed in less than half a year. By then, it will be easy to create a clone.
This was the main reason why he chose Poison·q as his companion in the first place!
"Thief hahahaha~"
"I thought this battle would end soon, so... wouldn't it be more interesting?"
Blackbeard grinned, the stronger the sweet fruit was, the happier he was.
The splitting of personality and mind places a huge burden on the body. Even if his body is extremely special and is called an alien, it cannot continue to split indefinitely.
The reason why he can still stay awake is just because of his strong will and the fact that he doesn't need to sleep.
If you always stay awake, you will not be swayed by your split personality and you will be firmly in control!
Power comes at a price.
Just like the Darkness Fruit, its amazing abilities prevent the esper from becoming elemental and must endure double the pain!
"Open your eyes and see clearly. This is my power, a new era called Blackbeard."
Pfft~
Blackbeard's hands were shaped like claws, grabbing the space fiercely. As his arms moved downward, the entire island, including the seawater in the distance, began to violently roll.
In an instant,
The sea and land are overturned, and the earth is shaking!
Hundreds of pirates lost their balance and fell to the ground, and even Nine Snake Island split into two amid the roar.
This is the anger of the king!
On the opposite side, Daris wanted to jump into the air, but found that the entire space was shaking violently, even more violently than the ground.
Snapped!
Kneeling on one knee, Daris leaned down to the ground, trying to maintain her balance, her expression inexplicably complicated.
He inherited half of Joey Boy's will, while the ambitious Blackbeard inherited Joey Boy's bloodline. The two have their own advantages and disadvantages!
'You are who you are, Darice! '
Hector’s hysterical roar echoed in his ears.
During that period of confusion, she even had thoughts of suicide, but her father Hector told her with a mountain of fatherly love——
She is just slightly different from others.
Even if she is infected by Joyboy's will, she can still live her own life!
In order to completely eliminate the haze in her heart, she came to the isolated Nine Snake Island, killed all the men, and then established a country with only women.
Seeing the country she built with her own hands being completely destroyed, Dalis felt disappointed but also felt a sense of relief.
Avoiding will not solve the problem.
Because of her escape, she eventually turned against her father, who followed Joyboy, but she never considered Hector's feelings.
Pfft~
At this moment, a blade dozens of meters long suddenly cut through Dalis' arm.
"You're shaken!" Luo waved the Guiwei in his hand and walked slowly over.
Normally, the attack just now could not hurt Dalis' fully evolved body, and the opponent also had the ability to dodge.
Unfortunately, success is also a matter of will, and failure is also a matter of will.
Will is the source of Dalis' power. It can be very strong or very weak, and its stability is extremely poor.
When her mood changes, it will be directly reflected in her combat power.
Perhaps the collapse of Nine Snake Island reminded her of something, and her heart was touched.
Or maybe she saw the shadow of Joey Boy in Blackbeard.
Joyboy was the source of D and the ancestor of the royal family, but in the end he buried them with his own hands.
His choice greatly affected the operation of the world, changed the lives of countless people, and also created the Blackbeard he is today!
The darkness of Blackbeard is as deep as the extreme, as if the royal family of D has been accumulating resentment for eight hundred years, and it has finally come to fruition today.
"What a resemblance...you and Doflamingo!" Daris wiped the wound on her arm and saw that the wound was healing at an alarming speed.
"Doflamingo?"
Blackbeard was slightly startled: "The guy who hated the Celestial Dragons so much, but abandoned them like worn-out shoes after becoming a Celestial Dragon again!"
Doflamingo is not a small person, he naturally knows him, and he has even seen reports that he became a Celestial Dragon again some time ago.
Not only that, not long after the other party became a Tianlong, he stole the 'King of Heaven' and betrayed the Holy Land. He is a real careerist!
Looking at it this way, he does have some similarities to Doflamingo:
One wants to take revenge on the Celestial Dragons and pull all the Celestial Dragons off the altar, while the other wants to kill Joyboy and revive the royal family of D.
Of course, that was the original idea.
What Doflamingo wants now is to destroy the world, and what Blackbeard wants now is to become the king of the world.
"It's not a good habit to turn your back to the enemy!" Luo held a knife in both hands, and the tip of the knife was pressed against Dalis' back, which was where the heart was.
"What if it's not an enemy?" Daris slowly turned her head and looked at Luo seriously.
Not an enemy?
Luo was stunned for a moment, not understanding what this meant.
"Retarded guy!"
"Hancock is not your enemy, not now, and never will be in the future. Take good care of Hancock..."
As soon as he finished speaking,
A majestic will instantly filled the whole place, and then like a wave, violently poured into Blackbeard's body.
Qianhe forgot that while Dalis was influencing Hancock, Hancock was also influencing Dalis.
"No, don't come over!!!"
Blackbeard's expression changed drastically, his forehead was wet with cold sweat, and he immediately tried his best to escape from the battlefield with all his strength.
He came to hunt Joyboy and capture the sweet fruits, not to dedicate his body to Joyboy and become his body container.
He originally had the blood of Joyboy, and if the other party's will was allowed to invade his body again, even he would not be completely sure to become the leader.
more importantly,
The half of Luffy's will has been separated. If it 'accidentally' falls into his hands again, the real Joeyboy will be completely resurrected.
That is a monster that has ruled the world several times and has been on the throne for thousands of years. Isn't conspiracy and conspiracy commonplace?
Blackbeard didn't believe that this was just a coincidence. At this moment, he only had one thought in his heart:
He is lusting after my body! ! !
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