Chapter 409: Chapter 409: Dragon vs. Tiger
Chapter 409: Dragon vs. Tiger
The moment the dark power descended, a heart-pounding sensation that he had never felt before arose. The sand worm’s form slowly degenerated, revealing Saint Peter’s disbelieving and shocked expression.
He was completely unable to use any ability, including the contract power of Lord Imu!
Gripped by the head and held in the air by Reiner’s one hand, Saint Peter’s usually calm and composed face was now filled with panic.
He gripped the arm, which was like an iron clamp, with both hands and struggled fiercely. His angry eyes stared at Reiner through the gaps in his fingers.
"Insolence! Let me go!"
Hiss—!
Before he could finish, Reiner’s eyes hardened. His bone fingers came together, forming a pure white bone blade that mercilessly pierced Saint Peter’s body!
"—Puwaah!"
Saint Peter’s pupils constricted violently. He couldn’t help but spit out a mouthful of blood. The next second, the bone arm that had pierced him suddenly released a vibrating impact within his body!
Bang!
A circle of air was blasted out from his body. Scarlet blood slowly flowed from Saint Peter’s seven orifices, and his two violently trembling pupils gradually lost focus!
It was simpler than killing a chicken. This was the powerlessness of an ability user in the face of Reiner.
All it took was a teleport, a Kurouzu, and a throat slit.
With this simplest of combos, any person who was overly reliant on their ability to fight had no power to resist him.
Whether it was Sengoku or Akainu, the reason they were not easily defeated was that even without their abilities, they themselves possessed powerful enough physical skills to avoid being taken down by Reiner’s fatal blow.
And the physical skills of the Five Elders, who had lost the enhancement of their abilities...
...they might have been strong in the past, but at least now, they were pretty much useless.
Reiner casually threw Saint Peter away.
That was already a corpse. The ability Imu had attached to him had also been erased by Kurouzu. There was no possibility of him being resurrected.
"Saint Peter!!"
This scene had happened in just a few short seconds. The horse skeleton almost roared, his face contorting with a grimace. He whipped his head to face Akainu and roared angrily:
"Quick, take down Black Snake Reiner, Sakazuki!!"
So many troops!
The Marines have dispatched so many troops!!
Even the three Admirals have been deployed from headquarters! And you still can’t take down the Straw Hat crew!!
"This is a serious dereliction of duty! If he is not killed today, you can just resign from your position as Fleet Admiral when you get back!"
The anger in the horse skeleton’s heart grew more and more irrepressible, and he was completely unaware of his失态 expression.
If it were that simple, would I need you to teach me!
Akainu gritted his teeth and glared back, his clenched fists dripping with terrifying magma. But he could only suppress these words in his heart.
The Straw Hat crew’s strength was beyond his expectations, which had led to the battle being in a stalemate. This was a fact, and he could not shirk his responsibility.
Now that the Five Elders had personally taken action, he had no way out. The only thing he could do was to do his best to kill Reiner and Straw Hat.
"I’ll help you, Sakazuki!"
Sengoku shouted and leaped down.
Faced with the grave situation, after resting and recovering for a while, he dragged his heavily injured body and entered the field again.
The horse skeleton looked up at the strange bird in the sky and shouted:
"Let’s go!"
Reiner had the Dark-Dark Fruit’s ability. The fate of Saint Peter was a vivid lesson. They had to avoid him as much as possible.
The two nodded at each other and immediately launched an attack on Luffy.
Without the stamina and Haki to activate Gear Five again, Luffy could only retreat for now, constantly darting through the complex terrain of the city.
Reiner couldn’t go and help him now either. A round of swift and fierce attacks had already arrived.
"Hundred-Armed Vajra!!"
A golden light bloomed on Sengoku’s body. His body swelled a circle and grew larger, once again transforming into a golden Great Buddha.
Countless arms condensed from the Buddha’s light behind him. A magnificent and majestic Great Buddha pushed its palms, blasting them at Reiner.
Magma erupted from under Akainu’s feet, pushing his body to fly up quickly.
The fierce battle within the island had started again.
At the same time, on the coast with its遍地斩痕.
Clang!
Clang! Clang!
Sparks flew from the constant clashes. Sword lights and blade shadows flashed nonstop. One rough slash after another had left the crimson earth a scene of devastation.
Fujitora’s cane sword was a dark purple, with a circle of gravity light attached to it as he pushed down with force. Zoro crossed his two swords above his head to parry, gritting his teeth and exerting force, the muscles in his arms bulging.
"Nigori-zake!!"
Clang!
The surging strength was transmitted to the blades with a jolt, sending the cane sword flying. Fujitora jumped back.
Zoro’s eyes turned cold. He released his Haki, which coiled around his three swords, and dragging a faintly visible black lightning, he flew close to the ground and shot up.
"Santoryu: Hiryu Yasha!!"
The ferocious sword momentum seemed to transform into the phantom of a legendary demon. Zoro roared, and with his body as the palm and his sword tips as the claws, he viciously tore down!
Clang! Clang!
Hiss!
The dull sensation of a blade cutting through flesh was transmitted to Zoro’s hand, bringing out a spray of blood that flew into the air.
Fujitora quickly swung his sword, barely managing to block two slashes, but was cut on the shoulder by the last one, staggering back a few steps.
"Gravity Blade!"
Fujitora gritted his teeth and stopped himself with one foot. An even more violent gravity energy gushed out from his hand, coiling onto the now incomparably dark blade.
"Moko!!"
Taking advantage of Zoro’s charge, Fujitora swung his sword horizontally from a distance, and a surging purple sword energy flew out.
Zing—!
The distance was too close. Zoro, with no time to dodge, could only immediately raise his swords to block, but he was directly engulfed by the massive gravity sword energy.
Boom!!
Almost everything in the path of the sword energy was twisted by the gravity. After engulfing Zoro, it suddenly exploded!
A violent force transformed into a physical impact. Countless rocks were shattered and exploded. Zoro’s entire person was sent flying, crashing straight into a mountain wall a hundred meters away.
Bang!!
"Cough! Haha..."
In the rising dust and smoke, Zoro, with half his body embedded in the mountain, coughed up a mouthful of blood and, panting, he looked up at Fujitora.
By now, his body was already covered in wounds of all sizes.
On the other side, Fujitora was the same. He supported himself with his cane sword, panting heavily.
As one of the most ferocious offensive abilities, swordsmanship, even if both sides were of equal strength, a winner should have been decided quickly.
The battle had gone on for too long for both of them.
Zoro panted heavily, his gaze quietly glancing at the inner part of the island.
Although he didn’t know what was going on with the several presences that had suddenly descended...
...but from the clash of the two sides’ presences, it should be Luffy and Reiner simultaneously fighting multiple enemies.
"If this goes on, the battle situation will probably become more and more unfavorable. But to take down this guy..."
Zoro’s expression gradually became grave. He looked back at Fujitora.
"...it doesn’t seem to be that easy."
"Should I try for a one-hit-kill..."
While thinking, Zoro struggled out of the mountain and jumped down.
Zing—Zing—!
A cold blade light flashed. Zoro took a step to the right, and his body sank into a stance, his arms spread out flat, in line with his sword blades.
"Hooo—"
He let out a long, turbid breath. Zoro closed his eyes, and his Haki, like a black dragon, coiled around his longswords, dyeing the cold-shining blades with a dark, flowing light.
"Kiki Kyūtōryū!"
Whoosh—!
An aura erupted from him as the center, sweeping away all the flying sand and stones on the ground. Two phantom heads appeared behind his neck, and one after another, arms, also holding swords, materialized from his shoulders.
Under the unrestrained release of his powerful Haki, the nine longswords seemed to be covered in a black flowing fire that burned fiercely.
"Even though this old one cannot see, I can still strongly feel this fierce Haki. Has Your Excellency lost his patience...?"
Fujitora tightened his grip on his cane sword and, holding it at his waist, he took a step forward and sank into an iai stance.
Haki dyed the hilt of his sword, bit by bit, and then spread into the scabbard, brewing a sword momentum. A purple gravity wave attached to the blade grew more and more concentrated.
Bang!!
Bang!!
The ground under Fujitora’s feet caved in, and was pressed down layer by layer by the gravity that was leaking out around him.
Two terrifying sword momentums shot up into the sky, like a ferocious purple tiger and a ferocious azure dragon, facing each other in the air, tearing at each other.
And on the coast below, the two were motionless.
The surging tide slapped against the reefs, kicking up one white wave after another, and the cold spray hit their bodies.
The two still did not move. Only the auras around them were still vying to climb, and the fight between the two fierce beasts in the sky was also growing more and more brutal.
Until the aura on Fujitora’s body suddenly stopped rising. The azure dragon pierced through the body with one claw and pressed the fierce tiger down, and with its two rows of sharp teeth, it bit down fiercely!
Boom!!
The two phantom beasts shattered at the same time. Everything dissipated, as if nothing had happened.
"It’s over—!" Zoro’s right eye suddenly opened, and a scarlet, fierce light was released. His two feet stomped on the ground, and his body dived at Fujitora, flying at high speed!
"Gravity Blade: Kokujo Oodachi!!"
Zing—!! Fujitora let out a low roar and was the first to draw his sword. A line of iai pierced through space!
The blade of his sword hummed piercingly. A cold sword light flashed by. A whole block of land, a kilometer long, was smoothly cut open!
However, all of this was as if it had been predicted. Zoro had already turned to the side in advance.
The slash grazed past, only cutting his clothes on his left shoulder, leaving a small cut.
Behind him, the coast broke, and seawater poured in. Zoro was already in front of Fujitora, and the cold light of his blades flashed!
"Asura: Mugen Jigoku!!"
Zing—
The sword’s hum was crisp and melodious.
Zoro and Fujitora passed by each other.
The already overburdened cane sword broke section by section, and the blade ’clanged’ and fell to the ground.
Hiss!
With the sound of his robe tearing, a spray of blood flew out and splattered on the ground. Fujitora’s body slowly fell forward.
Bang!
"Your sword... was off target."
Zoro’s expression was blank as he sheathed his sword, and slowly took out Wado Ichimonji from his mouth. The aftertaste of his Haki was hard to dissipate.
Although he had won, his face was not good.
"This old one’s defeat was set. Whether this one sword was on or off target... it no longer matters."
Fujitora lay on the ground in a pathetic state, his face to the side, his voice hoarse as he struggled to speak.
"This sword is not justice..."
"A sword that had to be drawn out of necessity... cannot win against Your Excellency."
The blood from his chest slowly flowed out, pooling on the ground. Fujitora lay in a pool of blood, his eyes closed with relief.
"...Justice?"
Zoro looked down at the wound on his shoulder, from which a little blood was just beginning to seep. He sheathed his last sword, and a corner of his mouth lifted slightly.
"I can’t give you this arm right now. Let’s just call it even."
Fujitora had not cut off Zoro’s arm, and likewise, Zoro had not cut him in half at the waist.
The moment the swords were drawn, the winner was already decided.
(End of Chapter)
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