Chapter 403: Chapter 403: Fierce Battle with the Two Legends of the Marines
Chapter 403: Fierce Battle with the Two Legends of the Marines
A small deep pit was smashed in the center of the park. A humanoid skeleton wreathed in azure flame was embedded in the ground, and stones clattered down from its bone crevices.
"This stinky old man’s fists are quite fierce."
Reiner raised his hand, held his head and shook it, dispelling the faint blurriness in his vision.
Without any probing, Garp had directly smashed him with a big move.
The powerful Conqueror’s Haki combined with his perfected Iron Fist had erupted, and even he, in his Necro form, had not gained an advantage.
Never mind whether it was true that he had chased Roger all over the world, this old guy’s fists were hard, with no exaggeration at all.
Reiner jumped out of the deep pit and looked opposite. Garp had also walked out of the collapsed ruins, his clothes torn and covered in dust, looking no better than Reiner.
Reiner spread his legs and sank into a squat. Just as he was preparing to charge out again, a dark shadow covered the sky and rapidly approached!
"Buddha’s Impact!!"
A golden Great Buddha descended from the sky, a shockwave emitting a golden light gathered in its palm. As he pushed down, it rapidly expanded!
Boom!!
The semi-circular shockwave instantly covered Reiner. Sengoku looked down with angry eyes, and with a great palm, he pushed the shockwave down forcefully.
The ground beneath his feet cracked, and the earth and stones rose up in waves and spread out. Reiner gritted his teeth and sneered, his two fists by his waist as he resisted the impact head-on.
The raging energy around him madly impacted his body, as if it would crush his bones.
Another old guy...!
Reiner glared at Sengoku and immediately activated his ability. His figure instantly disappeared from the spot.
"Teleport!!"
"He’s gone?!"
Sengoku’s eyes widened in shock. His Observation Haki had not sensed any sign of the other’s movement at all.
Almost at the same instant, a powerful presence suddenly appeared behind him. In his perception, it was as conspicuous as a leaping flame in the darkness.
Sengoku whipped his head around. As expected, it was the suddenly disappeared Reiner. At this moment, he had already swung his long leg and was lashing down rapidly!
Before Sengoku could raise his hand to block, Reiner’s foot violently pierced the other’s face and sent him flying.
Bang!!
Sengoku’s massive body was directly turned into a human cannonball, flying backward at high speed and smashing into several houses at the end of the street.
The walls shattered and collapsed, and a large amount of dust and smoke kicked up, burying him in the ruins.
Reiner’s figure floated down. Just as his feet touched the ground, Garp, with his fists clenched, had already crossed a hundred meters and was in front of him.
"Fist Bone: Clang!!"
A fierce glint appeared in Garp’s two eyes. He bent his body and drew back his arm, and his pitch-black iron fist smashed out with all its might!
Reiner raised his arms, crossed them vertically in front of him to block. The strength transmitted from his hands made his brow furrow, and it felt as if he had been hit by a mountain.
Bang!!
The terrifying force pushed his two feet to plow the ground as he was sent flying back, crashing through countless benches and street lamps, and only barely stopping after retreating outside the park.
"Hahaha! This old one’s fists are still hard, aren’t they!"
Garp grinned wildly and, with his fists by his waist, he bent over and charged up.
A red light flashed in the sockets of Reiner’s eyes. He took a step forward, sank into his stance to gather power, and punched out from a distance!
Just as his fist was halfway through the air, Reiner’s figure suddenly disappeared, and before Garp’s surprised eyes, he instantly appeared in front of him!
Bang!!
The fist magnified in his pupils. Garp, who was too late to react, was directly hit in the face and sent flying like an arrow loosed from a bow.
"I see. Is it the ability of the Warp-Warp Fruit?"
Sengoku pushed aside the collapsed wall and walked out of the ruins, his expression grave.
He had a certain understanding of most of the Devil Fruits. At the very least, he remembered the contents of the Devil Fruit encyclopedia. After seeing it twice, he had more or less recognized it.
"Mikiri!!"
Sengoku put his palms together, and a strange circle of light slowly rotated around his pupils, as if all the changes in the world had been taken into his Dharma eye.
Bang!
Then, Sengoku spread his legs, and with his two palms, he slammed the ground, shouting in a low voice:
"Kongōshu!!" (Vajra Hand!!)
Far away, a semi-transparent, giant Buddha’s palm, condensed from energy, abruptly appeared above Reiner’s head.
The palm emitted a faint halo and whistled through the air as it suppressed down!
Reiner’s gaze focused. He stopped his pursuit of Garp and retreated.
Bang!!
One palm missed and directly collapsed the ground. Just as Reiner stood firm, another palm appeared above his head.
"Teleport!!"
He activated his ability, and his figure flashed. However, the golden light in Sengoku’s pupils rotated, and he had already predicted the position where he would appear.
He condensed a golden Buddha’s palm in advance and suppressed down with the force of ten thousand tons.
Reiner couldn’t help but look surprised. He quickly raised his arms and crossed them to block.
Bang!!
The Buddha’s palm was as heavy as a mountain. It viciously smashed him into the surface of the earth, leaving a giant palm print.
With one hit landing, before the dust and smoke could kick up, Sengoku, with a thought, created a sky full of Buddha’s palms. The sky was instantly dyed a golden yellow.
"Kongō: Senju!!" (Vajra: Thousand Hands!!)
Bang!! Bang!! Bang!!
With an explosive roar from Sengoku, a rainstorm of Buddha’s palms mercilessly smashed down. The earth was blasted with a dense web of palm prints, and dust and smoke rolled and billowed out.
"—Phew!"
His old strength spent, Sengoku let out a turbid breath. The golden light in his pupils gradually dimmed, and his two eyes were fixed on the smoke and dust.
Swish—!
A fierce wind rolled away the smoke and dust, revealing the devastated earth. There were some fractures on various parts of Reiner’s body, which were slowly repairing in the burning azure flame.
"What a strange technique. Your ability..."
Reiner glanced at Sengoku faintly.
This golden light, or rather, Buddha’s light, was a very strange energy.
Not only did it have extremely strong impact damage, but it also had the ability to shake the spirit and will. But it was different from being imbued with Conqueror’s Haki.
This was the first time Reiner had encountered such a technique. Every time he was hit, his brain was like a bell being struck, humming.
However, under the continuous bombardment, Reiner also discovered that using Haki could effectively resist this spiritual shock. There was no doubt that this was a Devil Fruit ability.
And he could predict his teleportation. Reiner recalled the golden light that had shone in Sengoku’s pupils just now. This was definitely not the use of Observation Haki.
The Human-Human Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Model: Great Buddha. He had thought it was just a golden fatty who could release shockwaves. Now it seemed it was far from that simple.
So-called Devil Fruits were the possibilities of human evolution that people longed for.
’If only I could become like this, if only I could become like that’... all the fruit abilities represented a strongly existing wish.
Devil Fruits were born in response to the beliefs or expectations that people deeply believed in. This was a hypothesis proposed by Vegapunk.
And Mythical Zoans, those dreamlike forms that only existed in myths and legends, embodied this hypothesis to the fullest.
Thinking about it now, if the hypothesis was true, then the idea that the Buddha’s ability was to release shockwaves sounded quite strange.
That golden light was probably the true ability of the Great Buddha form, and the impact was just an attached effect.
’Where the Buddha’s light shines, the evil is dispelled and purified’. In line with such rumors and sayings, the Buddha’s light would have a powerful attack power.
But if you think about it this way, according to various folk sayings, the effects that the Buddha’s light could achieve were probably much more.
Reiner’s expression couldn’t help but become a little more grave. He wasn’t afraid of a strong opponent, but of an unknown ability.
He himself was a Mythical Zoan user. These mythical forms, which sounded very strong in people’s hearts, would definitely not be simple.
If a Human-Human Fruit, Model: Satan were to appear, he would immediately suspect if it could summon immortal demons from hell.
Collecting his scattered thoughts, Garp and Sengoku had already charged up from the left and right. With a thought from Reiner, long, sharp spikes began to grow on his bone arms.
The bone spikes bent and extended along his hand, covering it. In the blink of an eye, his entire right arm had been constructed into a ferocious-looking bone dragon.
"Black Bone: Dragon Bite!!"
Armament Haki, like black flowing fire, coiled around the bone dragon’s body. Reiner swung his arm and punched out with the dragon’s head. The bone dragon’s body suddenly stretched, and it bared its fangs, viciously pouncing at Garp!
"He can even do such a thing?"
Faced with the biting bone dragon, Garp’s gaze was full of interest. His entire body’s bones made a ’cracking’ sound, and his Armament Haki covered his body.
"Iron Bone!!"
Clang!!
The sharp fangs, as hard as steel, bit into his shoulder, but sparks actually flew out, and then they were stopped, unable to advance an inch.
Reiner exerted force again, and a fierce red light flashed in the dragon’s eyes.
Bang!! Bang!! Bang!!
The bone dragon swung its body, and biting Garp, it pushed him back a hundred meters. It crossed three streets, crashing through countless houses, and finally, it barely managed to stop.
"Watch this old one tear you to pieces, you big worm!"
Stones and dust fell from his back. A corner of Garp’s mouth lifted into a grin. His two palms, covered in Armament Haki, each grabbed a sharp tusk, and with one hand up and one down, he forcefully pried open the dragon’s mouth.
Crack! Kaka!!
Garp’s two eyes were ferocious, and the muscles on his body gradually bulged with veins. The bone dragon, which had been hardened by Haki, actually began to make an explosive sound.
However, a corner of Reiner’s mouth lifted coldly.
The next second.
Whoosh!
Crackle—Crackle!
A cluster of fire and an arc of lightning appeared in the wide-open dragon’s mouth. The flame swelled on one side and then continuously compressed. The arc of lightning gradually turned into a wild thunder that coiled around it.
A dazzling white light bloomed from the dragon’s mouth. Garp’s eyes widened in shock. He wanted to let go but was bitten tightly by the dragon’s fangs.
"Boro Breath: Thunderflame Roar!!"
The explosive energy instantly expanded. A concentrated beam of flame, wreathed in lightning, fiercely erupted from the ferocious bone dragon’s mouth!
Boom!!!
"Garp!!"
Sengoku subconsciously cried out, his face filled with worry.
The intertwining thunder and flame of the Boro Breath instantly engulfed Garp’s body, annihilating all the buildings behind him and shooting out beyond the island, straight into the sky!
Until the scorching firelight gradually subsided, the path of the thunderflame breath had been razed to the ground, and all the buildings had been turned to ashes.
A giant trench appeared on the earth, tens of meters wide, extending from the city to the coast.
A large amount of white mist rose from the surface of the earth. A figure, in a pathetic state, stood in the deep pit.
Garp’s clothes were completely tattered, revealing his knotted upper body muscles. His entire skin was covered in Armament Haki, the deep black glowing with a scorching red light, wisps of green smoke rising.
"Cough, cough, cough!!"
Garp raised his head slightly and looked into the distance, his expression a little apprehensive, a trace of scarlet blood at the corner of his mouth.
"This little bastard... it seems this old one has gotten old. Have I reached the point where I have to be respected and loved by the old?"
Although he had landed a heavy blow, Reiner was not overly pleased.
This level was far from enough to deal with Garp. Not to mention, he was facing more than just one Marine legend.
Just as he had pulled back his bone dragon, the golden Great Buddha descended from the sky with a palm strike of impact!
"Buddha’s Impact!!"
"Kurouzu!!"
Before Sengoku had even landed, Reiner pushed off with both feet and shot out. His left palm gushed with black mist that spun at high speed. His five fingers were spread as he pushed towards the other.
Bang!!
The two palms clashed from a distance. The moment it hit the black mist, the ball of impact, which was emitting a faint golden light, was like a mud ox entering the sea.
Not only did the power of the Buddha’s light not explode, but it was also swallowed by the darkness bit by bit. Before Sengoku’s shocked eyes, it gradually weakened until it completely dissipated.
"The Dark-Dark Fruit!"
Sengoku reacted instantly. Just as Reiner was preparing to backhand and grab him, he quickly withdrew his arm.
He had seen the ability of the Dark-Dark Fruit when he had fought Blackbeard in the Summit War. Naturally, it was hard for him to suffer a loss due to carelessness again.
Bang!!
His massive body landed back on the ground. Sengoku was still in shock when he was met with the ferocious, flying bite of the pitch-black bone dragon.
"Kinrin Heki: Jinkiri!!" (Golden Wheel Wall: Formation Cut!!)
Sengoku pushed his two palms forward at the same time, creating a defensive barrier in front of him that was condensed from Buddha’s light. It looked like a semi-transparent glass pane emitting a golden glow.
Bang!!
The bone dragon violently rammed into it, and a golden light instantly bloomed, becoming even more dazzling.
The defensive barrier looked thin and weak, but it was actually indestructible. Sengoku’s two feet plowed the ground, and his massive body was pushed back several dozen meters. The barrier in front of him showed no signs of cracking at all.
"You can defend the front, but can you defend all directions?"
Reiner’s eyes hardened. With a thought, the bone dragon’s body suddenly disintegrated, and the bones scattered and flew everywhere.
Sengoku whipped his head up and saw countless bones in the sky, blooming with a dazzling firelight!
"Fire Bone: Cluster Burst!!"
Using the ability of the Bomb-Bomb Fruit to turn his body into a bomb, Reiner roared in a low voice, and all the bones in the sky exploded at the same time!
Boom!! Boom!! Boom!!
A dense and huge explosion was deafening. Thick smoke, mixed with firelight, rolled into the sky, forming a giant black mushroom cloud.
The explosion’s center, Sengoku, was sent flying backward, and his golden body was covered in scarlet bloodstains.
Bang!!
His body streaked across the sky and smashed heavily into the end of the street. Several houses were broken through, and rubble flew.
"Cough, cough...!"
Soon, Sengoku pushed aside the collapsed wall, clutched his chest, and walked out, gritting his teeth, his eyes glaring at Reiner.
This bastard... isn’t he a bit too unbeatable?
Before this, he had absolutely not expected Reiner to be so troublesome. One ability after another, his methods were endless.
Although he had been mentally prepared, he had only discovered after actually fighting him that it was almost as difficult as ascending to heaven to take him down now.
Never mind those exaggeratedly powerful moves. Just in terms of defense, Reiner’s current ability combination had already reached an almost unbeatable level.
The Dark-Dark Fruit, the Warp-Warp Fruit, and the Phoenix Fruit... any one of these abilities would be extremely troublesome in the hands of a powerhouse of Reiner’s level, not to mention all three combined.
Sengoku raised his hand and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, squinting his eyes tightly. A cold glint flashed in his eyes, and he quickly calmed down.
There were not many methods left that could truly suppress the other. But it was not as if there were none.
The absolute weakness of all ability users... Seastone!
(End of Chapter)
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