Pirates: From Vice Captain to Lord of the Dead

Luffy swooped down from the air, swung his arms quickly, leaving afterimages, and created countless explosive fists that slammed into the deep pit!

boom! ! boom! ! boom! !

BANG! A flurry of fists fell mercilessly, blood splattering from Aokiji's mouth and nose. His body bounced up and was blasted into the ground again!

Luffy gritted his teeth and kept moving. Sanji almost died at his hands just now, so he had to beat him to death.

For a moment, the earth continued to tremble, and dust and smoke surged out from the deep pit.

Only when the sounds in the smoke gradually faded away did Luffy retract his arms and fall back to the ground. He bounced up and down several times on the ground with his feet, his eyes fixed on the deep pit in the smoke.

"call--"

Feeling that the opponent had completely lost his fighting ability, Luffy breathed a sigh of relief and released the Fourth Gear.

"Finally. It's over."

Chapter 381 Blackbeard's Second Ability

At some point, the sun had already sunk a little, hanging on the horizon and shining obliquely on the sea. The sea breeze stirred the waves, shaking them and reflecting the gem-like phosphorescent light that flickered.

Even after the battle was over, the ice on the island showed no signs of melting. The wind climbed ashore and passed through the snowy streets, blowing across the body with a bit of coldness.

"It's already four in the afternoon. Taking into account the travel time and rest time, we'd better finish the matter here before the sun sets."

Reiner glanced at the time and roughly deduced.

According to Vegapunk's information, CP0 is expected to arrive in Egghead tomorrow morning. The person who revealed the information to him should be Stussy, and the accuracy will not be too wrong.

However, Reiner knew that there were also undercover agents among Vegapunk's clones, and the news that they wanted to help Vegapunk was probably also known to the World Government.

I'm afraid there will be another big battle this time when I go back. I have to keep rushing and fighting. The physical exhaustion is okay, but the mental fatigue always needs rest to recover.

"Come to think of it, you managed to maintain fourth gear until the end of the battle this time, wasn't that a problem?"

Reiner couldn't help but glance at Luffy.

When we first saw Luffy in Gear Fourth, he could only hold on for about ten minutes, and after it was released, he felt like he was half dead.

Later, with the continuous fighting, the time that the Fourth Gear could be maintained gradually became longer and longer. This was the first time that Luffy actively released the Fourth Gear after fighting a whole battle.

"Ah, now I don't have to worry too much about the time limit of Gear 4."

Luffy nodded to Reiner, looked at his palm, and clenched his fist.

His recovery ability has always been very fast. In the past, it was because the consumption of the fourth gear was too exaggerated. Even if the domineering aura was improved, it was still easy to be drained in battle.

However, now his control over Haki has become much stronger. He can maintain the fourth gear with lower consumption. Combined with his strong recovery ability and growing Haki, he has finally mastered this form perfectly.

At least the situation of suddenly losing heart in the middle of a battle will no longer occur.

"This also means that the development of the 'Gum Fruit' has basically come to an end."

Reiner thought.

The upper limit of Haki is very high, and there will be opportunities for further improvement in the future, but if the fruit is not awakened, the rubber fruit can only be the rubber fruit, and the fourth gear is basically the limit. Reiner can't think of any other way to play with it.

But when it comes to awakening, Luffy has basically reached the pinnacle in the development of devil fruits, and the only thing left is probably the stimulation of will.

Reiner remembered that Vegapunk once said that the animal-type devil fruit carries the will of the corresponding creature. The so-called awakening is not only a breakthrough in ability, but also a game of will.

If the user's own will is not strong enough, they will be devoured by the will of the fruit after awakening. The idiotic jailermon in Impel Down Castle is the most typical example.

This is what makes the mythical beast species different from other ordinary animal species and ancient species.

The wills of the other two species are more reflected in their biological habits. For example, the jailer beast is basically no different from an animal with only a human form left.

The mythical beasts are forms that originate from mythology, and their so-called will is closely related to the symbolic factors in the legend. The sun god Nika represents laughter and liberation.

Laughter is fine, Luffy lives like a college student every day, as for the other liberation.

When he was in Wano Country, he went out of his way to fight Law and Kidd, but Luffy was beaten unconscious by Kaido and showed no signs of waking up.

It is not known whether it is because he is causing Luffy to not feel enough pressure, or because Luffy has developed stronger feelings for Wano Country because he has not met Inosuke.

But there is no doubt that awakening this fruit is not simple, otherwise no one would have been able to do it for hundreds of years.

"let's go."

Without thinking any more, they looked up and locked onto the location of Blackbeard and Zoro, and then the three of them quickly left the place.

On the other side of the island, unlike the ice and snow that froze everything, this place was like a world shrouded in darkness, appearing dim.

Many streets were filled with deep black fog, as if one would fall into the abyss at a glance. Countless buildings collapsed into ruins and were slowly sinking. The black fog was like a bottomless pit that was about to swallow everything.

Clang! !

A fierce spark flew up, and Teach's thick wrists were wrapped with armed color and stretched across his head. The whole thing looked like a pitch-black steel pillar that blocked the two chopped swords.

Zoro lowered his right eye, and the blade in his hand made a clicking sound in the stalemate. As the blood in his arms pumped, his muscles and veins suddenly swelled up.

"Nigangliluo!!"

With domineering power, it was as if a ferocious King Kong shadow condensed behind Zoro, looking down at Teach with anger!

"One-faced, two-armed Mahakala, double slash!!"

Zoro roared in a deep voice, and the strength of his arms surged. He shook his two swords and pushed Teach away. At the same time, he swung his two swords, and two huge red crescent slashes gathered into an 'X' shape and flew out rapidly!

Clang! !

Teach's eyes were startled, and he quickly crossed his arms to block. The brutal flying slash hit his arms, pushing his feet to scrape the ground, and his body quickly retreated.

boom! !

Teach's entire back slammed heavily into the mountain wall, leaving two huge cross cracks on the mountain. Then the hill collapsed with a "boom" and smoke and dust billowed out.

"Poison Dragon!!"

Magellan's ghost jumped onto the roof of a dilapidated house, and sticky venom quickly formed on its back, finally gathering to form a ferocious purple dragon, which pounced on Blackbeard fiercely.

"Roronoa."

"Damn it, how can he be so strong!?"

In the dust, Teach's face was extremely gloomy, and he stared at Zoro with gritted teeth.

Of course, he had read the reports on the Wano Country incident and the latest bounty on the Straw Hat Pirates. The group's reputation had now reached the point where everyone on the sea knew them.

If I remember correctly, Roronoa's latest bounty should be only 17 billion, right? This amount is definitely not high in his eyes with a bounty of 1100 billion, but the opponent's strength is even greater than the Hawk-Eyed Seraph he encountered on Nine Snake Island.

He even wondered if the title of the world's number one swordsman had quietly changed hands.

"cut--"

Tiqi sneered with a gloomy face, facing the ferocious poisonous dragon that was attacking him with its power, he stood up with his hands on the stone wall behind him, and stretched out his five fingers to push forward.

"Dark Water!!"

Teach's palm turned pitch black, and dark mist surged out from his palm, spinning like a fan. An invisible gravitational force pulled the diving poisonous dragon tightly towards his palm.

The deadly poison that ordinary people could not avoid was like a drop in the ocean, swallowed up by the bottomless pit!

"Thief, hahahaha! Don't waste your energy. It's useless no matter how many times you try!"

Tiqi raised his mouth corners, and a hint of pride inadvertently flashed in his eyes.

"Darkness can devour everything. No matter what kind of power you have, it will become nothingness in front of me. Even like this..."

As he spoke, a gleam flashed in Teach's eyes, and his palm covered with jeweled rings pointed at the charging Zoro, and the black mist swirled again.

"Dark Water!!"

A gravitational force suddenly acted on his body, and Zoro's pupils shrank in shock. At this moment, Teach's hand was like a wind hole that was about to suck everything in.

"What's going on?! Can it also work on people without special abilities or objects?!!"

Seeing the stones around him being attracted and flying towards the other person's palm, Zoro gritted his teeth, stood in a horse stance, and inserted his knife into the ground to try to stop his uncontrollable body from flying out.

"Hahahaha! The gravity of darkness can absorb and crush everything, just like a black hole, even light is no exception!"

Tiqi laughed sinisterly, his eyes extremely cruel.

Dark water can not only generate gravity to absorb everything, but it can even seal the opponent's fruit ability at the moment of contact. Zoro is not a special ability user, so the second effect does not work on him, but the gravity derived from darkness can be effective even on non-special ability users and even objects.

Most people who rely on the power of fruits to fight will be at a loss after their power is sealed, and some will even lose their combat effectiveness directly, but it is different for people without special abilities.

If it were in the past, he would never use this trick against Zoro so easily.

They do not rely on the power of devil fruits and are generally better at close combat, especially swordsmanship masters like Zoro, who will have an advantage in frontal combat.

But he is just the opposite. Because of the Dark Dark Fruit's ability to absorb everything, he cannot elementally avoid damage like other natural types. Instead, he absorbs and withstands all attacks. This is tantamount to a disaster for him who has a higher sense of pain than ordinary people.

But now is different from the past, he has gained another kind of power that is enough to crush everything!

As long as you can catch the other person.

A sinister glint flashed in Tikki's eyes.

烀！

Sizzle—sizzle!

Just as Zoro couldn't resist the gravity and was about to fly into Teach's hands with his feet in the air, a cluster of fire and a bolt of thunder suddenly appeared in the sky.

"Thunder and Fire Storm!!"

The wizard's undead ghost had no expression on his face, and he was suspended in the air on a circular platform made of flying sand. The cold staff in his hand spewed out explosive flames and violent thunder.

"Black Snake Reiner!"

Tiqi gritted his teeth and squeezed out a few words angrily.

Whenever he saw these undead, he couldn't help but think of how he had lost the Tremor-Tremor Fruit and several of his subordinates at their hands.

Faced with the fierce attack of a large-scale tornado of lightning and fire, Teach had to give up targeting Zoro and instead release the power of darkness towards the sky with both hands at the same time.

"Dark Water!!"

Even elemental energy could not escape the dark water's gravity, and was completely unable to break free from the powerful wind hole in Teach's palm.

Faced with this scene, Zoro's expression remained unchanged and calm.

Not to mention the abilities used by the undead, even the undead themselves are creatures of abilities, and the threat they pose to Blackbeard is minimal.

Originally, the undead were present only to act as a distraction. Although it was difficult for them to cause direct damage to Blackbeard, they were enough to provide cover and achieve a certain degree of suppression.