Chapter 732 Tathagata, I want your life! (6600 words)
[Chapter Heading Serialization·Darkness Strikes 10·"Suddenly, there is no way out"]
[One wave has not settled, another wave rises, literally. Perhaps it was because the weather was particularly good with no clouds in the prison, but after leaving the prison, there were violent storms and extremely bad weather. The bamboo raft made temporarily by the Blackbeard Pirates would have fallen apart in the strong wind and waves if Teach and others had not worked together to use the Armament Haki. Catherine and Shiryu looked as if their bodies had been drained. It was good enough that they could protect themselves, but they were of no help. Even Crocodile was soaked and could not turn into sand and fly away...]——
On the frozen sea, there were crisscrossing cuts and scratches, blood, and piles and pieces of sailors. On the oil painted patterns on the ground, there were corpses lying everywhere, whether they were dead, injured, or sleeping, their faces were blue and purple from the cold.
In the crowd, the live-streaming Den Den Mushi that Usopp had lost crawled out, shook its head, and looked around.
Unlike the other two live-broadcast Den Den Mushi, this one was taken away by Usopp before, so it did not receive the order from the navy to cut off the signal. Therefore, it is still diligently maintaining the live communication radio waves until now.
"Hey, what are you doing? Why is the camera shaking everywhere?"
"There are only a few people left standing on the ice. Stop filming over there and look at the island!"
"How did the battle of Marinford go?"
"Is Whitebeard dead?"
"How is that possible! I think it was Garp who died!"
"That's not right. It was that Lin Qi who died!"
"Bullshit, how could he be dead?"
"That means the Pirate Queen and the Devil's Son are dead!"
"Bullshit, you're looking for a fight, right? Come on, brothers! Let's kill this bastard first!"
The square of the Sabaody Archipelago was in chaos. Throughout the archipelago, hooligans, gangsters, pirates...many lawless people seemed to have sensed the navy's defeat and were ready to make a move.
Violent incidents occurred one after another, but no Marines came to maintain order.
Anxiety, depression, excitement, madness... Just as this atmosphere began to emerge, the only remaining picture on the big screen finally turned to Marinford.
It is even questionable whether the island can still be called "Marinford" at this moment.
The vast golden light rose into the sky like a waterfall flowing against the current.
"It's Admiral Kizaru..."
Countless people swallowed their saliva, and everyone could recognize who this person with the flashing ability was.
"The Navy has not been defeated yet!"
"The generals are still here..."
The golden light flickered, reflecting on the two lollipop-like pupils of the live broadcast Den Den Mushi. Its pupils contracted from time to time, adjusting the focus, faithfully broadcasting the scene in front of it. The ocean of golden light rushed back to the sky, drowning the figures of the few people on the island. Countless golden lights like sword energy quickly intersected between their figures, like a thousand cuts...
"Robin, Lynch..."
Nami looked back at the group of pirates fleeing collectively on the frozen sea, worry revealed on her tired face, but she quickly turned back and tried her best to escape with her companions.
Now, all they can do is not to become a burden to Lynch and Robin. With their abilities, as long as they are not a burden, they can leave whenever they want. The navy and the others will definitely not be able to stop them!
"Brother Hei..."
Mary, with a haggard face, sat on Brooke's afro, looking towards the distant direction of Marinford.
The golden light curtain gradually dissipated...
A flash of golden light appeared hundreds of meters in the sky, revealing the figure of Kizaru who looked tired. He loosened his tie and looked down at the Marinford Island at his feet with a complicated expression.
[Bang! He was knocked away by Zefa's punch. Although he was seriously injured, he was also awakened. He broke free from the control of the Pirate Queen's snake hair venom. ]
[Pah, pah, pah... Yellow Monkey's face was covered in blood, his brown glasses were broken, he looked at the pool of blood on the ground, a little depressed. Navy, justice... I just think the World Government is the right side and the stronger side, I joined to make life easier. In the end, it's just a job, why should I fight to this extent for it? ]
【While Lin Qi and the others were not noticing him, Kizaru winked at Sengoku, Aokiji and the others, and then pressed his palm on the broken ground. 】
[Instantly, the crumbling coast of Marinford Harbor shone with golden light...]
Crash!
The waves are surging.
The place where they had fought just now, at this moment under Kizaru's feet, the small half of Marinford Island, all seemed to have evaporated and disappeared.
This is why he doesn't really use the Flash Fruit to awaken...
Assimilating the terrain into light, the escape speed of these lights is too fast, and the speed of light cannot be restrained. Even Kizaru, as a user of the flash ability, can only guide the direction of those lights, but cannot completely stop the "speed of light" and keep them - every time he uses the flash fruit to awaken, it will be like now, completely "evaporating" an area of terrain.
Crash! The waves crashed against the "coast" of Marinford, which had shrunk inwards a lot, and crashed against the ice.
Aokiji withdrew his fingers tiredly. He had a tacit understanding with Kizaru, who was also an admiral. When he saw Kizaru decided to use Flash Awakening, he immediately gathered Marshal Sengoku, Mr. Garp, and Teacher Zephyr, and froze the sea surface in this corner at the moment when the terrain was evaporated by light, before everyone fell into the sea. Of course, except Aokiji himself, Marshal Sengoku was the only one who had the ability, but it was also good to save Mr. Garp and Teacher Zephyr some effort in swimming.
The four of them gathered on the ice in the corner, while Lin Qi and the others over there were almost all people with special abilities...
However, when Sengoku and others took away their hands that were covering their eyes and looked at Lynch, Nico Robin, Boa Hancock, Whitebeard and others, thinking that the previous attack would at least yield some unexpected gains, they discovered... there was a pair of huge angel-like wings woven from countless arms in mid-air, intertwined and closed, and on the surface of the wings, there were many criss-crossing marks left by the countless rays of light in the golden light.
"The Flower-Flower Fruit..." Sengoku gritted his teeth.
Further ahead, long black hair danced in the wind, Lynch's body was enveloped in a layer of dark, fiery energy, and his feet were suspended above the undulating sea.
In one hand he held the body of Jinbei, whose half body was immersed in the sea, and with the other hand he grabbed Whitebeard's arm and carried him on his back. Whitebeard's whole body was bleeding as if he was collapsing, and half of his body was covered with blood. He didn't care - why Lynch could float in the air was no longer important. What Zephyr, Garp, Sengoku and Aokiji's pupils constricted was that at this moment Whitebeard's whole body was covered with a layer of blue-black domineering aura.
Lynch's special domineering aura! Ripple domineering aura!
Did he use his Haki to wrap up Whitebeard like a "weapon"?
Lynch actually used this method to protect Whitebeard from Borsalino's awakening attack just now? !
call--
Lynch led Whitebeard and the others to move horizontally above the sea, flew to the shore, put Jinbe's body aside, and put Whitebeard down as well.
Lynch's strength...
Seeing this man's increasingly superb and unfathomable methods, the expressions of Zhan Guo and others became increasingly unsightly.
Over there, the wings woven by the petal arms could not really flap and fly, and soon fell to the sea surface after the island evaporated. When it touched the sea, petals flowed from the bottom and condensed into arms, which lifted up a lotus platform incarnated by dozens or even hundreds of delicate arms. The wings spread out, revealing Robin and Hancock who were protected inside and hugged each other.
Robin's face turned pale, and he fell to his knees, but Hancock quickly supported him. The Queen's face was full of heartache, why did you use all your clones? Wouldn't it be better to use my clones to make protective shells? Seeing that they were all fine, Lynch on the shore gave a thumbs up.
Robin blinked at him, panting, and also gave him a faint smile.
The son of the devil, the Pirate Queen... Sengoku's face was livid, and he glanced at the remaining people on the ruined battlefield, Marco, Lynch... He also noticed the black ghost of Lynch in the air not far away. The threat from it was getting stronger and stronger! No matter what Lynch and his ghost were going to do, they couldn't delay any longer...
"Polusa--" Just as Zhan Guo was about to shout, a ray of golden light fell from the sky and slammed down to the ground, creating a big hole in the already ruined Marinford building. Boom, a ball of fire like a laser attack exploded.
Wow, wow, the sound of wings fluttering came, Zhan Guo gritted his teeth and looked up angrily, it was Boa Hancock's sister, the flying snake Boa Sandersonia! "I'm in good condition, Mr. Marshal!" Sanders spit out the snake's tongue and laughed.
Boom! Aokiji raised his hand and swung a stream of cold air at him. Sanda nimbly flapped his wings to avoid it and said with a smile: "General Aokiji, your movements have slowed down a lot. It's easy to dodge."
"They already left a way out!" Karp sighed.
Zefa wiped the blood off his face with one hand and chuckled, "I've been ambushed like that before, so of course I have to learn my lesson!"
Hancock, who had jumped onto the shore from the lotus platform, heard this and wanted to shoot an arrow directly at the one-handed old man with a cold face! "Sanda, don't come down yet, wait a moment." Hancock ordered.
"Okay, sister." Sanda spread his wings and circled, quickly flying to the suspended "BIB" and waiting.
“Crash!”
A man emerged from the sea near the shore. Marco coughed up sea water a few times and climbed up to the shore wetly.
The dark blue domineering aura withdrew from Whitebeard and returned to Lynch, revealing Whitebeard covered in blood, his face pale and almost transparent. Seeing that Marco was safe and sound, he pulled up the corners of his mouth and smiled, put his big hand on Marco's head and touched it. Marco was kneeling there wet, and it was not known whether the water dripping down was sea water or tears.
"Lin Qi...the one who arrested you back then was that person, right..."
Whitebeard covered his body which was collapsing and bleeding, and muttered to himself, "What a powerful opponent... What kind of person is he?"
"Roger doesn't know either?" Lynch supported the exhausted Whitebeard and said, "It's nothing. Although he is very powerful, he is just a human with two eyes and a mouth."
“Very impressive… hehehe… gulalala…”
Whitebeard smiled meaningfully, and as he smiled he continued to cough up blood - the blood he coughed up became lighter and lighter, just like his complexion.
Whitebeard looked straight at Lynch with a dazed look in his eyes.
Lynch sighed, "It's the last moment, I don't want to lie to you."
He shook his head. "You want to ask how strong she is? I don't know, Newgate. I really don't know."
Five years ago, he managed to get himself into the big prison with the help of the Celestial Dragons who killed Marijoa from time to time.
And in the following five years, in order to avoid being "killed" by his own stand-in one day, he has basically been busy harvesting and accumulating strength in the big prison.
The moment when Lynch's strength truly transformed was when he survived the torment of becoming one with his double not long ago.
After gaining the enormous power brought by the fusion of his Stand, Lynch first defeated Cyborg, and then rushed to Marinford to participate in the Battle of the Summit... But the weight of these ten years was too great, and this was Lynch's first time having such an experience. He didn't even feel that he had fully digested the accumulation of this time. It would take some time to carefully reorganize the existing strength.
And how strong was Yimu five years ago or ten years ago? Lynch really didn't know.
His specialty is to judge the strength of aura, but when Im was right in front of him, he was completely unable to judge how strong that guy was.
Funny enough, what Lynch thought of was the deeds of a certain Qi Mu, who was also called a god.
In other words...Im's power is too strong, so strong that Lynch's observation Haki cannot judge it, and so strong that it can "burst" Lynch's "detector"?
"Is that so... Gulala... That's really, unimaginably powerful!"
Whitebeard was covered in blood, and he stood up in unimaginable pain. He laughed loudly, and he didn't have the energy to care whether the signal broadcasting the battle was still there. He just relied on his last breath, leaning on the big naginata Kusukumokiri, and roared with his whole body shaking: "In the depths of Marijoa... there is an immortal person————————"
What was he going to say? Sengoku, Garp, Zephyr, Aokiji, and Kizaru, who had crawled out of the ruins in a daze, were all extremely puzzled.
Robin, Hancock and even Sandasonia all felt something and realized what Whitebeard wanted to tell the world loudly in the last moments of his life.
The immortal man who lived in Marijoa! The one who designed to capture Lynch ten years ago and almost killed Hancock later! The reason why Whitebeard warned Marco not to fly directly over Marijoa! The live broadcast Den Den Mushi stared at the back of Whitebeard standing upright with blood dripping. The picture was displayed on the big screen of the Sabaody Archipelago, listening to Whitebeard's last cry: "In the depths of Marijoa... there is an immortal man————————"
An immortal person?
Mary Joa?! Countless people felt their scalps tingling and their hearts pounding! Many journalists were stunned and dropped their pens and papers.
"Damn Whitebeard!"
Mary Joa, the Five Elders were furious, looking at the live broadcast screen set up in the hall, "Don't even think about saying such a thing!"
“Don’t worry…” The old man in kimono holding the sword adjusted his glasses and said coldly, “Lord Yimu doesn’t like her name to be known… You see.”
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Boom!
On the live broadcast screen, wind and thunder surged in the sky above Marinford. From the accumulated dark clouds, a long dragon of lightning with bared fangs and claws poked its head out!
"roar!!!"
The Thunder Dragon roared and swooped down.
"What on earth is this..." Countless people watching the live broadcast were dumbfounded. Under the dull gaze of a pair of eyes, in the picture, Lin Qi jumped high on the island and rushed towards the long dragon of lightning that came straight down without hesitation. "Is he crazy? He wants to fight with this kind of thing--ugh!" Some people were instinctively horrified, but when they thought that the person in the picture was Lin Qi, they suddenly became speechless. It seemed that a lightning dragon was nothing more than that to this man.
As everyone expected, Lynch soared into the sky and knocked the thunder dragon apart with one punch.
However, the scattered lightning turned into electric snakes, hissing and circling Lynch, attacking the white-bearded man standing on the ground covered in blood.
Marco leaped up and was pierced by countless electric snakes. He gritted his teeth and screamed in the lightning.
Dense electric snakes pierced through Whitebeard's broken body, but he didn't care at all and laughed out loud: "You've been fooled! Gulala la la la la la——————"
Whitebeard's laughter echoed on the big screen. Everyone was staring at the back of the world's strongest man, looking at the dancing arcs of electricity on his body, looking at the ruins of Marinford that seemed to be swept by a natural disaster. Unconsciously... everyone felt a chill all over their body and trembled with goose bumps.
"Hehehe..." The pirates including Kidd who were observing from the dark had sweat on their foreheads and sneered, "That is to say, Whitebeard's so-called 'immortal man' really exists..."
Go and defeat that man! Whitebeard seemed to use his last life to convey this message to the world.
But……
Defeat an immortal? Defeat a man who sent down a divine punishment from nowhere and killed Whitebeard? Not to mention ordinary people, even the lawless pirates gathered in the Sabaody Archipelago shook their heads and had no interest in it! The most important thing is that they don't think this is something that mortals can do...
…
After all, I am just an ordinary person...
In his blurred consciousness, Whitebeard felt his tired breathing and gradually weakening heartbeat leaving him.
In a trance, he seemed to have returned to the Sphinx, his hometown.
That homeland that was not part of the Allied Powers, where pirates wreaked havoc everywhere... Ever since Whitebeard could remember, he had fought alone, doing his best to help others...
Unconsciously, after becoming a powerful monster in the eyes of others, I, who longed for the warmth of my family, gradually built a decent big family on the sea. There were many children who were homeless like me but longed for family, and they affectionately called me daddy... Although it was just a call, it made me feel warm every time...
But……
Edward Newgate tried hard to open his eyes wide, trying to see clearly the blurry view of the Sphinx in his hometown.
My parents...
He murmured in his heart, I really want to know what my parents are like...
…
The drizzle of rain fell, soaking the blood-stained body of Whitebeard as he stood still.
His body temperature was rapidly draining away and his body became stiff.
The most powerful man in the world...is dead.
Sengoku, Garp, Zephyr, Aokiji and Kizaru all had shadows on their faces, sighed, or had no expression on their faces. An era had truly ended.
Marco was lying on the ground at Whitebeard's feet, covering his face and crying silently.
The raindrops fell on Jinbei's cold body.
“Hoo…Hoo…”
Robin supported Hancock, calmed her breathing, and silently looked at Whitebeard who died standing upright.
Suddenly, she and Hancock both raised their heads.
Whoosh, whoosh—Sanda was surprised as she flapped her wings. Lynch’s black stand-in suddenly moved and flew over there, toward Lynch. Before leaving, he said to her, “Sanda, take them away.”
"Ah? Oh!" Sanda was stunned and dived down quickly, "Robin, sister!"
Robin took out Greenie and jumped, and put Hancock, the bodies of Whitebeard and Jinbe, Marco and of course herself into the Den Den Mushi castle.
Sanda caught Xiaolu and flapped his wings to fly.
"not good!"
Zhan Guo and others' faces changed suddenly and they looked up.
"Is that enough?" Lynch flew into the air and looked down at Marinford, which was missing a corner and was almost falling apart.
"Absolutely enough." "BIB" disintegrated with a crackle, and quickly put on the armor on the main body. The narrow face armor with two eyes shining slightly buckled on Lynch's face, "The King's Fist, this time without compromise..."
『BIB』 The King's Fist that has been charged up till now! Lin Qi, wearing a layer of black armor, aimed his arms downwards and had nothing to say, Marinford, disappear.
boom!!!!
A cone-shaped impact force of twenty meters, forty meters, fifty meters... suddenly surged out from his palms and rushed downwards mightily.
The extremely terrifying impact force descended from the sky bit by bit...
The eyes and mouths of the audience in the Chabaoti Archipelago who were watching all this through the live broadcast screen also gradually widened and opened, and snot dripped down...
Looking up at this scene that seemed like divine punishment, Zhan Guo suddenly felt a calmness he had never felt before.
He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and shouted softly. His body gradually rose higher and higher, transforming into a 15-meter-tall golden Buddha.
Warring States! Garp and Zephyr flew over, their roars seemed vague and inaudible under the vigorous power pouring down from their heads.
As if silently, the golden Buddha expressionlessly slapped Garp, Zephyr and the others through the air, knocking them out of the core attack range of the overhead bombardment.
I am the Admiral of the Navy...
The golden Buddha looked up, muttering to himself expressionlessly. The terrifying bombardment that obscured his vision was getting closer and closer. The Buddha's face gradually became more ferocious, and he roared: "Under my feet is Marinford! This is the land of justice!!!"
Boom! The Buddha swung his palms towards the overwhelming attack.
The overwhelming attack engulfed the figure of the Buddha.
Boom…
The earth shook, and the sea surged. When the extreme explosion and light faded, the already dilapidated Marinford was now only a small ring of land, and everything in the middle was flattened, blasting out a huge pit, which was soon filled by the roaring waves... The waves surged like a whirlpool, and a figure surged out of the tide.
Marshal Zhan Guo's almost completely gray body was even emitting wisps of dust.
Rumble, lightning and thunder flashed in the sky, and the wind and clouds rolled. In the flashing thunder, only Lynch's figure was suspended high in the air, looking down.
Sanda held the green Den Den Mushi in his hands and looked at the scene with shock in his eyes.
call out--
Lynch fell down, his long black hair almost straight in the air, and landed with a bang on the last remaining circle of broken land in Marinford.
Dust and mist flew away, and dark flame-like energy floated around Lynch in the sea breeze. He reached out and grasped a blood-stained golden iron rod, and slowly stood up.
“Crash!”
Garp and Zephyr emerged from the sea, one by one, throwing Aokiji and Kizaru to the remaining ground. Looking back, they saw Lynch walking towards them step by step with the golden iron rod in his hand. His long black hair fluttered in the wind, and his domineering aura was almost materialized around his body. After fighting for so long, his physical strength and domineering aura seemed to have hardly weakened. He was simply a humanoid beast that could not be understood by common sense.
At this moment, Lin Qi raised his head, swung his hand and swung a stick towards the sky. Boom! A dark blue aura burst out, smashing a huge group of rocks into pieces. The debris flew all over the sky, and then suddenly froze, floating in the air like a starry sky.
High up behind the rubble, a rock that looked like a small island was flying in the distance.
The purple-robed blind swordsman sat on the top and sighed, "This battle was so brutal, with so many casualties... Commander Gang Gukong and Marshal Zhan Guo all died. Your Excellency must have lost your temper. How about we just stop now?"
"It's you, I thought you weren't coming!"
Lynch carried the golden iron rod on his shoulder. The sea breeze blew his long hair all over the sky. He turned around and said, "- Shanks."
A dragon-headed pirate ship was approaching from a distance, and a red-haired figure jumped high and jumped over with a sword in hand.
(End of this chapter)