Chapter 845: The Awakening of the Float-Float Fruit

"Rabu, look! This is General Franky's...super...battle form!!"

Following Franky's excited roar from the shore, BIB, who was meditating in the library of the Sunny, slowly opened his narrow and glimmering eyes.

The waves were surging, and whales were popping up on the island. I looked at Franky, who had transformed into a steel general more than ten meters tall and rushed towards the giant warriors on the shore. I couldn't help but wonder, why did he have to watch me?

The black armor raised its head, and its perception of sight and hearing reached ten thousand meters high.

…

Bang! Bang! Bang! …

The astonishing sound of the collision echoed in the vast, lifeless sky.

Bang! Bang! The thin clouds were parted, and the wind was blowing wildly. With each shock wave, it was as if two meteorites were colliding in the distance behind them.

The boulder carried Lynch, Robin, Chopper, Usopp, and Jesus Bu, and flew away under the control of the golden lion.

Chopper looked shocked, turned his head to look at the source of the surging air current, and muttered to himself: "Luffy and Shanks are fighting..."

"How intense!" Usopp muttered.

Chopper prayed nervously, "I hope no one will be killed!"

Jesus Bu comforted him, "Don't worry, the captain is not so reckless. There is no way he can kill Luffy, right?"

Usopp and Chopper looked at him strangely, "We mean, Luffy shouldn't beat Shanks half to death..."

Jesus was really shocked. Are the young people nowadays so fierce? "Not really! Luffy..." Jesus muttered to himself. He couldn't help but look at Robin and Lynch, as if he wanted to confirm that the two guys were not joking.

Robin said meaningfully: "After he defeated Kaido in single combat, he was still able to move freely."

Jesus opened his mouth wide.

Lynch patted Jesus' shoulder and said with a smile: "Do you think I would have taken the trouble to take this boat if Luffy's strength had not been trained to the point where he could defeat the bosses on the road alone? - Wouldn't I have become a bodyguard? That would be boring."

"But... this..." Jesus was speechless, "It's only been a year..."

Usopp smiled helplessly and said, "Whether it's a year or a month, it makes no difference to Luffy! He only knows that if he can't improve his strength as soon as possible, he will lose his two partners, Lynch and Robin, and maybe even Chopper. As long as he understands this, it's enough."

Chopper also recalled: "In the past year, Luffy consumed the most medicinal herbs among all the trainees." After a pause, he added: "Oh, and food ingredients."

"It seems that although the boy is heartless and like an idiot, he is surprisingly clear-headed..." Jesus Bu couldn't help but sigh, "He will do what he has to do at all costs. He is indeed the guy Shanks has high hopes for, and he even gave him the hat that he treasures like his lifeblood."

"Here we are," said Lynch.

Robin and the others looked ahead, and the clouds and mists broke through, revealing islands with floating seawater at the bottom, suspended in the air. There were no passages connecting them, as if they were not man-made, but existed naturally in this extremely high altitude environment. Each island was lush and green, and some buildings could be seen from afar, and it was obvious that humans lived on these islands.

“…”

The Golden Lion withdrew his gaze and flew higher. He glanced at the people talking on the floating stones below, snorted while biting his cigar, and controlled the stone to carry them to the nearest floating island.

boom……

After the control of the Floating Fruit was removed from the stone, it fell straight to the ground of the forest on the floating island and was smashed to pieces.

"Wow!"

Chopper exclaimed and jumped away in a hurry. The gravel stirred up dust, and a group of colorful birds rose in the primitive jungle. Usopp, who was standing next to him, looked up at the scenery and said in surprise: "I've never seen such birds before..." Jesus held his spear and said excitedly: "What a great place for adventure and hunting!"

“Hahahahaha!!”

The height of the golden lion's floating slowly decreased, and the broken legs of the two swords appeared in the sight of several people. Usopp noticed that the blades of the two swords that replaced his feet had several obvious gaps, and even the top of the sword held by his left leg was cut off a little. Hawkeye was able to damage the famous sword of such a legendary pirate. He really deserved to be the world's strongest swordsman... Usopp silently cheered for Zoro in his heart. He really asked for trouble by choosing such an outrageous opponent!

"My Floating Fruit can make anything I touch unaffected by gravity, just like the stone you were riding on just now. I can control it however I want!"

The Golden Lion folded his arms and floated in the air in front of the group, biting his cigar and laughing wildly, "With my power, do you really think you have a chance of winning, Lynch?"

"Yeah." Lynch nodded, "The chances of winning are very high."

"..." The golden lion grinned and smiled silently. For a moment, the whole island seemed to be buzzing, as if in anger.

Soon, Usopp and Chopper's eyes gradually widened, staring blankly at the back of the golden lion. The ground rolled up with a loud rumbling sound, as if a mountain was pulled out of thin air, and even formed a huge lion's head by itself, surrounding the golden lion himself in the air, and roaring silently at Lynch on the ground.

The gravel was shaking off, Chopper and Usopp were stunned, their noses running, although they had seen Lynch transform into a rock giant before, but seeing the Golden Lion do it at close range was still a big shock. The Red Hair Pirates were evaluated by the Navy as the most evenly matched elite pirate group, and Jesus Bu's personal strength was imaginable, but even he, seeing the Golden Lion's move, put on a serious face and took it seriously.

There are a total of... fifteen floating islands. Robin's attention was not distracted by the golden lion. After she obtained basic intelligence through her own means, she moved her mind and created a flower clone on each of the other fourteen floating islands.

The petals rose from the ground in similar environments such as hillsides, woods, streams, and outside villages, and emerged to form the same body of Robin. They opened their identical dark green eyes one after another, took a deep breath, and smiled in unison, "Then, let's start the archaeology."

The headquarters of a legendary pirate that has disappeared for twenty years should have some secrets, right?

Robin smiled and leaned forward, "Come on, Pikachu, let's go investigate together."

"Ah, eh?!" Chopper just came back to his senses and looked at the empty environment with only the warped Lion Mountain Peak left. Both the Golden Lion and Lynch were gone, leaving the little reindeer a little confused. "Where are they?" He turned his head and said in surprise: "Usopp and his father are gone too!"

"How rude!" Chopper said indignantly. A lollipop was handed to it, and it immediately stood on tiptoe to grab it happily.

"Let's go." Robin smiled and handed it the lollipop.

"Where are we going to investigate? What are we going to investigate?" Chopper licked his sweet lollipop while following Robin's legs, and from time to time he curiously observed the rare and exotic animals in the passing woods.

It was as if fifteen different visions overlapped before Robin's eyes. Some of them showed ancient ruins, some of them stared at a strange bird by the stream, and some of them observed a human village from afar... She focused her attention on the white feather-like things on the villagers' arms and said to herself, "Let's investigate this first."

Chopper was full of question marks.

There was a rustle of movement in the woods, with flocks of birds flying. Whoosh! A round of ammunition passed through the layers of branches and pierced a piece of bluestone.

"Not bad!" Jesus turned over and squatted on the bluestone, aiming his gun at the prey on the other side of the woods a few kilometers away. His observation Haki eliminated all interference and locked the target. But at this moment, suddenly, the bluestone under his feet collapsed, and a savage man-eating plant grew wildly and bit him.

"Hehe." Usopp pushed up his goggles while running at the other end of the woods. "The competition has just begun, Dad. Let's see who is the final winner, the real brave warrior!"

A gunshot was heard from the squirming carnivorous plant, and a few kilometers away, a tiger-like and bear-like monster that was chasing a rabbit splattered blood on its head. The carnivorous plant withered, and Jesus Bu breathed a sigh of relief while carrying his spear, and said with a smile: "I got the first point."

Bang! The sound of the gunshot floated along with the wind and caught up with the corner of the golden lion's clothes as it was hunting at lightning speed.

The golden lion shuttled between different floating islands, and used the power of the Floating Fruit to control the huge amount of land and rocks, transforming them into beasts of various shapes to attack Lynch. Lynch, on the other hand, was walking like a parkour, holding an iron rod and walking through the undulating ground and the constantly attacking rock monsters, occasionally smashing the rock beasts with a stick, or using an iron mountain lean to directly crash through the upright ground in front of him while running.

"Hey, I say, you don't think that stone can have any obstructive effect, do you?"

Lynch leaped and rose and fell in the surging terrain, crushed a raised spike with one foot, and asked loudly without any concern.

In this world where even the lowest-ranking pirates can probably smash rocks with one punch, rocks are probably the most useless elemental attack. A slightly more powerful swordsman can flatten a mountain with one sword. When old Garp got excited, he used the mountains as sandbags to practice boxing.

In front of a body as strong as Lynch's, these rocks controlled by the Golden Lion are not much different from sand and flowing water, like tofu.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

"Hehe, of course it's not just stones..."

The golden lion galloped and waved its hand casually.

Lin Qi jumped high out of one of the floating islands, and the surging earth behind him turned into a huge claw and stabbed at him. The blue-black iron rod flying behind him hit him and broke him into pieces, turning into rubble peaks and falling into the blue sea ten thousand meters below. And right above Lin Qi who was flying in the air, with the golden lion's big hand waving, a mass of black things flew from the distant island and fell from the sky.

Countless metals! Sharp blades! Spears! Swords! Glowing with cold light, they rushed towards Lin Qi.

"Haha, it's a pity that I didn't bring the Magnet Fruit today."

Lynch flipped over in mid-air and stretched out his hand. The blue-black domineering aura instantly condensed into a stick, which he swung towards his head, splitting the metal torrent that was falling from the sky from bottom to top.

Another blow. The raging momentum submerged all the sharp blades, spears, swords, and knives that had not yet been broken apart. All the metals were slowly bent, worn, and even melted in the overwhelming force. When the huge shock waves of the storm, lightning, and fire dissipated, the original torrent of metal turned into piles of charred scrap iron, falling powerlessly in the air.

Blood was gushing out of the corners of the Golden Lion's eyes, and he himself did not even notice that a trace of cold sweat appeared on his forehead.

He couldn't control the charred pieces of scrap metal with the Float-Float Fruit anymore...

Were the two attacks Lin Qi had just made so powerful that they even erased the ability marks that his own Float-Float Fruit had placed on those metals? !

How could such a thing happen...

The golden lion was filled with nameless rage. He floated in the air, raised his feet and slashed continuously, controlling the sea water at the bottom of the island to surround Lynch.

"No matter how powerful you are, you are still a living person." The golden lion grinned, "If you are a human being and can't breathe in the water, you will die. This is a survival principle that even children understand!"

Boom boom boom! All the floating seawater rushed towards Lynch like giant raindrops, surrounding him. In the blink of an eye, Lynch seemed to have become a drowning person in the center of the seabed, trapped by a huge spherical seawater.

The Water Prison Technique belongs to... Lynch thought so, and then, in the incredulous eyes of the Golden Lion, a dark soul body suddenly emerged from above his head.

The dark soul opened its eyes, and its golden eyes seemed to contain endless coldness.

Crack...

All the sea water froze rapidly in an instant and turned into a huge ice ball floating in the air.

The dark soul above Lynch's head, who was trapped in the center of the huge ice ball, moved through the solid ice as if it were nothing, and reached out to grasp the blue-black iron rod under the feet of his physical body.

Click.

The "Dinghai Shenzhen" instantly expanded, creating a huge crack inside the huge sphere. At the same time, six dark blue arms with domineering aura grew out of Lynch's body. In just a moment, he swung out hundreds of punches, shattering the ice ball from the inside. Countless cracks extended like spider webs, and within a few breaths, the sphere frozen by the seawater collapsed...

The golden lion looked at Lynch with bloodshot eyes.

The six arms growing from his shoulders and back dragged dark blue ribbons of domineering power. Lynch shook off the ice chips and melted sea water on his body, and escaped. The moment he fell in the air, a dark blue iron rod flew under his feet. He stepped on it calmly, as if he was stepping on a hoverboard, and flew in the air so unreasonably.

He raised his eyes to look at the golden lion high up, with a faint smile, "Luffy and Shanks will probably fight for a while, so I'll play with you for a while. But you'd better use all your strength right from the start, old cat."

“……?!”

As if suddenly hit by an invisible aura, Golden Lion's heart was shaken, and he remembered the nickname given to this young man in the newspaper.

"Eight-armed demon!" Lynch swung his stick through the air.

The golden lion was terrified, and the Floating Fruit quickly controlled his body to fly to the side, only to feel a cold slash brushing past the position just now. He glanced at the half of his sleeve that was covered with frost, and looked back. A "frost path" hundreds of meters long formed in the air, which was exactly the trajectory of Lin Qi's attack just now.

The Golden Lion's mind went blank for half a second.

After this blank half second, another half second passed, and a thought that should have seemed extremely absurd popped up in his mind: Wouldn't it be better not to provoke Lin Qi from the beginning?

But soon, this weak thought was strangled by the lion.

He grinned wildly and said, "You're right, Lin Qi! To deal with you, I have to go all out from the start! Hahahaha!"

"Floating Fruit: Awakening..."

The golden lion roared wildly in the air, and the wind and clouds rolled up in an instant. The invisible power of the devil fruit spread wildly, along the wind, along the air flow, along the air, and penetrated into everything...

"I'll say it again, Lynch, no matter how powerful you are, you're still a human being who needs to breathe!"

The golden lion flying high in the sky was facing the light, looking down from above, and its entire body was like a shadow. And Lin Qi, who was stepping on the dark blue iron rod, felt that the wind around him was getting louder, and even made a piercing sound like a whistle, and the air was rapidly becoming thinner... In just a few seconds, Lin Qi's surroundings were drained and turned into a vacuum.

(End of this chapter)