Chapter 187 Scattered Meteorites (Two in One)
Ryoma, who was standing in front of Yoshikazu Tsuchiya, did not say anything. His dry palm slowly pressed on the long sword at his waist. Then, under the gaze of Yoshikazu Tsuchiya and others, he slowly pulled the Qiu Shui in his hand out of the scabbard.
That’s right, the sword on Ryoma’s corpse’s waist is none other than the famous sword Shusui, which is known as one of the Twenty-one Great Swords and is the national treasure of Wano Country.
The black blade slowly emerged from its scabbard. As the blade emerged, a powerful aura emanated from Ryoma's body. This aura seemed to solidify into a gust of wind, rushing towards Yuichi and the others.
The cold air with a faint earthy smell penetrated into Yuichiro's nostrils. Looking at Ryuma standing in front of him with a sword drawn, Yuichiro Tsugikuni couldn't help but put his hand on the sword at his waist.
"It's clearly just a dried corpse, why does it have such a powerful aura?!"
"and……"
“I feel the dominance!”
Tsugikoku Yoriichi's expression was a bit solemn. The corpse of Ryuma in front of him was a little beyond Yoriichi's expectations. Originally, Moria was able to steal Ryuma's corpse and Shusui from Wano Country, which was already a surprise to Yoriichi.
However, the strong sense of oppression emanating from Ryoma at this time surprised Yunyi even more.
It's just a dried corpse stuffed with shadows. Without the support of the flesh, relying solely on the skeleton, how can it exert the same strength as Longma?
In the future world, the fledgling Zoro was able to defeat Ryuma's corpse stuffed with Brook's shadow, and at this time, Yoriichi and others who broke into the horror barque were countless times stronger than Luffy, Zoro and others.
Tsugikoku Yoriichi actually looked down on Moria. It wasn't that Tsugikoku Yoriichi was arrogant, but the strength of the people he brought with him was really strong.
With such a lineup, Yunyi couldn't figure out how Moria could escape from his men.
but……
This thought disappeared with the appearance of Longma's corpse.
There is a threat!
The dragon horse in front of them is a threat to them.
I don’t know what kind of shadow Moria has put into this corpse. Now, the aura exuded by the other party alone cannot be underestimated by Yuan Yi.
"Buzz!"
Soon, Ryoma took action. Without any intention of communicating with Yuichiro and the others, Ryoma drew out his long sword and launched a flying slash at Yuichiro and the others.
The moment the whistling sound rang out, the azure slash slashed towards Mihawk and Yixiao. The slash was estimated to be seven or eight meters long, and the moment it was launched, Yixiao and Mihawk were forced to take precautions.
"Here it comes! A smile."
Mihawk warned, and raised the long sword in his hand. He did not choose to counterattack immediately, but planned to resist the opponent's attack first and feel the opponent's strength.
A smart person would not risk their life to test the opponent's attack. If they could dodge, they would definitely dodge. After all, if they blocked it, it would be fine. If they couldn't, their life would be gone.
However, Mihawk was full of confidence in himself, because he could also perform the same kind of slashing attack as the opponent.
As Mihawk held his sword to block, Yixiao drew his sword and slashed at the attack.
“Boom!!!!”
With a muffled thud, the slashing blows aimed at Ichixiao and Mihawk vanished in an instant as they were blocked. A terrifying airflow emanated from in front of Ichixiao and Mihawk, sweeping in all directions.
Ichixiao and Mihawk blocked the attack head-on without taking even a single step back.
Mihawk felt the force of the slash, a hint of disappointment appeared on his face, and then he said to Yixiao:
"It's okay, it should be enough to relieve boredom."
"Yixiao, let me take charge of the battle between swordsmen."
As he spoke, Mihawk held the sword in both hands and disappeared beside Yixiao with a thrust. When Mihawk reappeared, he was already in front of Ryoma, and the black knife in his hand slashed towards Ryoma's chest.
Mihawk did not use Haki. This attack was just pure physical strength. Mihawk did not even fully exert his physical strength.
Through the opponent's previous slash, Mihawk already had a preliminary understanding of the opponent's strength.
Although it is very strong, it is not enough for him to give his all.
"clang!!!"
As Mihawk's attack came down, Ryuma quickly blocked it with his sword, but the moment the two blades touched, Ryuma's body began to explode backwards, and the huge force directly knocked Ryuma away.
The clogs rubbed against the ground violently, plowing out two long grooves on the ground.
The power gap between the two sides is very large.
"As an opponent, if this is the extent of it, it makes me a little worried!"
"That would be meaningless."
Mihawk said expressionlessly as he looked at Ryoma, who he easily defeated.
The aura that the opponent just exuded was obviously very powerful, but after only two rounds of confrontation, Mihawk had a new understanding of the opponent.
The force of his slash was mediocre, and his physical strength was far from his. A swordsman of this level was not enough to stand in front of him as his opponent. Now, Mihawk had lost interest in Ryoma.
"The strength of the physical body is simply not matched by the aura that was just radiated."
"Why? Is it because of the limitations of the corpse's flesh?"
Yoshiichi Tsugikuni had been watching the confrontation between Ryoma and Mihawk. He felt a little surprised to see that Ryoma, who was clearly exuding a strong aura, was defeated so easily by Mihawk.
The zombies on this island have exceeded his expectations several times.
The strength of swordsmen is easier to distinguish than that of esper users. Simply put, it's measured in three aspects: physique, domineering aura, and swordsmanship.
The corpse of Longma in front of him only has a powerful aura, but its physical strength is far inferior to Mihawk. As for Haki, it is just a dried corpse. Without a physical foundation, there is no Haki at all.
And when there is a huge disparity between physical strength and domineering aura, sword skills are completely meaningless.
This is equivalent to when Yoriichi Tsugakuni first came to this world and fought against Garp and Zephyr.
Having so-called sword skills but no physical strength and domineering power will only lead to one thing.
Mihawk, having lost interest in Ryoma, had no intention of holding back. He looked at Ryoma several meters away, raised his long sword high, and then slashed directly at Ryoma.
A green slash shot out directly from the black knife, leaving a crack several meters deep on the ground, and Haizi Street flew towards Longma in the distance.
Mihawk's flying slash moved at a very fast speed. In the blink of an eye, it had arrived in front of Ryuma. When Ryuma raised his sword to block, the blue slash suddenly landed on his chest and then quickly exploded.
"clang!!"
"call out!!"
The green light quickly submerged Ryuma's body. After a muffled sound, Ryuma turned into a black shadow and smashed directly into the castle gate. After a loud bang, a large hole with a diameter of several meters was left on the castle gate, and then he disappeared from the sight of Mihawk, Yuichiro and others.
"Huh?!" Mihawk let out a light exclamation when he saw this scene.
In his expectation, such a situation should not happen. Under his attack, even if the mummy raised the knife to block, the knife would be destroyed and the body would be cut into pieces in the end.
He shouldn't have been knocked away.
"Did you block it?" Mihawk frowned slightly and whispered, his face full of confusion.
When Ji Guoyuan saw Mihawk's puzzled expression, he looked at Mihawk in surprise and asked, "Didn't you notice?"
"The knife in the mummy's hand is the famous sword Qiu Shui, one of the twenty-first great swords."
"Looking at that, it should be about to transform into a black knife."
"Before your slash could hit him, he raised his sword to block it."
"If it was an ordinary knife, it would have been broken by you by now, but if it was Qiu Shui..."
When Ji Guoyuan said this, his voice stopped abruptly. He suddenly pulled out the long sword in his hand, and without looking back, he slashed directly behind him.
At some point, two withered arms stretched out from the ground behind Tsugikuni Yoshiichi. These suddenly appearing arms seemed to have been artificially modified, with steel claws on their ten fingers.
The head of the claw is smeared with an unknown purple liquid.
While the attention of Yuichiro Tsuchikuni and others was on Ryoma, he silently reached out from the ground and grabbed Yuichiro Tsuchikuni's ankle.
However, the sound of the arms breaking through the ground was noticed by Ji Guoyuan!
“Puff.”
The black blade of Dawn turned red when Ji Guoyuan swung the sword. Flames surrounded the long sword, and the tip of the sword instantly swept across the wrists of the two arms.
A pair of sharp claws broke away from the dry arms and fell to the ground.
After the sword was slashed out, Tsugikoku Yoshiichi did not stay in the same place for long, and instantly moved sideways several meters away.
The broken parts of the arms on the ground were inexplicably burning, emitting an unpleasant burnt smell.
Mihawk was startled when he saw that Tsugakuin Yoshiichi, who was still talking to him, suddenly drew his sword and dodged. After Tsugakuin Yoshiichi moved away, he looked back to where Yoshiichi had just stood. Seeing the burning arms on the ground, his pupils shrank slightly and he couldn't help asking:
"What's that?"
Jiguo Yuanyi only glanced at the broken arms on the ground, and then smiled at Mihawk and reminded him:
"Everyone, be careful, there's something underground."
"Moonlight Moriah, how despicable! She even smeared poison on him."
Although Tsugikoku Yuichi didn't know what was coated on the steel claws, it couldn't be some kind of tonic, right?!
Presumably, this is a special zombie modified by Moria, the same as the previous juvenile sea king.
However, as soon as Tsugakuni Yoshiichi finished speaking, the ground under his feet changed again. The originally flat ground suddenly bulged out. However, before anything came out from below, Tsugakuni Yoshiichi jumped directly into the air. While soaring into the air, he quickly slashed out a blow, which directly penetrated the ground where he had just stood.
"It seems that we can't procrastinate any longer."
"Moonlight Moriah's methods may be much richer than I imagined."
"If you're too careless, you might end up in trouble. If you'd been hit by the attack just now, you'd probably have died here today."
"After we return this time, we must get a few excellent ship doctors, just in case."
As soon as Ji Guoyuan fell back to the ground, he looked up at the castle in the distance and thought to himself.
"Follow me and don't waste time."
"Just pull Moria out and kill him!"
As Jigoku Yoshiichi said this, he pushed off the ground with his feet and flew up directly into the air. Then he stepped on the moon and quickly rushed towards the castle. He had already sensed the breath of many humans in the castle, and Yoshiichi planned to directly break into the enemy camp!
"Souga!"
"I see, I get it!"
Yixiao heard Yunyi's order and looked as if he understood. He suddenly bent his knees slightly while standing on the ground, placed his blind stick in front of his chest, and opened his blind eyes slightly, revealing the pale whites of his eyes.
The next moment, Yixiao pulled out a blade and the power of the devil fruit was activated directly.
“Huff, huff, huff—”
"boom--"
A sharp whistling sound suddenly came from the sky. The dark sky above the island, which was covered by thick fog, inexplicably turned a fiery red at this moment. The layers of clouds and fog began to dissipate rapidly as the whistling sound approached.
Yuichi Tsugikoku, who was rapidly approaching the castle, suddenly felt movement in the sky. He looked up and saw a meteorite with a diameter of tens of meters above his head. It was wrapped in blazing flames, broke through layers of clouds and mist, and fell rapidly towards the center of the castle.
“.”
My family, who understands?! My own subordinates actually planned to kill their leader while attacking the enemy.
"This guy Yixiao, he must have done it on purpose."
Faced with such a situation, even Tsugikuni Yoshiichi was speechless. After crossing the castle wall, he paused and quickly landed in the castle courtyard.
"Well, go back and train him."
Looking at the rapidly falling meteorite, Ji Guoyuan raised his head and whispered something, then tightly gripped the long sword, his expression becoming solemn.
When the meteorite was less than a hundred meters from the ground and about to hit the castle, Ji Guoyuan drew his sword.
The moment Ji Guoyuan swung the long sword in his hand, dense thunder suddenly sounded on the ground. The next second, countless slashes rose into the air and flew rapidly towards the falling meteorite.
Soon, those slashes penetrated the meteorite directly and disappeared into the sky.
But at this moment, the rapidly falling meteorite suddenly shattered.
A meteor shower poured down towards the castle without any warning.
“Bang!!!”
"boom!!!"
“.”
As countless pieces of debris fell to the ground, the castle began to burn fiercely in the meteor shower.
Moria, who was silently observing the battle outside the castle in the room, did not expect that his castle would suddenly suffer such an attack, and his face was full of shock.
After realizing what was happening, he started calling on his subordinates to evacuate.
However.
This sudden attack caught everyone completely off guard. As the houses in the castle collapsed and burned, many pirates died without even knowing what had happened.
Moria, who suffered such an attack, finally realized that the navy group that boarded the terrifying brig was probably not someone he could afford to offend.
In fact, Moria had already thought of retreating in his heart.
But Moria was unwilling to give up the world's largest sailboat just like that.
At least he couldn't just leave in such a hurry without even seeing the enemy!
Otherwise, how would Moonlight Moriah survive on the sea in the future?
Although Moria has realized that this group of navy will be very strong, he is full of confidence and does not think that he can't even escape from the hands of the navy.
At this stage, Moriah is a tough guy who is not afraid of anyone!
(End of this chapter)
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