King the Conflagration
Wildfire: Ash
Impel Down the Eastern Route outside the city.
Boom--!
The flames swept diagonally across, snapping the mainmast of the Marine warship in two.
Burning sawdust clattered onto the deck, sparks flying everywhere.
Vergo held his bamboo stick horizontally, his entire body covered in black Armament Haki, and forcefully blocked the blade that followed.
Clang!!
The immense force slammed down along the bamboo stick, causing the deck beneath his feet to crack inch by inch.
He slid backward for more than ten meters before his back slammed hard against the gun emplacement, bringing him to a stop. A tightness ran through his chest.
"Vergo!"
Luo raised his hand, and the ROOM instantly unfolded.
Kikoku flicked upwards, and the broken mainmast and several cannonballs simultaneously soared into the air, hurtling towards Ash.
The flames behind Jin suddenly surged.
As the broken mast and cannonballs hurtled towards him, he flapped his wings and easily dodged them.
"These little tricks won't work on me."
The Ember Spirit was suspended in mid-air, its wings flapping violently.
The flames behind it suddenly split open, and dozens of fireballs were fired in succession, raining down on the warship like a dense barrage of bullets!
"The Blazing Twin Emperors!"
Luo's expression changed, and the boundaries of ROOM suddenly expanded outward.
Shambles!
He and Vergo each switched places with the splinters on the deck.
Swish!
The incendiary projectiles swept past where the two men had been standing, striking the gun mounts and the ship's side in succession.
Boom! Boom!
Explosions rang out one after another, and seawater was blasted onto the deck.
The flames behind the ashes suddenly subsided.
In the next instant, a dark figure pierced through the white mist, a long sword aimed straight at Luo's shoulder!
Luo's pupils contracted.
Shambles!
In an instant, his figure swapped places with a piece of broken wood next to him.
Swish!
Ash's blade grazed the shards of wood, sending wood chips flying.
"The response is good."
Jin coldly uttered a sentence, then spread his wings again, flames spreading along his feathers.
Don't treat me like I'm invisible!
Vergo lunged from the side, his bamboo stick, coated in heavy Armament Haki, slamming into Jin's side with a sharp, powerful whistling sound.
Jin didn't dodge; flames suddenly erupted behind him.
Bang!
The bamboo stick struck him hard in the side, sparks flying.
Jhin didn't even take a single step back.
The next second, the longsword was already slashing back at Vergo!
Vergo quickly raised his stick to block.
Clang!
The blade slid down hard against the bamboo stick, and flames exploded in the process.
Vergo grunted as he was blasted away, crashing heavily onto the deck.
"Vergo!"
Luo seized the moment when the embers receded, and Kikoku pierced straight into his chest!
"Injection/Firing!"
Jin dodged to the side, but the tip of the knife still sliced through his clothes.
He glanced down at the gash in his chest.
"Op-Op Fruit... indeed troublesome."
Beads of sweat appeared on Luo's forehead.
The flames behind the ashes would sometimes ignite and sometimes subside.
Luo has tried several times.
When the flames ignite, the blade only sends sparks flying when it strikes the ashes.
Once the flames went out, the embers moved at an astonishing speed again.
Luo repeatedly initiated position switching, trying to seize the gaps in Jin's state transition several times, but Jin dodged them all.
If this continues, we'll be the ones who suffer the most.
He tried to expand the ROOM to include the floating debris on the nearby sea, hoping to directly swap the positions of the embers and the debris.
But Jin's Observation Haki had already detected the spatial fluctuations.
Every time Luo was about to launch the Shambles, he was able to avoid it in advance, never giving Luo a chance to lock on.
Vergo used a bamboo stick to stand up, but as soon as he took a step, a sharp pain shot through his chest.
He gritted his teeth and charged forward anyway.
The flames behind Jin suddenly went out.
His body shifted into Human-Beast Form, and his wings folded back.
The next second, he skimmed across the sea surface at high speed!
The moment it approached Luo, its wings suddenly unfurled, sweeping across with terrifying force!
"Tankyūdon!"
The wind pressure made the deck creak, and the target was Luo.
Just as Luo was about to switch positions, Vergo had already rushed back from the side.
"Shave!"
He instantly flashed to Jin's side and behind, thrusting the bamboo stick upwards from below.
Without even turning his head, Jin unleashed a sharp wind blade from the edge of his wings.
Swish!
Vergo quickly blocked with his stick.
Clang!!
The bamboo stick was shaken and sank downwards.
Using the speed of its dive, Jin twisted its body sharply, its other wing slamming into the bamboo stick!
Boom!
Vergo's feet dug two deep furrows in the deck, but he couldn't hold on any longer and fell to his knees.
Jin folded his wings, landed on the bow of the ship, and looked down at him.
"Don't rush to your death."
He turned to look at Luo.
You rarely even get a chance to meet me.
Vergo's chest heaved violently, and blood seeped from his hand gripping the bamboo stick.
Jin raised his longsword, the tip pointing diagonally at the two of them.
"With Ron gone, the two of you can't stop me."
Luo did not answer, but simply maintained ROOM, his Kikoku still aimed at Jin.
Central sea area.
Above the Deserted Island.
Ron and Kaido clashed again.
Boom!
The spiked club collided head-on with Zhenyuan, and black and red Conqueror's Haki Inazuma exploded instantly.
The two had just clashed on the Deserted Island, and in the blink of an eye, they were fighting their way up into the sky.
Kaido grinned wildly.
"Hmph! That knife only scratched the scales a little, and now you're out of options?"
Ron didn't reply.
The battlefield on the eastern side is only a few nautical miles away.
The waves created by Ron and Kaido's battle were so powerful that the Marine warships and Animal Kingdoms Warships could not get close at all.
His Observation Haki swept across the chaotic sea, catching sight of two familiar presences on the east side.
Luo's breathing was relatively stable.
Vergo, however, was clearly weakened and obviously wouldn't last much longer.
Ron frowned.
Tsk.
"You dare to get distracted during a fight?!"
Kaido seized the moment when he was distracted, and the Hassaikai slammed down with a whoosh.
Spatial Door suddenly opened beneath Ron's feet, and he vanished backward.
Boom!
The spiked club smashed the ground, sending rubble flying everywhere and dust billowing dozens of meters high.
Kaido looked up, but didn't see Ron appear from nearby.
In the distance, between the sea and the sky, a Spatial Door slowly opened.
Ron stepped out from the crowd, his gaze sweeping over the surging waves, fixed on the Animal Kingdoms Fleet on the Eastern Route.
Jhin had already advanced to the front of the warship.
Vergo is injured, and Ronaldo is also nearing his limit.
Ron raised Zhenyuan, the tip of his blade pointing towards the sea.
Kaido's laughter stopped. "You brat, what do you want?!"
He suddenly transformed into a blue dragon, his massive body carried by flaming clouds as he chased after Ron, his roar shaking the sea.
Ron didn't turn around.
Zhenyuan slowly raised his blade, and the space around it began to distort.
One, two, more than a dozen...
Dark cracks appeared one after another, slashing horizontally, cutting diagonally, and intersecting, instantly covering the sky in front of the Animal Kingdoms Fleet.
The edges of the crack twisted and distorted, even tearing apart the surrounding clouds.
On the warship on the east side.
Luo suddenly looked up, his pupils shrinking sharply.
"Master?!"
Jin suddenly looked up at the sky.
The dense black cracks had blocked the fleet's path.
Dimension Slash!
Ron's wrist sank.
Dozens of spatial slashes fell simultaneously!
"Ron!!"
The azure dragon swooped down from above and to the side.
Kaido instantly transformed back into human form, gripping the Hassaikai tightly with both hands, his Conqueror's Haki swirling wildly around him.
"Stop right there!!"
Boom--!
The Hassaikai slammed down fiercely amidst the densest spatial slashes.
Black and red Inazuma exploded, forcibly deflecting the first few spatial slashes that were about to strike.
Using the recoil from the attack, Kaido spun around violently.
"Kundali Longsheng Army!"
Hassaikai wildly waved his staff in all directions, the shadows of which almost formed a continuous line.
Boom!
The first dozen or so spatial slashes were deflected and scattered in succession.
The cracks continued to fall, crisscrossing from above and the sides.
Kaido had just parried one wave when another was already closing in!
Puff!
A dark, cracked line grazed his shoulder, and blood splattered instantly.
Several more slashes passed by his side, heading straight for the Animal Kingdoms Fleet behind him!
The foremost warship, along with its ram, was sheared off at an angle, and the disoriented vessel crashed violently backward.
The second warship fared even worse; its midsection was cut open, the deck and cabins were misaligned, and seawater poured in.
The main mast of another ship, along with half of its deck, was sheared off. Before a dozen pirates could react, they fell into the sea along with the broken planks.
Boom! Boom!
Several of Kaido's deflected slashes landed on the sea, leaving behind a series of intersecting, massive trenches.
The seawater surged to both sides, and several warships were tossed about by the surging waves.
The front-line formation of the Animal Kingdoms Fleet was completely thrown into disarray.
Two of the warships were already incapacitated, and the third had its mainmast and half of its deck sheared off.
The other warships all turned around, and none dared to charge forward.
Jin's expression changed drastically, and he immediately turned his head and shouted:
"All ships, retreat immediately!"
Damaged vessels, move to the sides! Other vessels, keep your distance! Don't crowd together!
He glanced again at Ron in the distance, his grip on the knife tightening.
Kaido blocked most of the frontal attacks, but the three warships in the front row were already destroyed.
If it happens again, the ships behind might not be able to avoid it either.
On the other side.
Luo finally breathed a sigh of relief, quickly went to Vergo's side, and held his shoulder to check his injuries.
"Can it still hold on?"
Vergo wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, his voice hoarse. "He won't die."
High in the sky, the wind howled.
Kaido clutched his bleeding shoulder, glaring at Ron with eyes that looked like he wanted to devour him.
"You dare to attack my fleet just to save those two guys?!"
Ron flicked his wrist, Zhenyuan pointed diagonally at the sea.
"Didn't you come here yourself to save people?"
Kaido stared at Ron for two seconds, then suddenly threw his head back and burst into laughter.
"Heh heh heh! My men aren't so easily taken away!"
Before he finished speaking, he swung the Hassaikai again and charged forward.
Ron drew his sword to meet the attack.
Boom!!
Zhenyuan and the Hassaikai collided again, and Conqueror's Haki Inazuma exploded.
The next moment, the two were simultaneously pulled downwards by the impact and crashed heavily onto the Deserted Island.
Kaido stood up from the rubble and picked up the Hassaikai.
"Ron! I'm going to teach you a lesson today!"
Ron, holding Zhenyuan, emerged from the rubble on the other side.
"That suits me perfectly."