Dust Release Unleashed, Absolute Suppression!

"This aura... this aura!"

Sensing the sudden change in Feng Lei, Cracker's eyes widened, his face full of shock.

How could the Marine before him suddenly unleash such a terrifying aura?

Compared to before, he was like an entirely different person.

But that only roused his ferocity!

"Come on! Let's see how you break through my defenses!"

Cracker roared.

As someone who had eaten the Biscuit-Biscuit Fruit, his biscuits were like armor, impervious to blades and bullets.

But.

The moment his words fell, Feng Lei vanished from sight.

Cracker's pupils contracted.

The ground where Feng Lei had stood seemed to have been struck by an invisible force and caved in.

Bang!

Before he could react, a foot struck him under the chin.

The tremendous force sent Cracker's towering body flying into the sky like a cannonball.

"So fast!"

Cracker clenched his teeth, his heart jolting.

He hadn't even seen how Feng Lei had landed that kick.

The next second.

Feng Lei shot up from the ground, moving several times faster than Cracker was flying, and appeared directly above him as if he had teleported.

His fist, wreathed in Armament Haki, churned the air, and the speed of his punch made the air spark from friction.

Boom!

Another punch slammed into Cracker's chest.

At once.

Cracker plummeted like a meteor and crashed into the ground, upheaving the earth and leaving a massive crater before the assembled pirates.

"Gulp!"

Seeing Cracker smashed into the ground and nowhere in sight, the surviving pirates all swallowed, their faces full of shock.

"How is that possible? That's Lord Cracker!"

They had never imagined it.

The mighty Lord Cracker had been at a disadvantage from the very start of the fight.

Was that Marine a monster?

Just then.

A noise came from the crater, and as the dust slowly cleared, Cracker appeared.

But unlike his previous tall, imposing appearance with its long beard, he had become a muscular man three meters tall.

He wore brown gloves, and the only armor on his upper body was a bright pink pauldron on his right shoulder.

His face was sinister, with a scar over his right eye. The hair atop his head was shaped like a long loaf of bread, and sparks flickered at the tips of the two tufts of hair behind his head.

"What a pity. You unleashed such tremendous strength and speed, but all you defeated was my armor!"

"And I can create and control as much of this armor as I want!"

"But as a Marine, you can be proud to have seen my true face. After all, even the World Government's wanted poster only has a picture of my biscuit armor!"

Cracker held his longsword and looked at Feng Lei with a smug smile, as though the pleasure of a cat playing with a mouse had satisfied him.

As Cracker's words fell.

He raised both hands and began to clap!

Clap!

A crisp sound rang out, and a biscuit materialized beside Cracker.

Clap, clap, clap!

As he clapped more and more, the biscuits multiplied.

The biscuits began to combine on their own, forming more than ten enormous Biscuit Soldiers on either side of Cracker in the blink of an eye.

The Biscuit Soldiers stood there like a forest, resembling an impregnable wall.

At the sight!

The surrounding pirates froze for a moment before bursting into cheers.

"That was Lord Cracker's armor just now!"

"Is this Lord Cracker's real face? Heavens, we never knew."

"Heh-heh, that Marine had to work so hard just to break Lord Cracker's armor. Now that he's made so many more, I really wonder what he'll do next."

"What else can he do? All he can do is wait to die!"

"Kill him, Lord Cracker!"

Mocking voices rang out, but Feng Lei paid them no heed, because a system notification sounded in his mind.

[The host has been detected learning Ninjutsu. According to the system's assessment, the Ninjutsu being learned is: Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu!]

[Ninjutsu obtained: Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu.]

[Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu: learning progress 1%.]

"Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu?"

Feng Lei froze for a moment, then glanced at the rows of Biscuit Soldiers on either side of Cracker and smiled.

This trip hadn't been in vain!

"Marine!"

Cracker's voice rang out again.

He wore a vicious smile as he looked Feng Lei up and down.

"So... what are you going to do now?"

Rumble!

As his words fell, the Biscuit Soldiers on either side charged at Feng Lei with their longswords, like a moving great wall.

Seeing Cracker's smug expression, Feng Lei's lips curved into a disdainful smile.

"What gave you the... illusion that I was helpless?"

With that.

Feng Lei slowly raised both hands toward the charging Biscuit Soldiers.

A white cube appeared between his palms. Just as the Biscuit Soldiers were about to reach him, the cube shot out and came to rest in their midst.

"Dust Release: Boundary-Stripping Technique!"

In an instant.

The white cube, only the size of a block of tofu, expanded and engulfed all the Biscuit Soldiers.

Immediately afterward.

Before the horrified eyes of Cracker and the assembled pirates, those Biscuit Soldiers, impervious to blades and bullets and possessing boundless strength, like moving fortresses...

Dissolved in an instant!!

Then the whole world seemed to fall silent.

"No... impossible!!"

Cracker could no longer maintain his earlier composure. His face filled with terror, as though he had seen a ghost.

As the creator of the Biscuit Soldiers, he knew full well how much punishment they could withstand.

Especially with his own Armament Haki coating them, making them harder than steel.

But now.

In the blink of an eye, all the Biscuit Soldiers had been wiped out!

They hadn't been smashed apart!

They had been completely dissolved, as though erased from the world.

After all.

Even if his biscuits were smashed, he could use his ability to restore them, but now that they had disappeared, he would have to make them again.

That was a tremendous test of his stamina.

At that moment.

The white cube vanished, and Feng Lei's gaze fell on the terrified Cracker.

"Use whatever other tricks you have. Otherwise, you won't get another chance!"

Then.

Feng Lei raised his hand again and aimed it at Cracker.

"This is bad!"

His Observation Haki sensed it, and a feeling of extreme danger surged through Cracker, raising goosebumps all over his body.

Clap, clap, clap, clap!!

He began clapping frantically, even at the cost of exhausting all his stamina.

He rapidly created one Biscuit Soldier after another.

Just then.

Feng Lei made his move.

"Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World Technique!"

Whoosh!

A cylindrical beam of white light, as thick as an arm, shot from Feng Lei's palm straight at Cracker.

"Block it!"

Cracker controlled the Biscuit Soldiers, lining them up in front of him.

However.

The normally impregnable Biscuit Soldiers were pierced in an instant.

Then, like a skewer through candied fruit, the beam pierced the bodies of every Biscuit Soldier and, under Cracker's horrified gaze, went straight through his body.