Queen, who had vanished only to suddenly reappear, nearly scared Cole into wetting his pants.
He stared in terror at the massive dinosaur that had suddenly appeared behind Roy.
Before Cole could even cry out in fear—
"Interesting. This is really too interesting. How did you pull off that attack just now?
Kid, you're making me not want to kill you."
Though he said that, his attack showed no mercy whatsoever.
Queen's Electric Shock.
His elongated neck and sharp teeth instantly snapped toward Roy's waist.
Just as everyone thought a bloody scene would unfold in the next instant—
Bang!
The sound of violently clashing teeth rang through the air.
"Eh?!"
Contrary to everyone's expectations, there was no sight of a human body being bitten apart.
The instant the massive dinosaur teeth bit into Roy's body—
With a bang, Roy's upper body suddenly vanished.
There was no taste of blood in his mouth.
Tap, tap, tap.
Queen retracted his extended neck and looked at the spot he had attacked with slight confusion.
"What? How is that possible?!"
Roy, who had been using Geppo to maintain his position in the air—
Now, apart from his lower body still stepping on the air, his upper body had vanished without a trace.
The sight before them left both the World Government and the pirates utterly dumbfounded.
A man's upper body had disappeared without a trace, yet his lower body remained alive and active.
Everything had happened in the blink of an eye, but fortunately, no one present was some country bumpkin from the East Blue.
After only a moment of hesitation, everyone came to a terrifying conclusion.
A Logia Devil Fruit user.
Only that could explain the sight before them.
After all, among all Devil Fruits, only Logia Devil Fruit users were currently known to be capable of Elementalization. No other Fruit powers had been found to possess such an ability.
"Damn it! I didn't expect you to be a Logia Devil Fruit user too. I should've used Haki to attack from the start."
Looking at Roy, whose upper body had already vanished through Elementalization—
Queen gritted his teeth, his eyes filled with irritation.
A Logia Devil Fruit user who also possessed the strength of a Great Swordsman was far more troublesome than Queen had anticipated.
"Damn it, why is everyone working against me? I only wanted to take a little research equipment. Is that really so hard?"
Banquet Heat Fist.
The very next moment after discovering that Roy could undergo Elementalization, Queen moved without hesitation.
His body flashed, and at a speed utterly mismatched with his bulky frame, he appeared behind Roy once more.
This time, his attack was infused with top-tier Armament Haki.
When facing a Logia Devil Fruit user, any carelessness could result in a fatal blow.
A top-tier Fruit could turn an ordinary person from an ant into an elephant in an instant.
And in this ever-changing Pirate World, all kinds of reversals and counter-kills had never been unusual on these seas.
From the instant Roy revealed his Logia Devil Fruit ability, Queen no longer had any mood to fool around.
If Queen had previously regarded Roy as nothing more than a somewhat troublesome beast—
Then after Roy displayed the abilities of a Logia Devil Fruit, combined with his strength as a Great Swordsman, Roy had become a tiger in Queen's eyes.
Naturally, different opponents called for different methods.
"This is bad. Boss Queen is getting serious! Turn the ship around! We need to get out of here now!"
When the pirates aboard the Beasts Pirates' ship saw their boss use his Fruit ability and begin employing stronger attacks—
Their first reaction was not to cheer, but to hurriedly steer the ship away from the battlefield.
Those familiar with Queen knew that he was about to get serious.
After all, the Plague getting serious and the usual Plague were two entirely different things.
In the eyes of the Beasts Pirates, every living thing in this sea area was destined to be wiped out.
After all, Plague's fearsome reputation had been built atop countless corpses. It was not merely some nickname carried across the seas.
Bang!
The mechanical grappling claw coated in Armament Haki collided with Roy's lower body.
Yet the clash was nowhere near as intense as everyone had expected.
Before the enormous mechanical claw could even reach Roy—
The body that had been floating in midair instantly scattered into a cloud of mist.
"Damn Logia Elementalization. I almost caught him."
The sparks from the claw missing its target made Queen even more irritated.
Just as he prepared to activate Observation Haki to search for Roy—
"Boss Queen, watch out above you!"
The pirate lackey in the distance wore a look of utter horror.
"Above?"
Queen raised his head in confusion and looked at the sky thick with dark clouds.
The next instant, a hailstone larger than a small mountain appeared directly above his head.
"What?! How is that possible?!"
The giant hailstone in the sky made Queen's eyes nearly pop out of their sockets.
"Turn the ship around! Run! This isn't an attack we can withstand!"
Under the acceleration of gravity, the hailstone was no different from a cannonball.
As the Navy warships and transport vessels began retreating a step later—
Queen looked at the giant hailstone hurtling down from the sky toward him.
Invisible Fighter Black.
Using a technique similar to Germa 66's Invisible Black, Queen turned his body invisible.
"I didn't expect you to have that trick too. Since you want a large-scale attack, do you think I don't have one?"
"Try my masterpiece, Freeze No. 1!"
A shell filled with blue liquid automatically popped out from his mechanical arm.
"Wait, Boss Queen! We haven't gotten away yet!"
From afar, Queen was preparing to fire a plague virus.
While the Navy and World Government personnel were still scrambling to flee—
The sharp-eyed pirates noticed Queen's movements, immediately dropped what they were doing, and shouted at him.
But ordinary pirate lackeys clearly could not influence Queen's decision.
He directly fired the plague shell in his hand at the falling hailstone in the sky.
"Damn it! Go find gas masks, now! If we can't find any, we'll all die!"
Between the hailstone in the sky and the Freeze No. 1 virus Queen had fired, the latter clearly terrified the Beasts Pirates' members more.
Bang!
The shell filled with blue liquid collided with the giant hailstone like steel striking an egg.
The instant Freeze No. 1 came into contact with the hailstone, it shattered completely.
A vast amount of pale blue mist instantly spread outward.
The enormous hailstone also smashed a huge depression into the previously calm sea.
Seawater splashed into the sky and turned into a fine drizzle.
And while everyone on the sea struggled to steady their ships and keep them from capsizing—
The exploded virus weapon had already mixed with the seawater.
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