The Sky Fell Down

Chapter 36: The Sky Fell Down

A brief flight through the air is never a problem for the strong.

Although Queen's physique was as round and obese as a ball, it didn't prevent his heavily modified body from maneuvering agilely in the air.

The giant hailstones smashed the sea surface, creating a sea urchin-shaped bulge.

The two protagonists of the battle were unharmed, but their subordinates suffered heavy losses.

The waves caused by the massive impact surged outwards.

The Beasts Pirates' ships were being attacked by the rising waves.

The warships and World Government transport ships, which were a step slower than the Beasts Pirates, suffered even greater damage.

As the overwhelming giant waves crashed down.

Under the fierce impact, many pirates and marines fell into the sea.

Cries for help echoed across the waters.

But facing the aftermath of the battle, everyone was struggling to save themselves.

Everyone was currently trying their best to maintain the balance of their ships.

The members of the Beasts Pirates were desperately trying to escape this area.

Meanwhile, the warships and transport ships had no idea that an even more dangerous crisis was approaching after the giant waves.

After the previous wave of attacks.

The figures of Roy and Queen were no longer visible in the sky above the sea.

Roy had transformed into clouds and was floating in the sky.

Queen, to be safe, had activated his stealth fighter 'black mode' and cloaked himself above the sea.

Observation Haki was now unscrupulously scanning the sea surface in this area.

Facing Roy, a Logia-type Devil Fruit user.

The previous attack and Roy's unknown Devil Fruit ability made Queen set aside his initial underestimation.

Just as his pirate subordinates had said, Queen had now entered a serious battle mode.

The plague virus spread with the splashing of the waves across the sea.

As one of the Three Calamities of the Beasts Pirates, the Plague.

Queen was confident that as long as Roy was infected by the virus he released.

He would be able to intensify the virus and take Roy's head.

As Queen stealthily searched for Roy's whereabouts.

Roy, floating in the sky, was not lowering his altitude as Queen had hoped to be infected by the plague virus.

Roy was always extremely wary of bioweapons.

Through the previous scan with the Echo Map, after hearing and seeing the shouts and panicked appearances of the pirates on the Beasts Pirates' ship.

Roy knew that this portly man in suspenders, known as the Plague, was likely about to use his signature move.

Therefore, Roy absolutely would not go down for close-quarters combat again.

Through the wide coverage of the Echo Map.

Even though Queen had activated stealth mode, with the effect of sound, he was like the Emperor's New Clothes.

He thought he had hidden his presence well, but in Roy's eyes, his tracks were completely exposed.

Roy did not want to engage in close combat with the powerful, energetic man in suspenders below.

For a top-tier fighter like Queen, attacks like the previous hailstorm had limited lethality.

Therefore, regarding this famous strongman of the sea, since Roy did not want to touch the plague, he wanted to see whether Queen's bioweapon was more powerful, or Caesar Clown's chemical gas that destroyed the entire Punk Hazard was more potent.

"Artificial Rain · Caesar Gas."

The purple poisonous clouds formed from collecting gas on Punk Hazard earlier now, at Roy's call, moved from a corner of the Cloud Sea to below Roy.

As a large amount of clouds containing abundant moisture condensed within these poisonous clouds.

Raindrops containing the toxic components that destroyed Punk Hazard quickly formed and began to fall.

The previous wind and rain had gradually subsided.

And in this situation with little wind, it was precisely Roy's domain.

As raindrops containing a large amount of toxins began to fall continuously in Queen's direction.

Queen initially thought it was just ordinary rain, but the moment he came into contact with the raindrops, the toxins contained within made his expression change drastically.

After all, if one ignored Queen's pirate identity, he could be considered a top scientist in the Pirate World.

So, after coming into contact with these irritatingly scented poisonous rain.

With a small amount of toxin entering his body, Queen held his breath almost instantly.

The purple rain dripping onto his mechanical arm caught his eye.

"What in the world is going on? Why does this poison have the style of that guy, Caesar Clown?"

He felt the way the poison was operating within his body.

This style immediately reminded Queen of his former colleague, Caesar Clown.

"Interesting, this is truly too interesting. Kid, it's a shame you didn't become a pirate.

With this scale of poisonous rain, it seems you don't care about the lives of your subordinates either."

Queen now understood some of the secrets behind the poisonous rain falling from the sky.

This poison would immediately incapacitate anyone else.

However, for Queen, a man with a powerful physique and extensive modifications, while it did cause some damage, it wouldn't affect him for a while.

The poisonous rain in the sky and the plague spreading across the sea.

These two were the silent clash between Queen and Roy.

But as the saying goes, "When the city gate catches fire, the fish in the moat suffer."

The two powerful figures truly fighting each other were unharmed, but the subordinates of Queen and Roy were now enduring the agony of life and death.

Freeze No. 1 and Caesar Clown's gas, capable of destroying all of Punk Hazard, were now mixed together.

Although Roy had deliberately directed the poisonous rain towards the pirates, some of the airborne poison would inevitably be inhaled by the Marines and those on the transport ships.

Currently, both the Marines and the pirates were curled up in agony on their respective ships.

On the pirate side, due to Roy's deliberate consideration, some pirates were already beginning to go berserk.

Freeze No. 1 was Queen's masterpiece, the predecessor to Ice Oni.

And the gas Roy used was the outstanding creation of Caesar Clown, known as the expert in mass destruction weapons in the Pirate World.

Either of these things alone could bring about the desolation of a region.

And when these two combined, some of the sea beasts in the ocean were already floating belly-up, eyes rolled back.

But these were not things Roy and Queen were concerned about at the moment.

Although it was raining poison from the sky, ice cones and large hailstones were also falling relentlessly.

"Damn it, how did you find me? I had stealth mode activated!"

Queen was now cursing at the sky.

Seeing the ice cones and hailstones heading directly towards him, he knew his hidden methods had long since failed.

But at this moment, he could only rage impotently at the sky.

Although he had tried to rush up into the clouds, when he actually did, he was horrified to discover that the clouds above were not ordinary clouds.

Feeling a wave of weakness, he quickly retreated.

It was then that Queen realized these weakening clouds shared remarkable similarities with the Cloud Sea above Wano Country.

If he hadn't quickly used Black Flames to evaporate the clouds around him, thinking about the potential consequences, he broke out in a cold sweat.

This young powerhouse, whom he had never seen before, had given him far too many shocks.

The sea clouds in the sky blocked Queen's path upwards.

And with the continuous descent of poisonous rain, hailstones, and ice cones from the sky, although Queen could withstand them with ease, they were still draining his stamina.

Facing this situation where he could only passively take hits, the plague was no longer effective, and his proud body modifications and Devil Fruit abilities were now useless.

When a mass of special water mixed with poisonous clouds dripped down from the sky, his excellent Observation Haki allowed Queen to instantly sense the danger.

"Not good, you insidious brat, daring to pull a dirty trick."

As large masses of water mixed with the hailstones and ice cones plummeted down, Queen dodged a large drop and used his finger to touch it.

"Salty, this is seawater. Damn brat, you almost got me."

His expression shifting between anger and uncertainty as he looked at the sky.

He glanced down again at the pirate ships and Marine warships, which were almost completely wiped out.

He's the third strongest in a Yonko crew.

When it was time to make a decision, Queen didn't hesitate at all.

"Brat, you're lucky today. I'll let you off for now. We have plenty of time, and next time I'll make sure you taste a fate worse than death."

After making up his mind, he glanced unwillingly in the direction of the Marine warship.

"Black Flames."

Several shining attacks were launched directly at the warship's location.

"Hmph, if I can't have it, the World Government won't either."

After spitting out those harsh words, just as Queen was preparing to unleash a powerful ultimate attack to completely destroy the warship and transport ship.

Overwhelming seawater and sea clouds suddenly descended.

On the attacked transport ship, Cole gritted his teeth, enduring the pain.

Queen's attack had already inflicted immense damage on both the transport ship and the warship.

And just when Cole thought they were all going to die in the next moment.

A deafening roar from the sky made him unable to help but look up.

The sight that met his eyes caused him, who was enduring pain, to involuntarily gasp.

"The sky... the sky is falling."