Strength and Speed

"Who are you?"

Heckle lowered his arms, looking at the figure not far away with a serious expression.

"Yohohoho, who I am is not important, what's important is that I must take care of you." Ryoma, a zombie Ryoma, stood there, holding the Famous Sword Shusui in his right hand, and twirled the sword.

"Really? Then you should give it a try."

Heckle reached his hands to his waist, put on Iron Fist gloves, and assumed a Karate starting stance.

"The Night Song Straight Pierce."

Seeing Heckle's movements, Ryoma suddenly stepped forward and thrust his sword forward.

"So fast."

Heckle's eyes narrowed, but his right fist had already been clenched and thrown out.

At the moment of the strike, he lowered his body weight, and the power that burst forth from his body propelled his extremely light arm to its destination in an instant.

clang.

Heckle's fist struck the blade from below.

Snap.

The blade bounced off, but Heckle suddenly turned his head.

Swoosh.

A bloody gash appeared on Heckle's left cheek, from which blood slowly oozed.

"Sword energy?"

Heckle stared intently at the zombie warrior before him, raising his hand to wipe away the blood.

"Hehehe, I thought this would blow your head off," Ryoma said, tilting his head.

"Very good."

Upon hearing this, Heckle stomped his feet on the ground and instantly appeared in front of Ryoma, throwing a punch.

clang.

Ryoma's sword struck Heckle's fist, but a violent gust of wind from the punch was cut by the blade and flew past on either side.

Click, click.

Behind Ryoma, two trees were instantly shattered.

"You're not bad either."

Ryoma said with a smile, and with a flick of his right hand, the longsword thrust out, transforming into many longswords that attacked Heckle.

"The Sake Barrel Dance, Chain Strike."

Long swords struck at Heckle at incredible speed, instantly enveloping him.

"Second Stage Soru".

However, in the face of this move, Heckle vanished instantly and retreated.

"Um?"

Ryoma's attack missed, and suddenly he swung his long sword horizontally backward with his right hand.

clang.

The blade struck Heckle's fist, hitting the Iron Fist gauntlet with a crisp sound.

But the next moment, Ryoma's expression changed, he bent down, raised his left hand and pressed it against the back of the sword, stopping the advancing fist.

"What immense power."

Heckle looked at his opponent, never expecting that his Iron Fist would be blocked by the opponent's knife.

This is just a decaying corpse.

If he were healthy, how strong would he be?

Heckle was somewhat surprised. He tapped his feet and disappeared again, reappearing beside Ryoma, and threw a punch.

clang.

Ryoma blocked Heckle's punch again, but this time, Heckle attacked with his left fist, aiming for Ryoma's face.

But at that moment, Ryoma's longsword slid down, slicing towards Heckle's abdomen.

"Um?"

Faced with this blow, Heckle dared not trade injury for injury. His opponent was a zombie, and he didn't know what would happen if he were hit, but he was made of flesh and blood, and being hit would be a greater loss than gain.

So Heckle could only dodge and then charge again.

Heckle threw a punch, but this time Ryoma didn't block it. Instead, he turned around and his long sword came flying diagonally downwards.

"So fast."

Heckle had to dodge and create distance.

As time went on, Heckle's stamina was gradually depleted, and he could no longer sustain either Shave or Iron Fist.

Heckle's immense strength and incredible speed are built upon his Devil Fruit ability and his physical explosiveness.

This state of combat is precisely what makes it difficult to sustain.

"In that case..."

Heckle narrowed his eyes, leaped at his opponent again, and slammed his left fist into Ryoma's head.

Ryoma dodged the punch by turning to the side.

Heckle followed up with his right fist, but Ryoma used his sidestep to slash diagonally at Heckle's chest.

But Heckle neither dodged nor flinched, and threw a punch with his right hand.

puff.

Ryoma's sword struck Heckle, while Heckle's fist slammed into Ryoma's head.

Bang.

Ryoma's head exploded, while a deep, bone-revealing gash was left on Heckle's body.

"We've won."

Heckle laughed, then collapsed to the ground with a thud, a smile playing on his lips as he looked at the corpse in the distance.

But at this moment, he discovered that Ryoma had not fallen, but had slowly raised his sword.

"Um?"

When Heckle saw this, he thought that since the man was a zombie with a shattered head, he might not actually die.

But now, Heckle is too weak to stand up.

The enormous Oars, standing approximately eighty meters tall, towered there, its imposing form blotting out the sky.

In front of Oars, Xia Qiu lay prostrate. Its enormous body was not to be underestimated either, measuring about sixty meters in length, which was not much smaller.

However, in terms of volume, it is much smaller.

"Hehehe, I'll kill you."

Oars let out a sinister laugh, raised his massive arm, and slammed it down towards Xia Qiu's head.

Faced with this attack, Xia Qiu neither dodged nor evaded, but instead charged straight at it, crashing forward.

boom.

The fist collided with the ram, and Xia Qiu's body lurched slightly, but he was unharmed.

Is that all?

Xia Qiu shook his head in disappointment. Oars's physical strength was formidable, but it was still far inferior to his own.

He attacks proactively, accelerating a greater distance, while I passively defend myself; his strength is no match for mine.

He has already defeated more than three lieutenant Vice Admiral, and in terms of physical strength, he estimates that few can defeat him.

"Is it useless?"

Oars suddenly took the Spiked Club off his back, Spiked Club, and swung it down again.

"Good timing."

Faced with this attack, Xia Qiu gathered Armament Haki in his head and thrust it upwards.

boom.

The Spiked Club and Xia Qiu's ramming horn collided, producing a deafening sound.

Click, click.

After a brief pause, the Spiked Club shattered into pieces and fell to the ground.

"Ah?"

Oars stared blankly at the Spiked Club in his hand, his expression one of utter astonishment. The Spiked Club had actually broken?

"Even the Spiked Club was useless?"

Seeing this, Oars suddenly felt a sense of fear and began to climb up the mansion.

"They ran away?"

Xia Qiu looked somewhat helpless upon seeing this scene, wondering whose soul was now inside Oars, that he was so timid.

He ran away; I could follow him, but it would be a bit of a hassle.

Therefore, for the time being, we can only let him leave and kill Moria first. Without Moria, he naturally cannot move freely.

But at that moment, a voice rang out, "Oars, kill him."

Moria's voice came, and Oars could not disobey his command.

"Die."

Oars jumped directly down from the tall mansion, his feet landing on Xia Qiu.

boom.

Oars's feet landed on the ground, causing Oars to tremble and creating a large crater that filled with smoke. However, Oars's face showed a look of surprise.

"Nobody here? Where is he?"

Oars slowly stood up, looked around, and his eyes caught a figure in the smoke. "There."

But the next moment, Xia Qiu appeared in front of Oars and bit Oars's knee.

Click.

Oars's kneecap shattered, and unable to maintain his balance, Oars collapsed to his knees, supporting himself with his hands.

But the instant he knelt down, Xia Qiu's six legs stomped on the ground, and he leaped upwards, more than twenty meters off the ground. With his body, which was more than ten meters tall, he appeared next to Oars's neck.

"Die."

Xia Qiu opened its blood-red maw and bit forward.

Click.

Xia Qiu's teeth bit into Oars's neck, closing them completely and severing half of his neck.

"Killed?"

Xia Qiu slammed heavily to the ground and let out a breath.

But the next moment, a huge fist shot down from the sky and smashed towards Xia Qiu.

Bang.

The fist landed on the ground, and Xia Qiu had vanished, reappearing in the distance with a corpse in his mouth.

"Ryoma's corpse."

Xia Qiu chewed on Ryoma's corpse, he sensed the threat to Heckle and also detected Oars's movements. So he rushed over and bit Ryoma.

Faced with Xia Qiu's attack, Ryoma had no ability to react and was swallowed whole and bitten into pieces.

"The Ryoma should be able to provide a lot of energy, right?"

Xia Qiu thought to himself that although a long time had passed, the remaining power was still no less than that of Zoro at that time.

If it weren't for Brook's swordsmanship, but Ryoma's own, Zoro would probably have had almost no chance of winning with his injured body alone.

His remaining body doesn't reach the Vice Admiral, but it should have the Reinforcement Energy of Rear Admiral.

"Thank you, President." Heckle said to Xia Qiu.

"The injuries are very serious."

Xia Qiu looked at Heckle and then said, "Fortunately, there is a doctor here, so we can finish this quickly."

Xia Qiu's figure disappeared. Instead of rushing towards Oars, he appeared behind Moria had just transformed his body, and took a bite.