A Terrifying Opponent

Swoosh.

A laser beam shot towards them, but was absorbed by Sabo's Black Smoke. Sabo's face darkened, his body trembled, and large beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

After enduring several laser shots, Sabo had reached his limit and was completely unable to fight.

Meanwhile, Kizaru was attacking from a distance, following closely and occasionally firing a shot.

His flight through the sky requires physical and mental exertion, and his attacks also consume energy, but compared to Sabo's endurance, he clearly Ability Development better.

"I'll help you."

Vivi walked to the ship's side, and two vortexes appeared in her hands. The vortexes grew larger and larger, turning into a huge Sandstorm.

Vivi threw her hands forward, and two Sandstorm swept away into the distance, stirring up the wind and clouds as they moved towards Kizaru. As they got closer to Kizaru, the wind became stronger and the Sandstorm grew larger, swirling between heaven and earth.

The change in airflow caused a difference in air density, which greatly refracted Kizaru's trajectory as he transformed into light, making it difficult for him to break through the defense. He had to detour around a large area and head back this way.

"I'll help you."

At that moment, Nami raised the conch shell to her lips and gently blew on it. The warm, moist air and the cold air merged in the air and gradually turned into Heavy Fog.

Moreover, the density difference between hot and cold air creates Air Layer, forming a virtual image.

The afterimage revealed the ship, replicating its trajectory, but due to refraction, it appeared to be sailing in a different direction.

Vivi and Nami worked together to delay the situation for half an hour.

During those half hour, Kizaru did not launch a single attack.

Half an hour later, Kizaru jumped up from a distant island and said, "I've rested enough, let's continue."

Kizaru shot towards this direction again, and then fired a laser beam in this direction.

"Stop them!"

Sabo rested for half an hour, then straightened up and released Black Smoke again.

Kizaru released a laser beam approximately every ten minutes, but Sabo dared not let the black mist disappear.

Kizaru often disappears into the center of the sky. If he finds an island to rest, he will hardly suffer any losses along the way.

With half an hour of sustained power, coupled with the laser, Sabo reached the critical point again.

If Sabo can't hold out, the ship will be hit, and just one hit will destroy it.

"President, get ready to get the ship out of the water."

Mr. Christmas walked to the side of the ship and shouted down.

"Leave it to me."

Xia Qiu and autumn slowly approached the ship's hull.

Mr. Christmas reached the bow of the ship, took a deep breath, leaned forward, and shouted, "It's ready!"

As Mr. Christmas greetings rang out, the entire ship suddenly jerked upwards, instantly detaching itself from the sea and soaring into the air.

After consuming Pica and Doflamingo, Xia Qiu's body was strengthened to an unbelievable degree.

His physical attributes are extremely strong, and his strength has increased explosively.

Under the influence of Xia Qiu, the entire ship sailed directly away from the sea, and the seawater crashed down.

"Open the door."

Mr. Christmas pushed her hands forward, and with a creak, the space in front of her opened up, revealing a distance of more than a foot from the sea surface.

This was a double door. Xia Qiu leaned forward, supporting the ship, and lifted it into the doorway, but the door did not open completely.

"Open it for me."

With a loud roar on Mr. Christmas, he unleashed his full power, causing the gate to open even faster.

boom.

The ship entered the gate and crashed into the green Spatial Dimension. Everything around it was green, except that the green in front of it was constantly changing.

Inside the Spatial Dimension, the ship lost its power, but Ace's flames continued to erupt, allowing the ship to slowly move forward within the space.

Click.

The Space Door slowly closed, and the entire ship disappeared.

"Gone?"

Kizaru was somewhat surprised to see this, but what should they do without a ship?

"And that Giant Beast."

Kizaru immediately tracked Xia Qiu's movements and followed Xia Qiu.

"The ship should move to the left front."

Xia Qiu wasn't worried at all, as he and the ship were going in completely different directions. According to the island locations he had recorded, they would turn ninety degrees and head straight for the Calm Belt, while he would pull Kizaru further and further away.

After leaving some distance and taking Kizaru away, Xia Qiu will dive into the deep sea and return to the island in the Calm Belt.

Kizaru, however, remained unsuspecting and followed closely behind, falling further and further behind.

The ship, however, sailed to the left and forward, turning into the Calm Belt, allowing Kizaru to escape completely.

"How long has it been? Can you shake off Kizaru?"

Mr. Christmas, gritting her teeth, lay on the bow of the ship, her expression extremely grim. The space she could open was limited, so she had to keep opening it.

It's fine if it's just one person or a few people.

But this is a seagoing vessel, fifty meters long, forty meters high including the mast, and sixteen meters wide.

It's a bit tough for Mr. Christmas.

"Four minutes have passed."

Nami said, "Our speed is greatly reduced in the Spatial Dimension. In these four minutes, we have only traveled one thousand meters. Mr. Xia is faster and has probably traveled about three thousand meters. In addition, our direction of travel is deflected by ninety degrees, so the straight-line distance is about 3.16 kilometers. That's about right. Given the conditions in this area, visibility is not that far."

"But he might have Observation Haki."

Mr. Christmas gritted his teeth and said, "The farther we throw it, the greater the distance we create. Once we enter the Calm Belt, we'll go all out again."

Moreover, the longer they can hold out, the better the others will recover. Even if Kizaru continues to pursue, they can continue to hold out for a while longer.

Mr. Christmas held on for another two minutes, but she couldn't take it anymore. She gritted her teeth, opened a door, and collapsed to the ground.

The ship entered the ocean and continued its voyage, successfully entering the Calm Belt.

As the distance between them grew, they gradually felt more at ease.

It's estimated that they are now more than 10 kilometers apart, so there's no way they can avoid each other.

But at that moment, Luffy couldn't help but shiver and said, "It's so cold, why is it so cold?"

"Um?"

Nami sensed the changes in the weather around her. "Why has the temperature dropped? How could the climate in the Calm Belt change so drastically?"

Swoosh.

A figure rushed out of the cabin and shouted, "It's Aokiji! Be careful!"

"Aokiji?"

Robin looked at Ace, who was already standing at the bow of the ship.

The next moment, the surrounding sea surface froze at a visible speed, constantly approaching and converging towards the ship.

"Flame Strike".

Ace leaped high into the air, flames erupting from his arms as he shot towards the sea.

Just as the ice was about to touch this area, the flames melted it and then spread outwards, preventing the Freezing Gas from seeping in.

"Fire Phoenix".

Ace leaped high into the air, standing at the very top of the center of the ship, his hands transforming into wings, sweeping out to the left and right.

Ace's head transformed into a phoenix head, spreading forward. The layers of ice to the left and right front crumbled, creating a huge open area in front of the ship.

The ship continued its journey, but the sea surface remained frozen and spread in this direction once again.

To prevent the sea from spreading, Ace could only continue to unleash flames to defend himself. Although the situation was evenly matched, it was difficult for Ace to melt the ice on a large scale.

Aokiji's ability is freezing, not just releasing ice, but releasing cold air to directly control and lower the temperature.

Ace's power is fire, not heating; he melts things by the heat emanating from the flames.

He melts ice and raises seawater temperature by releasing flames to melt the ice, but when he comes into contact with seawater, the seawater absorbs a large amount of heat.

His ability to heat things up is completely different from Aokiji's ability to cool them down.

Aokiji's Ice-Ice Fruit allows him to turn himself into ice or release Freezing Gas, making it similar to the Flame-Flame Fruit and the Heat-Heat Fruit.

Therefore, Ace resisted Aokiji's attacks, but could only maintain his position.

Furthermore, Aokiji's development was somewhat stronger Ace's, so even though Aokiji froze the surrounding sea, he was still able to hold his own against Ace.

"This can't go on."

Ace's face was grim. He didn't know how many people the enemy had, so he had no choice but to use that method. But at that moment, a dark shadow flew over in a flash, took a step at the stern of the ship, and was about to rush into the sky.

"Trying to launch a sneak attack?"

Zoro charged forward, unleashing all three swords at once, shooting them towards his opponent.

Bang.

The moment Zoro made contact with his opponent, he was sent flying backward and fell to the ground, a broken sword drifting down from the sky.

The moment he landed, his opponent continued to rise, and Hachi appeared, slashing out with six swords.

But the other party ignored it and suddenly stepped forward, stepping on the tip of Hachi's knife, and his figure flew up again.

"I can't let you pass."

Sanji leaped into the air, his right leg bursting into flames as he lashed out at his opponent.

Bang.

The opponent also kicked out, Sanji's expression changed as pain shot through him. His right leg seemed to break as he fell from the sky.

"Die."

The figure appeared before Ace, and a sword flashed with golden light in the sky as it slashed towards Ace.

"Get down here."

A figure blocked Ace's path, striking towards him.

boom.

Two figures revealed their presence.

The one who launched the sneak attack was Momousagi, while the one who stopped her was Sabo.

Sabo blocked Momousagi's long sword with his right hand, which was infused with Armament Haki, but Momousagi's sword was on top and his hand was on the bottom.

Momousagi slashed out with her sword, using the force to fly backward, while Sabo sank down because of the force.

tread.

The Momousagi had just taken flight when it leaped into the air with a single step.

boom.

After Momousagi left that spot, Heckle appeared there and threw a punch, but missed.

Momousagi stepped on Heckle's head with one leg, leaped up again, and ran away into the distance.

"This woman."

Heckle and Sabo landed slowly, looking at the tall figure in the distance, feeling somewhat strange.

Sabo tried to grab the opponent's knife with his Dragon Claw Hand, but the opponent seemed to be a step too slow and instead slashed at his own hand, then used the force to fly up.

Moreover, Heckle's attacks were also dodged by his opponent.

Momousagi missed her attack and immediately fled, slowly landing in the distance.

The moment she landed, Ace opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of flame.

But just as the flames were about to touch her, an Ice Wall rose up from the ground and blocked her way.

The flames melted the Ice Wall, and water vapor rose up. After the water vapor disappeared, two figures appeared in the distance.

Aokiji and Momousagi.

"It really was him."

Robin stood there, frowning. She remembered what happened when she met Aokiji when she was young. Aokiji froze Saul, Saul disappeared without a trace after that.

And then he saved me and let me go.

"Aokiji, is it just the two of you?"

Ace slowly landed and stood on the bow of the ship, looking at Aokiji and speaking.

"That's right, the two of us arrived first, and we actually made it in time."

Aokiji said, "This is really troublesome. We have to fight you. Vice Admiral Momousagi is rushing here at all costs."

"Vivi, get out here right now."

Momousagi stood there and shouted loudly.

"Master."

Vivi slowly walked out, looking at Momousagi with a somewhat reluctant expression.

"Are you being blackmailed? If so, tell me and I will kill them and rescue you."

"Momousagi said loudly."

Hearing this, Vivi's eyes filled with tears. Even at this moment, her master still hoped that she was being blackmailed.

But the more this is the case, the less she can deceive her.

So Vivi wiped away her tears and said, "I'm sorry, Master, I wasn't coerced. Maybe that was the reason at first, but once I found out, I couldn't extricate myself from this world."

"Yeah?"

Momousagi sighed and said, "Then I'll have no choice but to kill you myself."

"Kill? Just the two of you?"

Sabo stood there and said coldly.

"Revolutionary Army Chief of Staff, Sabo."

Aokiji said slowly, "I never expected the Revolutionary Army to be involved in this. And Robin, Baroque Works told me you were eaten by Giant Beast, but the intelligence department said you're with the Revolutionary Army. It seems they're covering for you. You must be the bridge between Baroque Works and the Revolutionary Army, right?"

You're right.

Robin said with a smile, "It was indeed me who contacted them."

"I see."

Aokiji nodded and said, "It seems there are a few more reasons to take action this time."

"Aokiji, accept your fate."

Ace stood there and said, "The two of you are no match for us."

You're right.

Aokiji looked around at everyone and said, "With Ace and Sabo, it will be difficult for us to take you down. But how long can you hold out? Kizaru will find this place sooner or later, and Marine Headquarters will send people here as well. As long as we trap you, that will be enough."

Upon hearing this, Ace and the others looked extremely grim.

His abilities are extremely strong; neither Ace nor Sabo could defeat him in a long battle.

Ace's abilities are countered by his, so dealing with him will take longer than dealing with Kizaru.

Sabo's abilities are unlikely to be very effective; he can only rely on his physical strength to fight.

With the addition of the Momousagi, they could keep them trapped for a long time if they wanted to.

"Then we can only..."

Ace came up with a plan, but at that moment, the ice cracked in another direction, and a ship approached.

Who is it?

Everyone looked into the distance as the pirate ship slowly approached, breaking through the ice layer until it reached a short distance away.

"The Beasts Pirates, Jack the Drought."

Ace saw the figure standing on the ship's roof in the distance, and his face turned grim.

"You killed Doflamingo and took Caesar away. Boss Kaido is very angry."

Jack looked over, his face contorted with rage, and said, "So the only option is to kill you all."

Are they coming for us?

Sabo clenched his fist. Jack's name was very famous, and as one of the Calamities, his strength was beyond doubt.

"Oh, Aokiji, you've arrived."

A flash of light appeared in the distance, and a figure appeared beside Aokiji, laughing as he said, "If I hadn't seen the ice over here, I would have been carried away by that Giant Beast."

Kizaru appeared beside Aokiji, standing there and looking in their direction.

Two Admiral, one Vice Admiral, plus Jack the Drought and his pirate crew.

Such strength is truly terrifying.