Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Suddenly, three fierce figures attacked from different directions. Three captain-level pirates had launched a surprise attack at the same time!
Each of the three had a bounty between 500 and 600 million Beli.
Seeing Luo Tian acting so arrogantly, they had finally lost patience and decided to join forces to completely crush this arrogant newcomer who didn't know his place.
Whitebeard folded his arms and remarked, "Against three attackers, brute force alone won't cut it. You need sharp Observation Haki to anticipate and defuse this chain of deadly attacks."
Shiki: "Gyahahaha... The kid's Devil Fruit ability is pretty good, but he doesn't seem to have mastered Haki at all, does he?
Attacks imbued with Armament Haki will give him a hard time if he relies on his Devil Fruit alone. This should be fun."
What they didn't know was that Luo Tian possessed a unique ability called [Spatial Perception].
[Spatial Perception] let him detect subtle fluctuations in space, allowing him to perceive every change in his surroundings and foresee dangers approaching from any direction!
Combined with his nerve fibers, whose transmission speed had been enhanced a hundredfold and far surpassed that of ordinary people,
Luo Tian's reaction speed now exceeded that of most so-called strong fighters on these seas.
Of the three, the first to strike was a captain who specialized in marksmanship!
He fired his specially made pistol. Several bullets, imbued with Armament Haki, shot toward Luo Tian's forehead, heart, and other vital points at terrifying speeds faster than sound.
Luo Tian's gaze sharpened.
An eerie scene unfolded!
Before the bullets could get within a few meters of Luo Tian, they seemed to hit an invisible mirror.
Their trajectories abruptly veered, and they shot back along their original paths toward the captain who had fired them!
[Void Rebound] used space to create a refracting force field in front of him, sending incoming attacks ricocheting back along their original trajectories!
"What?!" The gunner captain was startled. Drawing on the Observation Haki he had honed through years of fighting for his life,
he twisted his body at the last possible moment, and the bullets whizzed past his ear and ribs.
He broke out in a cold sweat. "Damn it! What kind of bizarre ability is this?!"
But just then, an irresistible force of attraction locked onto him!
"Gah!" Before he could fully react, a tremendous pull seized him and dragged him toward Luo Tian!
"Not good! Help me! That kid's going to use the same move he used on Zaosi!" The gunner captain's expression changed drastically as he hurriedly called to his companions for help.
The other two captains—a burly man wielding a giant axe and a tall, slender swordsman—immediately attacked Luo Tian from either side, trying to force him to release their companion.
Facing their pincer attack, Luo Tian remained motionless and silently thought, Spatial Imprisonment!
The next moment,
Bzz—
An invisible force field abruptly descended!
The two captains who had been about to lunge at him suddenly stiffened, frozen in midair.
"Damn it, why can't I move?!"
"Release as much Armament Haki as you can! Maybe we can break free of this restraint!"
The swordsman captain had a sudden flash of inspiration and shouted, "Haki stands above all else! It's the strongest force for countering every Devil Fruit ability!"
They acted at once!
All three captains, including the one being dragged by the force of attraction, unleashed as much of their Armament Haki as they could at nearly the same time!
Their Haki erupted, trying to destroy the invisible restraints.
It worked!
They felt the space frozen around them loosen slightly.
"It's working! Again! Give it everything you've got!"
The three once again unleashed every bit of Armament Haki they had left, without holding back!
Though this drained their Haki at a tremendous rate, nearly like drinking poison to quench their thirst, it was the only way they could think of to escape in this life-or-death moment!
"Just as I thought. In this world, that's how the rules work. No matter how powerful a Devil Fruit ability is, stronger Haki can still suppress it."
Luo Tian watched the whole scene and murmured to himself, "Haki... is the true path to power!"
"If that's the case, I'll take one of them out first." Luo Tian's thoughts stirred, and he suddenly increased the force of attraction pulling on the gunner captain.
Whoosh!
The gunner captain, who had still been struggling, abruptly sped up and flew uncontrollably toward Luo Tian.
His eyes filled with despair as he futilely tried to raise his Haki-coated arms to block.
Luo Tian raised his right hand high. A Shockwave had already gathered around his fist. Then he drove a powerful straight punch forward!
Bang!
Crack—
The sound of breaking bones rang out clearly!
The Shockwave slammed into the gunner captain's chest, which caved in instantly. His eyes nearly popped from their sockets as he flew backward and crashed to the ground, dead on the spot.
"Bastard!" The remaining two captains were horrified. Their companion's death left them no time even to feel angry.
Their top priority was to take advantage of the loosened restraints and break free completely!
"Break!" The two glared furiously as they squeezed out every last bit of Haki in their bodies.
Once again, for the final time, they unleashed the full force of their Armament Haki, trying to make one last desperate stand.
Boom!
Their Haki erupted, and the invisible Spatial Imprisonment around them was indeed shattered by its overwhelming force.
But in the process, they had used up every last bit of their Armament Haki.
Seeing this, Luo Tian smiled faintly and raised a hand, closing his fingers as though gripping the air between them.
"Spatial Imprisonment!"
Invisible spatial power once again froze the two captains in place.
"No—!!!" The two captains roared in despair. There was no more hopeless way to die.
At the same time, Luo Tian raised his clenched right fist high and punched toward them!
[Space Quake] manipulated space to unleash Shockwaves, inflicting devastating damage on all matter nearby!
Crack, crack—BOOM!!!
A visible ripple of Shockwaves spread out from Luo Tian's fist!
Wherever it passed, space shattered inch by inch like glass!
The Shockwaves spread at incredible speed and struck the two captains trapped by Spatial Imprisonment in an instant.
"Pfft—!!!"
They couldn't even manage a complete scream. They only felt a devastating force pass through their bodies.
In that moment, the bones and internal organs inside them were all pulverized!
Both men spewed blood mixed with chunks of their organs. Their bodies flew backward and crashed heavily to the ground, lifeless.
Silence!
A deathly silence!
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