Seizing the Boat

As the sound gradually faded, Chen Qiang guessed that the door outside must have been fully opened, so without hesitation, he slashed his blade directly into the controller.

"Crackle!"

A burst of electric sparks flashed, and the controller was severed into several pieces; it would not be something that could be repaired and used again in a short amount of time.

Chen Qiang then thought for a moment, deciding that this still wasn't secure enough, so he swung his blade again, severing all the surrounding pipes and instruments.

After finishing this, Chen Qiang nodded with satisfaction, then turned and left the area, heading toward the interrogation room not far away.

As for why he didn't head straight for the prison entrance, it was because Chen Qiang remembered one thing: he was about to participate in the Summit War, but he did not know how to use Haki, which would put him at a great disadvantage in the coming battles.

Therefore, Chen Qiang decided to head to the interrogation room first; when he was being tortured there earlier, the jailers had used Seastone chains to restrain him, so the interrogation room was the only place Chen Qiang knew of that contained Seastone.

Arriving at the interrogation room quickly, he easily dealt with the guards at the entrance, entered, and found the chain that had been used to hang him up in the corner.

Picking up the chain and looking at the bloodstains left on it from when he was tortured, Chen Qiang tightened his grip, then wrapped the chain directly around his bare upper body.

"Straw Hat Luffy, I will absolutely not let you get away!" Just as Chen Qiang emerged from the interrogation room with the chain, he heard an angry roar that echoed throughout the entire prison.

"Magellan is quite fast, isn't he!" Hearing this loud shout, Chen Qiang immediately recognized the voice as Magellan's, so he quickened his pace.

Because Magellan's voice meant that the Marine warships docked outside Impel Down were about to be diverted, Chen Qiang had to speed up to seize a ship for his escape before they left the vicinity of the prison.

"Tiger Leap!"

As Chen Qiang had expected, when he reached the entrance, there was no one there, and the warships that had been docked outside were already setting sail, having moved out a fair distance.

Without any hesitation, Chen Qiang transformed his entire body into a massive blood-colored tiger, pivoted at the entrance to build momentum, and leaped into the air.

"Fire! Shoot him down!"

Clearly, Chen Qiang's appearance had been spotted by the Marines on the warships, and the captain on the ship immediately roared out the order.

"Yes!"

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

In an instant, the sound of cannons erupted from all sides, firing toward the blood-colored tiger in the sky.

However, Chen Qiang did not let these cannonballs hit him; instead, while in mid-air, he used the incoming shells as stepping stones, leaping several times until he landed on one of the warships.

"Open fire!" Seeing Chen Qiang transform into a tiger and land on their ship, the Marines, who had been prepared, opened fire on his position one after another.

"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"

"Roar!"

After landing, Chen Qiang did not revert to his original form; instead, he let out a thunderous roar directly at the Marines firing upon him.

Countless blood-red wind blades erupted from the giant tiger's maw, slashing rapidly toward the Marines.

"Damn prisoner, I won't let you escape and steal my ship!"

The captain of this ship, a man with the rank of Marine Rear Admiral, saw his men being struck down one by one. He drew the long blade at his waist, leaped quickly from the railing, and slashed at the tiger, cutting the beast in two.

However, as the tiger was split in half, it dissipated, yet Chen Qiang's figure was nowhere to be seen.

"Over here! Tiger Slash!"

Before the Rear Admiral knew it, Chen Qiang had appeared behind him and delivered a direct slash to his back.

Three claw-like slashes appeared, striking the unprepared Rear Admiral; three massive wounds opened on his back, and he was sent flying off the warship by the force of Chen Qiang's strike.

After knocking the Rear Admiral away, the remaining Marines on the ship could no longer pose a threat to Chen Qiang, and soon, all the Marines on board were defeated.

"Fire the cannons and sink that ship! Don't give them a chance to capture it!"

Just as Chen Qiang finished off all the Marines on the ship, the aforementioned Rear Admiral had been rescued by Marines from another vessel. Upon realizing that the gunfire had ceased on the ship Chen Qiang occupied, he immediately deduced that his men had likely met their end, and he ordered the fleet to turn around and head back toward the entrance of Impel Down.

Noticing this, the Rear Admiral hurriedly issued the order for the other ships to open fire.

The sound of cannons erupted once more, but this time, the target was not Chen Qiang, but the warship he was standing on.

However, it was clear that Chen Qiang's individual defense was a drop in the bucket against the massive warship; it was impossible to prevent all these shells from hitting the vessel.

"How annoying! I didn't want to use this move!"

Blocking another cannonball aimed at the ship's mast, Chen Qiang looked at the warships still firing toward him and said with great helplessness.

As his words fell, the blood flowing from the Marines who had fallen on the deck seemed to be drawn by some force; it flowed toward the edge of the ship, poured into the sea, and began to spread rapidly across the surface of the water.

"Boom!"

The bombardment continued, so Chen Qiang stopped wasting time. Standing on the surface of the sea, he reached his hand deep into the water.

The blood that had flowed into the ocean earlier spread out at this moment, covering the surrounding sea area.

"Blood Tiger: Rise!"

"Rumble!"

With a massive, thunderous sound, the entire expanse of the sea covered in blood began to boil. It quickly broke free from the constraints of the ocean surface, forming a blood-colored tiger larger than the warship itself, and Chen Qiang flashed onto the top of the tiger's head.

"Attack that tiger!"

The Marines, of course, noticed such a massive change and immediately shifted their targets to fire their cannons at the giant tiger.

The incoming shells landed on the blood-colored giant tiger, merely stirring up splashes of water.

"Blood Tiger: Pounce!"

As those cannonballs landed on the giant tiger, it moved once more, leaping directly from the sea surface and pouncing toward the nearest warship.

"BOOM!"

The warship was capsized instantly by the immense force.

"BOOM!" "BOOM!" "BOOM!"

Under the command of Chen Qiang, the giant tiger completely ignored the shells fired by the warships, leaping continuously across the sea surface while batting away the remaining vessels one by one.

"Phew! Finally finished. Still, it's best to use such a technique sparingly; it's far too destructive to the natural order!"

After overturning all the warships, Chen Qiang dispersed the giant tiger and returned to the previous vessel. By this time, all the marines on board had been reduced to mummified corpses, their blood entirely drained, presenting a truly miserable sight.

Seeing this, Chen Qiang shook his head helplessly, then waved his hand, sweeping all the marines' corpses off the ship and into the sea.

"A ship! The ship is back!"

"Great! We can escape!"

"Hahaha! Finally, we can get out of here!"

"..."

Just as Chen Qiang steered the warship back to the location, a group of escaped prisoners was already waiting there. Seeing a warship return, they cheered loudly one after another.

"Everyone, get on the ship quickly! Magellan is coming!"

Just as everyone was cheering, Luffy rushed out from the second level of Impel Down with other prisoners, shouting loudly to the others.

Chen Qiang, who was on the full warship, also heard Luffy's cry. He realized that the ship could not pull up to the dock; otherwise, Magellan would catch up before all the prisoners could board, and no one would be able to escape.

"Everyone, jump over here!"

Realizing the situation, Chen Qiang spun the ship's wheel and roared at the prisoners gathered at the entrance.

"It's so far! How are we supposed to jump that?"

"This is the Calm Belt! If we fall into the sea, we're finished!"

"If you don't jump, you're dead! If you jump, you might just live! Do it!"

"..."

Hearing Chen Qiang's words, the prisoners at the entrance hesitated for a moment. After all, the warship was several hundred meters away, and very few people were capable of jumping that distance.

However, some of the stronger prisoners managed to jump onto the ship after a running start, but the majority remained hesitant.

"BOOM!"