Annihilation

Ata's lips curled upward slightly. She had been teaching the captain Two-Sword Style throughout the past month.

During that time, the captain had often sparred with her, rapidly gaining combat experience with Two-Sword Style. So over the past month, it was not only the captain who had improved.

She had improved as well!

After all, the captain was also an excellent sparring partner for her.

However, Yajie was no simple opponent either. At the critical moment, he leaned his body backward.

"Whoosh..."

Kashu flashed with cold light as it swept past, leaving a wound on Yajie's neck. But it was not fatal!

Even so, it gave Yajie quite a fright.

Faced with the brink of death, all of Yajie's strength erupted in an instant. He forced Ata back, while he himself staggered several steps away, opening up the distance between them.

This scene fell into Yaxi and Ya'er's eyes.

The two of them were shocked and cried out anxiously, "Yajie..."

"You should worry about yourselves instead!" Moke swung Sandai Kitetsu once again, sending another terrifying slash bursting forth.

This time, however, its target was Ya'er.

"Iron Body!"

The attack came too quickly for Ya'er to dodge. He could only defend passively. Not only that, he had predicted where Moke's slash would strike and covered that spot with Armament Haki.

"Ice Dragon!"

Yaxi did not dare let Moke continue attacking. She immediately launched a powerful counterattack.

Moke's slash struck Ya'er first, and a trace of mockery appeared at the corners of Moke's mouth. The Navy's Six Powers had actually appeared on a member of a Slaver Group.

Yet the conditions for an ordinary Navy soldier to learn them were extremely harsh.

In other words, struggling desperately was not as useful as capturing a beautiful woman.

How ironic!

Of course!

They specialized in capturing slaves for nobles and Celestial Dragons. As long as they pleased the Celestial Dragons, obtaining the Navy's Six Powers would be no more than a word from them.

But...

This guy probably did not know that Iron Body was the greatest illusion in the pirate world.

"Whoosh..."

Moke's slash tore straight through Ya'er's defense, leaving a wound across his chest that ran through his entire body and was deep enough to expose bone.

Blood sprayed wildly.

At the same time, Yaxi's Ice Dragon was already less than a meter away from Moke.

Yet Moke seemed not to see it—or perhaps he had no time to dodge. He allowed the Ice Dragon to slam into him fiercely.

"Good..."

Yaxi was overjoyed.

She had absolute confidence in her ability. No matter who it was, as long as they were struck by her Ice Dragon, they would be permanently frozen and turned into an ice sculpture.

Her ability was on the same level as Admiral Aokiji's. The only difference was that one could use Elementalization, while the other could not.

That was all.

"Tsk, tsk..."

But at that moment, a faint smile rose onto Moke's lips. It gave her a bad feeling!

The next second, she saw a bizarre sight. The Ice Dragon, a full seven or eight meters long, seemed to collide with the entrance to another dimension the moment it struck Moke, rapidly vanishing.

Or perhaps Moke's body itself was like another dimension, directly swallowing the entire Ice Dragon!

What made her scalp tingle even more was this.

Moke's body began changing at high speed, turning into an "ice sculpture." She could swear to the heavens that he had absolutely not been frozen by her Ice Dragon.

The next second.

An Ice Dragon twice as large as before burst out from behind Moke. But its target was not Yaxi—it was the already severely injured Ya'er.

If not for the time difference, it would have looked as though Yaxi's Ice Dragon had passed through Moke's body, doubled in size, and blasted toward Ya'er.

"Not good..."

Yaxi's face changed drastically, and she even felt despair. She had no power to stop it...

As for Ya'er, all he felt was boundless terror. Severely injured as he was, he could only watch helplessly as the Ice Dragon, over ten meters long—

grew larger and larger in his eyes.

"Rumble..."

The Ice Dragon crashed violently into Ya'er. The immense impact sent him flying, but the Ice Dragon did not vanish. Instead, it continued driving him forward.

Everything in its path, whether trees or anything else, was frozen in an instant before being smashed into fragments.

It did not stop until it slammed into the base of a small hill two hundred meters away. But under that tremendous impact, Ya'er had already been embedded deep within the hillside.

At that moment, his entire body had gone limp.

Blood flowed from his eyes, mouth, and ears. Through the wound deep enough to expose bone, even his frozen internal organs could be seen.

He was clearly dead beyond any doubt.

"Ya'er..."

Yaxi let out a grief-stricken cry. Then hatred rushed to her head, making her lose her usual reason. She raised both hands. "Ice—World's End!"

Countless icicles appeared out of thin air and hovered above her head. Then they rained down upon Moke like raindrops!

No matter what they struck, whether the ground or trees, everything would be frozen. Soon, everything within a hundred meters of Moke had been frozen solid.

That area seemed to have become a separate realm—a world of ice.

Yet an ice man stood within that world, utterly at ease!

Moke looked at Yaxi as if she were an idiot. "Are you stupid? Even that Ice Dragon couldn't hurt me in the slightest. You think these little ice spikes can hurt me?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Moke raised a hand. Countless icicles immediately appeared out of thin air above his head as well.

"This..."

Yaxi was completely dumbfounded.

Then the raindrop-like icicles descended upon her.

"Ice Shield!"

Seeing this, Yaxi decisively used her ability to create an enormous Ice Shield in front of herself.

"Smack... smack..."

Against that massive Ice Shield, the icicles looked so tiny. How could they possibly shake it?

At that moment, Ghost Aura infused with the strange power of the Holy Sword erupted from Moke's body. It gathered into an Asura standing behind him.

"One Sword Style—Ashura Slash!"

Moke and the Asura swung their swords at the same time, unleashing a slash stronger, fiercer, and sharper than before.

Nothing could withstand it. Even the ground was cleaved open into a massive ravine. Yaxi's Ice Shield was split in two, and then the attack struck Yaxi.

"Squelch..."

A huge wound pierced through Yaxi's entire body. Blood gushed wildly, staining the area red.

"No..."

Yajie, who was fighting Ata nearby, saw the scene as well and roared in despair.

Ata could not help sneering. "You have feelings too? How laughable..."

Her face was filled with mockery as she spoke. Then she added, "Good. Only if you have feelings can you truly experience the pain of losing your family, and understand how much pain those people whose families you captured suffered."

As she spoke, Ata unleashed her strongest attack.

"Two-Sword Style..."