Dual Haki Infusion! A Terrifying Strike

But all of this required luck.

Lin Ye had even considered that if he obtained a Devil Fruit in the future, he would find someone to eat it first, then make his move.

That way, he could gamble on the odds.

Especially with Logia types or Paramecia types with particularly outrageous abilities.

Of course, he was not picky.

Even a trash ability would be a positive upgrade for him.

The two people he had set his sights on this time both possessed absurdly powerful abilities but were incredibly weak themselves.

One had a time-related Devil Fruit ability, while the other had a Devil Fruit ability that granted multiple lives, yet neither had displayed the power their abilities should have possessed.

Lin Ye, lost in thought, suddenly turned his head.

From every direction, samurai from the Flower Capital and Orochi's ninjas surrounded him once more.

And this time, there were several hundred of them.

It seemed his arrival had truly frightened that bastard.

Lin Ye rested a hand on the hilt at his waist and calmly watched the people closing in around him.

Ever since he had started letting people go to spread the news, more than a hundred people had come to offer themselves up.

Having them come one by one was indeed much easier than searching for them himself.

After all, if he went looking himself, he would still have to identify them. That was far too troublesome.

But now, anyone who arrived here could be killed.

Behind a distant mound of earth, several figures crouched down and watched Lin Ye's situation.

"Is that the man from the intelligence reports? Did he really kill over a hundred of Orochi's men along the way?"

One person peeked out and asked softly.

"That's right. I followed him all the way here. Anyone who blocked his path died."

"Could he be Lord Oden's friend?"

Another person spoke up.

Kozuki Oden had sailed out to sea for a time and met many powerful people there. It was said that he had even boarded the Pirate King's ship.

"I don't know about that, but this man is ruthless. He never shows mercy when he strikes. I checked those people's wounds—every one of them was killed in a single slash.

Many of them were cut in half."

The speaker swallowed hard.

"He really is powerful. But judging by things now, this is great news for us. It seems that bastard Orochi has provoked a powerful enemy this time.

Maybe Orochi will be killed by this man."

The first person to speak looked excited.

"Lord Oden..."

As soon as he finished speaking, the woman beside him, dressed in a bodysuit, spoke in a somewhat dejected tone.

Kozuki Oden dancing in a loincloth in the Flower Capital was a humiliation to them as well.

"Orochi is just too despicable. If he hadn't used the lives of civilians to threaten Lord Oden, how could things have become like this?"

The woman's words made the faces of the others twitch.

These samurai valued loyalty and honor above all else.

Yet the man they served was dancing naked in the Flower Capital. It was simply the greatest humiliation.

"Shh, they've started."

One person suddenly spoke. The others immediately fell silent and poked their heads out to look.

The surrounding samurai roared as they raised their blades and charged forward.

Swoosh!

A dark slash flew out.

Whoosh!

The upper bodies of twenty or thirty people flew into the air all at once.

Even after being severed, those people seemed not to realize what had happened. They still waved their swords, their faces twisted with ferocity.

Only after their bodies rose into the air did they realize what had happened. Their expressions shifted from ferocity to pain, then to terror.

Gulp!

Behind the hill, it was deathly quiet. Even the sound of swallowing was painfully sharp.

Meanwhile, the battle outside continued.

Lin Ye's swordsmanship was extremely simple.

Over more than a year of fighting, Lin Ye had abandoned all those flashy sword techniques.

Though they were dazzling, they offered him no improvement.

He had never practiced any swordsmanship before. As for martial theories and such, he could say a few words about them, but when it came to actual application, he was hopeless.

His fighting style had been forged through battles large and small over the past year.

How could he reap lives in the fastest way possible?

Naturally, by driving the weapon in his hand into the opponent's vital points as quickly as possible.

A smile hung on Lin Ye's face as the sword in his hand harvested the lives of the surrounding samurai.

Lin Ye was very satisfied.

Because the people who had come this time were clearly elites.

Every one of them had actually mastered Armament Haki.

Oh, right. Here in Wano Country, it was called Ryuo.

Judging from their clash, these people's Armament Haki training was clearly lacking. They could not withstand his flowing, infused Haki.

Yet the bubble collection notifications showed that Armament Haki made up an extremely high proportion.

What a wonderful place.

He could come here often and harvest another batch.

Such a thought suddenly arose in Lin Ye's mind.

But the sword in his hand showed no mercy whatsoever.

"Hah!"

A furious shout rang out from nearby at his side.

Then two slashes crossed through the air toward Lin Ye.

The slashes resembled azure Wind Blades and moved with incredible speed, reaching Lin Ye in the blink of an eye.

Lin Ye lightly tapped the ground with his foot. It appeared as though he had used little force, but the earth beneath him suddenly exploded.

Massive cracks spread in every direction as countless clumps of dirt erupted upward, flinging away the surrounding samurai and corpses.

Lin Ye's figure then seemed to teleport, appearing above the man who had launched the Flying Slashes.

Seeing the brightly colored ninja outfit on the man, Lin Ye's eyes turned cold. Still in midair, he raised his sword high before violently bringing it down.

"Aah!"

Wind Blade, a ninja of the Oniwabanshu, watched Lin Ye's downward slash from above. He raised his twin blades and crossed them, trying to block the strike.

But when their weapons collided, terror flashed in Wind Blade's eyes.

An irresistible force surged through his weapons.

He could not block it!

The instant that thought surfaced, Wind Blade's body split into two, and a mist of blood exploded with a bang.

The remaining force of the slash flew forward, killing everyone in its path. The ground split apart, and a sword scar stretched into the distance.

After landing the blow, Lin Ye tapped the ground beneath his feet again. Even the air underfoot distorted, followed by a tremendous sonic boom.

Lin Ye's figure flickered away and reappeared among several people dressed in ninja outfits.

They were all Orochi's Oniwabanshu ninjas.

Lin Ye knew of these people from his memories of One Piece, but he had little impression of their individual members.

But none of that mattered.

Lin Ye had no intention of wasting thought on their identities. As long as they had come here, they had only one identity: dead men.

All three types of Haki erupted at once.

Boom!

An indescribably immense pressure suddenly descended.

The vigilant ninjas below, along with the terrified samurai around them, were stunned by Conqueror's Haki as Haki wrapped around Lin Ye's blade.

Dual Haki infusion.

Conqueror's Haki and Armament Haki infused together.

This was a slash Lin Ye had imitated from Divine Departure.

Terrifying Haki burst from the blade like lightning, its powerful aura crashing into the clouds overhead.

Huff!

With a slight exertion of control, Lin Ye exhaled a wisp of white breath. Then he gripped the sword in his right hand and spun.

Boom!

This slash flew out in a ring, trailing deep-purple lightning.

Boom!

Like an enormous explosion, everything around Lin Ye was destroyed.

The surrounding samurai, ninjas, trees, and earth were all sliced apart and blown away.

A vast number of bubbles appeared in an instant and surged toward Lin Ye.