The Immortal Monster!

On Sabaody Archipelago, Susanoo was battling Garp!

Yet the situation looked far from optimistic. Facing every single one of Garp's punches, Susanoo struggled just to cope.

Fortunately his core had not been damaged, or else Susanoo would have been finished long ago.

Bang!

After sending Susanoo flying once more, Garp wore a very strange look in his eyes!

"Hey, exactly what kind of Devil Fruit user are you?"

"Logia, Paramecia, or some special Zoan?"

Susanoo's ability was simply too bizarre.

From Garp's perspective, Susanoo's strength wasn't particularly overwhelming, but he was genuinely troublesome!

Every single one of his own punches could beat the fellow back, yet they produced no practical effect!

From just now until the present, Garp had already injured Susanoo over thirty times.

Among those, ribs alone had been broken no less than twenty times, yet every time the opponent stood right back up like nothing had happened, the expression on his face showing not the slightest ripple!

Garp even half-doubted whether this guy was even a human being!

Right at that moment, a massive commotion behind him drew Garp's attention, and he looked back.

He saw that many marine soldiers had been blasted into the air, while a ten-meter-giant dog was still rampaging wildly among the marines!

"What kind of monster is this again?!"

Garp couldn't help feeling a twitch in his teeth!

Before he could go back to help, Susanoo lunged in to attack again!

"Get lost!"

Garp let out an angry roar, and then a mighty punch struck Susanoo directly in the chest!

Compared to his previous strikes, the force Garp used this time was countless times greater!

Susanoo simply couldn't withstand it, instantly flying out like a cannonball and slamming heavily into a massive red mangrove not far away!

A depression instantly appeared in that thick trunk, and Susanoo's body was embedded deep within it, unable to break free for a moment!

With Susanoo's obstruction gone, Garp made a single leap and arrived above Xiaobi!

Bang!

It was another fierce and heavy punch, striking Xiaobi squarely on the head!

Immediately afterward, its head shattered as if punched into a watermelon!

Xiaobi's body then collapsed onto the ground, motionless, looking just as dead as could be!

Seeing this scene, the marine soldiers all heaved sighs of relief!

"Great, that monster's finally been taken down!"

"Totally. What on earth is this thing? A dog that ate a Logia fruit?"

"It's possible, but a dog eating a Logia fruit... that's just too...!"

As everyone knew, among the three types of Devil Fruits, Logia had the highest lower limit and was also the rarest!

Yet now, a dog that had eaten a Logia fruit had actually appeared!

Envy and jealousy!

Whose handiwork was on such a massive scale?

Just as the marine soldiers were discussing it among themselves, Susanoo appeared before them once more!

This made the marines tense up again.

"Hey, this dog is already dead. Are you still going to try and stop me?"

Garp pinched the joints of his fists, producing a series of cracking sounds!

In response, Susanoo glanced very calmly at Xiaobi, and then spoke with a blank expression.

"It's not dead!"

Sure enough, the moment his voice fell, Xiaobi's body on the ground stood up once more—only without a head!

Yet a granulation-like object was wriggling at the neck!

Just a few seconds later, a brand-new head emerged, and Xiaobi's ten-meter-tall physique presented itself before the crowd once again!

"What kind of monsters are you people?!"

Garp knitted his brows!

It wasn't a Logia; he had already used Haki just now, and he had even smashed this dog's head to pieces!

Yet now...

Could someone tell him what was going on here?

"Vice Admiral Garp, I didn't expect us to meet again!"

Suddenly, a voice drifted down from above, and Garp and the others looked up.

They saw Mislanda, dressed entirely in black, standing on the branch of a red mangrove and looking down at the people below!

Afterward, Mislanda jumped down from the branch and landed beside Susanoo and Xiaobi!

"Master!"

Susanoo immediately bowed and said.

Xiaobi also instantly shrank into the size of a puppy, then walked over to rub against Mislanda's leg—completely opposite to the giant monster that had been rampaging wildly among the marine soldiers just moments before!

Seeing this scene, Garp's expression turned somewhat unsightly.

These two people—no, these two monsters—were actually subordinates of Mislanda.

Garp had experienced firsthand what these two monsters could do just now.

Now, with Mislanda added to the mix, could his capture operation succeed this time?

Garp knew a bit about Mislanda's strength: a Dark-Dark Fruit Logia user. This was something the World Government had investigated personally.

Garp had the confidence to defeat Mislanda, but he didn't have the certainty to capture him.

Now that the opponent had gained two more monster subordinates, it would be even harder!

In truth, Garp could never have imagined that Rayleigh was already on his way, otherwise he might have just turned around and left.

After all, Rayleigh was someone capable of going toe-to-toe with Garp; he might be slightly inferior, but the gap wasn't large.

"Hmph, brat, you really do amaze me!"

Garp watched Mislanda, an undisguisable praise in his eyes.

"To tell you the truth, I've long since found that slave prison an eyesore, but I've never had the guts to destroy it."

Garp was, after all, the Hero of the Marines.

To put it without exaggeration, if Garp so much as said to Steel Bone Kong, 'I want to be a Marine Admiral,' the latter would finish processing all the paperwork within ten minutes.

Yet Garp would never do that, because a Marine Admiral bore one strange responsibility: serving the Celestial Dragons directly!

Whenever the Celestial Dragons suffered any threat, the Marine Admirals had to go and help.

This was something Garp really wanted no part of.

As for the Celestial Dragons keeping slaves and even building a prison specifically for that purpose, Garp wanted to see it even less.

Yet there was nothing he could do either.

Now that he had encountered Mislanda, who dared to slap a Celestial Dragon right across the face, it had to be false if Garp didn't admire him.

"If it weren't for this mission, I genuinely wouldn't want to come after you!"

As he spoke, Garp twisted his shoulders.

"Duty is duty, though. The Marshal's orders aren't something I can just ignore!"

"Kid, are you going to come with me on your own, or should I carry you along?!"

Watching a Garp who was so full of confidence, Mislanda couldn't help laughing.

"It seems Mr. Garp is very confident he can capture me, but I'm also very confident I won't be caught by you!"

Saying this, Mislanda looked toward Susanoo behind him.

To be precise, he looked at a red ring-shaped ornament on Susanoo's chest: the Calamity Soul Magatama!

This was where Susanoo's core resided!

As long as Mislanda infused it with his own life force, Susanoo would be able to gain a temporary evolution.

By then, he alone would be able to hold Garp off!

The price, however, would be a year of Mislanda's life traded in exchange for half an hour of Susanoo's evolution!

However, Mislanda possessed a miraculous treasure: the Dragon Essence!

Immortal, imperishable, and eternal—what did a year of life amount to in front of the Dragon Essence?