"Tap!"
"Tap!"
"Tap!"
Enel deactivated Thunder God, returned to the ground, and walked toward Will.
Those footsteps, like the sound of death, reached the ears of the pirate Green Will, who had fallen helplessly to the ground. He struggled to turn his head toward Enel, his lips pursed slightly.
"I never imagined that I, a man with a bounty of 400 million, would escape the trident of Katakuri, the strongest fighter under the Four Emperor Big Mom, only to die at the hands of a nobody like you. I can't accept it!"
He roared, crying out to fate over the injustice done to him, his words full of deep resentment.
"Are those your last words? How utterly boring. In that case, let me send you on your final journey. You, a great pirate from the Blue Sea, shall die at the hands of a great god like me!"
Looking at his resentful expression, Enel spoke disdainfully. Then he prepared to deliver the final blow and send him from this world.
"Gahahahaha! I never thought I would make such a spectacle of myself at the very end. You must be laughing at me. So, lastly, please tell me who you are. Having eaten the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, you can't possibly be so unknown. Tell me your name, god of Sky Island, so I know whose hands I died by."
After lamenting for a while, Will stopped his cries. As if resigned to his fate, he asked Enel his name, so he would know which powerful man had killed him.
"Hehehehe! My name? There's no harm in letting you know. My name is Enel. Remember it well, so you won't reach the underworld without knowing who killed you!"
"Now, I declare your crime: trespassing on the territory of a god. Your crime is unforgivable. I hereby sentence you to death, and I shall carry out the sentence myself. 100 million volts-El Thor!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Enel raised his right hand, firing an intense current straight into the sky.
"Boom!!!"
Soon, dark clouds gathered above Will, and a bolt of lightning about three or four in diameter fell toward him.
"Is this the power of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit? What a terrifying power. To die beneath such power, I have no regrets!"
Will looked up at the dark clouds gathering overhead. His Observation Haki sensed the terrifying energy contained within them. The moment he finished speaking, lightning struck him, engulfing his entire body in electrical light.
"Crack!!!"
The thunder echoed for a long time. The current spread outward, causing the Island Cloud around him to slowly break apart.
"Boom!!!"
After a long time, the dark clouds dispersed, and the electrical light gradually faded, slowly revealing the scene within.
The area where Will had been was now completely gone. Only a deep, pitch-black hole remained, and Will had been struck by that terrifying lightning, leaving not even his bones behind.
Thus fell Green Will, the great pirate renowned far and wide, with a bounty of 400 million in the New World. Not even his bones remained.
"Boom, boom, boom!!!"
A fierce wind roared, and in the blink of an eye, Luo Chen arrived behind Enel.
"You're here? Have you taken care of everything?"
Leaning on his Golden Staff with his back to Luo Chen, Enel remained silent for a while before speaking.
"That's right. Just as you two started fighting, I dealt with that pirate and came here to watch your battle."
Luo Chen answered his question. Just after the pirate captain Green Will had defeated Marine Rear Admiral Hogg with a sneak attack, Luo Chen's own battle had also been decided.
The scene returned to Luo Chen's battle.
The pirate first mate Samo had stared intently at Luo Chen ever since he appeared. After a moment, he spoke.
"Are you a subordinate of the current god of Sky Island?"
He pointed his sword at Luo Chen as he asked. As the crew's second-in-command, Samo was not only a swordsman but also possessed remarkable Observation Haki. In his perception, the man before him was no weaker than he was.
"That's right. I'm Luo Chen, one of the five priests under the current god Enel, and the priest in charge of the Ordeal of Blood. It's a pleasure to meet you."
Luo Chen chuckled, placed his right hand before him, and bowed slightly as he introduced himself with considerable courtesy.
"Hmph! I didn't expect to find someone as strong as you here. We underestimated this place. I'm Samo, a pirate with a bounty of 200 million Beli. It's a pleasure to meet you too!!!"
With that, Samo vanished from where he stood. In a flash, he appeared before Luo Chen, drew his sword, and slashed at him.
"Sword-Drawing Technique-Iai Slash!"
"Whoosh!"
A white blade flash swept past, splitting Luo Chen's figure in two. It turned into a pool of blood that splattered onto the ground.
"Honestly, starting a fight the moment we disagree. That really is the pirate way. Asura: Blood Substitute."
When Samo's blade flash swept toward him, Luo Chen had already used his ability to switch places. The strike had only hit a substitute woven from his ability and had done him no harm.
"Hmph! Isn't that perfectly normal? There's no such thing as underhandedness in the world of pirates."
Samo sensed Luo Chen's location with Observation Haki and turned to speak to him.
"Hahahaha! That's right, I agree. Now, let me give you a taste of the results of my training over the past two years. Hmm..."
"Bang!"
Before he could finish, another slash came at him. Luo Chen gathered his blood-colored power in his hand and punched, shattering it.
"Whoosh!"
"You've already exposed your position. Shadow Flow: Severing Flow!"
Samo appeared before him again and swung Shadow Flow, one of the Fifty Skillful Grade Swords, at him with a strike powerful enough to sever a waterfall.
"Hmph! Let me test your strength too. Demon Blade: Mountain Slash!"
Facing the immensely powerful slash, Luo Chen condensed blood energy into a blade and countered with a slash of his own.
"Boom!!!"
The blood-colored slash and the white sword wave collided, sending a violent roar echoing in every direction. Ripples through the vacuum swept outward, and the houses nearby all shook.
"That kid is amazing! I can't believe he can fight Lord Samo, the first mate, without losing."
"How is that possible? Lord Samo is a pirate with a bounty of 200 million. His strength is second only to the captain's. How could there be anyone on this Sky Island who comes close to him?"
The pirates watching from the side reacted in different ways, some amazed and others panicking.
"Bang!!!"
An impact rang out. Enel's fifty divine soldiers had finally arrived, and they used their Impact Dials to unleash shock waves at the stunned pirates, blasting them back.
"Hehehe! Why wouldn't it be possible? Lord Luo Chen is our strongest priest, our second-strongest fighter! Meh!"
Laughing, the divine soldiers answered their doubts.
"Damn it, the guards here have arrived too! Brothers, charge! Take them all out!"
The pirates got to their feet and, seeing the newly arrived guards, charged at them one after another with shouts. Before long, they were locked in battle.
"Hmph, what a bunch of ignorant pirates. You barged in here without even finding out whose territory this was. Let me pass judgment on all of you in God's place."
To one side, the priest Ohm sat astride his pet, a giant white dog, on a rooftop and spoke calmly to the pirates below.
"Who are you? How did you get here?"
A pirate with a sword spotted him and challenged him, weapon in hand.
"Puchi!"
"Aah!!!"
Before he could react, a white cloud sword pierced his body, drawing several sprays of blood.
"I am Ohm, a priest under the god Enel. Pirates, the sins you have committed here are unforgivable. Allow me to free you here and now."
Ohm withdrew his sword, wiped his glasses with his hand, and addressed all the pirates.
"Whoosh!!!"
"Aah!"
"Aah!"
"Aah!"
A three-zhang bird flew through the pirates, and Shura pierced them one by one with his spear. The pirates fell, screaming.
The priest Shura had arrived too!