"Oh?"
"Is that so!"
"That'll give me the perfect opportunity to avenge myself for being imprisoned in Impel Down back then!"
Red Count tilted his head, his eyes turning blood red in an instant.
Blood-red mist began to rise from the ground beneath his feet, and the mist seemed to come alive as it coiled around Kong.
Kong shattered the oncoming mist with a single punch, but the mist shattered and then coalesced again, clinging to him like a maggot.
" The Blood Domain," Red Count murmured.
Kong suddenly realized that his injuries were healing more slowly.
The blow from Kaido's dragon tail that I was hit by just now, which should have healed in a few seconds, is now hurting more and more.
The Black Turn lines on his skin dimmed in the blood-red mist, and the speed of repair was forcibly suppressed.
"You think you're the only ones who resort to such underhanded methods?"
Kong roared and slammed his fists, imbued with immense force, towards Red Count.
His fists were large and heavy, each punch carrying the force to shatter the ground and creating sonic booms as they struck the air.
The two fought fiercely on the central battlefield.
Kong's fist techniques were fierce and domineering, straightforward, with each punch aimed at smashing the Red Count into the ground.
The Red Count's fighting style, however, was much more subtle; his figure appeared and disappeared in the blood mist, his claws extending from all sorts of strange angles.
Sometimes it comes from behind, sometimes from under your feet, and sometimes it simply emerges from the shadows.
He displayed the mobility of the Warp-Warp Fruit to its fullest extent.
"Bang--!"
Kong punched the spot where Red Count had just stood, blasting a crater more than ten meters wide into the ground.
But the Red Count was no longer there. His figure appeared to the side of Kong, his claws slicing across Kong's ribs, leaving three bloody marks.
Kong roared and turned to throw another punch, but the force of the punch only swept away a cloud of blood mist.
The fight between the two became increasingly intense, Kong's injuries multiplied.
His left arm was ripped open by claws, and the Black Turn Repair was suppressed by the Blood Domain, causing the wound to bleed continuously.
He was also hit in the chest, and I don't know how many of his ribs were broken.
His breathing grew heavier and heavier, and with each step he took, you could hear his bones creaking.
The Red Count spotted an opening.
His figure suddenly appeared behind Kong, his ten fingers transforming into blood-red claw shadows, tearing open Kong's chest.
The Blood-Blood Fruit moved accordingly, and a large mass of blood was instantly drawn out by Red.
Kong let out a scream.
His body went limp, as if his bones had been removed, and he knelt on the ground with a thud.
The Red Count stepped on his back, pressing him firmly into the mud.
Kong tried to struggle, but the massive loss of blood left him feeling completely drained, unable to move at all.
" Kong, Commander-in-Chief of the Army."
The Red Count looked at the dumbfounded Army soldiers around him.
"I've captured your commander."
With the defeat of Kong, the last vestige of morale in the Army was shattered at that moment.
On the right flank, Fujitora is already at his breaking point.
He was blind to begin with, and relied entirely on his Observation Haki and Press-Press Fruit to fight.
But today he is not facing ordinary people.
Kuina descended from the sky, her Ame no Habakiri slashing at his cane with Ryuo blossom aura.
That slash was swift and precise. Fujitora raised his staff to block, but the impact left his hand numb.
Zoro's Demonic Aura Nine-Sword Style slashed in from the side, the green sword energy like Tatsumaki, tearing several holes in the gravity field that had pinned Fujitora to the ground.
Sanji was even more sinister; he swept his leg down from below, his Diable Jambe imbued with Conqueror's Haki, and kicked Fujitora in the knee.
Fujitora gritted his teeth and slammed his cane on the ground.
He knew he'd met his match today. The three of them were working together like a single person, and Rebecca and Bonney would occasionally launch sneak attacks from the side. His gravity field was being shredded into pieces.
"Gravity--"
Fujitora gritted his teeth, trying to compress the gravitational field even more.
He slammed his cane on the ground, and the ground began to sink, forcing the surrounding Allied soldiers to their knees.
But Kuina's sword had already arrived.
The Ryuo sword energy traveled upwards along his white cane, making his hand go numb and almost causing him to drop the cane.
Zoro's second slash followed immediately, the green Demonic Aura striking the weakest point in the gravity field, like a knife slicing through a piece of paper.
The gravitational field was instantly broken.
Sanji's kick landed squarely on Fujitora's knee at that moment.
Fujitora's legs buckled, and he knelt down.
The moment the cane slipped from his hand, the entire gravitational field dissipated.
Fujitora staggered back two steps, but before he could regain his balance, Zoro had already circled behind him and slammed the back of his sword into the back of his neck.
Fujitora's vision went black, and he fell straight down.
"Tie him up."
Zoro sheathed his sword and took a breath.
All three of his knives were dulled, and he had two cuts on his hands.
Kuina glanced at him. "Good coordination."
"Hmph." Zoro turned his head away, the tips of his ears turning slightly red.
Kizaru on the left wing observed the situation from beginning to end.
With Zhongjun Kong captured and the right-wing Fujitora captured, he was already on the verge of losing his composure.
We definitely can't win by fighting; running away is the only sensible thing to do.
"Tsk--" Kizaru pushed up his sunglasses
"This is going to be troublesome."
He suddenly raised both hands, unleashing the full power of the Yasakani no Magatama.
A dense barrage of golden light projectiles rained down on Tesoro's Golden Domain, forcing Tesoro to raise his hand to erect a golden shield wall.
Golden light illuminated the entire venue.
Using the smoke and dust from the explosion, Kizaru transformed into a golden streak and dashed towards Mary Geoise without looking back.
He didn't even look back when he ran, let alone care about the Army soldiers under his command.
Hey! Why are you running?!
Tesoro peeked out from behind the golden shield, but Kizaru was already gone.
"They ran away, so what?"
Tesoro pushed up his glasses.
"Anyway, keeping him around won't cause any trouble."
The commander-in-chief was captured, and two Admiral escaped while the other was captured.
The remaining Army completely collapsed.
The soldiers threw down their weapons and ran; some took off their armor, and some knelt on the ground and raised their hands in surrender.
On the road from the top of the Red Line to Pangaea Castle, disorganized Army soldiers retreated to both sides like a tide.
Some people lost their shoes while running and were walking barefoot on the gravel.
Someone was running while waving a white flag and shouting, "Don't kill me!"
An officer was trying to organize a counterattack, but he was knocked to the ground from behind by his own men. When he got up, there was no one around him.
The allied forces did not pursue.
They formed neat square formations, pushing their siege weapons, and advanced step by step towards Pangaea Castle.
The black Hachinosu battle flag was planted first on the city wall, followed by the Whitebeard Pirates flag, then the Revolutionary Army flag, and finally the Straw Hat Grand Fleet flag.
One after another, they floated up in the sky above Pangaea Castle.
Roy walked at the front, stepping on the rubble, all the way to the main gate of Pangaea Castle.
He looked up at the tall stone gate, his brows slowly furrowing.
It's too quiet.
Throughout the entire Pangaea Castle, not a single voice could be heard, and not a single person could be seen.
The streets were spotless, the palaces were perfectly orderly, and there wasn't even a single broken window.
This silence was more unsettling than the sound of gunfire.
"Something's not right," Roy muttered.
His Observation Haki spread out like a net covering the entire Pangaea Castle.
But within this net, he could not sense the presence of any living person.
Where are the Celestial Dragons?
Where are the servants?
Where are the guards?
How could a city of tens of thousands of people be completely deserted?
"Careful."
Roy turned to the officials behind him and said, "Something's wrong with this city."