25: Chapter 025 When He Gets Angry…
It’s Terrifying 25: Chapter 025 When He Gets Angry…
It’s Terrifying BOOM!!!
Richard’s form moved like a butterfly…
fluttering for a moment before suddenly flickering into the heart of the enemy fleet.
At that moment, the true power of a swordsman was fully revealed.
His slash expanded like a ring-shaped shockwave, accompanied by raging seas and towering waves, radiating outward from Richard in all directions.
Golden Lion’s fleet pirates changed their expressions as they were swept up by the wild waves.
Everywhere the slash touched…
everything was erased by its razor-sharp edge.
He had cut through to pure emptiness and nothingness.
The fleet exploded in chaos…
no one could resist.
Apart from Golden Lion, who took to the air and agilely dodged Richard’s slashes, every other pirate ship collapsed and sank into the sea.
On the vast ocean, aside from those with powerful physical abilities, almost everyone fell into the water…
their fates unknown.
Over thirty-five hundred men…
nearly half of them…
had vanished into the raging waves, carried off into the unknown depths of the sea along with the wreckage of their ships.
“Damn you!!!
I’ll kill you!!!” Golden Lion let out a roar and charged at Richard.
The two figures stood opposed in midair, like two meteors colliding, sparks flying.
The clouds in the sky churned, the tides surged to both sides…
the very heavens and earth seemed to explode, leaving no trace of calm.
BANG!!
Richard blocked horizontally with his blade, Shintei letting out a crisp ring.
Golden Lion’s immense force slammed into him, sending him flying back momentarily, and his sword made contact with Shintei.
At that moment, a powerful floating force surged from within Shintei’s blade.
Richard’s expression grew serious.
He stomped midair, and his foot touched the surface of the sea.
BOOM!
A tremendous explosion rang out as a wave surged toward Golden Lion.
He was using the power of the sea to neutralize Golden Lion’s Devil Fruit ability.
But Golden Lion was agile, controlling his flight to circle like a butterfly weaving through flowers, dodging the waves and continuing his pursuit.
Then, a whistling sound tore through the sky…
a shrill cry that approached from afar, fast as lightning.
“SHIKI!!!” Roger’s low, husky voice came like a phantom, reaching the ears of both Richard and Golden Lion.
His figure soared through the sky.
“DIVINE DEPARTURE!!!” WHOOOSH!!
BANG!!!
With one slash, he struck Golden Lion’s raised defensive stance.
Divine Departure could bypass most defenses and strike the enemy directly, but if the opponent had already adopted a close-range defensive posture, it was unavoidable…
all it could do was inflict sheer force damage.
Roger’s power was greater than Golden Lion’s, and with the accumulated momentum from Divine Departure, the impact sent Golden Lion hurtling backward.
And then…
the battlefield descended into chaos.
“CHARGE!!!
Everyone…
annihilate Golden Lion’s fleet!!” Rayleigh seized the moment.
This was the moment when Golden Lion’s fleet was at its most chaotic and vulnerable.
Thanks to Richard’s explosive opening strike, the carefully planned encirclement that Shiki had spent so long preparing had completely fallen apart.
And as the admiral and commander of the fleet, Golden Lion had lost his composure…
there would never be a better opportunity than now.
Bullet let out a low growl.
The moment he heard Rayleigh’s command, he shot toward the enemy ships like a cannonball.
Standing atop a massive piece of wreckage, he let out a thunderous roar…
a domain-like wave of Conqueror’s Haki, crackling with blue lightning, swept out in all directions.
BOOOOM!!!
The howling gale sent waves crashing around them.
Those pirates who had just surfaced from the sea, or clung to debris thinking they were saved…
all of them, under the impact, rolled their eyes back, foamed at the mouth, and fell unconscious into the water.
To be hit by Conqueror’s Haki in such a situation…
to be knocked unconscious…
was essentially a death sentence.
As enemies, no one would come to save them.
No one could have imagined that just any fighter from Roger’s crew would be on this level.
And Sunbell, as a fish-man, was more powerful underwater than anyone else.
He dove into the sea to hunt down Golden Lion’s crewmen, reaping them like wheat, raising waves and currents that swallowed all those still in the water.
This battle seemed to have entered its white-hot phase in an instant.
That day, across the entire Edd Sea, Golden Lion’s roar of fury echoed without end.
His battle with Roger lasted an entire day.
All the pirates who had come from the Blue Sky Sea…
whether rookies or seasoned veterans who had sailed for years…
witnessed the most spectacular battle of their lives.
In the end, at dawn the next day, Golden Lion finally used the last of his stamina to fly away and escape.
The Flying Pirates…
had been completely annihilated!!!
History would record this as the Legendary Edd War…
a conflict that changed the balance of power on the seas.
Roger became the undisputed ruler of the ocean.
And Whitebeard, who had no interest in challenging the Great Treasure, was so shocked upon hearing the news that he drank himself into a stupor.
…
Three days later…
in the Blue Sky Sea, at the pirate sanctuary known as “Biggs’s Place”…
The first floor was completely cleared out.
From the second floor, bursts of boisterous laughter could be heard from time to time.
Biggs and the others didn’t know what to say.
The Roger Pirates…
This legendary crew, at the peak of their glory, had chosen this place as the venue for their final victory banquet.
“Richard!!!
Join my crew!
With your strength, we’ll definitely reach the fin!” Roger, Rayleigh, and Gaban all stared intently at Richard.
They had remembered his wine…
and now, they had remembered his blade as well.
Too strong.
Mihawk also looked up at Richard, his expression complicated.
In that battle, he too had killed many pirates, fighting alongside Shanks in an exhilarating battle.
He had tasted the feeling of having comrades.
Part of him had wanted to join the crew.
His complicated feelings stemmed from one thing: It was the first time he realized…
that when his brother got angry…
it was terrifying…
Perhaps on this entire sea, only Mihawk truly understood.
Destroying Golden Lion’s fleet…
had nothing to do with helping Roger.
It was because of Golden Lion’s taunt.
“Wouldn’t your parents be worried?” If he hadn’t said that…
knowing Brother’s temperament, he would have just finished his drink, taken me aside, and watched the situation unfold from a distance.
Unless Roger personally asked him for help.