Chapter 857: Chapter 524: Gold Spirit and Dark Will? (Part 2)
Not the kind who defeats the tyranny and liberates its people.
But the one who defeats the tyranny and then replaces it himself!
"An Evil Dragon..."
The sage’s powerful desire caught Mihawk’s attention, who tightened his grip on the hilt, "Has the value of a hunt!"
He’s seen too many people and things, thus longs for stability and peace even more. Not a scene of a young man slaying an Evil Dragon to become one himself.
This kind of person is inherently an Evil Dragon!
Even when weak, still a young dragon, born to devour people!
The sage grinned at him: "Hehehe... Your sword may not be as tough as my fists."
Among those present, Mihawk is the strongest!
The sage rotated his neck, looking at the crowd, "This time, who goes first?"
"Roar!!"
Among the crowd came a roar, Barrett tore off his military uniform top, his knotted muscles wrapped in deep blue Haki, even the tied hair braid unraveled, dancing behind.
"Your life can only be mine!!"
Bam!
As Barrett surged forth, a hand slammed onto the ground, with the explosion and rhythm of mosaic, a deep groove was drawn where he passed, his arm fused with the ground, transforming into another rock giant hand filled with Haki patterns, fiercely smashing forward.
In terms of body techniques, he seemed helpless against the sage, no matter the attack, it would be broken. Given this, a large range attack was chosen!
"A smart choice."
The sage nodded, "Magnifying locally for range attacks, Haki coiling around the body can also defend in time, hmm... You’ve subconsciously started cooperating with others."
"Very good, facing a stronger presence, cooperation is better than fighting alone—it’s an instinct of creatures, whether you like it or not, your subconscious does it."
No matter Barrett’s mindset or his thoughts, in the sage’s view, a large range attack must be a decoy and distraction, creating gaps for others to seize opportunities.
Pirates, Pirate ships... They are a group, not one person. Cooperation in attacks is nothing shameful.
"Don’t joke around, only individual strength is true strength on the sea, folks like you shouldn’t make random guesses!" Barrett shouted, eyes crimson.
The sage shook his head with a smile, extending a hand, "Wide-range attacks aren’t something I’m incapable of..."
His right fist swung out, the arm of normal human size suddenly expanded, no balloon inflation but breaking some constraint, abandoning the disguise, transforming the arm into a celestial jade pillar, Haki surges on the punch, crashing into the incoming rock arm.
Boom!
That arm’s scale was even larger than the ’Giant Warship’ Juan Wolf’s arm two years ago in the Summit War.
With one punch, the sage’s fist pressed the rock arm to the ground, and without losing speed, hammered several times at the wrist of the rock arm, causing it to suddenly shatter and splatter around.
Barrett groaned, covering the normal arm exposed due to rock arm fragmentation, the arm even trembled slightly, wrist notably swollen and red.
"But when range expands, the Haki’s intensity drops. The hardness of the rock... It can’t match my Secret Hole Strike."
Everything has a secret hole, the power and pressure of large size mean nothing to him.
The sage easily lifted the giant arm, smiling: "Guess how many meters this arm is suited for?"
Sand, flames, smoke—all had arrived as Barrett initiated the attack.
Whoosh!
The giant arm swung out at this moment, effortlessly scattering and extinguishing those elements.
Like extinguishing a finger-sized flame, one sweep obliterated three elements, and the wide range and contained Haki prevented these elementalized people from evading, forcibly getting hit into the ground.
Swish!
Fujitora and Lucci approached front and back, during the sage’s arm swing, one attacking straight on, the other striking from behind.
"Gravity Blade: Fierce Tiger!"
"Rokugan!"
Their attack target was exactly the connection point of the massive swinging arm, operating such enormity must impede his reflexes...
"The answer is..."
Under the heavy arm pressing onto the ground, leveraging the force, the sage soared up, legs spread straight, kicking Lucci’s claw with one foot, blocking Fujitora’s blade with another.
Lucci’s gaze cooled, placing a hand on the sage’s leg, preparing to duck in, but just then, the kicked leg turned stone, larger than the giant arm, transforming into a mountain-like object, pressing Lucci down forcibly.
Meanwhile, Fujitora got kicked off under the massive leg, flying like a shooting star across the island’s boundary.
"Two hundred meters!!" The sage laughed heartily.
This Full Form posture represents 100% of Dragon Transformation Breathing Technique’s 100%, compressing the Max-Max Fruit enhanced body into the ultimate form.
As for the body...
Forty times, making the sage’s body reach two hundred meters!
Just as he laughed, Boa Hancock suddenly sprinted, seizing the sage’s monstrous form moment to sprint onto his gigantic leg, swiftly running, then stabbing a sword-like kick towards the sage’s head.
"Great Perfume Femur!!"
The intense motion shook Hancock’s chest fiercely, surges before her jade-white thigh approached the sage, who grinned threateningly at her.
"Correct action, but miscalculated our strength gap!"
The sage’s legs and arms swiftly shrank back to normal, after dodging Hancock’s attack with a head tilt, grabbing her ankle like a bat, swung forward.
Several Soaring Slashes emerged there.
Mihawk!
Hancock clenched her silver teeth, during the swing, one leg did a split, coiling with Haki, consecutive kicks shattered incoming slashes, but before more moves, her body plunged down aggressively.
The sage swung Hancock into the ground, then kicked her chest, sending her flying afar.
Clang clang clang!
As the kick went out, the sage sided to block, hands burning with Haki like dark flames clashing with Mihawk’s sword-punch, sparks flying where they hit.
After several blows, the sage moved his steps, striking the blade with a punch, advancing sideways, another tricky hand chopping towards Mihawk’s neck.
The latter’s eagle-eyes rippled, swiftly withdrew, reversing to horizontally raise the Black Blade in front, maximizing defense, preventing the sage’s limbs from breaking through.
"Not enough!"
Boom!!
Heads bump collided fiercely against Mihawk’s face, sending him hurtling backward.
The sage shook his neck, saying: "A head—it too can kill!"
"What savagery!"
In the air, Fujitora stomped a large rock hurtling back, ignoring blood at his mouth corner, he spoke somberly:
"Is this Lord Catastrophe’s true strength? I seem to see something different, hidden under this form, a more brutal power?"
When struck away, in mid-air, slicing with his sword to ascend, cutting an island’s edge corner upward, cushioned his feet, returning.
The sage laughed lightly: "Blind man’s senses are always sharp, huh? Just say everyone has their uses anyway."
Lucci broke from the ground, wiped the blood on his head, gasped a few breathes, "Like free fighting, Sage... you aren’t the Sun God, right?"
As CP0, he encountered Sun God’s secrets—though not the full story, he knows that fruit allows free combat.
"Sun God..."
The sage froze momentarily, then chuckled at Lucci: "Looking forward to fighting him, the clash of absolute freedom and absolute domination! Can golden spirit truly surpass dark will?! Hohohohoho!"
Sun God...
He knew what it was, and if his impression is correct, it should soon emerge.
After taking down Kaido, that thing must be contended with.
Destiny—he doesn’t believe in it!
