ALL NOVEL Chapter 165: Chapter 167
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Chapter 69
The rumbling continued as thunder roared in the clouds, and bursts of howling winds moved between the sky and the earth.
"What's going on!?"
"It seems that something is approaching!!"
"In the sky..."
"Damn... what is that..."
A pale thunder tore through the black sky, reflecting the faces of the Marines whose eyes widened in fear. Darren's eyes held unprecedented fear. He gritted his teeth and tried to stand, but his body swayed, powerless.
In his biomagnetic field perception, deep in the sea of clouds where the storm surged, a terrifying and deep aura spread out, exuding a strong sense of pressure from a superior creature. "The tricky guy is coming," Sakazuki's face was equally grim.
The sense of oppression covered the ground, making every muscle and nerve in Sakazuki's body tense to the point of ultimate strain. He glanced at Darren, who was unable to stand, and then assessed his own injuries. His heart sank continuously.
"Oh lol lol...I didn't expect to encounter such an interesting thing," a hoarse and dull voice came from afar, shaking people's eardrums like muffled thunder. There was a strong wind and waves on the sea.
In the dark, thick sea of clouds, a huge shadow, more ominous than the dark clouds, began to take form in everyone's frozen gaze. The shadow seemed to cover the sky and the sun, dragging visible lightning in its wake.
The fierce wind blew as smoke and dust filled the earth. Under the Marines' horrified eyes, a head the size of a mountain peak slowly emerged from the sea of clouds. Its sharp, curved horns, jet-black beard, dark yellow lantern-sized pupils, immense dragon claws, and green scales shone with a hard luster amidst the interlacing lightning.
"Dragon!!!"
"It's a legendary creature!! Azure Dragon!!"
"Kaido!! The Great Pirate of the New World!!"
"Kaido of the Beasts!!"
"How is this possible... how did Kaido appear here!?"
A series of exclamations erupted from the Marines. They watched the behemoth soar from the clouds with horror, their throats dry, cold sweat breaking out across their bodies.
The gigantic green dragon narrowed its eyes, scanning the ground, pausing momentarily on Darren and Douglas Bullet, and finally locked its gaze on Sakazuki. It gave a grim laugh.
Boom! A terrifying momentum as majestic as the abyss erupted from the giant dragon. The pressure manifesting as countless black and red lightnings appeared in the void, spreading from the sky to the ground instantly.
The aura suppressed to the ultimate, ripples seemed to form in the space between heaven and earth. The Marines perceived the world before them—the ground, trees, wrecked buildings, port—crumbling inch by inch. The shock and pressure from deep within their souls made it incredibly difficult to breathe, as if the sky itself had collapsed.
Bang...bang...bang... one by one, many young Marine soldiers rolled their eyes and fainted. Darren's breath also paused; his mind was chaotic. He emitted a muffled groan; his body trembled at its limit as he gritted his teeth to maintain his stance.
If he were at his peak, no matter how strong Kaido's Conqueror's Haki was, it wouldn't have pressured him so. However, his body was in terrible condition, covered in wounds, his strength exhausted, making resistance difficult.
Not far away, Bullet, severely injured and barely alive, fell to the ground without a sound. The strong wind blew smoke and dust everywhere. On the land burning with flames, Sakazuki remained immovable, like a rock on a sheer cliff, with his snow-white cloak fluttering behind him.
"Ooooh!! Die!! Marine!!" With a deafening roar, the dragon slowly opened its massive mouth. Between its sharp teeth, as Kaido inhaled, a stifling dark red light quickly formed in the dragon's mouth. The hell-like destructive aura spread immediately from the sky.
The blood-colored light reflected off the earth and enveloped everything. Unprecedented despair invaded the hearts of every Marine present, making them tremble all over, but they remained motionless like puppets who had lost their souls. Facing the attack of the legendary creatures, they had nowhere to escape.
Sakazuki suddenly let out a long breath. He unhurriedly took off his black leather gloves, revealing his bloody hands, and straightened the bloody rose on his chest. Then he took out a cigar from his pocket, bit it in his mouth, and lit it with his own ability. "It's endless..." he murmured softly.
The sky was pitch black, thunder flickered, and the wind howled. Facing the giant dragon that seemed to cover the world, this future Marine Admiral, who took off the title of "monster," seemed so insignificant. At this time, the flames from the mouth of the giant dragon roaring in the sky finally condensed to ultimate. "Hot interest!" Roar! A column of surging red dragon's breath spewed out from the dragon's mouth. The huge recoil force even caused its mountain-sized head to suddenly fall back.
A pillar of red flames, tearing apart everything, descended from the sky. The light instantly occupied the earth. Sakazuki raised his head expressionlessly, his indifferent and hard eyes reflected the violent and domineering posture of the giant dragon. The corner of his blood-stained mouth suddenly evoked a sinister smile. "It's not impossible to slay the dragon." Then he took a deep puff on his cigar. The strength of this puff of smoke was so deep that it directly burned the whole cigar. While the thick smoke was spit out from the mouth like a dragon, the majestic magma exploded from under his feet. The earth tore and shook, and Sakazuki shot into the sky like a cannonball. Half of his body was turned into thousands of degrees of high-temperature magma, but the wide and heavy snow-white cloak was sacred and solemn against the blood-colored magma.
He was like a rebellious mad dog, facing that huge pillar of dragon flames, facing the existence standing at the top of the biological chain... punching heavily! "Great Eruption!!" Time freezes at this moment. The erupting magma and the surging breath of the dragon collided fiercely in mid-air! But it was only a moment of stalemate. "Magma... is the superior of Flame!" Sakazuki's ghostly voice came out in the sea of flames.
The burst of magma directly pierced through the dragon's breath! The pillar of fire exploded into a fireball all over the sky, falling to the ground like a meteor shower. The magma rushed towards his face, and Kaido, who turned into a dragon, shrank his pupils. The deadly heat made him subconsciously swing his body to avoid it. The magma brushed past the dragon's body, leaving scorched black marks on the dragon's scales. "Damn Marine!! What about this move!?"
In the burst of fire rain, the pained giant dragon screamed angrily, and its figure quickly shrank into a demon-like figure, falling crazily at an extremely horrifying speed under the influence of gravity. A huge black mace was held in his hands, black and red thunder coiled around the mace, and the club hit Sakazuki hard on the head! "The third generation, Yin Naraku!!" The powerless Sakazuki sank into the ground like a meteorite, exploding a huge crater on the ground. The ground continued to collapse, spreading out ripple-like traces. The entire island was trembling, and the ground continued to tear out bottomless cracks. It was like the sky was falling apart.
The wind gradually died down. After flames lingered on the ground, black smoke billowed. Dark red magma gushed out from the cracks and quickly gathered into a silhouette. Sakazuki, who was covered in blood and pale, staggered a few steps like a blood man and almost fell. He directly pushed away the Marine soldier who was trying to support him, and looked at the empty land in front of him. The indifferent pupils were filled with ferocious and violent blood.
"Notify the headquarters of the appearance of Kaido of the Beasts, and the task of arresting Douglas Bullet failed. Mission objective Douglas Bullet, and..." Sakazuki spat out eerie words through his teeth. "Naval Headquarters Commodore Rogers Darren, taken by Kaido... I don't know if I'm alive or dead."