Pirate: My saber is a shining single scabbard

swoosh~

When the Ghost Spider was forced back, the thrown sword flew back into Hughes's hand.

"Dual scabbards, use body lightness."

Lightweight body, steel attribute moves.

Cut off useless parts of your body and reduce your weight to increase speed, down to as low as 100 grams.

As he finished speaking, a flash of light flashed across the double scabbards.

Immediately afterwards, its body shape underwent a strange change, from the original broad heavy sword to a slender and thin light sword.

The sharper blade shone with a cold light!

After the transformation of the double scabbard was completed, a glimmer of light flashed in Hughes's eyes.

"Return of Life...Paper Painted Martial Body."

As he murmured, the outline of his body shrank imperceptibly, and his muscle lines became more streamlined.

This is another way of applying the life-returning technique he learned from Sonia.

It's different from his "blood warrior" who squeezes the body to temporarily increase the strength...

"Paper Drawing Martial Body" allows the body to become streamlined, better adapt to changes in airflow, reduce strength and save energy, and greatly improve speed and flexibility.

brush~

After the change was completed, Hughes moved his body and performed two tricks at will.

"It feels so light..."

the other side.

Ghost Spider shook his sore wrist and stared at Hughes solemnly and gloomily.

Excellent swordsmanship, terrifying strength, and also knows how to be domineering...

It's not long since he broke into the Grand Line, and his strength has reached such an extent!

With such an astonishing growth rate, if it is not dealt with in time, there may be another big pirate who will turn the sea upside down in the future!

With this thought in mind, the ghost spider disappeared quietly, appeared in front of Hughes in an instant, and launched a fierce attack with the power of thunder!

clang clang ~

Hughes, whose body became "slender", danced his light swords out of the afterimage, blocking all the showers of sword light.

"How could this be?"

The more the Ghost Spider fought, the more frightened he became. The other party clearly couldn't keep up with his rhythm before and seemed to be in a hurry!

"drink!"

After Hughes adapted to the changes in his body, he decisively launched a counterattack.

He swung the opponent's sword away, raised two bloody swords high, and suddenly slashed them forward.

Sound cut!

Shadow strike!

Harsh metal sound waves were emitted from a long sword, instantly hitting the ghost spider that was close at hand.

The other long sword controlled the shadow on the ground and turned into a sharp spear to stab the enemy's thigh.

"Dirty little trick!"

The Ghost Spider, who has experienced countless fierce battles and has an extremely tenacious will, will certainly not be defeated so easily.

Being corroded by the sound waves, he just frowned.

Then he quickly wrapped the armored haki around his legs to prevent the shadow gun from advancing, and at the same time raised his knife to block the ensuing slashes.

clang! !

"It's really not that simple..."

Hughes was quite sorry that he still wanted to open the situation with this blow.

puff~

The next second, the ghost spider cautiously jumped back to distance itself, and then squinted at the double scabbards in Hughes' hands.

"There are rumors that your sword ate a devil fruit. It seems to be true."

He once saw one of Vegapunk's experiments, a knife that ate an animal devil fruit. It was originally a dead object but became conscious because of it.

And Baker Hughes's two knives...

Conscious, able to suck blood, fly freely, emit sound waves, control shadows, and change shape...

Only extremely rare species of phantom beasts can explain it.

"It seems that I have to show my real skills!"

The ghost spider's eyes became sharp, and its fierce aura rose by itself. The domineering force instantly dyed the two swords black, and the next second they burst out!

"Two-sword style, spider kill!"

A black light flashed in the air and was immediately in front of Hughes.

Ghost steps - phantom.

As the black light approached, Hughes left a phantom transformed from ghost energy on the spot, and the main body escaped at an extremely fast speed.

Bang!

"Succeeded...what?"

The next moment, the chopped 'Hughes' turned into a cloud of black and purple smoke, floating in the air.

"where?"

The Ghost Spider immediately used the sight color to search for traces of Hughes.

After a while, surprisingly, nothing was found.

"impossible!"

Ghost Spider couldn't help shouting.

As long as a person is alive, his body will emit "sounds", and seeing, hearing, and color can capture these sounds and predict the other person's next actions.

Even if Baker Hughes's speed was so fast that his sense of sight and color could not keep up, he could at least detect some traces and clues.

Based on his knowledge, he can only think of two explanations for this situation.

The other party ran out of the range of his sight in an instant, or simply disappeared out of thin air.

At this time...

'Hughes' suddenly appeared ten meters away.

"there!"

The ghost spider flew away quickly, raised the knife in his hand, but still struck a wisp of purple smoke.

next moment...

He felt a strong wind approaching the skin of his back, and his hair stood up in shock.

puff~

Before Ghost Spider had time to respond, a line of blood spattered out from behind him, followed by Hughes holding a blood-stained sword.

swoosh~

The ghost spider endured the pain and quickly turned around to slash, but it hit an afterimage.

"hateful!"

Hughes, who was moving at high speed, looked at the ghost spider who had nowhere to express his anger, and a smile appeared on his lips.

Generally speaking, in order to achieve invisibility in front of an opponent who is proficient in sight and color, it is not enough to be invisible to the naked eye. It must be so fast that even the opponent's sight and color cannot keep up.

Even if there are traces of movement, it is impossible to predict subsequent movements based on these alone.

This is not much different from true invisibility.

Just like Sanji when he faced Quinn a few years later.

However, this extreme speed comes at the cost of rapid consumption of physical strength and cannot last long.

In comparison, his current speed is only too fast for the naked eye to keep up with.

But he used ghost energy to hide his own aura, making the ghost spider's sense of sight useless.

While achieving relative invisibility, physical strength will not be consumed too much.

And he can only move in this way with his "paper-painted martial body" and the lightweight body with double scabbards.

At this time...

Ghost Spider snorted coldly and shouted into the air: "Baker Hughes, do you think I can't do anything to you like this?"

"Life returned...Ghost Spider!"

As soon as he finished speaking, his long brown hair began to flutter in the wind, and as it grew longer, it changed into the shape of six arms.

Whoosh whoosh~

Immediately afterwards, Ghost Spider used Shao continuously to move at high speed.

After stopping, the six hair-turned-arms each had a long knife.

This area was the scene of the previous melee between the Blood Sword and the Iron Wall, and there was no shortage of ownerless swords.

Next...

Ghost Spider controls its six arms to point in three directions: left, right and behind, achieving defense without blind spots.

"Baker Hughes, your inexplicable way of moving consumes a lot of energy. Let's see how long you can hold on!"

Hughes, who was moving at high speed, saw this and decided to try out the quality of this 'Eight-Armed Arhat'.

swoosh~

The next moment, he appeared behind the ghost spider.

Tongue out!

The bloody long sword slashed down with a cold light.

Feeling the strong wind coming, Ghost Spider immediately faced it with the double swords wrapped in armed colors behind it.

clang~

After blocking the attack, Ghost Spider immediately controlled his other arm and slashed with a knife.

swoosh~

Hughes didn't bother, leaving an afterimage and disappearing from the place again.

Next, both sides continued to test and counterattack.

During the stalemate...

tata tao~

Two major generals finally arrived with hundreds of elite soldiers.

One of the major generals looked at the ghost spider battling with the air and murmured in confusion: "What happened?"

When Ghost Spider saw his belated subordinates, his expression changed drastically and he roared.

"do not come!!!"