One Piece: The Legend of Beasts

"Counterattack! Destroy them all without leaving a single one alive!"

Following Rocks's command, the pirates braced themselves and worked hard in groups of four to set up the artillery. The gunners quickly stuffed the new cannonball invented by Stussy into the cannon barrel. The cannonballs rained down like raindrops, so fast that the enemy had no time to respond. In the blink of an eye, five or six warships were instantly penetrated by the cannonballs and sank into the sea after repeated explosions.

"Get out those mortars Uno brought!"

"But Uno said it was still a test subject!"

"Just take it when I tell you to! Why are you talking so much nonsense?!"

"Yes!"

The pirates answered tremblingly, not daring to disobey Rocks' order, and ran back to the cabin. After a while, they moved the only ten mortars on the ship to the deck, quickly loaded them with shells, and pointed the muzzles towards the sky.

"Bang bang bang!"

The air fleet fired a new round of artillery fire, rushing towards the sea like an overwhelming force, and the pirates below shouted one after another. Each mortar fired rows of shells continuously, like meteors across the sky, colliding with the incoming shells to form a series of explosions, dyeing half of the sky a fiery red.

"What?! How did they do that..."

The pirates of the Flying Pirates looked at all this in horror. Before they could think, a huge and surging slash shot up into the sky from the explosion, emitting a dazzling light, clearly reflecting the desperate crying faces of the pirates.

Immediately afterwards, more than twenty warships were split into two, exploded violently, and turned into gorgeous fireworks.

Rocks looked up at the few remaining warships with a smug smile on his face: "Haha! They are just a bunch of losers who rely too much on the captain's ability! Let's get rid of them all in one go!"

Just as he finished speaking, a sharp golden slash came from afar, passing through the nearby sea, with no end in sight. The turbulent waves were stirred up by the impact, and the ship of the Rocks Pirates was also shaken up and down. Fortunately, the helmsman turned the rudder in time to prevent the whole ship from being overturned.

Looking at the neat cut on the sea surface, with seawater pouring in from both sides, Rocks' face grew slightly solemn. Not to mention Newgate, even his own charged slash might not achieve this effect.

Therefore, there is no doubt that the one who delivered this blow was the man known to the world as the "Golden Lion".

"Hahaha! It's really interesting! I'm kind of attracted to him!"

Rocks smiled, and a feeling of cherishing talent emerged in his heart. He turned around and shouted to the crew members who were staggering, "The officers have started to fight the enemy! Boys, work harder! Otherwise, the treasure will be taken away by them first!"

The pirates felt dizzy for a while, but suddenly they heard the governor's call. They were all energized and rushed to set up artillery and continue firing at the enemy.

Shiki swung a sword like thunder, shaking the air with a series of thunderclaps. Seeing that he was only a few feet away, Kaido's eyes were sharp, and he quickly rose from the ground, somersaulted several times in the air, and landed steadily behind Shiki, grabbing the mace and sweeping it towards his back. Hearing the sound of wind behind him, Shiki turned his body quickly, and with lightning speed, he slashed the mace with his right sword, causing it to deviate in direction and sink a few centimeters.

While Kaido was still surprised that his attack was blocked again, Shiki launched another fast and fierce upward kick, hitting him hard in the chin, not giving him a chance to breathe. The long sword in his left hand was wrapped in a layer of dazzling golden domineering aura, and he slashed it fiercely. A vast golden shock wave spewed out, swallowing up everything in front of it with a devastating force. A towering mountain was instantly blown to ashes, and the area within a radius of five kilometers was also affected. The sound of rocks collapsing and heart-wrenching howls could be heard from afar.

Shiki turned a deaf ear to those voices and stared at the 500-meter radius hole blasted out in front of him. He was extremely proud of his masterpiece: "Hahaha! As expected of me, I'm much stronger than last time! I guess that little brat has probably already..."

He stopped mid-sentence, with a look of surprise on his face.

He saw that after the smoke and dust cleared, a young man was still standing there, with his arms crossed, his body covered in a layer of dark purple domineering aura, wisps of white smoke coming out of his muscles, and no obvious injuries on his skin.

"Phew...I can totally handle it!"

Kaido shed his domineering aura, picked up the mace at his feet and put it on his shoulder, and proudly stretched out five fingers: "I'm sorry, five seconds have passed!"

Shiqi was stunned for a moment, then he laughed instead of getting angry and licked his upper lips: "Hahaha! That's right! My desire to destroy you is even stronger!"

Standing on a huge rock, Newgate had a panoramic view of the fierce fight between the two of them. Seeing Kaido blocking the opponent's powerful attack without any pressure, he raised his eyebrows with interest.

That kid, he was so domineering when he fought me that he was not the same person! He has been training hard in recent years. In time, he will surely become a rising star in the sea.

However, it's still lacking some maturity.

"As a companion, don't you want to help him, Edward Newgate?"

Just as Newgate was amazed at Kaido's growth, a deep voice came from the side. He turned his head and saw a man standing on a protruding rock of a mountain behind him. He had his hands on his chest, his clothes fluttering, and he was wearing a mask without any expression. He exuded an indescribable sense of weirdness.

"You didn't notice it?"

Newgate was secretly frightened by the figure that suddenly appeared out of nowhere, but he said calmly, "I don't need you to teach me how to do things. Judging from your appearance, you must be a government lackey who is doing business with Skye, right?"

"Don't say it so harshly."

The man sighed, "I'm just following the orders of my superiors. To be honest, I don't want to have anything to do with criminals."

"Really? That's really hard for you."

Whitebeard clenched his naginata, his eyes sharpening, "I'm just bored, do you mind coming down and playing with me?"

"Please forgive me. I still want to live a few more years."

CP0 slowly sat cross-legged on the cliff and said calmly, "Why don't we witness the outcome of this battle? Isn't it fun to speculate on others' victory or defeat?"

Newgate snorted, ignored him, and turned his gaze to the other side.

At this time, Kaido and Shiki started fighting again. The maces and double swords kept colliding with each other. A large amount of sparks burst out, and a series of metal sounds were heard. Thick and long cracks spread wherever the two stepped.

"Hahaha! Go to hell!"

Shiki laughed wildly, and the long sword in his left hand was wrapped with golden air waves, slashing down from top to bottom. Kaido swung his mace to block the knife, but because the force on the knife was too strong, he was also knocked back a few steps. Seeing Shiki's knife coming at him again, he immediately made a quick decision, turned backwards several times, successfully opened a certain distance with the opponent, and put the mace behind his head with both hands.

"Thunder gossip!"

Kaido flashed to the front with the force of a gust of wind and lightning, and his mace swept across with a long black lightning. Shiki's eyes narrowed, realizing that this move could not be blocked head-on, and he quickly stabbed his two swords into the ground. A high earth wall immediately rose in front of him, and three lifelike lion heads appeared on the wall, staring at everything in front of them with ferocious eyes.

Kaido was slightly stunned when he saw this, but he did not reduce his attack at all. He smashed the earth wall with his electric stick. Spider-web-like cracks spread outward from the surface of the lion's head, and the entire earth wall was instantly shattered.

At this moment, Shiki leaped into the air and kicked out with his feet continuously, hitting Kaido in the face. He turned his whole body quickly and kicked Kaido away with another roundhouse kick. He hit Kaido hard against a huge rock, and the whole rock collapsed, crushing him under countless stones.

"You're quite good at it."

Kaido crawled out of the ruins, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, picked up the mace and was about to continue attacking, but he found that Shiki was everywhere, surrounding him in the core.

“This guy…!”

Kaido looked at the quickly flashing shadows, feeling confused and uncertain. He activated his Observation Haki and tried to sense the enemy's breath. He found that the enemy's real body was just in front of him on the left. He swung a stick and smashed it, but he missed. What followed was the bold laughter behind him.

"Hahahaha! You are indeed very strong! You are the most powerful young man I have ever seen!"

Kaido said nothing, and quickly swept the mace to the back, but still failed to hit the human body. At the same time, Shiki's voice came from the right: "But you are too obsessed with using Haki to strengthen your strength, which reduces your agility!"

All the shadows burst into deafening laughter that echoed all around. "The result is that your domineering aura has begun to deplete rapidly, causing your physical strength to decline significantly. Now you are gradually feeling overwhelmed, right? Hahahahaha!"

Kaido was annoyed by his laughter and yelled, "Stop talking nonsense!"

He was about to swing the mace with both hands when he suddenly felt a numbness in his legs. He fell to one knee, gasping for breath and almost fainting.

Just as Shiki said, the frequent release of large amounts of Haki has made Kaido a spent force without him realizing it.

"Full of flaws! Lion's might? Earth scroll!"

As the ground shook violently, four huge earth pillars rose from the ground and transformed into four white lions with angry eyes, like pillars supporting the sky, sweeping towards Kaido with fangs and claws. Kaido was unable to dodge and was bitten by the lions in the blink of an eye. He was pressed to the ground. The lions quickly merged into one after contacting the ground, leaving only Kaido's head and body exposed on the ground.

Countless afterimages gathered in one direction and transformed into Shiki's body. He held the long sword in his right hand behind his head and said with a smile: "Under the power of my 'Floating Fruit', you are nothing but a weak little bug!"

"Bastard!"

Kaido struggled hard, but found that his limbs were firmly fixed to the ground. He could not move at all. He could only stare at the other party with gritted teeth.

"By the way, I never asked your name..."

Shiki walked towards Kaido with a knife in both hands, and stopped in front of him. There was a trace of regret in his eyes, "But I will remember your face well."

As he spoke, he raised the long sword surrounded by golden domineering aura high up and slashed it straight towards Kaido's neck with swift speed.

In a moment, there was a flash of white light.

Just when Kaido was about to be beheaded, a figure suddenly appeared in front of him, swung his weapon to block Shiki's fatal blow, and knocked him several meters away.

"Hey, hey, hey! Are you kidding me? Why are you suddenly interfering in other people's duel?!" When Ski saw that the person who came was Newgate, who had been watching the duel until now, he was immediately furious.

Kaido was stunned for a moment when he saw this scene, and then he yelled at him: "What are you doing here?! I don't need anyone's help! Go away!"

Even though Kaido was yelling angrily, Newgate remained calm. He slightly turned his head to glance at him, raised the corner of his mouth, and pulled his crescent-shaped beard: "Gulala! Don't get me wrong, I just happened to switch shifts with you."