Pirates: Beginning with the Patrolman

"What happened to you just now? Why did you suddenly stop moving?"

Weiwei asked curiously.

"Seastone, that's the key. She pressed it against my leg and I lost all my strength."

Nami pointed at the key on the ground and said with lingering fear.

"Is this seastone?"

Vivi reached out and picked up the key. She was not a devil fruit user and could not touch seastone at will.

Of course she knew about the existence of seastone. After all, she was the princess of a superpower, so she had some knowledge. There was even seastone in the royal court, but the quantity was too rare, and Weiwei had not been interested in these things before, so she had not come into contact with them much.

"Isn't that woman a devil fruit user? Why can she touch me?"

Weiwei took the key in her hand, playing with it over and over again, and asked curiously.

"She was wearing a pair of leather gloves... Really, I guess I can't wear short skirts anymore, or I'll be in trouble if I get touched by seastone again."

Fortunately, the dark-skinned woman did not intend to make things difficult for her, otherwise, she would have been killed directly in the moment of losing her strength and ability.

After today's experience, Nami will probably become cautious for a long time in the future.

"By the way, Remus..."

Nami suddenly remembered that Remos's opponent was a natural ability user, "Weiwei, take the key, let's go help Remos."

If we can use this key to control Crocodile, then the rest of the things will be much easier.

Vivi nodded, clenched her fist, held the key tightly in her palm, and then followed Nami downstairs.

Outside, the battle between Remos and Crocodile has reached a fever pitch.

"Desert Diamond Sword!"

Four more sand blades shot towards Remos.

Remos changed directions continuously and easily avoided these attacks.

Crocodile suddenly leaned over and pressed his hands to the ground.

"Desert Greatsword!"

The next second, a huge sword made entirely of sand suddenly emerged from the crevice of the rock, with the tip of the sword pointing directly at Remos' chest.

Remos was unable to dodge and was pierced through the body by the greatsword.

But almost at the same second he was pierced, a bullet shot towards Crocodile from the other side.

Crocodile remained in elemental form at all times, and the bullet pierced through his body without causing any damage.

At this point in the battle, Crocodile has also witnessed how difficult it is to deal with a gunman who can create phantoms at will.

If he just looked with his eyes, he couldn't tell which one was the real Remos.

So he had already used his Observation Haki.

However, the ability of the Illusion Fruit is such that it can even deceive Observation Haki to a certain extent. At least in the perception of Observation Haki, there is no difference between the illusion created by the Illusion Fruit and Remos's real body. Therefore, Crocodile can either use a large-scale attack to include all real and fake bodies within the attack range, or carry out indiscriminate attacks.

Or, like now, identify one of the targets and attack, while being prepared to transform into an element to dodge bullets at any time.

The passive ability of elementalization can indeed automatically ignore almost all physical attacks that do not contain armament color domineering, but this situation also has its limits, or in other words, special circumstances.

For example, in the original work, Luffy knocked down Ace and Smoker, and in the Sky Island arc, Luffy hit Enelu without using any Haki at all, so it is certain that the passive elementalization of the nature system is not omnipotent.

Therefore, people with natural abilities usually exercise extra caution when fighting to avoid unexpected disasters.

Of course, having elementalization is always better than having nothing. In this regard, people with natural abilities have already won hugely.

Crocodile's problem now is that he can sense that Remos does not have Armament Haki, but Remos' attack really gives him a very dangerous feeling, so that he dare not try whether passive elementalization can completely ignore the opponent's attack. He can only continue to maintain active elementalization.

Active elementalization and large-scale attacks consume a lot of physical strength.

After fighting for so long, both of them have destroyed several surrounding blocks, and even Crocodile is almost overwhelmed.

"You're jumping around like a flea, you're annoying me, Sea Patrolman! You've completely pissed me off!"

Crocodile roared, and a tornado-shaped sandstorm swept around him. The sand forced Remos to come out of his "invisible" state.

"I thought you were angry from the beginning."

Remus said breathlessly.

In terms of physical exertion, he is no worse than Crocodile.

Faced with the overwhelming sand attack, he needs more physical strength to dodge and counterattack, and he also needs to constantly create illusions to confuse the opponent. Because he has not successfully hit Crocodile so far, the conditions for brain projection cannot be met for the time being.

"You are so sharp-tongued, little brat. I am tired of fighting like this. This time, let me send you on your way."

Crocodile stood in the sandstorm, looked at Remos coldly, suddenly squatted down, and pressed his right hand hard on the ground.

“Erosion——Reincarnation!!”

This is an ultra-large-range attack unique to the nature system.

The ground that Crocodile touched with his right hand began to crack at a speed visible to the naked eye, and all the objects around it were drained of moisture at the same speed, even the stones.

Objects that have been completely drained of all water will be shattered into sand in an instant. Under Crocodile's control, the sand becomes even more terrifying, forming an unprecedented super sandstorm that spreads violently around.

Remos' pupils shrank slightly, he flew into the air briefly, hugged himself into a ball, and welcomed the arrival of the sandstorm.

If you look from a distance, in front of the Yuyan Building, a huge sand ball suddenly appears, rotating at high speed. Everything inside the sand ball is invisible, and the place has completely turned into a field of yellow sand.

In the field, Remos was blown away by the yellow sand and his back hit a wall hard before he stopped.

The violent impact almost made him vomit blood, but before he could catch his breath, a sand blade pierced his body.

Crocodile had appeared in front of him without him knowing.

"You can't get away this time, Sea Ranger."

He said with a grim smile.

Remos also laughed. He opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of blood on Crocodile's arm. Then he reached out and grabbed the other's arm.

"You're wrong, Crocodile. You're the one who can't escape."

Almost at the moment the words fell, the gun in his right hand rang out, and a bullet accurately hit Crocodile's chest, splashing a flower of blood.