One Piece: Transmigrated as Crocodile

Chapter 382 CHAPTER 383 - Three-Way Struggle, Dark-Dark Ability, Escalation

Everyone except his own people was an enemy. Hathaway had recovered and intercepted Admiral Kizaru with a single sword stroke. She seemed slightly inferior to Kizaru, though their level of power was roughly comparable.

But Kizaru had been at the Admiral level for many years. His subtle control and depth of power were a bit greater than Hathaway's. Plus, Hathaway had just unleashed her full power moments ago. She was actually forced back a step.

"Captain, I'll help you." Enel released lightning from his body, ready to strike, but Hathaway stopped him.

"Go help the Captain! Intercept him. I alone am enough." This wasn't bravado, but confidence. Her words made Kizaru very uncomfortable.

The captain, Crocodile, being a threat to him was one thing. But now even a subordinate dared to look down on him like this?

"Then let this old man see." Kizaru moved instantly, closing the distance. His light sword, carrying immense force, swept through the air like a light arc. With a clang, it struck the Sun Blade. At the moment of contact, a photonic explosion erupted violently. The blast wave of light engulfed both of them.

Kizaru was angry, disregarding that he was within the photonic explosion. Of course, it caused him no harm. But this kind of attack was an indiscriminate area-of-effect move, and some Marines were caught in it.

"Armament, Gaseous Defense!" Hathaway released her Haki wildly, forming a defensive shield like an energy barrier half a meter away from her body. This was a Haki form she had developed through enhanced training of external Haki release.

Her Haki extended from her body, condensed at a certain distance, layered multiple times. Even if the outermost layer of Armament Haki was breached, the next layer still had defensive Haki. This way, layer by layer weakening, even an extremely powerful attack would become very weak by the time it reached her.

Sure enough, when the photonic explosion engulfed and destroyed several layers of her defense, Hathaway swung her sword upward. A crimson sword beam shot out, slicing the explosion before her in two.

"This?!" Kizaru was very surprised. This woman had grown so strong? In Lantis, she struggled even to deal with his attacks. Now she could slice through his attack head-on.

Are young people these days this terrifying?

"What powerful sword energy!" Hawkeye, somewhere on the battlefield, turned to look. Earlier, he had sensed an astonishingly skilled swordsman on this battlefield, a pure swordsman at that. But the distance was too great then, and he hadn't pinpointed the location.

But now it wasn't far. He sensed it immediately: "It's her."

"Crocodile, do you realize what you've done?" Garp threw a punch at Rosen, but Enel intercepted it. After blocking two of Garp's punches, Enel was sent flying.

Meanwhile, Rosen blocked Blackbeard. Blackbeard's subordinates clashed with the Marine Vice Admirals, Daz Bones, and the others in a chaotic melee. Robin provided cover for Rosen.

When Enel's lightning was shattered by Garp's iron fist, Robin stepped up. Garp was slightly taken aback. He had heard of Nico Robin and knew Aokiji's stance regarding her. But was she suicidal? Daring to block his attack like this.

Thud! Thoughts aside, Garp's fist was already thrown, solidly striking Robin. In that instant, Robin demonized, but even so, she was still blasted back a distance.

"The Marine Hero, Garp!" Robin's expression was grave. Even with her power increased so dramatically, she couldn't take his punch head-on. He was too strong.

Robin almost forgot: for her, this level of performance was already earth-shattering. Not long ago, she didn't even have the courage to fight an Admiral.

But now, she could unhesitatingly confront a legend among the Marines. This was something she never imagined in her entire life.

It wasn't just strength; her mentality had also changed.

"Strange, this ability of yours..." Garp was puzzled. He felt there were too many secrets about Nico Robin.

According to intelligence, she wasn't a combatant. Yet after taking his punch, she didn't immediately fall. Even though he hadn't used his full strength, that punch could easily knock out an ordinary Vice Admiral.

"Bastard! Get out of my way!" Blackbeard roared, his palm smoking with black mist. "Dark Vortex!" Rosen could feel an irresistible gravitational pull dragging him.

If he remembered correctly, once caught by it, his Devil Fruit abilities would be nullified. That would severely limit his strength.

"Armament." Rosen sheathed himself in Haki. The pulling force weakened considerably, though not completely eliminated. He was still being drawn towards Blackbeard.

It truly was a troublesome ability, as if specifically designed to counter ability users. Experiencing it firsthand, he realized just how formidable this ability was.

Because in this world, too many strong individuals relied on abilities to grow. Only a minority could reach the pinnacle of power through their own strength.

"Black Prison Desolation Bullet!" Rosen raised his hand, firing a barrage of attacks.

"Dark Matter!" Blackbeard's other palm struck out. Black mist surged wildly, covering most of the sky. The Black Prison Desolation Bullets plunged into the black mist, vanishing without a trace.

"Liberation!" Behind Blackbeard, a spiral of black mist erupted. Then, the attacks Rosen had launched were released from the black mist, flying back towards him.

"Sand Domain." Rosen stomped his foot, unleashing his full power. Within a ten-kilometer radius, the area instantly transformed into a desert. He used his Awakening directly. Against an opponent of the same level with such a troublesome ability, holding back was unnecessary.

"Fall!" The sand grains borrowed to attack him suddenly lost their momentum just before hitting Rosen, being absorbed and assimilated by the desert ground.

"Try this too!" Blackbeard's face was extremely grim. His Dark Matter had absorbed more than just the attack; it had also taken in countless weapons, corpses, and rocks from the ground.

Instantly compressed, then rapidly released. With a boom, a dense barrage of weapons, corpses, and rocks shot from the black mist at high speed, each with force and speed comparable to cannon fire.

"Sandstorm." Rosen's expression didn't change. Holding back Blackbeard wasn't difficult for him. In his palm, a tornado sandstorm churned. He threw it, and the moment it touched the ground, the entire desert began to swirl.

A terrifying sand tornado over a kilometer in diameter engulfed Blackbeard.

"Captain, I'll help you!" From within the sandstorm, a tall, muscular figure leaped out, charging at Rosen. Meanwhile, Blackbeard in the sandstorm seized the chance to disengage.

Blackbeard's goal was never to defeat Rosen; it was to obtain the Tremor-Tremor Fruit ability.

"Burgess, is it?" Rosen glanced, moving with Lightning Shadow to dodge Burgess's Shockwave Fist. Then, crouching slightly, his Armament Haki-clad fist struck Burgess directly, shattering bones and sending him flying.

He wouldn't die, but after being sent flying that distance, it would take time for him to attack again. Rosen paid him no further attention.

Burgess was strong, but under Rosen's extreme perception and movement, he could only take the hit. However, his physique was formidable; killing him with one strike wasn't enough, as they both understood Armament Haki.

Of course, Rosen wasn't trying to kill him either.

Lightning Shadow.

Rosen's figure appeared before Blackbeard again. Blackbeard nearly lost it: "You persistent bastard! I'll kill you!"

Blackbeard was furious, about to throw a full-power punch. But at the moment of release, he suddenly leaped high into the air. Rosen glanced, puzzled. Foolish? A powerful fighter who couldn't fly or had no aerial combat ability leaping into the air would become nothing but a target.

"Black Prison Desolation Bullet, Convergence, Pulverize!" Rosen spread his hands. Over a hundred Black Prison Desolation Bullets materialized around him. Then, under precise control, they converged into a single massive grain of sand, or rather, a sand sphere.

About the size of a soccer ball, this black sphere spun rapidly in Rosen's hand, swirling nearby sand. The speed was so great that arcs of electricity from friction constantly swept across its surface.

"Let this old man be your opponent. It's been so long, have you missed me? Let's see how much you've grown over the years." Avalo Pizarro actually abandoned his own opponent at that moment. He took a combined blow from a Vice Admiral and Daz Bones, sustaining significant injury, but still turned to buy time for Blackbeard.

After all, if the plan failed, things would get troublesome later.

He charged like a beast, his entire body clad in Haki, heat emanating from him. He closed in on Rosen instantly, both hands grabbing, pressing down on Rosen's shoulders.

"So close? Tired of living?" Rosen's icy voice rang out.

"A brat who once spent time on my ship is now this arrogant, huh? Hahaha... Let me tear you in half nicely." Avalo Pizarro laughed maniacally.

(End of Chapter)

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