A new world, a certain sky island.
Sky islands don't only exist above Gaya Island; they exist all over the world, with varying sizes. Some small sky islands can even move around like spaceships under human control.
Some sky islands are closely connected, while others are isolated from the world. Like the islands on the Grand Line, the sky islands also exhibit different levels of technological advancement due to their unique environment.
But regardless of which sky island it is, their cultural levels are similar. For example, the people of the sky islands all choose white wings as decorations.
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Yes, Sky Islanders don't have wings; the white wings on their backs are merely decorations, just like the hair clips worn by Blue Ocean People.
The reason why people with similar cultures but different levels of technological development are something that archaeologists will have to figure out.
The sky islands also have vast uninhabited areas, and Leliana is currently taking a break on one of these sky islands.
Fingernails are more convenient than knives; they easily pried open the hard shells of the fruit on the floating island, revealing the sweet flesh inside.
However, at this moment, Lyliana suddenly noticed something was wrong. She looked at the white cloud beside her and reached out to grab the greatsword that had been standing next to her.
The nature of the cloud sea is basically similar to that of the ocean. It contains air fish and can render any ability user who falls into it powerless.
However, the sea of clouds is not like a regular ocean with its waves; it is generally relatively calm.
But now, the sea of clouds that Leliana could see began to boil as if it had been scalded.
Below the sea of clouds, a crimson light grew brighter and brighter. Various shapes of sky fish in the sky began to flee into the distance. At this moment, a crimson ray of light shattered the sea of clouds, creating a large hole in it.
Through the cave entrance, one can even see the azure sea below, and a giant blue dragon soaring upwards on fiery clouds.
Unlike the imposter Gameneo, the one who flew up now is Kaido himself, and the red beam of light is the result of his heat breath.
"Hehehe, I sensed the aura of a powerful being here. Looks like I'm lucky; I've found the right place."
Kaido could have chosen to take a slightly longer route from another direction, but he opted to use his heat breath to break through the sea of clouds and then appear directly in front of Lyriana.
There's no other reason; it's just that this kind of entrance is cooler.
He did this kind of thing quite often in the original timeline. For example, when Kidd and Hawkins allied with Apoo, Kaido used island-hopping to get to them.
It's very difficult to land precisely in one place after leaping from a great height, and Kaido's perfectly timed action likely involved adjusting his direction mid-air.
"Are you looking for me?"
"Yeah, our abilities are quite similar. When I get bored wandering around the New World, I like to rest around here. I guess I made the right bet this time, hehehe!"
Kaido is very quick-witted; he can use both tricks and strategies. He even knows when to finish off an opponent when they are low on health.
However, most of the time, he would actively seal such things away.
Instead of racking your brains over these things, it's better to just go straight for the Thunderous Gossip. There are very few things that can make him think.
He didn't know where Leliana would appear, but it was easy to lure her out: find a place run by Oran and cause trouble. There was an 80% chance he would encounter Leliana to resolve the problem.
That's not the situation Kaido wants to see.
Firstly, he didn't intend to directly break ties with the other party, and secondly, doing so would mean facing more than one enemy. Although he wasn't afraid of fighting, his current goal was very clear.
Finally, considering Leriana's previous locations and his own habits, Kaido thought she might be resting here, so he came to try his luck.
As he spoke, Kaido's figure gradually shrank, and when he returned to human form, his arm reached for his waist.
Whoosh!
With a whooshing sound, a dark figure was thrown towards Lyliana.
bump!
With a muffled thud, the dark figure was caught firmly in Lyliana's hands. Kaido had just tossed away a jar stained with Haki, the large character for "wine" on it clearly indicating what was inside.
However, without some skill, it wouldn't be easy to take on this wine jar.
"Gamenio is dead. I heard it was your sister who did it."
"Oh, right? Sister Fran did take down a nasty guy. He got himself killed and had no one else to blame but himself. I remember that Gamenio defected from Whitebeard and joined your crew, didn't he?"
So, it seems you're here to seek revenge for him?
"No, he was too weak. It's inevitable that he died at someone else's hands. People always die in battle. But as the governor of the Beasts Pirates, I can't just do nothing."
I've been interested in you ever since you fought that guy Whitebeard, so I just want to fight you, nothing more.
It's neither revenge nor a business deal, and it has nothing to do with my idiot daughter.
Kaido had no intention of overturning the table. Compared to Zoan-type Devil Fruits, it was obviously easier to purchase potions. If he overturned the table now, his Zoan-type army would be gone.
As for Yamato's whereabouts, although she is currently fighting in the Foreign Legion and hasn't attracted much attention from Kaido, upon calm reflection, Kaido shouldn't be completely clueless.
Although Onigashima's defenses are practically non-existent, it wouldn't be easy for Yamato to sneak out without outside help.
Yamato's eventual success with Kaido shows she has some ability; successfully borrowing the power of others is also part of her strength.
Of course, he meant that the fight had nothing to do with this matter, and if he had the chance to run into Yamato in the future, he would probably let her know what "fatherly love" is, the deadly kind.
"A mere battle maniac?"
"Battle maniac? That's not entirely wrong, but combat is the fundamental factor that determines a person's value. Of course you can refuse, but I won't listen."
"We've gone to so much trouble to find you, we can't just leave without a fight."
"That's quite direct. Speaking of which, you're the only one missing from becoming the Emperor of the Sea these days."
Even if it wasn't a formal battle, Lyriana and Charlotte Linlin had some minor conflicts with Whitebeard. Restraining Charlotte Linlin when she was having a food craving episode was quite an achievement.
Lyriana isn't as warlike as Kaido, but becoming the world's strongest is still a small goal for her. However, there are limits to simply practicing; to truly grow, she needs real combat experience.
Kaido and her abilities are extremely similar, which means that their fighting styles will be very similar, making such an opponent very effective in improving one's strength.
Kaido himself shared the same idea, otherwise he wouldn't have been so obsessed with this battle.
"But I don't drink!"
Leliana weighed the wine jar in her hand and returned it to Kaido in the same way.
Humans are learning animals. Oran, who neither smokes nor drinks, instilled the same habits in Leliana. Her own strength and the power behind her meant she didn't need to give face to anyone. She wasn't very interested in fruit wine, let alone such a strong liquor.
"That's a real shame."
At this moment, the roles of the two seemed to have reversed. Feeling the force of the thrown wine jar and the domineering aura attached to it, Kaido felt his heart beating faster.
Even without a direct confrontation, the feedback from Kaido already made him realize that this battle would be anything but boring.
After opening the wine jar, Kaido tilted his head back and drank without any hesitation.
"Glug... Glug... This is a rare and fine wine. It wouldn't be good to waste it. Today is a happy day... Hiccup... Hahahaha!"
Because of the unique properties of the island cloud jar, it did not shatter upon falling to the ground. Instead, it rolled around on the island cloud, with a little residual wine still leaking from the mouth of the jar, indicating that not much had been consumed.
However, Kaido's steps became unsteady, like a drunkard, swaying back and forth on the sky island, and even his laughter changed.
"Wow, the ground here is so soft, just like cotton."
Kaido even tripped over his own feet with his left foot, staggering and falling to the ground, but no matter how much he swayed, he didn't let go of his spiked club.
"Are you kidding me?"
"How could that be? People get drunk after drinking alcohol. This is a sign of my approval. I wouldn't act like this against an ordinary opponent right away, hiccup~ hahaha."
"That's not what I meant. I meant, are you pretending to be drunk here because you think I'm stupid?"
His steps were chaotic yet orderly, his movements elusive yet without losing power, and most importantly, Lyliana could sense that his opponent's domineering aura was gathering.
He may appear to be full of openings, but he is actually a hedgehog covered in thorns. If you think that Kaido is completely unguarded right now, you would be sorely mistaken.
Pink scales appeared on Lyliana's body. With her reputation established, there was no need for further probing. Therefore, she immediately switched to her dragon form, gripping her greatsword tightly and unleashing a horizontal slash.
"Hahaha. Hehehe! You noticed it right away? That's more like it, it wasn't for nothing that I went straight for it!"
Kaido leaned back, almost lying down, to dodge Lyriana's sword strike. When he straightened up again, blue scales covered his body, and his body had swelled up twice its size.
Two tall dragon-men, one in blue and one in pink, stood facing each other on the sky island.
"Hehehe! It's my turn. Wine Dragon Gossip."
Snap! Boom!
As Kaido spun his spiked club with both hands, several streams of electricity seemed to be drawn to it, and the clouds in the higher sky seemed to become extremely gloomy at this moment. The power of lightning was drawn to Kaido's weapon and slashed forward with him.
"Drunken Thunder - Naraku!"
boom!
A domineering aura and thunderous force swirled together, crashing down with unstoppable power.
Unlike Whitebeard, who started taking medication in middle age, Kaido is 43 years old this year, and is at the peak of his life.
Born in the Kingdom of Woka, he became the kingdom's strongest soldier at the age of 10. When he was 13, the King of Woka betrayed Kaido to the Navy in order to gain the right to participate in the World Conference, which led to Kaido's defection. His first bounty decades ago reached 70 million Berries.
Whenever he was hungry, he would deliberately allow himself to be captured by the navy, have a big meal on the prison ship, and then escape.
At the age of 15, Kaido was recruited by Rocks on Beehive Island and became an apprentice of the Rocks Pirates. Over the course of six years, Kaido grew stronger in that monster's den and obtained the Fish-Fish Fruit, Mythical Zoan type, Azure Dragon form, as a gift from Charlotte Linlin in God Valley.
From a trainee to the current governor of the Beasts Pirates, the strongest creature, Kaido of the Beasts, Kaido's life has never lacked battles.
Even if they haven't reached the pinnacle yet, what they lack is the ability to fight against top-tier experts.
Even today, Kaido still occasionally goes out to wander around, fights with those strong individuals, gets defeated, or is captured. Such things happen occasionally, yet Kaido remains alive.
The most noticeable scar on his body is the cross-shaped scar left by Kozuki Oden.
"Lightning Slash!"
The same imposing aura and lightning, no less than Kaido's, enveloped the greatsword as it was swung directly at Kaido's spiked club.
boom!
The two enormous weapons collided, instantly unleashing a surge of lightning and a fierce wind. A massive shockwave swept outwards, tearing apart the island clouds and sea clouds above the sky island.
Far away from here, on the other side of the sky island, a group of people dressed as ascetics are walking.
They are ascetic monks from the Sky Islands who traverse different areas of the Sky Islands on foot every year to complete their ascetic practices.
Because of their altitude, the Sky Islands have a different level of strength than the Azure Sea. The Sky Islands in the New World are not much different in strength from the Sky Islands in the first half of the Paradise, and there is not much fighting between them.
But now these people have all stopped moving forward.
The terrifying aura ahead made the ascetics hesitant to move forward. The raging lightning in the sky was visible to the naked eye, and both the roar of the lightning and the collision of murderous auras told them that danger was imminent.
This was only the first clash between Kaido and Lyriana. At this moment, the one that couldn't withstand it first was even the island cloud beneath their feet.
The aftershocks from the weapon collision cut through the clouds like swords, slicing a crack in the thick island cloud and ultimately splitting it in two.
At this very moment, on an island in the Qinghai Lake below, where people dress in a style similar to that of Native Americans, a group of people kneel down around a tribal totem.
They had no idea what was happening in the sky, only that after a thunderous roar in the clear sky, the weather suddenly turned gloomy, and then the clouds were torn apart, revealing two dragon-headed black shadows, each a thousand meters tall, fighting each other in the sky as if they were about to destroy the world.
However, the scene in the sky was quite different. After the sky island was torn apart, Lyliana and Kaido each occupied one side of the island, but Kaido was lying on the island, looking extremely sad.
"What a pity, such an outstanding daughter belongs to someone else. This world is so unfair."
At this moment, Kaido seemed to be genuinely moved, tears streaming down his face, and he appeared to have no fighting spirit whatsoever.
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