Chapter 314: A Lively Sea
"Roar~"
The black dragon raised its head and let out a heaven-shaking dragon roar.
The terrifying aura made the world change color—and it also changed Abel's expression.
At last, his gaze shifted.
"King-level!!"
Abel's pupils shrank, disbelief written across his face.
Buzz!
The black dragon instantly appeared before him. Black dragon flames covered its body as its claw slashed toward him. Wherever the dragon claw passed, space itself shattered inch by inch.
A force capable of shaking space surged from Abel's body, as if he were experiencing a final burst of strength before death. His muscles bulged piece by piece, and his body grew a little taller.
His arms, like those of a vajra, met the dragon claw head-on.
Boom—!!
A scorching black shockwave instantly swept across a thousand meters of sea. A layer of seawater was evaporated, and endless steam rose into the air, shrouding the entire thousand-meter stretch of ocean in white mist.
Pfft!
This dying body of Abel's was still no match for the black dragon, and he was blasted straight into the sea.
Once he entered the water, Abel calmed down. A look of relief appeared in his eyes. The hair covering his body began to shed, revealing his aged face beneath.
He slowly closed his eyes as his body sank downward.
"Roar~" The black dragon landed on the sea surface, staring into the water below and letting out another roar.
Jiang Qize appeared on the surface of the sea, looking at the place where Abel had fallen. Light flickered in his eyes.
"He didn't use his full strength because he didn't want to kill me… or has his body really reached the point of being a dying candle in the wind…"
He murmured.
He had been able to easily break through his defenses. Logically speaking, even his ribs shouldn't have been able to block it—but the fact was that he was completely unharmed.
"King-level is truly powerful. It's completely incomparable to pseudo–King-level. It seems that until I have sufficient confidence, I should focus on developing first."
Jiang Qize's gaze became sharp.
Afterward, he returned to Dragon Island.
…
Inside the base of the Deep Sea Fortress.
In a laboratory.
Vegapunk paused for a moment.
"Hm? It actually died… Looks like the target is above pseudo–King-level. What a pity. Such good material wasted."
"Well, it doesn't matter. One more or one less makes little difference."
Vegapunk shook his head and continued working. In his hand was a Devil Fruit covered with spiral patterns, and it had already been sliced open slightly.
In the first half of the Grand Line.
"Kill!"
"Hahaha! They dared attack our Silver Dragon Pirates—kill them and plunder their wealth!"
"Kill!"
On several massive ships, Capone Bege stood at the bow, looking at the two pirate ships opposite them.
The crew members of the Silver Dragon Pirates each held new-model weapons as they charged onto the two pirate ships, launching a brutal massacre.
Before long, that pirate crew had been completely slaughtered.
Then all the treasure on board was looted.
The entire sea seemed to have entered an accelerated era.
The appearance of four great pirates—Red the Aloof and Bullet among them—made the seas even more turbulent.
Red the Aloof, who had once roamed alone, had now formed a new pirate crew together with Bullet. It was a powerful alliance. Along with the pirates they brought out from Impel Down, they had instantly become a pirate crew possessing Emperor-level strength.
Any pirate who had been imprisoned in Impel Down was not weak; their strength was certainly greater than that of ordinary Marine soldiers.
Meanwhile, the giant battleship Sanjuan Wolf and Bundy Waldo formed the Saint-Bond Pirates. Sanjuan Wolf served as the vice captain, since his head intelligence had some issues.
They too had brought out a group of pirates. With the two of them combined, they possessed the strength of a large pirate crew—though they were still a bit short of Emperor-level.
However, that didn't affect their ability to compete for dominance in the New World.
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