Pirates, Start with the vampire fruit and rescue the empress

The first half of the Grand Line.

Thousands of meters above the cloud-shrouded sky, Sephiroth flapped the black wings behind his back and galloped through the air, passing through heavy clouds and mist, dragging a straight path of clouds towards the direction pointed by the life card in his hand. .

The Umbrella Company sent specialized personnel, and after more than a month of searching, they finally found the location of Golden Lion Shiji.

The life card in Sephiroth’s hand was the life card of the company employee who went to conduct the search.

As long as the employee stays near Golden Lion Shiji’s base camp, he can indirectly find Golden Lion Shiji’s location through the guidance of the life card.

After a long time, Sephiroth set off from the Water Capital. After traveling thousands of kilometers in the sky, he finally saw more than a dozen floating islands floating in the sky… Merveille Island!

Sephiroth had no intention of searching these islands one by one. He directly activated his Haki of Wisdom and Information with all his strength, covering a radius of twenty kilometers.

Soon, he noticed a powerful aura on the top floor of a red palace built on a large floating island in the center of these floating islands.

So, he immediately rushed towards the palace.

When Sephiroth arrived near the attic on the top floor of the palace, he flapped his wings and suspended his body in mid-air.

Immediately, he looked at the blond old man sitting in the attic drinking wine not far away.

“You are the Golden Lion Shiji, right…?”

“That’s right! It’s me!”

Golden Lion Shiji put down the wine bottle in his hand, and used the ability of the Piao Piao Fruit to control his body to float in the air.

“Boy, tell me your name!”

“Karl D. Sephiroth.”

“Huh!? I seem to have heard your name somewhere…”

Hearing this, Golden Lion Shiji raised his right hand and scratched his head, with a look of reminiscence on his face.

However, he seemed to be getting older recently and often forgot things. He couldn’t remember where he had heard this name.

“Forget it! I can’t remember…

Hello! You suddenly broke into my territory, what do you want? ”

“I’m here to pay!” Sephiroth said coldly.

“I want an account, what account do I want?”

Hearing this, Golden Lion Shiji couldn’t help showing a puzzled expression on his face.

He had done so many bad things in the past that he really couldn’t remember what the other party wanted from him…

“Some time ago, you robbed and killed the Umbrella Company’s merchant ship. You should still remember this, right?” Sephiroth reminded.

“Jie hahahaha -!

So that’s what happened… Then how do you want to collect the bill?”

Hearing this, a playful smile appeared on Golden Lion Shiji’s face. He was ready to let the guy in front of him feel the cruelty of a real pirate.

At the same time, an evil smile appeared on Sephiroth’s face, and he said in an extremely cold voice:

“Of course… I’ll kill you!”

As he spoke, Sephiroth stretched out his left hand and pressed it on the handle of the Dark Flame Sword.

Uh-oh!

The fiery red long sword suddenly came out of its sheath, and with a flash of orange fire, a flaming sword energy slash was fired at the blond old man in front of him.

“Lion·Senkiriya!”

Uh-huh! Uh-huh! Uh-huh! …

The golden lion Shiji repeatedly swung the long swords on his legs, and dozens or hundreds of golden sword energy slashes immediately flew out from the sword tip to meet the flame slashes.

boom-!

The moment the sword energy of both sides collided with each other, the flaming sword energy exploded instantly. The strong air shock wave swallowed up all the golden sword energy slashes and directly ignited the attic of the palace behind Golden Lion Shiji.

Golden Lion Shiji turned his head and glanced at the attic that was completely ignited by flames from behind. He said angrily:

“You brat! You actually set fire to someone else’s house. You are really hateful!”

“Ha! You and each other, you’re not bad at robbing and killing!”

Sephiroth sneered again and again, and raised the Dark Flame Sword in his hand again. The endless orange-red flames spurted out from the blade, quickly forming a thousand-meter-long flame dragon, looking down at the golden lion Shiji below. , and the Red Palace.

“If you can’t take this move, your family will be gone…Watch the move!”

As Sephiroth swung the long knife in his hand, the flame dragon flying in the air immediately let out a high-pitched dragon roar and dived down towards the golden lion Shiji.

“asshole!”

Seeing this scene, Golden Lion Shiji couldn’t help but curse in a low voice. He grabbed it out of the air with his right hand, and a rumble sounded immediately from the ground. The earth trembled and the soil surged up.

lion power ground

roll!

A thick earth wall hundreds of meters high, with several lion heads carved on it, rose instantly, blocking the direction of the fire dragon’s advance.

Boom-!

When the extremely hot high-temperature fire dragon hit the thick earth wall, it immediately caused a violent explosion. The lion’s head on the wall shattered, earth splashed everywhere, and billowing smoke and dust filled the air.

Fortunately, even though the earthen wall in front of the Golden Lion was already cracked, under his exhaustive collective control, he was able to block the blow and prevent the palace behind him from being destroyed.

“Is the penetration a little worse?”

Sephiroth whispered softly, while flapping the black wings on his back, quickly rising to his altitude.

“Take another move from me… Explosive Flame Slash!”

As he spoke, Sephiroth held the hilt of Mingyan’s knife with both hands, and a powerful momentum and sense of oppression suddenly burst out from his body, like the arrival of a terrifying demon.

Immediately, on the orange-red blade, there was a solid flame beam with a diameter of more than one meter, rising into the sky, straight into the clouds, and a thousand meters long.

Buzz-!

Sephiroth waved the long knife in his hand with all his strength, driving the blazing rainbow of fire straight down, aiming at the golden lion Shiji and the red palace behind him.

“Damn it! It’s never over…”

Golden Lion Shiji’s face was distorted and he cursed loudly.

At this moment, the anger in his heart kept boiling, and he wanted to tear this young man who only thought about demolishing his house into pieces!

Seeing the flaming rainbow coming from the sky, Golden Lion Shiji felt the extraordinary destructive power from this move. He was really not sure that he would be able to follow through.

Moreover, even if he didn’t dodge this move, he estimated that the next move, the next move, Sephiroth, the bastard, would definitely continue to attack the palace behind him.

Therefore, Golden Lion Shiji quickly made a decision in his heart. Instead of continuing to fight with his hands tied, it would be better to go with the flow…

In this way, he can go all out and resolve this battle quickly!

Thinking of this, Golden Lion Shiji could only reluctantly choose to retreat and fly towards the inner sea of ​​the island in the distance.

Rumble-!

The ground trembled violently, and fire shot into the sky.

Without the obstruction of the golden lion Shiji, the flame rainbow fell down without any hindrance, cutting the ground of the island all the way, causing a series of violent explosions that spread on the ground in the distance and in the red palace. Come, a huge ravine with a diameter of two to three hundred meters was blasted, which was almost deep enough to penetrate the entire island!

The golden lion hurriedly glanced back and saw that the magnificent palace that he had spent several years building had been split open by Sephiroth from the middle, exploded to pieces, and turned into a flaming ruin.

The entire red-roofed palace was relatively well-preserved except for the burning buildings on the periphery. All the buildings in the central area were directly blown to pieces!

In that palace, in addition to some of his insignificant minions, there is also the laboratory of Dr. Indigo and IQ drugs, and the latter is an important part of his plan to achieve world domination…

Now, all these are gone, and the plan he has been preparing for many years has completely come to nothing!

He never expected that this move would cause such a big loss!

“You bastard! I will definitely kill you!!!”

Lion chops!

Golden Lion Shiji roared angrily, and a thousand-meter-long golden sword strike flew out from his right sword and cut a corner of the inland sea of ​​his island.

Immediately afterwards, a surprising scene appeared. The sea water that was cut open by the golden lion with golden sword energy did not fall from the sky. Instead, it quickly condensed into a huge and ferocious water lion, covering it with lightning speed. With the momentum of his ears, he rushed straight towards the young man high in the sky at full speed.

Lion Power·Royal Palace Scroll!

Seeing this scene, Sephiroth suddenly raised his eyebrows. He instantly gave up the idea of ​​continuing to play cat and mouse, and placed his right hand directly on the handle of the butcher knife, preparing to use his true skills.

Although Golden Lion Shiji is old and frail, and the rudder of the ship is inserted into his head, his strength is not as good as before.

but……

A skinny camel is bigger than a horse. If you underestimate the enemy too much, Sephiroth may overturn.

For example, he turned into a water lion in front of him and came to the sea water to bite him!

No matter how powerful he is, once he is completely submerged and wrapped in the sea water, he will still fall into a state of powerlessness.

By then, he will become a piece of fish on the chopping board of Golden Lion Shiji and can only be slaughtered by him!

In Sephiroth’s

In the foreseeable future, the sea lion controlled by Shiji, the golden lion, was ready to split into ten pieces and continue to bite him from different directions.

If he just uses attacks to scatter the huge sea water lion in front of him, then the golden lion Shiji will control the scattered sea water, condense into more water lions, and bite him. Once he is submerged by the sea water, Then he will lose directly.

Therefore, he cannot directly attack this move, nor can he dodge it!

If he dodges, Golden Lion Shiji will split the huge water lion in front of him into ten water lions, completely blocking his retreat from all directions!

In this situation, if it were an ordinary Devil Fruit user, he would basically be able to just surrender and capture him.

but……

Golden Lion Shiji’s current opponent is Sephiroth!

Since you can’t attack directly or dodge, just deflect the attack…

Once upon a time, Sephiroth had been thinking about how he could use the Gate Fruit ability to deflect all attacks coming from the enemy.

Even if he evolved from the original need to open the door through direct contact with the butcher knife to the point where he could also open the door with sword energy, he still couldn’t do this.

The door of the Door Door Fruit is a conceptual door. In normal space, there is no concept of thickness. The door connects to the world inside the door.

Whether it is a folding door, a sliding door, a revolving door, or a wormhole door, they all need to open the door at the front end of the force. It is impossible to open the door in the opposite direction at the front end of the force, contrary to the direction of the force.

In this way, Sephiroth would not be able to open a space door in front of his body that he could not see but the enemy could see, and divert the attack away while violating the direction of the force.

To this end, Sephiroth studied hard for a long time before he came up with a different approach.

Since the door can only open in the direction of its own force, can he make his sword energy attack change direction and turn…?

The answer is yes!

He had already accomplished this a long time ago when he used sound waves to change the trajectory of bullets!

However, unlike bullets, using sound waves to reverse the sword energy requires extremely high timing and swordsmanship.

Therefore, after working towards this idea for many years, he finally created a move…

“Secret Sword Yan Hui!”

Sephiroth shouted loudly first, and an invisible sound wave instantly spread in all directions, and then he pulled out the butcher knife from his waist with his right hand.

Swish-! Swish-! Swish-!

Three crimson sword-qi slashes that were more than a hundred meters long burst out from the blade. Under the influence of invisible sound waves, these three sword-qi slashes meandered for a distance and then started to fly. He made a roundabout turn and rushed in front of Sephiroth at a speed faster than that of a water lion.

Click -!

Immediately afterwards, a huge space door opened an undetectable gap in the front that Sephiroth could not see.

“!?”

Under the stunned gaze of Golden Lion Shiji, the sea lion he controlled directly opened the space door and rushed in.

Before he could react, a space door suddenly opened from behind him, and the giant sea lion pounced towards him under the influence of inertia.

However……

However, he tried his best to control the sea lion, trying to stop its momentum.

but……

The power he poured into the attack was too huge, and he couldn’t take it all back at once!

next moment.

boom!

The huge water lion carrying a terrifying impact hit the golden lion Shiji hard, causing him to fall downwards.

The moment he was completely submerged by the sea water, Golden Lion Shiji fell into a state of weakness, and the islands that relied on his Piao Piao Fruit ability to stay afloat lost their support and began to move toward them. Falling onto the sea surface.

“This is really a fatal mistake! Golden Lion Shiji…”

Sephiroth looked at the old man who was soaked in the sea water and was being carried down. He couldn’t help shaking his head and sighing.

No matter how strong a Devil Fruit user is, once the person’s body is immersed in sea water, the water will instantly suppress the user’s physical strength, leaving them in a weak and powerless state.

Now the golden lion Shiji has no power to resist and can only let him slaughter him!

Secret Sword Yan Hui, this is a move that can only be used by combining swordsmanship with Devil Fruit abilities.

Therefore, this move is useful in the face of pure

When attacking with pure and powerful Haki, there is a possibility of overturning!

After all, Armed Haki may directly erase the fruit power of the Sword Qi used to open doors, so this move is best used only to deal with large-scale attacks that do not contain Haki, and there are limitations.

Coincidentally, the Water Lion operated by the Golden Lion with Piao Piao Fruit did not have any Armed Haki or Overlord Haki attached to it, so that Sephiroth could completely deflect the attack.

“It’s time to end it!”

While speaking, Sephiroth directly faced the golden lion Shiji who was submerged in the sea and was chasing him down. He swung four slashes of crimson sword energy entwined with domineering energy.

Swish-! Uh-huh! Swish-! Swish-!

Every sharp slash passing over Golden Lion Shiji would directly cut off one of his limbs.

In an instant, the golden lion Shi Ji was cut into a human stick without any resistance.

Immediately afterwards, Sephiroth used the Gate Fruit and swung a knife out of thin air below him, opening a small space door in the direction where the golden lion Shiji fell.

Wow!

Turning from bottom to top, the sea water suddenly reversed, and under the strong inertia, passed through the space door, and fell into the sky like a fountain. After the golden lion Shiji’s body passed through the space door, he closed it directly. The space door prevents the sea water from continuing to gush out.

Sephiroth took advantage of the golden lion Shiji to fall again, lifted up the opponent’s torso that had lost all limbs, and inserted a seastone nail into the back of his neck, suppressing his ability to flutter fruit. Beware that it still has the power to resist.

Then, he lifted up the golden lion Shi Ji’s body and torso and disappeared into a reopened space door…