The Witcher: The Journey to Transcendence from Marvel.

Chapter 281 Opening

However, seeing Weiss's relaxed expression, Luo took a deep breath and said to himself, "I can only trust him."

He could feel that Wes was not the kind of person who only talked big. His strength and confidence must have some basis. Although Luo did not know what that basis was, at this moment, he was willing to entrust the fate of himself and his companions to Wes, even if it was only temporarily.

Weiss suddenly seemed to sense something. He looked up suddenly, his eyes flashing like lightning as he looked towards a tall tower in the east.

The tower soared into the clouds, and its body was made of solid bricks and stones, but these were all useless in Weiss's eyes. His eyes seemed to penetrate the tower and reach the top.

Violet, who was watching from the high tower, took two steps back in shock. The blood instantly drained from her beautiful face, and her eyes were filled with horror.

"What's wrong?" Gladius next to him asked with a frown.

"He seemed to have discovered me?" Violet's voice trembled a little, she was not sure.

As the user of the psychic-type Stare-Stare Fruit, she has always been confident in her abilities.

With the power of this fruit, she can expand her vision to a radius of 4000 kilometers, thereby obtaining intelligence or observing the enemy.

In countless missions in the past, she had never failed. Her eyes were like the all-knowing eyes of heaven, silently watching every move of the entire Drosrosa and collecting all kinds of intelligence for the Doflamingo family.

No matter it is a secret base hidden in the deep mountains and forests, or a ship sailing on the vast ocean, nothing can escape her eyes.

But this time, facing Weiss's sharp gaze, she felt an unprecedented fear for the first time, an uneasiness of being seen through.

"Did you see it wrong?" Gladius said with some disapproval. He didn't believe that anyone could detect Violet's surveillance.

"Are you two the cadres of the Don Quixote family?"

A calm and low voice came from behind, like the whisper of death, making Gladius' hair stand on end instantly.

His body suddenly stiffened, and an unprecedented sense of crisis surged into his heart.

He turned around quickly, almost instinctively.

When his gaze fell behind him, his pupils contracted sharply. Weiss was standing quietly less than three meters behind them.

【when? 】

A storm surged in Gladius' heart.

With their own observation Haki and the assistance of Violet's ability, everything around them should be under their control.

However, until Weiss spoke, he was completely unaware of Weiss's presence.
It felt like a prey being aimed at by the hunter's gun without realizing it, and the shadow of death instantly enveloped him.

An invisible pressure came upon him like a surging tide. The pressure was so heavy that he could hardly breathe, as if the air had become sticky.

Gladius was a powerful warrior with rich combat experience. He had honed his keen intuition through countless life-and-death battles. At this moment, this intuition was frantically warning him, telling him that he was far from being a match for Weiss.

【Escape!】This was the only thought in his mind.

Almost at the same moment, he activated his ability.

The ground began to shake violently, and then a big bump appeared on the ground, which kept getting bigger and bigger.

"Boom!!" With a loud bang, the huge power of the explosion directly blew the top floor of the tower into pieces.

Bricks, stones and wood blocks flew everywhere, smoke and dust filled the air, and the entire tower was shaking violently.

Gladius seized the opportunity to grab the still-shocked Violet and leaped from the tower without hesitation. During his descent, he used his exquisite control of his body to adjust his posture and landed smoothly on the ground.

"Let's go!" After landing, Gladius did not hesitate at all. He knew very well that he could not stay for a moment at this moment and had to get away from this terrifying enemy as soon as possible.

He pulled Violet and ran towards the family's stronghold.

"Right judgment." However, Weiss's ghostly voice rang in their ears.

Then, the two were horrified to find that their bodies were suddenly unable to move, as if they were tightly bound by countless invisible ropes.

Every muscle seemed to be frozen, and even the simplest movement of a finger was impossible.

[What's going on? Is this guy also a user with special abilities?]

Gladius's brain was still working at high speed in this extremely tense situation. He was trying to determine what kind of ability user Weiss was.

His eyes were filled with fear and confusion. Among the devil fruit users he knew, he had never seen such a strange ability.

However, the next second, he only felt a powerful force impacting his consciousness. That force was like a surging black tide, instantly submerging his consciousness.

His eyes became empty and lifeless, his body swayed twice, and then with a "thump", he fell to the ground like a puddle of mud, without a breath.

Weiss stared at Gladius's body, his eyes devoid of any mercy.

He knew that this was just the beginning and he was waiting for something to emerge.

After a few seconds, I saw something coming out of Gladius' body.

Weiss was waiting for this moment. He shouted softly, "Imprison!" As his words fell, a cube-shaped barrier emitting a light blue light instantly appeared, trapping the energy firmly.

This energy rampaged wildly within the barrier, and each collision caused ripples in the barrier and emitted a violent explosion.

Weiss's barrier was extremely strong, and no matter how hard the energy struggled, it could not break through.

Weiss reached out and gently squeezed the cube in his hand, his eyes full of curiosity.

"Is this the true form of the devil fruit?"

I was already thinking about studying it carefully and exploring the power and secrets contained therein.

Violet on the side was terrified. Her body kept shaking and her face was as pale as paper.

In her eyes, the powerful Gladius died silently, and she couldn't even tell what method Weiss used.

This made Violet feel a deep despair and fear. She didn't know if she would be the next to fall.

The explosion had alerted the team patrolling nearby.

The patrol team were all pirates under Don Quixote. After hearing the explosion, they quickly rushed to the scene.

When they saw Gladius lying lifeless on the ground, everyone's heart felt like it was being tightly grasped by an invisible hand.

Gladius holds a high status in the Don Quixote family, and his strength and ability are well known to everyone. But now he lies here like a broken doll, lifeless.

These pirates knew clearly that things were getting serious.

(End of this chapter)