Luffy, how can you become the Pirate King if you don't work hard!

Blackbeard was filled with doubt and unease.

The sense of pressure Luffy exerted on him was a bit too strong.

He was originally the most patient person, having infiltrated Whitebeard's ship for twenty years, but after obtaining the Dark-Dark Fruit, his ego inevitably became somewhat inflated. At this moment, the aura emanating from Luffy made him feel a long-lost sense of danger, and he even began to doubt whether he had been too reckless this time.

Without turning his head, Luffy asked, "Nami, is there still time?"

These guys are too dangerous. Since we've already encountered them, let's help Ace get rid of this traitor!

Nami closed her eyes, sensing the increasingly turbulent ocean currents and changes in air pressure around her, and said urgently, "The surging current will erupt in less than a minute, there's no time left!"

"One minute is enough."

Luffy stared at Blackbeard's crew, then turned and shouted, "Leave things here to me for now. You guys prepare to deal with the Sky Current."

"This is so troublesome!"

Nami rubbed her head and complained, but the next second she was in character, loudly giving instructions.

"Zoro! Sanji! Usopp! Take your positions and follow my instructions."

Chopper, secure all loose items so they don't fly away.

"Robin, Vivi, help!"

Robin watched Nami quickly get into command mode and chuckled, covering her mouth: "It seems that Miss Nami really dotes on Luffy."

Nami blushed.

there.

Blackbeard's keen intuition told him that the situation was not good, especially when he saw Luffy's resolute expression and the terrifying aura surging from his body. He even had the idea of ​​retreating.

His goal is to become one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea; there's no need for him to fight a tough opponent who doesn't seem right here.

However, Luffy had already moved.

He leaped from the Going Merry, activated his Gum-Gum Fruit powers, and after a brief moment of levitation, his right arm rapidly expanded as if inflated, instantly transforming into the arm of a giant!

"Hey, Van Augur, shoot and stop him! What's that kid trying to do?!" Blackbeard's expression changed drastically, and he shouted sharply.

boom!

boom!

boom!

Van Augur, the sniper on Blackbeard's ship, immediately raised his gun and fired, but when the bullets reached Luffy, they seemed to hit an invisible wall and exploded prematurely, scattering sparks everywhere.

what? !

Blackbeard's pupils contracted sharply as he saw the jet-black Armament Haki wrapped around Luffy's arm, and even faintly saw tiny sparks of electricity dancing around it.

One compression.

Secondary compression.

Three compressions!

"Rubber—a hegemonic nation!!"

Luffy's voice boomed like thunder, echoing across the raging sea.

He compressed his giant arm to its maximum extent.

boom!

A massive, destructive shockwave erupted from the giant fist, instantly tearing through the air and hurtling towards the Blackbeard Pirates' ship.

"How is this possible!" Blackbeard exclaimed.

At this moment, Blackbeard seemed to see a miniature version of Whitebeard's space-shattering power at his peak!

Facing one's father is like a father beating his son.

No one knows better than the guy who's called the strongest man in the world how terrifying he is.

After a brief pause, he quickly activated the power of the Dark-Dark Fruit, attempting to devour and absorb this power.

Darkness spread before him, like the gaping maw of an abyss.

However, the impact of the hegemonic state was too concentrated and extremely fast.

The darkness only swallowed a portion of it; the remaining power continued to bombard the ship's hull.

Boom!

A violent explosion rang out, and the Blackbeard Pirates' ship was visibly destroyed, with screams and cries of agony erupting from the vessel.

"Luffy, the Sky Current is coming!" Nami shouted with all her might.

"Wow ah ah!"

"Hurry up!"

"Entering the vortex, the Merry began to drift along its direction."

Nami gripped the railing tightly and shouted instructions, "Don't get too close to the center, or the ship will be smashed to pieces by the surging current! Turn the helm to the left by forty degrees!"

"I know, it's already being done!" Zoro and Sanji strained to turn the rudder.

"No, the current is too fast, I can't handle it!" Usopp's face turned red.

"Don't worry, Merry has already calculated it." Merry's figure emitted a soft light, blending into the ship.

Under Merry's precise control and Nami's command, the Merry navigated the edge of the whirlpool with great difficulty, sailing in accordance with the immense power that was about to erupt.

After Luffy unleashed that punch, he used the recoil to land like a cannonball back on the violently rocking Going Merry.

He glanced at the Blackbeard Pirates, whose ship was in chaos and shattered by the combined impact of the explosion and the towering ocean currents, and then ignored them.

He believed that one blow would be enough to give his opponent a hard time.

"Luffy!" Nami called out.

"Got it!" Luffy replied, took a deep breath, and slammed his hands onto the deck.

His power instantly spread throughout the entire ship, temporarily assimilating the Going Merry into rubber.

This was the best way he could think of to protect the ship from a massive impact.

Almost simultaneously, at the center of the massive whirlpool where the Going Merry was located, the seawater was pushed upwards as if by an invisible giant hand, and a huge column of water with an immeasurable diameter erupted with a devastating force.

The Going Merry was instantly captured by this irresistible force, its bow suddenly rising high, almost perpendicular to the sea surface.

This is the surging ocean current!

Chapter 145 Lafayette: We've been wiped out?

Just as Luffy and his crew were heading towards Sky Island with the surging ocean current.

In distant Marineford, Lafayette, who has just left Naval Headquarters, is trying to contact his captain using a Den Den Mushi (snail phone).

Blur, Blur... Click.

The Den Den Mushi connected, but instead of Blackbeard's signature maniacal laughter, a panicked voice came from the other end. It was the ship's doctor, Doc Q, who sounded like he was breathing heavily and coughing.

"La, Lafayette! We're doomed! We almost got wiped out!"

Lafayette's elegant smile froze instantly.

Are you kidding me?

Didn't he tell Teach and the others to wait for him in Devil's Town?

Devil Town is located at the very beginning of the Grand Line, not in the New World!

"Calm down, Doc Q. Explain what happened. Where's Captain Teach?"

"Captain! The captain is seriously injured and unconscious!"

Doc Q's voice was filled with fear and disbelief, "It's that Straw Hat Monkey D. Luffy! He almost shattered our ship with just one punch. Our captain used the Dark-Dark Fruit's power to defend himself, but he was still severely injured and hasn't woken up yet!"

"Straw Hat Luffy?"

Lafayette felt a little confused.

However, the intelligence officer was quick-witted and remembered that it was a rookie pirate whose bounty had recently skyrocketed.

The bounty reportedly skyrocketed to 200 million because of the kidnapping of the princess.

He almost wiped out Captain Teach, who possessed the Dark-Dark Fruit.

Lafayette even subconsciously wanted to ask who the Straw Hat Boy was to confirm that he hadn't misheard.

The Dark-Dark Fruit is said to be the nemesis of all Devil Fruits, capable of nullifying the abilities of all Devil Fruit users.

Of course, the condition is that you must be close to the other party.

Does that mean their own captain couldn't even get close to the other side?

A sense of absurdity and profound powerlessness welled up in Lafayette's heart.

Their goal is to replace Crocodile as the new Shichibukai, and then implement an even grander plan.

But before the plan even started, the captain was defeated by an unknown rookie pirate?

For the first time, Lafayette began to waver in her decision to follow Teach.

You endured twenty years of hardship, only to come out and take this punch?

Good things are happening frequently over there.

“There’s worse stuff to come.”

Doc Q’s voice was filled with despair: “It seems that Fire Fist Ace has discovered our whereabouts.”

Laffitte, you need to think of something quick! If this keeps up, we're really going to be wiped out right here by the second division commander of the Whitebeard Pirates!

"I'm dragging the unconscious captain and the injured Van Augur and Bagges along; I can't go far!"

"Find a way? What way could I possibly have?!"