Traveling Through Multiple Realms: The Supporting Character's Counterattack

Kaido, seeing the unwavering confidence in Abel's eyes, remained silent for a moment before bursting into laughter: "Heh heh heh heh! Good! Very good! I love ambitious, promising brats like you!"

He stood up, his massive shadow looming over Abel: "A tremendous storm is brewing in this world, the old order is destined to be shattered! I will build the strongest pirate crew, search for clues to the Ancient Weapons, find ONE PIECE, become the new 'Pirate King,' and then launch a 'Marineford War' that will sweep the world!"

"How is it, Abel?"

Kaido extended his hand to him, offering a formal invitation, his eyes filled with domineering arrogance and sincerity. "Join my 'Beasts Pirates'! Not as a subordinate, but as an 'ally'! Let's grow stronger together, plunder, destroy, and conquer! Let's smash this corrupt world to smithereens! Let those high and mighty 'gods' taste fear!"

The sea breeze swept across the beach, stirring the embers of the campfire and bringing the scent of the open ocean.

Abel looked at Kaido's outstretched hand, covered in scars and brimming with terrifying power, then looked up at the vast, boundless sea, filled with the unknown and danger.

The breath of freedom is so intoxicating, but the road to revenge is destined to be long and arduous.

He needs power, influence, and allies.

The man before him could undoubtedly provide him with all the platform and opportunities he needed.

He reached out and firmly shook hands with Kaido's enormous hand.

"Alright! Kaido, I join you! Let's turn this world upside down together!"

The two hands are clasped tightly together, symbolizing the formal alliance between a future sea emperor and a survivor of the "Gods".

The gears of fate are thus set in motion at an accelerated pace.

Kaido laughed heartily, patting Abel's shoulder forcefully: "Hehehehe! From today onwards, you're my right-hand man! The position of 'Top Rank 1' of the 'Beasts Pirates' is yours! As for your codename, your fire is pretty good, from now on you'll be called 'King'!"

"ember……"

Abel silently recited this new name, which was full of fiery energy, and slowly nodded.

From then on, he would use this name, which represents "revenge" and "rebirth," to turn the world upside down.

Having decided to join the Beasts Pirates, King no longer held back and directly asked Kaido for the secrets of the three types of Haki.

After all, his domineering aura was cultivated through his own exploration after awakening, without any systematic guidance.

Upon hearing this, Kaido was taken aback for a moment, then burst into deafening laughter.

"Hehehe! Asking for advice? I have no idea how to teach people!"

Kaido pounded his solid chest with a dull thud. "Nobody taught me any of these skills! I honed them all in mountains of corpses and seas of blood! Armament Haki and Observation Haki—the more beatings I got, the more my body naturally learned to remember and react. As for Conqueror's Haki..."

He paused, a flicker of reminiscence and fervor crossing his face: "I've seen it on the Rocks ship, and I've personally experienced the Conqueror's Haki entanglement of those monsters! That feeling was fucking intense! But understanding it is one thing, using it is another. It was only in the last year that I truly grasped the basics and unleashed my first real 'Thunder Bagua'!"

He gulped down a mouthful of wine he'd somehow produced, wiped his mouth, and glared at Jin with fierce fighting spirit: "Want to learn? Talk is cheap! We've just eaten, time to stretch our muscles! Come on, attack with all your might! Learning in battle is the fastest way!"

Before he could finish speaking, Kaido's massive body shot out like a cannonball, leaving only a crater in the sand.

He didn't use a spiked club, just a simple straight punch, accompanied by a suffocating gust of wind, and he was in front of Jin in an instant.

Fast! Fierce! Pure, ultimate power!

Jin's pupils contracted sharply, and the fiery wings on his back instinctively burst into flames. He quickly stepped back, his body retreating rapidly while his arms crossed to block, and jet-black Armament Haki instantly covered his forearms.

"boom--!"

Their fists clashed, producing a dull, thunderous sound.

Jin felt an indescribable force surge towards him like a tidal wave. His arms were in excruciating pain, as if they were about to break. He was like someone who had been hit head-on by a high-speed train, flying uncontrollably backward. He crashed into several towering trees before barely managing to dissipate the force. He slid to his knees for more than ten meters, carving two deep furrows in the ground.

"cough……"

Jin felt a sweet taste in his throat, forcefully suppressing the surging blood and qi, but his eyes burst forth with an astonishing light.

This is the power of a top expert; with just one punch, he felt the threat of death.

"Too slow! What about your Observation Haki? Is that all you've got?"

Kaido laughed wildly, his figure blurring again as he instantly appeared above and to the side of King. A powerful whip kick slashed down like a battle axe, tearing the air apart and emitting a sharp whistling sound.

This time, Jhin caught the faint premonition of the attack in advance.

He endured the soreness and numbness in his arms, and with a sudden flap of his fiery wings, he no longer took the hit head-on, but instead slid to the side at the slightest difference.

"Whoosh!"

Kaido's whip leg grazed King's body and slammed into the ground.

"Boom!"

The earth seemed to have been struck by a meteorite, instantly collapsing into a deep crater several meters in diameter. The violent shockwave ripped up all the surrounding soil and gravel, filling the air with dust and smoke.

"Oh? You dodged it?"

A flicker of surprise crossed Kaido's eyes, followed by even greater excitement. "That's more like it! But you can't learn Haki just by hiding!"

He pressed his advantage relentlessly, unleashing a barrage of punches like a raging storm. Each punch contained the terrifying power to split mountains and shatter rocks. Even more frightening was the faint flow of dark red arcs of electricity on the surface of his fists, radiating a chilling pressure—it was Conqueror's Haki!

Jin pushed his Observation Haki to its limit, concentrating his mind intensely as he struggled to maneuver and parry amidst a barrage of punches.

His Armament Haki was being rapidly depleted through constant head-on clashes, and his arms had long since gone numb. But with each collision, he could more clearly "feel" the unique way Kaido's power was operating in his attacks.

It's not just about muscle strength, but a domineering willpower originating from the depths of the soul, forcefully interfering with reality and attaching itself to the technique of attack.

"Can you feel it? This is Lao Tzu's 'domineering aura'!"

Kaido roared, punching King's defenses aside, and then thrusting his other fist straight into King's chest.

The dark red lightning crackling around the fist became increasingly clear, and the shadow of death instantly enveloped Ember.

There's no way to avoid it!

Can't stop!

At the critical moment of life and death, Jin's pupils shrank to the size of pinpoints, and the Conqueror's Haki that had just awakened within him, belonging to the king of the Lunaria race, was completely ignited by this extreme sense of oppression.

"ah--!"

Ember let out a tremendous roar, as if magma was flowing beneath his skin, and the flames on his black wings suddenly turned dark red, unleashing an unyielding and violent aura that soared into the sky.

Instead of retreating, he met Kaido's fist head-on, compressing and condensing all his strength, will, and nascent Conqueror's Haki into his right fist and unleashing a powerful punch.

Om-!

The moment their fists collided, time seemed to freeze for a split second.

There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a muffled, extremely dull sound, as if the space itself was being compressed.

Immediately afterwards, dark red lightning exploded outwards like a spider web, centered on the point where the fists collided, crackling loudly.

On the surface of Jhin's fist, faint but real dark red arcs of electricity appeared.

Although it was fleeting, he was once again blasted away by Kaido's punch like a broken sack, spitting out blood as he crashed heavily into the distant mountain wall, leaving a deep human-shaped crater.

But Kaido stopped the pursuit, stood still, looked at his slightly smoking fist, and then at King, who was struggling to climb out of the mountain wall. His eyes were filled with unbelievable surprise and wild laughter.

"Hehehehehe! Did you see that, kid?! Did you see that?!"

Kaido roared excitedly, "You fucking succeeded with Conqueror's Haki! Just now, under my fist!"

He strode to the cliff face, looked at Jin, who was covered in blood and had countless broken bones, but whose eyes burned with fierce flames, reached out his big hand and pulled Jin out of the rock wall.

"That's it! Push yourself to your limits in the face of life and death, use your will to clash, to conquer! Dominance, especially Conqueror's Haki, is never a gentle power! It is the quality of a king, proof of crushing everything!"

Kaido slapped King's shoulder hard, completely disregarding his severe injuries, his tone filled with the exhilaration of finding a kindred spirit: "I knew I wasn't wrong about you, you Lunaria brat, you have the potential to become a true 'Disaster'! Follow me, and it won't be long before you truly master this power!"

Jin coughed violently, spitting out several mouthfuls of blood. Feeling the almost depleted yet wildly regenerating new power within his body, and the lingering, domineering power on his fist, he grinned, revealing a gleeful and ferocious smile.

"Of course... I'll master it... very soon!"

Battle is indeed the best teacher.