One Piece: The Will of Conqueror is the strongest

"Hey, did I just guess right?"

Seeing Crocodile's murderous look, Brando raised an eyebrow, as if his sore spot had been hit.

"You deserve to die!"

Crocodile stared at Brando with a predatory gaze.

Then his lower body transformed into elements, and he charged straight at Brando at an extremely fast speed.

"Water Release: Water Cannon"

Brando's Sharingan saw all of Crocodile's movements.

As he moved, his hands had already begun forming hand seals. A C-rank ninjutsu only requires six seals, and he completed it almost instantly.

As Crocodile raised his scorpion-tailed hook weapon and swung it at Brando, Brando opened his mouth and spat out a huge water ball about 1.5 meters in diameter, which rushed towards Crocodile.

It instantly soaked him to the bone, and at the same time, it restored Crocodile's body to its original state, preventing him from continuing to transform into his elemental form, and the attack stopped abruptly.

"The moisture content is too low; at sea, it's easily three meters in diameter."

"Although the river was covered by Crocodile sand, the water didn't disappear into thin air; it was just pushed down further, so it still has some effect."

Brando is getting ready to fight seriously.

Crocodile's mental defenses have already crumbled to the point where he can't take it anymore. All that's left is for him to experience the enormous gap between them physically, and finally die in despair!

"Your Devil Fruit ability is related to water?!"

Crocodile looked shocked.

This was clearly something that had never been mentioned in the intelligence provided by the World Government.

According to the World Government's intelligence, only Brando has strange red eyes that can release flames. He can also transform into other people, suggesting he may be a user of the Imitation Fruit and also has the ability to create clones.

Crocodile immediately ruled out the possibility of a user with the Imitation Fruit ability, since such a user was working for him.

Crocodile is not afraid of the abilities to unleash flames and create clones, because he is a Logia-type user.

But why is there no information in the intelligence that the other side would use water as a means of attack?

This ability is extremely rare in the entire ocean; what kind of useless people is the World Government?

Fortunately, it was just ordinary water, not seawater, otherwise all Devil Fruit users in the world would be helpless against this guy.

"I have a lot of tricks up my sleeve!"

"Enough to keep you happy all day!"

Brando raised his right hand and a Rasengan appeared.

Crocodile didn't hesitate to control the sand to envelop himself. Knowing that he wasn't fast enough to dodge the opponent's attack, he was now controlling the sand to absorb his own moisture. During this time, defense was the best option.

But just as the sand formed a cocoon around his body, Brando appeared in front of him and pushed the Rasengan directly at him without hesitation.

The irregular spiraling force directly pulverized the sand, but Crocodile also sensed the change in the sand and controlled more sand to pile up in this direction.

"boom!"

The Rasengan exploded, blasting Crocodile flying.

"Wow!"

Crocodile rolled several times in the desert before stopping, kneeling and spitting out a mouthful of blood, his eyes fixed on Brando like those of a ferocious shark.

Just now, the last bit of moisture in his body was finally absorbed, and he used elemental transformation to dissipate most of the impact; otherwise, he felt that his injuries would have been even more severe.

"We really can't be careless; his neck was almost severed."

Brando touched the thin, bleeding wound on his neck, which was healing rapidly thanks to the regenerative power of his Vortex Physique.

Just now, when he released the Rasengan to attack Crocodile, the sand on the ground suddenly burst up, like the guillotine that cut off Louis XVI, slicing diagonally towards Brando's neck.

If Brando hadn't noticed the change in the sand with his Sharingan and moved away in time, his neck would have been severed.

"This opportunity won't come twice!"

"I'll show you the true power of a Logia-type Devil Fruit user!"

Crocodile finally realized that the blond-haired man in front of him was capable of killing him.

He dared not continue his reckless behavior; he hadn't killed Whitebeard yet, and he couldn't die at the hands of such a despicable fellow.

Now he understands how the Celestial Dragons died—they were tricked and killed by this guy.

"Oh?"

"You, with your natural-type abilities, are not worthy to say such things to me."

"To defeat me, you'll need more stats, but that's precisely what you lack!"

As Brando walked toward Crocodile, he created a shadow clone to follow him.

Crocodile's expression turned serious upon seeing this. He knew he absolutely couldn't let Brando get close, so he immediately transformed into his elemental form to create distance, hoping to put pressure on Brando by wearing him down from a distance.

"Desert Sunflower!!"

Crocodile controlled the desert to begin collapsing and forming quicksand, intending to overturn this desert and devour all the creatures on the top layer.

However, Crocodile's ability was too slow to activate. The moment it was activated, Brando and his shadow clone disappeared from their spot, and then they used the Phantom Body Flicker Technique together.

For a moment, ten figures of Brando appeared on the field, but eight of them were just illusory afterimages.

Upon seeing this, Crocodile immediately transformed into his elemental form and merged into the desert, concealing himself. He knew that if he were caught even once, he would be doomed.

He was now prepared to hide in the desert and use the terrain to wear down Brando.

If Brando were to escape... Crocodile was prepared to abandon this objective. This thing was indeed difficult to deal with; it was despicable, shameless, and had no bottom line, utterly lacking the dignity of a strong person.

He had encountered fast and powerful enemies before, but those guys always went head-to-head. Crocodile, on the other hand, was the one who used his brain, employing all sorts of insidious methods to deal with his enemies, either wearing them down or killing them by surprise.

But this time the tables were turned; he was being mentally suppressed, a feeling that Crocodile found nauseating.

"Is this the opponent who will defeat the strongest white-bearded creature in this vast ocean?"

"So this ocean is full of such cowardly and useless people, just like those trash who call themselves 'gods'."

Brando activated his taunt skill.

Although the Sharingan has strong observational abilities, it would be difficult to find Crocodile's true form even if he were to transform into an element and hide in this sandstorm.

Observation Haki is actually more useful in this state.

However, Brando discovered Crocodile's weakness: he couldn't perfectly control the surrounding sand. Unlike Gaara, who could perfectly control the sand by mixing his chakra into it, Crocodile's sand was mostly released by himself.

On the contrary, Paramecia-type awakened beings, such as Doflamingo, are able to assimilate their surroundings into threads and then control all the threads around them.

It's also possible that Crocodile is too weak now, like Moria, and after losing, he doesn't want to rely on himself, but instead wants to increase his power through external forces.