One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

So Easy.

Who would have thought that controlling the cannons on the Hades warship would be so simple!

Simply press the button on the turret base to unleash the terrifying energy contained within, unleashing the legendary attack that can destroy an entire island in one shot.

No wonder it's called a forbidden ancient weapon.

This thing, no matter who controls it, will pose a huge threat to the world.

However, just to be on the safe side, it is still necessary to confirm whether this golden warship is indeed the real Pluto, the god of the underworld.

Immediately, Crocodile, completely ignoring Robin who was deeply shocked by the terrifying aura he had just witnessed, leaped off the warship and pressed his large hand onto the ground of the ruins.

"Desert! Erosion of reincarnation!!"

The cloak draped behind him fluttered wildly, and wisps of yellow sand shot out from his palms, transforming into venomous snakes that rapidly spread across the surrounding ground.

Then, a terrifying scene unfolded.

As the venomous yellow sand spread outwards from Crocodile's palm, the ground within the ruins began to rapidly turn into sand.

The desertification was occurring at an alarming rate, spreading rapidly throughout the vast ruins.

In just a few seconds, the huge stone pillars supporting the ceiling of the ruins, as well as the towering walls on all four sides and even the ceiling above, began to shed large amounts of sand and gravel.

The stone pillar was corroded and collapsed downwards as yellow sand.

Large, pitted holes appeared in the wall.

The ceiling above, having lost the support of the stone pillars, began to crack and break in large areas, then burst open with a series of cracking sounds.

Finally, unable to withstand the heavy weight, it began to collapse.

Huge stone slabs detached from overhead, opening up the ceiling and revealing the outside sky.

The bright sunlight shone down, making the golden warship atop the stone tablet even more dazzling and radiant.

A large number of stone slabs fell down.

However, before these stone slabs could even hit the ground, they turned into a massive amount of yellow sand, which twisted and condensed in the air into giant sand dragons. Under Crocodile's pull, they converged below the golden warship, supporting the hundreds of tons of golden ship, and rose towards the hole in the ceiling above.

"Desert fountain!"

Crocodile let out a low shout, leaped onto the deck of the golden warship, and, standing on the golden ship that was continuously supported by a massive amount of yellow sand, rushed out of the underground ruins and rose into the royal city.

The massive pillars of yellow sand, like fountains, continued to propel the golden warship and Crocodile atop it into the higher reaches of the sky.

When the giant sand pillar reached a height of 100 meters, Crocodile also saw the battlefield that had been quelled in front of the royal city.

However, he had no time to pay attention to what was happening over there.

All he wanted to do now was press the button on the golden pedestal beside him.

Fire that damn shot!

On the deck, in front of the massive golden cannon barrel, Crocodile swallowed hard. He placed his right hand once again on the hemispherical golden button on the base, his palm sweating.

This next shot will determine whether he can return to the New World and take revenge on that man.

Can we leave this wretched place called Paradise, and once again reign supreme over the sea, dominating that ocean of the strong?

Success or failure hinges on this!

Crocodile took a deep breath, gritted his teeth, and slammed his palm down.

pat!

With a crisp click, the hemispherical gold button was fully pressed down.

Robin, looking up at the sky from the broken underground ruins, was horrified to see that on the golden warship standing atop the giant pillar of yellow sand, dazzling and brilliant electric light was emerging from the thick golden cannon barrels beside Crocodile.

Thick bolts of lightning crackled and popped as they surged from the golden cannon barrel, converging into a dazzling ball of lightning in Crocodile's wide-eyed gaze.

With a snap, the constantly flashing ball of lightning flew out from in front of the cannon, instantly soaring over the highlands of Albana Royal City, tearing through the desert sky, and falling towards the endless desert in the distance.

Before the dazzling ball of lightning even landed, thick bolts of lightning emanating from it carved a chasm tens of meters wide across the streets of the royal city, blasting all the buildings on that spot to smithereens.

As the dazzling ball of lightning fell into the desert on the side of the royal city, the entire Albana seemed to fall into a brief silence.

next moment.

boom!!

A dazzling ray of light, like the sun, rose slowly in the endless desert, illuminating the entire Albana region in a bright, clear light.

The blinding light was so intense that even the hundreds of thousands of rebel soldiers gathered in front of the royal city couldn't open their eyes.

Amidst the earth-shattering explosion, the land within a radius of dozens of miles began to rumble and tremble as if a massive earthquake had struck.

The towering sand dunes split open and collapsed.

The impact of the riots stirred up endless yellow sand, transforming it into a terrifying sandstorm that swept across the land.

In Crocodile's violently trembling eyes, a huge crater, hundreds of meters in diameter and of unknown depth, was reflected on the distant desert landscape.

There, centered on that huge depression, the surrounding yellow sand rises outwards like waves, forming concentric peaks and valleys.

It was as if it had been struck by a meteorite.

Crocodile was completely stunned, then overjoyed.

He opened his arms wide, completely convinced that the golden warship beneath his feet was the ancient weapon Pluto, the god of the underworld.

Only the legendary Hades warship could unleash such a terrifying attack with a single shot.

"Hahahaha! Hahahaha! I did it! I really found the Pluton! Whitebeard! You just wait! Soon, I will return to the New World and take your head! This world will be ruled by me! The Four Emperors, the Navy, the Revolutionary Army, the World Government, all of you, step aside!"

"With the Hades battleship, I am the strongest man in the world!"

Chapter 327 With Hades in hand, I rule the world.

The explosion was deafening, like the sky collapsing and the earth splitting apart.

The impact and sandstorms swept in all directions.

The ground was shaking violently, and the blinding light illuminated the heavens and the earth.

This plunged tens of thousands of royal guards and hundreds of thousands of rebel soldiers in front of the capital into endless panic.

Kobra stared blankly at the dazzling sun rising in the distant desert, frozen as if he had fallen into an ice cave.

Is this level of power really what Crocodile unleashed?

You must be joking.

If Crocodile had that level of power, would he still need to stay in tiny Alabasta for more than ten years?

His mind suddenly skipped a beat as he thought of the Hades warship that Rorschach had mentioned.

And at the far end of the horizon, atop the colossal pillar of yellow sand that rises from the royal city and towers into the sky, stands a gleaming golden warship.

Could it be that……

A terrible thought arose in Cobra's mind.

Did Crocodile really acquire the Pluton battleship?

But where did the Hades warship come from in the underground ruins of Albana?

As the king of Alabasta, and with the Neferutari royal family having lived in Albana for generations, he had never discovered any trace of the Hades warship.

Not to mention him, even Vivi and Hibari, who knew the situation beforehand, were frightened by that terrifying power.

"I never imagined that besides Major General Rorschach, Mr. Enel, who was only a private third class, would also possess such terrifying power." Vivi was so shocked that she couldn't put her words into words.

Lark was somewhat disappointed.

As a Logia-type Devil Fruit user, Enel's performance was truly outstanding.

Compared to him, I am far inferior.

Luo Xia, standing to the side, didn't seem particularly surprised.

Even so, this wasn't Enel's limit.

Think about the thunderous welcome he created on the floating island.

That thing is powerful enough to wipe an entire floating island off the map.

He remembered that in his previous life, because Enel had used this Thunderclap technique, when Im later used what appeared to be the Heavenly King's Mother Flame to wipe out the Kingdom of Lulucia, the huge spherical energy that fell was associated with Enel.

That's a true catastrophe-level attack.

"Alright, it looks like the sand crocodile has fully inflated. Lark, create the mirage. Princess Vivi, now it's your turn to perform. Let's go."

Luo Xia winked at Yun Que.

The lark understood, and its body lightly leaped up, flying into the sky and transforming into a cloud that quickly expanded, reflecting the towering yellow sand pillars within the royal city, as well as Crocodile and the golden warship.

Meanwhile, atop some buildings within the royal city, several furtive figures, holding video Den Den Mushi (snail phones), aimed at the golden battleship and Crocodile in mid-air from various directions.

Cobra was still standing there in a daze, but Rorschach, right in front of him, put his arm around his precious daughter Vivi's slender waist, and leaped up like the wind, rushing towards Crocodile's location.

When Luo Xia's large hand embraced her, Weiwei's pretty face immediately turned bright red with embarrassment.

But the whistling wind made her instinctively grab the boy's shirt tightly, pressing her petite body against his.

An unprecedented sense of security welled up in Weiwei's heart.

Rorschach, who flew through the air carrying Vivi, quickly caught Crocodile's attention.

But that's all I'm paying attention to.

At this moment, with the Pluto battleship at his disposal, he no longer took the approaching young naval officer seriously.

He possesses power capable of destroying the world, and the confidence he lost after being thwarted more than a decade ago is rapidly returning.

At this moment, Crocodile seemed to have returned to more than ten years ago, to the time when he had just witnessed Roger's execution in Loguetown and was sailing out to sea full of vigor.

Even faintly, Luo Xia sensed a familiar aura emanating from him, brewing and about to burst forth.

That was clearly Conqueror's Haki!

This discovery made Rorschach's eyes twitch wildly.

Holy crap.