One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

Hawkeye frowned, his impatience growing, and his sharp golden pupils suddenly contracted.

The next second, Zoro, who was blocking in front of him, was hit by an invisible force of energy. A burst of blood erupted from his chest, and he groaned. His body was lifted off the ground as if hit by a cannonball, and he flew backward seven or eight meters before crashing to the ground with a thud.

The long sword he was holding and the wado Ichimonji he was biting both fell to the ground.

He lay on his back on the ground, panting heavily, feeling as if his bones and muscles were about to be pierced and shattered by that one look.

He couldn't withstand just one glance from Hawkeye; he was sent flying seven or eight meters and couldn't get up from the ground for a long time.

This sudden change left everyone behind speechless.

Rorschach was also dumbfounded.

He's still waiting for Zoro to utter that famous line, "A scar on the back is a swordsman's shame."

result……

Hawkeye doesn't play by the rules.

"Green algae head! Are you alright?" Sera rushed over and knelt down to help Zoro up from the ground, but he pushed her away.

Zoro gritted his teeth, rolled over, and used his hands to support himself as he slowly stood up, his eyes red as he looked at Hawkeye, who walked past him indifferently.

He clenched his hands tightly, letting his fingernails dig into his palms, and bright red blood flowed from between his fingers.

"Is the gap... really that big?"

Thinking of his promise to Kuina, Zoro felt an overwhelming sense of resentment welling up inside him.

Countless days and nights of wielding the sword in fury, countless dawns and dusks spent biting stones and buckets, honing his jaw strength until his mouth could no longer close, countless times sitting before Kuina's tombstone, promising her that he would definitely take the long sword she left behind and ascend to the throne of the world's strongest swordsman.

But now...

Now, they have finally found the eagle-eyed man they wanted to challenge.

As a result, he couldn't even force the other party to draw his knife.

Just one glance from the other party was enough to completely break them down.

"Kid, there's nothing wrong with pursuing your dreams, but don't be a frog in a well or a clown. A person should know their own limitations."

Hawkeye continued walking further away, leaving Zoro standing there dumbfounded with a single sentence.

Suddenly, a hand reached out and patted his shoulder.

Zoro was startled and looked up to see Rorschach smiling at him.

"Don't be discouraged, Zoro. You are a man that even I, Rorschach, acknowledge. Don't be fooled by his strength; he's only taken a few steps ahead. As long as you stay true to yourself and steadfastly move forward on the path you're pursuing, you will eventually reach or even surpass his level."

As he spoke, Rorschach bent down, picked up Wado Ichimonji and Shusui from the ground, and stuffed them into Zoro's arms.

"You're still very young. Don't forget he's more than twenty years older than you, old enough to be your father. I believe in you. One day, you'll carry the promise of your comrades and these two swords, surpass that cold-hearted guy, and stand at the top of the world."

He reached out and patted the blank-faced Zoro again, twisted his neck, and walked towards Hawkeye with the Heavenly Dragon Halberd in his hand.

"Now, watch me get revenge for you."

Chapter 422 Stop fighting! Please stop fighting!

"You are still very young..."

Rorschach's voice echoed in Zoro's ears, making him feel even worse.

Rorschach is actually two years younger than him.

Watching Rorschach's tall figure walk towards Hawkeye, he gritted his teeth and wanted to go over to watch the battle, but Jonathan reached out and grabbed him.

"Don't go over there. You can't withstand the aftermath of their battle. You're still too young."

"I……"

Zoro's mouth moved, as if he was about to say something, when he felt the air around him begin to vibrate and hum as if it were boiling.

Not only the air, but also the thick earth beneath our feet, connected to the towering, cloud-piercing Inverted Mountain, was trembling slightly.

And on the sea outside the cliff, the seawater began to surge and undulate violently on its own, even without wind!

Zoro's throat bobbed as he abruptly turned to look at where Rorschach and Hawkeye were.

Two or three hundred meters away, the two people who hadn't even started fighting were already exuding a terrifying aura that was awe-inspiring, simply by standing there.

The whale Laboon, which was hovering on the surface of the sea, sensed this imposing force and fled in terror, quickly moving away from the cliff and swimming several kilometers away.

At this moment, in everyone's eyes, it seemed as if they were not seeing two men standing on the ground, but two terrifying monsters whose bodies were constantly expanding, as if they were breaking through the sky.

That inhuman sense of oppression made everyone except Jonathan feel uneasy, their hearts pounding, as if a huge rock was pressing down on them, making them feel suffocated!

Hawkins' pupils constricted.

He realized that Rorschach had become very strong.

But I never expected it to be this strong!

This mere display of power was enough to make him want to vomit blood.

Rorschach did not choose to transform; this was not a life-or-death battle.

A deafening thunderous roar erupted on the ground ahead. The Heavenly Dragon Halberd in Luo Xia's hand burst forth with dazzling lightning. Enveloped in a surge of deep blue domineering energy, it unleashed an incredibly brutal vertical slash from top to bottom towards Eagle Eye, who was thirty meters away.

"Boom!"

To everyone's ears, a massive explosion, as if the sky were falling and the earth were splitting apart, was heard.

The air in front of Rorschach was blasted apart layer by layer by this attack, and the ground beneath his feet shattered in a fan shape. The ground, which had been washed by the sea for countless years and was now only hard rock walls, exploded with a bang, turning into countless large and small pieces of stone. Under the influence of the shock wave, these stones blasted towards Hawkeye's head and face.

Hawkeye remained unfazed, gripping the knife with one hand as well. A domineering aura swirled across the black blade, which struck the air with a penetrating buzzing sound as he slashed horizontally.

"Shh!"

The people behind Luo Xia suddenly felt a dazzling aurora appear across the ground in front of them, tens of meters high and hundreds of meters long, like a thick aurora barrier, pushing towards Luo Xia.

Wherever the thick barrier of sword light passed, countless pebbles were shattered into the finest powder within the sword light, and before these powders could land, they were swept away by the sword light.

Two terrifying slashes, one horizontal and one vertical, collided between Rorschach and Hawkeye.

The air rippled and surged, and the ground beneath their feet cracked and split, with thick fissures spreading rapidly in all directions.

The sea surface outside the cliff was ripped open by the violent impact of the two bombardments. The deep sea water was squeezed and dented, and the sea surface in the distance rose by tens of meters, turning into towering waves that rolled outwards.

The two sides exchanged a simple blow, but the violent shockwave that swept over them forced the people standing in front of the lighthouse to retreat once again.

Zoro, Brook, Crocus, and the others were blown away.

Crocus's home, the old lighthouse that had stood for hundreds of years, was cracking under the rolling impact, on the verge of completely shattering. Crocus, enraged, roared, "If you want to fight, get out of here! Don't destroy my home!"

"Keep your voice down, Dr. Crocus! If we mess with someone this terrifying, someone will die! What a terrifyingly powerful being he is, he scared my eyes out of their sockets. Hmm? Right, I'm a skeleton, I don't have any eyes anymore, yohohohoho. Help, Mr. Hawkins! I'm going to be blown into the sea, because my body is all bones, so I'm too light."

Brooke is making strange noises.

Zoro's eyes were wide open in disbelief.

He watched as Luo Xia and Hawkeye, who had shattered the ground within a radius of several hundred meters with a single strike and instantly soared into the sky, turning into two small black dots, were filled with indescribable shock.

"Is this what a true powerhouse is? Is this the power of the world's strongest swordsman and a Marine Vice Admiral? It's too strong! A thousand times, ten thousand times stronger than me now!"

Jonathan, hearing his mutterings, couldn't help but chime in.

"Don't get me wrong, ordinary vice admirals aren't that strong. That kid is a complete freak."

"I hope Brother Luo Xia won't get into trouble?" Yun Que asked with some concern.

"Don't worry, even if Hawkeye is stronger than him, he can't hurt Rorschach in a short time. Rorschach is already very strong, very strong," Jonathan comforted him.

Hundreds of meters above everyone's heads, Luo Xia's body was surrounded by a deep blue aura and silver-white lightning, which intertwined and flowed like two intertwined dragons, swirling around the Heavenly Dragon Halberd, which he then swept across with a swing of the halberd.

A crackling sound of electricity filled the sky, followed by a thick slash wrapped in bolts of silver lightning, which burst forth from the blade of the Heavenly Dragon Halberd and slashed toward Eagle Eye.

The massive slashes didn't need to be aimed at any specific body part.

Once you're hit, your entire body will be covered and swallowed up.

Hawkeye stomped his foot, and the air instantly caved in and exploded. A white shockwave propelled him to the side as if he had teleported away, avoiding the flying slash. He then slashed out diagonally with the black blade in his right hand.

"Shh!"

There were no special moves; a simple, unadorned slash was a terrifying beam of light that stretched for hundreds of meters.

Rorschach also did not choose to fight head-on. His body was crackling with electricity, and he moved like the wind and lightning, flashing and disappearing in the air.

When he reappeared, he had already moved forward and appeared behind Hawkeye, gripping his halberd with both hands and slashing fiercely.

"boom!"

A violent force erupted from his body, and with each swing, the air exploded and vibrated. The slashes and impacts were dozens of times more powerful than the heavy coastal artillery on the inner bay of Marineford.

"Buzz!"

Hawkeye unfurled an invisible, imposing armor around his body, spun around, and swung his longsword in a sweeping motion, holding it horizontally above his head, seemingly wanting to see just how strong Rorschach's power truly was.

Then, his golden pupils suddenly contracted.

One second he was holding the black blade above his head, the next he was struck by a black halberd that fell from the sky, the incredibly violent force being transmitted through the black blade and slamming into the imposing armor that Hawkeye's body was covered in.

"boom!"

A white cloud of gas exploded in the sky.

Hawkeye's body transformed into a black line that stretched from heaven to earth, crashing with a deafening roar onto the top of the cliff below.

The solid rock strata collapsed and shattered in large chunks, and towering cliffs broke off by tens or even hundreds of meters, crashing into the pirates and blasting up towering seawater.

The ground within a radius of several kilometers was shaking violently, as if a major earthquake had occurred.

Even though Jonathan and the others had almost retreated to the side of the Upside-Down Mountain and Sea Flow, they could still feel the continuous vibrations emanating from it.

"Click-click-click!"

The cracks on the surface of the old lighthouse have become more numerous.

Suddenly, Crocus watched in disbelief as a seven- or eight-meter-tall hat at the top of the lighthouse was shattered by the violent impact, swaying and breaking off from the main body of the lighthouse. With a thunderous crash, it smashed into the ground, turning into broken stones scattered all over the place.

"Bastards! My home! You two, stop it! Stop fighting! Do you hear me? You two bastards!"

Crocus was furious.

As they were talking, a terrifying blade of light, like a giant sword of magma erupting from the depths of the earth, swept across hundreds of meters of sky in an instant and struck Luo Xia.