One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

"Shiryu, heh, you're still as straightforward as ever. Looks like your time in G1 hasn't smoothed out your rough edges." Rorschach looked at Shiryu, who was walking towards him and had drawn the blood-red demon sword Raiyu from his waist, with a half-smile. "But are you sure you want to fight me now? I suggest you take a good rest, replenish your strength, get some sleep, and come back tomorrow."

Shiryu raised the blood-red demon sword in his hand, its smooth and alluring blade reflecting his wicked grin. "No need. I've already drunk enough blood in the previous war, and my strength is at its peak."

"Bloodsucking?" Luo Xia raised an eyebrow, looking at Shiryu, who was still clean and without a single drop of blood on his body, and couldn't help but feel a little surprised.

Shiryu actually obtained the Blood-Blood Fruit ability.

That special Paramecia-type Devil Fruit ability belonging to Aristotle the Avenger possesses a terrifying destructive power no less than that of a Logia-type Devil Fruit.

The Blood-Blood Fruit ability allows one to manipulate blood or link one's own condition to the blood stored in one's body.

The more blood one absorbs, the stronger one becomes.

To kill someone with this ability, you either need to evaporate all the blood from their body or capture their physical form.

This already troublesome ability, when combined with the bloodthirsty Shiryu, could indeed greatly enhance Shiryu's strength.

This improvement is definitely greater than that of the transparent fruit.

"Fine, since you insist, then let's do it. I don't mind."

Luo Xia smiled faintly, picked up the Heavenly Dragon Halberd, and turned to walk towards G1 Plaza.

Seeing that Shiryu was going to challenge Rorschach, Onigumo and the others, who had originally planned to go to the hospital for treatment, immediately became interested and gathered around the sidelines to watch the two fight.

Holding the wailing ghost tightly, Luo tightened his grip on the long sword, suppressing the urge to challenge Shiryu.

He knew that he was still far from being able to defeat or even draw with Shiryu.

Going up to challenge them now would only bring shame upon oneself.

Luo Xia and Shiliu quickly walked to the middle of the square and stood facing each other, several dozen meters apart.

Upon seeing this, thousands of G5 marines in the distance craned their necks and peered in this direction.

But no one dared to approach.

Because the murderous aura emanating from Onigumo and his ilk was simply too terrifying.

In particular, the moment Akainu appeared, these pirate prisoners from Impel Down were so frightened that they wanted to hide in the mud, fearing that they would attract Akainu's magma attack.

Gion watched the two about to clash, a hint of interest in her eyes.

"Rorschach is very strong, and Shiryu is not weak either. This battle should be very exciting."

As the G1 branch base leader who is stationed at G1, Gion has a very thorough understanding of Shiryu's strength.

This violent and extremely bloodthirsty man, when he first arrived here, was not weak, but there was still a big gap between him and her and Jiaji.

However, after a period of intense training and acquiring that evil Blood Blood ability, Shiryu's strength has surpassed that of veteran Marine Vice Admirals like Onigumo, and he is very close to becoming one of the two Admiral candidates.

While Gion was pondering this, the duel over there had already begun.

"One-Sword Style!"

Shiryu launched the first attack. The crimson light on the longsword in his hand surged, as if a crimson blade aura extending dozens of meters long from the blade. In an instant, it crossed dozens of meters and slashed vertically towards Rorschach's face.

"Asura Slash!"

"Shh!"

The sharp blade energy tore through the void, slicing a straight crack in the ground beneath their feet.

Luo Xia remained expressionless, twisting and raising the Heavenly Dragon Halberd in his hand, and flicking it towards the incoming crimson blade light.

"boom!"

The air within dozens of meters in front of him was compressed layer upon layer, like the most chaotic ocean currents colliding and exploding with a deafening roar.

A sudden, violent gust of wind swept across the square, making the onlookers lose their footing.

"Try my newly developed move! Styx Funeral!"

Shiryu stomped through the hard rocky ground, soaring into the sky, his demonic sword slashing down towards Rorschach's head.

As he slashed down, Shiryu's body split open, and a massive amount of viscous blood gushed out from his body like a waterfall. It intertwined and boiled in mid-air with the slashing light, like a raging, blood-red Styx, about to send Rorschach to the underworld for reincarnation!

“Not bad, it seems you are more suited to this ability than Biaristo.”

Luo Xia remained standing on the ground, without transforming, and once again swung his Heavenly Dragon Halberd towards the blood-red Styx River rushing from the sky.

This time, however, his entire right arm swelled up instantly, almost bursting through his highly elastic military uniform.

Thick tendons, like countless steel coils tied together, instantly unleashed unparalleled and terrifying power.

This was a strike using pure physical strength; not even the power of lightning was used.

The next moment!

"Shh!"

Before everyone's astonished eyes, a pure slash over a hundred meters long and more than ten meters wide erupted from the blade of the Heavenly Dragon Halberd, crashing head-on into the surging river of blood.

"boom!"

Amidst the deafening explosions, the towering river of blood unleashed a series of massive explosions, scattering the blood everywhere, as if a torrential rain of blood had fallen on G1 Island.

That pure strike, like a glowing city wall, swept upwards against the river of blood, crashing into the source of the blood river amidst Shiryu's furious roar, and striking him.

The speed and power of that slash were so great.

With a single slash, his body was shattered in mid-air, turning into a rain of blood.

Only then did Rorschach, standing on the ground, slightly bend his knees, tense his calf muscles, and shatter the ground with a thunderous crash, his body crackling with electricity.

"Whoosh!"

A hazy, illusory electric light still lingered in everyone's retinas.

The next moment, amidst the rain of blood, Luo Xia reached down with one hand, his palm swirling with deep blue domineering energy, and grabbed at a writhing mass of blood in mid-air.

"Crack!"

A crisp sound was followed by a muffled groan.

Then, the crowd below saw Shiryu's figure emerge from the constantly writhing mass of blood that looked no different from the surrounding blood splattering everywhere. Rorschach grabbed his face with one hand, raised his right hand high, and slammed it heavily onto the ground below.

"Fist bone! Falling from the seabed!"

Shiryu, whose face was grabbed by Rorschach, tried to struggle, but was horrified to find that his entire body was wrapped and imprisoned by a layer of solid, steel-like, deep blue Armament Haki that did not belong to him, and he could not move an inch.

Below, the ground was also covered by a layer of flowing, deep blue light.

This coverage is truly full.

At this moment, to the astonished gazes of Gion, Kakei, the Decalban brothers, and others, the G1 Plaza, spanning seven or eight kilometers in radius, beneath their feet had become a deep blue ocean.

Kake watched Shiryu plummet from the sky like a meteorite, muttering to himself.

"This is what a real ocean fall looks like."

"boom!"

Chapter 477 Akainu: I heard you sleep in the same room as Hibari?

Complete defeat!

Looking at Shiryu lying on the ground, mouth agape, eyes rolled back, unconscious from the fall, everyone was momentarily at a loss for words to describe their feelings.

Everything ended too quickly!

Before Gion and the others could even begin analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of both sides in various aspects, the outcome of the battle was already decided.

Shiryu of the Rain, who was so powerful and whose strength surpassed that of Onigumo and Kashoyama, fell at Rorschach's feet so easily.

As for Rorschach, he wasn't even forced to use his Mythical Zoan abilities.

No.

No one saw how he made a move. With just a swing, a slash, and a grab, he precisely caught Shiryu, whose true form was hidden in the rain of blood, and with a death throw, slammed him onto the ground covered in Haki, knocking him unconscious.

Deckard Ban and many other pirates were completely intimidated by their commander, Rorschach, simply by seeing the deep blue Haki ocean covering the entire G1 island. No one dared to harbor any other thoughts.

There's no way around it, this is terrifying.

The sheer scale of this structure, covering an entire island, is astounding. Is it even human?

They didn't understand Shiryu, and they didn't know how strong Shiryu was, so they only saw the surface of Rorschach defeating Shiryu in three moves.

However, Gion, Kakei, Onigumo, and others were well aware of Shiryu's strength.

Seeing that Rorschach had so easily defeated Shiryu, Gion felt that she could no longer see through this young boy.

Even now, a thought involuntarily popped into her mind.

Just how strong is Rorschach?

How does it compare to yourself, and to Kaji?

The more Gion thought about it, the more complicated her feelings became. She felt that all her years of hard work and cultivation had been in vain.

It was so easy for a newcomer to catch up with them, and they may even have already overtaken them.

Perhaps only someone with Rorschach's potential and speed of progress can be called a monster and be qualified to be promoted to general candidate?

Compared to him, I and Jiaji seem mediocre.

As she pondered this, Gion couldn't help but grip the hilt of the Kinpira sword at her waist and look at Rorschach.

"Rorschach, let's have a fight!"

Gion's clear and melodious voice rang out in the hall.

"Ah? No need, Vice Admiral Gion. My strength is still far inferior to yours and Vice Admiral Kake's. We are all candidates for general, so let's not compare."

Luo Xia chuckled, not responding to the challenge at all. The deep blue aura covering the entire square beneath his feet flowed back into his body like a receding tide.

The ground was quickly restored to its original state.

That deep blue, majestic ocean seemed like an illusion, as if it had never existed.

“You…” Gion wanted to say something, but was stopped by Kaji’s raised voice.

"Hahaha, Rorschach is right. His strength is still far behind ours. Rorschach, even if you defeat Shiryu, don't be arrogant, you know? Shiryu's level of skill is so low that he can't even beat one of my fingers. He doesn't deserve to come out and embarrass himself. That's a sign of a lack of self-awareness."

Jiaji clapped his hands, waved to the soldiers beside him to carry away the unconscious Shiryu, and looked at the crowd around him, saying, "Alright, alright, everyone, don't just stand there. Those who need treatment should go to the hospital. We'll meet at the G1 cafeteria later for a meal. Rorschach has a mission to attend to, so he probably won't have time to stay here for long. The situation in the New World is chaotic; those branch islands that have been occupied by pirates need to be reclaimed."