One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

A spiked club wreathed in black and red lightning blasted through the air before him, striking the unsuspecting Kizaru in the chest with a furious, powerful thrust, shattering his body and sending him hurtling backward.

"Huh? Am I seeing things? Kaido's daughter is actually helping Whitebeard?"

Amidst the billowing dust, Kizaru emerged, a trickle of blood seeping from the corner of his mouth, and looked at Yamato with a surprised expression.

Yamato didn't reply, but just looked in Rorschach's direction.

Aokiji, who was freezing pirates with a vast expanse of cold air in the distance, was also stopped and frowned as he looked at Ikki, who was descending from the sky.

"That's probably not like you, is it? *laughs*"

"The stakes have been placed, how can I back out halfway? If I'm wrong, I'm willing to pay the price. Besides, this war led by your navy may not be entirely just, don't you think, Aokiji?" Ichisho slowly drew his cane sword.

On the execution platform, two figures suddenly appeared in front of Ace, startling Ace, Teach, and Sengoku.

"Ace!"

"Ace! We've come to save you!"

Two familiar voices simultaneously entered Ace's ears, causing his body to tremble violently. He opened his eyes wide in disbelief, looking at Sabo and Luffy who appeared before him as if in a dream.

"Sabo! Luffy!"

"Rorschach was right; someone did indeed try to sabotage things. However, I didn't expect that the person who came would not only be Ichisho, but also the Revolutionary Army's chief of staff, Rayleigh, and Kaido's daughter!"

Zhan Guo's face was gloomy, and suddenly his body began to radiate a dazzling golden light, and his body continued to expand and grow larger.

"Can anyone tell me what kind of group you are?"

Chapter 663 The Red-Haired Pirates Are Stopped

Just as the great battle at Marineford was raging like a raging fire.

Two days ago, in the New World, on the edge of the Totland Sea.

On the Redford, Shanks's face gradually darkened as he watched the coated ships and submarines emerging from the surrounding sea.

Shanks frowned deeply as he looked at the prominent NEO naval flags on those ships.

"Zeff! Didn't you betray the Navy? Why are you trying to stop me?"

Directly in front of him, on a camouflaged ship breaking through the water, Zepha, with a lit cigar in his mouth, stood at the bow looking in his direction.

Upon hearing Shanks' question, Zephyr's lips curled up, revealing a mouthful of white teeth: "Anything that's bad for pirates is a good thing. And what we NEO Marines love to do most is good things."

"Aren't you going to back down no matter what? To be honest, your reputation on the high seas is quite good. I really don't want to kill you unless absolutely necessary." Shanks' right hand gripped the hilt of the Griffin sword at his waist, and a storm-like aura rose slowly from his not-so-tall body.

"Kill me? If you can, then come on!"

Zeff grinned, waved his hand, and pointed towards the Redford, where Shanks was.

"Fire!"

"Buzzing buzzing..."

A continuous humming sound came from the dozens of ships surrounding the Redford.

Accompanying these buzzing sounds were dazzling golden lights.

The next instant, beams of scorching laser light shot out from all directions of the sea toward Shanks and the others.

"What on earth is going on? Why did that old guy Zephyr intercept us halfway to Marine Headquarters?" Yasopp asked, taking the sniper rifle off his back.

"It's no surprise that this was Vice Admiral Bluescale's doing. I never expected that he would even think of our going to help Whitebeard and specially arranged for Zephyr to be waiting for us on the way. However, if you want to stop us, you'll have to send at least three Marine Admirals. One Zephyr isn't enough."

Watching the golden beams of light slicing through the sea, Beckman slowly took a drag of his cigarette, twirled his flintlock pistol, and fired several shots at the incoming laser beams.

"Bang bang bang!"

The jet-black bullets whistled out of the barrel at incredible speed, and surprisingly, they arrived first, precisely intercepting several small beams of light above the sea before the laser beams reached the Redford. The beams collided with each other, causing a massive explosion.

At the same time, Yasopp, Lakiru, Dego, and others on the ship all took action, drawing their guns or swords and firing bullets at the incoming lasers, unleashing slashing attacks that shattered the dazzling laser beams in mid-air.

Clusters of flames shot into the sky from the sea, the shockwaves causing the Redford to sway violently.

Shanks, who was at the bow of the ship, had long since disappeared.

Zefa narrowed his eyes, and in the mechanical arm of his right arm, gears whirred and scalding steam spewed from honeycomb-like vents. Suddenly, he punched the void beside him.

A longsword wreathed in black and red lightning appeared silently and slashed horizontally toward his neck.

"Clang!"

The longsword and the mechanical arm clashed with a loud bang. Zefa's feet sank, and the deck beneath him could not withstand the enormous force pressing down from above, causing the wooden planks to crack.

Shanks appeared like a ghost, wielding Griffin in one hand. His longsword pressed down on Zephyr's mechanical arm, sending him flying with a single blow. Zephyr crashed through the deck, shattering the mast and cabin behind him.

"What a bizarre movement technique! Even my Observation Haki couldn't sense your appearance beforehand. I could only detect you the instant you drew your sword. What kind of move is this?"

In the wrecked cabin, Zeff glanced at a gaping hole in the mechanical arm and looked in surprise at Shanks standing on the broken deck.

"you guess?"

Shanks did not answer, but a terrifying Conqueror's Haki rose from his body, bursting forth like a vast sky.

A burst of Conqueror's Haki, like an apocalyptic storm, erupted from his body, expanding rapidly and sweeping across a radius of several thousand meters of sea in an instant. Wherever it passed, the Neo Marines on the ships and submarines that had come with Zephyr collapsed and fell unconscious without any doubt.

Not only the marines, but even the best generals under Zephyr, such as Shuzo, Ein, and Binz, were all struck by the monstrous lightning bolts, their legs went weak, their vision went white, and they suddenly knelt down, gritting their teeth, with fine beads of cold sweat on their foreheads, and breathing heavily.

Even the masts and sails of some ships were cracked and destroyed by the shock.

Shanks released his aura and then immediately withdrew it.

When that aura, as powerful as the heavens, receded back into his body, on the surrounding sea, apart from Zephyr and a few disciples who were still struggling, only the neo pacifists who had no self-awareness remained standing.

Sensing the fleeting, terrifying aura emanating from Shanks, Zephyr's smile vanished, replaced by a solemn expression.

"Such powerful Conqueror's Haki, almost on par with Roger. Red-Haired Shanks, we thought we thought we had given you enough credit, but we still underestimated you."

Shanks gripped the Griffin sword, pointing it at Zeff. "I'll ask you one more time, step back, Zeff?"

"Step over my dead body, if you can."

Zephyr stomped his feet, and jet-black Armament Haki, like flowing black flames, emanated from his body and wrapped around the giant mechanical arm.

"boom!"

Half of the ship beneath his feet exploded with a deafening roar, and his burly body charged toward Shanks like a phantom, his mechanical arm, wrapped in top-tier Armament Haki, rising high before crashing down heavily.

"Crush the blaster!"

Shanks' eyes turned cold, and without saying another word, he unleashed a slash with his sword, Griffin, which was wreathed in a frenzy of Conqueror's Haki.

"Entangle! Divine Evasion!"

"Clang!"

The heavy mechanical arm trembled violently under Griffin's slashes. Shanks's overwhelming Armament Haki and Conqueror's Haki continuously penetrated Griffin's blade and slammed into Zephyr's mechanical arm, destroying the mechanical structure inside.

The violent aura emanating from the two caused the ship beneath their feet to continuously disintegrate and crumble, teetering on the brink of collapse and sinking to the bottom of the sea.

The wooden plank beneath Zephyr's feet shattered, leaving him suspended in mid-air. Yet, the air beneath his feet swirled and propelled him to swing his mechanical arm in countless phantoms. The single explosive test tube inside activated, unleashing a powerful blast that crashed down upon Shanks.

"Smash the short-sleeved shirt!"

Shanks swung his Griffin sword at lightning speed, unleashing hundreds of strikes in an instant, precisely catching the mechanical arm that Zephyr was launching.

"Clang clang clang!"

With each powerful slash, a deep crack would appear on Zeff's mechanical arm. Even with his top-tier Armament Haki armor, Zeff couldn't completely defend against Shanks's attacks.

After hundreds of slashes, with a deafening roar, the heavy mechanical arm on Zephyr's right arm finally succumbed to the strain and disintegrated, shattering completely under Shanks's longsword.

Zephyr's clothes exploded, revealing his jet-black upper body, as he faced Shanks' terrifying Overlord Slash.

"If you don't retreat, then die! Zephyr!"

Shanks' eyes narrowed, and a dazzling burst of overwhelming lightning erupted from Griffin's longsword as he slashed towards Zephyr's chest.

Facing the ultimate slash that could easily tear the ocean apart, Zephyr remained fearless, his jet-black right arm delivering a powerful punch to the Griffin blade flashing with tyrannical thunder.

Meanwhile, on the Redford behind Shanks, Yasopp and Beckman's flintlock pistols were like cannons capable of long-range sniping, taking down pacifists one by one with each shot. The bullets easily pierced the eyes of the pacifists and blew their skulls off.

Judging from the current situation, barring any unforeseen circumstances, Zephyr's Neo Navy is likely to be completely annihilated here.

Just as Beckman was thinking this, Shanks, who was about to slash at Zeff's face with his sword, suddenly changed his expression and looked at Zeff in surprise.

"This isn't Haki! This is... a Devil Fruit ability? The infamous Black Arm Zephyr... is actually a Devil Fruit user?"

He watched as his Griffin sword, which he had unleashed, constantly deviated from its intended trajectory. Driven by Zephyr's casually swung fist, it drifted in all directions, with only a small portion of the strikes hitting Zephyr. However, these were blocked by his powerful Armament Haki. Although they left many wounds on Zephyr's body, none of them struck Zephyr's vitals.

Shanks grew increasingly alarmed as the fight progressed. Suddenly, a thought flashed through his mind, his pupils contracted sharply, and he stared intently at Zephyr, who was suspended in mid-air.

"Wait! What is this ability of yours?!"

"You figured it out?" Zefa grinned, his burly body suddenly soaring into the sky, hundreds of meters above the ground, and grabbing at the sea below.

The next moment, a deafening roar resounded across the sea within a radius of a kilometer.

Millions upon millions of tons of seawater, under the influence of an invisible force, suddenly began to spin, instantly transforming into a colossal whirlpool with a diameter of over a thousand meters, causing the entire vast sea surface to tremble and vibrate.

Beckman and the others, who had been smiling confidently, instantly lost their smiles and turned pale with horror when they saw the enormous vortex that suddenly formed beneath the Redford.

"What? That old bastard Zeff with Black Arm! Yasopp! Take him down!" Beckman said, raising his flintlock pistol and aiming at Zeff who was flying into the air with Yasopp, firing bullets wrapped in Armament Haki one after another.

However, faced with these armed bullets that could blow up a pacifist with a single shot, Zephyr simply stretched out his large hand and waved it in front of him.

The air flowed in front of him, and the whistling bullets seemed to suddenly lose their momentum, drifting away as lightly as feathers.

"Damn whirlpool! Shanks! What do we do?" From the Redford, which was being swept into the whirlpool by the seawater, came the anxious voices of Lucky Lu and the others.

"This is troublesome." Shanks's face was also very ugly. He quickly returned to the ship, but he couldn't think of any good solutions.

At this moment, dozens of Neo Navy ships and submarines, which had been pulled by the whirlpool, broke free of the sea and flew into the sky, floating around Zephyr.

Watching the Redford being gradually swallowed by the whirlpool, Zephyr smiled heartily, took a cigar from his pocket, put it in his mouth, snapped his fingers, and lit the cigar.

"Rorschach is right. Devil Fruit abilities are indeed more convenient to use than Haki."

Chapter 664 Bucky the Clown Forgotten by Rorschach

The time was moved forward by two hours.

When Whitebeard caused a massive earthquake in Paradise, Impel Down was destroyed.