One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

Outside, the Sphinx, licking its wounds, suddenly felt its stomach churning violently, as if something was burrowing inside, causing it excruciating pain.

The intense pain caused the Sphinx to suddenly stand up from the ground and begin to roar wildly.

Because the problem was inside its belly, and it couldn't scratch it with its thick claws, it went berserk and began to frantically ram its huge body against the wall next to it, trying to stop the thing inside its belly from thrashing around.

Its massive body rammed wildly here, instantly creating a tremendous roar in the scorching hell.

Just then, the four pursuing jailer beasts saw the two flying feet and, as if attracted by a magnet, they flew down to the Sphinx's feet in a flash.

The dim-witted jailer beast charged forward without hesitation.

The Sphinx, which was frantically ramming against the wall, saw that the four Jailer Beasts, which had inexplicably smashed its head and left it bleeding, were relentlessly chasing after it and seemed to be about to attack it again. It went completely berserk, roaring as it charged forward, swinging its huge claws and swatting away the fastest Minotaur with one blow. Then it opened its mouth to bite the other three Jailer Beasts.

Immediately, the five beasts, which were not very intelligent to begin with, started attacking each other and got into a chaotic fight.

When Hannibal arrived, steaming and radiating immense heat, he saw the Jailer Beasts fighting amongst themselves. Bucky the Clown was nowhere to be seen, and Hannibal was furious.

He gritted his teeth, leaped up from a distance, and swung his fist, which shone with red light, at several jailer beasts that were already enraged.

"You bunch of idiots! What are you doing?! Where's Bucky the Clown?!"

As Hannibal's punch landed, the Sphinx, struck by the blow, let out a pitiful cry, its massive body crashing to the ground, its limbs kneeling on the ground.

The ground and walls, already cracked from the impact, suddenly began to crack and explode within a radius of tens of meters as the Sphinx's massive body knelt. To Hannibal's horror, the entire building collapsed and plummeted downwards.

The reason why the environment of this third level of the Hunger Hell is so hot is because the floor is deliberately built to be relatively thin, allowing the temperature of the fourth level of the Scorching Hell below to seep up from the floor and scorch the entire Hunger Hell.

Hannibal, the Sphinx, and the four-headed jailer were positioned directly above the blood pool of the scorching hell.

As the collapsing ceiling crashed down with several people, it struck the center of the boiling blood pool.

When Hannibal, whose body was radiating heat at thousands of degrees, fell into the already boiling blood pool, the huge blood pool, which was hundreds of meters in diameter, suddenly emitted a massive amount of blood-red steam, which squeezed and impacted in all directions.

"Boom!"

As expected, the riotous blood pool, like a volcano that had reached its breaking point, suddenly exploded.

Amidst a tremendous roar, hundreds of tons of blood shot into the sky, splashing everywhere and landing in the surrounding cells, scalding the prisoners and causing them to scream in agony.

At the bottom of the blood pool, the thinnest floor of the entire scorching hell was blasted apart by the massive explosion and collapsed again, falling towards the fifth level of the frigid hell below.

The floors of the extremely cold hell building are currently undergoing renovations.

The purpose of the renovation was to find all the tunnels in the LV5.5 transvestite amusement park that Rorschach had discovered, and then seal them all with cement.

Because there are so many underground tunnels in LV5.5 and the space is so large, the amount of work involved in this renovation is enormous. It has been ongoing for one or two years and is only now nearing completion.

At this moment, the final finishing touches are being done: using a large amount of cement to seal up the largest underground space, the Transvestite Paradise, located between the Extreme Cold Hell and the Infinite Hell.

When the heavy ceiling above them cracked open and thousands of tons of massive boulders crashed down, the prison guards who were working on the construction in the frigid hell were all stunned.

The next moment, a deafening explosion reverberated throughout Impel Down, causing the entire city to tremble.

The floor where the Extreme Cold Hell Transgender Paradise was located was struck by a series of massive boulders falling from above. The floor, which was already the most hollow part of the entire building, could no longer withstand the impact and collapsed instantly.

The prisoners in the Infinite Hell, bewildered by the series of massive tremors, hadn't even figured out what was happening outside when they heard a deafening explosion overhead. Then, the ceiling above them burst open, and thousands of tons of boulders crashed down.

Some cells in the center of the collapse were directly crushed and flattened by a large number of boulders.

The iron bars and pillars supporting the prison cells twisted, flew away, broke, and collapsed.

Dozens of high-ranking criminals, their life force waning, were smashed into mincemeat on the spot before they could even scream.

The Sphinx, the human-faced lion that fell with it, had its massive body, tens of meters long, slammed onto it by a floor slab hundreds of meters long and tens of meters thick. Its mouth opened wide, and it looked like a watermelon that had been flattened by a slap. Everything inside its belly shot out, and all sorts of foul-smelling substances were scattered everywhere.

Deep in the corridor, Barrett, who had been sitting against the wall, watched as a red-nosed head flew in through the gap in the cell bars in front of him, along with a bunch of keys hanging on the red nose. A surprised smile appeared on his rock-cold face.

"It's you, Buggy. Roger was right, you really are Roger's lucky star, hahahaha."

Chapter 666 The Beasts Unleashed

Magellan had just ascended to the Crimson Hell in the elevator when he immediately felt the floor beneath his feet tremble violently.

Not only was the Crimson Hell trembling, but at this moment, the entire Impel Down, towering on the seabed, was shaking violently.

Magellan's expression changed slightly.

This tremendous commotion could not have been caused by just a small crack in the wall reported in the Den Den Mushi.

Something else is definitely happening in Impel Down right now.

After traveling a short while longer, Magellan saw the seawater gradually calming down beneath his feet and knew that the breach in the walls of the Crimson Hell had been plugged by the Brugs with steel plates.

At the same time, the Den Den Mushi on his body rang urgently.

Magellan quickly answered the call and heard a panicked scream coming from the Den Den Mushi.

"Inspector Magellan! Something terrible has happened! The prisoners of Infinite Hell... Infinite Hell is escaping!"

"What??!"

Magellan's pupils suddenly contracted. Without the slightest hesitation, a large amount of purple venom gushed from the surface of his massive body, rapidly condensing into a winding purple venomous dragon above his head.

"Poison Dragon! Venomous Passage!"

Magellan's massive body, like a swimming fish, burrowed into the venomous dragon, and was carried back along the same path. At the same time, the reason for the prisoner's escape was transmitted through the special venomous Den Den Mushi in his hand.

The collapse of the floor slabs in the Hunger Hell triggered a chain reaction of floor collapses, which ultimately led to the collapse of the floor slabs in the Extreme Cold Hell, which is also the ceiling of the Infinite Hell.

As Magellan raced towards the Infinite Hell, he forced himself to remain calm while shouting, "Which cells collapsed? Who has been released?"

"Bar...Barrett, the devil's heir, Douglas Barrett...has come out!"

The prison guards on the other end of the monitoring room were trembling.

"What? Barrett is out? Did his cell collapse too?"

Magellan, inside the poisonous dragon's body, looked extremely grim.

The prisoners held in the Infinite Hell include both the strong and the weak.

Even if ordinary prisoners managed to escape after their cells collapsed, as long as they were still wearing the Seastone handcuffs, their extremely weak physical condition wouldn't allow them to cause much trouble.

But monsters like Barrett are different.

Although in recent months, Magellan has taken Rorschach's advice and significantly reduced Barrett's food rations.

But at Barrett's level, things usually can't be measured by common sense.

His physique has broken through the limits of human beings, reaching a realm that even Magellan did not understand.

Earlier, Rorschach and Magellan had discussed that Barrett's ability to maintain his stamina even when food was scarce was likely due to his ability to absorb nutrients from the air using a technique similar to that of a higher-level life form.

When he wasn't cultivating, he could conserve his energy and avoid any physical exertion by using a method similar to tortoise breathing.

These speculations may sound far-fetched, but they are not entirely unfounded.

Because during his year in Infinite Hell, Rorschach had used his powerful Observation Haki to sense the inhuman abilities of Barrett, Ryder, and the others.

Magellan was ready to face Barrett.

If we can subdue Barrett before he gets the Seastone key, there's still a chance to salvage the situation.

However, the answer from the jailer in the Den Den Mushi shattered the idea that had just surfaced in Magellan's mind.

"No... Barrett opened the cell door himself and walked out! He... he no longer has the Seastone handcuffs on him!"

Magellan did not ask why Barrett was able to unlock the handcuffs and cell door.

In the entire Impel Down, only the two wardens possessed cells containing infinite hell and the handcuffs and keys.

He usually keeps his keys in his office.

There's only one reason why Barrett was able to come out!

"Hannibal!"

At this very moment, in the infinite hell!

"Bar...Bar...Barrett??"

Bucky, whose hair had fallen out from being soaked in the Sphinx's stomach acid, stared at the terrifying man holding his head in his hand, his brain completely shutting down.

Barrett casually tossed his head aside, took the bunch of keys, and unlocked the sea stone shackles that had bound him for twenty years.

The sound of heavy chains crashing to the floor echoed through the Infinite Hell, instantly plunging the previously noisy and bustling Infinite Hell, which had been filled with the commotion of the collapsing ceiling, into an eerie silence.

Barrett twisted his thick neck, his five- or six-meter-tall frame draped in tattered prison clothes, and slowly pushed open the key-locked cell door, stepping into the corridor outside.

The screeching sound of the rusty cell door opening was like the ignition of explosives, instantly shattering the entire Infinite Hell.

At that moment, all the prisoners went into a hysterical frenzy, throwing themselves against the cell bars and desperately pleading and shouting towards Barrett.

"Barrett! Please let me out! I'm willing to follow you!"

"Barrett! Lord Barrett! Just let me out, my life is yours! I still have a country in the New World, you can have that too! Let me out! Please!"

Barrett seemed oblivious to the frantic screams of the surrounding prisoners. He simply turned slowly, looked at the cells on his left, weighed the keychain in his hand, and then casually tossed it aside.

The keychain flew precisely through the gap in the fence and was caught by a withered, claw-like hand.

"You...you're going to let me go?"

A hoarse voice, like the scraping of rust, drifted from the dark cell.

Then, a withered, thin old man with an exceptionally neatly combed head of silver hair emerged from the darkness, staring at the mountain-like Barrett with lifeless eyes.

Looking at the old man in front of him, who was not even as big as one of his own arms, Barrett slowly grinned.

"That's right, I want you to get out of here, find a way to become young again, become strong, and become the Lone Red who could single-handedly fight against the Roger Pirates and the Whitebeard Pirates. And then... I'll kill you!"

"Roger is dead, Shiki is dead, and Whitebeard is dying soon. There aren't many of the strongest people left on this sea. Hehehehehe, I wonder how many more will make me experience the joy of defeat, hahahaha."

In the darkness, Barrett's smile was like that of a devil, echoing in the dim, endless hell.

"No! I will never allow you to escape from here!" Suddenly, a voice interrupted his laughter.

"Hmm?" Barrett looked in the direction of the sound and saw a crimson light, like lava, shining in the darkness.

It was a tall figure standing on the collapsed floorboards, leaning on a long sword.

Upon seeing the man's appearance, the prisoner let out a disdainful sneer from the darkness.

"Hehehe, who do we have here? It's that idiot Hannibal."

"A piece of trash that I could crush with one hand. In this shitty Impel Down, everyone except Magellan is shit."