One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

His tall, blood-stained body was covered in blood, and the skin on his body began to burn and turn red.

Wisps of scorching steam escaped from his pores, distorting the air around his white beard and making his figure appear even taller and more imposing.

Marco, his eyes filled with sorrow, nodded emphatically, asking no more questions. He held Ace tightly and shouted towards Jozu and Vista in the distance, "Jozu! Vista! Retreat! Back to the New World!"

However, no one responded to his calls.

Marco stared intently, and his entire body instantly turned ice-cold.

Jozu, Vista, and the others responsible for holding off Rorschach are still engaged in a fierce and fearless battle.

But apart from Rorschach, there was no one else in sight beside them.

The other white team leaders who had rushed to the square to provide support all fell in pools of blood.

Squad Leader Bramank, Squad Leader Curiel, Aboita, captain of the vassal pirate crew, Andre, Elwan, King...

One by one, the famous pirate captains of the New World and the renowned powerhouses with bounties of hundreds of millions of Berries were all turned into cold, broken corpses.

Rorschach's eyes remained icy cold throughout, his face filled with murderous intent, and his tall body, like his white beard, constantly emitted a blood-red mist.

He stomped down, crushing Blackman's corpse into a bloody pulp, and then unleashed a powerful right punch, leaving a trail of bloody afterimages in the air before striking the twin blades that Vista was slashing at.

With a resounding clang, Vista's twin blades slashed through Rorschach's finger bones, sending sparks flying as he was blasted away by Rorschach's punch.

Diamond Jozu suddenly appeared, intending to use his invincible diamond defense to block Rorschach once again, giving Vista time to regroup and return to the battlefield.

However, at this moment, he no longer had any other White Team leaders as teammates, and he was left to fight against Luo Xia alone.

Rorschach's power is even more terrifying than it was a few months ago on Satch Island!

If we consider their encounter a few months ago, Jozu was confident that he could block Rorschach's attack with his diamond-like ultimate defense and powerful Armament Haki.

Now, he no longer has that idea.

He's just putting on a brave face right now.

This defeat of Vista became Joz's doom.

With a sharp, snapping sound like a bowstring being pulled, Rorschach's emaciated body returned to its original robust form. Then, in Jozu's eyes, his muscles swelled, and thick tendons on his body taut like pythons, making him appear much larger.

Having deactivated the Limit Break mode, which balanced the increase in both speed and power, Rorschach reverted to the Overload mode, which simply increased power.

Countless crimson lightning bolts flickered and rippled across the surface of his imposing body.

An imposing aura, like a mountain, swept over Joz.

"not good!"

Alarm bells rang in Jozu's mind, and his entire body instantly transformed into diamond. A thick armor of Armament Haki emerged clearly, compressing wildly and covering the surface of his diamond body, seemingly strengthening him.

At the same time, he swung his thick right arm, advancing instead of retreating, leaping high into the air, and punching Rorschach in the face.

"Dazzling Punch!"

"Oh!"

Luo Xia stood firmly on the ground, taking the full force of the punch. His face was smashed, and his long, blood-red hair, like countless blood vessels, flew wildly in mid-air.

"Zizzizi..."

The raging lightning seemed to become the blood within Rorschach's body, coursing through his veins, muscles, cells, and bones, making Rorschach's power grow ever greater.

Without any warning, his left hand reached out and grabbed Joz's wrist before Joz could retract his diamond fist that had slammed into Rorschach's face, lifting him into the air.

"let go!"

Joz gritted his teeth, his legs blurring into a blur, like two cannon shots blasting towards Rorschach's chest.

However, even faster than him was Rorschach's right fist that slammed into him.

"boom!"

With a giant arm over four meters long, comparable to Jozu's height, and a massive right fist that resembled a giant hammer swung by a god, Jozu's diamond-like body shot up like a rocket, shattering the thick, imposing armor covering his body.

Its diamond-like body also made a cracking sound, as if it was about to turn into countless diamond parts that scattered down.

However, Joz's eyes remained fierce, showing little fear.

His diamond-like defenses made him insensitive to pain.

Just as Joz was about to muster his strength and kick at him again, Rorschach suddenly pulled Joz's left hand, which was gripping him, into his arms. His huge arm tightened around Joz's thick neck like a tight band.

His right hand opened, expanded again, and transformed into a jet-black Qilin claw, gripping Jozu's head.

At this moment, Jozu finally felt the breath of death.

He struggled violently, trying to break free from Rorschach's grip on his left arm.

But no matter how hard he struggled, it was to no avail.

Rorschach's arm was as steady as a rock, and the power it contained was ten times more terrifying than that of the giant who ate the Strength-Strength Fruit.

Joz felt as if his body was chained together with bundles of seastone, and then his head was bitten by a sea king that was thousands of meters long.

He heard his own neck making unbearable cracking sounds.

His diamond-like body is breaking down into tiny diamonds.

Rorschach's right hand, transformed into a Qilin claw, slowly twisted around Joz's neck, like unscrewing a lid.

With a series of cracking sounds, the light in Joz's eyes gradually faded.

In the distance came the painful screams of Vista and Marco, but Rorschach paid no heed.

After twisting it a few more times, he had a diamond-like head in his hand.

At that moment, Rorschach felt the ground beneath his feet tremble.

The atmosphere above the ground was also vibrating.

Rorschach looked up and saw a man with a completely reddish-white beard walking towards him step by step.

As Whitebeard approached, a vast and mighty aura, like the power of heaven, gradually emanated from his imposing body.

The terrifying aura transformed into a tangible, overwhelming storm of color, sweeping across the islands and sea surface within a radius of tens of kilometers of Marineford.

Wherever the Conqueror's Haki storm passed, marines coughed up blood and fell unconscious.

Some marines who were already seriously injured were killed instantly by the shockwave.

Not only that, Whitebeard also unleashed a powerful air tremor that shattered the atmosphere, right before the horrified eyes of Sengoku, Aokiji, and the others, as the ice surface of the inner bay was exposed.

The atmosphere shattered with a loud bang, and a shockwave, like a flood bursting its banks, swept across the ground thousands of meters in front of the square in a fan shape, like an angry dragon emerging from the sea, and crashed down on the largest group of sea soldiers on the inner bay's ice surface.

Golden light shone in Sengoku's hands. The golden Buddha leaped high and then swooped down, blocking the torrent of shockwaves. It unleashed a golden Buddha palm in the opposite direction, creating a golden shockwave in an attempt to block Whitebeard's shockwave.

However, as soon as the golden Buddha landed, its more than ten-meter-tall body was blasted away like a piece of duckweed by the massive shockwave, smashing through the ice behind it and breaking the bones of the marines and pirates behind it.

Wherever the terrifying shockwave passed, the ice surface crumbled and shattered into the finest ice shards.

Just after joining forces with Fire Mountain and others to kill King Ghoul and Fossa, the captains of the Whitebeard Pirates, Vice Admirals Strobelli and others from the Marine Headquarters had not yet recovered from their victory when their bodies shattered in this terrifying shockwave, turning into clouds of blood mist that exploded outwards.

At the same time, four giant vice admirals and thousands of elite naval officers were also blown up.

"White beard."

Rorschach tossed aside the severed head of Joz in his hand, and the stray crimson lightning tangled into strands of crimson ribbons that wrapped around his body.

"Kid, I won't let you live to enter the new era."

The white-bearded man parted his lips, exhaling a puff of hot white steam, and stood ten meters away from Rorschach, watching him.

Rorschach stared silently at the white-bearded man, a dark, blood-red glint spreading across his azure eyes. A sinister smile gradually spread across his lips.

"You can't do it, because I will take your head and ascend to the pinnacle of this new era. Whitebeard, your era is over!"

"Want to take my head? Then come on!"

Whitebeard clenched his right fist, and a white shockwave appeared on his fist, carrying explosive black and red lightning, and punched towards Rorschach.

Rorschach's massive body trailed wisps of blood-red ribbons as he charged straight at Whitebeard's Overwhelming Void Tremor, meeting it head-on with a punch!

On the broken ice floes in front of the inner bay, Sengoku shouted with a drastic change in expression, "Everyone! Evacuate Marineford!!"

Chapter 673 Relentless Pursuit

"All troops, listen up! Withdraw from Marineford immediately! Sentomaru! Where is Sentomaru?!"

A hoarse roar echoed from the broken ice in front of the inner bay.

"Marshal of the Warring States! I...I'm here!"

At the junction of the inner bay dam and the ice surface, which had been destroyed by Bai Hu's air blast, a round figure emerged from a pile of ruins mixed with broken ice and mud. It coughed a few times, spat out the mud in its mouth, and responded to Zhan Guo's shout at the top of its lungs.

"Immediately contact the soldiers in the underground laboratory and raise the enclosure wall!" The golden Buddha, the incarnation of Sengoku, shrank and stomped on the floating ice shards in front of him with a few leaps and bounds. He quickly approached and casually pulled Bepo, who was half-submerged in the cold seawater and was sinking with some strength, out of the water.

"Huh? We need to raise the encirclement wall? But... the encirclement wall operation has failed, we still need to evacuate from the island, and many of the gears used to raise the encirclement wall are damaged..."

"It's alright! Raise as many as you can! We're not going to continue the encirclement operation, but rather to block the aftershocks of the battle on the island. Whitebeard has gone mad; he wants to completely destroy Marineford, and Rorschach is fighting him right now."

Sengoku interrupted Sentomaru and quickly explained a few things.

"Yes! I'll contact them right away!" Sentomaru was startled and quickly took out a red button and pressed it.

This is a device used to communicate unidirectionally with the staff of the underground laboratory that the enclosure wall can be activated.

"Brother Rorschach is fighting Whitebeard? Grandpa Sengoku! Isn't this dangerous? Should we help? I mean, Whitebeard is, after all, the strongest man in the world..."

In the sky above the Warring States period, a lark's worried voice could be heard from a large white cloud floating in the sky.

On that cloud, which was hundreds of meters in diameter, was a large group of wounded marines, making it look like a small floating island.

Sengoku tossed Bepo, whom he was carrying, up and said in a deep voice, "Don't worry, Rorschach should be able to handle it now. His Devil Fruit ability is awakening. Whitebeard is already at his limit; he's nearing the end of his life and is just holding on. Trust Rorschach; he can always create miracles."

"Brother Rorschach's Devil Fruit ability is awakening?" Hibari's astonished face appeared on the cloud.

Hibari knew that the awakening of a Devil Fruit was an extremely powerful force that could cause a qualitative leap in the user's strength.

For example, Charlotte Katakuri is an awakened user of the Mochi Mochi Fruit.

He managed to turn a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit into a Logia-type fruit after it awakened.

Doflamingo is another Devil Fruit user who has awakened his powers.

It's just that the String-String Fruit's foundation is somewhat weak; otherwise, Doflamingo's strength would be even greater.