One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

Amidst the billowing dust, a blurry, blood-red giant shadow flashed past Whitebeard's eyes, instantly closing in, wielding a black halberd wreathed with black and red lightning, thrusting straight at his face.

"1.8 Billion Volts of Overpower! Star Piercer!!"

Whitebeard's attacks always seemed to be the ultimate burst of power, without many special moves.

The Murakumogiri he held in his hand vibrated the air as it was thrust out with a thunderous roar, its tip striking the tip of the incoming Heavenly Dragon Halberd with unparalleled precision.

Two of the world's finest swords clashed together like needles against wheat awns.

"Clang!"

A deafening roar, like the wind shattering clouds and splitting rocks, exploded between the two, causing even the white-bearded man to frown.

At the same time, he was also shaken.

In his perception, Luo Xia's aura and the power he unleashed seemed to be continuously increasing.

The momentum seemed to be rising without end.

The Conqueror's Haki-infused attack it unleashed was also constantly evolving, drawing ever closer to itself.

This made Whitebeard feel somewhat emotional.

The Rorschach before me is so similar to Roger and Garp back then.

These are all combat-oriented talents, allowing them to rapidly improve themselves through constant battles and intense life-or-death struggles.

Such people, as long as they don't die prematurely, are born strongmen and are destined to stand at the pinnacle of their era.

Similarly, when such a person rises like a comet, countless outstanding individuals will fall at his feet.

Just like this war today.

As Whitebeard's thoughts drifted slightly, a tearing pain shot through his body, and a deep, bone-revealing gash burst open on his right shoulder.

As soon as Luo Xia's Heavenly Dragon Halberd touched Whitebeard's Murakumogiri, it separated. With a flick of his wrist, the Heavenly Dragon Halberd changed from a straight thrust to a vertical slash. A dazzling blood-red slash erupted from the broad halberd blade, tearing through Whitebeard's imposing armor with a hiss, leaving a deep wound on his shoulder.

The intense pain jolted Whitebeard out of his daze, jolting him awake. He gripped the Murakumogiri with both hands and slashed at the Tenryu Halberd, which had changed from a vertical to a horizontal slash and was trying to sever his head with a single blow, sending the Tenryu Halberd flying.

Whitebeard's tall frame suddenly bent low, unleashing a shockwave beneath his feet. He leaped into the air like a rocket, his massive body spinning with incredible agility as he charged forward, carrying his Murakumogiri sword as it whistled towards Rorschach's neck.

Rorschach's muscles tensed, his massive body instantly shrank, and he re-entered Limit Break mode. His body crackled with electricity, and his speed exploded to the extreme. He vanished from in front of Whitebeard as if by teleportation and appeared behind him, slashing at Whitebeard's waist and abdomen with his halberd.

"bass!"

With a crisp sound, Whitebeard's Murakumogiri missed Rorschach and immediately plunged into the ground. His free left hand then spread open and grabbed at the blade of Rorschach's Heavenly Dragon Halberd.

"Buzz buzz!"

"bass!"

A white, spherical shockwave emerged from his palm, constantly vibrating the atmosphere and space above it. This caused Luo Xia's Heavenly Dragon Halberd to get stuck in his palm, as if blocked by an invisible wall of energy, preventing him from continuing to strike.

Seeing that he couldn't strike, Luo Xia immediately changed his move. With a flick of his wrist, boundless power erupted, and the Heavenly Dragon Halberd was instantly retracted and grasped by his hands.

"Boom!"

A deafening thunderous roar erupted from the Heavenly Dragon Halberd, and streaks of blood-red lightning, as thick as buckets, shot out from Luo Xia's body, entangled with the Heavenly Dragon Halberd, as if enlarging the halberd in his hand by hundreds of meters out of thin air.

He gripped the hundreds-of-meters-long battle halberd that roared with lightning in both hands and unleashed a devastating slash at Whitebeard's head.

"Eighteen Billion Volts of Overpowering Entanglement! Star-Splitting Slash!"

A massive amount of deep blue Haki, like a tsunami, surged out of Rorschach's body, pouring into the lightning flashing in his hand, and crashing towards Whitebeard.

Whitebeard stepped back with his right foot, stepped forward with his left, lowered his waist and gripped his sword. A terrifying energy wave emanated from the blade, and he slashed upwards at Rorschach's Thunder Halberd.

"Entangle! Void Slash!"

Two long-handled heavy weapons, crackling with Conqueror's Haki, carrying the ultimate power of both Rorschach and Whitebeard, instantly swept through the air and clashed together.

"Clang!"

A tremendous roar that resounded throughout the heavens and earth exploded in the sky above Marineford.

Then, on Marineford Island beneath their feet, the ground surged and rolled in all directions like raging waves, the entire island appearing as if it had been plowed through, instantly becoming unrecognizable.

With a series of cracking sounds, amidst the earth-shaking tremors, a massive, bottomless abyss rift split open from east to west across Marineford, cleaving the entire island in two.

The newly erected enclosure on the inner bay dike was thrown into the air by the terrifying impact, and before the horrified eyes of the navy and pirates, it tumbled and crashed into the sea with a thunderous roar.

The steel walls, weighing tens of tons, were torn apart like pieces of paper by the terrifying shockwave.

A visible ring of shockwave swept outwards from Marineford Island, shattering countless ice floes and sending countless marines and pirates who couldn't escape flying.

The vast battlefield had essentially come to a halt due to the earth-shattering fighting between the two men on the island.

Apart from a few battlefields where fighting was taking place, everyone else was fleeing for their lives, desperately trying to get away from Marineford and retreat to the more distant sea.

At the center of the split island, Whitebeard and Rorschach each had a huge wound that almost split their bodies in two.

The white beard cut diagonally from the right shoulder to the left rib.

Through the torn muscle fissures, one could vaguely see a beating heart inside, and blood gushed out, staining his chest and trousers red.

The two men, each holding a weapon, stood facing each other across the crack in front of them.

On Rorschach's body, opposite Whitebeard, was a cut that stretched diagonally from his left shoulder to his right abdomen.

His nearly ten-meter-tall body was also stained with crimson blood.

Rorschach's blood gushed out as if it were free, the amount of blood he lost was several times that of Whitebeard.

The cut-open abdomen even revealed the intestines wriggling inside.

He was just a hair's breadth away from having his intestines shredded by Whitebeard's empty slash.

Not only that, but bloody cracks appeared all over Luo Xia's skin and muscles.

This was caused by the unstoppable shockwave from Whitebeard, which blasted into his body, shaking his flesh from the inside out and causing severe damage.

At this moment, Rorschach's injuries appeared to be much more severe than those of Whitebeard opposite him.

What's puzzling is that Rorschach's life force didn't weaken; instead, it kept increasing.

Like cooking oil over a raging fire!

It was as if Whitebeard's slash had broken some kind of shackles on his life, allowing him to enter a higher level of existence.

Flashing arcs of electricity could be seen in the blood flowing from his body.

It seemed as if lightning and blood flowed simultaneously in his veins.

The first thing to change was Rorschach's eyes.

His deep blue vertical pupils seemed to have completely lost the emotions that humans should have, becoming even more majestic, and faintly tinged with darkness, as if showing a ruthless indifference to all living beings.

Then gradually, the bleeding from his body stopped, and the huge, narrow wound on his body rapidly grew new muscles and blood vessels that adhered to each other and healed completely in an instant, leaving only a hideous centipede-like scar embedded on his body.

Then, clusters of jet-black flames erupted from Luo Xia's imposing body, seemingly drawn by the crimson lightning that flickered behind him, forming winding, swirling streaks of light behind him and above his head.

Scales peeled off his body, falling off in a soft rustling sound, and then new scales grew.

The newly grown scales were even more azure and lustrous, like fish scale armor crafted from the finest metal, draped over Rorschach's body.

A pair of fiery red dragon horns on its head continued to grow upwards, becoming thicker and sprouting more branches that intertwined on Luo Xia's head, as if forming a crown of thorns.

The bones inside the body are growing with a crackling sound, the muscles are stretching, the internal organs are becoming more resilient, and the blood is rushing and flowing through the blood vessels.

Even without entering overload mode, the blood flow rate was comparable to the previous overload mode, making Luo Xia feel like a high-speed engine.

Power bursts forth continuously from every cell in the body.

Click click click click!

An even more breathtaking scene unfolded.

Thick, black bone spurs protruded from Rorschach's shoulders, elbows, knees, and fists, exuding a sharp and hard aura.

He seemed to have transformed into a perfect killing machine, recklessly radiating a terrifying aura of danger.

At the same time, a tremendous will awakened within Luo Xia's body.

Chapter 675 The Will of the Demon

Rorschach remembered Magellan telling him that the awakening of Devil Fruits, while granting users greater power, also brings corresponding dangers.

Of the three types of Devil Fruits, the awakening of Zoan-type abilities is the most dangerous.

The four jailer beasts in Impel Down are what Zoan-type Devil Fruits look like after failing to awaken.

They can no longer return to human form and will forever remain in their human-beast form.

Rorschach asked Magellan and Lilith about this many times.

According to Lilith, the moment a Zoan-type Devil Fruit ability awakens, a will is born within the user's body.

Lilith called this will the will of the devil.

If a person with superpowers cannot overcome this will upon awakening, they will be devoured by the demon and become a beast without reason or self.

If one can overcome the will that gives birth to it, one can completely control one's own abilities; this is the awakening of the fruit.

The higher the intensity of the awakened ability, the stronger the will born within the fruit, and the greater the danger the user faces.

At this moment, Luo Xia clearly felt that a vast, chaotic will was being born within his body.

The feeling is amazing, like having two souls existing inside one person, and these two souls can even transmit their consciousness to each other.

The instant this immense will appeared, a chaotic, frenzied consciousness, like dumping garbage, violently flooded into Luo Xia's mind, as if trying to burst his brain, causing him excruciating headaches.

This chaotic consciousness is filled with endless negative emotions.

At that moment, it was as if a huge, frenzied voice was roaring and babbling incessantly in Luo Xia's mind.

"Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill everything in front of me! Chew up and devour the flesh and blood of those ants! Everyone in this world except me is an ant, a lowly being! Trample this world under my feet and enslave those lowly beings! Storm! Thunder! Power! Dominate everything!"

Luo Xia groaned and involuntarily pressed his forehead. Crimson blood vessels spread across his cold, vertical pupils, and the world before him turned blood-red.

More black flames erupted from his monstrous body, which had broken through ten meters in height, drifting wisps of black energy like the black mist produced by Blackbeard's Dark-Dark Fruit, on Rorschach's body.

Tens of thousands of meters above Marineford, thunder rumbled, and thick, dark clouds surged and gathered.

Suddenly, without warning, a colossal pillar of lightning, as thick as a mangrove tree in Cambrian, crashed down from the depths of the dark clouds overhead, instantly traversing tens of thousands of meters in the sky, like a divine spear of punishment cast down by a god, and struck down upon Marineford Island.

This terrifying bolt of lightning, which made everyone's blood run cold, was aimed at not Whitebeard, but Rorschach!