One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

“My sister’s injuries have healed, but she hasn’t been in a good mood lately and probably doesn’t want to see outsiders.” Marie Gruud’s face showed a hint of apology.

"That is precisely why I have come."

To everyone's surprise, after hearing her words, Rayleigh was not discouraged at all; instead, he showed a knowing smile.

He said, "Luffy, who was taken away by Dragon, has basically recovered his spirits. Now I want to go to their place to bring Luffy back for some training. So I came here specifically to ask if I can borrow your Kuja Pirates' ship to pick him up. Of course, if you are worried, you can come along."

"Really? To pick up Lord Luffy?" Mariegret and the Kuja Pirates' female warriors behind her all showed expressions of surprise.

Marie Gruud exclaimed with delight, “That’s wonderful! My sister has been wanting to see Luffy for so long. I think if she could see Luffy sooner, her depressed mood these past few days would definitely improve. Rayleigh, I’ll take you there now.”

"Hehe, this is troublesome."

With a smile on his face, Rayleigh was about to follow in Marie Gruud's footsteps toward the palace on Amazon Lily.

But suddenly, he stopped in his tracks, his right hand instinctively resting on the hilt of the demon sword Raiyu hanging at his waist. He frowned, turned around, and looked at the calm sea behind him.

"What's wrong, Rayleigh?" Mariegreed turned around in confusion.

“An old friend has arrived. Mariegrud, quickly move everyone around here and make some space for me.”

Mariegrud was puzzled by Rayleigh's inexplicable words, but she could sense the seriousness in his tone.

"Is it the enemy? I'll go tell my sister right away!"

"No! This has nothing to do with you. Listen to me, hurry up and do it."

"Rayleigh said in a deep voice."

"it is good."

Although Marie Grud didn't know what had happened, she gritted her teeth and decided to do as Rayleigh instructed.

Immediately, she led a group of female warriors from the Kuja Pirates to notify the island residents near the coast to evacuate.

At the same time, on the top of the palace where the royal palace was located, Hancock also walked out of the palace and looked over with a frown.

After a while, in Rayleigh and Hancock's sight, a dog-headed warship appeared on the distant calm sea, its steam-powered outer wheel churning the seawater as it sped toward them.

Logically speaking, even a warship with seastone embedded in its hull would attract the attention of large sea monsters by navigating the calm zone with its outer hull so recklessly.

But the arrival of this dog-headed warship did not bring calm to the surrounding seas; not even a sea king could be seen.

Just as the dog-headed warship was a hundred meters away from the coast of Amazon Lily, a figure suddenly shot into the sky from the deck of the warship, stomping on the air above the warship with an explosive sound. In an instant, he traversed a hundred meters, like a meteorite falling from the sky, and crashed onto the coast of Amazon Lily, appearing in front of Rayleigh.

Upon seeing the burly old man standing before him, Rayleigh smiled as if he were meeting an old friend.

"I didn't expect you to follow me all the way here, Garp. It seems you've made up your mind."

Garp clenched his fists, looking at Rayleigh, who was holding his long sword, with an indifferent expression on his face.

“That’s right, I’m here to take your head back, Rayleigh.”

"Is that so? How ruthless."

Rayleigh smiled and drew his long sword from his waist, the tip pointing diagonally at the ground. He looked at Garp and said, "Then let's go."

Garp clenched his fist, causing the ground beneath his right foot to cave in, ready to unleash his power and charge forward.

Just then, a tall, slender figure leaped down from the top of the palace hall, bounding across the rooftops before arriving behind Rayleigh. Raising his eyebrows, he looked at Garp with displeasure.

"Navy! Who allowed you to enter the waters of Kuja without my permission? I order you to leave immediately, or don't blame me for being impolite."

Hancock knew, of course, that the old man in front of her was Garp, the Marine hero, and also Luffy's grandfather.

Logically speaking, I shouldn't have spoken to Luffy's grandfather like that.

But at this moment, she had no choice but to do so.

Because she could clearly sense the terrifying killing intent emanating from Garp on the other side.

Rayleigh was her savior, and although Hancock usually spoke tough, she still didn't want to see anything happen to Rayleigh in front of her.

Garp glanced at her face and said expressionlessly, "This is none of your business, Pirate Empress. Don't get involved in this mess."

"This is Amazon Lily! This is my territory! You..." Hancock was about to say something, but was interrupted by Rayleigh's raised hand gesture.

Rayleigh turned and smiled at her. "Garp is right, this has nothing to do with you, Hancock. Go back. No matter which one of us falls, don't attack that warship without my permission, understand?"

Hancock's lips moved, but as she sensed the growing aura emanating from Garp, she fell silent.

The commotion quickly attracted Grandma New.

She came running quickly, leaning on her cane and panting, calling out from afar, "Garp, Garp! Stop! Rayleigh, he retired a long time ago, you shouldn't have attacked him."

"Retire?" Garp's fists clenched so tightly they cracked, veins popping on his forehead as he glared at Rayleigh and said, "You drew your sword and stormed Marineford, killing so many marines and interfering in our war with Whitebeard, and that's what you call retirement?"

Grandma Niu paused upon hearing this, her face showing panic and anxiety.

Hancock couldn't help but frown and look at Garp, saying, "Luffy's grandfather, you must know what Rayleigh was doing at Marine Headquarters, right? He was saving Fire Fist Ace, saving your grandson. Instead of being grateful, you chased him all the way here. What exactly do you want?"

"Save Ace?" Garp gritted his teeth, his voice hoarse. "Ace committed a crime and needs to be executed. He doesn't need to be saved at all! His actions only increased the casualties among the Marines. As...Ace's grandfather, I must personally atone for the disaster he caused!"

As soon as Garp finished speaking, without further hesitation, the ground beneath his feet exploded, and amidst the flying debris, he leaped high into the air, black lightning flashing on his right fist, and smashed it toward Rayleigh's face.

"Hancock! Take Granny Newt away!"

Rayleigh took a deep breath, flicked his wrist, and streaks of black and red lightning spread wildly across his blood-red longsword, emitting terrifying energy fluctuations. With a single strike, he shattered the atmosphere above his head and slashed towards Garp's incoming fist.

"Gods, beware!"

"Fist bone! Meteorite!"

Garp's fist, like a black meteorite piercing the sky, trailed bolts of dark, Conqueror's Haki lightning, seemingly about to tear through the void, and collided with Rayleigh's longsword across a distance of several meters.

"boom!"

The powerful impact was like a massive storm of level ten or higher that swept across the coast of Amazon Lily. The clash of Conqueror's Haki between the two was as if hundreds or thousands of tons of high explosives had been detonated in an instant, causing the ground beneath Rayleigh's feet to crack and shatter like a spider web.

The coastline near the sea collapsed in large sections amidst a violent, earth-shaking tremor. Houses on the distant Snake Island were also affected, collapsing with a crash, eliciting screams from countless women.

Even Hancock, who was holding onto Granny New and retreating rather slowly, was hit by the massive impact that expanded in an instant, and let out a muffled groan. Armament Haki reflexively surged from her body.

However, the Haki armor that had just emerged from her body was blasted to smithereens by two destructive bursts of Conqueror's Haki. Hancock was slightly injured as a result, and a trace of blood spilled from the corner of her mouth before she grabbed Granny New and threw her over a hundred meters away.

She had just landed with a grim expression when an even louder explosion roared behind her.

"Rayleigh!"

Amidst Granny New's worried exclamation, Garp, his entire body enveloped in jet-black Armament Haki, resembled an invincible demon god. He wielded a heavy fist that unleashed a burst of black lightning, allowing Rayleigh's longsword to slice through the skin and muscles of his fist. With a single, devastating punch, Garp smashed away Rayleigh's descending sword. He then swiftly attacked with both fists, unleashing his empty left fist and shoving it into Rayleigh's chest. Rayleigh's body was sent flying like a cannonball, crashing through houses on Amazon Lily.

As blood splattered, the sharp blade of the demon sword Raiyu was forcefully blocked by the bones beneath Garp's skin, producing a crisp, metallic clang.

Unlike swordsmen who are accustomed to using their weapons, Garp, when in battle, does not adhere to this monotonous fighting style at all.

He can use his entire body as a weapon – fists, feet, elbows, knees, shoulders, and head.

However, his most powerful weapon is his fists.

On the cleaved fist, within the exposed wound, the bones shone with a dazzling light like a black blade. Entangled with beams of dark Armament Haki and Conqueror's Haki lightning, it exuded an even more formidable aura.

"Boom!"

The earth shook on Amazon Lily. Garp followed Rayleigh as he flew backward, passing over the houses that Rayleigh had smashed through. He clenched his right fist and slammed it down again, unleashing a fist wave that resembled the impact of a giant Buddha from the Warring States period, from a distance of tens of meters.

"Fist Bone! Galaxy Impact!"

Rayleigh, still in mid-air, twisted his body and slashed out with his long sword. A crescent-shaped slash, wrapped in black and red lightning, swept out and stretched for hundreds of meters, like a crescent moon falling from the sky to the earth, crushing towards Garp.

"Entangle me! Yuexi!"

Chapter 693 The Death of Rayleigh

"Evacuate! Everyone evacuate immediately! Leave the town and seek refuge. Do not approach the area where they are fighting!"

Mariegret and Sandasonia watched in horror as Rayleigh and Garp passed by. Under the sweeping storm of Conqueror's Haki, whether they were residents of Amazon Lily or veteran warriors of the Kuja Pirates, they all fell down like wheat being harvested.

Even though they were hundreds of meters away from the two combatants, they felt dizzy and their legs went weak. They couldn't help but kneel down on the ground with a thud.

The two stared in horror at the cracked houses and ground around them.

The buildings on Amazon Lily looked like they had just been hit by a Category 12 hurricane, leaving them in a state of utter devastation.

What terrifying Conqueror's Haki!

Even Hancock, who also possesses Conqueror's Haki, appears as naive as a child in front of these two.

These are two legends whose fame has resounded throughout the world for decades: Rayleigh, the Dark King, and Garp, the Iron Fist!

"Boom!"

Another deafening roar, like the sky collapsing and the earth splitting apart, resounded throughout the entire Nine-Eyed Fox Island.

Before the stunned eyes of the Kuja Pirates warriors, two figures enveloped in countless black and red lightning bolts rose from the shattered town, like two black and red meteors flying through the air, crashing into the iconic Kuja Mountain on Kuja Island with a bang.

Amidst a tremendous roar, a gigantic snake head stretching hundreds of meters was shattered by the impact of the two figures, turning into countless fragments of rock that rained down like a torrential downpour.

From the start of the battle, Garp and Rayleigh didn't exchange a single word, only unleashing their strongest power and increasing their attack speed as they lashed out at each other.

"Entangle me! Yuexi!"

Rayleigh unleashed his previous strike, which resembled a shower of moonlight, slicing through the air with arcs of light, like a raging storm, sweeping towards Garp, who was falling with him towards the back of Amazon Lily.

His strikes erupted continuously from the Thunderstorm Blade in his hand, like tides stirred by the moon, endless and unending.

The countless slashes tore through the air, cleaving through the Nine Serpents Mountain and instantly creating massive cracks in the hundreds-of-meters-high mountain.

Garp, shrouded in black armor, unleashed a barrage of punches as the endless sword light rained down upon him. His fists instantly transformed into countless phantoms.

"Fist Bone! Meteor Shower!"

"Boom boom boom boom!"

His powerful tendons throbbed like a taut bowstring that had been released, producing a chilling, muffled boom that propelled his massive body to unleash a terrifying, overwhelming force, blasting away Rayleigh's incoming slashes in mid-air.

With a stomp of his foot, Garp created a clear depression in the air, formed by layers of compressed air.

The compressed air exploded, unleashing a surging shockwave that propelled his body like a meteorite, smashing through everything in his path and crashing head-on into Rayleigh.

Rayleigh landed first, his feet immediately touching the ground, and he shot backward dozens of meters.

No sooner had he left than Garp blasted the ground apart with a single punch as he swooped down, the ground surging and undulating in all directions like waves.

Amidst the billowing smoke and dust, Garp had already torn through the smoke screen, revealing a fist shrouded in Haki that magnified in Rayleigh's eyes.

Rayleigh's eyes were calm as he assumed a stance for Iaijutsu, gripping the hilt of his sword, Raiyu, and in an instant, he slashed at Garp, who was charging towards him.