One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

The crowd on G1 Island, and countless viewers in front of the live stream, listened to Karina's hypnotic, sweet voice as she broadcast the news. Everyone's eyes went from initial shock to numbness.

It felt like being in a dream from which I had no end.

"Grandpa, what's the Commander-in-Chief's Den Den Mushi number?" Luo Xia asked Sengoku, who was staring blankly with his mouth agape.

Sengoku didn't answer, still staring blankly until Luo Xia shot him an arc of electricity, which startled him out of his reverie, and he turned to look at Luo Xia in a daze.

"What?"

"The Supreme Commander's Den Den Mushi number! I need to get him to the Holy Land to collect the money as soon as possible, otherwise if the Five Elders intervene, we won't get any of this free money."

Luo Xia's words instantly snapped Sengoku out of his daze.

Without Rorschach even needing to do it, he swiftly pulled a Den Den Mushi from his pocket and dialed it in a few quick seconds.

"Hey! Old man! Where are you? Hurry up and get the money! If you're too late, those idiots' money will be gone forever! What? You think the Five Elders will be angry? They won't be angry at all! Rather than letting these Baileys spend their money on heinous things like buying slaves and indulging in debauchery, they'd rather use it to uphold justice. If they do blame us, just take 20% of it and hand it over, saying it's Seagull Pictures' share of their profits!"

The series of concise and efficient words from Zhan Guo left Luo Xia, who was preparing to personally give some instructions to Kong, completely stunned.

When Sengoku hung up the Den Den Mushi, Rorschach couldn't help but show his admiration and gave Sengoku a thumbs up as he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Well done, old man, that's impressive. Your adaptability is remarkable."

"Nonsense! Don't you know who I am? Do you think the title of strategist is just empty talk?" Sengoku snorted, snatched the half-bag of senbei from Garp's hand, poured it into his mouth, and began to chew it with a crunching sound.

As Rorschach predicted, less than ten minutes after Musgard provoked a group of Celestial Dragons into showering the Navy with virtual gifts during the live stream, the Five Elders dispatched Lucci to the Celestial Dragons' settlement to stop the retaliatory spending of a bunch of rich and foolish spoiled brats.

After Commander-in-Chief Sora, following Sengoku's instructions, stated that he would give 20% of his reward to the Five Elders, the Five Elders, who were about to receive hundreds of billions of Berries, agreed after thinking for a while.

Not only did he agree, he also took the initiative to let Lucci help Sora accept the money from the Celestial Dragons who had given him tips.

However, they still insisted on taking half of the tips instead of 20%.

At the same time, it also stopped a bunch of idiot Celestial Dragons from continuing their mindless behavior of giving rewards and competing in wealth.

Rorschach guessed that the reason the Five Elders didn't forcibly intercept the Berries collected by the Supreme Commander was probably because they shared the same idea as Sengoku.

Of course, the Five Elders certainly didn't want to use the Baileys they had to uphold justice.

However, for the Celestial Dragon families who temporarily control the other nineteen royal families, being able to reduce the wealth of the other Celestial Dragon families in this way is beneficial to consolidating their rule.

The Celestial Dragons' donations were indeed substantial.

In less than three minutes, by the time the Five Elders sent Lucci to stop them, their total reward amount had reached over 600 billion Berries.

In order to compete for the reward ranking mentioned by Musgard, each Celestial Dragon gave an average of nearly 20 billion Berries.

In their eyes, money seems to be nothing more than a pile of waste paper.

Rorschach felt that if the Five Elders didn't intervene, given the arrogance and recklessness of the Celestial Dragons' second-generation rich kids, they could probably drain the Celestial Dragon families' wealth in one fell swoop.

Of course, this also refers to brainless Celestial Dragon families like Roswald and Charmaco, not the elite families among the nineteen Celestial Dragons.

Luo Xia looked at the prominent row of names with the character "Saint" on the donation leaderboard that Lilith had created on the spot, and couldn't help but smile.

In just three minutes, they made over 300 billion Berries from the Celestial Dragons. That's faster than a money-printing machine.

“Musgarud isn’t brainless, is he? I think if he were to become one of the Five Elders, he would definitely do a better job than Satan.”

Luo Xia muttered to himself, then looked at the little princess Mansherry, who was being held in Hibari's arms, and smiled, "Beautiful Princess Mansherry, could you please treat Enel and Yamato's injuries? They still have to fight, so they need to recover as soon as possible."

"No problem, leave it to me, Rorschach Lando!"

Mansherry smiled sweetly, jumped to Leo's side, sat on the hummingbird's back, and followed Law as they headed back to Enel and Yamato on G1 Island.

Chapter 729 Gion VS Shiryu

Before the shock of the Celestial Dragons' extravagant donations had completely subsided, Gates loudly announced the start of the second battle in the contest for the position of Admiral.

"Next, let's turn our attention back to the battlefield of Vermeer. Vice Admiral Shiryu of the G1 branch will challenge Vice Admiral Gion, who was originally a candidate for Admiral. Who will emerge victorious in this battle between two super swordsmen? Let's wait and see!"

On the island of Vermeu, the battleground was chosen by Shiryu and Gion to be atop a mountain peak that was broken in half.

The mountain peak was bare, without a single weed, consisting entirely of jagged rock walls. The lack of vegetation to obstruct the view saved the reporters responsible for filming a lot of time in finding the best shooting angles.

On the mountain peak, about four or five hundred meters from the foot of the mountain, the two who had just climbed up using the Moon Step did not waste any words and launched an attack on each other directly.

As the sunlight reflected off the long, slender golden garland in Gion's hand, she unleashed a crescent-shaped slash at Shiryu opposite her. At the same time, she pushed off the ground with her feet, her tall figure rapidly closing in, intending to engage Shiryu in close combat.

The arc-shaped slash that erupted from Kimpira's blade was like a slender golden thread, or a golden laser shot from the hand of a pacifist. In an instant, it crossed a distance of over a hundred meters and sliced ​​right in front of Shiryu.

Facing the whistling golden slash, Shiryu neither dodged nor evaded, allowing Gion's slash, which was wrapped in high-level Armament Haki, to strike his chest.

His body separated from its upper body a second before the point of impact, splitting in two amidst the horrified gasps of the audience, the slash passing between his torn waist and upper body.

His chest cavity, split in two, contained no internal organs, only a pool of bright red blood.

Shiryu, who had flown into the air, gripped the equally blood-red demon sword Raiyu in his right hand and slashed down with it.

"One-Sword Style! Hellfire!"

"bass!"

A blood-red slash, tens of meters long, erupted from the demon sword's crimson blade and suddenly slashed down towards Gion's head as she approached.

Gion held the Kinpira in her right hand and swung it towards the sky. A crescent-shaped golden slash flew out and collided with the blood-red slash that Shiryu had unleashed.

"boom!"

With a deafening roar like an explosion, Shiryu, gripping the hilt of the Thunderstorm Blade with both hands, transformed his lower body into a swirling crimson water tornado. He was suspended upside down in the sky above Gion, having lost his human form and become nothing more than swirling blood, like a crimson drill, with the tip of the Thunderstorm Blade as its apex, hurtling towards Gion.

"One-Sword Style! Hell Thrust!"

Gion didn't take the hit head-on this time. Instead, she pushed off with her feet and retreated dozens of meters at an angle.

The speed she unleashed was beyond what ordinary Navy Six Styles could match.

His tall figure shot out like an arrow, then abruptly stopped dozens of meters away, before turning around and swinging his knife!

"Vajra! Mandala!"

Gion's golden phantom was instantly transformed into a golden illusion by her dance.

The sharp, whistling blade light sliced ​​through the air and the rocky ground in front of him, connecting in mid-air to form golden mandala flowers. The blooming mandala was beautiful and dazzling, yet carried a deadly sharpness.

"The River Styx and the Sea of ​​Blood!"

As soon as Shiryu's crimson drill landed, drilling a large hole in the hard rocky ground, it released the blood that had accumulated in its body towards Gion without any hesitation.

"Boom!"

The blood gushing from his body roared like a flood bursting its banks, instantly engulfing the broken mountain peaks and streets in front of him, like a flash flood, a blood-red tsunami, crashing down on the flying golden datura flowers.

"Chucky!"

The surging waves of blood were utterly unable to shatter the tangible golden blade light, and were pierced through with a series of "plop plop" sounds, hurtling towards Shiryu, who was standing behind the waves of blood.

"One-Sword Style! Styx Tornado!"

A blood-red light appeared in Shiryu's eyes, and instead of retreating, he advanced, crashing head-on into the incoming golden mandala.

His body transformed into swirling blood, stirring up surging waves of blood around him, and causing the long sword in his hand to spin rapidly.

The flying datura flowers struck him, some were shattered by the spinning blades, and others were struck by the crimson slashes that flew out from the crimson tornado, annihilating each other.

However, a few of them actually cut right into Shiryu's body, leaving more than a dozen wounds on him.

However, these wounds were quickly healed by the surging blood inside, as if they had never been injured at all.

Having taken a direct hit from Gion's attack, Shiryu, who had transformed into a crimson tornado, suddenly accelerated and spun like a top as she approached Gion.

"Whoosh whoosh!"

Sharp, blood-red blades shot out from the blood-red tornado, slashing down at Gion, but were easily shattered by her casually swung longsword.

The rocks beneath their feet were shattered by the blood-red tornado, and Gion was forced to retreat step by step until there was nowhere left to go.

Behind them were cliffs four or five hundred meters high, and in front of them was a huge, swirling, blood-red tornado tens of meters high.

Gion could have easily dodged to the side, but she didn't want to.

Shiryu is much stronger than when he came to G1 from Impel Down, but Gion doesn't believe that Shiryu can defeat her now.

She focused her mind and breath, grasped the scabbard of the Golden Pilo sword with her left hand, sheathed the sword with her right hand, held the hilt, and bent down.

"Itto-ryu! Iai!"

Jinpilu's blade appears slow, but in reality, it is incredibly fast, drawing from its sheath in an instant.

A golden lightning bolt seemed to suddenly flash across the mountaintop in front of her.

It was like a dazzling aurora borealis!

"Aurora Slash!"

"puff!"

Large swaths of blood sprayed horizontally from behind the rotating crimson tornado.

The golden aurora that bloomed in an instant flashed and disappeared from the center of the blood tornado.

The next second, the spinning blood-red tornado was sliced ​​in two, splitting into two halves.

In the dim light, one could see Shiryu holding a long sword deep within the churning blood.

The hard ground beneath Gion's feet suddenly exploded, propelling her body forward like a cannonball, sending her hurtling into the still-spinning crimson tornado. There, she unleashed a vertical slash at Shiryu, who had revealed himself.

A powerful, high-level Armament Haki enveloped Kinpira's blade, ensuring that wherever the blade pointed, blood was sliced ​​open without a doubt.

Shiryu gritted his teeth, his eyes red, and fiercely drew his sword, slashing horizontally at Gion who was coming at him.

"Clang!"

The ear-piercing explosion completely dispersed the churning blood around them, allowing the two figures to emerge from the crimson tornado and reappear in the live broadcast.

The two men, locked in a stalemate in mid-air, simultaneously flicked their wrists, their longswords flashing like phantoms as they unleashed a barrage of attacks upon each other.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

The crisp, metallic clang of metal clashing, accompanied by the sound of rocks being cleaved and split open beneath their feet, echoed far and wide, reverberating throughout the island of Vermeer.

"puff!"

"puff!"

A burst of bloody light erupted from both of them almost simultaneously, and they landed on the ground at the same time.