One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

Barrett should be dead; his life force vanished the moment Rorschach blasted his body apart.

Rorschach was absolutely certain of this.

However, before his eyes, Barrett's shattered corpse had all turned into surging flesh and blood crystals, like flowing flesh and blood fungus, converging towards each other, seemingly trying to merge.

This chilling feeling is so out of place in this world.

Furthermore, as these flesh and blood crystals converged, a life force that Rorschach was very familiar with returned.

That was unmistakably Barrett's aura.

"No! That's not right!" Luo Xia's heart trembled as he stared incredulously at the two faces faintly emerging from the clustered flesh and blood crystals.

Not only does it contain Barrett's life force, but the intertwined and fused flesh and blood crystals also exude Titch's life force.

But how could that be?

Tiki's head was just ripped off by Barrett.

A bizarre thought suddenly popped into Luo Xia's mind.

Could it be that……

Barrett, did he really fuse with Tichi?

He recalled the insane words Barrett had uttered during his manic laughter.

Thinking this to himself, Luo Xia's hand did not stop. His large hand, covered in deep blue domineering aura, grabbed into the surging flesh and blood crystal and squeezed hard.

The surging blood and flesh crystals merged and converged right before Luo Xia's eyes, transforming into a large palm that grabbed Luo Xia's right hand that he had reached out to grab.

Luo Xia tried to pull his right hand back, but failed. The hand that was holding his right hand had an astonishing strength.

"Hehehe, I did it! I did it!"

Barrett's deep laughter emanated from the churning flesh and blood crystals.

Countless crimson crystals surged and rapidly converged, piling up and growing taller, forming a muscular body over ten meters tall in front of Luo Xia.

Aside from the hand that was gripping Rorschach's right hand tightly, there were five other thick arms on this headless, muscular body.

Two arms, like those of a normal human, grow on the shoulders.

Two arms grow under the armpits.

Two wings grew from the shoulder blades on the back, spreading out horizontally like a pair of deformed wings.

The two enormous arms stretched out behind them and, through the murky mud, pulled out Barrett's head, whose seven orifices had been pierced by Rorschach's lightning and burned down to just a few holes. They held it in their hands and slowly placed it over the neck of the headless body.

Then, with two soft popping sounds, two eyeballs grew out of Barrett's two dark eye sockets.

Then, streaks of blood-red crystals extended upwards, spreading to the head that had lost its flesh and blood, quickly filling in the collapsed nose and the holes in the cheeks, and soon restoring Barrett to its original appearance.

Even his blond hair grew back.

But unlike before, a second face has grown on Barrett's left cheek, staring with a pair of resentful and angry eyes, and roaring.

"Barrett! You madman, what have you done to me? Why, why can't I control my body? Where am I trapped? Let me go! Let me go!"

Barrett's square face grinned, revealing a wicked and unrestrained smile.

"Didn't I tell you? You won't die. You've just become one with me. You've become a part of my body now. Yes, that's right, my body. This is the higher realm of the Fusion Fruit, a realm stronger than the awakening of the fruit. It transcends simply fusing with inorganic matter, becoming fusing with other life forms, with organic matter, and even... fusing with the entire world."

He looked down at Luo Xia, his eyes filled with madness.

"Rorschach, do you think I'm right?"

As Luo Xia sensed the immense life force emanating from Barrett, who had been reborn before his eyes, even more vigorous than that of Huang Mu, his eyes twitched, and he was at a loss for words.

"Barrett, you're really crazy. You've actually forged a path to becoming stronger. Are you willing to become less than human just to get stronger?"

"Be human? That's right! I'm not human anymore! As long as I can become stronger, as long as I can surpass Shanks, surpass Kaido, surpass Roger, surpass you, surpass everything, and become the strongest! So what if I'm not human?!"

Barrett had two faces: one was Titch's face, cursing venomously, and the other was his own face, laughing wildly.

His six arms stretched out as if embracing this new world, extending an invitation to Rorschach.

"Come on, Rorschach! Merge into my body, become one with me, and together we will surpass everything and become the strongest in the world!"

His response was a rapidly expanding punch, crackling with Conqueror's Haki lightning.

"Boom!"

Barrett's chest was punched through by Rorschach, who had returned to his awakened state, but instead of flesh and blood exploding, countless fragments of flesh and blood flew out.

The splattered fragments of flesh and blood circled behind him, turned around, and flew back, merging into his body.

"Stubborn fool! I'm giving you a chance to become the strongest, Rorschach!"

Barrett's eyes turned cold, and a massive arm under his right armpit clenched into a fist and slammed into Luo Xia's abdomen. As Luo Xia cursed under his breath, a white shockwave suddenly appeared on that fist, shattering the seawater and unleashing a terrifying impact, like a volcanic eruption, which slammed into Luo Xia's body.

"Oh!"

A massive surge of seawater exploded behind Rorschach, propelling him upwards like a rocket from Barrett's punch. He crashed through the seabed hundreds of meters deep, carving a straight upward white channel in the deep sea. Finally, with a deafening roar, the sea in front of Kizaru and Aramaki outside Soft Island exploded, and Rorschach, coughing up blood, shot straight into the sky like a cannonball.

With a single punch, Rorschach was sent flying from the depths of the ocean thousands of meters deep to the surface hundreds of meters above the water by Barrett.

Moreover, in the face of Kizaru and Aramaki, the entire sea outside Soft Island began to churn and tremble.

"It's an earthquake!"

Huang Mu stared in horror at the violently churning sea before him, involuntarily taking two steps back.

The scene before me was truly terrifying.

The entire ocean as far as the eye could see was divided by a divine force. Some parts of the sea surface sank down, turning into huge basins, while others rose up like mountains, almost hundreds of meters high.

On the sea surface within sight, more than a dozen naval warships were caught up in this sudden change and swept into the churning, angry waves.

"Retreat! Retreat! All troops, listen to my command! Withdraw immediately!"

On the Kirin, Yun Que gave the order to evacuate without the slightest hesitation.

Even if she had no idea what had happened on Soft Island, just seeing the terrifying, upheaval before her eyes, she knew that something beyond the Navy's control had definitely happened.

"This is... a tsunami that only Whitebeard's Tremor-Tremor Fruit could cause!" Smoker's eyes widened, and he hissed, "Isn't the Tremor-Tremor Fruit fake? Why is this happening?"

"Now is not the time to think about these things. Everyone listen up! Those who are able, go and help your comrades affected by the tsunami right now, and try to minimize the losses!"

"Yes!"

Enel, Smoker, and the other flying individuals immediately took to the skies and headed towards the warships affected by the tsunami to provide support.

The lark suddenly slapped its head and said in annoyance, "Damn it, I forgot I can fly too."

With that, she leaped off the Kirin and flew away into the distance with Enel and the others.

Tashigi shouted from below, "Hibari! Go on the Kirin! Make the Kirin fly! That way we can save more people."

"We'll split up. You go and start the Qilin to take off!"

The lark uttered a single sentence and then transformed into a cloud that kept growing larger as it flew away.

Meanwhile, on the battlefield where Shanks and Zephyr were, the two sides who were locked in combat had just clashed when they saw the hundred-mile-long glacial land in front of them crack open with a deafening explosion, with undulating rises and falls, as if the whole world was shaking.

If it weren't for Yasopp's quick reflexes in drawing his gun, the Redford, docked at the edge of the ice, would have been hit by a piece of ice that had slipped down.

"This is all thanks to Daddy's abilities!" Marco exclaimed.

"Oh dear, old man, what's going on?" Kuzan was completely bewildered.

He witnessed and even participated in the creation process of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit.

It could be said that he knew better than most of the people involved in this major event that the Tremor-Tremor Fruit was just a gimmick, a fake.

But what's going on?

Could it be that he and Zephyr really accidentally brought out Whitebeard's Tremor-Tremor Fruit?

If that's the case, it's truly unbelievable. Doesn't that mean they personally handed over this potentially devastating fruit?

This is absolutely absurd!

Zefa didn't know what was going on either.

However, he immediately understood the current situation and knew that something had probably happened on Soft Island.

Both the sudden surge of immense life force and the earthquake tearing the sea apart demonstrate this point.

He immediately flew over, grabbed Kuzan's arm, and shouted, "Aokiji! Come back to Pine Soft Island with me! You're probably the only one who can slow down this earthquake now."

Knowing the urgency of the situation, Kuzan immediately disregarded whether he needed to meet with the Navy Headquarters again and quickly left with Zephyr.

"Smile! Let's go take a look too!" Shanks shouted.

"it is good."

With a smile, he pressed down with his hand, and a purple halo spread out onto the Redford. Soon, the entire ship took off and flew, carrying everyone along, following Zephyr from a distance, towards Soft Island.

On the other side, along the edge of the Totto Land sea, amidst the dark clouds ten thousand meters above the sky, Kaido, in his guise as a thousand-meter-long azure dragon, sped forward at breakneck speed.

"Rorschach! Oh ho ho ho! Since you killed Linlin's child, I can't hold back anymore! Pirates also have their code of honor. This time, let's settle this with a fight to the death!"

The majestic and ferocious dragon head opened its mouth and roared.

Suddenly, the Azure Dragon let out a surprised exclamation, looking down at the violently turbulent sea below, its dragon eyes filled with doubt.

"Hmm? Whitebeard's ability? It seems King was right, Whitebeard's Devil Fruit really did revive on Linlin's turf. Who ate it? I'd like to see which brat is so lucky."

On Soft Island, in front of Kizaru and Aramaki, the sea surface kept rising, and billions of tons of seawater slid down from the crests of the rising waves, making a deafening roar.

The towering waves then split open to the sides, creating a deep trench. A golden-haired giant with four arms and a pair of broad, fleshy wings flapped on its back and roared up from the depths of the trench, appearing before the two.

At a glance, Kizaru and Aramaki recognized the newcomer.

"Is it a Barrett...?"

Wilderness was somewhat uncertain.

Because Barrett's appearance at this moment was completely different from before, and he also had a strange black beard on his face, which looked quite terrifying.

Looking at the violently turbulent sea before him, and then at the drastically changed Barrett, an unbelievable thought uncontrollably surfaced in Huang Mu's mind.

Could it be that the Tremor-Tremor Fruit that Rorschach mentioned was reborn was eaten by the drastically changed Barrett?

"call!"

A gust of wind swept over them, and Barrett, nearly twice the size of his previous form, descended from the sky like a giant, crashing onto the island like a cannonball. His pair of large, fleshy wings wriggled and transformed back into two thick arms, clenched into fists, looking down at Kizaru and Aramaki.