One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

"Very well, Kizaru, and... you little brat who only knows how to plant trees, merge into my body! Let's become the strongest together!"

Barrett grinned, and to Aramaki's horrified gaze, he raised his two right arms high behind his back, clenched his fists, and swung them at Aramaki and Kizaru as if they were two heavy hammers.

As he slammed his fists out, the air in front of Barrett cracked and split open, like a shattered pane of glass, revealing countless visible cracks.

A terrifyingly powerful energy fluctuation arose above these cracked atmospheres.

Kizaru had a premonition that once the cracks on Barrett's fists successfully exploded, the island beneath their feet would completely collapse and disappear from the Totto Land sea.

"Barrett, you son of a bitch! That punch of yours..."

"That hurts so much!!"

A thunderous roar echoed in the sky as a burly figure crashed down like a meteorite, slamming into Barrett and delivering a powerful punch to his head.

With a muffled bang, right before Aramaki's eyes, which were practically popping out of their sockets, Barrett, who had unleashed Whitebeard's earthquake ability, had his entire head explode like a watermelon smashed by a hammer.

At such close range, much of the exploding crimson flesh and blood even splattered onto Huang Mu's face, who was too shocked to dodge in time.

Kizaru had already flown away the moment Barrett threw his punch.

"He...he just died like that?"

Huang Mu stared dumbfounded at the headless Barrett, then at Luo Xia, who had crashed next to the headless corpse, his chest scales cracked and broken, blood dripping from his mouth. Suddenly, he felt that this world was a little unreal.

How powerful was the Barrett that it just displayed?

The sheer power of the aura alone made Huang Mu feel weak in the knees.

But now, he's just dead like this?

He was killed by Rorschach with a single punch?

wrong!

Huang Mu was suddenly startled.

Because he could sense that Barrett's life force had not disappeared.

He is still alive!

Moreover, there is no sign of its vitality weakening at all.

When it comes to perceiving the strength of life force, Huang Mu is second to none among those present.

Even Rorschach, with his powerful Observation Haki, is not as keen as Aramaki, who has mastered the Logia-type Forest Fruit, when it comes to detecting life force.

This is a unique ability bestowed upon him by the fruit of the forest.

Therefore, Huang Mu could clearly perceive how vigorous Barrett's vitality was at this moment.

That is a vitality even more exaggerated than nature itself.

This level of vitality is unmatched by either Rorschach, a Mythical Zoan, or Akainu, whom Aragaki admires most.

In Huang Mu's understanding, it seemed that only the great Five Elders possessed such powerful and profound life energy as Barrett before him, as if it were infinite.

Huang Mu quickly took a closer look.

really.

He immediately saw that on the neck of Barrett's headless corpse, whose head had been smashed by Rorschach's punch, countless blood-red crystalline particles were rapidly extending upwards, like blood vessels, reconstructing a head exactly the same as before.

Furthermore, the flesh and blood particles formed from the exploded head flowed back from Barrett's body and entered his body.

In just a few seconds, Barrett, who had lost his head, was restored to his original state, grinning maliciously as he swung his six enormous arms at Rorschach and his two companions.

"This guy's acting strangely, Kizaru! Aramaki! Attack together and take him down!"

Rorschach shouted and leaped into the air, charging towards Barrett.

Kizaru followed closely behind, then Aramaki.

"Hehehe, I am the strongest, I am the one..."

Barrett's eyes were filled with bloodshot veins, Titch's face on the left was still making a fuss, and his own face in the middle was repeating his previous words.

Two of his six enormous arms, which he held high, were shrouded in black mist and unleashed a terrifying suction force, reaching out to grab Huang Mu.

The two arms shattered the air and slammed towards Rorschach.

His two arms writhed and transformed into two long, fleshy spikes that pierced the earth beneath him.

"Boom!"

The earth churned, transforming into countless purple crystals that surged and piled up like a torrent, forming a purple-blue giant hundreds of meters tall. It swung its massive, sky-covering fist at Kizaru and slammed it down.

"The strongest!!"

Chapter 762 One Against Three

"What kind of monster is this guy?"

Seeing Barrett unleash three completely different powers in an instant, Aramu, who had just rushed to Barrett's side with Rorschach, screamed in fright.

He sensed a deadly danger, his forward steps faltered, and he immediately tried to dodge the two large, black-glowing hands that Barrett had grabbed.

However, a powerful suction force, like a black hole, emanated from those two surging black hands, pulling Huang Mu's body off the ground from more than ten meters away, like a moth drawn to a flame, and throwing him towards the two outstretched hands.

Huang Mu was so frightened that his soul almost left his body. His feet swelled and exploded, sprouting countless tree roots that burrowed into the ground beneath him, forcibly pulling his body back slightly from the terrifying suction force.

Sensing danger, Huangmu desperately created more roots, burrowing deeper into the earth in an attempt to avoid being sucked away by Barrett's black aura.

However, the suction force was too strong. Even the ground beneath his feet was torn apart, and the aerial roots that his feet had transformed into broke off under the strain.

In the end, Wildwood flew out and pounced on Barrett, along with the tens of tons of dirt and gravel kicked up by his feet.

"Go to hell, you monster!"

"Vidal's Thorn!"

Even though Huang Mu was pulled into the air by the enormous suction force, he did not sit idly by and wait for death.

His right arm swelled wildly, transforming into a gigantic tree arm.

The tree's giant arm bent, stretched, twisted, and coiled, transforming into a massive spring. Its tip was wrapped in jet-black Armament Haki, and it shot towards Barrett with a whooshing sound.

"puff!"

The log spring spike formed from Huang Mu's right arm was not stopped and pierced through Barrett's chest with a soft "plop".

But Barrett seemed oblivious to the pain, his face still bearing a crazed expression, and his large, black-glowing hand successfully grabbed Aramaki, who was being pulled in by the suction force.

The moment Barrett's black hand grabbed his shoulder, Huang Mu was terrified.

The power of the Forest Fruit within him faded rapidly, completely suppressed within his body by a strange force.

Without the immense life force provided by the Sensen Fruit, Huang Mu instantly transformed from an invincible tank back into an ordinary top-tier powerhouse.

Before he could recover from the shock of losing his abilities, Barrett's large, black-glowing hand delivered a powerful punch to the right side of his neck.

With a sharp crack, Huang Mu let out a heart-wrenching scream. His right collarbone, chest, and neck were all caved in, and blood gushed from his mouth. He was sent flying by Barrett's punch, blood splattering through the air.

"This is truly terrifying! Barrett can actually use Blackbeard's ability. If I'm not mistaken, this is Blackbeard's Dark-Dark Fruit ability, isn't it?"

Kizaru's body was smashed apart by a punch from the hundreds-of-meters-tall purple-blue giant, turning into countless points of light that shot into the sky hundreds of meters high. In an instant, he arrived behind the purple-blue giant's head, pointed his finger, and a beam of golden laser light shot out from his fingertip, piercing through the back of the purple-blue giant's head and exiting from its front.

Then, with a loud bang, the combined giant, made of countless rubble and dirt, exploded, its head bursting open and turning into billowing dust.

But the colossal giant did not fall. Instead, from its headless body, long, dark blue tentacles wrapped in Haki sprouted and its fists rained down on Kizaru.

"Yata no Kagami!"

Kizaru clasped his hands together, and a winding, refracting beam of light passed through the gaps between countless tentacles and fists, precisely escaping the range of the dense attack and creating distance between himself and the combined giant created by Barrett. With his hands crossed, he once again fired a rain of laser beams.

"The Eight-Foot Jade Curved Jewel!"

"Whoosh whoosh!"

A barrage of laser beams rained down on the purple-blue giant, which resembled a giant sea urchin waving its countless tentacles, sending debris flying and billowing dust billowing, shattering it into pieces.

Not only that, but many laser beams also struck Barrett, blasting holes in his tall body and splattering blood everywhere.

On the other side, Rorschach, who was closest to Barrett, gripped the Qilin Giant Fist that was unleashing the Overlord Thunder Explosion and punched Barrett's incoming air-shaking heavy punch.

"Boom! Boom!"

The atmosphere split open, and the shockwave, like a flash flood, collided with the domineering attack erupting from Luo Xia's right fist, creating a violent surge across the island.

Beneath their feet, the ground of Soft Island churned and crumbled like ocean waves.

"I am the strongest!" Barrett's face was ferocious as he pressed down with both fists, unleashing an even greater shockwave that forced the gritting-teeth Rorschach to retreat little by little.

At last……

"boom!"

Blood spurted from between Rorschach's teeth. His massive body, in its awakened Devil Fruit state, was sent flying by Barrett's air-shaking fist.

Along with Rorschach, half of the land in front of Barrett was also thrown into the sky.

The terrifying force of the shockwave traveled from the atmosphere to the island, causing large sections of the ground to crack open, like plastic roofs being blown off by a gale, flying into the air and shattering in the violent shockwave, turning into a sandstorm that blotted out the sky.

"Hey, really? Rorschach, don't scare this old man! Is this guy really that terrifying? What exactly happened to Barrett?"

Kizaru's body was overwhelmed by the surging shockwave, turning into countless points of light that caught up with the flying Rorschach, catching him by the back and bringing him to a stop.

Luo Xia was helped to the ground. He waved his hand to create an air wall, blocking the sandstorm blowing in his face, and said after catching his breath, "Barrett just swallowed Blackbeard who ate the Tremor-Tremor Fruit. I don't know how he used it, but he successfully fused with Blackbeard and became one person. You've seen the situation now. This guy can use his own Fusion-Fusion Fruit ability, Blackbeard's Dark-Dark Fruit ability, and the Tremor-Tremor Fruit ability at the same time. And his vitality is so strong that he's almost unkillable. I don't know why."

"Hiss... Is he that terrifying? Then wouldn't he be... invincible?" A few drops of cold sweat trickled down Kizaru's face.

"Invincible is an exaggeration. His attack strength is not high, at least it is not beyond my comprehension."

Rorschach's words left Kizaru speechless.

He watched as Aramu, who had been sent flying to the other side of the island by Barrett, suffered severe fractures and broken bones on one side of his body.

Watching the sea overturn and the soft island completely shattered by a single blow.

Looking at Rorschach, whose scales were shattered and who was coughing up blood.

"You call this a low attack intensity? Then what would be considered high? Even someone as robust as you can't withstand his attacks, so I doubt I can either. I think we should retreat."

Rorschach shook his head, pushed away the hand that was helping him, took a deep breath, and looked at Barrett, who was striding after him, saying, "I was just out of energy, that's why I couldn't beat him. I took two punches from him just now and found that Barrett's strength is only slightly stronger than Whitebeard when he unleashed his life potential at Marineford, at most comparable to Whitebeard in his prime. And even Whitebeard in his prime would definitely not be a match for three... well, two Marine Admirals. So, don't be afraid. Now buy me some time, I'll go replenish my energy, and then we'll take him down together."

"Slightly stronger than Whitebeard when he unleashed his life potential?" Kizaru's lips twitched.