One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

"Aokiji, do you want to protect Garp's grandson, or do you want to protect Nika, the sun god?"

Nika, the sun god.

Upon hearing Enel suddenly utter those five words, everyone present was startled.

Shanks looked at Enel with a stern face, "How do you know...?"

"Don't treat everyone like fools, Redhead."

Enel let out a disdainful sneer.

"Do you really think your Roger Pirates' plan is foolproof? Do you really think the Celestial Dragons don't know what you're up to?"

"Eight hundred years ago, Joy Boy was a user of the Gum-Gum Fruit. Do you think the Five Elders didn't know that the Gum-Gum Fruit could awaken into a Mythical Zoan type like Nika? They killed Joy Boy. Do you really think they're senile?"

"Back then, you stole the Gum-Gum Fruit, took it to the East Blue, and had Garp's grandson eat it. You just wanted to use Garp and Dragon's influence to make their descendants grow up and become the Sun God Nika."

"Straw Hat Luffy is the destined savior? Bullshit! It's the Gum-Gum Fruit that's the savior! And this naive and simple-minded guy is just a sucker chosen by your Roger Pirates."

"If you had given the Gum-Gum Fruit to a bandit back then, the sun god that everyone was looking forward to wouldn't be Garp's grandson, but a bandit."

"Shut up!" Shanks gritted his teeth, his eyes filled with murderous intent.

Enel, however, didn't care at all.

The surrounding darkness surged, and the ice layer released by Aokiji quickly disappeared into the black mist.

"Poor guy, he should have become a world-renowned naval officer under his grandfather's tutelage. Or he could have had his own choice to do what he wanted. At the very least, he could have followed in his father's footsteps and inherited his father's revolutionary cause."

"But you hypocrite, you talk about freedom and balance, but behind your back you put responsibilities that you yourself don't want to bear onto a child. You're instilling the lawless freedom of pirates into an innocent kid."

"If you make a pirate the savior, do you know what will happen in the future?"

"At that time, pirates will become positive figures, good people. Everyone in the world will go to sea, everyone will want to be a pirate, and there will be no pure land left in the world."

"Seeing a few corrupt and greedy sailors, one might think that all sailors are butchers and killers."

"Seeing a few pirates do good deeds, people treat them as saviors, forgetting who the common people at the bottom of society are most afraid of."

"A bunch of beasts who live by burning, killing, and looting, who do not engage in production, yet they boast about freedom and talk about saving the world, while letting others rush to the front. It's disgusting."

Enel pointed at Shanks, mocking and rebuking him without any restraint.

"You know everything, so why don't you eat the Gum-Gum Fruit that you went to so much trouble to get? Why don't you become that savior?"

"What exactly are you trying to say? How do you know so much?! Enel! Who...who are you?! What do you want to do?!"

Shanks cleaved through the tentacles that surged forward again with a single slash, shunned Barrett, and turned to approach Enel.

What do I want to do?

Enel laughed, a wild and unrestrained laugh.

He was covered in blood, his body crackling with lightning, and he looked at Luffy.

"I want you to know that you killed Karp, killed this brainless, naive kid, and killed millions of innocent people here."

"I want you to know that your Roger Pirates are also one of the culprits who ruined this world!"

"I want you..."

"Go to hell!"

After Enel finished speaking, his entire body swelled up wildly, infinitely, and endless lightning surged out from his body.

He seemed to transform into an expanding, radiant sun, exploding with a deafening roar before the horrified eyes of Shanks, Aokiji, and the others!

Endless lightning surged and raged, shattering the surrounding tentacles and the ice layers released by Aokiji.

The lightning that erupted in that instant was so violent that even Shanks and the others were blasted away, their bodies charred black and coughing up blood!

Enel's body completely disintegrated, turning into wisps of lightning, but he never managed to reassemble into a physical form.

He lost consciousness!

Without Shanks and Aokiji's obstruction, the tentacles that had been wrapped around Luffy quickly retracted to Bullet's body, and Luffy, who was wrapped by the tentacles, was immediately swallowed up by the writhing fleshy buds on Bullet's body!

"No! Save Luffy!" Shanks shouted in alarm and anger.

Without his prompting, Aokiji and Issho, who were closest, had already rushed over.

But just then, Totemjika, who hadn't moved at all, appeared and blocked their way.

Totemjika's face had more than a dozen compound eyes that moved, and its body had dozens of tentacles that danced, drawing out a phantom electric figure as if knitting a sweater.

It laughed happily.

"Don't rush, I want to see what the sun god will become after being eaten by the devil. Will he become a demon?"

It looked at the illusory human figure that had materialized in its hand, and its smugness grew even stronger.

"Look, isn't this a success? We've acquired a powerful insect servant, bringing me one step closer to sitting on that void throne."

Chapter 817 The Symphony of Miracles, The Drum of Liberation

"Damn it! Get out of my way, you monster!"

Upon seeing Totemjika suddenly blocking their path, Beckman and Aokiji were both enraged and attacked simultaneously without stopping.

The longsword, wreathed in Conqueror's Haki, and the surging, freezing air were unleashed from the left and right, bombarding Totemjika relentlessly.

With a sinister grin, Totemjika swung his arms down, showing no fear of Beckman and Aokiji who attacked simultaneously.

The high-pitched, piercing demonic melody materialized into notes that surrounded its body like a domineering suit of armor, blocking all the chilling waves from Aokiji. The bulging, scaled hand then slammed into Beckman's Overlord Slash. With a deafening explosion, Beckman groaned and was sent flying by Totemjika.

However, at the same time, Issho and Shanks also moved.

Shanks, whose body was badly burned by Enel's lightning, flashed and in the blink of an eye, he rushed to the center of the countless tentacles, right to Barrett's body, and slashed down with his sword.

With a hiss, Griffin, enveloped in Conqueror's Haki, sliced ​​through Barrett's disgusting body without any hindrance, revealing the interior of his body, which was covered with countless fleshy buds.

"Luffy!"

With his Observation Haki locked on, Shanks slashed left and right, and soon found Luffy, who had been swallowed, deep within countless writhing buds of flesh.

He quickly reached out, grabbed Luffy's right arm, and pulled him out of the fleshy buds that writhed and shriveled like maggots.

With a crisp 'pop' sound, the force that had been pulling Shanks' hand suddenly loosened.

The next moment, his eyes widened suddenly as he stared blankly at Luffy, whom he was holding in his hand. His body felt as if he had suddenly been placed in an ice cave, and he felt cold all over!

He saw that Luffy, whom he had rescued, was only left with his upper body; his lower body had been torn off by him during the struggle!

The normal flesh and blood of the severed body parts turned into dark red buds that wriggled and twisted like those on Barrett's body, extending out from Luffy's broken body wounds, strand by strand, like countless floating red worms, making people's scalp tingle and their whole body go cold.

"Barrett, Barrett!!"

"You bastard, what did you do to Luffy?!"

"Him..."

"Give it back to me!!"

At this moment, countless chaotic emotions surged within Shanks' heart, his composure vanished, and a look of panic appeared on his face.

He pulled Luffy, whose eyes were closed and whose life or death was unknown, behind him. His thick Haki armor materialized, enveloping and protecting Luffy. He reached out and drew his sword again, slashing furiously at Barrett's body.

A magnificent blade of light slashed down, cutting through countless buds of flesh. Corrosive pus splattered from the severed buds, splashing onto Shanks' body, corroding his Haki armor, and staining his body, creating horrifying bloody holes in his already burned body.

But Shanks ignored it all, acting like a madman, and continued to slash.

"Give Luffy's body back to me!!"

Amidst the slicing sounds, he finally saw Luffy's lower body.

No, that's not right.

That can no longer be considered Luffy's body.

Because Luffy's lower body has been assimilated by Barrett's body, turning into a bizarre flesh and blood composed of countless wriggling buds, which is sticking and adhering to the surrounding flesh walls and buds, gradually merging into Barrett's strange body and becoming one with him.

"Merge, merge with me...become one!"

"Shanks."

Deep within the writhing buds, a sudden split revealed Barrett's cold and ruthless square face.

He looked at Shanks, who was filled with shock, anger, panic, and collapse, and his eyes suddenly snapped open, revealing a blinding red light.

"Pfft!"

Two red lights flashed past his eyes.

Shanks groaned and flew backward, two bloody holes piercing through his chest.

Before he could fly far, a dozen tentacles on Barrett's unusual body intertwined and glued together, transforming into a giant arm that opened in mid-air. Black energy swirled in the palm, and a tremendous suction force burst forth, pulling Shanks back from the fall.

"Dark water!"

At the same time, dozens more tentacles joined together, transforming into another giant arm. A humming vibration emanated from its fist, which slammed into Shanks' head.

"Airquake!"

"Boom!"

A clear crater exploded in the air, Shanks's Haki armor collapsed, and his body fell like a meteorite, crashing into the ground where black energy surged. Then, he was pulled by the endless black energy into the depths of the dark space.

"Dark acupoints!"

Shanks struggled desperately and roared incessantly, but he could not break free from the surrounding black mist and tentacles, and was gradually swallowed up by the endless darkness.

"Gravity Blade! Dragon Slayer!"

A roar of laughter rang out at just the right moment, and the next instant, an invisible gravitational field descended with a bang, pressing Barrett, who had grown countless tentacles, to the ground, causing countless fleshy buds to explode.

The dark space, teeming with black energy, was blasted open by the gravitational field, allowing Shanks to break free and escape.

However, Luffy, who had been pulled out by him, was grabbed back by Bullet's tentacles and stuffed deep into the cracked flesh.

"Don't worry about me! Save Luffy!" Shanks waved at Issho, who was trying to come to his rescue, and shouted hoarsely.

"Leave it to me!"

With a smile, he waved to Luffy, who was about to be swallowed by Bullet's body.

"A hundredfold gravitational field! Starshot!"