One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

This is not an arrogance born from his increased strength, but rather a clear self-awareness and perfect control over his own abilities.

His current combat power has completely surpassed his past self, surpassed Kaido, and reached a completely new level.

This felt incredible, shattering Rorschach's understanding of the power ceiling in the One Piece world.

In his past understanding, the highest level of combat power in the pirate world should be the likes of Kaido, Shanks, Whitebeard, and Roger.

Im, who hasn't shown his strength yet, and Luffy, who has fully grown up, might be a little stronger than the above-mentioned people, but probably not by much. If they could be easily manipulated by Im, then these Four Emperors who ravage the seas would become a joke.

But now, Rorschach's resolve has suddenly wavered.

Perhaps, there truly exists a higher level of combat power in this world than even the Emperor, a world-destroying force comparable to a humanoid ancient weapon.

In fact, Rorschach had a similar idea as early as the last battle on Soft Island.

At the time, Barrett's performance was simply outrageous.

Simultaneously fighting against three admirals and completely overwhelming them—this level of combat power is something even someone as strong as Whitebeard or Kaido at their peak could never achieve.

But Barrett managed to do it. Although it lasted only a short time and he was eventually defeated by Rorschach after Rorschach found a weakness, his brief performance still far exceeded that of ordinary top-tier combatants.

If Barrett's change was a butterfly effect caused by his appearance, then this butterfly effect is perhaps too intense and exaggerated.

Whether the ceiling of combat power in this real pirate world is inherently this high, or whether his appearance has truly caused some unexpected changes in this world, Rorschach has no idea.

However, Luo Xia didn't have time to think about that now. He had to get to Wanbo Island as soon as possible to see the situation on the ground, and then enter the world of Gege to check on the condition of the G5 members.

In fact, he could have directly listened to the songs echoing in the sky in Wano Country, given up resistance, and actively allowed his consciousness to enter the world of songs.

But he didn't do that.

Before heading to Wano Country, he learned about the Navy's intelligence from Law, knowing that Garp, Kizaru, Magellan, and the others had already gone to Expo Island.

Considering Barrett's super-level combat power, Rorschach couldn't help but worry about them.

If it were the Barrett in the normal storyline, let alone Garp, Kizaru, Magellan, and a whole bunch of Navy fleets, he could easily take down any two of those three.

But the situation is different now. If Barrett displays the same fighting power and vitality as he did on Soft Island, or even stronger, with his various Devil Fruit abilities such as the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, Dark-Dark Fruit, and Fusion Fruit, the Marines led by Garp and others will likely suffer unprecedented and enormous losses.

As his thoughts drifted, Wanbo Island finally appeared in Rorschach's Observation Haki perception.

His speed increased dramatically again, his body crackling with electricity, as he sped off in that direction.

Soon, Wanbo Island came into his view.

Looking down from the sky, Wanbo Island is an island group composed of dozens of scattered islands of varying sizes, with the island in the very center containing a huge inland sea.

With the enhanced vision from the lightning, Rorschach saw dozens of warships anchored on the sea, as well as the floating island in the distant sky and the Redford swaying in the wind.

He sensed the presence of many familiar faces: Zephyr, Aokiji, Magellan, Kizaru, Shanks, Issho, Beckman, Luffy, Bullet...

"Wait! Didn't the Navy's intelligence say that Garp was also on Manpo Island? Why can't I sense his presence?"

Luo Xia's heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly had a bad feeling.

With the enhanced vision from the lightning, he quickly located Kizaru and Magellan, and also saw Garp standing motionless beside them.

Luo Xia fell from the sky like a meteor, crashing onto the ground in the center of Wanbo Island, appearing right in front of them.

His gaze fell on Garp, who stood frozen in place.

Garp's life force has indeed disappeared.

He hadn't changed; he was still tall and strong, with his back ramrod straight, wearing the uniform of a vice admiral, standing shoulder to shoulder with Kizaru.

His eyes were tightly closed, and his expression was neither crying nor laughing, a look of relief mixed with pain.

He is dead.

Once he confirmed that Garp was dead, Rorschach's expression instantly turned icy cold.

His gaze swept over Kizaru, Shanks, and Magellan before landing on the massive, bulky Barrett.

Rorschach frowned slightly as he looked at Barrett, who seemed even more bizarre than he had been on Soft Island.

He raised his right hand toward Barrett, who stood motionless like a statue, and a ball of incandescent electricity shone in his palm.

The lightning condensed at an extremely fast speed, instantly transforming into a small ball of lightning that flew from his hand, traversing hundreds of meters in an instant without any obstruction, and disappearing into Barrett's bulky body.

"Three billion volts of discharge, thunderstorm."

Endless lightning erupted from Barrett's body, electrocuting his bizarre and disgusting form into a charred, smoking mess from the inside out.

Countless cracks appeared on its enormous body, and limbs of various races broke apart. As the body gradually disintegrated, it collapsed and turned into black fragments on the ground.

Looking at Barrett, whose body he had instantly destroyed, Rorschach's face did not show any extra expression.

He watched quietly.

Soon, under his gaze, the scattered black fragments underwent a strange change.

The black coke melted and collapsed, turning into pitch-black pus, like clumps of black oil converging towards a low-lying area. They wriggled and stuck together, and before long, right under Rorschach's nose, they had formed a large puddle of black slime.

Then these black, viscous fluids gushed upwards, outlining a huge human figure. Within the black pus, dark red flesh and blood tissues grew rapidly, intertwining with each other to form new human tissues.

Finally, the Barrett, destroyed by Rorschach, reappeared, its life force still incredibly strong.

Rorschach's lightning strike seemed to have no effect whatsoever.

Rorschach raised his hand again, and another dazzling ball of lightning flew out and entered Barrett's body.

This time, the energy fluctuations emanating from the lightning sphere were even more terrifying, mixed with a powerful deep blue aura and black and red overlord-colored lightning.

The same lightning bolt, with a current intensity of three billion volts, erupted once again inside Barrett's body.

This time, his body was shattered even more by the lightning, leaving no fragments on the ground, only black powder.

Rorschach then manipulated the airflow to whistle and blow away the fine powder on the ground.

After doing all this, he stood in the same spot again to observe.

These dust particles, carried away by the airflow, were all transformed from Barrett's shattered body. Some merged into the air and were blown thousands of meters away by the wind; some fell to the ground and mixed with the soil and gravel on the ground; and some fell into the sea and dissolved in the undulating waves.

This level of destruction would normally cause even the most powerful Logia-type Devil Fruit users to suffer severe damage.

So, is this useful for Barrett?

Just a dozen seconds later, Rorschach got his answer.

Useless.

Barrett's grotesque body, shattered into powder, blown away by the wind, mixed with the soil, and dissolved by the sea, transformed once again into countless black slimes that converged from all directions, merging together and piling up to reconstruct his bloated and disgusting form.

He was like an immortal monster; no matter how Rorschach attacked him, no matter how powerful his moves were, he seemed unable to harm him.

His life force seemed endless, as if it had not been weakened in the slightest.

Is it impossible to kill?

There was still little change in Luo Xia's eyes.

He didn't expect to be able to take down Barrett so easily.

There has definitely been some unusual change in this guy.

This reminded Rorschach of Mazsanaris, who had transformed into Itsumade. Even after being ravaged by Zunesha, it remained immortal, its vitality terrifyingly strong.

In fact, Luo Xia's body also has similar characteristics at this moment.

After two unsuccessful attempts to kill Barrett, Rorschach temporarily gave up on taking him down there.

With a grab of his hand, the air in front of him swirled and transformed into chains of air currents, binding Barrett's body. Rorschach grabbed one end of the chain, pulled Barrett up, spun him twice in the air, and then threw him far away, where he crashed into the inland sea of ​​Wanbo Island with a thud.

Regardless of whether the seawater has any effect on Barrett at this moment, let's throw him in first.

At this moment, Wanbo Island was completely silent, but it was not without a single living person.

Perhaps they shouldn't be called human.

Rorschach turned and looked at the enormous figure floating silently above the island of Aregia.

"You are the sealed ancient demon, Totemjika?"

Rorschach murmured the name.

On Totemjika's face, a dozen terrifying insect-like compound eyes rolled, casting eerie and sinister gazes upon Rorschach.

It opened its massive mouth, filled with countless fangs and sharp teeth, and emitted a cacophony of sounds.

“You lowly insect, you seem to be quite powerful! Why not submit to the great Totemjika? I can make you the leader of these insects.”

"Oh? You can still communicate? It seems you're not entirely mindless monster after all. So, can you tell me, what exactly are you?"

Spanning thousands of meters, Luo Xia spoke calmly.

Totemjika was not angered by Rorschach's rudeness.

It let out a strange laugh.

"Hehehe, I am the great god."

"god?"

Luo Xia chuckled softly and moved.

Without any warning, Rosya's figure vanished from Totemjika's sight.

The insect compound eyes on its face turned, and just as the several faces overlapping on its head raised their heads, a giant claw that kept expanding and enlarging appeared before its eyes, filling its entire field of vision.

It was so fast that even the ancient demon Totemjika didn't have time to react before Rorschach slapped it across the face.

With a loud bang, the entire Wanbo Island shook violently. Behind Totemjika's head, a gale raged, and the sea surface was like a basin filled with water that had been poured out, with seawater being splashed out and lifted into the sky like a curtain.

In some shallower areas, the seabed is even exposed.

A dozen or so smaller islands were also pulverized and exploded.

Totemjika's indestructible body exploded into countless tiny powders under Rorschach's slap.

Just like the Barrett that Rorschach had destroyed before, these powders quickly reformed and transformed back into Totemjika.

However, at this moment, the dozen or so cunning and fierce insect compound eyes on Totemjika's face looked at Luo Xia with a hint of horror!

"You...you...your power is something a tiny insect like you could never possess! Are you a god too?"

Totemjika's voice trembled, sounding very shocked.

Luo Xia looked down at it indifferently. "God? No, such a thing has never existed in this world."