One Piece: The Salted Fish Fruit

“Yes! After the war, Ace told me the reason. They originally wanted to capture Luffy, but Ace failed and was captured while trying to block Luffy’s way.” Sabo nodded and said, his fingers exerting a little force, accompanied by a cracking sound, the other’s withered body instantly turned into a broken mummy.

“Kill them if you want, anyway, they’re already mortal enemies with us.” Mabi didn’t object, which served as a good opportunity to intimidate the group of uncertain participants.

He turned to face the dozens of people, including the Eight Treasures Navy, the King of Prodense Kingdom, the Handsome Pirates, and the Yota Maria Grand Fleet.

"Everyone, you must have heard about the situation you are about to face. If you do not want to get involved in the battle between the five emperors, you can choose to leave first according to the sea chart."

"Are you despicable newcomers looking down on us old folks? First you destroyed our place, then you saved it, and now you want us to run away? Are you looking down on us, the people of the New World? Are we weaker than you newcomers? Do you think we're afraid of the Five Emperors?" Cavendish, who had been jealous of the newcomers for stealing his thunder, was the first to stand up and hurl insults.

"Oh, I see. I misspoke." Mabi realized her mistake upon hearing his scolding and looked apologetically at the pirates standing behind him.

What are your decisions?

"Kids, we're people who've made our way in the New World, how can we fall behind you? If you're not afraid, why should we be?" someone shouted.

"Then I'll have to trouble you all to lend a hand when the time comes. We'll go and get ready for battle first," Mabi said, raising her hand to thank them.

"Go away, go away! When did you become so clever as to dare to look down on us?" Seeing Mabi's actions, someone waved his hand to drive her away.

Maggie smiled at the grumbling pirates and hurried towards her companions.

Chapter 271 The Battle of Dressrosa (Part Two): A 150-kilometer Bombardment!

Bang!

Standing atop the mushroom-shaped rock, Mabi waved her hand and summoned a metal cabinet, twenty meters long, wide, and high. It slammed heavily onto the hard rock surface, which was being blown by the sea breeze, sending up a ring of pebbles that hit everyone. Looking around, the square metal cabinet was covered with dense metal lines covering its entire metal shell.

The dust has settled!

Mabi glanced around, then jumped up and kicked a black-painted metal plate facing her, denting it deeply. She then jumped away again and stood with her companions.

Click! Click!

The indentation in the metal plate caused a metallic clanging sound from the originally tightly joined metal cabinet. The cabinet's lines gradually opened up, revealing countless interlocking metal parts inside. The gears, whose balance had been disrupted, spun rapidly, causing the internal mechanical parts to move and twist, gradually transferring power to other metal units.

Subsequently, four metal supports, each one meter long and wide and twenty meters high, separated from the four corners of the cabinet. As the steel cables inside the cabinet gradually loosened, they slid down to the sides, secured by the bottom pins.

Just as it was about to land halfway down, the metal arm, which had been descending slowly, suddenly accelerated and crashed heavily onto the hard rocky ground below, creating four trenches that firmly secured the falling metal arm within them.

At the same time, the metal parts that were originally on the outer shell folded downwards to form a metal base and corridor. Suddenly, a giant trapezoidal metal machine with a chassis 20 meters long and wide and 15 meters high, covered with gears, steel plates, rivets and wheels, appeared before everyone's eyes.

It sits like a giant steel beast on one side of the island, especially the dark entrance facing the sea, which is particularly eye-catching!

Seeing this, Franky leaped up and jumped onto a metal walkway, shouting loudly down at his companions from the steel railing:

"Let's get to work, guys! Let the whole world see our straw hat cannon!"

"Wow! That's beautiful! Franky, let me fire!"

"Wow! That's so cool! Super cool mechanical body, is this what you guys at Merry made over the past few days?"

Luffy and Chopper, their eyes shining with excitement, rushed towards the fifteen-meter-tall steel behemoth and began climbing up and down it.

"What a terrifying existence. How far can Merry's range be?" Robin stared at the steel behemoth before her, her pale face covered in cold sweat.

"With the installation of a 36-meter extended barrel, the theoretical effective range can reach 280 kilometers!" Maby replied, looking at the steel behemoth before her. Franky and his team had finally brought their idea to fruition.

Using the projection space as a base, the Door-Door Fruit is used to open a spatial gate to the main world, controlling all sea areas within a 560-kilometer radius of the Sunshine, specifically targeting and destroying buildings on a certain island. Additionally, fixed artillery positions at 150 and 30 kilometers are scattered around the entire space base, forming indiscriminate fire coverage.

As for positioning, two permanent pointers at the same location are arranged in an isosceles triangle, one placed on the gun emplacement and the other on the bombing target. The angles offset by the six permanent pointers are used to determine the direction and distance before adjusting the gun muzzle.

Compared to fixed targets, which can report their location and have time to evacuate, moving targets can only evacuate after firing. After all, moving targets need to report their specific location from time to time and cannot leave even half a step. This requires extremely fast people to be in charge of the observer's position.

But now!

Maby glanced at Violet and smiled. A 4,000-kilometer observation range was sufficient to provide information on any moving or fixed location for long-range strikes.

"Pluto Cannon!" Robin remained silent for a long time after hearing Maggie's data, and then uttered a heavy voice.

"No, it won't. The power of a metal projectile propelled by gunpowder isn't enough to destroy an island," Maggie retorted, shaking her head. She suddenly remembered that while her side lacked firepower, there was a Shichibukai in the New World—a bomb expert. Even a single piece of gunpowder the size of a finger could create an blast radius of several meters. It was a good opportunity to go and find him.

Thinking of this, Mabi appeared in a flash on Halding's shoulder, patted his ear, and said, "Halding, please help me."

"What kind of help?" Halding turned to look at Maby, who was perched on his shoulder, and asked in confusion.

"Help me install the cannon muzzle first, we need to discuss some things later."

Mabi shouted and a cannon barrel with a stepped shape, one end larger than the other, was sent out. Several giant connecting structures were safely melted into the thicker end, waiting to be installed.

"This is truly a terrifying weapon, worthy of your title as madmen," Halding said in a deep voice, looking at the steel pipe that was half again as tall as him.

"Haha! For the safety of our comrades, we must eliminate the enemy in its infancy." Maggie laughed, standing on his shoulder.

“It’s terrifying to be enemies with you. I was killed before I even saw you.” After saying that, he picked up the metal pipe that was stuck upside down in the ground. It was 36 meters high and weighed more than 80 tons. The pipe, which had a diameter of 3 meters at the top, was lifted up by him as easily as a thicker and longer baseball bat.

"Make way." Upon hearing Hyradin's voice, the people below immediately stepped aside, allowing him to walk to the front of the turret, which only reached his chest. Under Franky's command, he inserted the turret and secured it, then Franky locked all the pins and connections and installed the air extraction device.

"Princess Violet, we're just missing you." Nami stood at the top of the cannon platform, in the observer's position, leaning on the railing and waving to Violet.

"Uh! Okay." Violet remembered that Nami had told her to help her observe before Nami called out, so she hurriedly ran up the iron steps.

"Usopp, the gunner, in position. Chopper, you're in charge of loading. Let them taste my long-range sniping skills." Sitting on the turntable, Usopp looked at the various mechanical turntables in front of him with confidence in his eyes.

"Okay!" Chopper responded and took the cannonball, which was about 1.3 meters long and 1.5 meters in diameter, from Jack's hand. He then loaded it into the cannon and tightened the breech!

Hearing the sound of a shell entering the barrel, Usopp adjusted his seat, gripped the barre in his hand, and shouted to the two observers above:

"Target Blackbeard's fleet center, vertical distance from the gun muzzle, weather conditions, and airflow conditions at 5,000 meters above the ground."

Violet, with her eyes closed, began to speak, recounting the weather she had observed:

"Move 45 degrees to the left of the gun muzzle, at a distance of 150 kilometers, and the enemy's movement speed is 130 kilometers per hour."

The weather is stormy 30 kilometers away, and moving with a tailwind of force 12 at an altitude of 5,000 meters.

Fifty kilometers away, with light snow and a vertical airflow of 500 meters per minute, it ascends to a height of 8,000 meters above the sea and stops ascending.

An 83-kilometer meteor fell, its speed reaching 120 meters per second as it descended from an altitude of 5,000 meters above the atmosphere.

A 110-kilometer stretch of yellow sand, with relatively gentle winds of force 8 at an altitude of 5,000 meters.

As Violet reported the data, Usopp's wheel spun continuously, and with the mechanical meshing sound, the giant cannon muzzle gradually shifted towards the desired target!

Click!

With a crisp click of mechanical locking, the moving cannon muzzle came to an instant stop.

"fire!"

With a roar from Usopp, Chopper, who was holding the rope, pulled hard on it. A loud bang was heard, and a white shockwave emanated from the cannon, forming a white cloud above the mushroom-shaped rock hundreds of meters high. Spectators observing the cannon from a distance immediately covered their ears in an attempt to reduce the impact of the sound on their eardrums.

A metal bullet carrying sparks was instantly propelled from the cannon muzzle, turning into a tiny dot in the sky before disappearing into the clouds.

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"Huh?" Van Oka, wearing binoculars, glanced at the sky with a puzzled look, finding the white line in the sky rather strange.

"Hehehe! Haha! What did you find, Van Augur!" The black-bearded man, reclining in a chair surrounded by beautiful women, laughed smugly and asked Van Augur, who was slightly frowning.

"It's nothing, just a strange meteorite," Van Augur said calmly, adjusting his glasses.

"Hahaha! Hahaha! Looks like I was overthinking it. I won't let that bastard Ace leave again. The Tremor-Tremor Fruit is definitely mine. I didn't even use my last chance for it!" Hearing Van Augur's explanation, Blackbeard raised his hand and looked at the guards protecting his ship, his face full of arrogant smiles.

Ace! You're going to die!

Chapter 272 The Battle of Dressrosa (Part 3)

Chapter 269 The Battle of Dressrosa (Part 3)

"Phew! What a terrifying weapon! Destroying the enemy in the unknown." Violet exhaled heavily as she gazed at the distant sea surface where the projectile had crashed into the water and created a splash, indicating the direction in which it had fallen.

"The projectile has deviated 18 kilometers to the left and front of its target location!"

"Load! Keep reporting the location!" Usopp roared, his expression incredibly focused as he stared intently at the markings on the various dials in his hand, calculating the location in his mind.

“Okay!” Violet responded and continued to report the weather conditions she had observed. At this moment, she didn’t need to worry about whether all the shells would hit the target. Her job was to observe the data, and she left everything else to the gunner.

"fire!"

boom!

Thick white smoke erupted again!

Metal bullets pierced the sky!

"Three kilometers to the right of the target!"

"Continue loading!"

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"Boss, it's artillery fire!"

"Damn it, I know without even looking! Can't Van O'Call see where the shells came from?" Upon hearing the report from the flank, Blackbeard grabbed the naked woman lying on his stomach and ran quickly to the ship's side, looking at the distant receding waves with an extremely ugly expression.

Upon receiving the order, Van O'Carl lightly lifted his foot and touched the rope, appearing on the top lookout tower. He adjusted his glasses, observed briefly, and then fell back onto the deck, shaking his head and saying, "There are no ships within a five-kilometer radius."

"Judging from the situation, the shells were fired from Dressrosa. Is this Doflamingo's greeting to us?" Lafayette tapped his feet, making a crisp tapping sound, and gently adjusted the brim of his black hat with his index finger and thumb, his face full of smiles.

"Hahaha! Hahaha! The Seven Warlords of the Sea, huh? Cooped up on an island, too afraid to challenge the world, yet you dare to greet me with a gift." Hearing his subordinate's reply, Blackbeard's face immediately revealed a cruel and evil smile, his ferocious gaze fixed on the distant sea.

"I heard that their family is full of Devil Fruit users, which is perfect for filling our Devil Fruit user army."

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"It hit the ship behind, still two hundred meters from the center!" Violet reported the landing point of the third shell, her heart filled with shock.

Just how much computing power would it take to hit a fleet traveling at 300 meters per second from 100 kilometers away?

There was a nearly one-minute difference between the time they reported the data and the time the missile landed. By then, they had already run more than ten kilometers away from the location they had stated. They were able to predict the next location of the enemy with just three shots.

Are all the Straw Hat crew members really monsters?

"Load!" Usopp remained unmoved upon hearing that he had hit his target. He knew that metal bullets had very little lethality on the sea surface, and that for Maple or Zoro, a mere bullet would be nothing more than a matter of a single slash.

It's impossible to achieve any results with metal bullets alone; we have to find other types of ammunition to use!

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boom!