A Marine Admiral in the Marvel Universe

"I can make you serve me and become my slave."

In his view, Cao Gui was just a small fry with some skill who had gained a slight advantage while he was weak and his strength had not yet recovered.

Now that I've mostly recovered and have the advantage of playing on home turf, the odds are in my favor, and this guy is doomed.

"Heh..." Cao Gui still ignored his words, thinking, "He really has no brains."

Having seen that look of contempt and disdain on Cao Gui's face three times in a row, Imhotep couldn't suppress his anger.

"Where do you get the audacity to look down on me?"

He was thoroughly enraged by Cao Gui's arrogant expression.

"Where do you get the audacity to think you can subdue me? What makes you think you deserve my submission?"

Cao Gui retorted sarcastically, "In this world, only the people can make me submit. You're just an old man who was murdered for having an affair. Where do you get your confidence?"

Enraged, Imhotep roared and suddenly raised his hand to grab, causing the yellow sand to surge up from the ground.

Five gleaming sand blades suddenly rose from the ground, aiming for Cao Gui's vital organs: perineum, heart, throat, and brain.

Cao Gui frowned; playing at home did indeed offer a significant advantage.

"System, equip character card: Caesar Cullen!"

[Host equipped with character card: Character card [Caesar Brown (Hee-ho-ho~, Luffy, I have connections!)], valid for 6 minutes.]

Six minutes? That should be enough.

Swish swish!

The sand blade pierced upwards, instantly penetrating Cao Gui's body.

"Ah!" Eve covered her eyes in fear, unable to bear the sight of Cao Gui's gruesome death.

however……

"How is this going?"

Imhotep couldn't believe it. In his perception, the Sand Blade hadn't caused any damage, but his eyes told him that he had indeed hit it squarely.

To his astonishment, Cao Gui floated up slowly, passing through the forest of sand blades like a wisp of gas.

Then, it slowly opened its mouth, and a deep blue light rose from within.

Imhotep was startled. Although he didn't know what was going on, he knew that Cao Gui was about to launch an attack.

He crossed his arms in front of him, and instantly, the yellow sand on the ground gathered and formed a thick protective shield in front of him.

boom!

At the same moment, a beam of light burst forth from Cao Gui's mouth, shooting out a deep blue pillar of light.

Gas shock beam!

Boom!

A burst of flames erupted, and a powerful shockwave echoed through the tomb, instantly blasting everyone, including the mummy, away.

Dust and sand flew everywhere, Imhotep's defenses were instantly shattered, and a beam of light pierced through Imhotep's body.

But the beam of light, which had not lost its momentum, did not stop and instead pierced through the tomb wall.

The dazzling blue light slowly dissipated, and sunlight shone through the large hole created by the beam, finally bringing a ray of sunlight into the tomb chamber that had been shrouded in darkness for thousands of years.

Despite this victory, Cao Gui showed no excitement whatsoever; he knew Imhotep couldn't possibly be defeated so easily.

Sure enough, the moment the thought arose, the sand below gathered, and Imhotep's figure slowly appeared.

At this moment, his face was gloomy. In the previous battle, the enemy did not have the skill of spitting out blue beams of light.

The enemy's abilities have changed so much in less than a day; either they were holding back in the previous battle, or they have become stronger in a short period of time.

"Roar!"

Imhotep roared, and black smoke billowed from his mouth and the unhealed flesh on his body, instantly filling the air with a strong, pungent stench.

Cao Gui was startled and slammed out with one hand. His entire arm became transparent and disappeared, instantly turning into gas to block the black mist outside.

"what?"

Imhotep's expression changed drastically; he hadn't expected Cao Gui to deflect his attack in this way.

Immediately afterwards, everything went blurry, and Cao Gui's figure vanished in an instant.

Imhotep was startled and was about to turn into sand to leave, but the next second, the skin on his face suddenly tightened.

The familiar feeling returned.

"..."

boom!

A burst of intense blue light erupted instantly, and Imhotep and Cao Gui vanished in the blink of an eye, leaving only a few specks of dust floating in the sunlight streaming into the tomb.

But the existence of the Tyndall effect proves the existence of the two individuals mentioned earlier.

"God... what's going on?" Jonathan's eyes widened. His arm had just disappeared without a trace.

“Although I don’t know how it happened, he blocked the black mist,” O’Connor said in a deep voice.

"Damn it, you guys hurry up and come here, the Book of the Sun is too heavy." Eve complained, huffing and puffing as she carried the Book of the Sun, a book made entirely of gold and incredibly heavy.

“I’m afraid you’re going to be disappointed,” O’Connor said in a deep voice, as the ten mummies slowly began to gather together.

The aftershocks of the battle between those two big shots had left them barely able to move. Now that they were gone, the summoned mummies were about to attack.

“I’ll deal with these mummies.” O’Connor picked up a longsword from the ground.

“Jonathan… no, Eve, go get the gun and snatch the key from Benny’s hand. Jonathan, keep an eye on the Book of the Sun.”

After saying that, O'Connor threw down the pistol from under his arm, grabbed his longsword, and charged into the group of mummies, taking on ten mummies by himself.

“…Damn O’Connor!” Jonathan gritted his teeth; this guy actually looked down on him.

“He’s right, Jonathan, keep an eye on the Sun Gold Standard.” Eve smiled slightly, turned around, picked up her pistol, and fired two shots at Benny.

"..."

Enraged by being looked down upon by his companions and sister, Jonathan imitated Eve and fired a shot at Benny, scaring Benny so much that he jumped up and down in fright.

"Hand over the keys," Eve shouted, cornering Benny against the wall.

"No, no, the key is in New York. I forgot to bring it back. Please, please let me go," Benny pleaded pitifully.

"What?" Eve froze on the spot. The key was actually in New York, thousands of miles away?

"Don't believe him, he's a fraud, search him now!" O'Connor shouted as he was being attacked by the mummies; he knew his friend all too well.

But then, Benny took advantage of Eve's distraction and slipped away.

boom!

A gunshot rang out, and Jonathan hit Benny in the leg.

"Whoosh!" Jonathan hummed, blowing away the smoke from the gun barrel.

Do you really think I'm a weakling?

Eve crouched down and pulled a hexagonal object from Benny's body.

"Ah, I found it!"

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Chapter 221 Gas vs. Sand

Boom!

With a deafening roar in the desert, Imhotep plunged headfirst into the sand dune.

In the sky, wisps of white smoke swirled around Cao Gui, allowing him to float in the air with the help of the air.

The Gas-Gas Fruit is a top-tier Logia-type Devil Fruit, but... the user, Caesar Clown, was an idiot and didn't unleash the fruit's full power at all.

Of course, this isn't about his development of the fruit. To be honest, Caesar Clown's use of the Gas-Gas Fruit was quite remarkable.

Both the Gas Caster and the Azure Flame Sword are good ideas, but Caesar himself is too weak.

He was weak in every way: weak in physical skills, weak in mental fortitude, and even in the new world where Armament Haki was as common as dogs, Caesar didn't have Haki.

Of course, it's a bit much to ask a scientist to have all these abilities, but if Luffy had Haki combined with the Gas-Gas Fruit, then clearing Punk Hazard wouldn't be so easy.

Simply put, the gas fruit is good, but it can be even better.

On the sand dune, Imhotep pulled his head out and stared grimly at Cao Gui in the sky.

"Inhuman, die!"

Imhotep roared, and the sand dunes beneath his feet surged like ocean waves, instantly turning into a sandstorm.

A sandstorm, more than ten meters high, surged and rolled toward Caogui, and hidden in the yellow sand was a thin layer of black mist that was hard to spot.

Imhotep had given up on the idea of ​​peacefully resolving things with Cao Gui... In fact, he never even considered peaceful coexistence with Cao Gui; his only thought had always been to eliminate Cao Gui.

The so-called surrender negotiations were nothing but deception and expedient measures.

But he never expected that he, the great high priest, would not be worthy of the slightest respect in Cao Gui's eyes.

Even if it was a feigned surrender, the negotiations enraged him, and he decided to take back what was his for himself.

However, Imhotep overlooked one problem: he didn't realize just how offensive it was to constantly talk about making people his slaves.

As a result, Cao Guilian lost all interest in talking to him.

"Heh... a boring little trick." Cao Gui said dismissively, looking at the massive sandstorm rushing towards him.

With his Observation Haki, Imhotep had already discerned the deadly move he had hidden in the sandstorm.

The next second, Cao Gui's body swelled up rapidly, his height increasing by more than ten meters. Even Imhotep, a burly man who was 1.9 meters tall, looked tiny in front of him.

chah~

At that moment, a tiny flame appeared, and Imhotep's eyelids twitched slightly. This guy had been using his fire abilities non-stop ever since they met, as if he would never run out of fire.

Just as Imhotep had feared, the tiny flames started burning from Cao Gui's arm and spread all the way up, until in a short while Cao Gui's entire massive body was engulfed in flames.