I am the Bandit King of the East Sea.

There's no way to avoid it, but there are other options.

After a moment's thought, Sieg had an idea.

The inventory is closed, and time resumes its normal flow.

Using telekinesis, Sieg plucked a hair from his head and held it between his fingers. Facing the blood-soaked Ah Ling, Sieg quietly activated the Flying Thunder God Technique.

In the blazing giant city, countless giants saw a blurry figure in the sudden light, swooping down to Ah Ling before the shockwave arrived.

"The Sun Knight?" The giants looked astonished, an unbelievable thought flashing through their minds.

The Sun Knight stood with his back to the boundless shockwave, shielding Ah Ling. His skin cracked open on his back, revealing a pair of enormous bone wings.

The giant wings formed from bones spread out and then tightened, like a giant bone butterfly, embracing Ah Ling lying on the ground.

The surging telekinetic energy pulled at the ground, and the flat ground suddenly rose into a rocky hill, blocking Sieg's way.

The massive amount of pitch-black flames in the fourth stage spread outwards along the bone wings, filling the surrounding area.

Telekinetic wall, Armament Haki hardening, body made of iron, Armament Haki gloves, Life Return enhanced skin, and four stages of black flames.

The small hill blocking Sieg's path instantly turned to dust, and the fourth-stage black flames did not have the expected effect, quickly fading away.

"The fourth stage is a power that exists only if you believe in it and doesn't exist if you don't. So, is the Black Flame of the Mountain Bandit King far more powerful than the Black Flame of the Sun Knight?" This thought flashed through Sig's mind.

Boom!

The earth is shaking, the mountains are trembling!

The powerful shockwave swept away the sea of ​​fire and clouds, and the shockwave torrent rushed forward like a tsunami, but it seemed to hit an impenetrable air wall and was smashed to pieces!

Like a rock eroded by a waterfall, it stands firm despite being riddled with holes.

"He's not trying to survive the combined attack of two Yonko... but rather trying to withstand all the impact by himself?" This thought suddenly flashed through the Giant King's mind.

This is not a reef that remains unscathed by the cascading waterfall, but a dam that blocks the impact of the flood!

He pondered for a moment, picked up the spear beside him, and strode toward the Sun Knight.

Rumble!

Amidst the deafening roar, the earth seemed to rage.

Finally, the light faded, and the tsunami-like shockwave subsided.

The powerful shockwave propelled the Sun Knight backward, his legs carving long furrows in the ground.

He still stood on the ravaged land, with the shattered earth in front of him, but nothing unusual behind him.

"Hit the target? It seems to have worked." Kaido panted, leaning on his spiked club as he stood there, slightly exhausted.

The effects of the toxins are gradual and insidious; he couldn't recover from them immediately.

"He blocked it?" The giants were initially overjoyed at surviving the ordeal, but this emotion froze when they saw the Sun Knight's figure clearly.

The giant wings formed from bones had vanished. The Sun Knight's tattered robes were stained red with blood, and there was hardly any intact skin left on his body. Broken flesh was stuck to his robes, and a shocking hole had been torn open from his back to his chest and abdomen. This was undoubtedly a fatal wound.

The Giant King gripped his spear tightly, waving his hand to command the giants to form a human wall behind the Sun Knight. He then walked to the Sun Knight's side, his expression complex and somewhat bewildered.

"The Sun Knight's primary objective should have been to protect that human woman, but... it's also true that he protected us... that's beyond doubt."

"So our warriors in Elbaf are being protected by outsiders in our own capital?"

The Sun Knight seemed to realize that the Giant King was watching him. He looked up at the Giant King, his face pale.

"The King of Giants."

The Sun Knight, covered in blood, bent down slightly and gently placed the woman in his arms on the ground.

The woman in his arms had no injuries, like Sleeping Beauty in a fairy tale.

The Giant King seemed to understand something. He clenched his fist and raised it to his chest, speaking in a deep voice:

"In the name of the sun, the warriors of Elbaf will protect her until death."

On the thirteenth day after the sun died, the Giant King made a promise to the Sun Knight.

The Sun Knight nodded slightly and looked up at the dim night sky.

"Is it still not dawn?"

He looked up at the sky and suddenly made a slightly strange gesture.

The Sun Knight faces the sky, his arms raised high at an angle, as if to embrace the night sky, or perhaps the sun that has not yet appeared in the sky. The scene is frozen in this moment.

Longmaythesunshine.

Peng.

His blood-stained body turned into a wisp of smoke and vanished with the wind.

A massive, broken cross lay askew in the soil beside him, still bearing traces of blood, surrounded by the ruins of the royal city ablaze with flames.

It looks like a tomb.

It was still dark, and the sun had not yet appeared.

Thirteen days after the onset of winter, the sun still had not risen.

The Sun Knight died in the long night before dawn.

...................

"The body has disappeared..."

"This... could it be that the physical body has been completely destroyed and turned into dust?"

"Although they killed Kaido's capable subordinate Queen, they also managed to hold off Big Mom's pink-haired female warrior until she fell unconscious, and the Sun Knight also died in the process. It was a truly tragic battle."

"The battlefield is the best place for a warrior. His body turns to dust, but his spirit will live on forever in the palace of the King of Gods!" an old giant murmured.

Amid the giants' discussion, the giant hero Mountain Beard looked at the blood-stained cross stuck in the soil and suddenly recalled the first time he met the Sun Knight.

"The sun is like a superb father, warming all things."

"I also want to be like the sun, warming all things and bringing endless light and heat to the world."

"I want to become the sun."

Shan Hu Zi was very old, the oldest soldier, and had long seen the vicissitudes of life, but even he had a slight moistening in his eyes at this moment.

With three or four hundred years of experience, he had seen countless people who spoke grand and beautiful words, but every time he met a soul that warmed the world like the sun, he couldn't help but be moved.

"Judging by actions, not intentions, the Sun Knight is not a saint; he may have his own selfish motives..."

"But today..."

"He is the sun!"

Shan Hu Zi's eyes were sharp. He raised his sword high, let out a loud roar, and charged into the battlefield with the giants beside him.

The shouts of battle filled the air as the giant army, under the command of the Giant King and the Mountain Beard, regrouped.

When a group of over a hundred adult giant warriors charged, their footsteps were enough to shake the earth, and their roars shook the sky.

...................

In contrast to the growing fighting spirit of the giants.

When Kaido saw the Sun Knight turn into a puff of smoke and disappear into the wind, he subconsciously clenched his fist and suddenly felt a chill that went deep into his bones.

Previously, Kaido only had a vague guess about the identity of the Sun Knight, and he subconsciously denied his own thoughts.

But this time, the bloody truth is laid bare before us.

Not only Kaido, but also Capone Bege, a supernova who had participated in the Marineford War, suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

The giants thought the Sun Knight's body had turned to dust... but they had witnessed how the Shadow Clone General Higuma disappeared during the Marineford War.

This is not a Sun Knight at all!

"What Sun Knight...?" Kaido gritted his teeth, his expression a mixture of shock and rage, letting out a low growl from his throat:

"After fighting me for so long, making me pay the price with Quinn, and going through so much trouble to kill... it was just a clone of Sig?"

Chapter 1198 Only a storm can bring down a great tree

Under the cover of night, amidst a sea of ​​clouds.

Pulled by telekinesis, the giant ship Dushan broke through the air and left the sea, entering the airspace above the land of Elbaf Island.

But suddenly.

The entire giant ship suddenly trembled slightly several times without warning.

In the castle at the center of the island, Sieg suddenly gasped and grimaced.

"It hurts."

The shadow clone's complete perception and memories will be fed back to the original body, and after the two bodies are synchronized, even the step of returning after death can be skipped.

"I've died again," he murmured.

"It seems we haven't stacked enough armor."

He pulled a tattered, worn-out glove from his inventory.

After taking the hits from Big Mom and Kaido, the glove was damaged again and needed further repair.

After it was damaged, the shadow clone put it into the inventory.

Shadow Clone Technique backfired?

This isn't called a rollover.

Big Mom and Kaido's side, although not two complete Yonko crews, do have two Yonko themselves.

Although the giant army was also involved in the battle, if it were possible to easily take down two of the Four Emperors who stood at the top of the sea, then the Four Emperors would be too cheap.

Sig's body levitated, floating out like a bolt of lightning.

Under his control, the giant ship Dushan slowly landed on the open ground in Elbaf.

The situation on the other side of the Giant King City is urgent, and flying the entire Dushan with it at a slower speed may not be able to catch up.

If you miss it, that's what you call a disaster.