I am the Bandit King of the East Sea.

Sig felt a surge of anxiety.

The pitch-black flames roared up from his body again, covering his entire body, and then transformed into a sea of ​​black fire that enveloped everything around him.

The second stage of the Dark Flame ability can block Logia-type energy attacks like those of Kizaru, but that's about it.

"Zawarudo!"

Sig shouted out the name of the move, and at the same time, the frame-dropping attack was activated!

In that instant, a strange stuttering occurred on the battlefield, as if the scene had frozen for a moment.

"It's that strange ability again..."

Kizaru's expression changed slightly. He was also within the range of the frame-dropping attack and once again felt the discomfort he had experienced before.

Not only Kizaru, but also Whitebeard, Sengoku, and Redfield himself, who were within the frame drop range, subconsciously frowned at this moment.

The continuous stuttering of the video frame by frame made them feel subconsciously uncomfortable.

When the frame rate is low, there is a certain delay between what the eye sees and reality, which brings an uncomfortable sense of disconnect.

Sieg's frame-dropping attack is not, in essence, an ability to affect time. What this ability can do is interfere with the human senses, disrupting the human's sense of space and time.

For a seasoned warrior like Whitebeard, whose fighting has become second nature, every move—where to strike, how much force to use, how to unleash the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, and how the enemy will dodge—is perfectly mastered and ingrained in his mind.

However, with frame-drop attacks now in effect, the rich combat experience of the strong is no longer of any use.

"How is this going?"

Whitebeard felt a slight tremor in his heart. He saw Sengoku's palm strike down, and just as he swung his naginata, the scene before him suddenly froze for a moment.

Suddenly, he lost control of the naginata in his hand and didn't know where he was slashing. When he slashed, it felt like he had hit something as hard as iron.

At the same time, he felt a sharp pain in his shoulder, as if he had been slashed by a sharp weapon.

"Who is cutting me? And who am I cutting?" Whitebeard was bewildered.

Chapter 542 Luffy's Favorite Meatball

When Sieg started the frame-dropping attack, the small area of ​​the battlefield around them was already in chaos.

This was quite bizarre to the navy and pirates outside the frame-dropping area.

In their view, the battle between Whitebeard and his men suddenly went into chaos.

The Warring States Vajra, transformed into a giant Buddha, glared angrily, its palm radiating golden light, as if holding a sun, dazzlingly bright. Its massive palm, like a mountain, slammed down on the ground beside it, creating a deep crater and cracking the glacier.

Then, Whitebeard astutely seized upon Sengoku's mistake, and with a swift stroke, slashed Zephyr away from the side.

Redfield was deeply moved when he saw that Whitebeard had given up the opportunity to pursue Sengoku's weakness and came to help him cut down Zephyr. So he used his umbrella sword to stab Whitebeard's shoulder, leaving a bloody hole.

On the other side, a stream of lava flowed upstream along the fissure in the ground, and the lava quickly gathered, revealing Akainu's figure.

Akainu had been punched into a crevice in the ground by Whitebeard, and blood was streaming from his forehead. He was seriously injured, but he stubbornly charged back into the battlefield, preparing to launch a sneak attack on Whitebeard.

"Prepare to die, Whitebeard! Dog devours the crimson lotus!"

Akainu roared and then brushed past Whitebeard, unleashing a barrage of attacks on the air beside him.

Sengoku, realizing what was happening, roared, "Buddha's Charge! Charge! Charge! Charge! Charge! Charge! Charge!"

Then he slapped Akainu on the head, who had just crawled out of the crack in the ground, sending him flying back down into the crack.

........

The battle suddenly became chaotic, and the attack movements of Whitebeard and his crew appeared particularly bizarre to the Marines and pirates outside the frame-dropping area.

This story teaches us that frame drops and lag during team battles can easily lead to death, even for skilled players.

In this area of ​​frame drops, all beings are equal. Whom you hit and who hits you is entirely up to fate.

Even the instigator, Sieg, was the same.

After a few seconds of continuous lag, Sieg suddenly felt a sharp pain in his shoulder.

He was shot.

The bullet struck his left shoulder, passed right through him, and exploded into a small spray of blood.

The bullet itself wasn't the main point, but the location where it hit made Sieg tense up immediately, and the Emperor Engine suddenly accelerated.

The bullet hit a spot only a few centimeters away from the carotid artery in the neck—very close.

This means that Sieg was only a short distance away from real death.

Upon feeling the sharp pain in his shoulder, Sieg immediately opened his inventory.

At that moment, time stood still.

It was only then that Sieg felt a deep sense of lingering fear.

This is no fun at all... The frame-dropping attack is practically a suicide move!

When frames drop, the body's instincts and Observation Haki are disrupted, making it difficult to make effective evasive maneuvers.

Neither Sieg nor his enemies could predict his attacks, meaning that survival depended entirely on luck.

During this pause in time, Sig took a look at the battlefield before him and immediately felt a chill run down his spine.

In front of him was a curtain of black flames, used to block attacks from Logia-type Devil Fruit users. At this moment, a ripple was spreading across the curtain of flames. Kizaru's laser shot straight from a distance and hit the curtain of flames in front of Higuma.

Aokiji's ice crystal spear passed directly through the curtain of flames, unaffected by the dark flames, and grazed just past Sig's arm.

A few steps away, Lieutenant General Momonga, holding a long sword, was about to slash horizontally at Sieg, though it was unclear whether he would miss.

To the side, a bullet hovered silently in the air, about three or four meters away from Sig. It was estimated that it would hit him the very next second after Sig closed his inventory.

"This... after I close the inventory and time starts flowing again, I'll die immediately, right?"

Sieg was deeply frightened, so he quickly took out a dozen apples from his inventory and started munching on them.

[A hearty meal restores health in small amounts, while alcohol restores stamina in small amounts.]

Before entering Impel Down, Sieg filled his 300kg inventory with almost all kinds of equipment and food, just in preparation for the moment he was injured.

The food that entered his stomach seemed to have been thrown into a bottomless pit, and did not give Sieg much of a feeling of fullness.

While munching on the apple, Sieg felt a faint tingling sensation on his shoulder. Looking to the side, he saw that the small blood hole in his shoulder, caused by the bullet, seemed to be showing slight signs of healing, though it was almost invisible to the naked eye.

In that moment when time stood still, the whole world fell silent. People on the battlefield brandished their weapons in their own ways, exclaiming or roaring in surprise.

The splattering blood and whistling bullets all froze at that moment, silently hovering in the air.

It was like a still picture of a battlefield.

Only Sig's art style is a bit off.

He stood in the very center of the battlefield, constantly taking apples out of his inventory and devouring them.

He ate 40 apples in a row, and only then did the small blood hole on his shoulder gradually heal.

In the Dragonborn game, there are legitimate recovery items like health potions and mana potions, while food items like apples and meat can only restore a small amount of health.

In other words, a lot of food is needed to heal a gunshot wound in the shoulder.

"So, 300kg of food doesn't seem like enough!"

"The damage from that shot was so great that I would need to eat 40 apples!"

After finishing the apple, Sieg cautiously glanced at the flying squirrel general in front of him, who was swinging his sword at him from a few meters away.

"Let's see if we can dodge it..."

Sig carefully closed the inventory, and time resumed its flow.

The next instant.

The flying squirrel swung its blade, and although the trajectory was off, it still left a bloody line in Sig's ribs, and blood splattered.

Despite the excruciating pain, Sieg immediately reopened his inventory, and time stopped once more.

At this moment, his ribs were a bloody mess, and the splattered blood hung silently in the air.

This injury... just looking at it makes me feel so much pain.

Startled, Sieg quickly stuffed a large chicken leg into his mouth.

This time, Sieg ate a full 20 large chicken legs before the knife wound between his ribs barely healed.

"As expected of Vice Admiral Momonga from Marine Headquarters!" Sig secretly exclaimed in admiration.

"This one cut is equivalent to the effort of 20 big chicken drumsticks!"

The next instant, a flying sword aura slashed past Sig's body, leaving a deep bloody gash on his arm.

The person who took action was Onigumo, who had been promoted to lieutenant general at headquarters.

This time, Sigurd took out a specialty from the One Piece world from his inventory: Luffy's favorite bone-in meat stick, and started munching on it.

Chapter 543 Sig's Mysterious Abilities

Time may seem short to outsiders, but it feels like an eternity to Sieg.

During the frame drops, Sigurd's own Observation Haki was also obscured and distorted, making it impossible for him to make any effective evasive maneuvers.

Not only that, but when time stopped, the tension gradually subsided, and the frequency of the Emperor Engine, which had been running incessantly, also slowed down.

Sig kept eating the big meat stick and repeatedly opened and closed his inventory.

After repeating this process many times, he realized a fatal problem.

There's not enough food!

During the time of the frame-dropping attack, Sig had eaten more than 200 kg of food, but it was only enough to barely heal his wounds.

The inventory has a weight limit of 300KG, but food can only restore a small amount of health.

The navy that Sieg has to deal with are elite vice admirals from headquarters, led by Aokiji, Momonga, and others!

Even if their attacks don't actually hit their targets due to frame drops, and only result in minor scratches, they still need a lot of food to heal the wounds.

"This can't go on any longer, I'm running out of big chunks of meat!"

Sieg made an important decision.