I am the Bandit King of the East Sea.

"I guessed so. I just applied a debuff on the spur of the moment."

Sieg had just answered when the azure dragon beneath his feet let out a long roar:

"No one can run faster than me!"

The Dragon King soared through the clouds at an astonishing speed, the fierce winds whistling past Sig's ears.

But Shiki wasn't much slower. He rode his pirate ship like an arrow through the air, following closely behind as he swooped down toward Sig.

But just as the distance between them was gradually closing, he saw Sig on the dragon's back raising his red lightsaber at him from afar.

"Is it finally time to make a move, Wang Xige?"

The golden lion was not surprised but delighted, and his hands even trembled slightly with excitement.

The former first mate, Wang Xige, had left him with some lingering trauma on Thunder Island.

First it was Thor, then it was Wang Xige himself.

Both of them had the ability to manipulate lightning, which caused him a lot of trouble back then.

"The powerful swordsman mentioned in the intelligence report who was able to defeat Barrett, that must be you, Wang Xige."

"I didn't expect you to have this trick up your sleeve."

His eyes burned with fierce determination, and his fighting spirit was high.

In the eyes of the Golden Lion, he is about to face off against Roger in a showdown that will be the most intense and unparalleled since the beginning of the series.

"Wang Xige, Roger, and even Rocks back then—if I don't surpass all of you, what kind of strongest am I?"

High above the clouds, the golden lion held his twin swords aloft, about to swoop down.

He saw Sieg raise his lightsaber and casually slash at him from afar.

The Golden Lion was extremely wary of this. He immediately raised his sword to parry, and at the same time turned his body to the side to dodge, but the next moment he was stunned.

This sword strike did not produce the astonishing sword light he had imagined.

Instead, thunder rumbled between the clouds, and dense bolts of lightning fell from the sky like a curtain of rain.

"A feint?"

The thought flashed through the Golden Lion's mind as he raised his sword to defend against the lightning strike from above.

But the lightsaber in Sieg's hand suddenly became brighter, and an invisible ripple swept across it in an instant.

In that instant.

Golden Lion's expression changed drastically. He and the pirate ship beneath his feet plummeted downwards like a kite with a broken string.

Golden Lion had eaten the Float-Float Fruit long ago and had trained this ability to the point of instinct, making floating and flying in the air as easy as breathing.

But now that this almost instinctive instinct has been taken away, he feels a subconscious sense of helplessness.

"Hai Lou Shi?"

Before the thought could even form in his mind, a dense barrage of lightning struck his twin swords, spreading throughout his entire body.

Suddenly, his wet blond hair exploded into a frizzy mess in a flash of lightning, and he grimaced, spitting out black smoke.

Rumble!

After the flash of lightning, a deafening roar of thunder then unfolded in the clouds.

As the user of the Float-Float Fruit, Shiki doesn't need to master aerial techniques like Moonwalk.

When his ability failed, he had nowhere to grab hold in the air and was completely unable to evade, and was quickly engulfed in the lightning.

The golden lion, along with its ship, was engulfed by several bolts of lightning in mid-air and plummeted straight down.

Sig breathed a slight sigh of relief. He glanced at the battery indicator of the Flame Laser Sword in his hand, which had dropped from 100% to 80% and was rapidly decreasing at a rate of 1% per second.

[Realistic art style---—Consuming a large amount of electricity, temporarily correcting all unscientific phenomena in the surroundings.]

"Once Shiki regains his senses, even without the power of a Devil Fruit, he will still be a top-tier swordsman..."

The effect of the Flame Laser Sword is similar to that of Seastone, but it only temporarily strips away the power of the Devil Fruit and cannot render Shiki powerless.

"We can't let him come to his senses..."

Sig cleared his throat, fumbled in his chest, and turned on the megaphone switch that he hadn't used in a long time.

"Wait, what do you want to do?" The Dragon King beneath his feet suddenly had a bad feeling.

"I won't do it."

Sieg looked down at the sea below, ready to speak.

.........

Below the clouds.

Previously, Shiki the Golden Lion and his pirate crew suddenly broke away from the battle and soared into the sky. In addition, the surrounding waves were getting bigger and bigger, so both sides restrained themselves.

But after only a short while, the pirates all raised their heads again.

Rumble!

Thunder rumbled incessantly, and lightning flashed like a dense curtain of rain between the clouds. Shiki the Golden Lion, who had just taken off, fell from the sky along with his ship.

The Golden Lion's pirate ship had already been bombarded by lightning, and when it fell into the sea from the sky, the enormous force of the fall caused the entire ship to shatter into pieces with a deafening roar.

Then, the golden lion's figure fell from the sky and crashed onto the shattered deck below, breaking the entire ship in two.

"Did he really get struck by lightning?"

"What's wrong with Captain Shiki? Why would he suddenly take off in this stormy weather? Isn't that inviting trouble?"

The pirates roared in the storm.

"Captain Shiki is a Devil Fruit user. Once he falls into the sea, even the strongest Devil Fruit user is useless..."

At that moment, massive waves crashed around them, violently rocking the pirate ship beneath their feet, swaying and tilting, almost capsizing them.

Even if there were pirates who wanted to rescue them, they were powerless to do so at this time.

The golden lion gasped for breath, struggled to its feet from the broken deck, and shook its head.

First, he was struck by lightning multiple times, and then he fell from the sky, which made him feel quite unwell, leaving him with a dizzy head.

The violent jolting beneath his feet also made him feel uncomfortable.

Normally, if he encounters a storm of this magnitude, he can use the power of the Float-Float Fruit to maneuver his fleet to hover low in the air and fly past the waves.

Compared to ordinary pirates, Shiki's flying fleet is not so afraid of ordinary storms.

But now that he has suddenly lost the power of the Float-Float Fruit, he is like a bird whose wings have been clipped.

He had no experience in this state, in facing a storm of this magnitude.

"Damn it! That Wang Xige guy..."

The golden lion had just muttered a curse under his breath.

But at that moment, he suddenly heard a sound, and goosebumps rose all over his body.

He frowned, looked up at the sky, and listened intently.

Besides the continuous sound of waves and thunder, he seemed to hear some faint sound.

At this time.

Another towering wave crashed in, violently pounding the half-deck beneath the golden lion's feet.

The other half of the ship was swept up by the giant wave, and amidst the thunderous roar of the waves, it headed towards the Golden Lion.

The half of the ship quickly disintegrated in the giant waves, and the rudder was shaken off the hull and flew out, spinning at high speed as it fell from the sky, along with the surrounding broken masts, ships, and so on.

Golden Lion's first reaction was to use the power of the Float Float Fruit to dodge.

But upon moving, he realized he had temporarily lost his strength, so he raised his twin swords in an attempt to cleave the falling debris from above.

"Oh oh oh oh oh uh uh um...."

At this moment, a sound like ghosts wailing and wolves howling rang out, and sharp, rolling sound waves mixed with the thunder and the sound of waves, drilling into everyone's eardrums.

This was a strange and horrifying sound that defied description, like the deep despair of someone who had just had hemorrhoid surgery, struggled with constipation for two hours, then experienced the despair of not being able to find toilet paper, and finally felt the profound despair of the delivery guy who came to deliver the paper getting lost for three hours.

"What...what is that sound?"

"Who is howling? A water ghost? Or the wronged soul of someone who died in the storm?"

"So loud? You're really energetic!"

"It's the Sirens! This is the song of the Sirens, the sea monsters. Anyone who hears it will be dragged into the River Styx!"

Amidst the panicked discussions among the pirates.

The Golden Lion felt a sudden heaviness in his head, as if a knife was being plunged into his brain and vigorously stirred, causing him to momentarily lose consciousness.

*Thud!* A towering wave, carrying the rapidly spinning rudder, crashed through the air.

Chapter 802 The Man Hidden Behind the Giant Curtain of the Times

The wind howled and the waves surged.

The sea has completely spiraled out of control. One giant wave after another rolls and churns, lifting pirate ships into the sky and then slamming them back onto the sea.

"Captain Shikie!"

Several loyal subordinates rushed over amidst the roar of the waves, only to see Skeeter's head stuck in the rudder, blood streaming from his head, sinking into the sea.

"Is he still alive?"

"With such severe injuries, is he really still alive?"

The pirates had no choice but to retrieve Shiki, who had already fallen into the sea.

Even after being pulled from the water, the golden lion remained unconscious.

Seeing their captain unconscious and his fate unknown, the rest of the Flying Pirates gradually lost their will to fight.

At this moment, the battle between the two pirate crews was forced to stop.

The pirate ships, which had been heavily blocked, were pushed aside by the giant waves and forced to keep their distance.