One Piece: A Guide for Ordinary Players

A tall figure leaped out of the warship that had been swept up and slammed onto Beehive Island by the tsunami. He didn't care about the lives of his men at all, and with a few leaps, he stepped over other wreckage that hadn't yet fallen into the black hole and fled out to sea.

But no matter how fast he went, he couldn't keep up with the speed of the black hole's erosion. The closer he got to the shore, the fewer buildings there were. When the last foothold under his feet was also pulled into the black hole, Xiu Zuo made one last desperate leap, then watched himself fall into the black hole's range as if waiting to die.

A bolt of lightning struck him horizontally in the waist. The tip of the lightning, imbued with Armament Haki, resembled a fist, causing Shuzo to cough up blood. His body, which should have landed on the ground, instantly gained new momentum and flew sideways into the sea.

"You're welcome."

He didn't even see who was speaking; he only heard a joke before everything went black and he fainted.

Robert saved Xiu Zuo only because of Professor Zephyr; whether Xiu Zuo would drown was not something he should worry about.

After the black hole swallowed the entire honeycomb island, it began to compress and chew like a giant mouth. When it reached a certain critical point, it poured everything out in an instant.

Debris from construction and other debris filled the air as Robert watched indifferently until the black hole collapsed into a human figure. Before he could react, lightning followed.

The lightning crackled through the pile of clutter, eventually pointing towards the figure that Blackbeard had just revealed.

Robert showed no signs of wanting to fight a protracted battle that would last ten days. He pushed the Rumble-Rumble Fruit to its limit, and the electric current forming around Blackbeard began to undergo a qualitative change, becoming as thick as some kind of liquid.

Blackbeard was attacked as soon as he appeared, which is the most terrifying aspect of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit. It's too fast. Even if it's just scraping, only taking one drop of blood each time, as long as you scrape fast enough, there will eventually be a day when you can scrape someone to death.

Moreover, Robert has fought against so many masters and has long suffered enough from the pain of gua sha (scraping therapy), so how could he not come up with some new inventions?

"Blackbeard, this is the first time I've used this move. You're in luck."

"Enjoy my Thunderous Hot Spring Bath - Red Romance!"

Chapter 31 Ending 1, Black Hole Escape

Every time Zoro fights someone, he gets beaten badly first, and every slash he throws only does limited damage, barely scratching the opponent. He only finishes off the opponent with a high-damage skill that has a catchy and impressive name.

Every time Luffy attacks, he first shouts "Gum-Gum + [weapon name]", using a fixed naming convention to enhance his attacks.

Even Usopp's sniping techniques have their own names, which shows that this is the ultimate rule of this world - only techniques with names can deal damage!

That move, Red Romance, was the most powerful technique Robert could currently create with his bare hands. It used a cross-current high voltage to convert all matter in the area into a plasma state.

Using a single move consumes a large portion of the body's electrical reserves.

Instantly teleporting away from Blackbeard, Robert unabashedly pulled out food and stuffed it into his mouth.

Blackbeard, trapped in the plasma tank, could no longer even scream, which allowed Robert to breathe a sigh of relief, knowing that the technique he had so excitedly developed was at least effective.

If Blackbeard's Dark-Dark Fruit weren't so overpowered, this attack would have been enough to decide the fate of any other skilled opponent.

Robert was confident that even a great swordsman like Hawkeye would be instantly vaporized if he seized the opportunity to capture him with his plasma tank.

But Blackbeard is different. Robert never intended to defeat him with a single move. Red Romance was just used to wear him down. In the later stages of the One Piece world, the decisive factor is still Haki.

A massive tremor erupted in the plasma cell, disrupting the stable environment of the current and causing a huge explosion.

Blackbeard was panting heavily, his skin and hair were all gone, revealing red flesh and blood. His throat had been burned by the high temperature and he had lost the ability to speak, but he still survived.

The Zoan-type Devil Fruit's incredible regenerative abilities began to take effect. At least the blueprint Robert had drawn up for him back then hadn't lied to him: the Dark-Dark Fruit for defense, the Tremor-Tremor Fruit for offense, and the Zoan-type Devil Fruit for recovery.

Although this Skunk Fruit was a bit weak, it still possesses the powerful regenerative abilities common to Zoan-type Devil Fruits.

Robert appeared calmly, not running and fighting as before, but instead standing openly in front of Blackbeard.

Blackbeard's eyes were bloodshot. Just a moment ago, he truly felt the threat of death. If he continued to let Robert grow, sooner or later Robert would gain the ability to kill him.

Moreover, Blackbeard had no doubt that if Robert were truly capable of killing him, he would not hesitate for a moment.

The weakened Blackbeard seemed to have lost his ability to fight. Robert didn't hesitate, and lightning surged into a spear, which he thrust towards Blackbeard's recovering body.

Seeing that feigning weakness wouldn't fool Robert, Blackbeard displayed unimaginable agility with his massive body, leaping up from the ground in an instant.

A powerful tremor surged around him. Blackbeard dared not let the lightning bolts imbued with Armament Haki strike him again. Robert had always felt that his electric shocks were like a minor scraping, but only those who had personally experienced them knew how powerful such attacks were.

Blackbeard leaped through the air towards Robert, who landed a short distance away in a flash. Just as he solidified his form, he felt an irresistible suction force pulling him away.

Blackbeard's left hand had completely transformed into a black hole, extending its gravity towards him and pulling him toward his location—his signature move, Dark Water.

Robert tried to transform into lightning to escape the attraction range, but black holes can capture even Guang, let alone electricity.

With a look of panic on his face, Robert's body finally couldn't withstand the immense pressure. The kinetic energy he had accumulated for escaping instantly reversed, and he was pulled toward Blackbeard at an extremely fast speed.

Blackbeard wore a cruel smile, his right hand already gathering maximum shock power, waiting for Robert to arrive so he could shatter every bone in Robert's body from head to toe.

But Robert, knowing full well that he couldn't escape even by turning into lightning, still transformed his body into an elemental form as he flew towards them. It was as if he felt that the force Blackbeard was using to pull him wasn't strong enough, and he used the speed of lightning to close in instantly.

Blackbeard's smile froze on his face, or rather, shifted to Robert.

Robert knows Blackbeard too well; there's practically no move Blackbeard doesn't know. If he wanted to protect himself, Robert wouldn't even be within the Dark Water's attraction range.

Robert's self-inflicted trap caught Blackbeard completely off guard. Before he could react, his right fist, which had been gathering strength for a long time, was even thrown with his arm bent, when Robert's fist slammed into his chest.

The moment Blackbeard was struck by the fist, he felt a powerful aura explode on Robert, and the world changed color, with countless red and black lightning bolts appearing and disappearing.

His beast-like body began to revert to human form, and the darkness and vibration on his fists involuntarily dissipated.

Blackbeard became a pirate when he was a teenager, so how could he not know what kind of power this was?

But he was stunned by Robert's punch, his mind was in a daze, and he couldn't use any of his defensive methods, such as the Dark-Dark Fruit, animal form, or Armament Haki. Blood gushed from his mouth as if it were free.

Like a rolling gourd, Blackbeard's body flew backward for dozens of meters, but Robert strangely did not take the opportunity to chase after him. Instead, he stood quietly in place, savoring the feeling of that punch.

His Conqueror's Haki was actually only at a beginner level. Apart from a brief burst when he awakened it in Dressrosa, he had never encountered any other stimulus that could trigger it.

In the original work, everyone's Conqueror's Haki was like this when it was first awakened. It started by unconsciously emitting it, then it was able to be activated on its own, and finally it developed into being able to wrap Haki around attacks.

That punch I just threw wasn't really a Conqueror's Haki attack; it was just me using the pressure Blackbeard put on me to activate my Conqueror's Haki.

But this is already a qualitative leap. At least he has figured out the trick to actively activating Conqueror's Haki. All that's left is to keep practicing and mastering it.

When Blackbeard got up from the ground, his eyes were filled with only fear when he looked at Robert.

Blackbeard's previous madness and hatred were all a facade; he was a man of deep thought and was always in a calm state.

Blackbeard knew that he had to keep Robert here at all costs; he didn't need to wait for Robert to grow up, as Robert already had the weapon to kill him.

Sickly Strongman was being choked and repositioned in mid-air by Weevil. Once he finally regained his balance, Weevil shook his dizzy head, refocused his gaze on Blackbeard, and tightened his grip: "Charge! Take that guy down!"

Before the sick horse Zhuangzhuang could react, Blackbeard punched the ground, causing the entire Beehive Island to tremble and the surrounding sea to surge.

Robert leaped into the air, only to see Blackbeard throw another punch into the sky. The space above the island began to shake and distort. The tremors of heaven and earth seemed like two slices of bread, compressing the space in which Robert could escape into a limited area.

Blackbeard truly went all out this time; he had never dared to use this move at full power since it was developed.

Robert's pupils trembled; his Observation Haki seemed to have been stimulated by something, and the space in front of him began to distort.

This sudden turn of events startled Robert. At the crucial moment of the fierce battle, he had entered this strange state and lost his ability to observe. What should he do?

The distortion of space resembled a series of disjointed old-fashioned slides. Robert observed carefully but could only see a few blurry images.

Black hole.

Everything was sucked in.

A massive explosion.

He himself died!

Chapter 32 Everyone has a secret weapon up their sleeve.

It's not entirely accurate to call Blackbeard's Devil Fruit the Dark-Dark Fruit, as almost all of his techniques are developed around black holes.

Dark water and dark caves are both created by the gravitational pull of black holes to attract enemies. They can even absorb enemy attacks, thus achieving the so-called invincible defensive power of the Dark-Dark Fruit.

The method of stealing the Devil Fruit's power is also to use the gravity of a black hole, so that the Devil Fruit's power cannot escape and can only be reborn in the black hole.

However, Blackbeard's previous moves could only be described as utilizing the concept of black hole gravity, without even demonstrating one-billionth of its power.

If he could truly create a black hole by hand, the entire One Piece world would collapse around him immediately, and that would truly be the end.

But just now, Robert's Observation Haki seemed to have foreseen the future for a moment, clearly conveying that as long as Blackbeard unleashed this attack, he would surely die.

Robert reacted extremely quickly. If Blackbeard really wanted to create a black hole, Robert's proud electric field speed would not be able to escape at all.

To Blackbeard's astonishment, Robert's body suddenly became ethereal. Before the half-finished black hole could gather its power, Blackbeard released the unfinished product from his hand.

In an instant, everything within a hundred meters disappeared, leaving only pure darkness, where even light was distorted into a ball.

Nothing could escape; the area of ​​a hundred meters expanded to one kilometer, then five kilometers in the blink of an eye, eventually annihilating the entire Beehive Island.

The surrounding seawater surged wildly toward the center of the black hole, and the apocalyptic scene sent shockwaves through the hearts of everyone who was closely watching the movements of Beehive Island.

The black hole lasted only a second or two before Blackbeard deliberately extinguished it.

He was limp and boneless, and with the last bit of strength he had, he threw a broken piece of wood from the dark passage, then collapsed onto it and drifted with the current.

Beehive Island has completely disappeared, just as there has never been a huge island with an area of ​​tens of thousands of acres on this turbulent sea.

Zefa clung tightly to the ship's railing, struggling to keep from falling onto the deck, and roared in a trembling voice, "Shuzo!"

Even though he was hundreds of kilometers away, everything that happened on Beehive Island still left a lingering fear in his heart, even though he was a top-tier Observation Haki expert.

The dozen or so ships that the NEO Navy had sent ahead had disappeared along with Beehive Island. Zefa didn't care about those ships at all, but the people on board were all naval personnel he had personally trained, disciples who were still willing to follow him after he resigned.

Zephyr's eyes were bloodshot as he stared at the fleet blocking his way: "Garp! I'm just leaving the Navy! I'm not a criminal! Why are you stopping me! Why!"

Garp also looked solemn. If he hadn't led an entire fleet to stop his old comrade-in-arms, Zephyr would have already appeared on Hive Island.

"We've received confirmation that Blackbeard and Robert, two great pirates, will clash on Beehive Island. Both of them are dangerous enough to destroy an entire city. I just don't want you to go and die!"

Zephyr was in tears. He knew why Garp had stopped him, and he was well aware that if he were on Beehive Island, he would definitely not have survived that attack.

But the more he learned about these things, the more he felt an inexplicable anger that he didn't know who to vent it on. In order to avenge Edward Weevil's massacre of his students, he was now taking down even more students. What was the point of this revenge?

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Marco, in his phoenix form, was carrying Ace at breakneck speed toward Beehive Island. From afar, the world seemed to darken, as if even the light was being absorbed by some darkness.

As the Whitebeard Pirates retreated to a safe location, news arrived that Robert had launched a surprise attack on Beehive Island, forcing Blackbeard to return to reinforce it.

Without taking a break, the two hastily handed over the task of organizing the evacuation to foil Bista.

Marco even let Ace ride on his back, and the two rushed to Beehive Island immediately.

To relieve the Whitebeard Pirates, Robert launched a solo raid on Blackbeard's lair. How could the two of them possibly let Blackbeard lead his men back to annihilate Robert?

Therefore, even when they flew over the main force of the Blackbeard Pirates, they did not take advantage of Blackbeard's absence to retaliate, but instead bypassed them and headed straight for Beehive Island.

With Beehive Island right in front of him, Ace was struck by this horrific scene and felt his heart stop beating.