One Piece: A Guide for Ordinary Players

Actually, it can't be considered a sneak attack by Robert. He did give a warning, but he was too fast. From saying he was going to attack to rushing to Kaido's side, he didn't even give him time to react.

Gungnir, crackling with lightning, struck Kaido hard, but Kaido was in his beast form, his body covered in thick scales. Robert's first attempt to test the waters didn't even involve Armament Haki, so Gungnir couldn't break through Kaido's defenses at all. It simply used its immense impact to slam Kaido from the sky into the sea of ​​clouds.

The White Sea also has the function of a large ocean; even ordinary Devil Fruit users would feel weak if they fell into it.

Robert watched the churning clouds with growing vigilance. The next second, a towering pillar of fire pierced through the clouds and hurtled towards Robert!

Chapter 43 The strength of a move is determined by its name.

When it comes to Kaido's skills, they are indeed powerful. The only thing that Robert couldn't understand was the name of his dragon form's skills.

The skill that can melt an entire mountain is simply called Heat Breath. When the six masters of God Valley besieged Im, each of them had a resounding skill name, but Kaido was the only one who straightforwardly named his skill Dragon.

It's probably because he lost face back then, so Kaido's human form skills became more and more fancy afterward, such as Naraku, Thunder Bagua, and Subduing the Three Worlds. Regardless of whether Buddhist and Taoist terms conflict, he just mixed them up and used them.

At this moment, Robert unleashed a powerful breath attack, and even his elemental body could feel the immense power contained within it, far surpassing the power of Ace's flames.

Both electric current and flame exist in the form of plasma. This heat swept through Robert's body and even affected the stability of his elementalization.

Kaido's enormous body seemed to completely ignore the seawater's suppression of Devil Fruits, soaring into the sky from the sea of ​​clouds. His black spiked club unleashed bolts of lightning as he swung it toward Robert.

Robert could clearly sense that Kaido was returning the favor by not applying Conqueror's Haki to his spiked club, but instead using Armament Haki to protect it.

Gungnir charged forward, Robert's lightning link connecting to the tip of the Eternal Spear like an extension of his limbs, covering it with Armament Haki, and directly clashing with Kaido's Thunder Bagua!

The moment the spears clashed, the lightning that Kaido had unleashed was completely extinguished by Robert, but Gungnir was also sent flying backward by Kaido's immense force.

Kaido frowned as he was struck by the backlash of the lightning, but Robert was struck as if by lightning. He and Gungnir were linked by both lightning and Armament Haki, and inevitably some of the impact from the collision had reached Robert.

Robert's Armament Haki was instantly shattered. He gritted his teeth and had to admit that he was far inferior to Kaido, a veteran powerhouse, in terms of both physical strength and Haki level.

Kaido cracked his neck: "You're quite good. There aren't many young people who dare to take a hit from me head-on and emerge unscathed."

Robert knew his own situation. Gungnir was, after all, a divine weapon, so its strength was naturally not a problem. But if he had been holding the weapon and exchanging blows with Kaido, his body definitely wouldn't have been able to withstand it.

So although Kaido was polite, he actually took a shortcut and there was nothing to be proud of.

"A head-on clash is indeed not my forte. Please, Kaido-senpai, try out my other techniques!"

Robert would just take one hit to test the waters; he wouldn't be foolish enough to use his weakness against the enemy's strength. Gungnir was taken to his side, and as his body became elemental, everything around him began to be affected by his Devil Fruit ability.

In his first battle after awakening, Robert transformed everything in the world into lightning and unleashed it upon Kaido.

Robert's forte is this kind of relentless lightning suppression. Ever since he had enough energy in his body to squander at will, he has been constantly refining this tactical system that relies purely on offense to squeeze out all of the enemy's counterattack space.

Kaido felt that everything around him was hostile. Countless bolts of lightning struck him at a speed that was difficult to see with the naked eye. Moreover, the angles of these attacks were tricky, and the lightning could strike from his blind spot at any time.

Most importantly, some of these lightning bolts are pure elemental attacks, while others are enveloped in Armament Haki.

Lightning imbued with Armament Haki can be divided into blunt hammer strikes or sharp, spear-like thrusts.

What's even more terrifying is that these attacks come like a torrential downpour from all directions, leaving no room to dodge or even a second to catch their breath.

Kaido realized that he had completely lost his lock on Robert, whether in sight or through his Observation Haki. Robert was hiding in a place where he could not find him, attracting endless lightning strikes, making him virtually invincible!

Kaido's body was not only protected by scales, but also dyed black by a thick Armament Haki. Lightning struck his body, making a clanging sound, which finally made Kaido really angry.

It's important to know that Robert's lightning strikes now are no joke; each strike is powered by hundreds of millions of volts and carries the force of Haki, causing Kaido considerable pain.

If it weren't for his incredibly high health pool and unparalleled regeneration ability, anyone else would have been reduced to dust by Robert in just a few seconds.

A dragon's roar resounded through the sky, and Kaido swung his spiked club with unstoppable force, seemingly trying to seal off all the surrounding space—Kundari Dragons!

The spiked club finally began to absorb Conqueror's Haki. Kaido felt that if he didn't use Conqueror's Haki soon, he would be completely humiliated.

The lightning that Robert unleashed was shattered by Kaido's powerful Conqueror's Haki, instantly creating an electric vacuum around him.

Kaido was finally able to catch his breath for a moment, and then he saw a huge statue standing in front of him, its body more than ten meters tall, holding a lightning spear, the tip of which was none other than Gungnir, which had clashed with him earlier!

Kaido is over seven meters tall, and Robert looks like a little toy in front of him; he can't even reach Kaido's hips.

But now he has transformed into a lightning giant, and his size has surpassed Kaido's.

As Kaido sensed the terrifying destructive power emanating from the giant composed entirely of lightning before him, his eyes blazed with fighting spirit. He channeled all his strength into his arms and swung his spiked club with all his might!

"Great Power Thunder Bagua!"

Ever since Robert acquired the tip of the Gungnir, he has been studying the techniques his master taught him on how to make the weapon accustomed to his own Conqueror's Haki, thereby triggering the Conqueror's Haki entangling.

So whenever he had nothing to do, he would take out this big treasure and rub it, nurturing it with various kinds of domineering energy.

Nowadays, even though Thor's abilities make his body appear as if it's in the heavens and the earth, his body is actually formed entirely of high-concentration plasma. When he unleashes his Conqueror's Haki, he becomes powerless and has nowhere to rely on.

Gungnir immediately became the breakthrough point, and the domineering aura seemed to have found an outlet, naturally converging towards Gungnir.

Before it could spread, Gungnir, carrying Robert's domineering aura, clashed fiercely with the spiked club.

The two forces of Haki collided, but Robert's body did not suffer any recoil. It was as if, in the face of Conqueror's Haki, all physical attacks, Devil Fruit abilities, and Armament Haki infusions were ignored, leaving only a battle of beliefs between the two.

Not only the clouds in the sky, but even the sea of ​​clouds beneath their feet split in two.

Robert could clearly feel that his Conqueror's Haki was being steadily defeated in front of Kaido. It wasn't that his belief wasn't firm enough, but rather that the opponent's accumulated power was simply too overwhelming!

"Why?! Kozuki Oden was able to wound Kaido, so what makes me any worse than him?!"

"Could it be because I didn't call out the name of the move?!"

"I don't care about losing face anymore!"

"Thunderclap - Heaven-Reaching Cultivation - Sky Collapses and Earth Shatters - Purple-Gold Hammer!"

Chapter 44 Negotiation is a continuation of war

Shouting out an awesome name when unleashing a move is definitely one of the rules of the pirate world. Robert's thunderous shout startled Kaido, relieving some of the pressure.

But strength is strength, and weakness is weakness; Robert quickly ran out of stamina and fell into a disadvantageous position.

Robert isn't like Luffy, who'd risk serious injury to fight to the death. Although his personality is indeed very domineering, possessing all the advantages of a shonen anime protagonist, and he deserves to have a smooth path on the road of domineering, Robert simply can't learn that.

Just like the concepts in Sun Tzu's Art of War that describe something as swift as the wind, as slow as the forest, as aggressive as fire, as immovable as a mountain, as unknowable as darkness, and as powerful as thunder, when they reached Takeda Shingen, he only remembered the concepts of wind, forest, fire, and mountain.

The little notebook believes in the principles of wind, forest, fire, and mountain, while Robert's philosophy is more changeable: when it is time to be unpredictable, one must act yin; when it is time to act, one must act zhen.

When he was about to be exhausted, Robert took the initiative to retreat to Gungnir. The huge Dharma image was hit by Kaido's bat, which was full of the power of a great victory. However, the effect of imbuing it with Haki and making it seem like a physical object did not occur. The Dharma image formed by lightning was shattered like a dream bubble.

Gungnir disappeared for a moment, then suddenly thrust out from a tricky angle, piercing Kaido's weak spot.

Kaido was completely undefended. All his Haki was concentrated on his spiked club, leaving only his dragon scales as his weak point. The moment he touched Robert's Haki, it was pierced straight in like a hot knife through butter, and blood splattered everywhere.

Kaido's armpit muscles tightened instantly, his right hand released his spiked club, and his elbow retaliated swiftly.

At the same time, the Conqueror's Haki that was originally wrapped around the spiked club spread out and quickly affected Robert's body, causing his elemental body to solidify for a moment. Then, an elbow full of anger struck Robert.

Robert was sent flying dozens of meters away as if struck by a battering ram, before he used his elemental powers to counteract the inertia of being thrown back.

The two returned to their initial standoff. Kaido had a huge, bloody wound under his armpit, while Robert appeared calm and collected, but only he knew that his internal organs had shifted and he was on the verge of spitting out a mouthful of blood.

Kaido touched the wound under his armpit, the Haki-infused attack making it extremely difficult to heal: "Twenty years. You are the first person in these twenty years who can hurt me. You are quite good."

Robert was quite disheartened. He had started by using his Thor form, which could only last for one minute, and then borrowed the Moon People's artifact, the Eternal Spear, which barely managed to create a minor opening in Kaido's weak point.

But the price was that he was caught off guard and hit, and that one blow almost made him vomit blood.

If it weren't for his high stamina and the skill that reduces control by 35%, allowing him to quickly break free from the suppression of Conqueror's Haki and restore his elemental form to offset some of the damage, he might have been brought to the brink of death in one hit.

A few months later, Luffy, who had set sail again, endured countless blows from Kaido's Thunder Bagua and defeated the strongest creature on Earth head-on.

Kaido grinned and said, "We've had our fight, let's get down to business!"

Robert perked up, wondering what serious business Kaido wanted to discuss with him, that he had specifically sought out a fight with him.

"You killed my business partner and ruined my plan to build an army of ability users. I should have settled the score with you a long time ago."

Robert tried his best to make his voice sound normal, so that Kaido wouldn't realize how badly he was injured:

"You mean Doflamingo? Those artificial Devil Fruits he made are just half-finished products. The side effects after eating them are ridiculously severe. I really don't know how he managed to convince you to agree to purchase them."

Kaido frowned: "Side effects? What side effects?"

Robert looked at him strangely: "Don't you know the side effects of those Devil Fruits? There's a high chance that after eating one, you won't be able to awaken the fruit's power and will become a giggling idiot."

Kaido looked enlightened: "Since it's man-made, how can it compare to the original? Joker has told me all of this."

Robert shook his head and took out a strange fruit from his spatial storage: "Doflamingo told you that all artificial Devil Fruits are risky, but in reality, it's just that they are risky in their creation. Vegapunk has already created successful artificial Devil Fruits."

Kaido stared intently at the Devil Fruit in Robert's hand. Upon hearing Vegapunk's name, he visibly trembled: "Is that the one you're holding?"

Robert shrugged: "Oh, no, I just feel that it's not impressive if I don't hold something in my hand while giving a presentation."

His words were half true and half false, which only made Kaido more suspicious.

The fruit Robert is holding is real, of course. This replica of the Fish-Fish Fruit, Mythical Zoan type, Azure Dragon form, is stored in Punk Hazard's laboratory.

At this point in time, Momonosuke and his group haven't traveled from the past yet, so they haven't been taken to Punk Hazard and eaten this fruit with huge potential because they got separated.

After Robert took control of Punk Hazard, he immediately obtained the Devil Fruit. Momonosuke deserved to die, and he couldn't let him waste such a powerful fruit.

Kaido narrowed his eyes: "The Joker escaped from Impel Down and brought his entire crew to join me. He also brought the scientist who creates artificial Devil Fruits. All he asks for is one thing: to let me kill you and help him take back Dressrosa."

Robert casually remarked, "The whole team? Does that include the other Shichibukai who helped him escape Impel Down?"

Kaido chuckled: "You know a lot, huh? The newspapers didn't report that Law was also involved in the prison break."

Robert curled his lip: "I already said, Morgans is my friend. He notified me immediately after Doflamingo escaped, warning me to be careful of his revenge."

Kaido stared at Robert and said, "The entire Donquixote Family, plus a young Shichibukai with unlimited potential, and a scientist who can help me build an army of all Devil Fruit users, in exchange for your life. Tell me, what should I choose?"

Robert laughed even more unrestrainedly: "If you chose him, you wouldn't be wasting your breath talking to me now, so you must want to choose me more!"

"After all, nothing you just said is as valuable as me, the newly crowned Emperor!"

Kaido laughed heartily: "That's right, I came here this time to see if you are worthy of becoming one of the Four Emperors, and whether you are more worthy of my cooperation. Now I am very satisfied with you!"

"So, are you willing to join me in turning this world upside down?"

Robert shook his head: "I'm not an antisocial person, I won't do anything to destroy the world."

Kaido's voice turned cold: "So you're rejecting me?"

Robert shook his head again:

"No, what I mean is, my only responsibility is to overthrow the World Government!"