One Piece: The Cryo Doctor on the Straw Hat Ship

He chuckled lightly, his tone as relaxed as if he were simply discussing what to eat that day.

"What...what do you want to do!?"

The blonde woman's pupils suddenly contracted, and a chill rose up her spine, rushing straight to the top of her head.

She instinctively tried to struggle to get up, but her body was held down by the gravitational pull from the abyss, unable to move.

The next second—

A dense aura of darkness surged forth from V's palm once more!

The darkness, like ink gushing from the abyss, surged and spread, condensing into a swirling black vortex in his palm, radiating a terrifying pressure that could devour everything.

"Damn it! What are you doing!?"

The blonde woman's voice was filled with genuine fear, and her eternally smiling face was now filled with deep terror and despair.

She desperately channeled the holy power within her body, trying to break free from the shackles of the abyss, but the darkness clung to her like a leech, gradually eroding and devouring her power.

"rest assured--"

V's voice came from above, carrying a chilling calmness:

"I won't kill you."

"I just... wanted to take a closer look at your body, that's all."

The moment the words fell, the darkness in V's palm suddenly erupted!

The pitch-black vortex surged and spread like a living thing, enveloping the blonde woman's body and shrouding her in thick darkness.

A holy light struggled and flickered in the darkness, and finally—

Like an extinguished candle flame, it slowly dissipates.

"Do not--!!!"

The blonde woman's desperate screams were completely swallowed by the darkness.

Everything seemed to take a long time, but from the moment V blocked it, only a minute and a half had passed.

Only then did the other members of the Knights of God suddenly come to their senses—

The golden-haired angel had been completely swallowed up by the darkness.

At this moment, V finally understood why Blackbeard was so obsessed with the Dark-Dark Fruit.

Perhaps in this world, the Dark-Dark Fruit is the only ability besides Nika that can directly affect Im's power.

after all……

The void and darkness can devour everything!

Including the gods!

Of course, being swallowed by darkness is not true disappearance or death.

They had simply entered a wondrous dimension.

In that dark dimension, everything is constantly subjected to all-around ultra-high gravity crushing.

This overwhelming power is related to the strength of the one who unleashed the darkness.

In the anime, Blackbeard's darkness during the Marineford War could at most suppress some powerful Marine admirals.

As for V now, while he might not be able to completely overwhelm a Navy Admiral, he could certainly make them wish they were dead.

As for his strength, he's at most a member of the God Knights, one of the top-tier Seven Warlords of the Sea!?

That's wonderful!

"Lock her in the dark dimension first, and let her suffer some torment there."

The ability to regenerate indefinitely only caused the blonde woman more pain.

When you reach the moment when your spirit completely breaks down and you can no longer bear it—

That was the perfect time to send her into the control room.

He had long wanted to experience the legendary Deep Sea Contract.

V raised his head and looked towards the distant battlefield.

In the short minute and a half that V was dealing with the blonde woman, the battlefield next door was equally exciting.

Above the smoke-filled ruins, a huge shadow, like the Grim Reaper crawling out of the abyss of the underworld, held a long-handled scythe, with dark green light flowing and surging on the blade.

The eyes beneath the skull and moose mask gleamed with a chilling light, as if emanating from the realm of the dead.

"Death... Harvest..."

His voice was hoarse and deep, as if it came from the depths of an ancient tomb, each word carrying an aura of decay and end.

With a sudden swing of his long-handled scythe, a dark green slash wave, carrying the power of death, tore through the air and slashed straight toward Zoro in his Nika form!

however--

Just before the Grim Reaper's slash was about to hit, a white figure appeared like a ghost in the path of the slash.

The figure was tall and graceful, surrounded by white steam, with the iconic afro on his head swaying gently in the smoke.

"Yohohohoho~"

Brooke's voice carried its usual cheerful tone, as if she were attending a dance party:

"It's so nice to see someone like me again."

Before he finished speaking, he raised his right hand—

The bony fingers gently hooked in the air.

The next instant, his body suddenly became ethereal and transparent, as if he had transformed into a real ghost, passing through the dark green slash wave!

The slashing wave passed through his body, carving a bottomless trench in the ground, sending debris flying.

But Brook was completely unharmed!

Ghost-Ghost Fruit, Awakened Form!

It can completely ghost its own body, making it immune to any physical attacks.

Of course, like all Devil Fruit users, they still have a weakness – even after awakening their powers, they can still be harmed if they encounter sufficiently strong Armament Haki.

But obviously...

The member of the Knights of God who was fighting Brook at this moment was not among them!

Chapter 234 Death Has Arrived

The eyes beneath the skull and moose mask suddenly narrowed, a look of disbelief and astonishment flashing in those cold, dark eyes.

"Ghost... Fruit?"

His voice was hoarse with surprise as he slightly turned the long-handled scythe in his hand, and a dark green light gathered once more.

"A mere ghost dares to flaunt itself before the Grim Reaper?"

Brook tilted his head, his afro swaying gently in the smoke, a signature smile playing on his lips:

"Yo ho ho ho~ Death? What a coincidence."

He slowly raised his right hand, his slender bones reflecting a pale white luster in the moonlight:

“I have already died once before—so I am quite familiar with death.”

The moment the words fell—

Brook's omnipotent prosthetic heart suddenly throbbed!

On the surface of his six-sided, jet-black heart, six demonic emblem prosthetics lit up simultaneously, like six ignited stars, injecting layers of power into his bloodline.

The first level – the Yellow Springs Fruit.

This is the foundation of his soul, a gift he received after struggling back from the abyss of death.

The power of the soul awakened within him, a sense of existence that transcended life and death, as if he were a spirit walking among the dead.

The second level – Nika fruit.

White steam swirled and rose around him. Unlike other Nika forms, the steam around Brook had a translucent quality, as if it were mist composed of countless tiny fragments of souls, refracting a hazy halo under the moonlight.

Nika's power flowed into the depths of his soul, embodying the concept of "freedom" as a form of existence that transcends the laws of physics.

The third level – Ghost Fruit Awakening.

His body completely transformed into an illusory ghost form, no longer bound by the laws of physics.

The figure was like a white wisp of smoke, moving freely through the air, able to penetrate any solid object, and could also condense into a physical form at any time to launch an attack.

The fourth level – the Bone-Bone Fruit.

His pale bones proliferated and spread across his body, forming an exoskeleton structure like armor.

The bones were not ordinary bone; they were made as hard as diamonds, yet still possessed agile evasive properties, thanks to the combined power of Nika and the ghost.

This further enhanced his resistance to domineering aura.

His chest, shoulders, and arms were covered in bone armor, and four bone spurs, like spider legs, extended from his back, each gleaming with a chilling light.

The fifth level – the Bomb Fruit.

Black spheres, each the size of a cherry, appeared in the void around him, each containing terrifying energy enough to destroy a warship.

The bomb phantoms floated and swirled around him like loyal guards, awaiting their master's command.

The sixth level – the Floating Fruit.

An invisible force was injected into those bomb ghosts, giving them the ability to fly at high speeds.

They no longer require Brooke's direct control, but rather, like self-aware souls, they freely traverse, hover, and lock onto targets in the air.

The seventh level – the Speed ​​Fruit.

A silvery-white light flowed around him, accelerating his every movement and attack to the extreme.

That's not just an increase in physical speed, but also an amplification of soul movement speed—in his ghost form, his soul movement is already unrestricted by physical limitations, and the Speed-Speed ​​Fruit pushes this limit to an even higher level.