Pirates' Max Level System

"Aokiji." Zhan Guo roared.

"Got it. Ice Age."

Aokiji, who had been instructed carefully, naturally knew what to do. A large amount of white-blue energy erupted from Aokiji's body, freezing the sea area below "Navy No. 1" and pulling up a circle of ice peaks about 200 meters away from "Navy No. 1". For a moment, Aokiji separated "Navy No. 1" from the tentacles.

"Akainu." Akainu, who had just woken up, was also called over by Sengoku.

"Yeah." Akainu responded and swung out several large flames, melting and shattering the ice layer under "Marine No. 1", leaving only the circle of ice peaks.

Through the cooperation of Akainu and Aokiji, the monsters on the seabed were initially cleared out, and the monsters on the seabed were temporarily blocked from observing the situation on the sea surface.

"Now is the time, jump." The moment Akainu's fire breath broke the ice was the best time, and Sengoku shouted the order to set off.

……

"Bang, bang, bang" As the dense sounds of falling into the water rang out, the three hundred naval soldiers on the mission all jumped into the sea.

An eerie silence followed for a second, then two, then three. Then, the alarm began to beep like frogs croaking after rain. Upon receiving the signal, the six hundred or so soldiers on deck hurried to pull their assigned personnel aboard.

However, none of the soldiers responsible for pulling the ropes succeeded in retrieving their victims. Most of them found the ropes weakened halfway through, resulting in only the broken ropes being pulled up from the seabed. The few who were pulled up only found mutilated bodies, with no survivors.

Although Zhan Guo knew this mission was a life-or-death struggle, the fact that three hundred marines were completely wiped out in less than six seconds with nothing gained was a difficult outcome for Zhan Guo to accept. A deadly silence descended upon everyone on deck.

At the eighth second, like a shooting star breaking through the silent night, a crisp "beep" sound rang out.

The moment Zhan Guo heard it, he erupted in Buddha form. A shaved man appeared next to the signaler, snatched the rope from the two soldiers in charge, and pulled with all his might. A figure quickly shot out from the seabed and was caught in mid-air by Garp.

All the series of actions happened and were completed within one second, and Zhan Guo used all his strength.

"Location: 80 meters west, depth: 400 meters."

Chapter 409: Plot Kill

The naval soldiers who were pulled out of the sea by Zhan Guo couldn't wait to report the information in the air as soon as they came out of the sea. Their voices were urgent and painful, but at the end they made people feel relieved.

A bad premonition lingered in everyone's mind.

Cap fell back onto the deck of Marine One, and liquid dripped onto the deck, not only sea water, but also bright red blood.

"Garp, he..." Vice Admiral Tsuru had returned to "Marine One" without knowing when.

Vice Admiral Crane's abilities weren't suited to dealing with giants like the Tentacles, and he'd previously been deployed as a firefighter aboard the Navy's warships to deal with the undead on those ghost ships. Now that Vice Admiral Crane had returned, it meant the undead had been nearly wiped out.

"Dead." Garp's voice was icy cold, his face shrouded in a dark aura. This was a Garp Sengoku was no stranger to. Whenever his emotions were about to explode, Garp would look like this. Sengoku remembered the last time he saw Garp with this expression was when he argued with the Five Elders and was punished with permanent inability to advance.

As Garp put down the corpse in his hand, all the navy members could see the hideous wound that Garp had covered up.

The soldier who had reported the message had his entire right back half reduced to a pile of rotten flesh. His right waist and bones looked as if something had gnawed at him, his internal organs long gone. If his heart hadn't been out of range, he would have died before he could even report the message.

This also explains why there was a tone of relief in his voice after he reported the message. Under such pain, the last marine knew that he was doomed and wished he could die immediately after reporting the message.

The entire "Marine One" was eerily quiet. No one spoke except for the roars of the monsters nearby and the sound of tentacles hitting the ice peaks.

Whether it was Garp, Sengoku, Aokiji, Akainu, the 600 soldiers left on the deck, or Vice Admiral Tsuru who arrived later, they all had cold faces.

"Don't just stand there, do you want these soldiers to die in vain? Act quickly, otherwise the monster will find out something is wrong and run away." Marshal Gang Gukong, who had not been seen for a long time, walked out from a corner and ordered loudly.

Yes, the information gained at the cost of lives cannot be wasted. As the planner, Zhan Guo was the first to come out of his emotions. He had the responsibility to be responsible for these dead soldiers.

The first thing is to ensure that the sacrifice of these soldiers is worthwhile.

"Garp." Sengoku, who transformed back from the giant Buddha form, patted Garp, who had a dark face.

"It's okay, let's get started." Garp, who has always been an optimist, was rarely filled with murderous intent. He clasped his fists together, and his joints made a "crackling" sound from being squeezed.

"Aokiji, Akainu, have you rested enough?" Sengoku continued to give the order. There was no need to go into details, as he had already told the two of them the entire plan before.

"No problem at all." Akainu and Aokiji answered in unison, a rare occurrence.

Generals of Aokiji and Akainu's rank have seen countless blood and sorrow. Death is not enough to affect their emotions, but tragic sacrifices always easily touch people's hearts.

Aokiji and Akainu flashed and the next moment they were above the sea area reported by the soldier.

The overwhelming white cold air and red magma divided the entire sky into two halves, red and white, and all the fog and darkness were dispelled.

Qin Luo, who was pretending to be dead in his room, also saw this scene from afar, with a face full of black question marks?

Is this a plot-kill? A combined skill? Red and blue always make a great pair? A true Wushuang Chaos Dance?

But no matter what, Aokiji and Akainu did go berserk.

"Ice Age: A mountain nine feet high."

Aokiji's entire body transformed into a stream of blue-white light, like a cold star rapidly plummeting onto the sea. Ice crystals formed and fell wherever it passed. As Aokiji fell, a cluster of ice crystals appeared from nowhere on the surface of the sea, and a visible white-blue gas swept from the ice crystals to the surrounding sea surface, stopping only at two hundred meters.

A crackling sound echoed at the edge of the white-blue gas, and icy peaks rose from the ground, not toward the sky, but toward the seabed. In just a few seconds, the fifty-meter-thick ice peaks extended continuously to the seabed, freezing the tentacles of the deep-sea monster "Paul" as they touched them.

The ice peaks trapped the body of the deep-sea monster "Paul" like an ice prison. These ices were not ordinary ice crystals, but thousand-year-old ice with a blue glow. Even the deep-sea monster "Paul" could not break free for a while.

If Aokiji becomes Hyotei, then Akainu is the Flame Demon King who descended upon the world...

After Aokiji took action, Akainu remained calm, seemingly gathering his energy. A fiery red light emanated from Akainu's body, igniting flames. The flames then transformed his flesh into magma, which expanded further. Five meters, ten meters, twenty... Finally, before everyone appeared a nearly two-hundred-meter-tall Flame Demon King.

This Fire Demon King vaguely resembles Akainu's face, but has no feet. He holds the flames from hell in his hands, magma constantly spurts from his body, and flaming hair flutters on his head.

After the main body was trapped, as if guessing something, the tentacles rushed back to attack Akainu and Aokiji, trying to stop their next action.

"Die, bug." Akainu, who had transformed into the Fire Demon King, was not afraid when facing far more than fifty tentacles.

As he waved his hands, countless magma meteorites appeared out of thin air, and together with his dancing hands, he blocked all the tentacles.

When Aokiji and Akainu started fighting, Sengoku handed a bomb the size of a football to Garp.

Inside that bomb was a concentrated extract of the mineral Dinahite, the same powerful explosive that Zephyr would steal in the future. However, the liquid inside this football was a liquid extract of Dinahite, far more powerful than the shaped bombs Zephyr would later steal, but also more unstable.

There is only one such ship in the entire navy, and it is used as a research sample.

"Open the safety valve 0.1 before throwing it away. The contents inside are very unstable." Zhan Guo ordered.

"Is it powerful enough to kill that monster?" Karp's expression changed with a dark face.

"That's enough. This amount is enough to destroy the Sabaody Archipelago twice." How could Sengoku not understand what Garp meant?

"That's good." Garp's voice seemed to come from a distance. When he received Warring States' reply, he had already disappeared and appeared five hundred meters above the sea surface where the monster's body was.

Garp's legs spread apart, his right hand swung back, the safety valve of the bomb already opened, and a large amount of black Armament Haki gathered in Garp's right hand.

In a short while, Garp's right arm had grown three times thicker.

"Fist bone."

"Yucatan meteorite."

Chapter 410: The White Light of the End

"Fist bone."

"Yucatan meteorite."

The Yucatan meteorite, a legendary meteorite that crashed into the Yucatan Peninsula and caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, was also a world-destroying meteorite. Cap called this strike "Yucatan," reflecting the chilling murderous intent within him.

Go to hell, monster. Anger flames nearly burst from Garp's eyes, his steel teeth clenched tightly, his brows and lips twisted into a knot.

Finally, the momentum and strength of the right hand reached a peak.

The black armor on Garp's arm, composed of Armament Haki, was five times the size of his original arm. The bulging veins on the black armor made it look like a real arm, enlarged. The bomb, also covered in thick Armament Haki, appeared to be a betel nut magnified to half a meter in length.

Like a volcano erupting, it brewed to its fullest potential before suddenly erupting. Garp's attack had clearly been a long time in the making, yet it seemed so abrupt when it was launched.

The bomb was thrown by Garp, and the bomb covered with armed color domineering turned into a black stream of light. In an instant, the speed of the bomb's flight of 17 broke the sound barrier.

There was only a "bang" sound, and Karp could no longer capture the movement and location of the bomb.

As the bomb flew, the immense recoil and friction from the air returned to Garp's right arm. The Armament Haki armor, five times the size of his original arm, crumbled inch by inch, along with the clothing on his right hand, turning into powder that drifted into the air.

This phenomenon continued until it reached Garp's right shoulder. Garp's clothes, from his right shoulder to his waist, turned to ash. His right hand, which had recovered, was a full circle thicker than his left, and a purple light shone on his arm.

The powerful reaction force even stopped Garp from falling, and he even had a slight upward trend.

Time froze, and in the still image, the bomb was the only moving object. It transformed into a black beam of light, breaking through the constraints of space and time and flying straight towards its target.

A black beam of light pierced the fog and passed through the battlefield between the Fire Demon King and the demonic tentacles. The obstructing lava was directly knocked away by the black beam of light, and a hole was directly punched through the tentacles that blocked the road.

Then, a black beam of light extended to the surface of the sea next to Aokiji's ice crystal. At that moment, the bomb seemed to transform into a beam of black light, shooting straight into the sea without causing a single splash. The black light continued straight ahead, carrying the bomb with it to the depths of the deep-sea monster, "Paul."

It is impossible to throw it astray. Having spent half his life throwing cannonballs, Garp has become an expert in throwing things. He can throw it wherever he wants and it is impossible for him to fail with this bomb.

It's impossible for a bomb to explode mid-flight. Even the most unstable substances require time for reaction and explosion. Garp could guarantee that this time, he had reached his maximum speed. He had achieved this by making the time it took for the bomb to reach its target shorter than the reaction time it took to explode.

The bomb, about to explode, appeared on the seabed with tremendous inertia and speed. In order to make the bomb appear intact, Garp covered it with a thick layer of Armament Haki, which was effective.

Watching the sudden appearance of the bomb, emitting an unsettling incandescent glow, the deep-sea monster "Paul"'s orange-yellow eyes betrayed unease. Even Ayidu, with his eyes hollow beside him, felt a surge of anxiety within his dark eye sockets.

White light erupted from the seabed, bursting out of the water, painting the world white, obliterating everything in the white light. From the circular prison that Aokiji had surrounded, a pillar of light with a radius of two hundred meters, filling the entire Ice Peak Prison, rose from the ground and broke through the sky.

Before the beam of light, the fog and clouds dissipated. The beam stretched across the sky, and after nearly twenty seconds, it slowly vanished. But before that, the area hundreds of nautical miles around the beam was completely engulfed in white light.

The sky and earth lost their color, and all things lost their sound. To those engulfed in the white light, those twenty seconds felt like a year.

When the white faded, the world was different. The tentacles that had previously danced across the sky were gone, but the navy still faced another disaster.

Although most of the waves caused by the explosion were blocked by Aokiji's ice peak, the aftermath of the explosion and the backflow of sea water still caused many naval warships to collide with each other.

The deep-sea monster "Paul" launched a final wave of riots before the explosion. As if it knew it was doomed, it bit the navy fleet without regard for the consequences.

Garp only remembered being swallowed by the white light and then losing consciousness. When Garp woke up, he found himself lying on the deck of "Marine One", next to Aokiji and Akainu who were also unconscious and had not yet woken up.

"Awake?" Sengoku's voice came from behind Garp.

It turns out that at the moment of the explosion, Sengoku transformed into a giant Buddha and rescued Garp, Aokiji, and Akainu in the aftermath of the explosion. Of course, this was also part of the plan, one of the post-mortem tasks entrusted to Sengoku.

"Hiss, that monster is dead." Karp took a breath. The previous action hit his right arm. Now Karp's right arm was not only swollen to twice its original size, but also covered with purple marks. It was obvious that the whole right arm was broken and severely bruised.

"I can't find any reason why it could be unharmed in this explosion. It should have been reduced to ashes by now. I haven't received any reports of new tentacles appearing yet. This monster can't survive unless..."

Zhan Guo paused, unable to find any reason, and continued, "Unless a miracle happens."

"That's good." After getting the answer, Garp lay back down, the obsession in his heart dissipated, and he soon fell into a deep sleep again.

Before Garp lay down, a ray of morning sunlight shone through the clouds and mist dispersed by the beam of light, and sprinkled on the navy fleet.

The navy couldn't remember how long it had been since they'd seen sunlight since entering the fog. The gentle sunlight brought hope amid the devastation of war, and the night-long battle with the sea monster finally came to an end. The surviving sailors couldn't help but sob softly, a mixture of joy at being alive and sorrow for the dead.

But looking at the devastated sea, more than half of the fleet formed by the navy's strongest assembly order was destroyed. They were not destroyed in the battle with Liuyun, but capsized in the strange fog.

The navy couldn't even find the object of their hatred, the monster? Or this dangerous Grand Line?

Kong Gukong began to give orders to rescue people and count the losses, while Zhan Guo and Vice Admiral Crane were busy with the aftermath. They had all prepared for the worst.

Chapter 411: Damage Statistics

After entering the day, the remaining sea monsters evacuated at Qin Luo's request. Without the cover of night, these remaining soldiers were no match for the navy. Rather than letting the navy vent their anger by slaughtering them, it would be better to continue the sneak attacks at night to cause trouble for the navy.

The cunning skeleton fish and the sirens that had little frontal combat power retreated far away the moment the battle turned unfavorable. Most of those who did not escape were those brainless and very cruel monsters.

Especially the deep-sea monsters, the navy seemed to hate this kind of creatures very much. Except for "Paul", only one of the deep-sea monsters summoned by Qin Luo escaped in the end, and the others were all surrounded and killed by the navy vice admiral.

The ghost ship didn't save much in the end. As for how long it would take for these so-called immortal undead to recover, or whether they could recover at all, Qin Luo didn't care. In Qin Luo's view, these summoned thugs were disposable consumables. If they were lost, they were lost. He didn't plan to keep such an army.

After this battle, most of the thugs Qin Luo summoned were killed. It was impossible to launch such an attack again, so he could only carry out small-scale sneak attacks and assassinations.

At noon, the surrounding fog filled the gaps left by the previous battle, and the naval fleet was once again shrouded in fog. However, before this, the navy successfully completed the rescue of all the wounded and warships. The only regret was that the sunlight once again left them.

The final losses were also calculated and handed over to the navy's top brass.

With a "bang", in a conference room of "Navy One", Admiral Cybernetic Sora slammed the uploaded report onto the table.

Everyone present had a copy of this report, which was a statistical report on the casualties and losses of the naval fleet that night.

No one dared to speak up. They all knew why Marshal Kong was angry, and they would not be stupid enough to show up and be a punching bag.

Sora Cyborg's eyes, filled with anger, swept over the many generals present, including Zephyr, Sengoku, Garp, Vice Admiral Tsuru, the recovered Aokiji, and some other generals.

Those present were either powerful lieutenant generals in the navy's upper echelons or several key officials from the General Staff. None of them were easy to control, except for the major general standing on the other side of the long table in the conference room. This major general had simply been ordered to report on the situation and submit a report.

Regardless of whether it was intentional or not, in the end this minor general had to endure the wrath of the Navy Marshal.

"You, yes, you, Major General, tell me why there were so many casualties among the ordinary soldiers and officers. Didn't I order the ordinary soldiers and officers this morning to just repel the ghost ships and ordinary monsters? The large monsters were to be dealt with by the Lieutenant General."

At this point, Marshal Ganggu was extremely angry and slammed his fist on the table again. He continued, "Don't these dead people even know how to hide? Don't they think life is too long and just want to die?"

The loss of warships was not great. Most of them were only damaged and could continue to be used after repair. Only six warships were actually damaged, including the one destroyed by Ayi Du.