Pirates' Max Level System

Hidan and Katakuri have similar speeds, but since Katakuri has the Observation Haki that allows him to foresee the short future, Hidan has no way to stop him.

Katakuri was extremely cautious, not giving Hidan any chance to harm him. Even when presented with a strong chance to severely injure Hidan, he resisted the temptation and retreated. Katakuri was not in a hurry. According to intelligence, while the Ryuun Pirates were highly skilled and possessed uncanny abilities, they were severely outnumbered.

Now, Katakuri only needs to hold one of them back to contribute to the overall battle situation. It could be said that Hidan's behavior of exchanging injuries for injuries was too eager, which made Katakuri feel strange and he did not engage him head-on.

With his powerful observation Haki and the ability of the special superhuman devil fruit, the Mochi-Mochi Fruit, Katakuri can always dodge Hidan's sickle in various strange ways.

The bloody March sickle danced like a flower in Hidan's hand, but it didn't even touch the corner of Katakuri's clothes.

On the contrary, Katakuri always used his trident to inflict minor wounds on Hidan after ensuring his own safety, or used the power of his fruit to generate fists, legs, and feet made of sticky paste from his body, covered in Armament Haki, to attack Hidan unexpectedly.

Judging from the appearance alone, Hidan was completely at a disadvantage in the fight of the past few minutes. His body was covered with various wounds and scars and he looked extremely miserable, while Katakuri was handling it with ease, as if he was boiling a frog in warm water.

Unfortunately, Hidan is an elder among frogs, possessing infinite life and unable to truly die. Therefore, these injuries are meaningless to him.

Hidan was waiting for an opportunity, a chance for his opponent to lose control. Even if the opponent was a user of the Mochi-Mochi Fruit, whose entire body was made of sticky rice, Hidan was confident that he could chop the opponent to the point of drawing blood.

Ever since Qin Luo rescued him from the Impel Down City, Feiduan realized that there were many strange methods in the world of pirates. Especially the strange power called Devil Fruit, some people in it could transform their bodies into a non-flesh state composed of matter, without fear of being cut.

This frustrates Feidan greatly, as his combat relies heavily on obtaining the enemy's blood, but ordinary physical techniques are useless against such enemies. Following Itachi's suggestion, Feidan inlaid seastone on each of the three blades of his Bloody March Scythe.

As long as the blade of the sickle cuts into the enemy's body and touches the seastone part, these enemies will all become ordinary flesh and blood bodies.

"You can predict my moves, just like Itachi's Sharingan. People like you are really annoying. I'll vent the anger accumulated from sparring with Itachi on you." Feiduan shouted.

Katakuri was quite critical of Hidan's use of him to vent his anger on others, but he didn't get angry. A calm glint still shone in Katakuri's eyes. "No matter how much you boast, if you can't even touch me, it's just a joke."

Katakuri felt no wavering in his heart, and even gave Hidan a caring look that showed he was an idiot.

Feidan received Katakuri's "sincere" look and shouted excitedly: "Kill you, I must kill you."

Look at how good the relationship between these two people is. As followers of the evil god cult, they should bless others in this way. Just like the Buddhist saying of "early ascension to paradise", Feidan is also blessing Katakuri to enter the arms of the evil god as soon as possible.

Well, probably.

"Scythe Technique: Whip Blade." Hidan's Bloody March Scythe began to extend, and a large amount of rope was pulled out from the rope ring at Hidan's waist. The entire Bloody March Scythe transformed into a ten-meter-long whip with a sharp blade on top.

Hidan decided to change his tactics. Since Katakuri could see through all his moves, he would just attack randomly. Even Hidan himself didn't know how he would attack next, so how could the opponent know?

Hidan's actions were due to his misunderstanding of Katakuri's ability to see through his movements. Unlike Itachi's Sharingan's dynamic vision and prediction, Katakuri truly foresaw the future. It's no wonder Hidan acted this way; no one could have imagined that his Observation Haki was so powerful that he could foresee the future.

However, Feiduan's change was not without effect. After he started to attack randomly, Katakuri's effortless rhythm was greatly disrupted.

Katakuri's Observation Haki still plays the role of predicting the future. The reason why his rhythm is disrupted is because Feiduan's attack is too weird and strange.

Have you ever seen a scythe about to strike you in the head suddenly swat down with the flat of its blade like swatting a fly, or a whip soaring up and down that it nearly tangles itself? Katakuri has seen all of this, along with a variety of other bizarre behaviors.

Katakuri once thought that there was something wrong with his observation Haki, and he hesitated when dodging, which caused him to dodge the sharp edge of the sickle several times by just glancing at it.

But it turned out that Katakuri's observation Haki was not wrong in his prediction. The opponent's Feidan was doing this openly. This move has a resounding name among them, called "Scythe Method of Blindly Hitting".

Not to mention the battle between Hidan and Katakuri, after the allied forces began their attack, many pirates with bounties over 100 million, or vice admiral and admiral-level fighters, began to charge into the defense positions of Fishman Island.

……

Even if the Sun Pirates and the guards of the Fishman Palace were to come together, it would be a drop in the bucket. What's more, the only ones who are truly powerful are Fisher Tiger, Jinbe, and a few generals of the Fishman Palace.

To hold the line, many murlocs, faced with an invincible enemy, chose to die together. Before the battle began, every murloc soldier was given explosives, and the decision to pull the enemy to detonate was entirely theirs.

When facing the life and death of the race, there are always some things that are more unbearable to lose than life, such as family, love, or Fishman Island, which represents their home.

Various explosions were heard from the positions. These fishmen soldiers were not told that they would be resurrected later, and all the explosions were a sacrifice.

The offensive of the joint forces was slightly slowed down by this self-explosion, but this sacrifice did not bring any chance of a comeback. The gradual explosions seemed like a countdown to failure.

In order to deal with those above average strength, Itachi sent out four clones, each carrying one-fifth of his chakra. This also means that before Itachi's original body's chakra is restored, only Tsunade and Momoto are still able to fight at full strength.

"The speed at which the position fell was somewhat beyond our expectations." Tsunade said slowly.

She was answered with a long sigh, and it wasn't just someone who sighed during the explosion.

Chapter 484: Moriah's Tsukuyomi Journey

The fact that the situation had been stabilized and they hadn't been defeated was due, on the one hand, to the stubborn resistance of the Fishman Island defenders, fearless of sacrifice, and Itachi's detachment holding off most of the pirates. On the other hand, the allied forces hadn't yet fully deployed their forces, and Big Mom herself hadn't even entered the battlefield.

"Itachi, can you still hold on?" Tsunade said.

"It's okay, I can summon another clone in a while." The clone Itachi mentioned was naturally the one with one-fifth of his chakra. Without enough chakra, no matter how many clones he had, they would be useless.

"Neptune, have all the civilians of Fishman Island retreated into Ryugu Castle?" After getting Itachi's answer, Tsunade asked the Fishman King Neptune thoughtfully.

"Everyone will be evacuated in an hour." Neptune answered calmly. He knew very well why Tsunade asked this, which meant that Tsunade was already considering abandoning the port.

By that time, the remaining murloc guards at the port will also be abandoned.

There are not many guards in the Dragon Palace City. Most of those who retreated are the old and weak, and mermaids who have no fighting ability. These female mermaids will not pose much threat even if they are tied with explosives.

However, considering the narrow terrain there, unless the combined forces blow up the entire Dragon Palace City, they will not be able to deploy manpower at all, and the Liuyun Pirates will be able to delay for more time until Qin Luo returns.

"Tsunade, one of my clones was killed, I'm going there myself." After a while, Itachi suddenly said.

Tsunade nodded in agreement. Since Itachi had determined that he had to take action personally, he must have had his reasons. Tsunade completely trusted Itachi's ability to judge the situation.

There was a flash of black light, and Itachi's body turned into a group of black crows and disappeared on the spot. When it reappeared, it had already arrived at the battlefield, where the previous clone disappeared.

"They're not dead yet. With such strength, I'm kind of curious about the taste of the juice squeezed out of them." The speaker was a woman.

"Haha, but the body must be left to me." This sharp voice was very unpleasant.

Itachi glanced at the three enemies before him, their information coming back to him: Charlotte Smoothie, Charlotte Snaggle, the other two of the Four Dessert Generals, and Gekko Moriah, who had just spoken with a sharp voice.

Itachi's previous clone was already struggling against the two Dessert Four Generals, but he was barely able to hold on by relying on various ninjutsu and illusions, but was finally ambushed by Gekko Moriah.

After being defeated by Qin Luo, Gekko Moriah became even more treacherous and cowardly. In the direct battle, Gekko Moriah only dispatched his zombie soldiers, while he himself remained on the battlefield and did not take action. He also saw an opportunity. After launching the Shadow Revolution, Gekko Moriah stabbed the giant scissors in his hand into the heart of Itachi's clone.

"Let's end the battle quickly." Looking at the three tough enemies in front of him, Itachi decided to use all his strength to quickly resolve the battle.

Itachi's low whisper was heard by the three of them.

"Oh, this handsome guy finally spoke, but it's not good to brag. Handsome guy, let's make a deal, you surrender to us and I'll let you be my husband." Smoothie said with a smile, but I don't know how much truth there is in his words.

"So you can talk? I thought you were mute. I asked you before, why didn't you go and save your boss Liuyun's body? Instead of just watching his corpse being beheaded by the World Government. Tsk tsk tsk, profit is still the most important thing. God? After he dies, he's not even as good as an island. As an outsider, I kind of want to grab his body."

Gekko Moriah's hatred for Ryuun is basically second only to Kaido, who killed all his crew members.

That day, Liuyun destroyed his Devil's Triangle, allowing the Shadow he had prepared for years to escape without a trace. This hatred was deeply rooted in Moria's heart, even though he had luckily survived. If Liuyun hadn't been in trouble, it would have been fine. The fearful Moonlight Moria didn't even dare to appear before him.

But now that Liuyun is dead, Gekko Moriah immediately came out to retaliate against the Liuyun Pirates. It was at this time that he got on the bus of the Big Mom Pirates.

"Hmph." Charlotte Snag snorted finally and got ready to fight.

What Moonlight Moriah should never have done was to mock Qin Luo in front of Itachi. Although he knew that Qin Luo was not dead, Moonlight Moriah still slandered Qin Luo.

Itachi has recovered nearly half of his chakra, and combined with the chakra returned when his clone was destroyed just now, it is enough for Itachi to go all out.

The three magatama of the Sharingan in his eyes rotated rapidly, and soon the Mangekyō Sharingan appeared in... Tsukuyomi. Itachi used it on Gekko Moriah without hesitation.

Moonlight Moriah felt a flash before his eyes, and he unexpectedly came from the battlefield of Fishman Island Port to a strange world. The surrounding land was blood red, and even the moon in the sky was the same color.

After looking around, Moonlight Moriah found himself tied to a pillar and unable to move.

"How is this possible? What on earth happened?" Moonlight Moriah roared at the top of his lungs, trying to break free from the pillar, but no shadow responded to his call, as if his ability had failed.

Itachi appeared before Gekko Moriah, looking at him coldly, like an executioner facing a prisoner. A large number of tiny but slender silver needles were summoned, surrounding Gekko Moriah and piercing him from various parts of his body.

Itachi blocked out Gekko Moriah's voice, but judging from the way Moriah was beaten to a pulp, his screams must have been miserable.

In the world of Tsukuyomi, Gekko Moriah, whose body is riddled with countless tiny holes punctured by silver needles, is not dead. He is a bloody man, with blood trickling out of his densely packed holes. The blood is fake, the wounds are fake, but the pain is real.

At the moment of fainting, Gekko Moriah smiled with relief, but he didn't know that this was just the beginning of hell. Itachi also smiled. He had seen such scenes too many times in 2.6, and it seemed that today he could enjoy it to the fullest.

Moonlight Moriah felt like he had a very long dream, in which he suffered all kinds of torture. Fortunately, it was just a dream, but why did it feel so real? So real that his whole body was still aching.

Moonlight Moria opened his eyes and found that something was wrong. It was not a dream. In front of his eyes was still the bloody world, the countless silver needles and the itachi looking at him coldly.

Once again, Moriah recalled the nightmare he had just had, and the pain was like a heart-wrenching tear.

Fainting and waking up again and again, Gekko Moria received Itachi's most enthusiastic Tsukuyomi service. In the Tsukuyomi world, it seemed like he had spent several reincarnations, but in reality, it was only a second.

After Itachi finished Tsukuyomi, Gekko Moriah fell down directly.

Chapter 485: Master of Illusion

When the battle just started, Moria fell to the ground in front of Smoothie and Snaggle's surprised eyes. From Moria's weak breathing, it can be known that he is not dead, but his condition is obviously not very good.

Smoothie: “!”

Snag: “?”

Smoothie's heart was broken. She didn't know what had happened to Moriah, but this did not prevent her from despising Moriah in her heart.

He boasted more than anyone else in the beginning, but when the fight finally started, he was the first to fall. Sigh, even if Moria had a terminal illness or a heart attack, he shouldn't have come to the battlefield to die. It would have been fine if he'd died himself, but he also let his teammates down.

Smoothie and Snaggle were too surprised by Moriah's sudden fall to the ground to notice the solemnity that flashed across Itachi's face.

To eliminate Moria in one fell swoop, Itachi expended considerable energy. Tsukuyomi is the most powerful illusion imbued with Itachi's Mangekyō Sharingan. While powerful, it also comes with significant limitations. Not only does it require eye contact, the casting distance must be within five meters, and it places a significant mental strain on the caster.

Not to mention the enhanced version of Tsukuyomi used on Moria, which caused Moria to suffer several more rounds of torture than the normal version. However, the price Itachi paid was that his chakra, which had originally recovered to more than 60%, was now only 40%.

Such chakra consumption is not worth the cost in this battle, and Moria is just too talkative.

Itachi made up his mind and continued to fight Smoothie and Snaggle, stalling for time. Red flames formed around Itachi. Since he was planning to fight, protecting his Susanoo was essential. Of course, it was only in its primary form, with only a few ribs protecting him.

Smoothie pulled out the long sword from her back. This sword was really long, almost two meters long. Only people like her with long feet could carry it on their backs easily. For ordinary people, carrying it would be like carrying a bamboo pole on their backs.

Snag was also eager to try his luck, wanting to use his sandbag-sized fist to make out with Itachi.

But they were to be disappointed. Itachi, who had decided not to use a large amount of chakra anymore, began to use various strange tactics to circumvent the attacks of the two.

Smoothie and Snaggle also witnessed Itachi's strange and unpredictable illusion and realized the horror of Itachi's eyes. If Qin Luo was just a beginner user of Sharingan illusion, then Itachi was a magician in the illusion world.

Itachi could easily perform various illusions. Often, just by looking at each other, Smoothie and Snaggle would fall into a series of combined illusion traps.

The setup-type illusions ensnared Smoothie and Snaggle in multiple traps. The black crows and Itachi's illusions worked together, leaving the two confused as to whether the crows were real or fake, whether Itachi was impersonating them, or if they were hiding other attacks.

Unlike the crows summoned by Qin Luo, which were just an illusion, Itachi's crows were real, summoned by him and Shisui. This crow summoned beast could help Itachi release a kind of illusion "bubble" that could be successful without eye contact, as well as an illusion clone that was hard to guard against.

Several times, Smoothie and Snaggle thought they had broken through the illusion, but they fell into a new illusion, thinking that they were Itachi and attacked them crazily. Fortunately, Itachi's illusion was strong enough to make people feel that their fighting styles were completely different, so both of them thought the other was Itachi.

After receiving a few lessons, Smoothie and Snaggle began to be timid. Even if Itachi really stood in front of them, they did not dare to attack casually.

Because Smoothie and Snaggle would wonder whether the Itachi opposite them was real (in fact, they had already subconsciously felt that the Itachi they saw was an illusion, fake), whether it was one of their own who was under an illusion, whether they would find out after fighting that it was an illusion clone, or whether they would be deprived of the ability to move because of the illusion.

With so many things to consider, the battle was basically impossible to fight. Smoothie and Snaggle were on guard, and even though it was just the two of them fighting against one Itachi, it felt like they were being besieged by a huge army.

However, there was a reason why Smoothie and Snaggle acted so nervously. In the middle of the fight, Itachi directly added some shocking information to the two of them in the illusion.

Smoothie and Snaggle were almost simultaneously caught in an illusion called "Victory." In the illusion trap, the two of them struggled to defeat Itachi, but when they were about to reap the fruits of victory, they were stabbed by Itachi's corpse and the "own people" behind them.

Relying on a strong sense of crisis, Smoothie and Snaggle dodged the deadly shuriken thrown by Itachi, but were only cut into their faces and backs. These were the only wounds Itachi personally inflicted on these two people.

After that, Itachi gave up this meaningless behavior. This highly realistic and lengthy illusion consumed another tenth of Itachi's chakra, but because of their strong sense of crisis, they avoided the attack from reality.

Although this illusion didn't actually knock Smoothie and Snaggle out, it had a similar effect. Now, these two can't even believe that they defeated Itachi. How ironic, isn't it? The saying "once bitten, one becomes afraid of the rope for three years" perfectly captures the current state of Smoothie and Snaggle.

Of course, Itachi had no way to deal with Smoothie and Snaggle unless he used the more advanced illusion of Tsukuyomi and other abilities in his Mangekyō Sharingan. Otherwise, ordinary illusions, fire escape techniques, ninjutsu, and taijutsu would have little effect on these two.

But no matter whether it was Tsukuyomi, Amaterasu or the complete form of Susanoo, that level of chakra consumption was something Itachi could not bear. So the situation remained at a stalemate.

True and false, real and fake, Smoothie and Snaggle were completely lost in Itachi's illusion tactics, unable to distinguish between reality and illusion.

After feeling that it was about time, Itachi left a clone to continue playing with the two. As long as there was no sudden attack like Moria, this clone should be able to hold off Smoothie and Snaggle for a long time.

"It's solved." Tsunade asked when she saw Itachi coming back again.

"Just holding him off. I don't have enough chakra," Itachi replied briefly, not mentioning the difficulty. Smoothie and Snaggle weren't as good as Cracker and Katakuri, but they weren't simple characters either.

What's more, Itachi killed Moriah in seconds. If this world didn't have so little knowledge of illusions, Itachi would have been at a disadvantage facing the siege of three people.

Itachi and Tsunade continued to observe the battle, and they both realized that the coalition forces were not using their full strength at all. It was like a refueling tactic, constantly absorbing the forces of both sides into this meat grinder.

It seems that the united forces are planning something.

Chapter 486 Who plots against whom?

The so-called "refueling" tactic is actually a method of probing attacks. It generally refers to the method of using small groups of troops to attack one after another, just like refueling a lamp: if the first time is not enough, add more, and if it is still not enough, add more.

This tactic was somewhat effective in defense, but in the hands of the attacker, it was a recipe for defeat. Tsunade and Itachi didn't believe the enemy commander would make such a mistake. The recent operation to seize the underwater tunnel's exit had amazed them.

Furthermore, the defenses on Fishman Island were limited, and the combined forces could easily break through the defenses with a steady and cautious approach. There was no need to exert constant pressure like they were doing now, luring all the defenders on Fishman Island.

Unfortunately, the steady and cautious Aunt Time and many pirates who are eager for quick success can't wait, they want a crushing victory. Or in other words, smart people can't help but make some bold moves when victory is within their grasp.