Arceus' Pirate Journey

He was really afraid that Kaido and Kozuki Oden would reach some agreement, so he instigated the chaos below in advance.

"Lord Oden! There's a fire in the direction of Oden Castle!"

From Hana-no-Toku, you can see the taller buildings in other villages, such as Oden Castle. The burning Oden Castle is now very conspicuous.

That was also one of Kurozumi Orochi's plans.

It seems that Kaido can no longer be relied upon now. Even if they do not die together, he must let Oden win, otherwise his own end will be very miserable.

So when he gave the signal to start war, he also conveyed orders to his undercover agent. Oden's retainers had already split into two groups. One group followed him here, and the rest were protecting Kozuki Toki and the others.

That is Kozuki Oden's biggest weakness right now, and it is also the best way to motivate him to take action.

To be precise, it's not just Oden Castle, the entire Wano Country seems to be in chaos. Kurozumi Orochi's ultimate goal has not been exposed yet, and they don't know that Kurozumi Orochi wants to destroy Wano Country.

In the eyes of most people in Wano Country, Orochi is just greedy for power, so this incident was regarded as the work of the Beasts Pirates.

The sounds of war outside gradually came in, and some maids accidentally dropped the plates in their hands, which almost became a signal for war.

Oden hasn't taken any action yet, but some people can't help it anymore.

"and many more!"

"Kaido, die! Foxfire Flow·Fire Willow Flash!"

Kin'emon, who came here with Oden, had flames on his sword and rushed directly towards Kaido, but Kaido didn't even look at him and knocked him away with one hand using the Eight Precepts.

The people in the Flower Capital Palace also began to flee, especially Kurozumi Orochi, who shouted for the Oniwabanshu to help destroy the Beasts Pirates, but he himself ran farther and farther under the cover of the Barrier Fruit.

"Kaido, you can handle this by yourself. Some guys are about to die."

"I was just trying to tell you to stay out of my way. These guys should be able to bring a lot of fun."

Arceus walked towards the direction where the Black Charcoal Snake was fleeing. As for those who tried to stop him, he ignored them all. Someone had already cleared a path for him.

Under the pressure of the battle situation, Kozuki Oden finally took out his own weapon.

One is white and the other is purple, both belong to the Twenty-one Great Swords. The Ama-Habakiri that is said to be able to chop down the sky and the Enma that conquers hell have shown their brilliance again after being sealed for several years. However, there is someone who is more impulsive than Kozuki Oden.

"Kaido, you hurt my retainer..."

Looking at Kin'emon being knocked away by Kaido, Kozuki Oden's face turned ugly.

"The person who can't understand the situation is actually your retainer? He is really bad..."

As he was speaking, Kaido felt like he was slapped in the face, because Quinn's huge body suddenly flew backwards and crashed into them.

A special aura also spread here. Although it did not cause any impact, both Kaido and Kozuki Oden understood that it was the aura of domineering color.

"Just awakened the Conqueror's Haki? Is it Yamato? This girl is really good."

He was not sure whether this was Yamato's domineering color, after all, the distance was a bit far, but this did not affect his excitement. He turned into a giant dragon and directly broke through the roof here.

"The venue is too small, come out, Oden, the war has begun!"

Chapter 297 Kozuki Oden vs Kaido

"Ugh, this is war!"

The war everywhere made Kaido surprisingly excited. He spewed out a hot breath directly towards the palace below. Although his own cadres were also inside, he believed that they were capable of dealing with the aftermath.

However, Kaido's attack did not burn down the entire palace, because Oden fought back. Although he became a lot more naive after going to sea, he was still one of the top three strongest men in Wano Country at this time.

"Oden's Two Swords Style: Bishamon!"

There seemed to be water flowing around Yan Mo and Ame no Habakiri, which cut Kaido's hot breath into two halves. Although he could not fly, he relied on his jumping ability to directly fly into the air.

"Kaido, are you really unwilling to leave here on your own initiative?"

"You're still talking nonsense like that at this hour. Is this what you learned from Roger and Newgate?"

Those were people he had come into contact with during the Rocks era. He admitted that Roger and Whitebeard were both strong men, but he also thought they were naive. But now it seems that Kozuki Oden is even worse than them.

"Then there's nothing we can do..." Both of Oden's arms were wrapped in thick domineering aura, and Enma and Ame-no-Habesuzan were also entangled with strong domineering aura. Although Enma has already practiced the black sword, it still does not affect this matter. After all, Enma itself has extremely high requirements for the user.

This sword will release the user's Armament Haki without authorization. Although it can exert very powerful force, if you are not skilled, you will cut off the excess and cause your own Haki to be sucked dry.

Releasing domineering also requires physical strength, and the result is death from exhaustion. As the famous sword forged by Shimotsuki Kosaburo before leaving Wano Country, Kozuki Oden is the only person who has tamed this sword.

As Kozuki Oden and Kaido started fighting, Quinn also crawled up from the ground.

"Damn it, someone poisoned me..."

He did have a self-made detoxification mechanism in his body, but there was a shortcoming with cyborgs, which was that mechanically modified equipment had a certain chance of problems. Just now, his antidote release got stuck, causing his body to stiffen, and the opponent took the opportunity to kick him out.

His opponent is the Nozomi daimyo Fuzuki Miyuki, a relatively short and fat samurai. The daimyo of Wano Country are not weak. Although Shimotsuki Yasuie is a little inferior in terms of martial arts, the remaining three are all veteran swordsmen.

Cutting iron is a basic skill for them. Looking at his almost severed mechanical arm, Quinn's expression was not very good. Of course, another reason was the sound of squeezing in his ears.

"You are such a loser that you are only holding us back."

"Don't say that. It's already amazing that he can catch someone's kick. After all, he is Master Quinn~."

Ever since Quinn gradually developed resistance to Sha Yinna's swearing, Sha Yinna learned a new thing - sarcasm. She found that this caused more harm to Quinn.

"... Stop looking down on others!" Under the verbal attack from his own people, Quinn entered the human-beast form, and with his own modified equipment at full fire, he attacked Fengyue Yujie again.

......

In the sky, the battle between Kaido and Kozuki Oden has just begun, and Kaido is still in the form of a dragon.

For animal-type ability users, the human-beast form is the strongest posture. Unless facing certain specific targets, both the beast form and the human form have a sense of contempt.

"I didn't expect you to have been dancing for so many years. I thought you would stop after a few days, but I didn't expect you to be so persistent. Do you really think I would look down on you for something like this?"

"Were we discovered right from the start..."

"That's right. If this were any other country, we would have already ruled it. Unfortunately, this is Wano Country. Those people have a mysterious admiration for you, the Kozuki family. Thank you for ruining your reputation."

"It looks like today is the decisive battle."

He didn't think the other party was explaining this to him out of kindness, and probably just wanted to shake his heart.

"That's right, the dead Kozuki Oden is the best Kozuki Oden, but don't worry, the blame will be handed over to Kurozumi Orochi, and then it will be regarded as helping you avenge your father's murder."

Kaido spit several wind blades at Oden, which canceled out his flying slash.

"I have another question. Why don't you choose a reign of terror? With the name of the Great Snake and your military power, there's no need to be gentle, right?"

"I don't like this kind of thing, but others do. Anyway, I'm too lazy to worry about it, and the effect is better this way, so I naturally listen to him. Kozuki Oden, since you have been dancing for five years, I will let you see other dances."

As Kaido spoke, his huge body began to twist, and the body of the blue dragon was looming in the clouds, finding the new skill after the Dragon Slate - Dragon Dance.

The power of dragon-type elves has a lot to do with the Dragon Dance, with the exception of a certain earth dragon that cannot perform the Dragon Dance. Even that dragon that cannot perform the Dragon Dance is powerful enough.

Compared to Sword Dance which only increases attack power, Dragon Dance increases attack power slightly less, but it also increases speed at the same time.

Kaido didn't seem to have changed after the Dragon Dance, but Kozuki Oden's observation Haki conveyed a sense of danger to him.

Then Kaido's huge body rushed towards him at an incredible speed. The one who benefited the most after obtaining the Dragon Slab was naturally Arceus himself, and then Kaido.

Although the use of Pokémon's abilities consumes a little more energy than before, it is nothing considering his physical strength. The reason why he has not been transformed is because there are certain differences between legendary Pokémon and ordinary Pokémon.

But it doesn’t matter. The dragon-type skills have increased Kaido’s strength by more than one level. There is a green light flashing on his right claw, and the dragon claw has already grabbed towards Kozuki Oden.

"Dragon Claw!"

Kozuki Oden didn't expect that after the so-called dance, Kaido's speed actually increased to a higher level. Facing the sudden giant claws, he only had time to raise his double swords, and then was knocked to the ground.

The huge impact left a deep gully on the ground, and Oden took Kaido more seriously. This was probably the strongest enemy he had ever met in his life.

Kaido in the sky swooped down to the ground, and Kozuki Oden was not a weakling either. He retracted his two swords slightly and swung them at Kaido in the sky with a sword-drawing and slashing gesture.

"Oden Nitōryū·Mogen Shirataki!"

Kozuki Oden's arms burst out with unimaginable power. Kaido's claw swung from top to bottom was actually bounced away by Oden, and there was still enough power to slash at Kaido's body, but in the end his blade was blocked by a transparent barrier...

Chapter 298: Death of Oden

"what!"

The transparent barrier surprised Kozuki Oden. He had already seen the power of the Barrier Fruit next to Kurozumi Orochi. Obviously, the user of the Barrier Fruit was the old man next to Orochi. However, it was impossible for them to help Kaido at this time.

It's not like he hasn't been to sea before. No two devil fruits are exactly the same, and only one of the same fruit will appear at the same time.

Although some fruits have similar abilities, Kaido has been confirmed to be an animal-type ability user, so it is impossible for him to eat another fruit similar to the Barrier Fruit.

The opportunity to fight was fleeting. At the moment when Oden hesitated, Kaido's other dragon claw had already slapped over. Kozuki Oden crawled out from the ruins below, and his tenacious vitality was comparable to that of an ordinary animal-type ability user.

"Are the abilities of the mythical beasts so diverse? They can even use barriers?"

"Then you don't need to know. I'm not your question-answering machine." He was not interested in explaining to Kozuki Oden what it meant to defend, but was just planning a new attack.

As time passed, the battle here intensified. The trees that originally supported the Flower City Palace have collapsed, and the surrounding area has been completely cleared.

Kozuki Oden's attacks did not stop, but they had no effect on Kaido. Instead, the scars on his body gradually increased. Although his vitality was tenacious, it was not a wise choice to engage in a protracted battle with an animal-type ability user.

This is the only person Kaido has met in the past few years who can withstand several attacks from his beast form and still fight. As time goes by, the battlefield around him becomes more and more intense, and explosions are heard from the direction of Oden Castle.

Looking at Kaido who had almost no scars on his body, Kozuki Oden took a deep breath and mobilized the domineering aura in his body to the maximum extent.

Attacks like Kaido's hot breath are of little use to Kozuki Oden, after all, close combat is what he is best at.

"Kaido, if it were you, would you choose to open the country to welcome Qiao Yin Boyin?"

During the break in the battle, Kozuki Oden suddenly asked Kaido a question and mentioned Qiao Yin Boyin again.

"I'm not interested in that Qiao Yin Boyin, nor do I believe in the so-called prophecy. If there really is such a Qiao Yin Boyin, he must be someone who can at least defeat me!"

"I see... After all, we have to expel you. After all, Wano Country needs to be founded..."

"If you can do it, just give it a try."

"Oden's two swords style..."

His muscles seemed to have expanded several times. At this time, Kozuki Oden was brewing his powerful attack, and Kaido in the sky swooped down again.

"Ten punches of Taoyuan!"

Yan Mo and Tian Yuyu Zhan crossed and slashed towards Kaido. Like Taoyuan Shirataki before, his attack only slashed on Kaido's condensed barrier, but this time Kaido's barrier was shattered.

There is an upper limit to what the guard can withstand. Kozuki Oden's full-strength attack achieved this effect, but that was all. After breaking through the guard, his subsequent attacks were blocked by Kaido's mace.

At the moment when the defense was broken, Kaido's body began to shrink, transforming from the original beast form to the human-beast form, which is his strongest fighting posture.

"Ugh, very good. You are the first person in all these years to break my guard. Kozuki Oden, you are an interesting opponent. You deserve to see me like this."

A fierce aura emanated from Kaido, and the Eight Rings in his hand were wrapped with a strong domineering aura. The combat power he could unleash at this moment was much stronger than when he simply used the Blue Dragon stance.

But just as he was about to swing the bat, a shout came from the side.

"Father! Save me!"

The samurai under Kurozumi Orochi were holding Yamato hostage. At this time, Yamato was shouting for help to Kaido, but Kaido just glanced at him and didn't take it seriously. He turned to look at Kozuki Oden.

"You spoils the fun, hey, from the Kozuki family, Arceus likes the current environment of Wano Country. You don't want the aftermath of our fight to destroy the entire Flower Capital, do you? Let's decide the outcome with one move."

"You are so heartless... You don't even care about your own daughter?"

"You wouldn't understand that kind of thing."

Thunder and lightning resounded on Kaido's mace, and a domineering aura much more powerful than before was wrapped around it. The thunder in the clouds in the sky seemed to be guided by Kaido.

Kaido is surrounded by his sword-shaped phantoms. The Dragon Dance and the Sword Dance each have their own advantages, but Kaido has mastered the Sword Dance for much longer than the Dragon Dance, so he is naturally more proficient.

"Thunder gossip!"

No matter how things change, the essence remains the same. Kaido still chose to use Thunder Bagua as his final attack. Looking at the oncoming Kaido, Kozuki Oden instead dropped the Ame-no-Habakiri and held the hilt of Enma with both hands.

"Oden Ittoryu·Wait!"

Holding the sword in both hands, he launched his strongest single attack. Enma's black blade collided with the Eight Saviors, and lightning and domineering burst into fierce sparks. However, with the blessing of Kaido's double dance, Kozuki Oden was no match for Kaido.

......

After a roar, the world seemed to fall into silence. In the ruins, Yama was inserted into the ground, and Kaido was stepping on Kozuki Oden's body under his dragon claws.

"Ahem... I lost. You are really strong..."

"You're not weak, but you're still a long way from those monsters."

"....Really? Hey, Kaido, you will make Wano Country a better place, right?"

"You are a warrior, but you are also a fool to ask such a question to the enemy."