One Piece: The Legend of Beasts

Chapter 108 Uno vs Azrael

“Huh…Huh…this is really troublesome!”

Kaido, panting and sweating, tightly grasped the bloody mace in his hands. He looked around at the dense crowd approaching him like a tide, as if they were carved from the same mold. He frowned and muttered softly, "Although the combat effectiveness of the clones will be relatively weakened as the number of splits increases, it is not a solution to continue fighting like this. I can't let that thing fall into the hands of others!"

"Are you referring to the fruit that can transform into a blue dragon? It seems that I was right. You really came here for this."

Azrael, the leader, raised his eyebrows, and a malicious smile appeared on his pale face. "Speaking of which, that thing was originally yours. Thanks to your lack of tact, you gave such an important treasure to a useless thing to keep, so I was able to get it without any effort!"

Kaido's face suddenly sank as he listened to the other party's endless ridicule in silence. The veins on his forehead twitched inadvertently a few times, and his joints made a sound like frying beans, as if he would explode at any time.

Azrael seemed not to notice the change in his expression. He was still immersed in his own world and smiled to himself, "When I killed that little girl who had been expecting me until her last breath, right in front of him, do you know what his expression was? He could only lie on the ground like a worm, with a face of extreme despair, howling at me! However, the weak can only accept the irresistible fate in the face of absolute strength and be obedient and let others slaughter them! I believe that you who have been fighting on the battlefield also have a deep understanding of this, right?"

"...Hey, I feel relieved after hearing what you said."

Azrael, who thought that the other party would rush forward recklessly after being provoked, suddenly noticed that Kaido hung his head and laughed inexplicably a few times. He was stunned: "What are you laughing at?"

"If someone told me that the boy was killed, I would be a little shaken before I got solid evidence."

Kaido raised his head halfway through his speech, grinning with a hearty yet confident smile, and said word by word, "But if you said this, it would be a different story. That kid is not someone you, a low-class person, can handle!"

All the Azraels on the field were shocked by his confident words. They stood there for a long while. Then the clone standing at the front of the crowd sneered a few times, spread his hands and replied calmly, "Not only do you have extraordinary strength, but you are also very sensitive. But even if that kid still has a breath left, it is only a matter of time before he stops breathing. And the one who is killing people on the island as if nothing happened is me, whom you regard as a 'low-rate person'!"

Although his tone seemed to be understated, there was an irrepressible anger revealed between the lines, as if he was deliberately emphasizing an irrefutable fact in front of others.

"I don't sense any confidence from your attitude."

Kaido, who was still unwilling to give in, did not forget to put the mace behind his head. Several purple lightnings flickered on the surface of the mace. At the same time, a wild smile appeared on his rough face. "I don't have time to play house with you here! Turn me into dust in the air in one breath, King Kong - eh?!"

Before he could shout out his moves, he saw the clones that had surrounded him tightly suddenly melted into sticky blood like mud. Kaido was so shocked that he opened his jaw wide enough to fit two of his fists, "Why are they deflated before the fight even starts?!"

On the other side, there is a corner of the island that is still unknown.

"What just happened?"

Witnessing the entire process of the two enemies' bodies dissolving without warning and eventually turning into two pools of blood, Ivankov stood there in a daze for a long while like a wooden man. However, his inherent optimism made him quickly adapt to this astonishing fact. He couldn't help but open his arms and cheer loudly, "Anyway, as far as the result is concerned, we have been successfully rescued. Only by gritting our teeth and holding on to the end can we be blessed by a miracle! Haha!"

"Phew...I was really scared just now."

Ginny, still in shock, looked around carefully and found that the evil man was no longer around. She covered her chest and breathed a sigh of relief. Her young face was replaced by a puzzled expression. "As far as I know, since these clones disappeared one by one, it means that something unexpected must have happened to the original body. But who saved us?"

"I don't know if that person is out of danger..."

The big bear, who was sitting on the ground due to excessive fatigue, looked up at the sky covered with smoke, with a look of gratitude and a hint of worry in his eyes, "I have to rescue him no matter what, and then I have to thank him in person!"

"I'm sorry, Xiongxiong, but I'm afraid there's nothing we can do about this."

Ginny looked at Big Bear's face, which had changed from expectation to astonishment, and sighed slightly, "The existence elimination device installed by Mr. Nova has been destroyed, which means that we may be discovered by other enemies at any time. We must prioritize ensuring the smooth implementation of our plan."

"But, that savior—"

"Little Ginny is right! It's too early for the three of us to interfere in this war. All we can do now is to rescue our compatriots who still have a glimmer of hope."

Ivankov decisively interrupted Big Bear's rebuttal, glanced at the slaves who were groaning on the ground and unable to get up, and finally his eyes fell on the paw-shaped soft pad on Big Bear's right hand. He put his right hand on his chest and said solemnly, "There is no time to lose. Before anyone notices the situation here, please use the 'Hand of Miracles' that you have earned at the cost of your life and death to send everyone here out of this hell called 'Valley of God'."

Ginny on the side raised her hand and agreed excitedly: "Just follow the original plan and use the bear's 'meat ball fruit' ability to lead us out of this world! Wait——"

As if her reflexes were too long, she finally reacted. She instantly jumped up from where she was, and her eyeballs almost broke through the lenses. "Huh?! Does that mean you have successfully obtained the Devil Fruit?!"

"You haunted brat...what on earth did you do?!"

Seeing the young man who should have melted into a pool of pus appearing almost intact before his eyes again, Azrael's expression changed from astonishment to shock and then to anger. His inner emotions were even more shocked to the point where water could be squeezed out of his voice. "According to the time, you should have been corroded to the point where nothing was left. How did you survive until now?!"

"Who knows?"

Uno, looking calm, casually swung his right arm, as if to deliberately provoke the enemy, and his tone was full of carelessness and contempt, "Perhaps your shoddy coffin needs to be repaired?"

"Hehe, we haven't seen each other for just a few minutes, and not only has your mood stabilized a lot, you've even started to learn how to trash talk."

Azrael pulled the corners of his mouth, his long hair fluttering in the wind, exuding an incomparable dangerous aura, "Not long ago, I deployed more than thousands of clones on the island. Do you know why? Of course, I want to slowly taste the taste of slaughtering your companions who are ignorant of the danger and come to die, and those guys who are in the way one by one!

"But on the other hand, when performing this move, the main body must be in a state of selflessness. Once violently disturbed by the outside world, all the clones will disappear one by one. This is the only flaw in the ointment."

"So, what do you want to say by telling me this?"

Feeling the murderous aura coming towards him, Uno remained unmoved, and did not even hold back his venomous tongue. Instead, he became even more aggressive. "Or do you just want to complain about the fact that your ability development was not up to standard and was full of flaws?"

In an instant, the remaining smile on Azrael's face disappeared, his eyes were full of bloodshot, and his handsome face suddenly became as hideous and twisted as a demon, with streams of blood spurting out from the bulging veins on his forehead: "When others are in high spirits, you don't know what's good for you and you interrupt them without authorization. You won't be satisfied even if you die billions of times!!"

The secret art of blood manipulation: blood hair dance!

Azrael roared and shook his head violently. Countless blood-red long hairs twisted like a giant python madly, and swept towards Uno with a sharp whistle that seemed to tear the air.

Facing the blood-red hair rushing like a torrent, Uno remained calm. Strands of green light gathered in his hand and condensed into a light green hatchet. With a wave of his right hand, the hatchet spun rapidly, accompanied by bursts of sonic booms, and quickly drew winding and strange arcs in the dense blood-red hair. In just a blink of an eye, the blood-red hair that covered the sky and the sun instantly split into countless pieces and splashed everywhere.

At the same time, Uno's eyes flickered, and he pushed his feet hard and jumped up, the whole person flew into the air as if stepping on a staircase. At the same time he left the ground, accompanied by an extremely sharp "woosh" sound, a huge sickle flashing with cold blood light flew out from the blood mist, with an iron chain as agile as a spirit snake at the end, and a dark red poisonous light passed through the place where Uno was just now. Wherever it passed, a deep gully was melted on the ground, and large amounts of red smoke rose from the surface, with a fishy smell.

Seeing that the attack missed, the blood-red giant sickle seemed to have eyes and quickly changed direction, chasing after Uno who was flying in the air like a shadow, at such a fast speed as lightning that it was behind him in the blink of an eye.

"Don't waste your energy! The Soul-Taker Blood Scythe will never stop tracking until it hits the target accurately! And if the skin is scratched, the body will instantly fester and melt! It's useless to escape anywhere!"

Uno was not upset by the goosebump-inducing laughter from below. Instead, a meaningful smile appeared at the corner of his mouth: "I never said the word 'escape'!"

Before he finished speaking, he grasped his right arm, which was emitting green light, with his left hand, and pointed his right palm at the giant sickle that was so close to him: "Spiral Separation!"

With a powerful shout, a spiral of green light flew out from his palm, like a nimble snake, and headed straight for the giant sickle with murderous aura. With a series of "crackling" sounds, the huge blood sickle was shattered into powder like tofu dregs, and scattered on the ground. A large amount of blood foam splashed on the grass, causing it to wither immediately, and a few drops fell on Azrael's stunned face, making a "sizzling" sound.

——Just like the previous two times, he was able to disintegrate the object without any contact. Could it be that his ability has already been awakened? Damn it! How could such a rubbish be able to do that!

His mind quickly rejected this guess. The part that was stained by the corrosive blood recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye. Azrael glared at the boy floating in the air with gritted teeth. His hands turned into flowing blood plasma and he roared, “Don’t get carried away! Secret Technique of Blood Manipulation: Bad Blood Arrow!”

As he crossed his hands and swung them, a large amount of blood gathered into two slender dark red arrows, which shot towards Uno with the sound of whistling wind.

"Are you up to the same old trick? That's not like your style."

Seeing the two blood arrows getting closer and closer to him, Uno did not dare to be negligent. He was about to raise his index fingers to shoot them down, but unexpectedly, the two blood arrows emitting a strange red light exploded in the middle of the flight, forming a thick blood mist that quickly spread around.