"You're right. While it's possible to cut through a desert tornado with a slashing motion in the face of such a natural disaster, it would be quite laborious and would cause enormous damage to the city, so it's really not suitable."

But besides swordsmanship, I actually have a better, more decisive method.”

Seeing Luffy slowly walking towards him with Cobra's help, and facing the two men's angry glares, Wood told them to calm down and said that he was not their enemy.

"You're the one who saved us before, what exactly do you plan to do to our country?!"

Just as Cobra was confronting Luffy, Princess Vivi and the rest of the Straw Hat crew who had defeated the Baroque Works executives arrived at the scene.

Although Wood wasn't wearing a coat, Vivi, with her excellent memory, immediately recognized him as the person who had saved them from his back and figure.

"I'll explain the details later. If I keep going on like this, your kingdom might really be buried under the sandstorm."

Or are you saying that even so, you don't care?

Luffy, Zoro, and the others wanted to rush forward, but Vivi stopped them.

Although she didn't know why, she always felt that the man in front of her could be trusted, and besides, she had no other choice but to trust him now.

Chapter 317 Magic can create miracles!

(Happy New Year everyone! May all your wishes come true and may you be happy every day in the new year! (▽`))

"Want to stop the desert tornado? I advise you not to waste your time."

Even if you kill me now, it won't make a difference. My Devil Fruit ability is just a trigger. The current sandstorm is already a natural disaster.

"None of you, and everyone in Alabasta, will escape in the end; you will all be buried with this kingdom in the sands."

Faced with the current situation, even Crocodile, the king of the desert who ate the "Sand-Sand Fruit," was helpless against the sandstorm. Crocodile did not believe that Wood, an arms dealer, could stop the disaster.

"Crocodile, just like you told Straw Hat Luffy, the world is a big place."

Just like how a Warlord of the Sea could be defeated by a rookie pirate, many things are beyond your imagination, but that doesn't mean they're impossible.

As Wood spoke, he slowly drew two large, sharp knives from his waist and plunged them into the ground in front of him.

But when Zoro of the Straw Hat crew saw the long sword drawn, his eyes widened. As a swordsman, he could easily tell that the swords in Wood's hands were two famous swords.

A swordsman wielding a famous sword may not necessarily be very strong, but a swordsman who can wield a demon sword is definitely not weak!

Just as a powerful swordsman chooses a good sword, those demonic swords also choose their masters.

Even if it was just morning dew, Zoro could sense that the demonic aura of Wood's other sword, "Tenku," was much stronger than that of the Sandai Kitetsu in his own hand.

If the other party can easily subdue it, then the other party is at least a "sword master" level.

Because this is the world of One Piece, the magic circles that would normally appear in the "Mushoku Tensei" world do not appear in this world, or rather, the magic circles that do appear are only visible to Wood himself.

However, it is undeniable that Wood is able to extract magic and convert it into magic for use.

"Water King-level magic - Thunderous Stratocumulus!"

As Wood plunged his longsword into the ground, an invisible shockwave suddenly erupted from his body, and a huge blue magic circle spread outwards from Wood.

Unfortunately, magic circles can only be seen by those with magical powers, and in this world, apart from Wood, there is probably no one else with magical powers.

Although Princess Vivi and the others could not see the huge magic circle on the ground, they could sense it from the sudden burst of aura emanating from Wood, indicating that he must have done something.

Before long, Princess Vivi and the others were horrified to discover that the entire sky above Royal Albana had been shrouded in a thick layer of dark clouds, as a huge shadow loomed over the sky.

The thick, dark clouds gave off an extremely oppressive feeling, and as a forked bolt of lightning flashed across the sky, a thunderous roar that resounded throughout Alabasta echoed in everyone's ears.

Since ancient times, the only natural disaster that can be countered is another kind of natural disaster!

The silvery-white lightning was exceptionally conspicuous in the sky, which had turned as black as ink. Facing the raging desert tornado, the thunderous lightning in the sky seemed to be telling the other side who was the most terrible disaster in the world.

The towering tornado stirred up the thunderclouds, and the thunderclouds responded in kind, unleashing bolts of lightning.

Both are forces of heaven and earth, but in the end, the lightning in the sky was clearly superior.

Although the world-destroying tornado was powerful, it could not withstand the continuous bombardment of lightning. With each successive strike of lightning, the desert tornado grew smaller and smaller until it was finally completely dispersed.

However, the matter did not end there. In addition to its enormous destructive power, the desert tornado had also brought a massive amount of sand due to the strong winds.

The storm has now subsided, but the sand, instead of being destroyed by the lightning, drifted slowly into the city like rootless duckweed.

Even without a raging storm, if this sand were to fall into the city, there is no doubt that a third of the entire town would be buried.

However, compared to the original situation where the sand would have completely swallowed the town of Albana, the fact that only a third of the town was buried was a pleasant surprise for Cobra and Princess Vivi.

As long as the entire city of Albana isn't buried by sandstorms, many people in the capital can survive, and the number of casualties will be greatly reduced. The sand that buried the town can also be cleared away later.

It can only be said that the current situation is much, much better than the previous situation where there was no chance of survival.

However, just as Cobra and Princess Vivi were about to step forward to thank Wood for saving the kingdom, they discovered that Wood had not left the spot where he was standing, but was looking up at the dark clouds in the sky.

Before Princess Vivi and the others could find out why, a drop of icy rain suddenly slapped onto her face.

As the first raindrop fell, it triggered a chain reaction, with more raindrops falling from the thick, dark clouds in the sky, quickly turning into a torrential downpour.

The sand and dust that had been scattered in the air after the storm had subsided were now washed away by the torrential rain and settled outside the town.

The torrential rain not only dispelled the gloom that had lingered over Alabasta for the past three years, but also brought all the conflicts to a halt.

At this moment, there were no longer any so-called rebel army or kingdom army, only the Alabasta citizens cheering in the rain.

For these people living at the grassroots level, they don't care who the king is; their only wish is to live a good life.

"What a blunder. I should have put on some protective gear before it rained. Now I'm all soaked, and my style has instantly dropped by more than half."

Well, whatever, this feeling of being caught in the rain isn't so bad after all..."

Compared to the Alabasta people who were celebrating because of the sudden downpour, there were naturally some who were unhappy, such as the Desert King who was lying on the ground in a "big" position, looking at the falling rain with disbelief on his face.

No one knew better than Crocodile why Alabasta was experiencing such a severe drought, so he was even more shocked that it could suddenly rain under such circumstances.

"You actually ate a Devil Fruit too... "

And you even broke our agreement by saving Princess Vivi and the Straw Hat Pirates!

Previously, when Crocodile heard his subordinates report that a powerful figure had saved Princess Vivi and some others, he thought they were making excuses for his defeat.

After considering what Princess Vivi had just said, Crocodile finally understood that the so-called strongman was none other than that bastard Wood!

"In a sense, I did break the agreement, but if it weren't for my reminder, you wouldn't have valued the Straw Hat crew so much in the first place."

Even if we take a step back and say that Princess Vivi arrived in Albana afterward, she couldn't stop the conflict between the royal army and the rebel army.

"I helped the Straw Hat crew once, but I also helped you once. Didn't you notice why Portgas D. Ace didn't appear in front of you while you were fighting the Straw Hat crew?"

"One last thing to correct: the ability I use is not a Devil Fruit, but the power of magic!"

So now I'm not just a swordsman, but also a mage capable of creating miracles.

Upon hearing Wood's serious words, Crocodile spat out a disgusted look.

Crocodile had reluctantly accepted the wording used by Wood to describe how he saved Princess Vivi.

After all, Princess Vivi didn't pose much of an obstacle to his later plans, and Wood was able to help him stop Fire Fist Ace, so strictly speaking, he was the one who made a huge profit.

Unfortunately, he was the one who lost in the end, even though he thought Fire Fist Ace was troublesome and Wood stopped him.

As for the final sandstorm that swept through Albana, Wood chose to intervene, and Crocodile had nothing more to say.

Because from the moment he lost to the Straw Hat Boy, his bet with Wood ended in defeat for him.

Now that the bet was over, Wood could naturally make his move, especially since the sandstorm had also affected him. Even though he claimed it was for self-preservation, Crocodile didn't refute it at all.

However, Wood said that his ability did not come from a Devil Fruit, but from so-called "magic," which Crocodile scoffed at.

It's understandable that some powerful individuals are unwilling to reveal their information, but there's no need to use something as childish as "magic" to fool him.

"These days, people believe a lie, but when you occasionally tell the truth, nobody believes you," Wood thought to himself.

Of course, not everyone present completely disbelieved Wood's words.

For example, a rubber boy who was being helped up and even beaten to the point of near death suddenly had his eyes sparkle and looked at Wood with excitement when he heard the novel word "magic".

"Magic! How cool! So you're the legendary magician..."

A rubber boy looked at Wood with excitement, about to ask if he had a chance to learn magic, when his already badly injured body was hit by another blow to his head!

"Idiot, how could magic possibly exist? They're obviously lying to you."

What surprised Wood even more was that the opponent's critical hit miraculously created a huge bump on Luffy's head, who was a rubber man!

Wood could see it clearly: the voluptuous orange-haired girl, despite not using Armament Haki, had indeed inflicted tons of damage on Luffy, who was a rubber man.

Furthermore, Luffy, who had not fallen into a coma despite taking so many attacks from Crocodile and even being poisoned, was actually knocked unconscious by this attack!

"As expected, the rumors from my previous life were true. A certain money-grubbing navigator is actually the strongest fighter in the Straw Hat crew."

The Straw Hat Pirates' so-called three strongest fighters couldn't even withstand a single blow from Nami.

Watching Luffy get beaten up, Wood silently thought to himself that his friends' guesses from his previous life were indeed correct.

The so-called "weak trio" of the Straw Hat crew are actually the real, low-key big shots.

Under certain circumstances, one-punch Nami can directly ignore the difference in combat power, and even ignore the opponent's physique, and overpower the three combat powers.

There's also the incredibly low-key reindeer Chopper, who has a bounty worth the equivalent of a newspaper's worth of money, and who usually just acts cute, but can easily defeat someone worth hundreds of millions of dollars when it matters.

Then there's God Usopp, who always manages to deceive everyone with his boastful persona, but at crucial moments he can always create miracles and completely turn the tide of battle.

Seeing the characters he admired in his past life now vividly appearing before him, Wood honestly felt quite emotional.

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