"clang------!"

A metallic clang echoed through the air as Dewdrop and Skyfall in Wood's hands collided with Napoleon in Big Mom's hands, unleashing a burst of sword energy that raged outwards in an instant.

The ice beneath the two was being easily sliced ​​into irregular pieces of floating ice by the raging sword energy, much like tofu.

The two longswords covered in ice and the longsword radiating flames instantly produced a violent physical reaction upon colliding, each attempting to corrode and destroy the other.

Finally, as sparks scattered and ice shards fell, Wood and Big Mom's bodies were separated by the blow, each staggered back more than a hundred meters.

Wood was soaked to the bone, and the silver-white runes shone brilliantly through his wet shirt.

"What a monster! With my current strength and physical abilities, and even after using the power of the 'Heart of God,' I still couldn't gain the upper hand in our power clash just now?"

"I didn't see wrong, did I? That brat actually held his own against Mom in a direct confrontation, holding his own!"

Wood was shocked by Big Mom's power, but little did he know that after Big Mom and Wood separated with a single blow, they both retreated a hundred meters. Zeus and the other Hortmi were also surprised.

Having followed Big Mom for so long, they know her existence best; their mother, like Kaido, possesses a special constitution.

Kaido's special physique stems from his terrifying physical strength and near-immortal regenerative abilities.

Big Mom's special physique is her extraordinary, even abnormal, innate superhuman strength.

It's worth noting that Big Mom was already able to tear a bear apart when she was only five years old. When she was young, she was swatting mosquitoes for a giant, but she almost killed the giant with one swipe.

Big Mom's physical defenses were originally quite formidable, but this physical advantage disappeared after the nun went missing.

Most people believe this is due to the influence of the "Soul-Soul Fruit," since the Soul-Soul Fruit is clearly more focused on soul power than physical strength.

Of the Four Emperors, Whitebeard is undoubtedly the strongest in terms of overall strength.

But if we're talking about who can withstand the most damage, it should be Kaido; and if we're talking about who has the strongest strength, it should be Big Mom.

As for Shanks, he probably has the strongest Conqueror's Haki, after all, he's a user of the Face Fruit...

Big Mom is the strongest of the Four Emperors in terms of pure strength. Even Kaido would probably be defeated if he were to fight her. However, Wood is able to fight her to a standstill. How can this not be surprising?

Just as Wood and Big Mom clashed with a single blade strike, Kaido on the other side unleashed another powerful breath attack on them.

Wood and Big Mom reacted differently to Kaido's heat breath. Big Mom directly manipulated Zeus to fly away, while Wood once again used his twin swords to tear Kaido's heat breath apart with a single strike.

Furthermore, due to the use of the "Heart of God," Wood's strength had greatly increased. The slash, imbued with ice magic, not only froze and tore apart Kaido's heat breath, but also grazed Kaido's face with its remaining force, sending up a spray of blood.

And that wasn't the end of it. As Wood slashed at Kaido, his body was also moving at high speed through the air.

Each step of "Moonwalk" produced an extremely loud sonic boom, propelling Wood's body forward a considerable distance.

Kaido, whose face was scratched, was about to raise his head and roar angrily when he realized that Wood's figure had completely disappeared from his sight.

The next second, as if his Observation Haki had sensed something, Kaido abandoned his original plan to use Dragon Breath and instead stretched out his dragon claws to tear at a spot in front of him.

"Wood brat, you're still too green. You have no chance against my Observation Haki!"

Where Kaido's dragon claws were tearing, Wood's figure suddenly appeared. Seeing the scene he had foreseen with his Observation Haki unfolding before him, Kaido laughed triumphantly.

However, Kaido's smile quickly vanished, for he discovered that his dragon claws, aimed at Wood, had passed right through Wood's body without warning. Clearly, the Wood before him was merely an afterimage left behind by his rapid movement.

As for the real Wood, his figure suddenly appeared on Kaido's back and assumed a sword-drawing slashing stance.

"Hyakki Mitsurugi-ryu - Dual-wielding Attribute - Yuki-onna!"

The white-clad beauty standing against the snow appeared behind Wood like a phantom. Two dazzling slashes, accompanied by swirling snowflakes, directly struck Kaido's back against the wind.

As a large number of dragon scales were blown off, a huge "X"-shaped wound appeared on Kaido's body. As a large amount of blood spurted out, the ice attribute attached to the slash completely froze half of Kaido's body.

"Even if you can see me with your Observation Haki, so what? In your current state, you might not be able to catch me!"

Aside from medical experts like Chopper, Zoan-type Devil Fruits generally have three forms, even the Mythical Zoan type, which is rarer than Logia-type.

In normal human form, there is no difference from usual, but those who have eaten Zoan-type Devil Fruits will more or less gain some physical enhancement.

Then there's the so-called "Beast Form," in which Zoan-type Devil Fruit users can completely transform their bodies into beasts and fully utilize the power of their Devil Fruits.

Kaido ate the Fish-Fish Fruit, a Mythical Zoan type fruit in the Azure Dragon form, so his beast form is a giant Azure Dragon.

In this state, Kaido not only possesses the ability to fly, but can also use various calamity-level attacks, making it his most powerful form.

However, there are also drawbacks. In his beast form, Kaido's body is enormous, which makes his body less agile than in his human form, making him resemble a typical turret.

Although his attack power is extremely high and his defense is extremely thick, when he encounters an opponent of similar strength, he can basically only passively take hits, unless the opponent is a player of the same type as him.

Big Mom, who had dodged Kaido's heat breath earlier, circled in the air, intending to settle scores with Wood. But at that moment, Prometheus suddenly spoke up, "Mom, calm down. It's okay to teach Wood a lesson later."

Now that Kaido is injured, it's the perfect opportunity for us to strike. If we can take him down, then Mom will be the ultimate winner.

At this moment, Big Mom was only in a frenzy because the tea party was disrupted, not because of the "food cravings," so she had not completely lost her mind.

Upon hearing Prometheus's words, Big Mom calmed down considerably and, looking at Kaido falling, quickly grinned.

"Zeus, Prometheus!"

"Okay, Mom x2!"

At Big Mom's shout, Zeus and Prometheus responded simultaneously, understanding each other perfectly.

The flames on Prometheus's body suddenly burned even more fiercely, and he opened his mouth and bit the end of Napoleon in Big Mom's hand.

As for Zeus, he was transformed into a huge dark cloud, which was pierced through by the longsword, forming a huge energy ring.

And the next second, the voices of BIG MOM, Napoleon, Zeus, and Prometheus echoed in unison above the clouds.

"Lightning Cannon Fire!!! x4"

As Big Mom swung her sword down, the energy ring formed at the tip of the longsword unleashed a high-density laser beam that shot out from the center, creating a massive wave that hurtled directly toward Kaido, whose body was frozen in place!

The "Lightning Cannon" is already considered one of the stronger moves that Big Mom has mastered. This move can only be used by the combined power of three of her characters: Hozmy Napoleon, Zeus, and Prometheus.

Its power is so great that it can instantly pierce through several small islands!

Kaido, whose body was slashed and whose torso was frozen in half, fell rapidly from the sky. But soon, a large amount of flames erupted from his body, forming a huge fire dragon that enveloped his body.

The moment the fire dragon appeared, the ice on its body began to melt rapidly, just like snow melting in spring.

This is also one of Kaido's Devil Fruit abilities, called "Fire Dragon Torch".

The fire dragon that Kaido is now emanating from his body is even hotter than the heat breath he released before, enough to instantly vaporize anything it touches.

Although Wood's ice magic was powerful, the power of the rootless duckweed was clearly unable to withstand the continuous erosion of the flames, so it was quickly melted.

However, to Kaido's utter surprise, just as he had thawed from the ice covering his body and before he could regroup and settle scores with Wood, Big Mom's even more powerful "Lightning Cannon" had already struck...

Having just suffered a severe injury, Kaido clearly had no chance of successfully defending against Big Mom's ultimate attack, "Lightning Cannon."

The fire dragon on his body was shattered by the laser of the Thunder Cannon in an instant, and the thick laser was like an aurora descending from the sky, instantly piercing through most of Kaido's body.

"Old hag, you bastard!" Kaido, whose body was pierced by the beam cannon, only had time to utter a long curse before his body was sent flying by the beam cannon.

Kaido was lucky; the place where he flew backwards and landed happened to be a small island, rather than falling directly into the sea.

"That's great! Mom and the Navy traitor Wood actually teamed up to take down Kaido of the Beasts!"

The development of events was somewhat beyond the expectations of the Big Mom Pirates. Seeing the scene before them, Big Mom's children were also extremely excited.

Although Big Mom's battle with Kaido destroyed several small islands in Whole Cake Island, it would all be worth it if Kaido were defeated.

"Wood, my terms remain the same. I can overlook the fact that you attacked me before."

"If you marry any one of Pudding's girls, our Big Mom Pirates will officially become your ally."

Unlike Perospero and the others, Big Mom, who knows Kaido very well, obviously doesn't believe that his joint attack with Wood could kill Kaido, whose vitality is comparable to that of a cockroach.

However, it is undeniable that this is the closest Big Mom has come to victory in all the time she has fought Kaido.

Although Kaido can be considered an immortal monster, there is no living being that cannot be killed.

Wood's strength far exceeded their previous expectations. If he were willing to join forces with them, the possibility of taking down Kaido here would indeed be quite high.

Chapter 333 What if we kill the Four Emperors?

Big Mom's proposal was quite tempting; combining their strength to take down Kaido here was indeed not impossible.

Once Kaido dies, his territory and power will naturally be taken over by the Big Mom Pirates and Wood's weapons company. Wood might even become the new "Four Emperors".

Just when everyone thought Wood might agree to Big Mom's proposal, Wood did something that surprised everyone.

He then drew his sword and slashed at Big Mom in front of him, saying, "Although your suggestion is good, please allow me to refuse."

I'm used to being the boss myself and don't want to be someone's henchman. Besides, I don't believe you'd allow a new "Yonko" to rise after Kaido's Beasts Pirates are destroyed.

Of course, the apparent reason Wood mentioned was one aspect, but another aspect was that Wood was also eyeing the mission rewards previously released by the system.

If you can remain "undefeated" in the battle between the Four Emperors, you will receive different levels of rewards based on your mission evaluation.

Clearly, in the face of Kaido and Big Mom, the reward one can obtain by barely surviving is probably the lowest tier.

If the second-tier reward is to injure one of the Four Emperors, then the third-tier reward should be to defeat two of the Four Emperors.

Let's put aside the third tier of rewards for now. If Big Mom and Kaido go berserk, Wood would have a hard time even dealing with one of them, let alone defeating both of them.

However, he found that the second tier of reward was something he could consider given his current situation.

He had already injured Kaido, so if he could also injure Big Mom, he might be able to get two chances to "Simulate Life in All Realms" in one go.

And just as Wood said, it wouldn't be a good thing for him to really team up with Big Mom to take down Kaido here.

Of the Four Emperors, only Big Mom and Kaido have interests in the underworld. Previously, the two were able to keep each other in check to prevent one from becoming the dominant power.

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