The pinnacle of pirates begins with deceiving fate!

She abruptly stopped running, her body wriggling and transforming into a large blob of azure paste, which covered John as he approached.

"Death Coil!"

Seeing the attack coming, John continued his pursuit, kicking out with his leg, shattering the incoming blue paste into pieces that splattered everywhere.

I didn't feel like I hit a physical object. Could it be a Logia-type Devil Fruit user?

No, it should be Special Paramecia!

Special Paramecia types, like Logia types, can use Observation Haki to predict the location of attacks in advance and actively transform the body parts that are about to be attacked into the relevant substances.

Its real body can rely on this mass of matter, transforming into a tiny "aura" within it, which can freely flow within the matter.

Even if an attack is imbued with Armament Haki, as long as the "aura" is not accurately grasped, it cannot strike the true physical form of the Devil Fruit user; it can only strike a meaningless mass of matter.

To deal with such an enemy, you either need to defeat them with a single blow using Armament Haki before they can react and "transform" or "materialize."

Alternatively, one can only rely on Observation Haki in conjunction with Armament Haki to capture that trace of "aura" lurking within the "elementalization" and "materialization".

"It's no use! Let yourself drown in suffocating death!"

With a death pronouncement, the large amount of paste that had splattered around them suddenly floated up as if pulled by gravity, converging towards the specks of paste that had splashed onto John's body.

In the blink of an eye, it gathered into a large mass of azure paste, trapping John inside. It frantically drilled into him through his mouth and nose, trying to dissipate the oxygen from his lungs and drown him!

"Pooh!"

John suddenly spat forcefully, using the air from his lungs to expel the paste stuck to his mouth and nose, creating a bubble in the huge mass of paste.

The bubbles, like a glass dome on the head of a Celestial Dragon, protected John's head and kept the viscous paste out.

"A death throes is useless!"

Moro's triumphant voice rang out as he controlled the giant mass of paste to writhe and squeeze the bubble protecting John's head.

Once the bubbles are squeezed out, the naval monster, drowning in the gooey substance of her body, will only suffocate to death!

Just as the bubble was about to be squeezed out of John's head, he suddenly stretched out his right hand, his five fingers forming a claw as he grabbed to the right.

Immediately afterwards, a naked human figure appeared in the paste, and gradually Moro’s curvaceous body became visible.

Moro looked at John in horror, never expecting that this man's Observation Haki was so powerful that he could accurately catch her even when he was deliberately hiding.

"A special Paramecia-type Paste-Paste Fruit, huh? You're quite the player."

A ferocious glint flashed in John's eyes, and with a twist of his five fingers, he crushed Moro's neck.

As Morrow lost his life, the massive paste enveloping John instantly lost its power, disintegrating and scattering across the ground.

Nourish

Before John could catch his breath, he heard a very faint splashing sound of liquid behind him.

He quickly turned around, using Moro's corpse as a shield in front of him.

The next moment, a stream of transparent liquid sprayed onto the corpse, and the contact area with the corpse's skin instantly sizzled and was corroded into a bloody mess.

Highly poisonous!

John decisively ripped off the head hanging from the corpse's shoulders, threw the head at Reed as proof of his merit, and then quickly retreated away, abandoning the corpse.

After standing at a safe distance of ten meters, John turned his gaze to the direction from which the venom had been sprayed and saw a huge king cobra with its head upright and fangs exposed.

Based on initial visual estimation, its length should be seven or eight meters.

Morgan the King Snake!

"What a pity, what a rare opportunity!" The king cobra spat out a human eye, its snake face full of regret.

John's gaze fell to the headless corpse lying on the ground, now reduced to a skeleton by the corrosive poison.

If he remembered correctly, king cobra venom is a mixed venom, containing toxins that affect nerves, blood circulation, and cells.

"For safety's sake, we must show more strength."

Chapter 52 Instantaneous Kill!

"Aren't you curious why I would set such a huge trap for you when we have no grudge against each other?"

The giant king cobra writhed and slithered, talking to attract John's attention as it slowly approached him.

Once within range, his coiled body can instantly straighten and launch him forward at a speed that no one can react to or dodge.

Combined with deadly venom, it will be a one-hit kill!

"Actually, I've already roughly figured it out, but I do need you to say it out loud in front of those sissies to vindicate my 'justice'."

John gradually clenched his right fist, with wisps of dark purple electricity flashing and swirling around the knuckles.

Conqueror's Haki envelops you!

At the same time, the electromagnetism generates a strong magnetic field, launching its body out like an electromagnetic cannon.

boom

John created a sonic boom cloud in mid-air, covering ten meters in an instant, and then came to an abrupt stop above the head of the giant king cobra using magnetic levitation positioning.

Then, he bent down and slammed his fist, wrapped in a domineering aura, down at the ferocious snake head!

In that instant, Morgan's vision froze as if cut out of a frame; the enemy was still standing in front of him, but a fist had already smashed into his head.

click

The sturdy, bullet-resistant scales on its head shattered into dust under the fist, which then landed with undiminished force on the giant king cobra's forehead.

With his skull fractured, Morgan couldn't even muster the willpower to use Armament Haki for defense and immediately passed out.

The giant king cobra's jaws slammed heavily onto the hard rocky ground, leaving the surface cracked and dented like a shattered mirror.

The fierce impact caused the ground within a radius of tens of meters to tremble violently, and the shockwave swept outwards, carrying sand and stones indiscriminately, like machine gun fire, riddling the pirates with holes.

"Wow!!!"

The navy men, including Reed, who were standing at a distance, were stunned when they saw the ferocious giant king cobra slam its jaws into the ground for no apparent reason. The scene was filled with the croaking of frogs.

"Cough cough!"

The smoke and dust slowly dissipated, revealing John's figure. He covered his mouth with his right hand and coughed violently twice.

Looking down at his palm, he saw a bright red bloodstain.

injured.

"Damn it, my physique is still too weak."

This injury wasn't caused by Morgan's physical attack, but rather by the sudden acceleration and deceleration beyond the limits of his physical capabilities without using elemental transformation, which resulted in internal injuries.

The ceiling for ordinary people is still far, far behind that of those born monsters.

"Hey! You sissies, what are you standing there for? Get over here and clean up the mess!"

"I can't do everything myself, can I?!"

Feeling annoyed, John naturally vented his pressure on Reed and the other navy officers.

"Huh? Oh! Hurry up! Get moving!"

Reed was the first to come to his senses, waving to the marines to clean up the battlefield, while he himself jogged over to John.

"Wow, John, you're amazing!"

"To defeat so many powerful pirates all by himself, he's a monster among monsters!"

"Are you a Devil Fruit user? What kind of ability do you have? Where did you get your Devil Fruit? Do you think I have a chance?"

Reed clasped his hands together in front of his chest, looked at John with excitement, his eyes sparkling, and kept asking questions.

John frowned, looking disgusted, and pushed Reed away as he moved closer and closer to Reed's face.

First of all! Don't get so close, or I'll hit you!

"Secondly! I'm not a Devil Fruit user, I use Haki! Do you understand Haki?"

"Ooh!"

Reed nodded as if he understood, though he was familiar with domineering auras, but he had never seen them used in so many different ways.

Then, he suddenly remembered something, turned around and ran towards the warship, shouting a warning at the same time.

"Don't worry about the Devil Fruit users for now. We need to use Seastone handcuffs to capture those guys!"

Meanwhile, three marines cleaning up the battlefield were looking at a large tabby cat, over two meters tall, lying on the ground, and whispering among themselves.

"As far as I know, Devil Fruit users lose their abilities when they lose consciousness, so why is this ferocious cat still maintaining its beast form?"

"Could it be that he was originally a cat, but ate a Zoan-type Human-Human Fruit?"

"Hey! Now that you mention it, it might actually be true..."

"Meow!"

Just as the three marines were discussing, the ferocious cat, who had been pretending to be unconscious with its eyes closed, suddenly opened its eyes, its pupils flashing a fierce orange-yellow light in the night.

The ferocious cat suddenly stood up and swung its paw. The three marines had no time to react or dodge, and bloody claw marks were left on their chests.

It's so deep you can see the bone!

Not content with its initial attack, the ferocious cat twisted its front paws and launched another deadly strike, aiming to tear the necks of the three marines apart...

Bang

Gunshots rang out, and bullets imbued with Armament Haki flew through the air, striking the fierce cat's outstretched claws.

The claws were torn apart and shattered by the bullets on the spot, blood and flesh splattering everywhere, leaving only the severed arm with exposed white bone.

"Why didn't you just pretend to be unconscious? Why did you have to jump out and cause trouble?"

John, with a cigarette dangling from his lips, pulled the trigger again. The revolver's drum of ammunition spun, and a bullet flew from the barrel, striking the cat's other front paw.

"Meow!!!"

The ferocious cat let out a shrill cry, gathering Armament Haki on its left front paw in an attempt to defend itself, only to watch helplessly as its Armament Haki was easily torn apart by the bullet as if it were made of paper.

The left front paw exploded into a bloody mist once again!

Although both possess Armament Haki, his Armament Haki is worlds apart from John's!