The pinnacle of pirates begins with deceiving fate!

"Those damned pirates!"

The painful process was always exceptionally long. What took only a minute or two for the giant waves to wash over the island's ships felt like several hours to Garin and the others.

Finally, when the tide receded, only the main hall remained on the island ship; all the other buildings were razed to the ground, leaving not even a trace or ruin.

The pirates managed to survive by clinging to the main hall's supporting pillars or hiding inside them.

"Ugh!"

Junzi and Somaz were thrown to the ground by Mafi, who stomped on their stomachs to force the unconscious men to spit out the seawater they had swallowed.

Just as the two regained consciousness and struggled to their feet, Garin pulled his rapier from the rocks, preparing to fight again...

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The sound of Sakura and Muku sheathing their swords rang out.

Then, Shiki raised his right hand, palm up, and clenched his fist tightly.

"Lion's Might Rolls Across the Land!"

Rumble

The ground on the island ship suddenly trembled, and the rocks and soil bulged up, transforming into huge, ferocious, roaring lions that howled and lunged at Garin and the others.

Garin and the others immediately prepared to launch an attack and crush the pack of lions that were biting at them.

At this critical moment, the island ship suddenly sank downwards, causing Garin and his men to be suspended in mid-air. In the intense feeling of weightlessness, their attacks were either deflected or forcibly stopped.

As a result, only Garin's slash shattered two male lions, while the rest of the lions pounced on them, swallowing General, Somaz, and Mafi into the abyss's maw.

Garin swung his rapier repeatedly in mid-air, slashing and cleaving the onrushing maw in two. Just as he breathed a sigh of relief, he caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of his eye...

The lions that had devoured Junzi and the others regrouped and coalesced, transforming into thick, spiraling, intertwined vines of rock and soil that stood upright on the earth before tightening and solidifying.

Junzi and the other two's heads emerged from the thick rock and soil, but their bodies were completely encased and bound by the rock and soil, making it impossible for them to exert any strength to break free.

The Celestial Dragons, who were high and mighty, were presented to Karin, the supreme commander of the Knights of God, in an extremely humiliating manner.

Shiki landed gracefully, standing atop the spiral rock, took out a cigar, lit it, and looked down at Garin.

"Hey, is this all the strength you guys have?"

Faced with the mockery, Garin gritted his teeth, his face darkening as he considered whether or not to summon the Five Elders.

The current performance of the Golden Lion is completely different from that of the Golden Lion in God Valley.

Little did they know, this was related to Shiki's personality change.

During God Valley, Shiki was with Whitebeard and the others to steal treasure, Devil Fruits, and rescue Shakky.

Not only did he lose interest in fighting, but he was also influenced by Whitebeard and his crew, developing a mentality that thieves should run away whenever they see "justice".

But now that Rocks is no longer suppressing him and Whitebeard is no longer influencing him, Shiki's ambition has begun to swell wildly, and he already has the idea of ​​ruling the world.

Shiki is no longer just a simple thief, but the master of a powerful force!

Shiki now sees the Navy and the World Government as enemies, no longer as "justice"!

Shiki is also the most ambitious person in hundreds of years who dares to storm the Marine Headquarters alone whenever he is in a bad mood!

Shiki will be more brutal, more insane, and more dangerous than Bondiworld, the "World Destroyer" who is obsessed with taking revenge on the world!

Chapter 118 Don't get in my way during the battle

"Hey! Why is there another person here?!"

Just as Garin Sheng squatted down and placed his palm on the ground, preparing to draw a pentagram magic circle to summon the Five Elders, a cry of surprise interrupted his actions.

Amidst the wary gazes of the pirates at the main hall entrance, a figure clad in a long black trench coat and wearing a faceless mask swaggered out.

"John Saint, where have you been?!"

While Garin outwardly berated John, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Meanwhile, in the telepathic communication of the "Deep Sea Contract," John, one of the Five Elders, is told that he doesn't need to come for the time being.

"Where did you go?"

John walked out of the main hall and onto the open ground, put his hands in his pockets and looked up at Shiki, who stood atop the towering, spiraling rock.

"Of course, we'll find the historical text, take pictures of it, and then have someone translate it to find any super weapons that might exist within. Then we'll have Vegabank research them and use them to kill you bunch of idiots."

"What are you sobbing about? What kind of time is this to be joking!"

Garin heard John making constant "woofing" sounds, and his anger surged. He thought that this bastard didn't take this operation seriously at all.

After cursing Garin in encrypted language, John ignored him and instead looked down at Junzi and the other two who were suppressed in the spiral rock.

"Tsk tsk tsk, how embarrassing! Come on, give us a smile!"

As he spoke, he took out his camera and took pictures of the three of them.

The sudden flash of the camera brought Junzi's shame and anger to the extreme. He clenched his teeth, his eyes reddened, and large tears welled up.

"Brother John! Help me!"

Somaz and Mafi, disregarding all pretense of saving face, shouted for help in unison.

John?

The familiar name made Shiki, who was standing atop the spiral rock, frown and narrow his eyes as he looked down at the masked man.

Shiki's Observation Haki did indeed detect a familiar aura emanating from the other person, but he simply couldn't believe it.

John is already dead!

Moreover, judging from the previous clash of Conqueror's Haki, the opponent's strength is definitely beyond what John could possess.

"Hey, what's your relationship with that traitor Pete? Were you involved in John's death?"

Shiki drew his twin swords, and the veins on his forehead bulged out in a winding, twisting pattern.

Although it was a questioning, he already believed that the other person was the real murderer of John, which explained why the other person had John's aura on them.

Upon hearing this, John was taken aback, his expression beneath the mask deeply moved.

Unexpectedly, that old rascal Shiki also cares about him so much.

"Sorry, partner. In order for us to get together in a better way, I'll have to make you suffer a little first."

With a murmur, John suddenly vanished from his spot, leaving behind a blur that created a sonic boom cloud as he hurtled toward Shiki.

"So fast!"

Shiki's pupils suddenly contracted, and he quickly crossed his two swords in front of him.

In the next instant, John appeared in front of Shiki, his fist, crackling with dark purple lightning, slamming into the parrying twin swords.

Clang

The two swords and the fist stopped a hand's width apart, but then a deafening clang of metal shattered the clouds and split rocks, and golden and purple lightning intertwined and exploded in the empty space.

The shockwave, solid as a physical object, burst forth from the collision of the two-colored lightning, raging and sweeping across the land, crushing all the rock and soil in its path into dust.

The towering spiral rock beneath them collapsed with a deafening roar, and before the three Junzi and his companions could even rejoice, they were blasted away by the second wave of shockwaves that swept across the area.

On the ground, Garin raised his arm to shield his forehead, squinting as he watched the two colliding fiercely in the air.

He was very unwilling to accept it!

"What terrifying strength!"

In mid-air, Shiki clearly felt his body being pushed backward, the twin swords covered in Armament Haki were groaning, and the arms holding the twin swords were trembling.

Immediately afterwards, the force from the other side surged again, causing Shiki's arms supporting his twin swords to collapse, and he was sent flying backward.

As Shiki flew diagonally downwards, leaving afterimages in the air, he crashed into the solid rock and earth, forming a starfish shape that caused the ground to dent layer by layer and squeezed the surrounding rock and soil to bulge out, revealing dense cracks like a shattered mirror.

"Ugh!"

Shiki felt as if his body was about to fall apart, and his chest was so constricted that he couldn't help but open his mouth and spit out a mouthful of blood.

Just as Shiki was struggling to pull himself out of the embedded rock, a figure sped across the ground, a rapier crackling with crimson lightning pointing straight at Shiki's back.

When the tip of the rapier was only three meters away from Schipper, John appeared like a ghost, grabbed the blade with his bare hands, and made it unable to move forward an inch.

Garin frowned, looking at John with anger and confusion.

"John Saint, what do you mean by this?!"

"This is my battle, don't you nobodies get in my way."

John didn't even look at Garin. He raised his hand and flicked it, sending Garin and his sword flying.

Then, John mocked Schipper:

"Hey, why are you acting like a sissy? You fell down and can't get up after just one punch?"

"asshole!"

Steve stood up and turned around, wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand. He stared at John for two seconds, then couldn't help but laugh.

He saw the shadows of many people in this masked man.

Such as Rocks, Whitebeard, Roger, etc.

They were all arrogant fellows who couldn't tolerate others interfering in their battles and disdained to let their opponents be ambushed.

Upon hearing Shiki's inner thoughts, John couldn't help but start sobbing again.

"I'm not some noble person, I was just trying to save you, you idiot!"

Then, he raised his left arm and threw a straight punch at Shiki.

The sudden attack made Shi Jike swallow his question about what he was "whimpering" and quickly raised his twin swords to slash horizontally at the fist.

However, John abruptly retracted his left fist, and as he stepped forward, he swung his right fist at Skeeter's wide-open left ribs.

click

Shiki clearly heard the sound of his ribs breaking. He gritted his teeth and endured the pain, continuing to cleave horizontally from right to left.

The two swords also struck John's left side, but a purple flame flashed across the surface of his black trench coat, and the blades did not cut through it at all.

What kind of defensive power is this?!