A cook, vice-captain of the Rocks Pirates?

"Be careful, everyone."

Newgate’s steady voice rang out as he tossed the huge barrel in his hand forward.

The barrel spun rapidly in the air, crashing into the center of the invisible suction force.

However, a strange scene happened.

The moment the barrel came within a hundred meters of the giant turtle's mouth, it rapidly weathered and decayed at a speed visible to the naked eye, eventually turning into a handful of dust in mid-air. The rum inside evaporated instantly, as if it had never existed.

"Ok?"

For the first time, a hint of surprise appeared in Newgate's eyes.

But soon, Newgate leaped up, his figure vanished instantly, and he reappeared atop the giant tortoise's head, his fist, wreathed in white light and black-red domineering aura, slamming out fiercely.

boom!

With a resounding crash, Newgate's fist slammed solidly into the giant tortoise's mountain-like head.

However, the expected scene of the skull exploding did not occur.

A peculiar force, like a barrier of time, gradually weakened and dissolved the power in his fist that was enough to destroy an island.

In the end, only a shallow fist mark was left on the giant tortoise's head, and its massive body sank slightly downwards.

"This thing...it's so hard!"

Gatz and Oden were dumbfounded.

"Physical attacks are not very effective."

Raine's voice came from the ship.

"Its body is covered by a high-density time discontinuity, and any attack will have its kinetic energy neutralized by the passage of time before it even makes contact with it."

Just when everyone was at a loss, the giant tortoise launched its counterattack.

It slowly raised one of its massive front paws, as large as a mountain peak, and slammed it down hard on the New Moby Dick!

The claw slammed down not fast, it could even be described as slow, but in everyone's eyes, the claw seemed to traverse the distance of space and was instantly within reach.

"It's the acceleration of time!"

Ryan immediately figured it out.

"Jozu!"

Newgate roared.

"Oh!"

Having prepared for a long time, Joz roared, his entire body covered in dazzling diamond light, like a shooting star going against the current, and crashed hard into the giant claw!

boom!

The diamond and the giant claw collided violently in mid-air.

For the first time, Joz's indestructible diamond body let out a mournful cry of unbearable strain, and spiderweb-like fine cracks appeared on its surface.

He felt an irresistible, terrifying force, a mixture of immense strength and the erosion of time, and he was sent flying back like a fly being swatted away, spitting blood.

"hateful!"

Marco immediately transformed into his phoenix form and caught the heavily injured Jozu. The blue-green flames of regeneration quickly enveloped his body, repairing his injuries.

From the very beginning, the battle was at a complete disadvantage.

This giant tortoise of time is practically an indestructible, impregnable mobile time fortress.

Just then, Ryan came out of the kitchen.

He was holding a plate of freshly baked cookies that smelled wonderful.

The cookie had a peculiar shape, like a pocket watch that had been paused, with a still hand drawn on it in icing.

"Come back, everyone. Have some snacks first."

Raine's voice was calm, yet carried an undeniable power.

"A snack? Head Chef, what time is it now!"

Gatz was sweating profusely with anxiety.

"If you don't want your lifespan to be drained, come and eat."

The crowd gathered around with some skepticism, and each person picked up a cookie.

The biscuit had no flavor and a bland texture.

But the next second, everyone felt as if their bodies were wrapped in an invisible membrane.

The time-gathering force emanating from the giant tortoise, which was constantly eroding their life force, was perfectly blocked by this thin film!

Chapter 200 The Snail's Shell of Time

To his delight, Dorum discovered that his hair roots, which had just turned white, had returned to their black color.

"These are freeze-frame cookies."

Ryan was making notes in his little notebook.

"Made from the pollen of the Moment Flower and the shell powder of the Eternal Turtle, with a small amount of water from the Fountain of Freezing Time added during baking, it can lock one's own time flow for a short period of time after consumption, making one immune to all external time interference."

"Its weakness is on its back."

Raine pointed to the mountain formed by the shipwreck on the giant tortoise's back: "That is its organ for absorbing and storing time, and also its only weakness, but it is protected by powerful temporal turbulence and cannot be attacked directly."

"but……"

A smile crept onto Ryan's lips.

"We can feed it something else."

He pulled a huge, blower-like machine out of the kitchen; it was a super food grinder that he had Dorum help him modify.

Raine poured all the powdered scales containing violent lightning energy that he had scraped off the Thunder Dragon Eel, along with the strawberry jam with strong hallucinogenic effects that he had collected from the Dream Eater Starfish, into the machine.

"Dorum, aim this at that guy's mouth and turn it on full blast!"

Dorum looked at the enormous pipe that Rein handed him, which exuded the aura of a mad scientist, and then at the terrifying giant tortoise in the distance that was slowly opening its mouth, preparing to begin a second round of time-devouring. His face showed an expression that was more like crying.

"Head chef... are you sure this thing... isn't meant for our own funeral?"

"Don't worry, I've calculated the wind direction and the parabola."

Ryan's tone was calm, yet full of undeniable confidence.

"The error will not exceed five meters."

Under the calm gaze of Renn, Dorum finally made a mournful gesture and connected the power of the super food grinder to the ship's backup steam core.

"Now! Launch!"

With a command from Raine, a torrent of energy, a strange pinkish-purple hue, mixed with the metallic scent of lightning, the sweetness of strawberries, and the strong hallucinogenic smell of spores, erupted from the pipes like a volcanic eruption.

It drew a perfect parabola in the air and poured into the gaping maw of the giant tortoise of time with unparalleled precision!

"Roar?"

The giant tortoise seemed to have no idea that what it had inhaled was not time, but a mouthful of something with such an indescribable taste.

For the first time, a human-like expression of confusion and disdain appeared on its usually placid face.

The next second, violent lightning energy and hallucinogenic ingredients exploded within its body!

"Roar!!!"

A roar filled with pain, anger, and a hint of... the complex emotions of being burned and numbed came out of the giant tortoise's mouth for the first time.

Its massive body twisted violently, and the seemingly indestructible time fracture defense experienced unprecedentedly violent fluctuations.

Uncontrolled arcs of silvery-purple electricity shot out from the cracks in its carapace, and strange hallucinations began to appear in its ancient eyes.

Sometimes I see countless pink Patrick Stars dancing, and sometimes I see a giant electric eel singing love songs to me.

"Now!"

Newgate's laughter was like a thunderclap.

He bent his knees slightly and shot into the sky like a cannonball. On his right fist, which was wrapped in black and red overlord-colored lightning, the pure white vibration aura gathered to its extreme.

"Try this, old turtle!"

"This is what my head chef taught me: the best way to deal with unruly ingredients is to beat them until they obey!"

"Emperor Zhen!"

A single punch, delivered without a trace of smoke or fire, caused the space in front of him to distort and shatter.

The terrifying shockwave, powerful enough to tear space apart, struck with perfect precision the mountain on the giant tortoise's back, a mountain made of shipwreck debris that protected the core of time!

Rumble!

This time, without the protection of the time turbulence, the seemingly solid mountain was as fragile as rotten wood in the face of absolute power, and was instantly shattered into pieces!

The mountain peak shattered, revealing the true core of this giant tortoise of time hidden within—a strange conch shell the size of a human head, crystal clear, and seemingly composed of countless compressed, flowing stars.

That is the snail shell of time!

This giant tortoise of time is actually a symbiotic organism that evolved over countless years, with a legendary snail of time at its core!

Without the protection of its outer shell, the immense temporal energy emanating from the shell instantly went out of control, forming a chaotic temporal storm.

The enormous body of the Time Tortoise swelled and shrank in the storm, sometimes becoming a newborn baby tortoise, and sometimes a decaying skeleton.

Finally, with a mournful cry of despair, it lost all its life force, turning into countless specks of light that dissipated into the air.

All that remained was that slowly rotating, dreamlike conch shell.

"Hahaha! It worked!"

"We blew that old turtle to smithereens!"

A deafening cheer erupted on the deck. Everyone stared at the conch shell, which resembled a work of art, their faces filled with disbelief and ecstasy.

"Well done, Ryan!"

Newgate landed from mid-air and patted Ryan heavily on the shoulder.

Newgate grinned: "Head Chef, it's up to you now!"

Rennes did not disappoint everyone's expectations.

He directed the group to carefully transport the Time Conch Shell back to the ship.

When handling such top-quality ingredients that embody the laws of time, even the slightest mistake could lead to unpredictable consequences.

Raine didn't use a knife; he didn't even touch it with his bare hands.

He instructed Marco to use the purest Phoenix Flame, with an extremely precise control, to perform a constant-temperature life-baking process on the snail shell.

Under the nurturing warmth of the Flame of Life, the raging temporal energy within the shell gradually became gentle and stable.

The surface of the snail shell slowly cracked open, revealing the snail's soft flesh inside, which resembled a frozen galaxy and emitted a faint halo.

An indescribable aroma, a blend of the richness of time and the purest fragrance of life, instantly filled the air, making everyone who smelled it feel as if their soul had traveled through time, becoming incredibly clear and serene.

Raine sliced ​​the snail meat into paper-thin pieces, and without heating it up, distributed it directly to everyone.

"I...I'm starting!"

Gatz was the first to resist. He carefully picked up a piece of meat that was still slightly glistening with his chopsticks and put it into his mouth.

The meat slices melted in my mouth and had no flavor.

But the next second, Gatz's eyes widened suddenly.

A vast yet gentle torrent of memories exploded in his mind!

He seemed to see his entire life unfold before him, from a helpless infant to a boy shunned by the villagers for his large appetite, and then to every battle and every moment of joy he encountered after setting sail…

All memories became incredibly clear, and all regrets and confusion were soothed in this moment.

He felt his body being reversed by a strange force, returning him to the twenty-five-year-old age when his muscles were at their strongest, his energy was at its peak, and his appetite was at its most voracious!