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Chapter 973: Aokiji and Akainu VS Demonic Ice and Demonic Flame!
Crocodile... is he dead?
Unknown.
But in his current state, facing the double bombardment of Demonic Flame and Demonic Ice, the possibility of survival is indeed not high.
And in this instant.
Just like Hong Lian and Esdeath using 'Maha Padoma'.
The entire space-time seemed to fall into stagnation once again.
Below Lilith and Naamah, the land was seen 'slowly' bulging, and then a crimson glow broke through the earth.
Like a fountain spraying upwards, it shot straight towards them, casting its scorching red light onto their two faces, which were gradually turning astonished.
The entire process was unbelievably fast.
Lilith and Naamah only felt a strong burning sensation in their abdomen just as they met the gaze of the magma man who suddenly appeared before their eyes.
But before they could fully experience it.
Amidst a bursting air blast and deafening rumble, they instantly transformed into blurry afterimage meteors and flew backward, generating a series of sonic boom cloud mist in mid-air along the way.
[Boom boom boom boom...]
Finally, Lilith and Naamah crashed heavily into two active volcanoes over ten kilometers away and disappeared from sight.
"Well done, I admit you are worthy of the name Admiral."
At the same time.
The tall figure, with magma flowing all over his body, landed back in front of Crocodile, who was still kneeling on the ground.
Around the latter was a thick circle of magma at this moment.
However, half of it was burning with black flame, while the other half was evaporating against black ice.
It turned out that in the nick of time.
It was this magma wall that broke through the earth that saved his life.
"Sakazuki..."
Crocodile looked at the fiery red back view of the other party with a complicated mood and murmured in a low voice.
Because he heard praise and respect in the other party's words.
How rare was this for Sakazuki, who had always looked down on those with pirate origin?
"But you must immediately take them back to Rōran. We will take over here from now on."
Sakazuki continued to speak in a deep voice without turning his head.
Crocodile didn't object either, nodding in agreement, "I understand."
But just as he was preparing to stand up with difficulty, a special grade 'Purple Butterfly Emergency Pill' flew to his front.
"This is..."
Crocodile subconsciously took it.
"Eat it and leave quickly. You should know very well how tricky the opponent is."
"Okay, thank you, Admiral Akainu."
Crocodile didn't hesitate and swallowed it directly.
Allowing a faint green light to appear on the surface of his skin, his almost depleted stamina quickly recovered.
At the same time, he instantly manifested into a large mass of yellow sand, rolling up Hong Lian and Esdeath, who had consciously returned to human form, and quickly disappeared from the battlefield where they had fought desperately before.
However, this battle had a huge impact on Crocodile.
Esdeath had, after all, been defeated by Kuzan multiple times before.
And Kuzan was also considered an 'Otherworld Expert' to her, so the impact wasn't as great as imagined.
But Crocodile was different. This was truly his first defeat in otherworld conquest, and he was defeated so miserably.
Although it was understandable, after all, he was facing two powerful Supreme Demons.
Even the World Government couldn't blame him for this.
On the contrary, he had achieved great merit by successfully delaying Lilith and Naamah until Sakazuki arrived at the scene.
Otherwise, if these two demons had attacked the Ninja Alliance Army, the entire situation would have collapsed long ago.
It's not certain how many people would still be alive now.
But Crocodile would not use this as an excuse to comfort himself.
He lost, he just lost.
The important thing was to find every method to become stronger, stronger, and even stronger afterwards...
[Boom!!!]
[Boom!!!]
Just a few seconds after Crocodile and the two others left.
Under Sakazuki's gaze, the two volcanoes in the distance, one was completely blown apart after being frozen, while the other was completely swallowed by a towering black flame fire pillar.
"Their aura is indeed not weak, but I'm not alone here either."
Sakazuki snorted coldly, then took strides with his legs wearing red pants and slowly walked towards their location.
On the other side, Lilith and Naamah, whose burn injuries on their abdomen were slowly healing, were just about to get angry at Sakazuki when they immediately sensed a powerful aura appearing from another direction. Their line of sight instantly shifted over.
Indeed, over ten kilometers away, a white figure was slowly riding a bicycle made of ice towards them.
"These two humans are stronger than the previous ones, Lilith."
Naamah reminded with a solemn expression.
"And they happen to be one flame element and one ice element, Naamah."
Lilith said indifferently with a cold expression.
Naamah, who was familiar with her, knew that Lilith was getting angry.
But it was understandable. The blow from that magma man just now was indeed very painful.
She had lain in the volcano for about ten seconds before recovering.
The main reason wasn't the high temperature of the magma, but the powerful impact force contained in the attack, which caused huge damage internally.
Besides that, just like the human who used sand before.
His attack also carried a fierce mental shock.
This caused her consciousness to fall into a brief trance.
"Unfortunately, they are still weaker than us!"
Lilith and Naamah said in unison.
Instantly.
One on the left and one on the right, they transformed into black ice and black flame, cutting through the air like two pitch-black meteors.
In the blink of an eye, they arrived in mid-air a hundred meters in front of Sakazuki.
At the same time.
Kuzan, riding his bicycle, also arrived beside Sakazuki.
"You're actually not late, that's quite rare. I thought I'd have to fight them alone for a few days."
Hearing Sakazuki's sarcastic remark, Kuzan, who had just gotten off his bicycle, rubbed the back of his head with a helpless expression.
"Ah la la~"
"I abandoned the Hidden Mist's large force and rode my bicycle at full strength alone, crossing the great sea and continent of this world, passing through who knows how many nations to get here. There was even a group called the Fuma Clan who tried to rob me on the way. Can't you be a little understanding of my hardship?"
Sakazuki ignored Kuzan's complaint.
"You should have already seen the intelligence about these two demons, right? Don't hold me back later."
Kuzan nodded, "More or less. So, it's best to separate them."
According to the intelligence, Lilith and Naamah's Demonic Ice and Demonic Flame could combine with each other without interfering, also producing even greater power.
Their Ice-Ice Fruit and Mag-Mag Fruit couldn't achieve this alone.
However, the most important reason was that the intelligence provided by Lord Imu explicitly mentioned that these two demons could achieve the effect of merging Magic Power and Magic by devouring each other.
Only then would Lilith or Naamah possess the true Strength of a Ruler of the First Layer of the Underworld.
"Okay, then I'll deal with Naamah, and you deal with Lilith, how about it?"
Although Sakazuki was usually domineering, he didn't act arbitrarily at this moment.
"OK!"
Kuzan readily agreed.
Although normally, it would be more reasonable for him, as an Ice-Ice Fruit user, to deal with Magic Flame Demon Naamah, and for Sakazuki, as a Mag-Mag Fruit user, to deal with Demonic Ice Demon Lilith.
But he still understood Sakazuki's intention.
It was to profoundly experience the essence of these two demons' strength through this combat, and find a method to learn their Rule of Burning or Rule of Freezing ability.
Because from Kuzan learning 'Maha Padoma', it seemed that Devil Fruit had this potential!
"Then let's go, Sakazuki!"
"Take this seriously, Kuzan!"
Sakazuki and Kuzan were seen extending their right fist and left fist in sync.
They clashed together under the cold gaze of Lilith and Naamah.
[Bang!]
As a strong wind swept through.
The pitch-black Coat of Justice and the pure white Coat of Justice flapped loudly in the blowing wind.
Army Headquarters Admiral Akainu! Marine Headquarters Admiral Aokiji!
Reporting for Duty!!
(End of Chapter)
Crocodile... is he dead?
Unknown.
But in his current state, facing the double bombardment of Demonic Flame and Demonic Ice, the possibility of survival is indeed not high.
And in this instant.
Just like Hong Lian and Esdeath using 'Maha Padoma'.
The entire space-time seemed to fall into stagnation once again.
Below Lilith and Naamah, the land was seen 'slowly' bulging, and then a crimson glow broke through the earth.
Like a fountain spraying upwards, it shot straight towards them, casting its scorching red light onto their two faces, which were gradually turning astonished.
The entire process was unbelievably fast.
Lilith and Naamah only felt a strong burning sensation in their abdomen just as they met the gaze of the magma man who suddenly appeared before their eyes.
But before they could fully experience it.
Amidst a bursting air blast and deafening rumble, they instantly transformed into blurry afterimage meteors and flew backward, generating a series of sonic boom cloud mist in mid-air along the way.
[Boom boom boom boom...]
Finally, Lilith and Naamah crashed heavily into two active volcanoes over ten kilometers away and disappeared from sight.
"Well done, I admit you are worthy of the name Admiral."
At the same time.
The tall figure, with magma flowing all over his body, landed back in front of Crocodile, who was still kneeling on the ground.
Around the latter was a thick circle of magma at this moment.
However, half of it was burning with black flame, while the other half was evaporating against black ice.
It turned out that in the nick of time.
It was this magma wall that broke through the earth that saved his life.
"Sakazuki..."
Crocodile looked at the fiery red back view of the other party with a complicated mood and murmured in a low voice.
Because he heard praise and respect in the other party's words.
How rare was this for Sakazuki, who had always looked down on those with pirate origin?
"But you must immediately take them back to Rōran. We will take over here from now on."
Sakazuki continued to speak in a deep voice without turning his head.
Crocodile didn't object either, nodding in agreement, "I understand."
But just as he was preparing to stand up with difficulty, a special grade 'Purple Butterfly Emergency Pill' flew to his front.
"This is..."
Crocodile subconsciously took it.
"Eat it and leave quickly. You should know very well how tricky the opponent is."
"Okay, thank you, Admiral Akainu."
Crocodile didn't hesitate and swallowed it directly.
Allowing a faint green light to appear on the surface of his skin, his almost depleted stamina quickly recovered.
At the same time, he instantly manifested into a large mass of yellow sand, rolling up Hong Lian and Esdeath, who had consciously returned to human form, and quickly disappeared from the battlefield where they had fought desperately before.
However, this battle had a huge impact on Crocodile.
Esdeath had, after all, been defeated by Kuzan multiple times before.
And Kuzan was also considered an 'Otherworld Expert' to her, so the impact wasn't as great as imagined.
But Crocodile was different. This was truly his first defeat in otherworld conquest, and he was defeated so miserably.
Although it was understandable, after all, he was facing two powerful Supreme Demons.
Even the World Government couldn't blame him for this.
On the contrary, he had achieved great merit by successfully delaying Lilith and Naamah until Sakazuki arrived at the scene.
Otherwise, if these two demons had attacked the Ninja Alliance Army, the entire situation would have collapsed long ago.
It's not certain how many people would still be alive now.
But Crocodile would not use this as an excuse to comfort himself.
He lost, he just lost.
The important thing was to find every method to become stronger, stronger, and even stronger afterwards...
[Boom!!!]
[Boom!!!]
Just a few seconds after Crocodile and the two others left.
Under Sakazuki's gaze, the two volcanoes in the distance, one was completely blown apart after being frozen, while the other was completely swallowed by a towering black flame fire pillar.
"Their aura is indeed not weak, but I'm not alone here either."
Sakazuki snorted coldly, then took strides with his legs wearing red pants and slowly walked towards their location.
On the other side, Lilith and Naamah, whose burn injuries on their abdomen were slowly healing, were just about to get angry at Sakazuki when they immediately sensed a powerful aura appearing from another direction. Their line of sight instantly shifted over.
Indeed, over ten kilometers away, a white figure was slowly riding a bicycle made of ice towards them.
"These two humans are stronger than the previous ones, Lilith."
Naamah reminded with a solemn expression.
"And they happen to be one flame element and one ice element, Naamah."
Lilith said indifferently with a cold expression.
Naamah, who was familiar with her, knew that Lilith was getting angry.
But it was understandable. The blow from that magma man just now was indeed very painful.
She had lain in the volcano for about ten seconds before recovering.
The main reason wasn't the high temperature of the magma, but the powerful impact force contained in the attack, which caused huge damage internally.
Besides that, just like the human who used sand before.
His attack also carried a fierce mental shock.
This caused her consciousness to fall into a brief trance.
"Unfortunately, they are still weaker than us!"
Lilith and Naamah said in unison.
Instantly.
One on the left and one on the right, they transformed into black ice and black flame, cutting through the air like two pitch-black meteors.
In the blink of an eye, they arrived in mid-air a hundred meters in front of Sakazuki.
At the same time.
Kuzan, riding his bicycle, also arrived beside Sakazuki.
"You're actually not late, that's quite rare. I thought I'd have to fight them alone for a few days."
Hearing Sakazuki's sarcastic remark, Kuzan, who had just gotten off his bicycle, rubbed the back of his head with a helpless expression.
"Ah la la~"
"I abandoned the Hidden Mist's large force and rode my bicycle at full strength alone, crossing the great sea and continent of this world, passing through who knows how many nations to get here. There was even a group called the Fuma Clan who tried to rob me on the way. Can't you be a little understanding of my hardship?"
Sakazuki ignored Kuzan's complaint.
"You should have already seen the intelligence about these two demons, right? Don't hold me back later."
Kuzan nodded, "More or less. So, it's best to separate them."
According to the intelligence, Lilith and Naamah's Demonic Ice and Demonic Flame could combine with each other without interfering, also producing even greater power.
Their Ice-Ice Fruit and Mag-Mag Fruit couldn't achieve this alone.
However, the most important reason was that the intelligence provided by Lord Imu explicitly mentioned that these two demons could achieve the effect of merging Magic Power and Magic by devouring each other.
Only then would Lilith or Naamah possess the true Strength of a Ruler of the First Layer of the Underworld.
"Okay, then I'll deal with Naamah, and you deal with Lilith, how about it?"
Although Sakazuki was usually domineering, he didn't act arbitrarily at this moment.
"OK!"
Kuzan readily agreed.
Although normally, it would be more reasonable for him, as an Ice-Ice Fruit user, to deal with Magic Flame Demon Naamah, and for Sakazuki, as a Mag-Mag Fruit user, to deal with Demonic Ice Demon Lilith.
But he still understood Sakazuki's intention.
It was to profoundly experience the essence of these two demons' strength through this combat, and find a method to learn their Rule of Burning or Rule of Freezing ability.
Because from Kuzan learning 'Maha Padoma', it seemed that Devil Fruit had this potential!
"Then let's go, Sakazuki!"
"Take this seriously, Kuzan!"
Sakazuki and Kuzan were seen extending their right fist and left fist in sync.
They clashed together under the cold gaze of Lilith and Naamah.
[Bang!]
As a strong wind swept through.
The pitch-black Coat of Justice and the pure white Coat of Justice flapped loudly in the blowing wind.
Army Headquarters Admiral Akainu! Marine Headquarters Admiral Aokiji!
Reporting for Duty!!
(End of Chapter)
