"Fufufu~"
The billowing dust settled.
Doflamingo stepped out, his pink feathered coat fluttering behind him. He looked up at Hermes, who had returned to his normal size in mid-air. Streams of threads rose from the ground around him, as if they were dancing wildly with life.
"Jormungandr, you have no idea who you have angered."
He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and thread appeared on each finger of his right hand. He placed the thread on his chest to begin treatment, and his condition gradually improved.
Hermes did not disturb them, but simply stood in mid-air using the Moonwalk technique.
"Doflamingo, you are truly a genius. Looking at all the powerful figures on the sea, you are one of the few men that I feel sorry for. Born to be a king, you killed your father to prove your path. If you were given the chance, your achievements would be no less than mine."
The problem is that you're ruthless, just like me.
But I'm not trying to criticize you, but sometimes you have to be more magnanimous in the world. Mere material possessions will only slow down the speed at which we become stronger.
This is advice from someone who's been there!
This is not a joke.
Rather, it was Hermes's exclamation.
Unfortunately, the two sides are enemies, even mortal enemies.
Otherwise, they could have been a pair of happy best buddies, but unfortunately, fate was not on their side, and their relationship was not meant to be.
"It seems you know a lot about me."
Doflamingo's face darkened. Only a few people knew about his father's murder, so where did this man find out?
Returning to the past.
Whether or not one is older than oneself is a question.
"I know a great deal, and it's not limited to you."
"Enough with the nonsense, just keep entertaining me!"
As soon as Hermes finished speaking, he vanished.
At the same time, Doflamingo disappeared from his spot. When he reappeared, the two were clashing fists in mid-air, and the impact was very rhythmic.
Doflamingo swung an elbow strike, and Hermes ducked and simultaneously threw an uppercut. Doflamingo reacted quickly, tilting his head back and kneeing Hermes straight at his chin.
Hermes felt his blood boiling, and he pressed down with both hands to firmly block Doflamingo's knee, but at that moment, several strands of thread appeared behind him.
"Ultimate freedom."
Entering a state of emptiness and detachment, Hermes dodged all attacks with various elusive and perfectly timed movements, while simultaneously unleashing a massive 30-meter-long storm kick that charged forward relentlessly.
"16 Sacred Bombs - Divine Slaughter".
Doflamingo, in a fit of rage, unleashed his most powerful attack.
Sixteen massive white lines, intertwined with high-density armor color, pierced through the sonic boom and forcefully killed Lan Jiao, yet their momentum continued as they thrust towards Hermes.
A moment.
Hermes, now only five millimeters in size, used Shave to vanish repeatedly, and when he reappeared, he was already in front of Doflamingo's chest, immediately delivering a kick that struck the target squarely.
You can't see Hermes at all unless you look closely.
All that could be seen was Doflamingo bent over like a shrimp, his face flushed red and spitting blood, a shockwave behind him scattering the surrounding air currents, and finally turning into a streak of light that crashed to the ground.
The ground within a radius of 500 meters rapidly cracked and collapsed, with fissures spreading outwards. The buildings were instantly pulverized, and large amounts of rubble and dust filled the air.
call out! ! !
Hermes unleashed two consecutive kicks, and the massive cross-shaped storm kicks fell from the sky. After clearing away all the dust, Doflamingo's body was disintegrating and becoming skeletal.
not good.
A chilling danger emanated from behind. The real Doflamingo, his face covered in blood, spread his arms and a massive column of threads appeared behind him, hurtling towards Hermes with lightning speed.
The collapsing lines on the ground were clearly fake bodies created by Doflamingo, but the previous attack was real.
"Indestructible".
This candlestick is quite large; it's too late to shrink it and avoid it, so I can only tough it out.
boom! ! !
The immense force was like a meteor crashing down. Hermes immediately coughed up blood and was then shoved horizontally by the pillar of wire, crashing into the ground. The earth's crust tore apart and rose, causing even greater destruction than before.
Doflamingo's attacks did not stop.
More than a dozen identical pillars reappeared behind the smoke, indiscriminately bombarding the thick smoke, making the entire King's Highlands tremble.
The bombardment lasted for almost a full minute.
Doflamingo, panting heavily in mid-air, used his right hand, which was covered in threads, to treat his injured lungs. He had been traveling for two days and two nights, and then suffered injuries in a high-intensity battle. His strength was almost gone.
Otherwise, we would have taken down this beast long ago.
The dust has all settled.
What appeared before them was a crater five or six hundred meters deep, with numerous dense cracks along its edges. In the very center, Hermes was covered in blood, his arms crossed in a defensive posture.
It looks very tragic on the surface.
"Hahahaha~"
The gradually lowering laughter began to grow louder. Hermes opened his hands and clenched them, completely ignoring the pain in his body. What was this feeling?
Every part of my body experienced an orgasm.
His mind moved.
His blood-stained, unkempt hair began to stand on end, each strand making various ABC symbols. Every part of his body—hair, flesh, and bones—was filled with a sense of ease.
Their spirits were soaring, they felt like they were floating on air.
Life has been restored and awakened.
really.
Doflamingo was his benefactor.
This feeling of being in control of everything, of destiny, is just too wonderful for me.
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Perhaps his laughter was too wild, aggravating his injuries, and Hermes couldn't help but spit out blood, which included a lot of blood foam.
He almost couldn't withstand that attack.
If it weren't for the crucial moment when he awakened his life force and concentrated all his power, or if Doflamingo had blasted him for another ten seconds or so, he might have been killed.
My physical condition is really bad right now.
It's better to get treatment just to be on the safe side.
Disappeared instantly.
Hermes flew towards the foot of the King's Hill. Due to Doflamingo's Conqueror's Haki, Mansherry did not follow him but waited somewhere else.
"Want to go?"
Doflamingo's face was fierce. How could he let Hermes leave? Besides, Hermes was in such a bad state, it was the perfect time for him to take revenge.
The two chased and fled, and soon left the King's Heights.
It didn't take long.
The two arrived at the town at the foot of the mountain. At a lighthouse, Mansherry was eating ice cream and waiting. She was now a little rich woman with a huge sum of 100,000 Berries in her hands.
She is not the same person she used to be.
"You good-for-nothing, time to get to work!"
Hermes' voice could be heard from afar.
As they got closer, they could see how disheveled he looked. But something was different: his demeanor. He didn't look seriously injured at all. Instead, he resembled a male animal in heat, with unusually bright and excited eyes.
Mansherry vanished from her spot and reappeared on Hermes' shoulder, gently pricking her finger and letting a drop of fragrant blood fall onto Hermes.
At that moment, Hermes turned into a green sun, a deep, ethereal green.
The severely injured and exhausted body was like a long-awaited rain; the wounds healed rapidly, and the breath recovered at a high speed. In just a few seconds, it was fully revived.
It's just that my physical strength isn't recovering very quickly, but it's only a matter of time.
"I'm leaving now."
After dripping the blood, Mansherry slipped away.
"go Go!"
Hermes had no time to pay attention to Mansherry. Instead, he used Moonwalk to carefully feel his body's condition in mid-air, easily finding the same feeling he had just experienced. He then entered the Life Return state and began to move every muscle.
"Mansherry".
Doflamingo arrived quickly, and seeing the green light on Hermes' body and his rapidly recovering aura, his expression was extremely ugly.
Originally, this healing power was in his hands.
"This feeling is absolutely wonderful."
The green light surrounding his body began to dissipate, replaced by wisps of high-temperature steam. As his muscles began to move, the high-temperature steam increased.
And his body temperature kept rising.
Seeing Hermes in this state, Doflamingo's already gloomy face darkened even more.
Having dealt with that old hag Tsuru so many times, how could he not know that this was a further development of the Navy's Six Powers ability, Life Return? This bastard actually awakened Life Return during battle.