"Your Excellency Kizaru is not inferior in the slightest."
Issho's brow furrowed slightly. This guy... the power of the Glint-Glint Fruit allowed him to attack or retreat at will, making him as slippery as an eel.
Combined with his attainments at the level of a Great Swordsman, the terror of his Flash Swordsmanship was simply unheard of!
Time was still too short; if he could have had another year or two to perfect the ultimate move the leader gave him... However, even so, Issho's expression remained calm.
No one knew better than him just how terrifying the leader of the Revolutionary Army, Monkey D. Dragon, had become.
It was precisely because he saw the hope of saving billions of common people in him that he finally joined the Revolutionary Army's camp.
"Press-Press Fruit, Awakened Form!"
Issho spoke in a deep voice, solemnly performing the ultimate technique taught by the leader: "Pseudo Black Hole!"
With a single slash, gravity erupted abruptly. A black hole intercepted Kizaru's eighteen clones and the eighteen near-light-speed slashes they delivered simultaneously.
The Pseudo Black Hole formed by the majestic and vast gravity was enough to bury everything.
Issho responded to all changes with a constant stance, his Pseudo Black Hole being unbreakable, while Kizaru's near-light-speed flash slashes swept through all enemies—speed was power!
The two engaged in a tacit entanglement of combat, neither attacking anyone else.
Otherwise, if one killed the Revolutionary Army and the other killed the Navy... both camps would likely collapse!
This was a price neither side could afford.
At this moment, Issho already possessed thirty percent of the elegance of Welt Yang, the former Sovereign of Anti-Entropy!
However, facing an Issho who was powerful to this extent, Kizaru, relying on his peak mastery of the Glint-Glint Fruit and his Flash Swordsmanship at the Great Swordsman level, still held him back firmly, not weakening in the slightest!
The battle between Kizaru and Issho remained a fifty-fifty split!
Putting aside Kizaru's fifty-fifty split for now.
On another core battlefield.
"I really want to kill every last one of you..."
Sabo, the Chief of Staff of the Revolutionary Army, was currently transformed into a half-Dragon man, breathing out Dragon Flame as he fought fiercely against the Katana Five Elders, the Bald Five Elders, and the Commander-in-Chief of the three armies—Kong the Cyborg.
After learning that the ultimate answer in the Great Pirate World version was the Mythical Zoan type, Dragon had paid a great price to find the Dragon-Dragon Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Fire Dragon Model specifically for this Chief of Staff whom he regarded as his successor.
Not only that, Dragon had also specifically exchanged for Fire Dragon Slayer Magic from the Chat Group.
Sabo's line, "I really want to kill every last one of you," was no longer the almost comical banter from the anime, but a statement backed by genuine strength.
The struggle between Sabo and the peak powerhouses of the Five Elders and the World Government created a series of violent clashes filled with Dragon roars and tiger howls.
Within the layers of crimson Dragon Flame, he collided with flying slashes, the momentum being extremely terrifying.
Sabo, the Chief of Staff of the Revolutionary Army, was finally no longer just that 0.5-strength second-generation Flame Emperor from the anime who only knew how to talk big... "Revolutionary Army, you've truly become a force to be reckoned with!"
The two Five Elders had cold expressions; having someone attack the Red Line was simply the greatest humiliation for the World Government in eight hundred years!
However, they remained calm and composed.
No one understood Lord Imu's strength better than they did.
Once Lord Imu dealt with that overconfident Revolutionary Army leader, everything would eventually return to the right track!
"Kuma, you really know how to hide your strength!"
A golden Great Buddha stood tall upon the Red Line, doing its best to combine Conqueror's Haki coating with the Buddha form to resist the unreasonable Paw-Paw Fruit of this former Warlord of the Sea, Kuma.
Fleet Admiral Sengoku watched Kuma with eyes nearly splitting; with a casual wave of Kuma's hand, a Navy officer was repelled away, destined to land who-knows-where.
After being brought back to the Revolutionary Army by Dragon and undergoing careful cultivation, Kuma had made a transformative leap in progress.
These were the Big Three of the Revolutionary Army, each possessing terrifying combat power capable of rivaling multiple Navy Admirals!
As for the other Revolutionary Army officers?
Compared to the Big Three, one could only say there was still room for improvement... At this very moment, atop the Red Line, News Coos and war correspondents were feverishly filming and broadcasting this world-shaking war from every angle!
With the war reaching this stage, Morgans, the big News Coo, had completely fallen into a frenzy. He no longer cared about the deterrent power of the World Government and even directly opened a live broadcast room specifically to stream this most climactic war in eight hundred years!
Meanwhile, in Wano Country, the Straw Hat Crew, who were currently in a love-hate struggle with Kaido's Beast Pirates, also temporarily halted their battle with Kaido.
Never mind that in the anime, Master Kaido's three club strikes seemed to simply allow Straw Hat Luffy to ascend to godhood on the spot.
In reality, it wasn't quite like that.
Kaido's title as the World's Strongest Creature in the sea, land, and air was not an empty reputation.
With the Azure Dragon Fruit, he could enter the sea or soar into the sky, coming and going like the wind.
As a pirate, even if Kaido temporarily fell into a disadvantage, he would never shy away from his own advantages, transforming into an Azure Dragon to soar into the sky.
Minutes later, he would be a perfectly intact Azure Dragon again. He was a super powerhouse truly capable of fighting back and forth with the sun god Nika Luffy form!
In his youth, Kaido was also a man of great ambition, an unparalleled hero who wholeheartedly wanted to change this era!
It was only later, after realizing the road to his ideals was covered in thorns, that he became idle.
sun god Nika Luffy?
Let him come!
Having regained his former passion, Kaido, even facing this laughing, bizarrely mysterious King Luffy, shouldered his iron mace and charged forward without a word to fight to his heart's content.
Anime needs to consider budget; for a battle lasting ten-plus days or even months, the One Piece anime production team's budget couldn't burn that long, unable to sustain the endless special effects expenses... but reality didn't need that. The slaughter in Wano was still continuing.
Even the legendary sun god could not hope to easily suppress a wild and untamable Mythical Azure Dragon!
The Beast Pirates and the Straw Hats had already been at a stalemate in Wano for quite a while.
"Luffy, your old man is really too bold!"
Even the habitually audacious Zoro couldn't help but exclaim from the bottom of his heart at this moment.
Attacking the Red Line and going to war directly with the World Government?
Searching through the four seas and eight directions, who would dare think of such a thing? Who would actually dare to do it?
"Hahaha... this is just too interesting!"
Luffy was silent for a moment before revealing his trademark silly grin. His hand subconsciously scratched his head, and his heart unknowingly began to throb, as if there were a strange impulse, yet also a sense of loss.
Especially when Pangaea Castle exploded with a bang and a figure like a god or demon loomed, Luffy could almost not suppress the fervor surging from the bottom of his heart. He wanted to rush over and participate in this war that felt like a cycle of fate!
Strange.
Why am I in Wano right now, fighting Kaido for so long?
Shouldn't I be appearing on the Red Line, becoming the protagonist in the spotlight, and going to war with that person?
Moreover, I seem to feel something strange beginning to slip away from me. What is it?
While Luffy was grinning sillily, his rubber-filled head automatically ignored all the strange thoughts that had popped up for no reason.
Although King Luffy's rubber head ignored this peculiar feeling.
However.
Reality never shifts based on anyone's will. The torrent of the era had entered its most intense stage, yet the sun god, who was originally the protagonist, had still not stepped onto the stage that belonged to him... In this situation, is a protagonist who fails to perform on stage still the protagonist?
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