Kaido never imagined he'd one day be beaten up like a dragon ridden by someone.
And by a junior who was only in his teens.
The humiliation almost made his lungs explode with rage.
Kaido wanted to smack Rorschach away with a club, but he helplessly found that Rorschach, who had been filled with five thousand shadows by that coward Moria, had momentarily surpassed him in pure physical strength.
Although Kaido knew that the external power on Rorschach wouldn't last long, he still felt aggrieved.
Moreover, this Marine brat, he's really damn tough!
Not just physically tough, but his will and spirit were also incredibly resilient.
To keep himself conscious, this guy even dared to bite off his own tongue.
What a madman.
Kaido couldn't remember how many years it had been since he'd encountered such a madman.
Among the entire Marines, perhaps only that mad dog was this ruthless, right?
But this brat seemed a bit different from that mad dog.
Lost in thought, the howling wind in his ears turned into the rumbling and shaking of collapsing earth and shattering rock layers.
Rorschach, stepping on Kaido's old face, crashed like a meteor from thousands of meters in the sky, landing in the central imperial palace hall of Alabasta's capital.
Accompanied by earth-shattering explosions, Alabasta's palace, which had stood for a thousand years, was shaken into ruins.
A statue resembling Vivi was cut in half by the violent shockwave, rolling into the pervasive dust.
The vast thousand-year-old city of Alubarna turned into a pulp, all buildings leveled by the shockwave.
Moreover, the high ground supporting the city below was also collapsing and disintegrating with a rumble.
This capital of Alabasta was completely destroyed by the fall of the two.
In the center of the chaotic ruins, wisps of black aura were constantly escaping from Rorschach's twelve-meter-tall burly body.
The boundless power he had briefly gained was rapidly fading.
Seemingly sensing the power fading by instinct, Rorschach, with a pair of hollow eyes, raised his fist again and slammed it down on Kaido beneath him.
However, Kaido's body swelled and expanded again, breaking free from Rorschach's large hand, transforming into a hundreds-of-meters-long azure dragon covered in blue scales.
The massive body of the azure dragon twisted and coiled around Rorschach, tightly constricting the greenish-black Rorschach with its thick dragon body. It opened its ferocious, fanged maw, and a scorching red light brewed deep in its throat.
Rorschach struggled to break free, but the coils of the dragon's body wrapped around him contained immense toughness and immense strength, like thick Seastone chains, firmly locking his movements.
And as the azure dragon contracted, the speed at which shadows escaped from the surface of Rorschach's transformed greenish-black giant body immediately increased dramatically.
Finally, the terrifying red light brewing in the dragon's mouth reached its limit, erupting into a searing pillar of fire that washed over Rorschach.
"Boro Breath!"
Whoosh whoosh!
The crimson pillar of fire emitted terrifying high temperatures, distorting and deforming the air.
Rorschach, engulfed by the crimson flames, had dark blue Haki constantly surging on his body, forming a solid armor that enveloped him, resisting the onslaught of the flames.
The pillar of fire spewing from Kaido's mouth didn't stop, and the dark blue Haki surging from Rorschach's body seemed endless, showing no signs of depletion.
No matter how much of Kaido's Boro Breath was consumed, an equal amount of dark blue Haki rushed out from Rorschach's body, filling the void, making Kaido, in his azure dragon form, frown.
What's wrong with this kid?
Is his Armament Haki free? How has it not run out yet?
However, even though the dark blue Haki covering Rorschach's body surged out endlessly, it couldn't prevent the shadows from leaving his body.
As time passed, the five thousand shadows that Moria had inserted into his body with his ability completely detached from him, transforming into a surging black tide that rushed towards their owner.
And Rorschach, having lost a large number of shadows, shrank in size, directly reverting from his Blue Scale form to his human body, becoming that scarred and emaciated figure.
Moreover, compared to before the shadows were inserted, his body became even more shriveled and withered, as if his life force had been drained.
His stamina was completely exhausted, his pupils were hollow, he lost consciousness, and fell into a coma.
The dark blue Haki covering his body was also shattered by Kaido's Boro Breath at this moment.
Seeing Rorschach completely fall into a coma, Kaido stopped spewing Boro Breath, his massive dragon body shrinking back to his human form.
He let out a long breath, resting his club on his shoulder, and reached down with his left hand to grab Rorschach.
"Phew, you brat, you're really troublesome, even though you're just a kid in your teens."
Just as Kaido's large hand was about to grab Rorschach's body, a chilling sensation made his outstretched hand pause in mid-air, a hint of doubt appearing in his eyes as he slowly turned his head.
Unbeknownst to him, above the shattered ruins of Alubarna, an invisible gale swirled, outlining a figure cloaked in a blue robe, stroke by stroke.
"The dignified Yonko of the New World, stooping to attack a fourteen-year-old child, Kaido, have you lost your pride?"
A deep, powerful voice emerged from beneath the hood.
A hand with thick knuckles lifted, revealing a weathered and imposing face.
Kaido's pupils suddenly constricted. "Revolutionary Army Commander, Dragon."
He took the Hassaikai from his shoulder, gripped it again in his hand, and frowned as Dragon slowly stepped towards him.
"Has the world changed? When did the Revolutionary Army and the Marines start working together?"
"It's not about working together; it's just that there's something about that young man that interests me. Even if he can't become an ally, he can't become a chaotic pirate, do you understand what I mean, Kaido?"
Dragon extended his right hand, his index and middle fingers together, and his ring and little fingers together, forming a claw-like shape with his fingers cupped.
"Too bad, I'm very interested in him too, Dragon!"
Kaido bared his teeth, black and red lightning flashing from his Hassaikai, crushing the void as he charged forward, his figure blurring as he crossed a hundred meters and slammed his club at Dragon.
"Kongokabura!"
"You won't take him while I'm here!"
"Dragon's Breath!"
Dragon's eyes narrowed, and a howling hurricane suddenly erupted across the heavens and earth. He extended his virtual dragon claw, meeting Kaido's club with his bare hands.
Black and red King's Haki lightning also flickered and entwined around his conjoined fingers!
"Clang!!"
A deafening metallic roar exploded over the shattered ruins of Alubarna.
The Hassaikai swung by Kaido and the Dragon Claw Punch unleashed by Dragon were briefly locked in a stalemate in mid-air.
Two torrents of surging power clashed, pulverizing the ground of the ruins where they stood.
The explosive King's Haki lightning seemed to destroy everything; no stone or steel could withstand its impact and tearing force.
The pitch-black club bounced high, Kaido's pupils constricted, and he switched to a two-handed grip on the club.
Blue scales rapidly spread across the surface of his burly body, his figure grew taller, and he gripped the Hassaikai with both hands, swinging it down heavily from above.
"Descending Thunderbolts: Drunk Tiger!"
Boom!
Dragon was directly hit by this blow, his entire body starting from his head, exploding piece by piece, transforming into an invisible storm that swept across the capital.
Whoosh!
The howling gale surged violently, turning into sharp air blades that easily sliced through the ground beneath, swirling up house-sized boulders that slammed into Kaido's massive body like meteors, forcing him to continuously retreat.
Innumerable stones were swept up by the storm, coated with an invisible armor, becoming incredibly hard, like a meteor shower, continuously smashing into Kaido.
"Boring tricks! Kundali: Dragon Festival Drum!"
Kaido's club swung impenetrably, scattering endless club shadows, smashing the incoming boulders into fragmented powder that scattered everywhere.
For a moment, the sky above the capital was shrouded in a grayish dust, making it impossible to see one's hand in front of their face.
When Kaido was forcibly blasted out of the royal city by the boulders swept up by the gale, retreating to the edge of the royal city, the hurricane swirling across the sky suddenly increased more than tenfold.
The howling air current seemed to want to lift the entire desert land into the sky.
On the boundless yellow sand desert, a colossal tornado column, reaching to the heavens and earth, formed in an instant.
Under the churning of this towering tornado column, even the sky tens of thousands of meters high seemed to have a hole torn in it.
Faintly, on this towering tornado column that ceaselessly rotated as if tearing space itself, a gigantic face emerged, giving Kaido a sense of alarm.
This level of weather phenomenon was undoubtedly a world-ending natural disaster.
Rumble!
Suddenly, from the rotating colossal wind column, five fingers, each hundreds of meters long and completely formed by swirling gales, extended and grabbed at the minuscule Kaido.
This scene was like a human extending a large hand towards an ant.
The mountain-like storm giant's palm pressed down, leaving Kaido nowhere to escape but to attack.
Black and red lightning flashed wildly on his heavy club, Kaido snorted coldly, standing in this terrifying storm, his towering body standing firm like a rock, swinging his thick arm and unleashing a blow.
"Great Virtue: Thunder Bagua!"
Boom!
The rampant power unleashed, surging forth like an overwhelming tide, instantly shattered the incoming colossal palm in mid-air, scattering it into chaotic gales.
The ravaged desert land ahead was even carved out into a trough hundreds of meters wide and of unknown length, as if a chunk had been forcibly scraped away.
However, the invisible storm quickly converged, reforming into an even larger storm giant's palm, pressing down again.
In the midst of it all, it seemed as if a storm giant, tens of thousands of meters tall, stood within the towering tornado column in the desert, extending its hand towards Kaido.
This time, within the descending storm giant's palm, countless wind blades, compressed to their extreme and solidified into actual blades, whizzed out, shooting towards Kaido from all directions.
Wind is formless; even if temporarily dispersed, it will reconverge.
Rage surged on Kaido's face, he roared, soaring into the air, directly crashing into the surging storm. Each swing of his club easily shattered the storm within hundreds of meters of space, pushing away the compressed wind blades that shot at him.
But the greater danger came from deep within the surging storm.
As the air current surged, a dragon claw entwined with black and red lightning extended from behind Kaido; wherever it passed, space itself seemed to be shattered by the terrifying energy it contained.
"Annihilation Dragon Claw!"
"I've been on guard for you, Dragon!"
A glint flashed in Kaido's eyes, his mountain-like physique twisting with a flexibility that completely belied his massive size, he spun like lightning, swinging his Hassaikai, which exploded with black lightning, towards the suddenly appearing Dragon.
"Roaring Thunder Bagua!"
Boom!
Dragon, who had unleashed his Haki-clad Dragon Claw Punch, seemed unable to resist the club swung by Kaido; his right hand was pushed back little by little, and his body subtly showed a tendency to revert to a storm.
A savage glint flashed in Kaido's eyes, the King's Haki lightning exploding from his club grew even more furious, just as he was about to land a decisive blow and injure Dragon.
Whoosh whoosh!
The wind swept past his ears, and air currents surged in the void. Large hands entwined with black and red lightning appeared from all directions, but no other Dragons were visible.
These hundreds of terrifyingly powerful dragon claws seemed to belong to a single body.
Kaido slowly looked up and saw the majestic face appearing on the ten-thousand-meter-high wind column, his mouth twitching, feeling like swearing.
The cheating Logia types, with their disaster-level, super-large-scale destructive power, were the specialty of these top Logia users.
Such ultra-large-scale AoE attacks, easily affecting tens or hundreds of kilometers, were simply not something a Zoan type, which primarily relied on physical strength, could unleash.
Akainu's Meteor Volcanos, transforming into volcanic bombs, could easily cover an entire island.
Aokiji's Ice Age could freeze hundreds of kilometers of ocean into an Arctic glacier.
Only a handful of Paramecia abilities could rival their super-large-scale attacks.
Whitebeard's Tremor-Tremor Fruit, Shiki the Golden Lion's Float-Float Fruit.
Under the heavy Hassaikai, Dragon, who had unleashed the Dragon Claw Punch, shattered into a gale.
But the majestic face thousands of meters above him let out a god-like roar.
"Storm! Thousand Hand Dragon King!"
The hurricane boiled, condensing into countless black-lightning-entwined dragon claws that overwhelmed the center where Kaido stood.
Kaido roared in turn, letting out a clear dragon's roar from his mouth, his body inflating like a balloon, instantly transforming into a hundreds-of-meters-long azure dragon. Between the gaps of the azure scales on his coiling body, scorching tongues of fire rapidly surged outwards.
Vast expanses of flame clouds surged from within him, igniting his massive azure dragon body, turning his hundreds-of-meters-long form into a magma-like crimson.
Terrifying high temperatures distorted the void, scorching the air. High-level Armament Haki and top-tier King's Haki simultaneously entwined him as he coiled in the air, smashing through the incoming hands and charging towards the gigantic face that had appeared above the tornado column.
"Great Blaze Dragon Torch!"
"Boro Breath!"
His crimson dragon maw opened, and a scorching pillar of fire erupted, shattering several storm dragon claws and shooting directly skyward.
Rumble!
From all directions, black-lightning-explosive dragon claws grabbed, either grasping or hammering, slamming into the massive crimson dragon's body, making the giant dragon's body tremble, its surface spewing flame clouds, and blood spurting from its crimson scales, instantly evaporating due to the high temperature.
The massive dragon body coiled, and the surrounding storm converged and compressed, also manipulated by Kaido to form large wind blades that slashed at the surrounding dragon claws.
"Tornado Demolish!"
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
Countless wind blades shot out, blocking the incoming storm dragon claws, while Kaido, in his crimson red dragon form, soared upward, crashing headfirst towards Dragon's true body, which was locked onto by his Observation Haki.
"Ascending Dragon: Fire Bagua!"
(End of Chapter)
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