"Meteors? You've got to be kidding me! Ten of them?"
Blackbeard's expression twisted in shock, his agitation aggravating his injuries, causing him to howl in pain.
"Shut it!" Caesar roared, his voice vibrating through everyone's eardrums.
"It's Fujitora. No one else could do something like this besides him," Shanks said, standing up with Beckman's sword in his hand.
"Wororororo, are you sure you want to fight on this ship? You'll shatter it," Kaido remarked, holding a bottle of liquor in one hand and his spiked club in the other.
Gaban's face darkened as he shouted, "Hey! You bastards, take your fight outside! Don't wreck the Oro Jackson—this is the Roger Pirates' home!"
"Borororo, how stingy!" Caesar laughed before leaping off the deck.
Everyone quickly turned to watch as Caesar's body expanded hundreds, thousands of times in an instant.
A terrifying golden bird blotted out the sky, completely covering the space above the Oro Jackson, plunging the entire area into darkness.
Gaban's lips twitched as he stared in disbelief at the colossal bird overhead.
Blackbeard's eye twitched as he swallowed hard.
"A monster... a real monster. Zehahaha! So Mythical Zoan fruits are the strongest after all? Did I choose the wrong path?"
Inside the cabin, Vincent stood frozen, mouth agape, trembling uncontrollably as if suffering from a seizure.
Isaac, Sunbell, Rayleigh, and the others also raised their brows in astonishment.
"Even the largest Sea Kings in the world probably aren't this big," Rayleigh mused.
Isaac grumbled, "Isn't there that giant elephant in the land of the Minks? Shouldn't that be bigger?"
Shanks gave Isaac a strange look.
"Isaac... you don't know?"
Isaac scratched his bald head, confused. "Know what, Shanks?"
Blackbeard suddenly cut in, "Zehahaha! You mean Zunesha? He already ate it. Zehahaha! Gives me the chills just thinking about it."
"Ate... ate it?" Isaac's jaw dropped, his expression mirroring Enel's infamous look.
Gaban frowned. "He's blocking the entire sky. Does he plan to handle those meteors alone? Isn't that a bit too much?"
Kaido and Linlin smirked before sitting back down on the deck, casually drinking.
Transformed into the golden bird, Caesar's eyes reflected the ten small 'suns' streaking across the sky.
'These meteors seemed much smaller than the one Fujitora had summoned earlier.'
Caesar figured as much.
Fujitora was also badly injured.
Pulling meteors down likely took a tremendous toll on his stamina and focus.
He couldn't summon them endlessly.
Otherwise, why would the Marines even need the other Admirals?
Just send Fujitora to drop a hundred meteors on each Emperor's territory and the New World's pirates would be wiped out.
Still, what Fujitora had just done was enough to obliterate several islands.
If he wanted to destroy smaller nations like Dressrosa, a single casual strike would suffice.
Caesar opened his massive golden beak and spewed a frost pillar several kilometers long directly towards the sky!
The icy frost pillar instantly met the falling meteor.
It was like covering a burning bonfire with a layer of snow.
The flames on the meteor were instantly extinguished, completely encased by the thick frost pillar, rapidly forming a massive block of ice.
BOOM!
The meteor's speed plummeted due to the frost pillar's impact.
The meteors following closely behind crashed into the ice block, exploding into countless fireworks, nearly shattering apart.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
One after another, the burning meteors collided with the ones below, setting off earth-shaking explosions and storms.
Countless flaming fragments broke off, plummeting toward the sea—some even crashing toward Caesar's enormous body.
Under the terrifying impact, the meteors accelerated their descent once more.
A glint flashed in Caesar's massive pupils as he suddenly retracted the frost pillar, allowing the meteor shower to fall toward him!
"First Form! Kunpeng! Devour the Stars!"
Caesar's colossal bird form rapidly transformed.
Under the stunned gazes of everyone present, the sky-obscuring golden bird vanished.
In its place appeared an enormous fish, its head facing upward and tail downward, opening an abyss-like maw towards the falling meteors.
The Oro Jackson seemed like a speck of dust beside this pitch-black leviathan—so small it was nearly invisible.
"Can a creature as massive as a mountain range really be the work of a Devil Fruit?"
"Zehahaha! What's he trying to do? Eat those meteors? That's a joke, right?"
Then, under the silent watch of everyone, ten meteors the size of small mountains plummeted straight into the maw of the black leviathan.
The mountain-sized Kunpeng form shrank in an instant, reverting to Caesar's humanoid shape as he lightly landed on the Oro Jackson's deck.
All eyes immediately turned to him.
Caesar looked fine, showing no signs of distress in him.
Burp~.
He let out a satisfied burp and plopped down, causing the massive Oro Jackson to sway violently.
Gaban, Rayleigh, and the others exchanged glances, speechless.
"The energy from those meteors was incredible! If I could get another dozen waves like that, I might even evolve again! If I could capture Fujitora and have him feed me meteors nonstop, providing endless energy, wouldn't I be invincible? BORORORO!"
Caesar grabbed a barrel of booze and chugged it down.
Blackbeard's eyelids twitched uncontrollably.
The shocks of today were too much—his three little hearts could barely take it.
Kaido just rolled his eyes.
Caesar was in peak condition right now.
Originally, he had planned to freeze the meteors with his frost pillar and redirect them into the sea.
But sensing the surging energy within the meteors, a thought struck him.
The chaotic currents inside Kunpeng didn't necessarily require devouring flesh and blood to convert into Lifeforcec.
Swallowing things brimming with powerful energy could also yield pure Lifeforce.
So, without hesitation, Caesar transformed into Kunpeng and devoured the meteors whole.
The space within Kunpeng's belly was far vaster than its 20,000-meter appearance suggested.
It was like another dimension, similar to Blackbeard's dark space or Brulee's mirror world—vast and unfathomable.
The chaotic currents within were powerful enough to shred everything to pieces.
As soon as the meteor entered, it was annihilated, transforming into streams of scorching energy and droplets of Lifeblood, which then fed back into Caesar's body.
To his delight, the stubborn wound on his body that had refused to heal now rapidly closed up, leaving no trace behind.
Moreover, Caesar felt as if he had grown even taller.
-----------------------------
Read 40 chapters ahead and support me on patreon.
patreon (.)com/Newbietranslator