The office was filled with a tense atmosphere. Sengoku narrowed his eyes, looking at Yang Tao, calculating the chances of taking him down.
Sengoku's Haki was like an alarm blaring throughout Navy Headquarters. Kizaru, who had just been scratching his head and leaving Garp with a cheeky grin, appeared at the office door in the blink of an eye.
Then, in a loud voice, he shouted, "Sengoku, what are you doing? All the soldiers outside have collapsed!"
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Figures appeared in Sengoku's office, 70% of them high-ranking Navy officials.
"How terrifying~ Young man, you actually delivered yourself to my doorstep."
Looking at the progress bar stuck at 73%, Yang Tao smiled. He seemed to see a new mod beckoning to him.
"Kizaru, Aokiji, Garp, Sengoku... Even Whitebeard would probably die in regret with this lineup. You really think highly of me."
"However, my main purpose for coming here has already been achieved."
Sengoku's expression grew even more serious upon hearing this. Although he didn't know what Yang Tao's purpose was, an enemy achieving their goal meant his failure.
"Go! Seize him."
As soon as he finished speaking, Kizaru appeared beside Yang Tao, his slender, long leg already basically landing on Yang Tao's body.
"So impatient..."
Yang Tao, wearing his quantum suit, indicated that the storm could come even more fiercely. The quantum suit's invisible barrier easily blocked Kizaru's light-speed kick.
"Hahaha, although those scoundrels truly deserve to die, I am a Navy Vice Admiral after all. There's nothing for it, young man."
Garp laughed and swung his fist towards Yang Tao. His dark arm and the black lightning wrapped around it indicated that a head-on confrontation would be an extremely unwise choice.
Battlesign.
"Vice Admiral Garp, be careful. This wooden board can block attacks and reflect some damage."
Bang...
His powerful heavy punch struck the Battlesign, and its durability instantly dropped to a sliver.
"Damn it, still so strong in old age."
The Yamato was drawn, emitting an even denser scent of blood. Some weaker individuals even felt like they were suffocating.
After parrying Aokiji's attack, Yang Tao fiercely stabbed at Kizaru on the side.
That's for you, kid, ganging up on me last time.
Kizaru immediately retreated. Even though there were no traces of Haki on the Yamato, he had no intention of using his elemental form to block the blade.
A gap appeared in the encirclement.
Just as Yang Tao was about to escape, a pair of golden hands slammed down fiercely towards him. Sengoku, this guy, also joined the group attack without any martial ethics.
"No decorum at all."
"It's because your strength is too great..."
Sengoku responded to Yang Tao's words, his massive body instantly bursting through the office roof. The space became even more open, and more and more Navy Headquarters Rear Admirals and Vice Admirals rushed over.
Yang Tao suddenly caught sight of a goat out of the corner of his eye. It stood amidst the ruins of the office, leisurely eating the scattered documents.
'This strong? Sengoku's Conqueror's Haki didn't even deal with you??'
Could it be that it was just used to being around Sengoku?
The goat's health bar wasn't too high, only 15 points, which was normal in this pirate world.
Yang Tao, who had originally been forced out of the office, endured Sengoku's blows and charged towards the goat, quickly opening a door and throwing the goat in.
His movements were smooth and fluid, all in one go.
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"My goat!!"
Sengoku's Great Buddha form instantly grew larger. The twenty-meter-tall golden Great Buddha was a colossal being.
Its palm, larger than Yang Tao, slammed down on Yang Tao without holding back.
The invincible Battlesign finally retired this time, not even leaving Yang Tao a chance to repair it.
Bang!
A powerful blow landed on Yang Tao, causing the quantum suit's power to drop by hundreds of points.
A white mist appeared and enveloped him. Before he could react, the white mist instantly turned into solid ice.
Bang.
The solid ice crashed heavily onto the massive plaza of Navy Headquarters.
"Is...is it resolved?"
Looking at the motionless solid ice, everyone's faces showed expressions of surprise. They hadn't expected the criminal who destroyed Mary Geoise to be so easily dealt with by Admiral Aokiji.
Thump thump...
Suddenly, a strange sound echoed from within the solid ice. Aokiji immediately extended his hand without a word. The solid ice's color deepened, and its volume grew larger.
But that strange sound only occurred once.
Sengoku's face was filled with grief, but in front of his subordinates, he could only feign seriousness.
Regardless of whether he caught the opponent this time, his pet was gone!!
"Bring the Sea stone cuff..."
Before he could finish speaking, a bright red number appeared in his line of sight.
30... 29...
A Navy Vice Admiral immediately spoke up, "I see a strange number. Is this the power of a Devil Fruit?"
"I see it too!"
"Me too!"
Looking at the countdown, everyone felt as if their own lives were counting down.
Sengoku activated his Observation Haki to its fullest. In an instant, he felt as if his life could end at any moment. He immediately shouted, "Retreat!!! Everyone retreat!"
Upon hearing the command, everyone quickly retreated. After moving beyond an 80-meter radius, the bright red numbers disappeared as abruptly as they had appeared.
That peculiar feeling of death then vanished.
"What's going on? What was that countdown?"
Garp's usual jovial expression had disappeared, his eyes sharp as if he had returned to his twenties or thirties.
Sengoku stared intently at the solid ice.
"I don't know either, but my intuition tells me it's very dangerous, extremely dangerous..."
At the same time, he was silently counting the countdown from earlier, certain that something would happen when the numbers reached zero.
Thirty seconds passed in a flash.
A white orb of light appeared, lasting less than a second, and all the Navy personnel fell silent.
A deep pit with an eighty-meter radius appeared before everyone. Everything within the deep pit had vanished.
It was as if someone had scooped out a piece of watermelon.
Aokiji flew towards the large pit, but as soon as he stepped into the nuclear blast's range, his face instantly turned green—not a description, but a real faint green hue appeared.
Radiation 1 minute 20 seconds
Fortunately, Aokiji retreated quickly, otherwise the effect duration would have stacked.
However, the damage from the Radiation effect wasn't high for Aokiji, causing about two health points of damage per second.
Sengoku saw Aokiji's complexion and immediately stepped forward, asking, "Aokiji, what's wrong?"
Aokiji said with a solemn expression, "It's poisonous, a very strange poison..."
Just as Sengoku was about to call for a doctor, a wooden door appeared out of thin air above the deep hole.
Yang Tao, with a smile, stroked Sengoku's goat's head and said, "Fleet Admiral Sengoku, in one month... I will visit again. I hope you can inform the Celestial Dragons to wash their necks clean. If I lose, I'll return the goat to you!"
He took out a bundle of wheat from his backpack. Although Sengoku's'shredder' goat had always eaten paper, it couldn't resist the temptation of wheat.
It opened its mouth wide and began to eat.
Having achieved his goal, Yang Tao stepped through the wooden door and then quickly flew into the sky. Kizaru transformed into a golden streak of light, following closely behind.