BANG!!!
With a gunshot, 'Gun-Tailed Serpent' Shahm Suleiman was the first to initiate combat. He grinned, pulling the trigger of his flintlock pistol. The bullet accurately struck Perona's forehead.
"Heh heh heh! The prettier the girl, the stupider she is, it seems! To be so careless on the battlefield facing an enemy... Hmm??"
Suleiman's mockery abruptly ceased, as he watched the bullet pass through Perona's forehead without any blood or brains, as if it had passed through thin air. Nothing happened.
"Ow, ow! This bad uncle actually ambushed me!!" Perona puffed out her cheeks in anger, shook her small parasol, and then simply flew into the air. At the same time, Victor leaped directly to his right.
The next second, a fierce barrage of bullets enveloped the spot where the siblings had just been.
"An army!? No, is it an devil-fruit user?!"
Captain Krone, the loyal spectator, was shocked. There were only four people on the battlefield, but the firepower just now was enough for at least a legion!
"Heh... Is it really wise to expose your Devil Fruit ability so directly, Mr. Bege?" Victor's feet never stopped moving. Utilizing the zipping power of the zippers on his feet, each step covered several meters instantly. He swiftly closed in on Suleiman and Capone Bege by moving along the walls of the surrounding civilian houses.
"Hmph hmph... Against a skilled opponent like you, I can't afford to hold back my cards. Boys! Open fire!!"
Capone Bege reacted quickly. He opened his right palm, revealing a miniature door within it. Several miniature black-clad strongmen with cannons stood at the doorway. His palm tracked Victor's movement, unleashing a barrage of cannonballs.
By then, Victor had leaped onto the town center's fountain sculpture. The cannonballs shattered the sculpture but didn't harm Victor at all. He seemed to possess precognition, effortlessly dodging all the shots without even looking.
Just as he leaped again to dodge another cannonball, the ground beneath him suddenly exploded, and a giant mouth shot out from underground, lunging to bite Victor! It was 'Gun-Tailed Serpent' Shahm!
Victor, airborne, had no leverage, so he could only barely twist his upper body to avoid the giant snake's venomous bite. But Shahm twisted his serpentine body, and his massive, green-scaled serpent form wrapped around Victor three times, constricting him in mid-air!
"Heh heh heh! Vik, try out my 'special service'!" With that, he tightened his serpentine coils. Even a man of steel would be squeezed into a metal pellet!
Perona gasped in alarm, about to fly down to rescue him, but found the center of the giant snake's coils was empty.
Victor had used his zipper ability to split himself into two strands, slipping through the gaps beneath the giant snake, then quickly zipped back together. Before he could fully recover, another bullet accurately shot towards his right eye!
Shahm's giant snake form's tail had been transformed directly into a rapid-fire flintlock. He had deliberately waited for Victor's feet to be not yet fully zipped together, leaving him unable to move, making him a stationary target.
Faster than words could tell, Victor's left arm's suit cuff instantly decomposed and extended, transforming into a chain blade without a guard, still connected to his sleeve. He then gripped the chain blade with his left hand and, with a backhand slash, directly shattered the bullet. The chain blade, halfway through its arc, suddenly turned into a flexible whip and snapped across the giant snake's belly.
"Arghhh! You little bastard!!!" 'Gun-Tailed Serpent' Shahm shrieked, rolling on the ground. This blow truly hurt him; the chain blade's immense destructive power directly destroyed the soft armor in his abdomen and injured his internal organs.
"Shahm, avoid... Ah, never mind. Open fire at will!" Capone Bege's army unleashed a volley of fire that directly covered Victor and Shahm's positions.
"Waaahhh!! Bege, you scoundrel!" When the smoke cleared, a large hole was left in the ground, indicating that Shahm had clearly burrowed underground to avoid his teammate's indiscriminate firing, but Victor was also gone.
"Boss! To the right!" A voice, audible only to Bege, came from the right side of his forehead. He turned his head and raised both hands simultaneously, firing a fierce barrage of artillery to the right.
The already crumbling Black Axe Bar was completely reduced to ruins by this artillery barrage, but Victor was even faster! As if he had anticipated it, he leaped to the area with the sparsest projectile impact, dodging all attacks with a few swift movements, then surged forward, charging towards Capone Bege!
With every step, tiny golden sparks scattered beneath his feet—this was 'Metal Zipper: Spark Pilgrimage'!
"Tsk! You brat... Cavalry charge! Fire team, open fire directly!"
Capone Bege's feet transformed directly into tank treads, and he rapidly retreated backward, his speed almost as fast as Victor's! From his body, four cavalry squads, each consisting of ten men, leaped out, flanking Victor from both sides and charging to intercept him.
Simultaneously, a horizontal row of drawbridges opened on his chest, and a twenty-man fire team knelt inside the drawbridges, firing a volley directly at Victor, who was charging head-on!
It wasn't over yet. A giant shadow suddenly appeared to Victor's side. 'Gun-Tailed Serpent' Shahm, transformed into a giant snake, burst from underground, swiftly slithering to intercept Victor. His gaping maw was already close to biting Victor!
The cavalry unit approaching from the front had also arrived, and several cold, gleaming sabers were about to descend upon Victor.
A perfect encirclement!
"You bad guys!! Mini Ghosts: Firefly Band!!"
With a sweet shout, hundreds of white, spherical, grotesque-faced ghosts swarmed down from the sky like an insect plague! The cavalry unit was the first to suffer; each ghost exploded like a small air bomb upon contact.
In just one encounter, the forty-man cavalry unit was instantly reduced to almost nothing!
It was Perona. She had taken some time in the air to create hundreds of mini ghosts. These spherical, grotesque-faced ghosts did not possess the negative-inducing abilities of the later Negative Hollows from the manga, but their advantage lay in their easy and mass production.
When they collided with objects, they could explode like air bombs. Their power wasn't immense, but they won through sheer numbers.
Shahm shrieked, transforming into a half-snake, half-human form covered in scales. With a slippery movement, he awkwardly dodged several ghost bombs. At that moment, Victor sharply waved his hand towards him, and a zipper directly locked onto Shahm's neck, violently pulling him forward.
Bang bang bang bang!!!!
Hundreds of shots that should have hit Victor instead struck Shahm. He screamed, reverted to his human form, and fell unconscious.
Victor grabbed Shahm's green ponytail, spun him around twice like a shot put, and hurled him violently towards Capone Bege!
Everything happened in a flash. Capone Bege couldn't react in time and was directly knocked to the ground by the flying Shahm.
Meanwhile, Victor was already close by, and Perona in the sky had created a second batch of mini-ghosts.
Offense and defense switched!
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