Chapter 368: Sealing Abilities? The Effect of the Pillar of the Abyss
Rumble!
Under the horrified gazes of the surviving members of the Beasts Pirates, the evil dragon's massive figure was abruptly blasted into the sea below.
"Kai... Governor-General Kaido was..."
"Wait, that person is... that person is..."
Everyone's horrified gazes all looked at the woman in the sky, who was carrying a large sword on her shoulder right now.
"It's Big Mom!"
"Impossible! Didn't Big Mom die? And isn't she an old hag?"
"There's no way she could still be alive!"
And while the members of the Beasts Pirates were in disbelief.
On Charlotte Island.
"Mama actually really..."
Although they had already heard about this from Katakuri long ago, the members of the Charlotte Family still found it somewhat unbelievable upon seeing that figure right now.
Especially Perospero, who had followed Big Mom since the earliest days, was trembling with excitement at this moment.
Because he had recognized that Big Mom's appearance at this moment was her posture when she was at her youngest and also at the absolute peak of her strength.
The Big Mom of that time was not yet a decrepit tyrant, but a formidable hero with ambitions for the sea.
And at that time, Perospero had followed his Mama to gallop and wreak havoc across this sea, facing strong enemies directly, just like now.
"Hey, Katakuri, let's go help Mama..."
So at this time, Perospero, his heart surging, also changed his usual steady and cautious demeanor, somewhat itching for a fight.
But...
"No, Perospero. Give orders to the others, no one is allowed to leave the main island, maintain the same vigilance as before."
But at this time, Katakuri said in a deep voice.
"Why... wait, are you saying..."
Hearing this, Perospero's expression also changed, showing a look of confusion.
But just a moment later, he realized the hidden meaning in Katakuri's words, and his expression instantly changed drastically.
"Mm..."
Katakuri gripped the steel trident beside him tightly: "The battle is not over—it's only just begun."
"What we need to do now is not to attack rashly, but to wait for... Mama's command!"
And exactly as he was speaking.
Rumble!
Beneath the sea surface, intense Conqueror's Haki lightning burst and exploded.
The waves surged backwards into the sky, and a massive "cavity" appeared in the entire sea in an instant.
And inside the cavity.
"Linlin... you actually haven't died..."
Amidst a low voice, Kaido's massive dragon body faintly appeared again, but it was obscured by the seawater and couldn't be seen clearly.
"Hm?"
And right now, Linlin also frowned: "Kaido, what's wrong with you?"
"Yeah, yeah—I thought we could finish it in one strike and then go back to play with Bonney and the others!"
"Hehe, it's been a long time since I fought together with Mama!"
"This is Apollo's first time fighting together with Mama!"
And in her hands, the newly created bicorn Napoleon and Zeus also spoke up similarly.
Of course, Prometheus, the symbol of "Mother Carmel's" creation, was nowhere to be seen at this moment, replaced by another flame that looked more simple and naive, named "Apollo".
"Alright, all of you quiet down a bit, don't interrupt my thinking—and I told you, you're not allowed to call me Mama. Bonney said it sounds very old... the body Star Lord made for me is already older than her anyway!"
"From now on, you have to call me Miss Linlin, otherwise I won't share cake with you in the future!"
After hearing this, Linlin patted her three Homies.
"Yes! Miss Linlin!" *3
And while speaking, their point of confusion was identical.
As former comrades in the Rocks Pirates, Linlin's "memory" naturally held a considerable understanding of Kaido.
So she knew very well that although Kaido was undoubtedly a "monster" from every angle, yes.
But he was at least a monster who followed the rules of the sea.
For example, as an ability user, he was at least afraid of seawater—although with his terrifying vitality, he could survive for an extremely long time even after falling into the vast ocean, weakness was unavoidable.
But now, Kaido, clearly in the sea, not only could still maintain his giant dragon form, but judging from that exaggerated intensity of Haki, his strength wasn't restricted in the slightest.
For Linlin, this was naturally something that surprised her greatly.
However...
"Whatever—Kaido, I've heard it all from Lord Sheep. You guy are trying to hurt my family... I absolutely won't forgive you!"
After failing to understand, Linlin didn't hesitate, decisively raising the large sword in her hands again.
"Apollo, Zeus!"
"Here, Mama—oh wait, it's Miss Linlin!" *2
Amidst the responses, Zeus and Apollo gathered directly without hesitation and drilled into Napoleon.
Lightning and flames instantly wreathed the large sword, and the terrifying power seemed to tear open the entire sky in an instant.
"Elbaf's Spear: Triple Ikoku!"
The next moment, Linlin directly... swung down that terrifying slash.
But at this time, in the sea.
"This power..."
Looking at that terrifying slash falling from the sky accompanied by flames and lightning, the giant dragon whose face couldn't be seen clearly in the sea let out a low, gloomy voice.
"I see, did Star Lord reshape your body?"
Following such a voice, the sea surface began to rise, the evil dragon seemingly about to rise from beneath the sea surface again.
And at the same time...
"Gravity Blade: Tiger Hunt!"
The swung tachi was accompanied by intense gravity, and wherever it passed, the sea bowed down again.
"Ursus Shock!"
The air compressed to the extreme exploded with a booming roar, falling from the sky.
Yes, Issho and Kuma naturally wouldn't just sit and watch Kaido dodge Linlin's strike right now.
At this time, they also attacked simultaneously.
Rumble!
Thus, a moment later, intense impacts erupted above the sea once again.
The explosion of the Ursus Shock, the strong pressure slashed out by the Gravity Blade, combined with Linlin's slash, the power that erupted was undoubtedly of an intensity sufficient to wipe an island out of existence out of thin air—the giant waves shooting up to the sky dragged several more of the Beasts Pirates' ships into the bottom of the sea.
But...
"!!!" *3
At this time, Kuma, Issho, and Linlin, who each unleashed this strike, had extremely solemn expressions.
The Observation Haki of all three was quite proficient, so right now they could naturally sense—the intense feeling of threat from the center of the explosion, which hadn't diminished in the slightest.
"It didn't hit..."
Especially Issho, whose Observation Haki was the most outstanding, right now was gripping the "Gambler's Firing Line" in his hand tightly: "No, it should have indeed hit, it's just..."
He could feel that unprecedentedly bizarre "tactile sensation" just now.
The ability attacks of the three of them undoubtedly hit, but when approaching Kaido...
"The abilities were weakened?"
He frowned.
And exactly at this moment...
"Roar!"
Accompanied by the dragon's roar echoing again from within the sea, from beneath the sea surface, the giant dragon's figure had already risen.
Just as the three of them sensed.
Not only his aura—right now on Kaido's body, there wasn't even the slightest trace of injury left behind.
However, his posture had undergone a massive change.
The contract mark on his left arm once again emanated pitch-black light.
And that light continuously extended, continuously gathering to the "Pillar of the Abyss" between the two horns on his head, and then spreading to his entire body.
This directly caused the "cyan dragon" he originally transformed into to almost become a pure "black dragon".
But correspondingly.
Right now, the aura and pressure on his body were powerful to an unbelievable degree.
Even the flame clouds wreathing his body and the lightning flickering around him had become more intense due to the enhancement of that pitch-black power.
"Abyssal Great Torch!"
Within his dragon eyes, violence and ferocity flickered, looking at the three people in the sky above.
"What a pity, Linlin—if you had appeared earlier, maybe we could have still cooperated..."
"But now, I no longer need your power."
"With this power... the world is already in my pocket!"
While speaking, scorching blast breath was spewed from his mouth once again.
And witnessing that scorching blast breath booming over, the three of them naturally didn't hesitate, making moves to defend.
Fujitora pressed his sword downwards, and the intense gravity instantly turned into a barrier blocking it; Kuma raised his hand, the paw pad on his palm facing the incoming blast breath, and the repelled air instantly blocked in front of the blast breath; and Linlin also clenched her fists tightly, Zeus turning into lightning and wreathing her hands.
But, a moment later, the brows of all three furrowed simultaneously again.
Because in this instant, the three of them perceived that their abilities, which they had long wielded like extensions of their own arms through long training, had distinctly undergone a change.
"Our abilities... got weaker?"
The expressions of all three changed simultaneously.
And this was clearly no illusion—because the next moment, that intense blast breath instantly tore through the barriers constructed by the three's abilities and attacked towards them.
However, fortunately, although the three present were all ability users, they were also truly top-tier powerhouses on the sea.
Faced with this sudden weakening of abilities, the three almost simultaneously chose the same method—Haki.
Armament Haki covered the bodies of the three almost simultaneously. Kuma and Linlin closed in almost simultaneously, each throwing a punch.
BOOM!
As an "Iron Balloon" and a "Buccaneer", possessing physiques far exceeding ordinary people, they forcibly withstood that ball of flying blast breath.
At the same time, Issho flicked the tachi in his hand upwards—the blade aura that burst forth in an instant silently demonstrated his swordsmanship mastery.
"Blind Sword Style: Flicking Strike!"
As the blade collided with the blast breath, the exquisite swordsmanship instantly changed the trajectory of the blast breath, directly flicking that blast breath away.
And after this strike was flicked away, Issho slowly retracted the tachi in his hand, his eyes looking at the tip of the tachi.
Right now, although there was no clear damage on his beloved sword, there was still a faint pitch-black mark on the blade.
This was clearly very unusual—because as a "Supreme Grade Sword", the Gambler's Firing Line's toughness should be far beyond cognition, making it difficult to be destroyed.
And it wasn't just him...
"..."
At this time, Linlin and Kuma were also looking at their hands—on their hands, there were similarly high-heat burn marks.
Although not intense, they distinctly existed.
"The flames of this guy Kaido have become stronger..."
Linlin muttered.
"Not only that... the flames just now should have directly burned our 'vitality'..."
Kuma softly added.
The gazes of all three looked at that massive black dragon slowly soaring upwards.
Ignoring the characteristics of seawater.
Power far exceeding before.
Flames directly burning vitality.
Undoubtedly—those were all abilities the original Kaido didn't possess.
"Is it that thing."
Thus, Issho's gaze looked at that third "dragon horn" on top of Kaido's head.
"Worororororo!"
"That's right."
And Kaido also let out a heroic laugh: "This is exactly the 'power' I obtained by swallowing my pride and cooperating with the Government."
"Hey—boys, light them up!"
As Kaido's words fell.
On the Beasts Pirates' fleet, which had long quietly hidden far away because of the battle between the four just now, the originally nervous Beasts Pirates members were also stunned.
But then...
"Yes... Yes! Governor-General Kaido!"
They decisively activated the "devices" already prepared on the ships, just as Kaido said—even though before this, they actually didn't know the purpose of these pillars Kaido had them bring.
The next moment...
VMMM! VMMM! VMMM!
On the pirate ships carrying the "Pillars of the Abyss", the pillars forged by ancient technology abruptly emanated pitch-black energy at this moment.
That pitch-black energy continuously circulated and surged, pouring into the bodies of the Beasts Pirates members in just a moment.
Then...
"Roar!"
"Roar!"
Countless members within the Beasts Pirates began to experience mutations in their bodies.
Their bodies, like Kaido's, began to turn pitch-black.
Especially most of the members among them who had consumed Zoan fruits, at this moment clearly felt...
"My fruit ability..."
"So strong! So strong!"
"This power... is unprecedented!"
"My back, it seems something is about to grow out!?"
The decks were shattered by them in an instant, and from their backs, pairs of pitch-black demonic wings distinctly began to grow.
For Headliners who were already powerful to begin with, like Page One or Ulti, the power that erupted from their bodies was even more astonishing.
And at the same time, Issho, Kuma, and Linlin perceived.
At the same time the "Pillars of the Abyss" on these decks were lit up, their abilities, which already seemed to have been weakened, were further weakened once again.
The paw pads on Kuma's palms began to shrink, even the rock beneath Issho's feet began to show a trend of instability, and Linlin's three Homies seemed even more drowsy.
"A weapon that can seal the abilities of ability users and enhance one's own abilities?"
And up to this moment, the three naturally also saw the effect of the "Pillars of the Abyss".
Their Haki was not significantly affected, which was enough to show that this power was purely targeting fruit abilities.
"Is this what Lord Sheep mentioned to this old man in the past..."
And right now, Issho was even more thoughtful: "The Abyss's 'shackles' on Devil Fruits?"
"There shouldn't be a mistake."
And Kuma calmly nodded at this moment.
"However..."
After confirming that their abilities could no longer play much of a role, he silently put on his gloves.
But his gaze looking at the massive black dragon in the distance still didn't waver in the slightest.
And Issho and Linlin's attitudes were clearly identical.
Even Linlin, whose mentality was most like a child's, deep in her memory was also a Four Emperor who had galloped across the sea for decades.
They were indeed ability users who relied on their abilities to fight.
But just like earlier—if one thought sealing their abilities would make them surrender without a fight, that would be a mistake.
Furthermore...
"If I remember correctly, our goal from the very beginning was not to defeat Kaido, wasn't it?"
Issho wiped the sword in his hand: "Just delaying some time—even if unable to use abilities, this old man doesn't believe he can't even do this little thing."
Without abilities, they still had fists and Haki, and the swords in their hands.
"Hah? That's not what I think."
But Linlin pouted right now: "I promised Bonney, I have to properly beat up that guy Kaido!"
As the words fell, she also raised "Napoleon", who was already drowsy and seemingly about to lose consciousness, in her hand.
"Big Mom Pirates, prepare... for war!"
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