"Ow, ow, ow..."
Deadpool twisted his neck, making a bone-grinding sound that made one's teeth ache.
He brushed off the ice shards on his body; his tone held no fear, but instead, an extremely excited fanaticism.
"As expected of Marineford's highest combat power. The force of that punch... the aftertaste is truly endless."
He looked up at Kuzan in the air through his mask.
"Since you're so enthusiastic, I can't be too stingy."
"To show respect for the strong, next..."
Deadpool suddenly spread his arms, raised his head to the sky, and let out a non-human roar.
Puchi! Puchi!
The sickening sound of tearing flesh rang out.
A massive amount of black and red biomass surged out of his body, and his originally slender physique instantly expanded.
Muscle fibers bulged like inflated steel cables, and a pitch-black cuticle covered his whole body, forming a hideous biological armor.
His hands disappeared completely, replaced by two two-meter-long giant bone blades shimmering with a metallic cold light.
"Blacklight Virus Blade Mode: Full Power Release!"
Boom!
The ice surface beneath his feet shattered instantly.
Deadpool vanished.
Pure physical explosive power actually produced a sonic boom cloud.
Kuzan's pupils constricted.
So fast!
More than twice as fast as before!
He instinctively raised his arms in a cross block, and Armament Haki instantly covered his entire body.
Clang!!
The loud bang of metal clashing echoed across the ice plains.
Kuzan felt an overwhelming force strike him, and he was smashed toward the ground like a cannonball.
Boom!
The ice plain collapsed again, sending shards of ice flying dozens of meters high.
Before Kuzan could get up, a shadow loomed overhead once more.
Deadpool descended from the sky, double blades crossed, slashing down fiercely with a momentum that could tear through anything.
"Open... for me!"
Kuzan gave a low shout and pressed one hand to the ground. Countless ice thorns erupted from the earth like a blooming Death Lotus, piercing straight toward Deadpool in the air.
Puchi puchi!
Over a dozen sharp ice spikes instantly pierced Deadpool's abdomen and thighs.
But he didn't dodge at all.
He didn't even frown.
Letting the ice spikes penetrate his body, Deadpool used the downward momentum to slash his twin blades heavily onto Kuzan's shoulder.
Crack!
The elementalized body, coated in Armament Haki, was actually sliced open, leaving a wound deep enough to see the bone.
Blood splattered.
"Caught you, Ice Man!"
Deadpool laughed wildly. Black tentacles gushing from the wound instantly wrapped around Kuzan's arm along the bone blade.
Zzzzt!
That was the virus trying to erode the Logia user's body.
Kuzan's expression changed drastically.
This lunatic!
He's fighting entirely with a life-for-life style!
"Ice Time!"
Extreme cold air exploded.
The black tentacles wrapped around his arm were instantly frozen into ice powder.
Kuzan kicked Deadpool's chest, using the force to slide back dozens of meters, opening up some distance.
He held his bleeding shoulder, his breathing becoming ragged.
In that brief moment of contact, a significant amount of his physical stamina had been drained.
This guy's cells... are plundering life force!
"What's wrong, Mr. Admiral?"
Deadpool pulled out the ice spikes stuck in his stomach and tossed them aside.
The bloody hole that went straight through him healed back to its original state once again.
Wielding his twin blades like a tireless killing machine, he approached step by step.
"Tired already? Our ball has just begun!"
In the distance.
Smoker watched this scene, the Jitte in his hand trembling slightly.
A monster.
This is a true monster.
No matter how heavy the injury, no matter how many times he's knocked down, he can get back up instantly.
And every time he stands up, he seems stronger and more insane than before.
This is simply an unequal battle.
Although Admiral Kuzan has powerful attack capabilities, he is still made of flesh and blood; his stamina is limited, and he bleeds and feels pain when injured.
But that red-clothed freak... simply has no concept of a "limit"!
Listening to the pleasant system notification in his mind,Mordred was in a great mood.
This wave of profit was huge!
However, the acting had gone far enough.
If they kept fighting and he actually killed Kuzan, that would be a huge mess.
As everyone knows, although I, Mordred, kill people, poison them, and cause destruction, I am a good boy.
Besides, the "ultimate move" on Abel's side was almost done charging.
With a thought,Mordred controlled Deadpool to launch another charge.
"Hey, hey, hey! Stop panting over there!"
"I haven't had enough fun yet!"
Deadpool's leg muscles bulged, the ground shattered instantly, and he appeared above Kuzan's head as if teleporting.
"Hammerfist Mode switch!"
This strike gathered the maximum biomass energy the Blacklight virus could currently mobilize.
The air was compressed to the extreme, letting out a sharp explosive sound.
Kuzan's pupils constricted.
This guy's strength has grown again.
A look of determination flashed in Kuzan's eyes, and the cold air in his entire body exploded without reservation.
"Ice Age: Absolute Zero!"
Boom—!!!
The black hammer and the white cold air collided violently in mid-air.
Heaven and earth lost their color.
A terrifying shockwave swept in all directions, shattering the ice within a thousand meters instantly; the waves that were kicked up were frozen into giant ice sculptures before they could fall...
The smoke cleared.
The originally flat ice plain had disappeared, replaced by a massive crater hundreds of meters in diameter.
At the bottom of the crater.
Kuzan was on one knee, his right arm hanging limply at his side, his aura withered to the extreme.
He never wanted to have a battle like this a second time in his life.
And opposite him.
Deadpool was still standing.
Although half of his body was frozen into ice, those ice blocks were cracking and falling off at a speed visible to the naked eye.
New dark-red muscle tissue was writhing frantically, reshaping his body.
"Ha... haha..."
Deadpool twisted his newly grown neck, letting out a hair-raising, eerie laugh.
"Not bad, really not bad."
"This move is quite interesting; it actually froze me for three seconds."
He stepped toward Kuzan, ice shards falling to the ground with every step.
"As a reward, I will eat you clean, leaving not even a scrap of bone."
"I'll be taking your genes!"
Deadpool opened his mouth wide, the corners splitting to his ears, revealing a mouth full of shark-like teeth.
"If you can do it... then try it."
Kuzan braced himself against the ground, trying to stand up.
The stamina reserves of an Admiral were actually almost completely exhausted in just a few brief exchanges.
Dozens of pitch-black ice spears condensed from the void, shimmering with the dark light of Armament Haki, piercing toward Deadpool's vital points.
Deadpool let out a sneer and charged forward, not dodging or avoiding at all.
Puchi!
The ice spears pierced through his chest, abdomen, and thighs.
But his forward speed didn't slow down by even a fraction.
"Are you done playing with these outdated toys?"
"Goodbye, Navy Admiral."
"Your genes will shorten the evolution process of this planet by at least a hundred years."
Deadpool opened his maw, dark-red tentacles surging from deep within his throat.
In the distance, Smoker's eyes were nearly splitting from rage.
"Mr. Kuzan!!"
He charged frantically toward the center of the battlefield, only to be flipped over by the airwave generated by the battle's aftermath.
Just at this critical moment.
An extremely cold voice came from the shadows of the ice plain.
"Life Frequency Lock complete."
"Phase Compression Program, initiated.