[Witch's Flame Flower]: One of the Witch's Relic Sets. (2/4)
Collect both pieces for the set bonus: Gain 15% Pyro DMG Bonus.
Collect all four pieces for the following effects: Increases damage dealt by Overload, Burning, and Blazing reactions by 40%, increases the bonus coefficient of Vaporize and Melt reactions by 15%, and increases the effect of the two-piece set bonus by 50% for 10 seconds after using an Elemental Skill. This effect can stack up to 3 times.
The moment a flower that looked like it was burning with flames appeared, it merged into Damon's body.
At this moment, Damon felt that the connection between himself and his Zanpakuto had become closer, and he was able to unleash the power of the Zanpakuto more fully.
Zanpakuto are constructed based on the soul. If Damon wants to fully unleash the power of Bankai, both his body and soul need to reach a certain level of strength.
Theoretically, Ryujin Jakka's Bankai could release 15 million degrees Celsius from the sun's core, but Damon can currently only achieve one-three-thousandth of that, or 5000 degrees Celsius.
Despite possessing the power of fire element bestowed by the Eye of God, which allows Damon to control flames, when the temperature rises to 5000 degrees Celsius, it not only puts great pressure on Damon's soul but also severely damages his body.
High temperatures consume large amounts of oxygen in the air and produce large amounts of carbon dioxide, which is one type of harm.
The Zanpakuto in Damon's hand was reborn from a broken standard long sword. It is a sword with a spirit. In order to protect Damon from the high temperature, it does not actually exert a temperature of 5000 degrees Celsius.
This is why, when Damon was fighting with Warden Shiryu, Chief Warden Magellan said the following when he sensed the battle between the two.
"I have felt this terrifying power before, in Admiral Sakazuki of Akainu!"
"However, I have a strong feeling that this young man has not yet fully unleashed this power. Once he can fully master it, he may even surpass Admiral Sakazuki of Akainu!"
Now that Damon has collected two pieces of the Witch's Artifact Set, in addition to the obvious increase in fire element damage, the more important benefit is that it increases his resistance to damage from high-temperature flames.
Damon had a premonition that once he collected all four pieces of the Witch's Relic Set, he would be able to perfectly master the terrifying power of Ryujin Jakka's 15 million degree Celsius temperature.
Of course, that requires a bit of luck.
More than two hundred members of the Iron Hand Pirates were turned to ashes and disappeared into the snow.
Damon flicked the blood off the tip of his knife and turned around to see his fifty soldiers and Jewelry Bonney staring at him in disbelief.
Damon's squadron, belonging to the Fifth Battalion, was originally tasked with rushing straight to the royal city to rescue the royal family. However, when Damon heard the sounds of battle coming from here, he asked Momousagi Gion for permission to temporarily leave the team. After receiving permission, he came to the rescue and happened to save Jewelry Bonney.
Noticing everyone staring intently at him, Damon asked, somewhat puzzled:
"Do I have flowers growing on my face?"
Shu and the soldiers quickly shook their heads, then felt a surge of excitement in their hearts.
Being a naval officer is a high-risk profession. Every soldier is constantly on the line, never knowing when they might die on the battlefield. Therefore, every soldier longs for their superior to be a strong leader who can guide them from one victory to the next.
Without a doubt, Damon's performance was absolutely amazing.
You know, he's still just a child!
No one knows what other brilliant achievements Damon will be able to create in the future.
With such a superior, Master Sergeant Shu and the other soldiers immediately felt that their future was bright.
If this were an online game where you could see the stats of your subordinates, Shu and others would have a series of loyalty increase signals appearing above their heads.
Damon glanced at Jewelry Bonney, ignoring her intense gaze, and out of respect for her status as a member of the royal family of the Sobel Kingdom, turned to instruct Master Sergeant Shu:
"You lead your squad of 20 soldiers and protect her."
After saying this, Damon turned and left toward the royal city.
Intense explosions echoed continuously from the royal city, clearly indicating that a fierce battle was taking place.
Jewelry Bonney stared blankly at Damon's receding figure, a stream of blood gushing from her nose.
She raised her hand to wipe away the blood from her nose, thinking to herself:
"My Prince Charming, you can't escape my grasp!"
Damon ran as fast as he could, and the magnificent city walls of the royal city came into view ahead.
Large gray stone slabs were neatly arranged and stacked to form a city wall as high as twenty meters, tightly surrounding the royal city.
But now, a gigantic figure, far larger than the city wall, was violently pounding against it.
The enormous figure was constructed from a large number of metal objects in an orderly manner. The cannons that were originally mounted on the city wall could be clearly seen on its body. Electromagnetic arcs were faintly visible between its torso and limbs. The whole figure exuded a fierce and domineering aura. With a single palm strike, it easily blasted a wall down, and the royal soldiers guarding the city wall were instantly crushed into mincemeat.
At the center of the Magnetic Demon's torso sat a red-haired young man, his hair standing on end like a hedgehog, sunglasses perched on his forehead, resembling a demon king of chaos. His eyes flashed with a fierce light as he hurled insults at the Marines, including Momousagi Gion, who had come to provide support:
"From this day forward, I will make the whole world know the name of Kid!"
The Sobel Kingdom in the South Blue was a very quiet country, much like the taciturn nature of Kuma the Tyrant, and its architectural style was filled with tranquility and repression.
However, today, the sudden invasion of three pirate crews had shattered the peace of the Sobel Kingdom.
Gunfire, slaughter, and cries of agony filled the air.
A black flag with a white skull and crossbones fluttered in the wind. The skull, blade, and soul fire formed the unique symbol of the Kid Pirates. The blood of civilians who died tragically under the pirates' swords splattered on the flag, painting a layer of crimson blood on the skull's grinning face, adding a touch of sinister aura to it.
Since their debut, the Kid Pirates had quickly recruited scattered thugs from various islands. Through continuous annexation wars against other pirate crews, they absorbed a large number of pirate members, becoming the largest of the three invading pirate crews, with a total of 800 members.
A tall pirate, wielding a sharp blade, viciously plunged it into the body of the homeowner. The white blade went in and the red blade came out, blood splattering onto his black mesh clothing, but he seemed completely unconcerned.
He bent down and quickly stripped the valuable clothes off the commoners. He then ransacked the house. When he came out, his original shabby appearance was gone. He now wore a V-shaped headdress with a cape, a tiger-striped belt around his waist, black shorts with gold rings and deerskin boots, and a necklace with an axe ornament around his neck. Clearly, he had made quite a haul along the way.
After walking out of the house with satisfaction, he suddenly looked up, revealing a face smeared with black paint, and smiled at his friend Hit:
"Working for the captain is so great! This kind of life where you can kill and plunder at will is truly fascinating!"
Hit glanced at his friend Vaye, silently nodded in response, and then opened his large mouth, which resembled a patched scar, and spewed out high-heat fireballs that continuously landed on the tower-shaped houses on both sides of the street.
The stone and wood house was engulfed in flames. Under the red glow of the fire, the grotesque figure, resembling a zombie, looked ferocious, his entire body covered in blue-purple thorn stripes, like a demon emerging from the flames.
You might ask why these pirates killed and burned?
Aside from looting, it was all about the pleasure derived from trampling on the lives of others.
Humans are a very complex life form.
When a person is in a vulnerable position, they always hope that the world is full of fairness and justice, because they know very well that only in this way can they protect their right to life and property.
However, if a person suddenly possessed power that others could not resist, and if there was no external force to restrain them, they often became accustomed to stepping on others' heads and acting arrogantly, taking pleasure in enslaving and trampling on the lives of others, and had long since thrown so-called fairness and justice to the back of their minds.
Most of the members of the Kid Pirates were forced to risk going to sea to become pirates under the oppression of nobles and Celestial Dragons. However, after they acquired sharp blades and guns, they forgot who had brought them all the suffering. Instead, they inflicted the suffering they had endured on ordinary people weaker than themselves in doubled form, in order to gain twisted pleasure.
Hot blood splattered onto the cold white snow, staining the pure white snowfield a sinful crimson.
Pirates reveled in their freedom, laughing and shouting, while the bodies of civilians lay silently in pools of blood.
Whenever these pirates looked at the giant magnetic demon figure in the royal city, it was as if they had found a powerful backer to commit evil deeds.
When Rear Admiral Momousagi Gion led a group of marines on their way to the royal city, they were discovered by Killer, who was already on guard.
Killer was Eustass Kid's childhood friend and an important member of the Kid Pirates. Only this calm and collected individual could step forward and offer some advice when Eustass Kid was in a killing frenzy. If it were anyone else, they would have been killed along with Eustass Kid when he got carried away with the killing.
"Stop it, Kid, the area outside is full of Marines."
Eustass Kid turned around and saw that it was his good brother Killer wearing a mask, and immediately suppressed some of his fierceness.
Eustass Kid gazed at the approaching navy and arrogantly declared:
"A mere navy is not worth mentioning!"
Eustass Kid raised his arm toward Rear Admiral Momousagi Gion and the other Marines, immediately activating his Magnet-Magnet Fruit ability.
The group of marines gasped in surprise as they watched in astonishment as the swords and flintlock pistols in their hands were pulled away from them by some powerful force and merged into the giant body of the Magnetic Demon.
Momousagi Gion gripped the famous sword Kinpira tightly, trying to prevent it from suffering the same fate.
The famous sword Kinpira was continuously affected by the magnetic field, and the blade kept humming, forcing Momousagi Gion to keep a tight grip on the hilt at all times, but this also affected her subsequent battle.
As her beautiful eyes swept over the pirates present, a sense of unease settled between her brows.
"Killer the Punisher."
"Kid, the user of the Magnet-Magnet Fruit."
Upon hearing Momousagi Gion reveal his identity, two Punisher Scythes suddenly shot out from the metal bracers on Killer's wrist. The scythes spun clockwise, whistling through the air.
Killer looked at the beautiful rear admiral who was struggling to grip the hilt of her sword, and a calm voice came from behind his mask:
"Our Kid Pirates have no intention of being enemies with the Navy. After we've plundered the royal city, we'll leave and we'll keep to ourselves from now on. What do you think?"
Listen, was this human talk?
Momousagi Gion was almost laughing in anger, and said with extreme rage:
"You want me to compromise with you pirates?"
"Dream!"
Momousagi Gion gripped the hilt of the sword tightly, and Armament Haki, invisible to the naked eye, covered the blade, enhancing the sharpness of the famous sword Kinpira.
Immediately afterwards, Momousagi Gion took a few small steps in place and then suddenly disappeared from the spot.
Soru!
No, she didn't disappear. It was just that Momousagi Gion moved so fast that it gave people the illusion of disappearing.
Sprinting at a speed of 100 meters per second toward Killer, Momousagi Gion sneered at him and suddenly raised the sharp blade in her hand.
"Tear!"
The blade cleaved vertically down Killer's head and body, splitting his mask, which could stop stray bullets, in two, and causing a large amount of blood to spurt from a deep wound on his chest that exposed bone.
Drops of blood splattered on Momousagi Gion's delicate face, adding a touch of chilling beauty to her appearance.
Seeing his good friend fall to the ground, his life hanging in the balance, Eustass Kid flew into a rage.
"How dare you!"
The Magnetic Demon was surrounded by purple-blue electromagnetic arcs. The bleak cold wind blew the dark red coat on the red-haired young man, making a rustling sound, while revealing the black jacket that was open at the chest and the rock-like muscle lines.
Eustass Kid, who would become a Supernova of the Worst Generation ten years later, was certainly no fool. On the contrary, he possessed unique talent in combat and could tell at a glance that Momousagi Gion was incredibly strong, probably even stronger than himself at the moment.
If he wanted to defeat Momousagi Gion, he must first take away her famous sword, Kinpira!
With Eustass Kid's full power, a magnetic force several times stronger than usual concentrated on the famous sword Kinpira, and with extremely brute force, it was ripped from Momousagi Gion's hand.
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Upcoming chapter titles (spoilers):
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Chapter 52: The Death of Eustass Kid!!
Chapter 53: The Theft of Celestial Gold
Chapter 54: one against three
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