pertwk Chapter 223 Ragnarok, the Bloodstained Game in the Valley of the Gods
Chapter 223 Ragnarok, the Bloodstained Game in the Valley of the Gods
Chapter 223 Ragnarok, the Bloodstained Game in the Valley of the Gods
On the other side, the centaur Leona showcased another extreme form of death art.
As a mythical beast species with the potential to become a general, Leona's perfect centaur body galloped across the icy plains. Her movements were agile and light, and the rhythm of each hoofbeat seemed to tread on the hearts of her enemies. Her full, snowy breasts trembled slightly with each draw of the alloy heavy bow, displaying a vibrant and beautiful beauty.
"Starfall: Stream of Light Shotgun!"
Leona's eyes were cold and aloof. Her left hand gripped the heavy bow tightly, while her right hand tapped the bowstring with her fingers, creating a series of afterimages.
call out!
call out!
call out!
What was originally just a single golden arrow mysteriously split into thousands upon thousands of golden rays in mid-air, like a magnificent meteor shower falling from the sky. Those naval officers and soldiers who considered themselves powerful could only desperately swing their weapons in the face of this all-around, all-encompassing attack, yet they were still pierced through the throats by the arrows imbued with ultimate domineering power.
Faced with Leona's near-miraculous archery skills, the three nearby vice admirals instantly realized that if they continued to fight individually, only death awaited them, especially given the clearly unfavorable situation for the navy in the open sea. This was the best option.
"Form ranks! Don't let her rhythm get the better of you!"
The one who spoke was Vice Admiral "Iron Wall" Bastian of the Marine Headquarters. He suddenly ripped off his Justice Cloak, revealing his steel-like back. He, along with "Breakout" Kane, who was skilled with long-handled weapons, and Lafargue, who possessed the rare "Paramecia-type Gravity-Pressure Fruit" ability, quickly formed a triangular formation and moved closer together.
Bastian roared, his domineering aura surging wildly, forming a tangible barrier in front of the three.
A black, imposing barrier, like a city wall.
"Kane, Lafargue, cover my advance. Once I get close, the centaurs' arrows will be useless."
"Gravity Field - 100x Suppression!"
Lieutenant General Lafargue slammed his hands onto the ice, and an extremely heavy gravitational wave rapidly spread out from him, attempting to forcibly slow down Leona's elusive movement. The ice field groaned under the ravages of his power, and countless huge cracks spread like a spider web towards Leona's feet.
However, faced with this gravity field that could instantly crush an ordinary pirate into a meat patty, Leona merely let out a contemptuous sneer.
Her centaur-like body, a work of art, arched slightly backward, her full, snowy breasts drawing a stunning arc under her tight hunting attire. She exerted force with all four hooves, and the heavy gravity seemed to have no effect on her, instead becoming a springboard for her to leap.
"Gravity is nothing but shackles in the face of the free wind."
Leona's voice was ethereal yet chilling. At that moment, the alloy heavy bow "Star Piercer" in her hand burst forth with a dazzling golden light, and her slender fingers plucked the bowstring rapidly, creating a series of phantom-like finger movements.
"Centaur Secret Technique: Nine Sunsets!"
call out!call out!call out!
Nine heavy arrows, wreathed in golden-red flames and black, domineering lightning, slashed through the sky in a fan shape. Each arrow frantically absorbed energy from the atmosphere as it flew, swelling to tens of meters in length, like nine falling meteors, carrying a pressure powerful enough to pierce stars, and crashed head-on into Bastian's domineering shield.
Boom! ...
The first arrow shattered the outer gravity barrier; the third arrow exploded with countless cracks on the dark "Iron Wall" shield; and when the fifth arrow fell, Lieutenant General Bastian let out a scream as his arms cracked loudly due to the terrifying penetrating force.
"Damn it! This penetrating power—this isn't an arrow, it's a meteorite!"
Seeing the defenses about to collapse, Lieutenant General Kane leaped like a cheetah, his spear whirling through the air as he tried to deflect the remaining arrows. However, the most terrifying aspect of Leona's archery was not its power, but its unpredictable trajectory.
The remaining four arrows mysteriously folded and turned in mid-air, bypassing Kane's defenses and locking onto the three men's vital points at tricky angles.
"not good!"
Lieutenant General Lafargue tried in panic to contract the gravitational field to defend himself, but it was too late.
A murderous glint flashed in Leona's eyes. She suddenly drew her right hand to the Full Moon, and a transparent "Shadowless Arrow," condensed from the ultimate Armament Haki, was silently nocked.
"Star Eclipse - Fleeting Light and Vanishing".
With a soft twang of the bowstring, the arrow seemed to pierce through space, instantly appearing before Lafargue's brow. Under the extreme threat of death, Lafargue only had time to let out a short, mournful cry before his entire head was instantly vaporized by the concentrated energy.
A vice admiral with the potential to become an admiral and who was proficient in the Gravity Fruit has fallen. This is the second, but certainly not the last, vice admiral to die.
"Lafargue!" Bastian and Kane, their eyes bloodshot, rushed toward Leona without regard for anything else.
Faced with the imminent attack, Leona suddenly kicked her long, powerful legs backward, the immense force shattering the ice field hundreds of meters behind her and sending Lieutenant General Kane, who was attempting a sneak attack, flying.
Immediately afterwards, she drew a specially made "armor-piercing heavy arrow" for close combat, using the bowstring as a blade. As she dodged Bastian's heavy punch, the arrow tip sliced across his throat like a venomous snake.
Fresh blood gushed out like a fountain onto the cold ice surface.
Leona stood before the two swaying vice admirals, slowly sheathing her longbow. Her breasts, slightly undulating from the intense battle, combined with her cold, mature aura, created a breathtakingly cruel beauty.
"Your 'justice' is worthless before the truth of the sea."
She no longer looked at the desperate marines, but turned to look at Brian's Beast Warship, which had completely entered the inland waterway. At that moment, her gaze became extremely gentle and adoring.
That was the only master of their monster girl army, and also the only true god of this sea in the future.
As Rocks, with the almost godlike awakening power of the Dark-Dark Fruit, forcibly tore open the "Blood Path of the Underworld" through the raging ocean, this forbidden land, which had been sealed off by the World Government for eight hundred years, finally revealed its most decaying yet magnificent core, like a treasure box that had been violently dismantled.
The Valley of the Gods, a sacred sea that even birds were forbidden to enter, has now become a meat grinder where gods have fallen.
The air here was no longer fresh; instead, it had become thick and heavy, like lead. With every breath, one could feel the salty stench of seawater evaporating at extreme temperatures, the pungent scorching of heavy gunpowder explosions, and the nauseating stench of decay emanating from the expensive perfumes worn by the Celestial Dragons, who usually considered themselves gods, mixed with terrified sweat and warm blood.
Looking around, the central altar on the island, not particularly large, carved from a single block of pure white marble and supposedly sacred and inviolable, was now riddled with dark purple cracks resembling the jaws of a giant beast, stretched taut by Lox's violent gravity. The magnificent Baroque buildings, adorned with countless jewels, crumbled like paper in the lingering shockwaves of the powerful figures' overwhelming aura.
The muddy model usually trembles.
Those guarding this place are no longer ordinary marines, but the World Government's true trump card, clad in white robes...
The CP0's top agents wearing eerie masks, and the God's Knights, clad in ancient noble armor, with haughty and cold eyes.
This is the true "battle of the pinnacles," the ultimate reckoning between mortals and false gods.
On this battlefield, even the most renowned naval vice admirals are merely qualified to receive a ticket to enter this inferno. Only those admiral-level monsters, standing atop the seas and capable of destroying islands with a mere gesture, are qualified to decide the future of this world with blood and fire on this crumbling land.
"Heh heh heh heh! Sengoku, your broken Buddha statue has been dangling in front of me for far too long. I'm sick and tired of looking at your hypocritical face. Get down here and bury yourself in this seabed!"
A familiar sound came from inside the sea. The battle between the Golden Lion and the Sengoku had been moved from the outer sea to the inner sea and was still going on. They were still fighting fiercely.
Shiki the Golden Lion's golden hair flew wildly in the wind like a mad lion. His wild laughter even drowned out the continuous explosions on the battlefield. The "Sakura Ju" and "Kikura" he held tightly in his hands had long been dyed a deep purplish-black by Conqueror's Haki, and even drew out strands of dark red arcs of electricity in the void.
With a magnificent side spin in the air, two enormous golden sword energies, stretching thousands of meters and powerful enough to cleave through the clouds, intersected. These two sword energies not only sliced through the air but also left two bottomless trenches in the sea below, which were forcibly cleaved open and could not be closed for a long time.
Shiki's eyes blazed with a fanatical fascination with destruction. He suddenly grabbed at the air with his fingers, and the wreckage of several 10,000-ton naval battleships that had been lying dormant in the inner sea channel of God Valley suddenly burst out of the sea as if defying gravity, accompanied by a deafening metallic twisting sound.
"Float Fruit, Lion's Might, Hell Ritual!"
As Shiki pressed his hands down into the air, the massive steel debris was forcibly kneaded and compressed in mid-air, mixing with seabed reefs and lava, instantly transforming into more than a dozen "steel tombstones" burning fiercely. Each tombstone weighed over ten thousand tons, and with the extreme speed boost from the Float-Float Fruit's power, it hurtled down on Sengoku with a sharp whistling sound as it rubbed against the atmosphere, forming a blockade.
At that moment, it seemed as if the sky was collapsing, and the sunlight over the entire inland sea was completely blocked by these huge shadows.
"Shiki! Under this banner of justice, I will not allow you demons to step another step onto the altar! Even if it costs me my life!"
Faced with this earth-shattering offensive, the golden Buddha that the Warring States had transformed into let out a roar as loud as a bell, powerful enough to cleanse the soul. His hundred-meter-tall golden body burst forth with a light more dazzling than the blazing sun, and the dense Buddhist light almost forcibly dispelled the darkness around him that had been swallowed by the Dark Fruit.
Sengoku clasped his hands together and then thrust them forcefully into the sky, compressing his domineering aura and shockwave to the extreme.
"The Profound Meaning of the Great Buddha - All Buddhas Pay Homage - Ultimate!!"
boom-!!!
boom-!!!
boom-!!!
A massive golden beam of light, hundreds of meters in diameter, shot into the sky and slammed head-on into the center of the falling steel tombstones. The first piece of warship wreckage that crashed down, upon contact with the golden shockwave, began to violently disintegrate and vaporize at the atomic level, just like porcelain struck by a heavy hammer.
Immediately following were the second and third explosions—a continuous barrage of explosions that stretched across the Valley of the Gods, the resulting shockwaves transforming into ring-shaped storms powerful enough to destroy the town, instantly pulverizing the already crumbling white jade pillars surrounding the altar.
These two "old rivals" at the summit of the ocean had already left countless shimmering golden and dark afterimages in mid-air. Every clash of fists, feet, and sword energy caused the space to tremble violently.
Shiki flashed and instantly appeared behind the Buddha's head, his twin swords slashing down: "Lion - Thousand Cut Valley!"
Dozens of crescent-shaped slashes, powerful enough to slice through an island, swept across the sky. Sengoku snorted coldly, and his golden body made an extremely agile backward lean in mid-air, while his right palm, carrying a tidal wave of shockwaves, struck out in a backhand motion.
"Thump!"
That was the most primal collision between metal and divine power, and the resulting impact directly flattened the forest of the Valley of Gods below for several kilometers.
Throughout the battle, Sengoku maintained a degree of composure. He knew very well that Rocks had led that monster army into the inner sea of God Valley, but the golden lion before him was like a greedy, hungry wolf. If he were to lose focus, God Valley's last line of defense would collapse even faster.
"Shiki, if you have the guts, fight me to the death at 10,000 meters in the air!"
Sengoku feinted, using the recoil to suddenly rise higher, attempting to lure this incredibly destructive "lion" away from the core area of the Valley of the Gods.
"Heh heh heh heh! Trying to distract me? Sengoku, I can guess what you're up to with my eyes closed! But I've been annoyed by those ants down there anyway. Since you want to die in the clouds, I'll grant your wish!"
Shiki laughed wildly, his body spinning rapidly in the air, creating a black tornado that chased after Sengoku's golden figure as it soared into the sky.
The two fought their way from the surface of the inland sea to the clouds, and then plummeted into the deep valley. Each collision caused a massive geological transformation of the Valley of the Gods' interior. Once flat grasslands turned into scorched earth and deep craters, and magnificent palaces were reduced to ruins.
"It's not over yet! Warring States Period!"
At an altitude of ten thousand meters, the air was terrifyingly thin, but Shiki's aura reached its peak. He suddenly spread his arms wide, unleashing the power of the Float-Float Fruit to a godlike level.
"Shishiwei·Gosho Scroll!"
The thick rain clouds in the sky began to churn and condense violently at his will, eventually transforming into several enormous cloud lions thousands of meters long. Each cloud lion's body was wrapped with heavy rocks that Shiki had gathered from all over the world, and they swooped down with the force of thunder.
"Before justice, all illusions turn to dust!"
Warring States period, eyes wide open, and behind him appeared the phantom of a thousand-armed Buddha.
"Thousand-Armed Great Sun Tathagata Seal!"
Countless golden palm prints ripped through the sky, each palm precisely shattering the head of a cloud lion. The two fought fiercely amidst the sea of clouds, with black and red overlord-colored lightning raining down, blasting huge whirlpools into the sea below.
The battle between Shiki and Sengoku was just the beginning. The entire God Valley Inland Sea seemed to have been turned on by the battle between the two, and began to descend into madness.
A sense of anxiety swept through Sengoku's heart. He could feel the atmosphere below becoming increasingly strange. The name of Rocks was still too resounding, but at this moment, there was nothing more he could do.
"Where are you looking, Sengoku period!"
Shiki caught Sengoku's momentary lapse in concentration, combined his two swords, and brought down a destructive aura powerful enough to sever an era.
"Cherry Blossom Ten, Withered Tree, Lion Burial!"
A string of dazzling sparks flew from the Buddha's shoulder, and golden scales scattered in the air. Sengoku roared in pain and clamped his palms tightly around Shiki's sword. The two were locked in a fierce struggle at an altitude of ten thousand meters.