Chapter 296: The Battle Ends

At this moment in the battle, Kaido naturally had long since seen the outcome, yet this usually treacherous and cunning Great Pirate now had not the slightest thought of retreating.

The mace in his hand swung incessantly, while his entire body was wreathed in surging flames, causing the diamond arm that appeared on him to be burned to ashes in an instant; this strongest creature on land, sea, and air did not retreat a single step, engaging in the most primitive and ferocious battle of offense and defense with Momousagi.

"Do you need help? Admiral Momousagi?"

Tina wiped the bloodstains from her face and asked Momousagi, who was in the midst of an intense fight with Kaido; Momousagi took a moment to shout back: "No need... I can handle this guy by myself!"

"And Robin! Stop using your Devil Fruit Ability to interfere with Kaido! I refuse to believe I can't even beat a disabled man with a severed arm!"

Among Uchiha Feiyu's many women, the one who trained the most diligently, valued strength the most, and possessed the most pride of a powerhouse was certainly Momousagi; even Hancock, who was one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, was more narcissistic about her own beauty than she was in the pursuit of strength.

Because of this, facing the now-disabled Kaido, Momousagi truly steeled her heart, refusing to believe she couldn't take this guy down.

"Worororororo! I never thought I would end up in such a state today, but to think you alone could take my head—you underestimate me far too much!"

"I am Kaido of the Beasts!!!"

Accompanied by a massive roar, the mace in Kaido's hand swung out an attack like an air cannon, directly forcing Momousagi back several steps; Momousagi gave a cold snort: "You're just a Pirate! Even if it's just me alone, you are doomed to die today!"

In fact, if one were to talk about potential, Momousagi, who had developed the Artificial Azure Dragon Fruit to a level beyond Awakening and had her physique modified by Uchiha Feiyu, was already quite a bit stronger than the current Kaido.

During these past few days of fighting, the strength of these women under Uchiha Feiyu had been constantly improving; the reason the three Four Emperors pirate crews formulated a decapitation strategy was not least because these women's rate of progress was too fast, creating too much pressure on them.

It was just that realizing one's full potential was not an easy matter; even Momousagi, who had the highest fighting spirit, was currently only on par with Kaido in strength.

But now that Kaido had lost an arm, if Momousagi still lacked the confidence to win, she would never have been an Admiral candidate in the first place.

While Kaido and Momousagi were still locked in a life-and-death struggle, Shanks over there had already suffered a crushing defeat.

There was no helping it; Shanks's Haki was the strongest among the Four Emperors, but his physical strength was the exact opposite, arguably the weakest of the Four Emperors; he relied primarily on Haki and swordsmanship in battle, making him naturally countered by Robin.

Furthermore, lacking a body with tenacious vitality, his margin for error when facing the attacks of Hancock and Nami was deathly low; even with Haki for defense, he could not withstand many consecutive attacks.

And whether it was Hancock's Tremor-Tremor Fruit or Nami's Rumble-Rumble Fruit, both belonged to the category of Devil Fruits with extremely formidable attack power, so naturally, it took less than half an hour for this man with the most Haki on the sea to become a dead dog.

The sun on the horizon gradually rose, yet the battle between Kaido and Momousagi still had not ended; for powerhouses of the Four Emperors' level, fighting for days and nights was a perfectly normal occurrence.

Even though Kaido's strength was weakened by twenty percent due to his severed arm, relying on his tough body and top-tier Haki, he could still fight for at least another three or four days in a one-on-one against Momousagi.

The two were fighting intensely, but the palace on the back of the Sea King had been almost completely leveled—there was no help for it; with an area of over 20 square kilometers, it was certainly not small as a palace, but as an island, it was about the same as Kaido's Onigashima. The melee of so many powerhouses had already demolished most of the palace, and the few hours of fighting between Kaido and Momousagi had turned most of these artificial structures into ruins.

At this moment, their battle had reached the very center of the palace complex; sitting on the steps of the central bedchamber, Uchiha Feiyu yawned out of boredom:

"Tell me, how much longer are they going to fight? If they keep going, we won't even have a place to sleep tonight."

"Who told Momousagi-sister not to let us intervene! If you ask me, we should all just go together and beat that guy Kaido into a dead dragon within ten minutes!"

Princess Shirahoshi frowned as she spoke, and Uchiha Feiyu shook his head: "Forget it, this is Momousagi's opportunity; once she truly defeats Kaido, her potential will have been excavated just about enough..."

Just then, Kaido seemed to make a mistake, and was directly sent flying by Momousagi's Flying Slash, crashing toward Uchiha Feiyu's direction; Uchiha Feiyu narrowed his eyes slightly, the corners of his mouth curling into a sneer of disdain.

"So that's how it is... Even in such a desperate situation, you still want to have a go at me?"

Kaido, flying backward, twisted his body in mid-air and raised the mace in his hand; his eyes were bloodshot, his muscles bulged all over, and a wild smile appeared on his face:

"Wororororororo!! Even if I'm going to die, I'm going to die at the hands of the real Boss!!"

"Great Vengeful Vajra——Wrathful King!!"

Concentrating the strongest Haki Kaido had possessed since the start of the war, the mace, flickering with black lightning, almost appeared to bend as it swung; the incredible power caused the ground to crack before it even smashed toward Uchiha Feiyu's head.

However, Uchiha Feiyu merely extended a single finger, and boundless Haki transformed into a wall, blocking the descending mace from a distance.

With a loud 'Boom—', the entire giant Sea King was pushed down three or four meters by the force of that strike, yet the iron rod remained a dozen centimeters away from Uchiha Feiyu's finger, unable to sink any further.

A 'Crack! Crack!' sound rang out as countless fine cracks gradually appeared on the mace in Kaido's hand, eventually crumbling into dust with a 'whoosh', causing Kaido's eyes to shrink involuntarily.

He did not think this was the result of the impact between the two; although Kaido was very confident in his own strength, the iron rod in his hand was no ordinary object. This mace, known as Eight Trigrams, was not only of a quality no less than a Great Grade Sword, but it had also long been reinforced by Kaido's Haki, making it a supreme weapon that could be called a Black Blade, or rather, a Black Rod.

Coupled with the fact that his own Haki would also reinforce the weapon's strength, this outcome was certainly not the result of him using too much force, but rather the opponent relying on Haki emission to directly shatter his weapon! Shattering a weapon with Haki sounded like it wasn't too difficult, but in reality, not to mention the inherent strength of the Eight Trigrams mace itself, Kaido's Armament Haki alone was enough to make this mace indestructible.

In fact, as can be seen from the manga, even if the opponents have a large gap in strength, as long as they possess Haki, generally speaking, it is rare for one to have their weapon shattered by the other, because Haki itself is more inclined toward defense rather than attack power, so when clashing, the strength of the weapon is always greater than the attack power.

Kaido knew clearly in his heart that if Uchiha Feiyu could easily shatter his weapon with one finger without even making contact, then he could just as easily beat him into critical condition with one finger! "The gap... is it really this big? It's truly unimaginable..."

"Heh, I can only say you're unlucky. Just a short while ago, my Shura Body reached full completion; otherwise, if it were before, I would have had to spend a few more moves to deal with you without using any Devil Fruit Ability."

The reason Uchiha Feiyu was able to display the strength to kill top-tier powerhouses in seconds during the Summit War was largely due to the coordination of his various Devil Fruit Abilities.

The Dark-Dark Fruit countered all Devil Fruit users, the Vampire Fruit's life-drain countered all physical combatants, and the Momo-Momo Fruit's simple and brutal hundred-fold speed increase made his speed unreasonably fast, which resulted in all the top-tier powerhouses ending up defeated in his hands within a few moves.

Relying solely on physical constitution and Haki, although he was still a cut above the average top-tier powerhouse, he absolutely could not achieve a near-instant kill.

But now, after obtaining the Buddha Fruit, Uchiha Feiyu's realm had surged, his cultivation had grown by leaps and bounds, and after transforming into an avatar, he could exert his full strength in this world; it could be said that he was countless times stronger than he was during the Summit War, and a Four Emperors like Kaido had truly become a high-level grunt in his eyes.

"Worororororo, it looks like my luck is indeed terrible... I started a war with no hope of winning from the very beginning!"

Kaido laughed loudly, but at this moment, with a sharp shout, Konpira, imbued with a spirit of anger, pierced directly through him from the back!

"You bastard Pirate!! How dare you lie to me!! Launching a sneak attack on Feiyu-sama while fighting me!"

"Cough, cough, cough, I'm a Pirate; isn't deception a normal operation?"

Kaido looked at the sword tip protruding from his chest; surprisingly, he felt no anger, but instead showed an expression of relief: "But to be able to die in such an earth-shattering war, there's nothing to regret."

"Since there's nothing to regret, then you can close your eyes."

Uchiha Feiyu said indifferently, and then the power of the Dark-Dark Fruit was immediately activated; black aura enveloped Kaido's body, and after a moment, it was absorbed clean.

"Another Azure Dragon Fruit; this Devil Fruit is also quite good."

Kaido, having been completely absorbed, was like a mummy that had been dried out and had its moisture evaporated; Momousagi simply pulled Konpira back, and his body slowly peeled off like the wall plaster of an old house.

As more and more skin and muscle fell away, Kaido's corpse could not stand steady and tumbled to the ground, immediately shattering into fragments all over the floor like an ancient piece of pottery that had just been unearthed but not handled with care.

Whether it was Qi and Blood, Soul, or the Devil Fruit, everything had been completely drained by Uchiha Feiyu; Kaido, who was once called an Undying Body and whose body could not even be scarred by a Great Grade Sword, now left behind only fragments like dust on the ground.

"I'm sorry, Feiyu-sama!!"

Following Kaido's death, Momousagi, who was standing behind him, hurriedly prostrated herself, kneeling at Uchiha Feiyu's feet in a dogeza:

"It's all my fault; I shouldn't have kept fighting that guy Kaido one-on-one. I didn't expect that guy Kaido to be planning to sneak attack Feiyu-sama..."

"Alright, this matter isn't your fault."

Uchiha Feiyu didn't really care; in fact, in his view, among his harem, the one who was truly the most motivated was actually Momousagi, while the other women ultimately lacked a bit of the powerhouse's spirit.

"This Azure Dragon Fruit is yours. After eating this Devil Fruit, your original Artificial Devil Fruit should be able to be supplemented, and by then, your strength will have an even higher improvement."

Momousagi has now exhausted the potential of the Artificial Azure Dragon Fruit, even reaching a level beyond the fruit's Awakening, using the power of the Artificial Azure Dragon Fruit to overwhelm Kaido's genuine Azure Dragon Fruit, but this is also the limit of the Artificial Azure Dragon Fruit.

As for the genuine Azure Dragon Fruit, its limit is definitely much higher than that of the Artificial Azure Dragon Fruit; at the very least, among all the Mythical Zoan types Uchiha Feiyu knows of, apart from the Buddha Fruit, no other Mythical Zoan has a higher status than the Azure Dragon Fruit.

Seeing the Azure Dragon Fruit that Uchiha Feiyu handed to her, a look of joy, excitement, shame, and guilt all tangled together appeared on Momousagi's face.

A moment later, she took the Devil Fruit and took a bite of the Azure Dragon Fruit, feeling as if her original Devil Fruit Ability had been completed, and in an instant, it improved significantly.

"Thank you, Lord Feiyu. Tonight, I will properly repay you..."

Momousagi looked at Uchiha Feiyu with her watery eyes and said in a low voice.

"Then I shall look forward to it!"

Uchiha Feiyu raised an eyebrow and said, and although he said he was looking forward to it, he didn't actually care much.

These women, who could no longer leave him due to the dual effects of the Heavenly Demon Secret and the Dual Cultivation Technique, had already offered everything they could from the very beginning, and every way to play had already been played, so Uchiha Feiyu really couldn't think of what new tricks Momousagi could possibly have.

"Alright, let's not talk about this for now. Since these Pirates are either dead or have surrendered, the next step is to directly attack Wano Country. Without the elite backbone of the three Four Emperors pirate crews, the remaining Pirates will be much easier to deal with."

The three Four Emperors pirate crews had sent almost all their backbone members with bounties over 300 million this time; besides being powerful, these people were also important officers of their respective pirate crews, and the impact of their total annihilation was not just an imbalance in high-level strength, but also left the underlings below without command; they wouldn't even need to be attacked, as once the intelligence leaked, those Pirates would likely surrender directly.

(End of this chapter)