Chapter 228: Five Consecutive Kills

Shanks looked at those gleaming Shuxing Zhuanhuangi,

as if a suspicion in his heart had been confirmed,

the thick, almost fog-like Dragon Crystal energy was being continuously transformed in attribute by the Shuxing Zhuanhuangi held in the Navy soldiers' hands.

It became clusters of grey-black Yin energy.

"Damn, this is insane, could the Navy be trying to…"

Sensing the increasingly dense Yin energy, Long's eyes suddenly widened,

Dragon Blood boiled, Dragon-man form.

The Revolutionary Army Leader, covered all over in cyan scales, the Wind Dragon Bloodline naturally granted him the ability to control airflow; with just a light leap, his figure appeared not far from Smoker.

He had to stop it,

"Stupid son, your old man's come to teach you a harsh lesson!"

Garp had no means to manipulate airflow,

but Inazuma Dance was a combat technique pushed to the extreme, his whole body moving as swift as lightning, leaving only an electric afterimage at his original spot.

His arm, coated with Armament Haki and empowered by Scatter Punch, swung out, and a single punch split the earth apart.

"The Navy has truly gone mad, trying to hog the Pollution Lord all for themselves?"

A pair of cyan Dragon Scale arms rose up to block the descending fist,

though both were flesh and blood, the impact produced the sound of metal colliding.

Several Dragon Scales on his arm were shattered outright by Garp's brute force, the ground beneath his feet crumbled, and Long's entire body sank down into a deep pit.

"Don't say such stupid things."

Garp was clumsy with words,

unwilling to argue with people, especially family; the best way to communicate feelings was through fist-to-fist combat.

"Poison-Toxic Dark Monkey!"

Doflamingo's face darkened,

a Puppet Master's physical constitution was on the low side, utterly unable to withstand the erosion of the Poison Dragon Crystal and Yin energy; in just a few short minutes, he had drunk two bottles of Life Recovery Potion.

He had to deal with Smoker first.

The emaciated monkey capable of devouring Venom screeched as it charged at Smoker, but was blocked by bone-chillingly cold air.

"My apologies, Heavenly Yaksha."

Riding a newly redeemed snowmobile, Kuzan slid rapidly along the ice path he had created,

the snow wave kicked up by the brakes froze the Poison-Toxic Dark Monkey solid.

"The Poison-Toxic Dark Monkey is a Third Tier Magic Beast capable of crushing a Five-Star Great Battle Master, yet it can be frozen solid—looks like Admiral Kuzan has redeemed a new ability too?"

Doflamingo's vicious gaze was hidden behind his goggles,

he asked curiously: "Can you tell me how many Reward Points you spent?"

"No."

Kuzan carefully put away the snowmobile worth five thousand Reward Points,

it was expensive because it contained a special energy source within.

It came from the Ski Safari world; he only needed to perform various flashy tricks, such as backflips or sustained sliding, and the snowmobile would accumulate ice-snow energy to amplify himself.

Far more powerful than his old bicycle.

"No problem, Aokiji."

Doflamingo's forehead veins bulged, yet he still wore a smile as he said: "I can tell you that the number of Reward Points I spent is three hundred thousand!"

Since the Samsara Game descended,

to a certain extent, the amount of Reward Points spent became the key to judging a player's strength.

Because the more Reward Points spent, the stronger the abilities the player redeemed, and the higher the quality of their equipment.

Swish.

A Mechanical Puppet emerged on his right arm, spewing scorching flames that covered the battlefield.

Doflamingo sneered: "The Lv. 19 Fire Cloud Arm, the mechanical flames it spouts exceed the temperature of the Magma-Magma Fruit, and happen to be the perfect counter to ice-attribute abilities."

"That's why I say, don't underestimate a Puppet Master!"

Blazing flames engulfed Aokiji's body.

A voice suddenly rang out, "The Ice-Ice Fruit does have its limits, but I've already found a new direction from within the Samsara Game."

Crack.

Icy breath spread out, freezing the scorching flames into icy mist.

An ice arrow pierced through the ice layer, nearly piercing the Heavenly Yaksha's heart, but was fortunately blocked by the summoned Fire Cloud Arm.

The arrow left a deep groove on the Puppet arm made of special materials.

"Magic?"

Doflamingo sensed the fluctuation emanating from the ice arrow, and before he could react,

Aokiji had already suddenly appeared before his eyes, a chill seeping into his very bones.

"Close-combat ice Magic!"

Wielding the ice bow, he directly sent Doflamingo, who had raised his arm to block, flying.

Aokiji exhaled a puff of mist,

his palm pressed against his chest, his heart pounding, yet he felt not the slightest warmth.

【Dark Eye】: a special substance born in Mo Jie, containing a vast source of life energy.

It originated from a group of extreme Mages who lived under extremely harsh survival conditions and would stop at nothing to defeat their opponents.

When they were researching dark magic, they discovered the existence of the Dark Eye, and to pursue endless magical power, they transplanted it, replacing the original heart with the Dark Eye.

Ice-Ice Fruit,

Even the strongest freezing is still a low-level technique without the slightest trace of energy.

But after transplanting the Dark Eye, the freezing Aokiji releases is mingled with magical aura, surpassing the Ice-Ice Fruit by several times over.

"Heh heh heh heh heh, I don't want to fight you!"

Doflamingo, furious to the extreme, laughed: "I only need to hold you off. I don't believe Hawkeye and Red-Hair will sit by and watch the Navy's scheme succeed."

"That much, I won't trouble you to worry about."

As the words fell,

they saw Vice Admiral Tsuru, who had always stayed aboard the Navy Warship serving as strategist and wisdom, suddenly appear on Death Island.

"Adamantine Sealing Chains!"

Vice Admiral Tsuru pulled out a Ninja Scroll,

and upon releasing it, countless iron chains shot up into the sky, piercing through the hearts of the Navy's high-ranking officers, and then the lower-ranking Navy soldiers.

Like a massive formation, with nearly ten thousand Navy soldiers supplying energy, it firmly locked down Hawkeye, Red-Hair, and the others.

"The Navy's greatest advantage is unity!"

"Although the Pirates also have many top-tier players, even if they can barely cooperate, they're still a scattered bunch, and will clash with each other over all sorts of situations."

"Although the Revolutionary Army is equally united, their numbers are too low to oppose the Navy at all."

"I never expected Sengoku to truly seek life within death, fighting a broad road for Marine Headquarters."

From beginning to end,

Fang Yi knew of Sengoku's all-in plan,

wanting to use the 【Dragon Crystal】 and 【Shuxing Zhuanhuangi】 to gather massive amounts of Yin energy in a short time.

Because Fang Yi had revealed to everyone that the Pollution Lord's several resurrections all required slowly accumulating Yin energy, so every time the Pollution Lord died, Death Island would be sealed off for a period.

Everyone heard it clearly,

but only Fleet Admiral Sengoku remembered these words and put them into action, betting everything Marine Headquarters had.

A Fu asked in confusion: "Doesn't the old man fear losing everything?"

Fang Yi said with a smile: "I am afraid, but there's no other way."

If the viewpoint follows Caomao Lufei, then indeed most of the Navy are good-for-nothings.

But the fact that Sengoku can be called a strategist is precisely because of his far-sighted vision.

Originally, the World Government and the Navy had a relationship of mutual dependence; at most the World Government was somewhat dominant, with the Navy in a supporting role.

Neither could do without the other.

The Navy needed massive logistical support, and the World Government needed someone to patrol Si Hai on their behalf.

But the appearance of the Samsara Game shattered this structure. As long as the World Government was willing, it could completely cast off the Navy and fight alone, without the slightest loss.

But the Navy would fall apart,

and at best would become small-scale Navy organizations drifting around Si Hai — that could no longer be called a Navy, but a pirate crew!

Therefore,

once the Fleet Admiral's decision showed the slightest hesitation or mistake, it would cause the Navy to vanish completely from this sea.

No one saw it — only Sengoku did.

Thus he sold off Marine Headquarters, not to cultivate large numbers of top-tier players, but to purchase a full five Apollo Bombs, as well as a device that could accelerate the Pollution Lord's resurrection.

He was betting Marine Headquarters' fate on the Samsara Game!

(End of this chapter)