Chapter 136

Blackbeard suddenly slammed both hands onto the ground.

Surging black water, like a curtain, enveloped the entire ground.

Crocodile's expression shifted slightly.

"What is this thing?"

"This is the power of the Dark-Dark Fruit I obtained after killing Ace!"

Blackbeard let out a cackling laugh:

"Taste its might, Sand Crocodile!"

123. The terror of Blackbeard and Sand Crocodile, the fearsome reputation of the Beasts Pirates!

The Blackbeard Pirates and Baroque Works initiated a team battle.

Because Baroque Works had more members, Blackbeard could not this time fight without honor as he did when ambushing Fire Fist Ace.

Yet although the Blackbeard Pirates numbered only five, each member possessed considerable strength.

In comparison,

the officers of Baroque Works, apart from Mr. 1 Daz Bonez and Mr. 2 Bon Clay, were mostly mere cannon fodder in terms of strength; very few could wield Haki.

The expression on Sand Crocodile Crocodile's face, starting with contempt, gradually turned Solemn, and finally darkened into a gloom like storm clouds.

He had underestimated Blackbeard's strength.

He had even more underestimated the strangeness of the Dark-Dark Fruit!

The power of darkness could actually prevent his Sand-Sand Fruit from elementalizing!

This made Crocodile, who was not particularly skilled in body techniques and was accustomed to dodging attacks via elementalization, extremely uncomfortable.

In just a few exchanges, he had already suffered two heavy blows from Blackbeard, coughing blood at the corner of his mouth, and sustaining not a light injury.

Had it not been for the abnormal cells he had eaten before, which enhanced his physique and speed, he might even have been killed by Blackbeard just now!

This situation made the senior officers of Baroque Works feel disbelief and terror!

Their superior, the fearsome my lord, was actually at a disadvantage?

There was a risk of defeat!

The opponent was not that strongest man in the world, Whitebeard!

Nico Luo Bin, who had rushed from the palace at the very end, was equally shocked.

However, compared to the other senior officers, she was calmer.

After all, since escaping from Ohara at the age of eight, she had experienced countless unexpected dangers.

Nico Luo Bin's eyes darted; she had no intention of joining the battle, but instead quietly retreated.

Crocodile might be defeated; that black fellow had come with ill intent.

But perhaps this was also her chance to break free from Crocodile's control.

Amidst the chaos, if she took Cobra away, she could go alone to seek the Poneglyphs!

However.

Luo Bin failed to retreat successfully; Blackbeard had already noticed her.

"You are the Devil's Child Nico Luo Bin, are you not? Zehahaha! I never expected you to be hiding here with Sand Crocodile; no wonder the World Government searched everywhere and could not find you!"

Greedy light flashed in Blackbeard's eyes.

"Sand Crocodile is about to be finished off. Nico Luo Bin, why not join my crew? I guarantee I will protect you just like Sand Crocodile did!"

Luo Bin was the only person on the seas, apart from the Kozuki clan of Wano Country, who could read the Poneglyphs.

Therefore,

even great figures including the Four Emperors all wished to keep Luo Bin under their control.

"Sand Storm!"

A massive sandstorm suddenly rose from nowhere.

Whether members of the Blackbeard Pirates or officers of Baroque Works, all were flung away by this suddenly appearing sandstorm.

Furthermore, several nearby buildings were blown down by the gale.

Thump, thump, thump~

Blackbeard himself rolled several times on the ground before finally stopping his motion.

"Sand Crocodile, you bastard!"

Blackbeard wiped the blood from his head and looked at Crocodile with a grim face.

Who else present, besides Crocodile, could unleash such a massive sandstorm?

Crocodile said in a chilling tone:

"Blackbeard, you take me far too lightly!"

"You want to replace my Warlord of the Sea position? You want to snatch Nico Luo Bin?"

"You blackish turtle, you truly dare to dream the impossible!"

Although Sand Crocodile had suffered a significant loss in his recent battle with Blackbeard due to his unfamiliarity with the Dark-Dark Fruit's abilities,

he possessed a talent for a fifty-fifty draw, a talent that was originally supposed to awaken only during the Summit War.

However, because he had eaten Luo Xing's abnormal cells, Sand Crocodile had obtained this ability ahead of time, allowing him to trade blows with anyone.

With his subordinates outnumbering the enemy, it would not be easy for Blackbeard to defeat him, Crocodile.

With words spoken to this extent, it was obvious that both sides would now fight in earnest.

The victor becomes king, the vanquished becomes a bandit; this is the eternal rule of this sea!

However.

Just as Blackbeard and Crocodile were about to resume their fierce battle,

Behind the few buildings just destroyed by the sandstorm, two burly and majestic figures emerged.

Seeing there was no cover left, the two stopped hiding and walked out directly.

One of them, a towering figure over ten meters tall with two long tusks protruding from the back of his head, went straight to the very center of the Wang Gong, looked down upon Blackbeard and Crocodile, and sneered:

"You two, come at me together. Before the Young Master arrives, I, this great lord, will take care of both of you!"

"Hey, hey, hey, Lord Jack, you can't steal all the credit like that! You must leave some for me!"

The other figure also walked over, nearly ten meters tall, with a pair of scarlet wings growing on his back.

The moment these two appeared, a fierce, barbaric aura filled the entire Wang Gong.

It seemed as if these two were terrifying ferocious beasts from ancient times!

And after clearly seeing the two men's faces,

Crocodile, Blackbeard, and even their respective subordinates all instinctively drew in a sharp breath of cold air.

Blackbeard widened his eyes and said in disbelief:

"The Beasts Pirates, the top commander Disaster Jack, and the Tobiroppo Fuga Fu, you are appearing here?"

"Does that mean you have been following behind me all along?"

Nowadays, the Beasts Pirates are so famous across the seas that they are hailed as the strongest of the Four Emperors' crews.

Except for Luo Xing, the famous and named strongmen of the Beasts Pirates had their photos spread throughout the four seas; everyone knew them, and no one was unaware of them.

How could these two ambitious men, Blackbeard and Crocodile, who both harbored delusions of ruling the world, not pay extra attention to the increasingly powerful Beasts Pirates?

Nico Luo Bin was equally frightened, her pretty face turning slightly pale.

She was somewhat panicked; why did the Beasts Pirates appear here?

Did they also come for the Poneglyphs and the Ancient Weapon Pluton?

The appearance of Jack and Fuga Fu made the Wang Gong, which had been fighting fiercely just moments before, instantly fall into dead silence.

On everyone's face, there was an expression of shock and dread, more or less.

Even the arrogant Crocodile and Blackbeard were the same.

Fuga Fu looked at Blackbeard and chuckled:

"It seems you are not stupid after all. Originally, in the desert, we planned to kill you, but the Young Master said you still have some use, so we decided to let you live for a while longer."

Fuga Fu's words made Blackbeard even more terrified.

They wanted to kill him in the desert?

When did that happen? How did he not notice it at all?

Burgess, Lafitte, and the others felt their hair stand on end.

They had just brushed past the Grim Reaper, yet they knew nothing about it!

It seems they were indeed too arrogant during this period, relaxing their vigilance, so they failed to notice the approach of danger in time.