Chapter 307

"Better than nothing—"

"Everyone, hurry up and get the Devil Fruits that can be directly plucked from the canopy."

"Be careful when searching, don't miss a single one!!"

Locke waved his hand in annoyance.

On the canopy.

The World Government clearly clears it regularly. The fruits that are truly summoned and condensed must have all been taken away by them. From that shadow person in the mirror space, one knows how much they value this place; the level of defense is comparable to Impel Down.

It is definitely impossible for them to let the fruits mature on the canopy and be discarded.

Especially the powerful top-tier fruits at the top of the canopy; nine times out of ten, they are harvested right on time. This explains why the World Government can possess so many powerful fruits, especially the three Marine Admirals; basically, every generation has top-tier fruit ability users.

It is only the middle and lower-tier fruits, which are vast in number, that might have some fish that slipped through the net.

However, for Locke.

It's all the same.

Anyway, they are all treated as energy essences. Whether it's the Tremor-Tremor Fruit or the Book-Book Fruit, it makes basically no difference to Locke. Anyway, he never thought about eating a Devil Fruit and adding a characteristic of fearing the sea and being restrained by Seastone for nothing.

Wouldn't that be asking for trouble!!

Powerful power, there are plenty in the Teigu; among the forty-eight national treasures, there is always one that meets your needs.

"Let's get started!"

Locke rubbed his hands.

He was the first to rush to the top of the ancient tree.

"Put it down, Your Highness~"

Leone was full of energy; she was the first to successfully harvest one, and her face was full of confidence.

"I will follow your instructions~"

Najenda commanded the Three Imperial Beasts, turning directly into white light and shuttling through the forest, a strange glow bursting in her eyes, as if she were carefully inspecting something on the dense branches of the ancient tree.

"Yes!"

Esdeath responded coldly.

However, the expression in her eyes was incredibly serious. With a tap of her toes, she rushed forward without the slightest carelessness.

"Me! Me! Me!"

"I won't lose easily either!"

Akame and Yoru looked at each other, both seeing the thick fighting spirit in each other's eyes. With Armament Haki added to their bodies, plus the techniques of the Six Powers, they rushed directly onto the canopy.

Competing and grabbing, not falling behind in the slightest.

A fruit-searching activity on the canopy had turned into a small competition for everyone to compete privately.

Locke saw everything in his eyes.

However, he didn't say anything. Conflict and competition within a small group are normal. As long as it is healthy competition that is beneficial to everyone, he couldn't be bothered to care, and was even somewhat happy to see it happen.

An environment of stagnant water is not the comfort zone he wants.

——

God Valley battlefield.

"Bastard!"

"What exactly do you want to do?"

Silver Axe's muffled roar came from under his armor.

On his silver-white armor, various gases carried by smoke had left indelible marks.

Red, yellow, green, purple...

Not only was his armor beaten into a colorful mess by Mo Ansi, but Silver Axe himself was also hammered into a daze. The smoke-carrying gas attacks were not just extracted from the air—hydrogen, helium, oxygen, nitrogen...

These messy pure gases.

And the smoke, poison gas, and swamp gas that he himself had spent a lot of effort to stack and extract from various places... were all smashed onto Silver Axe without restraint, as if they didn't cost anything.

He had the posture of wanting to fight him to the death.

"Are you crazy?!"

Silver Axe, who was almost stunned by the series of attacks, felt terrible.

The whole field was slacking off.

Even Whitebeard, who was always upright and serious, wasn't fighting that desperately. Ordinary pirates were fighting to the death, but the high-end Admiral/Emperor-level powerhouses, regardless of whether they were enemy or friend, were all slacking off. It looked like a grand momentum, but in reality, it was all thunder and no rain. After fighting for three days and three nights, looking back.

Hey, you're not hurt? Haha, me too!

That was the extent of it!

No powerhouse who could grow to this point on the chaotic sea was a fool. Fools would have long since turned into white bones under the throne. They were not only smart, but also very protective of their own lives!

Everyone clearly knew that what determined the outcome of this battle would always be the battle at the very top—Rocks.

As long as Rocks wins a great victory.

Then the victory of the pirate side would be unstoppable.

Conversely!

Don't look at how arrogant the pirates are now; when the time comes, they will all turn into scattered sand and collapse completely.

Instead of fighting to the death and being unable to react after the great battle ends.

It is better to slack off more, preserve one's own strength during the battle, and as long as one entangles and restricts the opponent without breaking the situation and maintaining stability on the surface, then no matter what the outcome is, they, at their peak strength, can at least fight one more time and retreat unscathed.

Not to the point of exhausting their strength and having to surrender.

But!

But!

But!

This guy Mo Ansi was like a mad dog.

Clearly, everyone had a tacit understanding to slack off, and just fighting on the surface was enough.

As a result, this guy was like a mad dog, desperately attacking him.

Various gases exploded endlessly, and he threw out his savings as if they didn't cost anything. That was fine, but he also forcibly withstood the attacks, trading injury for injury, with the posture of wanting to kill him even if it cost him his life.

If it weren't for Rocks' aggressive aura constantly spreading in the sky, acting as a vague threat lingering around them and drawing a bottom line for them, Silver Axe would have wanted to retreat and hide directly.

Can't afford to offend, can't I hide?

He really couldn't hide!

If he retreated and let Mo Ansi act wantonly, once the battlefield became unbalanced, the first person Rocks would kill would definitely be him.

Compared to facing the furious Rocks, Mo Ansi, who had gone crazy, was easier to deal with.

"Crazy!"

"Crazy!"

"Everyone is crazy!!"

Silver Axe even had a look of exasperation on his face.

Boom—

Light and shadow fell.

Mo Ansi withstood a slash from him and smashed a tube of purple short weapons onto him, which seemed to be some kind of purified corrosive poisonous gas. If he hadn't used Armament Haki to block it in time.

The terrifying corrosive toxicity would have definitely left him unrecognizable.

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle—

Blinding black smoke rose from the armor, turning a large area black, and the smooth armor became coarse.

"You're courting death—"

Silver Axe was both angry and afraid.

Just a little bit more, and if the poison had corroded his body, even he would have turned into white bones in an instant.

Although his strength had reached the Admiral/Emperor level, his physique clearly hadn't reached the level of natural monsters like BIG MOM and Locke, and he still belonged to the ordinary human type.

If killed! One will die!

Even if the accumulation of artillery attacks reaches a certain level, it will cause their physical fitness to decline, fall into a metal storm, and then be ground to death by blood loss, until death. ===== CHAPTER 309 =====