Achieving Nothing, I Can Only Be the Pirate King-Chapter 554 - 327: Life or Death!

Boom!

Boom boom boom!

One by one, the cannonballs were launched into the air, landing around the Big Mom Pirates’ fleet, splashing massive sprays of water in the storm-whipped waves.

"Candy Wall!" 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

On the main ship, the Queen Mother’s Hymn, Perospero waved his candy stick at the bow, raising a pink sticky wall to block an incoming cannonball.

"Damn it, waterproof cannons!"

Perospero cursed, "This storm is so annoying!"

The onslaught of wind and rain made it impossible for them to use their own cannonballs. They had initially planned to engage in a direct battle, but the enemy was already firing before even closing the distance.

Perospero, who had access to considerable intelligence, knew that the Disaster Pirates sold waterproof weapons, but he hadn’t paid them much mind before.

After all, how often does such stormy weather occur...

Unexpectedly, as soon as the battle started, this storm arrived.

Unable to counterattack, they could only passively endure the barrage of cannon fire. The enemy’s firing rate was not only fast but also multi-staged, precise, and powerful.

The one directing the attack must be adept at command and strategy.

There were just too many cannonballs. Even though they tried their best to defend, it was still risky, and some they couldn’t block just narrowly missed, hitting the water beside the ship.

But they couldn’t continue like this. Who could guarantee they wouldn’t get hit by a cannonball?

"Move the rear ships to the front as vanguards to withstand those cannonballs!" Perospero ordered.

The main fleet visibly slowed down, and the cake ships on the left and right flanked forward, rearranging into a vanguard formation.

As long as they closed in, they could stop the barrage of cannonballs.

"Are they using bait?"

Lily put down her binoculars and spoke into the microphone, "All ships continue circling, mind the wind direction. Second row, fire as usual, half solid-shot and half shell. First row, elevate the angle, fire over the top, aim for the rear!"

Boom boom boom!

The staggered cannon fire unleashed volleys in sequence, sending dark trails through the storm towards the approaching fleet.

In naval battles, relying on cannon fire is beyond question, especially taking advantage of the storm. Now, it was the Disaster Pirates’ proactive assault, and Lily would not miss this opportunity.

They might not even need to engage directly; cannon fire alone could repel the Big Mom Pirates.

A barrage of cannonballs grazed past the cake ships acting as vanguards and shields, directly hitting the main fleet at the rear.

Bam!

Katakuri kicked an incoming cannonball from the diagonal, sending it flying to explode on the sea, frowning, about to speak when his head suddenly turned, pupils constricting.

"Mama!"

In the sea not far from the fleet, the massive figure of Charlotte Linlin, though still above the water, created a trench with her mere low-altitude flight due to the overwhelming force.

Crash!

A tremendous thunderclap erupted from the sky, revealing a form under the lightning, descending with a conical impact amid the storm.

That power...

It’s unstoppable!

"Zeus!"

Charlotte Linlin called out as she was blown off the sea. The black cloud chasing her quickly expanded, rushing beneath her feet to lift her form.

She gripped Napoleon with both hands, the flame on her head flickering painfully in the storm, yet surging with all its might, climbing from her head down to her shoulders, then into her entire arm, cloaking the blade, making it appear even more menacing.

"This is not Hakai. Such power! Weikoku!!"

She swung the massive shockwave of Sword Qi like a baseball bat, swatting it against the descending conical Haki.

Boom!

At the moment of contact, the black-red Haki impact clashed with the pink-purple shockwave, compressing into a vacuum, where lightning intertwined into a tiny point and quickly exploded, bursting into black-red and pink-purple intertwined brilliance.

The light compressed the seawater below into a giant rotating vortex, with huge waves surging upwards like a tsunami, crashing down towards both fleets.

The immense inertia and power caused both fleets to sway.

Charlotte Linlin watched the radiance in the sky; before she could catch her breath, a figure shot out of the light, arriving before her at extreme speed.

The blazing white hair was piercingly bright in Charlotte Linlin’s eyes. In her view, the man’s eyes flashed crimson as he grinned savagely, drawing back a fist that appeared monstrous amid the storm.

"Hundred Ghosts Assault Break!"

Bam!!

The fist embedded deeply in her face, the impact forming a cylindrical tail, propelling her body once more, crashing through the vanguard line of cake ships.

Boom boom boom!!

Several cake ships were split by her impact, splintering wood and iron scattered, and she finally halted on a ship in the center.

The ship collapsed halfway under her, forming a dent to support her form.

Thump thump thump!

Not giving her any chance to recover, as soon as Charlotte Linlin crashed onto the ship, Sage emerged in the high air, blowing circles of smoke.

One foot still in a step kicking the air stance, his hands interlocked, compressing what seemed to be explosive black-red lightning in his palms.

Using Haki techniques and skills cannot just be a name change.

The Fist Bone emphasizes impact, Thundering Hakke is about sudden outburst, while Weikoku, this move, focuses on penetration.

Compared to the foundational Haki techniques like hardening, coiling, release, and destruction, the strong individuals on the ocean use Haki with techniques that are more precise and powerful, each having a strong personal style.

Sage doesn’t have much of a personal style; if anything, his Haki is like fighting spirit, capable of striking a person’s secret point to cause indefensible damage.

However...

He now has mastered many styles!

"Annihilation Slash!"

The concentrated unstable black-red light suddenly exploded, forming a thick pillar-like black-red lightning in the air, straight down.

The thick black-red light illuminated the surroundings, seeming to engulf everything nearby, including the shocked Katakuri and the already stunned Perospero, the light overwhelming them.

In the past, "Annihilation Slash" was just enhanced with "Fist Bone" impact, but now it’s impact, explosion, and penetration!

A combination of triple techniques paired with Sage’s own "True Damage"...

"One blast to kill you!!" Sage shouted loudly.

The black-red light pressing down on the head had already shattered the Cake Ship under Charlotte Linlin, the intense wind blowing her flaming hair, making the flames burst out, transforming her into a small sun.

The black cloud under her feet shivered incessantly, seemingly about to collapse at any moment.

Crack crack crack...

The Napoleon in her hand trembled frantically, with the face on the blade, the face on the cloud, and the face of the small sun all showing expressions of horror, shouting in unison: "Mama!"

This move is stronger than the previous one!

If hit, it’s not even a question of injury or not!

Charlotte Linlin’s face, illuminated by the light, looked as ferocious as a demon, at the critical moment she stretched out her big hand, the feeling of soul tremors sweeping the surroundings.

"Haven’t felt this oppression for decades..."

She slowly spoke, her pupils emitting the white flame of soul manifestation.

The pirates fortunately fallen into the sea due to the destruction of the Cake Ship, those who haven’t been wrecked but stayed, under this soul tremor feeling, showed expressions even more terrified than facing the beam directly.

"Mama, don’t!"

"No, it’s too scary!"

"Mama!!"

Even facing imminent destruction by the descending beam, yet at this moment these pirates still screamed in fear.

Destruction also considers survival rate, they might stay alive, but now with Mama like this...

They won’t survive!

"LIFE or DEAD!"

Letting out a soul trembling voice from Charlotte Linlin’s mouth, her open hand grasped firmly, regardless of the unconscious or the living pirates, all their eyes turned white, white souls flew out from their bodies, tightly clenched by her hand.

"Devour!"

With her shout, the gathered souls spread to the blade, the thundercloud, and the flame-lost small sun.

Boom!

The huge fireball burned up, the thundercloud spread into deep black, emitting purple thunderlight, the blade in hand extended forward, near the tip the spine forked into three sawteeth, looking horrifyingly grim.

Flames attached to the end of the blade, the thundercloud turned to electricity over the front, transforming the blade into a giant thunderfire blade.

"Lightning Cannon!!"

The giant thunderfire blade pointed to the sky, before the descending black-red beam, shooting out a highly dense laser, like a needle piercing into the column, embedding into the surface of the Haki shockwave.

Which is stronger, is it Haki or natural power, there’s no answer.

But one thing is certain, the will needs to attach to an object to be powerful, yet nature itself... is power!

Boom!!

Lightning and black light exploded in the air, forming an exceptionally large light cluster, the driven shockwaves sweeping around, shattering the nearby Cake Ship.

From the intertwined Supreme King color burst, sweeping towards the remaining ships, amidst the raging waves of seawater more emerged wounded, internally pulverized Sea Beasts and Sea Kings, drifting with the waves.

"Lightning Sword!"

Within the light, the grim and huge thunderfire blade swiftly and accurately pierced through, directly slashing at Sage who just recovered from the temporary Haki drain.

Sage’s pupils froze, instinctively crossing his hands to block.

Bam!

The mighty force of the thunderfire blade cleaved onto his arms, its immense power flinging him away.

"Celestial Fire!"

After one strike, several large fireballs flew out from within the light, ignoring the raging storm, pursued the flung Sage.

The retained light disappeared, Charlotte Linlin seated on the black cloud presented herself in the air.

That body, now more swollen than before, the fire of soul in her eyes seemed to become tangible.

Her head remained burning with flames, so intense that the wind and rain couldn’t dampen it, the fiercely burning flames forming a ghostly face.

Her right hand holding the already transformed Napoleon rested on her shoulder, the thundercloud exuded a face with scarlet pupils, its inflated grim body howling as it followed.

"Maaaahahahaha! Hahahahaha!"

Charlotte Linlin opened her mouth and laughed, in that devouring giant mouth, faintly visible was a shadow of a woman shouting and screaming within.

"Young brat, let’s have a good fight!!"