bookbashuk Chapter 214 Lox vs. Zephyr: A Complete Crushing Victory! Blood Moon Fortress is About to Become Hist
Chapter 214 Lox vs. Zephyr: A Complete Crushing Victory! Blood Moon Fortress is About to Become Hist
Chapter 214 Lox vs. Zephyr: A Complete Crushing Victory! Blood Moon Fortress is About to Become History
The battlefield fell into a deathly silence.
The immense power that transcended dimensions caused the marines, who had been holding firm, to completely break down their psychological defenses. Looking at the man standing in the center of the blood rain, surrounded by dark purple demonic energy, they felt as if he were a demon lord who had crawled out of the depths of hell, about to drag the world's so-called "justice" into eternal darkness.
"Rocks!!!"
Zephyr let out a blood-curdling roar from the command tower, his purplish-black fists bleeding from the force of his grip. Watching his comrades-in-arms being so brutally murdered, the newly promoted admiral's rage had scalded beyond the boundaries of reason.
Rocks slowly raised his head, revealing an extremely cruel smile to Zephyr through the smoke and blood mist.
"Don't rush, Zephyr, you're next."
With a sudden wave of his hand, the seawater that had sunk a hundred meters in depth instantly surged back, creating towering waves. Rocks' figure, like a black lightning bolt, rushed straight towards the Navy's last command center!
Blood Moon Fortress, the real slaughter has only just begun.
The sea breeze seemed frozen at that moment, with only the piercing sound of tearing flesh echoing above the Blood Moon Fortress. Lox stood in that blood-stained vacuum, his dark red cloak billowing wildly, like a death flag reaping souls.
The fall of three vice admirals was nothing short of a catastrophe for the Navy. They were vice admirals with real power, war gods in the hearts of countless marines, but in front of Rocks, they didn't even have the right to make him draw his sword.
Lux casually flicked the blood off his fingertips, his dark red pupils slightly lifting as he stared directly at Zefa, whose eyes were bloodshot, atop the command tower.
"Zeff, is this the justice your navy prides itself on?" Rocks' voice wasn't loud, but it carried a soul-shattering power, exploding in the ears of every navy man. "In the face of such fragile power, your persistence is a joke. Since you value those three dead trash so much, then I will personally send you to reunite with them."
Rocks took another step, a step that seemed to land on the very heart of the island.
With a deafening roar, the steel gate at the front of the Blood Moon Fortress, which was strong enough to withstand the impact of a tsunami, was instantly twisted and shattered like paper by the aftershocks of the Conqueror's Haki emitted by Rocks. It turned into countless sharp fragments that shot out in all directions.
"Fire! Open fire, all of you!" A colonel was so terrified he was almost insane. He pulled the trigger of the close-in weapon system without thinking. A dense hail of bullets, like a fire dragon, rushed toward Lockes with a whistling sound as it tore through the air.
However, those specially designed armor-piercing bullets, capable of penetrating the bodies of sea monsters, seemed to strike an invisible, viscous black hole when they came within three meters of Lockes. The bullets' speed rapidly decreased, and under the corrosive influence of the dark purple smoke, the bullet heads melted into molten iron at a visible speed, clattering to the ground without even touching the hem of Lockes' clothes.
Lockes snorted coldly, his five fingers grasping outwards, and the molten iron in the air was instantly reshaped by him, turning into a jet-black javelin.
With a casual throw, the javelin transformed into a streak of black light that pierced through a thousand meters, precisely pinning the officer and the entire machine gun bunker to the cliff behind. With a deafening roar, the cliff collapsed, and boulders completely buried that position.
This level of combat power has completely shattered the will of the rank-and-file marines.
"Monster—he's a demon king who's returned from hell!" Terrified cries echoed throughout the fortress.
"Shut up, all of you!"
Zefa let out a roar like a trapped beast, the desolation and rage in his voice instantly tearing through the deathly silence of the Blood Moon Fortress. His eye sockets had completely ruptured, and blood mixed with scalding tears streamed down his cheeks.
The tragic deaths of three vice admirals, including Bogu, were a devastating blow to him. The reaction of the naval soldiers behind him, who were rioting out of fear and even beginning to retreat, only added fuel to the fire, completely igniting the last shred of reason in Zephyr's chest.
"For justice, Rocks, die!"
Zephyr plummeted from the hundred-meter-high tower, his pair of purplish-black arms, known as the "Black Arms," generating astonishing heat due to the excessive use of his domineering aura during the high-speed fall. The dark red heat rubbed against the air, producing concentric rings of distorted red light, like two red-hot irons, ready to melt away all evil in the world.
"Black Arm - Destruction Cannon!"
Zephyr let out the most powerful roar of his life. He gathered all his domineering will, Armament Haki, and endless hatred for Rocks into a single point on his fist.
This punch was a masterpiece he had never unleashed since his promotion to general. Before his fist even touched the ground, the terrifying pressure had already created a hemispherical crater thousands of meters in diameter on the sea surface below. The originally deep seabed rocks were exposed, and even the thick seabed let out a mournful cry of being unable to bear the weight, cracking open with countless abyssal fissures.
Faced with a punch powerful enough to shatter the island, Rocks finally stopped in his tracks.
His lips curled up slightly, revealing a hideous smile, the mockery and amusement of a hunter watching his dying prey make its final stand.
"The dying words of a general? Interesting."
Lockes did not draw his heavy sword from his waist. He simply raised his right hand slowly, his five fingers spread, and a strange, extremely dark vortex that could devour even light appeared deep in his palm.
"Dark water".
Lox's voice was deep and hoarse, yet clear as a spell.
Thump—! ! !
Two terrifying energies, both above the level of a general, clashed head-on in mid-air.
In that instant, the world seemed to fall silent, followed by a blinding ball of energy, interwoven with dark purple lightning and black-red flames, that exploded instantly. This was the ultimate clash between Conqueror's Haki, Armament Haki, and the strongest attacks of the Logia type. Shockwaves swept outwards in concentric rings, their power truly miraculous.
The load-bearing pillars of the Blood Moon Fortress, supposedly capable of withstanding even the strongest earthquakes and constructed of special alloys, shattered like rotten wood under the residual force of this shockwave. Within a radius of several kilometers, the seawater was instantly emptied by the power of the domineering aura and shadow, creating a temporary underwater desert.
Countless marines and pirates who were engaged in fierce battle nearby were thrown over by the shockwave before they could even react. The weaker marines couldn't even scream before their internal organs were shattered and turned into pools of blood.
The stalemate lasted only a second.
Zefa was horrified to discover that his "black wrists," which were powerful enough to pierce through anything, had crashed into a black, endless abyss.
"This—this is impossible!"
Zephyr trembled violently. His Armament Haki had been honed to the pinnacle of human skill, yet now, not only could his fists not advance an inch, but he also felt a viscous, heavy dark substance spreading up his fists. Rocks' hand, covered in dark purple lightning and fluid shadows, forcefully withstood the devastating cannon, its five fingers digging into Zephyr's Haki-covered skin like steel hooks.
This is the terrifying aspect of the Dark-Dark Fruit. In Rocks' hands, it unleashed a terrifying effect that surpassed even Blackbeard's. It not only had a restraining effect on Devil Fruit abilities, but it could also have a certain restraining effect on Haki, which was weaker than his own. It was truly terrifying.
Lox didn't even take a step back; a terrifying gravitational force emanated from his palm, directly immobilizing Zephyr.
"Is this the thickness of your justice? Too thin, Zephyr. Before my darkness, your proud power is nothing but a candle flame."
Lox's voice rang in Zephyr's ears like a ghost, and the next moment, the dark aura around him surged wildly like a volcanic eruption.
"Dark Acupoint Twist Kill!"
Rocks suddenly exerted force with his right hand, a power that combined the gravity of the Dark-Dark Fruit with ultimate Armament Haki, instantly causing Zephyr's bones to creak and groan. Immediately afterward, Rocks twisted his waist, causing all the muscles in his body to explode in an instant, and a knee strike like a cannonball slammed into Zephyr's abdomen.
boom!
With a muffled thud as flesh and blood were struck, Zephyr, the mighty naval admiral, was like a battered ball hit by a professional athlete, his body sparking brilliantly in the air, shattering the sound barrier in an instant. His body pierced through five heavy coastal defense batteries, smashing those steel behemoths to pieces, before finally crashing heavily into the power room of the Blood Moon Fortress's core area.
Boom—!
A violent explosion sent flames soaring into the sky, illuminating half the horizon and instantly paralyzing the entire fortress.
"General Zephyr!"
The remaining naval commanders in the rear let out desperate cries, their voices filled with the fear of their faith collapsing.
However, Lox had no intention of giving his opponent a chance to breathe. He leaped into the air, transforming into a streak of black lightning that flashed across the sky above the fortress. This speed exceeded the limits of human retinas, and he instantly appeared amidst the ruins, surrounded by flowing shadows like ink.
He reached out and grabbed Zephyr's hair, which was covered in blood and made him delirious. He dragged the Navy's top combatant out of the rubble like a dead dog.
"Look at this fortress, look at these soldiers who gave their lives for you."
Lox pointed to the devastated, blood-stained battlefield around him, his tone as cold as the Arctic wind.
"This is the order you're trying to protect? That bastard Garin is probably sitting in the Valley of the Gods behind this fortress right now, swirling a glass of red wine, betting with the Figarando family idiots how long you bunch of trash can last. He's eating your men's screams as he eats them. Zeffa, you're not protecting justice, you're just a watchdog kept at the gate by the Figarando family. When I reach the Valley of the Gods, they'll use your corpse as a rag without hesitation."
Zephyr struggled to open his eyes, blood and foam mixed with fragments of internal organs gushing from his mouth. Almost all of his ribs were broken, and the once imposing general was now nothing more than tattered rags hanging from his body. He stared intently at Lox, his eyes still flashing with that indomitable light that Lox loathed—the light of the archenemy of "D."
"Locke—as long as the Navy—the Will of Justice—still exists—you will never—unite this world—"
"will?"
Lox laughed wildly, his laughter filled with mockery of fate.
"Since you like talking about willpower so much, then I'll let you see for yourself whether your willpower can support your bones to sprout when your body collapses and the earth sinks!"
A fierce, dark red light blazed in Lox's eyes. He flung Zefa into the air and vanished instantly.
The next instant, Lox appeared above Zephyr. He didn't use his swordsmanship, but instead frantically compressed all the dark matter in his body into his right leg. That leg, at this moment, was no longer recognizable as flesh; it had completely transformed into a sword that devoured everything.
A blackish-purple giant axe that splits the heavens.
"Dark Acupoint - Divine Fall Earthquake!"
With this attack, Rocks unleashed the full destructive power of his Dark-Dark Fruit ability.
Boom! ...
That was a blow powerful enough to bring down a god. Lox's right leg slammed heavily into Zefa's chest, and an unparalleled pressure instantly pierced through Zefa's body, directly impacting the base of the entire island.
The earth groaned in terror. The entire Blood Moon Fortress crumbled completely in that instant; the steel fortress, stretching for kilometers, began to collapse structurally from its very center. Huge cracks spread wildly along the island's base, and crimson flames erupted from the fissures.
Seawater poured madly into the sinkhole, the sounds of explosions, twisting metal, and the roar of the sea mingling together.
Zephyr was stomped deep into the earth's crust by this kick, and along with thousands of other naval elites, they were buried under the rubble, their fate unknown.
The raging waves crashed wildly against the crumbling walls of Blood Moon Fortress, producing bursts of thunderous roars.
Locus stood proudly in the void. His dark purple demonic aura had not subsided despite the fact that he had just severely injured General Zephyr. Instead, it was like an evil flower nourished by blood, burning even more wildly and violently.
He glanced indifferently at the bottomless pit beneath his feet, where the once spirited Admiral Zephyr was now like a broken puppet, crushed at the very bottom by tons of rubble and twisted steel.
Zephyr was indeed still alive. As one of the Navy Headquarters' top combatants, his monstrous physique allowed him to cling to life despite the fatal blow.
But he was merely alive. His ribs were broken, and his internal organs were almost turned into mincemeat under the extreme dark gravitational force. At this moment, he could only let out faint, almost non-existent gasps in the dark crevices of the pile of stones.
"The so-called generals are really as hard as rocks in a latrine."
Lox let out a disdainful snort. He had completely lost interest in finishing off the wrecked dog. He felt it was a waste of time to even glance at a dog that had lost its teeth and claws.