The whistling yellow sand floated quietly in the air, and then fell downwards with a roar.
Facing the attack of five skeleton giants, the airflow generated by the collision of weapons shocked the huge tornado on the spot!
rustle……
Countless gravel lost its kinetic energy and fell from the sky. The yellow sand decorated the skeleton giants, and the sun cast light again, making the skeleton giants look like they were wearing a golden armor and standing between heaven and earth.
Bang! Bang!
At this time, several more muffled sounds were heard.
Mr.1, who was a fast-killer, was cut all over by the blade and fell dying in the desert.
Noticing the other officers around him who had also fallen off the Leviathan deck, Mr. 1 looked at the ferocious black knights with their backs to the sun with shock and despair in their eyes.
"These...monsters!!"
The difference in strength is too big, how can humans fight monsters?
Ah Jin squatted on the edge of the deck, put the thorn ball iron crutch on his shoulder with his backhand, and swept them away with disdain.
"The cadres under Shichibukai, that's all?"
"..."
Mr.1 remained silent, he was restrained by Ah Jin.
His quick-cut fruit couldn't do anything to his golden skin. No matter how powerful the attack was, it couldn't cut a single scratch...
Obviously I have worked very hard to train my fruit abilities!
The reason why he joined the Baroque Working Group was because Crocodile pointed out to him a route through which Devil Fruits could train and evolve.
And this... is even the weakest among them!
The five-meter-tall, muscular monster was even more incomprehensible. His body weighing several tons was as light as a feather. Many cadres thought he had no strength, but they suffered heavy losses when they met him.
And then……
"As a human being, it's pretty good to have such strength... If it weren't for the master, it would be difficult for us to reach this point just by practicing on our own... Remember not to be complacent."
The white bone spurs combined into wide bone wings to cast shadows. The butler silently scolded Ah Jin, then exited the black spider form and retracted the bones one by one. The blood on the bone spurs was blown away and thrown to the deck, and he regained his gentle appearance.
.
Mr.1's heart froze and he clenched his teeth.
This is the scariest guy!
A complete killing machine!
Most of them died under the tricky angle bone spur attack, and they didn't even know what happened before they died, including himself, who defeated him with one move after he took care of the others!
The movement is silent, like a ghost without a shadow, harvesting lives without a trace.
"Boss..."
"Moo!!"
Leviathan stepped down and stepped MR.1 into the sea of sand. No bones were left. Then he continued to dig holes in the desert with his claws, causing yellow sand to fly all over the sky.
Standing at the feet of the skeleton giant, Lovett raised his eyebrows: "What's wrong with him?"
Why does it look like a husky?
Whoosh!
The distance of 100 meters passed in a flash, and the butler appeared behind Lovett, kneeling on one knee: "Returning to the master, the enemy who controlled the candle sneaked into the sand sea and escaped, and Leviathan wanted to dig him out."
"Control the candle? Sneak into the sea of sand?"
Lovett was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that in the original novel, Mr. 3 was thrown into the banana crocodile's lair by Crocodile, and relied on candle balls to resist stomach acid, and smiled.
"I see, it's quite possible to escape."
As one of the top five senior cadres, Mr. 3 thought that he was very aware of Crocodile's fruit ability. After discovering that he used the dryness of the earth's surface to cause earthquakes, he immediately understood that it was caused by him draining the desert underground water, so he decisively sneaked into the sand sea and relied on the underground
Cavity escape.
"Is anyone else missing?"
"No, there were 37 cadres of the Baroque Working Group in this attack, and 36 were killed."
completely annihilated!
It can definitely be considered as a total annihilation!
There are only about 20 senior cadres in the Baroque Working Society, and 37 people is almost the number that all the capable members put together.
In this sea, strength is respected. Without the intimidation of these core members, the Baroque Working Society will exist in name only!
Among all the Shichibukai, Sand Crocodile and Moria can be said to be the weakest two.
First of all, they are all losers. Their backbones were broken by the monsters of the new world. They huddled in the front half to plot conspiracies, resulting in no improvement in strength for more than ten years.
Then they are too divorced from the essence and seek external things.
Little do they know that their own strength is the foundation of everything.
Moria's zombie army is okay. It can use the Shadow Fruit to cut out the shadows of strong men and quickly form combat effectiveness. The Baroque Cooperative is really just a tool that Crocodile set up to help him realize his plan to steal the country.
As long as the plan is not completed and Pluto fails to succeed, he will become weak.
But now he no longer has to bear the reputation of being the weakest Shichibukai, because soon, he will not even be a Shichibukai.
"Master, that Crocodile..."
The steward's eyes swept across the battlefield, his sesame-sized pupils taking in all the movements around him, but he found no trace of the enemy.
"escaped."
Lovett looked indifferent to this: "After being scattered, he escaped into the sea of sand and fled eastward."
Crocodile thought that his movements were secretive and had not been discovered. In fact, Lovett locked his mental power on him throughout the whole process. Even with the cover of the rain of sand when the heavy Shalan disintegrated, his aura was still within the locked range.
.
The butler didn't ask why, but thought about it carefully.
"Does he have a back-up plan?"
Lovett must have discovered his traces, but still chose to let him leave, which can only explain one problem...
He will come back!
"That's right."
Lovett glanced at him with satisfaction and said: "To the east is Albana, the capital of Alabasta. It is geographically located in the center of the desert and is at least two weeks away from the nearest port town."
"If he is just trying to escape, he should retreat towards port towns, such as Rape Blossom Town where we landed, on the premise that he will not be discovered."
"But no, he ran eastward."
"Join forces with the King's Army...?"
As soon as the butler was exposed, the cold murderous intention began to wander.
"Ignorant living being!"
"But this is the Sand Crocodile now!"
Lovett lamented: "After having his backbone broken in the New World, he has lost the bloody courage he had back then."
Fighting to the death will no longer appear in Crocodile's dictionary.
Then, Lovett turned to look at the Rain Land and said softly: "Spread the word and tell the people of Alabasta that the Sand Crocodile is no match for me, the Black Earl, and will abandon the Rain Land people and live an ignoble existence."
Since you chose to run away, don't blame me for being rude.
The greater the fame that Crocodile has painstakingly cultivated in Alabasta, the more majestic and upright his image will be, and the easier it will be for him to take advantage of it, thereby driving him into a place of eternal destruction and turning him into a laughing stock.
Come to think of it, the Five Old Stars will not tolerate a guy who is greedy for life and afraid of death to bring shame to the Shichibukai system.
So, under the horrified and desperate gazes of the surviving people in the rainland, the six skeleton giants slowly turned their sights and looked this way.
"Roar!!"
A big skeletal foot kicked the thin city gate to pieces and escorted Lovett in.
…
Alabasta, empty desert.
After escaping into the sand sea and running for several kilometers, Crocodile gathered his body again on the surface, holding on to a stone to catch his breath.
"This bastard!!"
There are actually six of those terrifying bone monsters. How can we defeat them?!
Elementalization is not without side effects. The process of dispersion and re-aggregation also belongs to the category of using the fruit's ability, and it still requires stamina.
Facing six white skeletons, he had no chance to fight back. His whole body was violently shattered and kept gathering together. This was the only outcome. Even if Lovett didn't take action, he would either die of exhaustion or lose his strength and be caught. There wouldn't be three of them.
ending.
Although he didn't want to admit it, Crocodile knew that he would never be able to defeat the Black Count on his own, and he needed help.
"I want to use my fame as a stepping stone, I hope you can bear the price!"
Crocodile showed a trace of disdain on his lips: "Maybe we won't have a chance to fight, right, Robin."
From the very beginning, he prepared for the worst and planned his escape long before the battle.
Therefore, Crocodile knew what Lovett would do using his escape and was prepared with more than one back-up plan.
rustle!
The lower half of his body turned into yellow dragon curls, propelling him forward quickly.
Over there, a few hours away, an army has been assembled.
"But it doesn't matter if I fail. As long as I survive, everything will turn around."
"Since one person is no opponent, let's start a war!"
Crocodile didn't want to expose his trump card so early unless he had no choice.