Chapter 267: Women Fighting
Lightning flashed and thunder roared, filling the space between heaven and earth, pouring down on this barren land like a sudden downpour.
"This is a complete disgrace."
Near the coast of Raijin Island, Izo lay on the ground, completely drained. He looked at the falling lightning in the sky with a pathetic expression and let out a self-deprecating sigh.
If he had another chance, he would rather go for a one-on-one with Reiner and get beaten up than face that disgusting guy Usopp again.
He had been completely played.
"Captain, are you alright?"
"First Division! Get over here!"
Due to the exaggerated power of the Skull Exploding Grass just now, a good number of the highly aggressive plants in the surroundings had been blown away.
A few of Izo's pirates ran up to check his injuries and beckoned over several medical members from Marco's division.
While they were gathered in a group, in the distance, Usopp also jumped directly down from a stone pillar.
He looked left and right and soon spotted Reiner not far away, sitting on Apis, which was being used as a sofa, watching the battle.
"Hey!"
"Reiner! Did you see that? This great me has won!"
Usopp waved at him, the grin on his face harder to suppress than an AK-47's recoil.
Defeating a powerful opponent with a bounty of 510 million Berries, and having his companion witness the whole thing... for a man, could there be anything more satisfying than this?
Now I have to listen to him brag for another damn week.
Reiner shook his head and sighed internally, then gave him an approving look. "A despicable victory. Well done, Usopp."
Usopp's performance was indeed brilliant. With this set of tactics alone, he could basically establish a foothold in the New World.
Among these special seeds from the Boin Archipelago, some individual plants could play a good role even against strong enemies.
Reiner had watched the entire battle from the sidelines. Putting other things aside, he was very good at disgusting people.
Excluding the Warlords whose bounties were abolished after they became Warlords, opponents at the five to six hundred million bounty level would basically be unable to handle him in a one-on-one fight.
However, this seemingly perfect set of tactics was not without its flaws.
It was very comprehensive in all aspects with almost no shortcomings, but there were no particularly outstanding methods within it. The upper limit for development would not be too high.
Another thing was the fear of being ganged up on.
Usopp had slowly laid out the favorable terrain while suppressing Izo with firepower.
If there was one more opponent on the field and his firepower was not enough to suppress the enemy, he would be taken down in close combat in less than a few minutes.
"There's still room for improvement in his own strength. It should be fine if he trains his Armament Haki a bit," Reiner commented to himself.
"Well, Reiner! Did you see this great me's heroic performance!"
Usopp's face was full of pride. He spun his pistol a few times on his fingertip, gripped it, and blew on it pretentiously, his tail almost sticking up to the sky.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Look at you, so smug," Reiner glanced at him with contempt.
Usopp ignored Reiner's sarcasm. He was now completely immersed in the joy of victory.
He struck various cool poses while muttering to himself.
His mind was filled with fantasies of how he would brag to Kaya and the carrot-heads back in his hometown.
"Look at your pathetic ambition," Reiner sneered with disdain and patted Apis's smooth head.
Under its resentful but silent gaze, he lifted his chin and gestured to another battlefield behind a mountain peak.
The lightning there flashed brighter than anywhere else, and even the surrounding lightning was occasionally drawn over.
Besides Nami, no one else could do this.
Time to go watch the women fight.
Apis instantly understood Reiner's thoughts, and its body slithered as it eagerly rushed over.
"Where are you going, Reiner?!"
Suddenly discovering he was alone, Usopp reacted and hurriedly shouted.
Reiner replied without turning his head, "I'm going to see if Nami and Robin need help."
"With you there, nothing should happen. I'll go check on Luffy then."
"Ah, who cares about you."
"So heartless, you bastard!"
Usopp raised his fist and cursed at Reiner's back a few times.
He looked around for a while and finally vaguely saw the center of the island, a few mountain peaks away, where firelight would flash from time to time.
"That should be it."
Usopp muttered. Seeing that some of the Whitebeard Pirates around him were also ignoring him, he put away his pistol and ran towards the light.
In the sky, a blue and yellow fiery bird with three beautiful, slender tail feathers streaked past.
"Leaving after just sending out a few undead. He doesn't take people seriously at all. It's so infuriating," Marco said, his eyes lowered, his face full of displeasure as he cursed at Reiner in a low voice.
And yet, they couldn't even handle these few undead.
The thought of this made him even more angry.
Clang!
A giant sword gleam slashed down from the sky, a violent aura filling the entire space.
Squelch!
Marco, who had barely managed to dodge, was still hit on the wing by the aftershock. His figure paused, and a few clusters of azure flames flew out.
"What a troublesome guy."
The flames on his body surged, and the wound healed. Marco turned his head to look at the figure standing in the void, his expression grave.
"Where did that guy find such a strong swordsman?"
Sukuna's technique of swinging his hand to create a slash out of thin air made him secretly alarmed.
Unlike the wind scythes of the Marines' Rankyaku that he had seen, these sword auras were real flying slashes swung by a great swordsman.
The other's carefree flying posture also felt strangely familiar.
"Don't tell me it's really that old geezer," a certain figure unconsciously appeared in Marco's mind.
Golden Lion Shiki, who could also stand in the void, wielded dual swords, and had a head of wild, flying blond hair.
While Marco and the other commanders were entangled with the undead, the battles in various parts of the island also grew more and more intense.
After some simple probing at the beginning, whether it was Zoro and Sanji's group or Ace's side with Jozu and Vista, they all began to exert their strength.
Both sides seemed to have gotten into the heat of the battle, and their respective fights gradually became white-hot.
Arriving at a mountain peak, Reiner quickly saw Nami and Robin fighting Yamato.
Besides him, there were also a group of second division members nearby, hiding behind giant rocks and peeking their heads out to watch the fierce battle below.
Discovering Reiner's arrival, the group hurriedly raised their swords, guns, and cannons, their expressions wary as they aimed at him.
Reiner was unconcerned. After finding a place with a good view, he beckoned to them. "You few grunts, come over and tell me how the fight was just now."
"Grunts?!"
Hearing this, the group was like a stirred-up hornet's nest. They rushed over with their swords and guns, looking ferocious.
"Who are you calling a grunt, you bastard!"
"What Black Snake? I think you should be called Venomous Tongue!"
"Big Sis said that no one is allowed to interfere with her battle!"
"Get him, brothers!"
Reiner didn't even bother to make a move. Apis directly whipped its tail, sending them flying one by one.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
A moment later...
"So you're also here to watch the battle."
"Hahaha, you should have said so earlier. Why resort to violence?"
"Exactly, exactly. Aren't our captains brothers? We can be considered family. There's no need to fight to the death."
Several bruised and swollen pirates stood beside Reiner, their hands cupped in a sheepish smile.
The commanders' duel was the commanders' business. The few of them were just purely watching the fun. Anyway, they couldn't be of much help.
The two pirate crews could also be considered family. The fight was serious, and everyone had a temper, but it definitely wouldn't escalate to the point of wiping each other out.
Reiner had no intention of fighting grunts. He couldn't interfere in Ace and Luffy's duel, and Yamato had actively sought out Nami.
He didn't care for the rest. There was simply no place for him to display his skills here. So he simply started chatting with the few pirates.
While watching the battle below.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
The spiked club continuously smashed down, clashing heavily with the Clima-Tact, creating one shower of sparks after another.
Every time Nami swung the Clima-Tact, a dazzling electric light would flash from her arms.
Each time, they would separate on contact, and then clash together again.
Clang!!
After another strong collision, the two of them scraped their feet on the ground and slid back several dozen meters each.
Yamato, in her long red dress, used her spiked club to support herself and stop her momentum.
"You look so delicate. I thought you were just a pretty face with a fruit ability. You're pretty good."
Looking up, Yamato looked at Nami with great interest, unable to help but praise her, but her heart was a little puzzled.
As a user of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, the power of her lightning was immense, and she didn't dare to take it head-on easily. She had chosen a close-combat style from the start of the battle.
What she hadn't expected was that the iron staff wreathed in lightning in the other's hand was strangely heavy.
"Heh, sometimes you can also rely on your brain to increase your strength. A violent woman like you probably wouldn't understand," Nami said with a slight curl of her lips, retorting without showing any weakness.
At the same time, she twirled the Clima-Tact in her hand, pointing one end at Yamato. Blue electric sparks, like a swimming snake, coiled around it in circles.
Electricity generates magnetism, magnetism generates electricity. Lightning can also be converted into strength.
"100 Million Volt Charge: Railgun!!"
(End of chapter)