Not long ago.
Above the yellow sand, a battle had already begun here. The white suits worn by the few people around had already revealed their identities. Only CP0 would dress themselves like this, and aside from them, there were also numerous agents.
Even if the number of agents under the World Government was not greater than the Marines’ total numbers, it was still a massive force. Aside from elites like CP9 and CP0, they also had a large number of ordinary agents. In the World Government’s eyes, these were the ordinary soldiers that belonged to them.
These people would also carry out all kinds of missions from the government. After the Cobra incident, these people had already set out for Alabasta. Cobra’s words had made Imu realize certain things, and Imu had handed the matter over to the Five Elders.
In the end, the Five Elders assigned the mission to these agents, having them try to search through the endless yellow sand for information related to Lily. That queen’s actions back then had caused Imu no small amount of trouble. It would not be an exaggeration to say she had disrupted Imu’s plans.
Previously, they had heard the sound of an explosion and happened to run straight into Barro.
If Barro would treat ordinary pirates as passersby, then these World Government subordinates were outright enemies. Moreover, after seeing a Lunarian, these people reacted even more intensely than Barro did.
Originally, the battle had not been complicated. Even several CP0 members joining forces did not gain any advantage against Barro. However, this team had also brought along a special weapon.
“Captain, use that. This guy isn’t easy to deal with. How could someone this strong have remained unknown all this time, willing to hide away in a corner?”
That CP0 member looked at the wound on his chest with lingering fear. Tekkai had saved his life just now. Without Tekkai, there would not have been only a few claw marks on his chest; he would have been torn apart at the waist.
“Who can say? Every single member of this race is a big trouble. Not exterminating them really was a mistake…”
With Barro as the center, waves of flame were continuously harvesting lives. They had no impression of Barro whatsoever, and because of that, they had gravely underestimated his strength.
Watching his subordinates suffer constant losses, the CP0 captain did not feel distressed, but for the sake of continuing the later mission, he still pressed a switch in his pocket.
Just as Barro used his hand as a blade and slashed toward an agent, a small, thin figure blocked Barro.
After a brief exchange of gazes, Barro did not counterattack. Instead, he was kicked by this little figure onto the sand.
“Child… why are you standing on that group’s side?”
Not only did Barro not strike back, he even voiced a question. This scene was also seen by those CP0 members.
“This guy must really have lived in some corner for too long, right? He doesn’t know anything at all.”
“That’s even better. At least it means he has nothing to do with the Beasts Pirates. I don’t want to deal with those monsters.”
The weapon that could make CP0 deploy it was naturally a Seraphim. Regardless of what reputation the Seraphim had, they were now an extremely reliable fighting force in the World Government’s hands. The vast majority of CP0 members were no match for these biological weapons.
Unlike King and Shayna, who knew how the Seraphim had come into being and whose first reaction upon seeing them was to immediately eliminate them, this was Barro’s first time seeing a Seraphim.
Looking at that childlike appearance, his first reaction was that the other side had used some method to control one of his own tribe members. After all, the things Shayna and the others had taken decades to accept had only been in Barro’s awareness for less than a month, and his way of thinking was also very different.
And standing before him was S-Crocodile, the Seraphim manufactured using Crocodile as a template. Even the scar on his face had been replicated onto this Seraphim.
Because of the authority chip, Seraphim would only obey the person issuing orders. Therefore, S-Crocodile did not respond to Barro’s words, instead loyally carrying out the command to eliminate the enemy.
During this process, the CP0 members also joined the encirclement against Barro. It was precisely this behavior that allowed Barro to sort out his thoughts in battle. He planned to first kill these World Government people, then slowly deal with the issue of this fellow tribesman.
Because S-Crocodile’s identity was unclear to him, Barro was somewhat hesitant when fighting. In addition, CP0 kept having S-Crocodile act as a shield, so Barro did not achieve much.
But after the battle continued for a while, several agents suddenly went limp, then fell directly to the ground.
“What’s wrong with you lot?”
The CP0 captain questioned them. S-Crocodile had clearly blocked the main attacks, yet they had still collapsed to the ground.
“Captain, my body suddenly won’t move…”
“Me too. It’s like all my strength has been drained…”
Boom!
The CP0 captain suddenly felt a wave of dizziness in his head, and then Barro kicked him squarely in the chest. He did not activate Tekkai, instead attempting to use Kami-e to evade the opponent’s attack.
But his Kami-e failed to make his body slip past Barro’s attack, and he was still struck head-on. It was S-Crocodile who stopped Barro’s follow-up attack.
“Not every fist fails to hit a piece of paper. To hit a piece of paper fluttering in the wind, all you need are a few little tricks.”
“You b*stard… what did you use? When did you poison us?”
“When? Around when the battle started just now, I suppose.”
The wings on Barro’s back had already changed from a pair of black feathered wings into four pairs of black energy light wings, and his body had also begun to show slight signs of metallization. In the process of becoming a Paradox species, Volcarona’s Bug/Fire type had evolved into Iron Moth’s Poison/Fire type.
Poison was one of Iron Moth’s fighting methods to begin with. From the very start, the flames Barro released had been mixed with chemical toxins generated within Iron Moth’s body. Those toxins turned into gas under the high temperature and invisibly invaded the bodies of these CP0 agents.
In addition, Iron Moth’s body could also release a kind of invisible energy wave. In a certain sense, the current Barro could even be seen as a dangerous source of radiation.
Fair duels were reserved for juniors and companions, not enemies. At the very least, Barro did not feel there was any need to talk about righteousness when dealing with these enemies.
He felt that what Shayna had said back then made a great deal of sense. The times had changed. Martial arts were no longer something for demonstrations and performances, but a means of killing. Since his ability contained all of this, there was no reason for him not to use it.
S-Crocodile could block tangible attacks, but there was nothing he could do against these invisible things. He himself had the help of Lunarian blood and could withstand the toxins and radiation, but those people could not.
The more intense the battle became, the more rapid their breathing became, and the faster the toxins affected them.
“B*stard… S-Crocodile! Hold him back and protect us!”
“I just don’t want to hurt this child. What makes you think you can dodge my attacks with your abilities?”
When they could move, they could still actively seek S-Crocodile’s protection, but now they could not. However, just as Barro’s flames swept toward them, the surrounding yellow sand surged up and protected those people.
And the yellow sand was continuously gathering toward S-Crocodile’s body. Even the rocks and soil beneath the sand were controlled by this power, finally turning into a giant made of sand and stone.
S-Crocodile was faithfully carrying out the orders he had received, and this was precisely the ability of the Green Blood inside his body. It was not Crocodile’s Sand-Sand Fruit. Logia-type fruits were too complicated to research, and Vegapunk at the time had not been able to properly overcome that problem.
What S-Crocodile was using at this moment was Green Blood made from Avalo Pizarro’s Isle-Isle Fruit. The blood extracted from this Corrupt King when he was captured had become the source of S-Crocodile’s current power.
As the superior version of the Stone-Stone Fruit, the Isle-Isle Fruit could not only merge with rocks; the other components on an island were also targets this fruit could merge with.
Of course, the Isle-Isle Fruit did not necessarily have to be used on small islands. Things on land could be fused with as well. What the fruit provides is more of a range limitation—any piece of land the size of a small island can be manipulated by it.
And so, a sand giant comparable to an island’s incarnation stood in Barro’s path.
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