General Lanlin of One Piece

Chapter 778 Hawkeye’s Challenge

On Krayjana Island, the battle between Eniro, Luo, and Hawkeye has entered a white-hot state.

Hawkeye is indeed extremely powerful. Even when faced with the siege of Eniro and Luo, as well as three Seraphs, and more than a dozen pacifists, he still appears to be able to handle it with ease.

His attacks seemed to come easily, without any fanfare. The slashes that erupted from the black knife in his hand were obviously done casually, but they always forced Eniro and Luo to deal with them with all their strength. , if you are not careful, you may get some more wounds on your body.

"S Eagle, attack from the front. S Crocodile, you are assisting from the side. Try to use your Wax Fruit ability to limit his range of movement. S Flamingo, use your birdcage moves to trap him!"

Luo carries Seraph's authority chip on his body and can control the actions of three Seraphs.

He knew Doflamingo very well and knew that the most powerful move among Doflamingo's Thread Fruit abilities was actually the birdcage move.

The silk threads that make up the birdcage are extremely hard and tenacious, and even the swordsman's armed and domineering slashes cannot cut them.

Back on Dressrosa, Doflamingo also used this move, reversed it, covered himself, and successfully blocked Rorschach's attack.

If S Flamingo can use this move at this moment, and use it on Eagle Eye in a small area, trapping Eagle Eye, then their chance of success in capturing Eagle Eye will be greatly increased.

"Boom!"

Thousands of meters above the sky, the thick thunder pillars lighting up the sky and the earth are still falling down.

Since the beginning of the war, Enelu has never stopped attacking Hawkeye with over-the-horizon lightning strikes.

However, although the thunder pillars that kept falling down caused some trouble to Eagle Eye, they did not cause much damage to Eagle Eye.

Whenever a thunder column falls from the sky, Hawkeye can always easily cut it open with the black knife in his hand, causing it to explode into arcs of lightning all over the sky.

Even if occasionally a thunder pillar successfully hits Hawkeye due to Luo's interference, it will be blocked by his thick, armed and domineering armor.

As Luo's order was given, S Eagle was the first to rush forward, pounced on Eagle Eye, raised the black knife in his hand high, and slashed down at Eagle Eye angrily.

"Shh!"

A thick slash flew out of the air from the black knife in his hand, slashing towards Eagle Eye.

S Crocodile followed closely behind, the flames on the back of his head skyrocketed, and his hands spread out to touch the ground, releasing wax liquid that surged like white waves. It looked like the waxy fruit of Katakuri was awakening.

The ground beneath everyone's feet was soon covered with white wax liquid.

The flowing wax rushed towards Hawkeye, trying to wrap around his feet and prevent him from moving.

But the S flamingo, for which Luo had high hopes, was still standing there with an arrogant smile on his face, but it did not release the bird cage that Luo wanted to see, which made Luo a little surprised.

He couldn't help shouting: "S Flamingo, what are you doing? Release the bird cage quickly!"

S Flamingo grinned, spread his hands, shrugged, and said with a strange smile: "Hey, I'm sorry, I can't do it. The green blood ability of the thread fruit in me has not been developed to the extent that I can release the birdcage. ”

Luo Wenyan gritted his teeth and said angrily: "Then you just stand there and watch? Hurry up and restrain Eagle Eye! Cooperate with them to attack!"

Luo was very annoyed with his performance, and he didn't know if it was because of his hatred of Doflamingo. He didn't even have a good impression of the S Flamingo. He always felt that the smile on this kid's face was a bit arrogant.

It has to be said that the bloodline factor discovered by Vegapunk is indeed somewhat magical. Even the cloned Seraph still inherited the personality of the original clone. What was annoying before is still annoying now.

This time, S Flamingo did not disobey Luo's order. In a flash, he followed S Eagle and S Crocodile and rushed towards Hawkeye.

At the same time, more than a dozen pacifists assisting in the battle also fired lasers in this direction, trying to interfere with Hawkeye's movements.

There was an explosion of "Keng!", and the black knife in Eagle's hand struck, and was cut open by Eagle Eye.

"Is it the blood talent of the Lunaria tribe?" Hawkeye glanced at the black wings on the back of S Eagle and the flames burning behind its head. He held the handle of the black knife with both hands and raised it high, facing S Eagle in mid-air. Cut across with one knife.

The jet-black armed domineering energy flowed on the blade of his black knife, flying out like flowing ink as he slashed, turning into a huge black crescent moon.

The eagle in mid-air seemed to feel the danger, the flames burning behind its head surged, and the Lunaria talent integrated in the body was fully activated.

When the fire behind his head burns fiercely, his body's defense will be greatly enhanced. Even if he doesn't have Armed Haki on him now, he can still have a powerful defense comparable to the hardening of Armed Haki.

However, under the slicing strike of the eagle eye, when the huge black crescent moon came across, there was a sneer, and a deep bone-visible hole was cut in the eagle's chest, and the bright red blood surged from inside. It shoots out like a torrent of water from a high-pressure water gun.

S Eagle was slashed by Hawkeye and flew backwards like a cannonball.

Hawkeye was completely unimpressed by the fact that S Eagle looked exactly like himself, and did not hold back on his attack just because S Eagle looked the same as his childhood self.

But in just this moment's delay, Hawkeye's feet were completely covered by the white candle solution, turning into a white ocean.

Under the control of S Crocodile, the candle solution quickly froze and turned into a strong candle as hard as steel, fixing Hawkeye's feet.

S Flamingo followed closely and shot more than ten sharp threads towards Hawk Eye, trying to control Hawk Eye like a puppet.

"Good opportunity!" Luo's eyes flashed with a gleam of light. In the operating space that was maintained at all times, he could teleport to any place at will.

Without moving his skills forward, his figure disappeared in an instant, and he flashed behind Hawkeye, slashing through the air with the Guiwei sword in his hand.

"Whoa!" The silent slash came behind Hawkeye in an instant.

"The cooperation is good, but unfortunately, the intensity is still not enough."

Hawkeye commented casually, and swung the black knife in his hand towards his feet. The candles that restrained his feet were instantly shattered and cut into countless tiny pieces.

It looked like he had only struck one sword, but it had an attack effect that would take hundreds of swords.

The thread shot from S Flamingo's hand was also cut off without any suspense.

Not only that, the black knife in Hawkeye's hand drew an arc in front of him, and went behind him very smoothly, blocking Luo's sneak attack.

With a rumble, a thick thunder column struck down on Hawkeye, shattering the ground beneath him. Hawkeye was also blasted into the ground, and smoke and dust flew everywhere for a while, and thunder pillars fell one after another, drowning Hawkeye.

But there was no joy at all on Ke Luo's face.

On Kraygana Island, the center of the battle, with a radius of more than a kilometer, was covered by his operating space. Luo didn't need to release the Haki of Seeing and Hearing to perceive, he could clearly know the situation of everyone in this surgical space.

For example, even though Hawkeye was completely submerged by the lightning pillars falling from the sky and was continuously struck deep into the ground by Enelu, Luo could still tell that Hawkeye was not injured at all. The Armament Haki armor covering his body was extremely tough, like a real set of armor, protecting him firmly inside.

Although the Armament Haki on his body was constantly being consumed under Enel's lightning strike, judging from the current rate of consumption, it would take several days and nights to completely consume his Armament Haki.

Sure enough, each of the top strong men in this sea is a monster, extremely powerful and terrifying.

As long as the brain is normal, without the restraint of opponents of the same level, it is rare for accidents to occur and lose to opponents who are one level weaker than oneself.

Especially a strong man like Hawkeye who has superb swordsmanship and high combat IQ will never fall into the hands of an enemy weaker than himself.

Unable to break through Hawkeye's defense for a long time, Luo became anxious, but no matter how anxious he was, it was of no use.

This battle of capture gradually turned into a war of attrition. The two sides fought back and forth, and dozens of rounds passed in the blink of an eye.

Gradually, Luo began to become impatient. Hawkeye's physical strength was long-lasting, his domineering aura was strong, and his sword skills were exquisite. It seemed that he could continue to hold on for a long time, but Luo needed to consume a lot of physical strength to maintain the operating space.

As the situation gets worse, he might not be able to hold on for much longer, but he has to expand his surgical space.

Once he withdraws the operating space, the Seraphim fighting on the ground and even himself will be threatened by Hawkeye's attack.

There were several times before when Hawkeye's terrifying slashing attacks almost cut the Seraphim in half. If Luo hadn't used his operating space teleportation ability in time to move the Seraphim away from Hawkeye's slashing attacks, the Seraphim would have suffered casualties.

We can't go on like this, we must come up with a countermeasure, otherwise this capture operation will fail completely. Not only will we return empty-handed, but we may also lose our own combat power.

With a crack and another crisp sound, a bright slash swept across the sky and flashed past the body of a pacifist.

Then Luo saw the pacifist's head thrown high into the air, and his huge body fell heavily, losing the ability to move in an instant.

Along with this pacifist, there were already eighteen other machines that fell around him.

Only two are still able to continue fighting.

"Enelu!" Law shouted towards the sky, "Do it!"

In a short period of time, Law could not think of any other way to deal with Hawkeye, so he decided to let Eneel in the sky use a large-scale natural disaster attack to directly blow up Hawkeye's foothold, and then use their warships and Eneel's long-range attack advantage to deal with Hawkeye.

"Keng!"

Hawkeye chopped S crocodile with another knife, throwing it away. Blood appeared on S crocodile's neck and it was almost beheaded by Hawkeye. Luo quickly teleported S crocodile away.

Hawkeye raised his head and looked towards the sky. He saw thick dark clouds thousands of meters above his head, covering the sky like a black city wall. Bright flashes of lightning flickered in the clouds.

The vision of Hawkeye is really like that of an eagle, and it can see scenes thousands of meters away.

At this moment, in his eyes, there was a reflection of Enelu who had transformed into a hundred-meter-tall lightning Buddha, as well as a huge thunder ball with a diameter of hundreds or thousands of meters that was pulled by Enelu and gathered above his head.

"This is the ability of the Thunder Fruit. It is truly as powerful as a natural disaster." Feeling the terrifying energy fluctuations contained in the thunder ball, Hawkeye couldn't help but sigh.

However, there was no fear on his face. Instead, he slowly raised the black knife in his hand.

"Lei Ying!"

In the sky, with Law's permission, Enelu did not hesitate at all and directly blasted down a huge thunder ball that gathered a large amount of lightning power.

The thunder ball, which seemed heavy and huge, like a mountain, fell straight down, but at an incredibly fast speed, like thunder.

It was like a sun falling from thick dark clouds. The dazzling lightning instantly illuminated the entire paradise sea, like the glow of dawn breaking through the darkness.

"Room! Baton!"

Luo hooked his finger, and the three Seraphim and the only two remaining Pacifists, along with himself, teleported away from Hawkeye, directly crossed a distance of thousands of meters, and appeared on the edge of Kraigana Island, then disappeared again, appearing on a warship on the sea, looking far towards the center of the island.

A huge ball of lightning fell straight down from the sky, like a punishment from the gods, destroying the entire island.

And Hawkeye is the mortal who angered the gods.

Hawkeye held the knife in both hands, his face expressionless, and suddenly, from his not-so-tall figure, a sharp aura burst out that seemed to tear the world apart.

The next moment, a thunder ball containing terrifying energy fluctuations crashed down. At the same time, a terrifying slash that tore through the sky and earth erupted from the black knife in his hand.

The thousand-meter-long slash flew through the air like exploding magma shooting out from the earth's surface.

"Shh!"

At this moment, the entire sky on Kraigana Island was illuminated by the bright sword light and the falling thunder ball.

In the eyes of Luo and the three Seraphim, the huge thunder ball blasted by Enel split into two halves in an instant, like a watermelon cut in half by a knife, forcibly separated by a terrifying force, and then exploded and turned into countless strands of electric arcs that spread out.

After the huge blow cut through the thunder ball, its remaining force continued upwards, flying thousands of meters, and actually came in front of Enelu and slashed at him.

Enel roared, raised his huge hand filled with lightning, and slapped the incoming attack.

"Billion volt thunder explosion!" "BOOM!"

The earth-shattering explosion echoed over the entire waters of the paradise.

The thousand-meter-long slash from Hawkeye was finally shattered by Eneel's full-strength palm.

But the scattered sword light cut the thick dark clouds into pieces, revealing the dazzling sunlight behind them.

The sun shone through the holes in the dark clouds and turned into straight beams of light, shining on the island of Kraigana, as if a god had descended.

Enel looked at his cut palm with a grim expression. There was blood all over it, the wound was so deep that the bone was visible, and the entire palm was almost cut off.

He knew Hawkeye was strong, but he never thought he would be this strong.

Compared to the war at the top, Enel is much stronger now. He thinks that if he faces Marco again, he will definitely be able to defeat him.

But when facing Hawkeye, he still couldn't cause much substantial damage to Hawkeye.

Does Rorschach really have to take action against Hawkeye?
If he lost to Hawkeye in a one-on-one battle, Enel could still accept it. But now that so many of them were besieging Hawkeye together, and he was still defeated, Enel could not accept it.

With a gloomy face, he raised his hand again, but this time he did not shoot lightning at Hawkeye below. Instead, he turned into broken lightning and rushed down from the air, wanting to fight Hawkeye head-on.

On the ground, Hawkeye looked at the endless lightning that was shattering above his head. He ignored Enelu who was rushing towards him aggressively and turned to look at the sky elsewhere.

"You're finally here, Rorschach. If you were any later, I would have killed all of your subordinates."

"Rorschach..." Enel stopped diving and looked up at the sky, and saw a figure flying in the air and approaching quickly.

It was Rorschach.

However, at this time, there was a child next to Rorschach, whom neither Enel nor Law had seen before.

Luo was surprised to find that the white-haired child held by Rorschach with one hand looked 90% similar to Rorschach.

When he noticed the look of the child's eyes, Luo's heart moved slightly, "Could this also be a Seraph? A Seraph that cloned Rorschach?"

"Thank you for your mercy, Hawkeye." Rorschach landed in front of Hawkeye and said this.

"Show mercy?" Enelu was slightly stunned.

Rorschach meant that Hawkeye just showed mercy?

What a joke! When facing the joint attack of him and Luo, Hawkeye didn’t even use his full strength?

Enel looked at the bodies of the pacifists lying on the ground and couldn't help but clench his fists.

He did not question Rorschach's statement, because he knew that Rorschach would not speak nonsense. Since Rorschach said that Hawkeye showed mercy, Hawkeye did not use his full strength.

Hawkeye looked at Rorschach quietly, with a subtle expression on his face. His light golden eyes flickered slightly. He said, "Rorschach, your growth rate is rare in the world. It is the most exaggerated one I have seen in all these years. After the battle of Marinford, I knew that your strength was enough to stand at the top of this world."

"Really? Many people say so." Rorschach did not comment.

He was not proud, nor did he deny Hawkeye's statement.

"I have been looking forward to this day for a long time. Come on, let's continue the battle that was not completed three years ago."

As he spoke, Hawkeye slightly raised the black knife in his hand and pointed it at Rorschach, "Where is your weapon? The halberd that you turned into a black knife."

"Are you sure you want me to fight you with the Sky Dragon Halberd? Hawkeye, you will lose miserably."

As Rorschach spoke, his eyes suddenly moved slightly, and he turned his head to look at the sea on the side, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised, "I knew that once our navy took action against you, this guy would definitely be provoked. Hawkeye, I have to say that you really made a good friend."

Hawkeye's heart moved slightly, and he followed Rorschach's gaze and looked in the direction he was looking, but he saw nothing.

Enelu didn't sense anyone approaching.

It seemed that among all the people present, only Rorschach saw something.

The two men showed no intention of taking action in a hurry; they just stood there, as if waiting for something.

More than ten minutes later, a large red dragon ship appeared at the end of Hawkeye's sight. The eye-catching skull logo with scars on the corners of its eyes on the billowing sails revealed the identity of the ship's owner.

The Red Hair Pirates, one of the most famous Four Emperors in the New World.

Although Hawkeye knew that Rorschach might have been talking about Shanks' arrival.

He had indeed contacted Shanks in advance, but more than ten minutes had passed since Rorschach spoke before Shanks appeared.

This made Hawkeye's heart tremble, and his eyes fell on Rorschach.

His observation Haki was so strong that he actually saw Shanks' arrival more than ten minutes in advance.

This shows that Rorschach's observation Haki's perception range is far wider than his own.

"Should we continue the fight, Hawkeye? Now that your good brother is here, I think our navy's capture operation may fail."

Rorschach shifted his gaze from the direction of the Red Dragon ship to Hawkeye.

"Of course go ahead. I've wanted to fight you for a long time. You defeated Whitebeard and the Devil's Heir. Now everyone says you are the strongest man in the world. I want to see how far I am from being the strongest man in the world."

Hawkeye said as a boiling fighting spirit suddenly erupted from his body.

Beams of black and red lightning emanated from his not-so-tall body, and in an instant transformed into an expanding ball of energy light, rushing and spreading in all directions.

The terrifying impact force swept away all the gravel and dust on the ground, even cracked the ground, and created a circle of violent air currents on the island.

Sure enough, how could the world's greatest swordsman not have the domineering aura?

Rorschach was not at all surprised by the terrifying domineering color that erupted from Hawkeye.

He had always believed that Hawkeye definitely possessed Conqueror's Haki, and not only Conqueror's Haki, but Hawkeye might also have mastered the entanglement of Conqueror's Haki. Otherwise, no matter how superb his swordsmanship skills were, he could not have tied with Shanks with just swordsmanship skills.

A qualified top-level warrior must be a hexagonal warrior without too many shortcomings.

The title of Hawkeye, the world's greatest swordsman, was not earned simply by his swordsmanship.

When Shanks arrived at the sea outside Kraigana Island, he also discovered Rorschach, and his expression immediately became solemn.

"Jesus Bu, hurry up and bring the boat over." He urged Jesus Bu who was steering the boat behind him.

"Okay." Jesus responded and took the rudder steadily.

"Are we going to fight? With Lan Lin." Beckman asked Shanks.

"Try not to fight if you can." Shanks said.

Beckman nodded, although he knew that Shanks and Hawkeye's combined fighting power was definitely stronger than Rorschach. If they really wanted to fight, they could definitely defeat Rorschach at a cost, provided that Rorschach would stay and fight.

But the price of breaking up might be something they cannot afford. It is normal for Shanks to have such concerns. It does not mean that Shanks is timid, but people who have concerns in their hearts often cannot let go.

Shanks is such a person, and so is Rorschach on the island.

After all, they are not Barrett, who can ignore the lives of his subordinates.

Soon, their ship arrived at the edge of the coast of Kraigana Island.

Not far away was the warship where Luo was. Luo looked at this side coldly without saying anything.

Beckman and others walked to the side of the ship and looked towards the island.

"Watch the boat and don't act rashly. I'm going to go take a look on the island." Shanks said, and with a tap of his foot, he jumped off the boat and landed on the island.

In Shanks's perception of observation Haki, the aura emanating from Rorschach and Hawkeye was constantly colliding and strengthening, like two unstable explosives that were ready to explode at any time.

The air on the island became stagnant, making it impossible to breathe.

Qilin, who was held in Rorschach's arms, looked at Hawkeye curiously, his two azure eyes rolling around, and no one knew what he was thinking.

Rorschach and Hawkeye both remained silent, as if they were waiting for Shanks to approach.

Soon, Shanks came close to the two of them. He looked at Hawkeye and said in a deep voice: "Mihawk, let's go."

Hawkeye's eyes were always fixed on Rorschach, and he said without looking away: "Wait a moment, I want to fight him."

When Shanks saw Hawkeye's determined look, he knew he couldn't persuade him.

He and Hawkeye have been friends for many years and knows Hawkeye's character well.

Hawkeye is a person who likes to constantly challenge himself and break through himself.

The reason why he has the title of the world's greatest swordsman today is because he has continuously challenged the strong men on the sea and constantly honed his swordsmanship over the years. This recognition can only be obtained through real combat achievements and strength.

In order to hone his swordsmanship, Hawkeye challenged many powerful naval commanders, and of course there were casualties. For this, he was once awarded the title of Navy Hunter.

It's not that the Navy Headquarters didn't try to capture him, they even sent out an admiral to help Hawkeye. But even with the admiral, they could only fight Hawkeye to a draw and couldn't capture him.

After that, the Marine Headquarters sent an invitation to Hawkeye to join the Shichibukai. He is one of the few among the Shichibukai who has been recognized by the Navy and the World Government based on his personal strength alone. It is no exaggeration to say that he is the strongest among the Shichibukai.

At this time, Hawkeye wanted to challenge Rorschach.

Shanks hadn't seen the fighting spirit bursting out of him in many years.

"Why? Redhead, do you want to come along? I don't mind if you two come together."

Under the pressure of Hawkeye's terrifying aura, Rorschach still had the energy to tease Shanks.

"Mihawk alone is enough to deal with you. I won't interfere in your fight, but I won't allow any accidents to happen."

Shanks said it very bluntly, then stepped aside and retreated to a distance, choosing to watch the fight.

"Enelu, take the Qilin to the boat." Rorschach put down the Qilin in his arms and said to Enelu.

"What is this?" Enelu looked at the Qilin in front of him with some confusion.

Of course he had noticed Qilin a long time ago.

"This is my son Kirin." When Rorschach said this, not only Enel was stunned, but even Hawkeye and Shanks were also stunned, and they all looked at Kirin.

"Rorschach's son?" Shanks frowned, then relaxed his brows. He didn't believe it at all and thought Rorschach was joking.

How old is Rorschach?
How could he, who is the same age as Luffy, give birth to such a big son?
When the battle was about to break out, Qilin suddenly pointed at Hawkeye and said in a childish voice: "Hawkeye, I accept your challenge on behalf of my father!"

(End of this chapter)