General Lanlin of One Piece

Chapter 817: Miracle of Music, Drum of Liberation
"Damn it! Get away from me! You monster!"

Seeing Totemjika suddenly blocking the way, Beckman and Aokiji were both furious and attacked together without stopping.

The long sword wrapped in domineering color and the icy air blasted out from the left and right, bombarding Totemjika all over the place.

Totemjika had a grim smile on his face and swung his arms down, showing no fear of Beckman and Aokiji who were attacking at the same time.

The high-pitched and piercing demonic music turned into tangible notes surrounding its body, like a domineering armor, blocking all the cold waves from Aokiji. The huge scaled hand that stretched out rapidly smashed into Beckman's domineering slash. Amid the deafening explosion, Beckman groaned and was actually knocked away by Totemjika.

But at the same time, Yixiao and Shanks also moved.

Shanks, whose body was severely burned by the lightning from Enel, flashed and in the blink of an eye, he rushed to the center of countless tentacles and slashed down vertically at Barrett's body.

With a swish, Griffin, who was shrouded in domineering color, cut Barrett's disgusting body open with one knife without any hindrance, revealing the inside of the body that was stuck together by countless flesh granulations.

"Luffy!"

With the lock of observation Haki, Shanks chopped left and right, and soon found Luffy who was swallowed deep inside the countless wriggling flesh buds.

He quickly reached out, grabbed Luffy's right arm, and pulled him out of the flesh buds that were rolling and squirming like maggots.

There was a crisp sound of "pop", and the force pulling Shanks' hand suddenly loosened.

The next moment, his eyes suddenly widened, and he stared blankly at Luffy in his hands. His body felt like it was suddenly in an ice cave, and he felt cold all over!

He saw that Luffy, whom he rescued, was only left with the upper body, and the lower half of the body was torn apart by him when he pulled it just now!
The normal flesh and blood of the broken body part turned into the same dark red flesh granulations that were wriggling and twisting like those on Barrett's body. They extended from the wound on Luffy's broken body, like countless floating red worms, making people's scalp tingle and their whole body cold.

"Barrett, Barrett!!"

"What the hell did you do to Luffy, you bastard?!"

"make him……"

"give me back!!"

At this moment, countless chaotic emotions were surging in Shanks' heart. His calmness was thrown out of the window, and a trace of panic appeared on his face.

He closed his eyes and pulled Luffy, whose life or death was unknown, behind him. The thick and domineering armor on his body turned into substance, wrapping Luffy for protection. He reached out again and drew his sword, slashing at Barrett's body.

The magnificent blade light slashed down wildly, countless granulations were cut and severed, and corrosive pus splashed out from the broken granulations, splashing onto Shanks' body, corroding his domineering armor, staining his body, and corroding his body, which was already burned by electric shock, into shocking blood holes.

But Shanks ignored it and continued swinging like a madman.

"Give Luffy's body back to me!!"

Amid the sound of chopping, he finally saw Luffy's lower body.

No, that's not right.

That can no longer be considered Luffy's body.

Because Luffy's lower body has been assimilated into Barrett's body, turning into a strange flesh and blood composed of countless wriggling flesh buds, which are sticking and gluing to the surrounding flesh walls and buds, and are gradually integrating into Barrett's strange body and becoming one with him.

"Merge with me... and become one!"

"Shanks."

Deep inside the squirming flesh, there was a sudden split, revealing Barrett's cold and ruthless square face.

He looked at Shanks, who was in shock, anger, panic and collapse. His eyes suddenly widened, revealing a dazzling red light.

"Pfft!"

Two red lights flashed in his eyes.

Shanks groaned, his body flew backwards, and two bloody holes appeared on his chest, running through it from front to back.

Before he could fly far, a dozen tentacles on Barrett's abnormal body entangled with each other and turned into a giant arm, which opened in the air. Black gas swirled in the palm of his hand, and a huge suction force exploded, pulling Shanks who was flying backwards back.

"Dark Water!"

At the same time, dozens of tentacles glued together and turned into another giant arm. The fist was buzzing with shock waves, and it punched Shanks on the head.

"Air shock!"

"Boom!"

A clear depression exploded in the air, and the domineering armor on Shanks' body collapsed. His body fell like a meteorite, smashing into the ground where black air was surging, and then he was pulled by the endless black air towards the depths of the dark space.

"Dark acupoint!"

Shanks struggled hard and roared continuously, but he was unable to break free from the black air and tentacles around him, and was swallowed up bit by bit by the endless darkness.

"Gravity Blade! Slay the Dragon!"

A smile's roar sounded at the right time, and the next moment, an invisible gravity field came crashing down, pressing Barrett, who had grown countless tentacles, to the ground, and countless flesh buds exploded.

The dark space filled with black energy was also blasted open by the gravity field, allowing Shanks to break free and escape.

However, Luffy, who was pulled out by him, was caught back by Barrett's tentacles again and stuffed deep into the torn flesh.

"Don't worry about me! Save Luffy!" Shanks waved at Ichimi who wanted to come and rescue him, and shouted hoarsely.

"give it to me!"

He smiled and waved at Luffy who was about to be swallowed by Barrett's body.

"A hundred times gravity field! Star shooting!"

Luffy's upper body was imprisoned by the invisible gravity, as if it was being tightly grasped by an invisible giant hand, and the countless tentacles on Barrett's body were snatching food from his mouth.

With a smile and a roar, he exerted the power of the Heavy Fruit to its fullest extent and pulled Luffy out from the depths of the stacked and surging flesh buds.

However, his action seemed to anger Barrett.

Countless flesh buds on Barrett's body split to both sides, turning into a ferocious mouth. With a roar, the storm-like domineering aura swept across the eight directions, stunning hundreds of thousands of people around him.

But a being of Yixiao's level would obviously not be affected by his domineering nature.

But with this roar, the thousands of tentacles on Barrett's body became manic at this moment, and gave up attacking Kizaru, Zephyr, and Shanks. They all gathered together, stuck to each other, and turned into a huge mouth with a diameter of over a thousand meters, swallowing the smile in front of them in one gulp.

With a "boom!", Luffy was rescued, but he was unable to extricate himself in time and was swallowed by the big mouth.

"Smile! Luffy!"

Shanks' voice became hoarse, and he shook off the surrounding darkness and rushed over here.

Immediately afterwards, there was another loud bang.

The sky-devouring mouth that had just closed suddenly exploded, and countless flesh and blood splattered everywhere. A blood-stained smile flew out of it and was thrown far away.

But Luffy, who was rescued by him, disappeared!

"He is mine, and no one can take him away."

From deep within the churning flesh, Barrett's face emerged, and he uttered a voice without any emotion.

The disappeared Luffy was embedded in the back of his head, dragged by countless flesh buds, and sank into his body little by little.

Luffy's body was changing rapidly, his skin and flesh dissolving, collapsing, and being assimilated into the same dark red granulation flesh as the surrounding area.

The adhesions of the surrounding granulation tissue kept piling up on his body, or drilling into his body, and even into his head and facial features!

Shanks could feel that Luffy's life force, instead of weakening further, suddenly increased strangely!
It seemed that as the granulations on Barrett's body penetrated into Luffy's body, his vitality was recovering rapidly, and it seemed that his injuries would heal at any time.

However, there was no joy on Shanks' face, but instead it was full of anxiety and anger.

Because he knew that Luffy's condition was not that he was recovering, but that he was being parasitized, assimilated, and... fused by the monster Barrett!
Once Barrett completely devours Luffy, Luffy will definitely become Blackbeard, like Ryder, with his body and soul controlled by the monster Barrett.

By then, it is unknown whether Luffy can return to normal.

He absolutely couldn't see that ending happen before his eyes.

"Barrett! You lunatic! Let Luffy go!!"

He roared and rushed again with Yixiao, trying to rescue Luffy.

But at this moment, Beckman, who was fighting with Totumjika not far behind him, suddenly shouted at Shanks.

"Shanks! Kill Luffy!"

"What?" Yixiao, who was trying hard to control the gravity field to confine Barrett, was stunned.

Shanks, Aokiji, Kizaru, and Zephyr were also stunned.

Aokiji thought he had heard it wrong. While releasing a large amount of cold wave to freeze Totemjika, he turned to look at Beckman, but heard Beckman shouting again.

"Kill Luffy! Quick!"

Aokiji's expression turned cold, and he stopped attacking Totumjika and turned to look at Beckman. "Beckman, what are you... talking about?"

"If you don't want to see Barrett swallow Luffy and assimilate him, there seems to be only one way now. Kill Luffy before he succeeds!"

Beckman screamed: "Luffy's ability is the Rubber Fruit, which can evolve into the legendary Animal-type Human-Human Fruit Mythical Beast, the Sun God Nika form. And the Sun God Nika is immortal! As long as his heart beats again and plays the drum of liberation, he will be resurrected again and become the Sun God!"

"But these are just legends recorded in ancient history. We have never confirmed its authenticity. And Luffy's rubber fruit ability has not reached the level of awakening..." Shanks understood what Beckman meant, but he was hesitant.

He didn't dare to gamble, he didn't dare to take Luffy's life, his eight hundred years of fate, and the future of this world.

"There's no time! Go for it!"

"Noisy bugs!"

Beckman screamed and was slapped by Totumjika. His body broke and bleed spurted out. He flew backwards from Aokiji's front.

Aokiji did not go to rescue him, but just stood there, watching from afar Luffy, who had only half of his upper body and a head left and was about to be completely swallowed by Barrett.

Shanks' right hand, which was holding the Griffin long sword, was shaking.

Want to bet?
If the bet is lost, does the world have to wait another eight hundred years?

The will inherited from Roger will end in this era.

"Luffy……"

He stared blankly at Luffy, who was left with only a head, his eyes closed, his face gradually turning red, but his eyes, ears, mouth and nose had been penetrated by countless dark red granulations. He shook his wrist and suddenly swung the knife!

"sorry!"

The next moment, a magnificent blade light burst out from his long sword, tearing apart the entangled tentacles in front of him, cutting through the darkness, shattering Barrett's face, and cutting on Luffy's remaining head!

"laugh!"

The sword pierced into the bone, cutting through the flesh, but Luffy's head did not separate from his neck.

At the critical moment, what hit his head was not the blade of Griffin's long knife, but the back of the knife!
The slash turned into a hammer blow, the corner of Shanks' eye was cracked, tears of blood flowed, and he smashed Luffy's forehead with a sad and angry knife.

The powerful Armament Haki blasted into Luffy's brain without any hindrance, instantly cutting off his rapidly recovering vitality!
"Vice Admiral Garp's grandson was killed by Red Hair..."

Kizaru was on the dark land, continuously shooting lasers to break the tentacles that were entangled with civilians and navy. When he saw this scene happening in the distance, he paused, and he didn't know what he felt in his heart.

Yixiao stared blankly at Luffy, who had stopped breathing and died with his eyes closed, and stood there for a long time without coming to his senses.

The Straw Hat Luffy, whom he had high hopes for, died just like that.

He also heard what Beckman said just now. Shanks killed Luffy in order to save him.

What a ridiculous reason this is.

"I need you to give me an explanation, redhead."

A cold breath came from behind, and the temperature around him plummeted. Aokiji, with a frosty air, slowly walked towards him from not far away.

Shanks' eyes were red as he tightly grasped the Griffin sword and reached out to grab the small part of Luffy's body that was left.

His voice was hoarse, like the friction of rusty iron.

"Luffy... he won't die. He is the child of destiny that Captain Roger has been waiting for, the Joy-Boy of fate, the sun god Nika who can save the world. He... will never die!"

"Joeyboy, Nika..." Aokiji stood still, not knowing what he was thinking.

There was a brief silence around, as if waiting for a miracle to happen.

But soon, Barrett became furious.

Not only was the prey right at his mouth snatched away by Shanks, but he was also killed directly, which made Barrett, who was a little confused, furious.

In his limited rationality, Shanks's actions were hindering his progress towards becoming the strongest.

This would be tantamount to destroying his lifelong dream.

"Roar!!"

In an instant, an inhuman roar exploded like thunder, and countless tentacles gathered together, turning into giant arms that could hold up the sky. Above the giant arms, white shock waves emerged in groups, emitting terrifying energy fluctuations that could destroy the world, and in the horrified and shocked eyes of everyone present, they fell one after another!
In just a moment, Shanks, who was closest to him, smiled, and Aokiji was blown away by the violent shock wave, his injuries worsened and blood spurted out.

Kizaru, Zephyr and others were also affected by this earth-shaking shock. The land within a radius of hundreds of kilometers, and even the entire Gege world, was shaking, as if it would shatter at any time.

Barrett went crazy, waving countless fists, following the flowing darkness, chasing after Shanks who was flying backwards.

Giant arms smashed down one after another, and the shock waves continued to vibrate and impact, knocking several people away, blocking Shanks and his three companions who wanted to join together to fight the enemy.

"Admiral Kizaru! What should we do now?" Magellan covered his chest and shouted at Kizaru.

"This old man... doesn't know either." Kizaru's eyes were confused as he looked at the earth-shaking destruction in front of him. Tens of thousands of people were shattered by Barrett's madness and turned into large balls of blood mist, lingering between heaven and earth. The strong smell of blood made people dizzy and almost nauseous.

This is a closed world where you can’t get out, and you can’t fight either.

At present, there seems to be no other way except to stay away from the monster Barrett and Totumjika as much as possible.

He hesitated and said, "Retreat, try to take people away..."

"We can't retreat!"

Zefa staggered towards him from a distance, and with every step he took, shocking amounts of blood spilled from his body.

"Teacher Zefa!" Yun Que looked worried and went forward to help, but was rejected by Zefa.

His old voice was low as he looked at Kizaru, Magellan, Hibari and the others.

"We can't retreat. We must solve Uta's problem, find her, let her open up this world, and release the consciousness that was brought in."

Before Zephyr could finish his words, Shanks' roar was heard in the distance.

"Totemjika! Let go of Uta!"

Zefa turned around instantly and saw Totemjika, whose body was becoming increasingly huge and ferocious, on the dark ground. In one of his raised hands, a pale and weak girl appeared.

It was Uta.

Totumjika laughed strangely and grimly, and his laughter was joyful and refreshing.

“Hahahaha, hehehehe, this is going exceptionally smoothly. As long as I deal with Uta, my world will expand infinitely from now on.”

It looked at Wuta in its palm and said, "Don't worry, Wuta, I will fulfill my promise and create a dream world without fighting, struggle, separation, or pain, where everyone is free, equal, happy, and joyful."

Whispering, Totumjika's big hands slowly closed, and Uta was about to die!

"No!" Shanks rushed forward desperately, but was smashed on the head and bleeding by Barrett's fierce bombardment, and was blasted away again and again.

"Can't let her die! Borsalino!"

Without any hesitation, Zefa soared into the sky and flew towards Totmjika.

Kizaru turned into a ray of golden light, tearing through the dark sky, and in an instant, shot in front of Totemjika. A laser broke the arm that Totemjika was holding Uta, and he reached out to grab the falling Uta.

But at this moment, a figure condensed by lightning appeared, and under the astonished gazes of Kizaru and Zephyr, he waved his hand and shot out a pillar of lightning that soared into the sky, blasting Kizaru and him away!
Totemjika's other big hand caught the falling Uta, and he looked at Kizaru and others who were stopped by Enel, with his fang-filled mouth grinning from ear to ear.

"Although bugs are tiny, they are still very convenient to use, hehehe."

"Go, kill them, my servants."

Enelu, with an expressionless face, ignored Zephyr and Kizaru's shouts, and shot huge bolts of lightning at all the navy rushing towards him, stopping them all.

Totemjika grabbed Uta, who had fallen into his palm again, and slowly exerted force, trying to crush to death the benefactor who released it from the seal.

However, at this moment, new changes occurred.

"Boom!"

Just like a heavy cowhide drum being struck, a dull drum sound suddenly rang out between the dark sky and earth.

The first drum beat sounded, and the demonic music surrounding the sky became dull and obscure.

"Boom!"

When the second drum beat sounded, the countless notes dancing in the world of song stopped, and the staff became still.

"Boom!"

When the third drum sounded, Totemjika, who was holding Uta, groaned. His huge body shook violently, and he took a step back suddenly, and Uta fell out of his hand.

"Boom! Boom!"

The drumbeats gradually became faster and faster, continuing powerfully, reverberating throughout the entire world of Gege, penetrating the dark earth, and echoing in everyone's ears.

(End of this chapter)