General Lanlin of One Piece

Chapter 820 The Courage to Face Life and Death

Totomjika seemed to be very hostile to Luffy who had turned into the sun god Nika. He actually gave up chasing Uta and instead started to attack Luffy with all his strength.

Not only it, Barrett is also attacking Luffy.

Under the joint attack of the two inhuman monsters, Luffy, whose body had grown to a gigantic size, was twisted and deformed wildly, like a ball of plasticine that was constantly being flattened and rolled into a ball.

Eneel, who had been standing still, was also controlled by Totemjika and rushed to Luffy, releasing thick lightning pillars that continuously bombarded Luffy's body.

In just a few short rounds, Luffy's body, which was constantly stretched to the limit, suffered several cardiac arrests. Fortunately, this legendary Sun God Nika form was indeed extremely powerful, as if it had the ability to resurrect infinitely. Whenever Luffy's life breath disappeared, he would be resurrected the next moment with the beat of his heart.

But even so, compared to the energetic state he showed when he just awakened, Luffy soon became listless and breathless.

Worried that something might happen to Luffy, Ichisho and Aokiji quickly took action to help resist the fierce attacks from Totemjika and Barrett.

On the other side, Shanks and Beckman have already come to the navy and want to rescue Uta.

For the two of them at this moment, there was no need to hold back against the navy anymore.

Both sides inflicted irreparable casualties on the other side, and the only thing left was a fight to the death.

So Shanks didn't even say a word to ease the situation, he just reached out and drew his sword.

On Griffin's long sword, black and red domineering lightning roared, and the sword chopped down towards Zefa's head.

Zefa swung out the broken mechanical arm in his right hand to block.

However, with just a collision, the mechanical arm on his right arm shattered under Shanks' long sword and exploded into countless steel fragments.

A dazzling flash of blood exploded on Zephyr's body. His right arm, which was cloned using cloning technology, was broken at the elbow. A section of his forearm was thrown into the air, and then shattered into a ball of scattered blood mist under the bombardment of Shanks' domineering lightning.

"Teacher Zephyr!" Kizaru was shocked. He didn't expect that Zephyr couldn't even withstand a blow from Shanks.

He quickly turned into a beam of golden light and rushed over, wanting to provide support, but was intercepted by Beckmann's long sword.

Beckman's long sword also emitted bursts of domineering lightning, which cut off the golden laser light of Kizaru's incarnation and cut a long and narrow wound on Kizaru's chest.

Kizaru's body condensed, sweat on his forehead, and he raised his hand and shot a laser at Beckman's face.

Beckman raised his sword, and the laser exploded on his sword, blowing him away.

“Get out of my way! Beckman!” Kizaru came over like teleporting, slashed down with a sword in the air, cutting towards Beckman’s head.

"You're not going anywhere, Kizaru." Beckman turned around and swung his sword to attack.

The two men attacked each other at high speed, the clanging sounds of weapons colliding were endless, and the fight got faster and faster, and in a short moment they had already exchanged hundreds of moves.

Kizaru exposed a flaw and let Beckman's long sword chop his shoulder. The sword in his hand exploded and turned into countless lasers, bombarding Beckman's body, causing Beckman to spit blood and fly backwards.

In front of Shanks, Zephyr, who had lost his right arm again, fell heavily from mid-air. Glaring blood gushed out from the broken wound, dyeing the ground beneath him red.

He gritted his teeth and stood up from the ground, his chest heaving violently, blocking Shanks.

The injuries Barrett had inflicted on him previously were extremely serious, and now Zephyr was unable to resist the young and strong Shanks.

But he did not back down. The dark armed color domineering covered his whole body, blocked Shanks' way, and panted: "Red Hair, I know you, you are not Kaido, Big Mom, a tyrannical guy who disregards human life. Stop, we can talk. I think you don't want to drag the whole world into the bottomless abyss because of your daughter's willful behavior?"

"There's nothing to talk about between us. If you don't get out of the way, you'll die."

Shanks' face was cold and he raised the long sword in his hand again.

Zefa gritted his teeth and raised his voice, his old voice trembling.

"Redhead! Don't make a big mistake. Look around you. Countless people have died because of this disaster. No matter what grudges you have against me or the navy, we will meet on the battlefield in the future, but don't make any more mistakes now."

Zefa's voice was hoarse and full of weakness. The asthma that had been cured before seemed to have relapsed again. Every time he spoke a word, he couldn't help coughing violently, coughing up shocking amounts of blood.

There was a hint of hesitation in the depths of Shanks' eyes, but he quickly became firm again.

He swung his sword, and the bright blade light slashed towards Zefa in front of him. At the same time, his figure flashed, passed by Zefa, and rushed towards where Uta was.

"I will fix the mistakes that Uta made. But I don't trust you navy. Uta must stay by my side."

"Don't even think about taking her away! You don't trust us, and we don't trust you either!"

Yamato rushed out from the side and hit Shanks' left shoulder with a stick.

Almost at the same time, all the G5 generals who were still able to fight attacked together from all directions.

Because of Uta, because of Barrett, because of Yixiao, Beckman and others, both the navy and these innocent civilians suffered huge casualties.

No matter what Shanks said at this moment, they would not allow Shanks to take Uta away.

However, Shanks's power is not something that the G5 members, who have already reached their limits, can stop.

He just slashed on Yamato's mace with one blow, and the rushing Yamato was chopped away without any suspense.

His eyes focused, and a ball of dark domineering aura burst out from his not-so-tall body, sweeping in all directions like a hurricane and slamming into the people rushing over.

Everyone felt as if their heads were hit by a sledgehammer and they instantly became dizzy.

Weaker people like Smoker, Drake and others even vomited blood and fell down with their heads tilted back.

Bepo, Palmer, and Kirin were slightly stronger, and although they did not lose their fighting power, their heads were dizzy for a moment. And during this short moment of dizziness, Shanks swung his sword again, a huge horizontal slash, like a mountain wall between heaven and earth, filling the vision of everyone present, and crushing them.

Bepo transformed into a moon lion, Kirin unleashed the power of the Green Blood Tremor-Tremor Fruit, Palmer exerted the power of the Strength Fruit to the extreme and instantly erupted with a force of tens of millions of tons, Hibari transformed into a goddess of fire and released a flame as raging as a tsunami, Yamato gritted his teeth and swung the mace in his hand again, all to meet the slash from Shanks.

"Boom!" The next moment, a huge impact sounded. With one slash of Shanks's sword, the five people flew backwards, with deep wounds visible to the bone on their bodies.

The top-level Armament Haki blasted into everyone's bodies along the wounds on their bodies, causing them huge internal damage. Several people coughed up blood and even internal organ fragments while flying backwards.

Not only the few people who rushed over to stop Shanks were injured, but also hundreds of navy men and civilians behind them were affected by Shanks's unleashed slash. Hundreds of people had their bodies split open and cut in half, with broken limbs flying all over the sky. It was a horrible sight, like hell.

As soon as Shanks passed by him, Zephyr turned and rushed over to intercept him, but his speed was no match for Shanks.

By the time he arrived, it was too late.

Looking at the hundreds of naval soldiers who died tragically in an instant, Zefa's eyes became moist.

A gasping roar came from the depths of his throat, and the ground beneath his feet exploded. Ignoring the blood that continued to spill from his right arm, he rushed towards Shanks like a cannonball.

But Shanks' speed was extremely amazing, and when he burst out with all his strength, he was no less than Kizaru. He didn't even turn back to deal with Zephyr who was chasing him. The powerful Armament Haki armor was released, blasting away the surrounding navy. The invisible Haki was like an invisible big hand, replacing the role of the hand, grabbing Uta who was cured by Mansherry from a distance, fixing it behind him, and after a few flashes, he escaped from the encirclement of the navy.

"Earth Roll!" Zephyr roared, and the power of the Float-Float Fruit exploded, causing the earth to roll towards Shanks.

Shanks swung his sword horizontally, and the ground that was rolled up exploded with a loud bang, and smoke and dust billowed.

Seeing this, Beckman wanted to break away from the fight with Kizaru and retreat with Shanks.

But after seeing Zephyr’s right arm cut off and hundreds of navy soldiers killed behind him, how could Kizaru let him leave so easily?

At this moment, Kizaru exploded.

Countless golden lasers burst out from his body, no longer confined to his hands. He seemed to have turned into a dazzling sun.

Beckman was so close that in just a moment, the Armament Haki covering his body was shattered by the laser beams. The laser beams were about to fall on him and penetrate his body.

At the critical moment, Shanks appeared again as if teleporting, blocked Beckman's way, and swung his sword.

Griffin's long sword shone with domineering power, sweeping away the laser shot by Kizaru, turning it into a burst of golden light all over the sky.

He blocked most of the lasers, but a small number of laser beams still passed through the air and hit Beckman, causing him to vomit blood and leaving more than a dozen pierced and burnt wounds on his body.

Beckman's knees went weak and he fell to the ground with a thud, spitting out blood.

Shanks' heart was heavy, "Are you okay?"

“I won’t die.” Beckman gasped a few times, took a deep breath, and stood up.

Immediately, Shanks was at the rear and Beckman was in the front. The two rescued Uta from the navy and retreated towards where Luffy was.

Seeing him taking away Uta, whom he had captured with great difficulty, Kizaru did not stop him.

He was powerless to stop it.

Even if they were facing only Shanks and Beckman, with their current weakened forces, forcibly stopping them would only result in more casualties.

The most important thing to do now is not to chase, but to save everyone's lives.

Kizaru glanced at the battle still going on in the distance, turned around quickly, and relying on his powerful observation Haki, found Mansherry who was thrown far away, and asked her to treat the seriously injured navy soldiers.

"Hibari, are you okay?" Yamato dropped the increasingly heavy mace in his hand, limped over to Hibari who was lying on the ground, and asked with concern.

Both of them were covered in wounds, and Yamato's injuries seemed to be more numerous and more serious than Hibari's.

But she is a user of the mythical beast type, and her ability was successfully awakened not long ago, so although her injuries are serious, her life is not in danger.

But Yunque was different. Her physique was much weaker than her ghost bloodline, and she did not have the physical bonus of an animal. She had lost too much blood at the moment, and blood kept flowing from the corners of her mouth.

Hearing Yamato's question, she shook her head with some difficulty.

"Let Mansherry treat you." Zefa's old voice came.

In his only remaining left hand, he held Man Shirley, whose tears were falling.

"Zef...Teacher." Yun Que opened his eyes slightly and looked at Zefa, who had a kind face and blood all over his body. His eyes felt sore and he couldn't hold back his tears anymore.

She bit her lips stubbornly, shook her head, and forced herself to sit up from the ground, refusing Man Shirley's offer to treat her injuries.

"I'm fine. There's no need to waste Princess Manshirley's abilities. Treat other people who are more seriously injured."

Yun Que knew that Mansherry's healing fruit ability could not be used indefinitely.

The princess of the dwarf tribe had already been injured because of the disaster. She had used her abilities many times to save people and now had very little physical strength left.

The disaster has not stopped yet. The people who need treatment are not only the navy, but also many more innocent people. Man Shirley should save as much energy as possible.

"Silly child, your injuries are very serious and you won't be able to hold on." Zefa sighed and still sent Manshirley over.

However, Yun Que stubbornly shook his head to avoid the tears that Man Shirley was shed, and reluctantly released the cloud to catch them, and then sent them back again, sprinkling them on the ordinary soldiers who were more seriously injured, allowing their injuries to heal quickly.

Around her, Bepo, Palmer, Kirin, Smoker, Drake and others who were seriously injured were also holding on and refused Mansherry's treatment.

Zefa looked at these students and felt a little distressed and a little moved.

He had experienced scenes like this many times in his life. In the past few decades, during the brutal battles he had experienced, many of the students he had personally taught had said similar things.

Those lovely young people, faced with potentially fatal injuries, still had the courage to say things like "treat others first and leave me alone."

At this moment, Zefa's eyes were moist and tears blurred his vision.

Aokiji said that the navy has changed now because of Akainu's rise to power, and has become a group of extremely bloodthirsty executioners.

Has it really changed?
Zefa looked at the resolute and brave faces in front of him, shook his head slowly, and murmured firmly: "No! Kuzan, you are wrong, they have not changed. My students are still walking on the righteous and correct path. They have not fallen. Even death cannot make them surrender. Kuzan, your choice is wrong, really wrong."

He muttered to himself, his body swayed, and he suddenly fell backwards.

"Teacher Zefa!"

Everyone was shocked and rushed forward.

Magellan hugged Zefa's fallen body and felt that the old man's body was so light and his breath was as weak as a candle in the wind.

"Hurry up and treat Mr. Zefa, he is dying!" Magellan said anxiously.

Manshirley rushed over, wiped the tears from her cheeks, and sprinkled them on Zefa's body.

Everyone watched with concern. A milky white light came on, and the wounds on Zefa's body healed visibly quickly, and a healthy color quickly appeared on his face.

But what worried everyone was that his breath was still extremely weak, his eyes were closed, and he had not woken up.

Zefa lost too much today. The double pain of physical and mental made the old man collapse.

He lost Law, his proud student, and Garp, his old comrade who had fought side by side with him for decades. He watched hundreds of young marines die tragically in front of his eyes, and tens of thousands of innocent people die here, but he was powerless to stop it.

This kind of pain seemed to tear at his soul. This kind of mental trauma had nothing to do with the body and could not be recovered even if the body was healed.

(End of this chapter)