General Lanlin of One Piece

Chapter 834 Immortal Bones
The world's most powerful country, the giant village, Elbaf.

"boom!"

With a thunderous roar, a volcano deep in the island erupted. Thousands of tons of scorching red magma spewed out from the crater, like a giant red sword piercing the sky, rushing into the sky, rubbing against the air, bringing out crackling lightning and billowing black smoke.

When the ejected lava flow rises to a certain height, it falls down again, like flowers scattered by fairies, turning into countless lava rains and sprinkling on the earth.

Balls of scorching magma smashed onto the vast land, causing countless giant beasts to flee.

In this doomsday-like scene, an inky black skeleton was carried by magma and ejected from the crater. After being thrown several thousand meters away, it fell from the sky like a sharp arrow, and with a puff, it pierced through the neck of a giant Triceratops that was running in the magma, nailing it heavily to the ground.

A few hours later, the eruption of the volcano stopped, and a giant carrying a huge axe walked out of the forest in the distance, happily picking up the corpses of wild animals killed by the volcanic eruption along the way.

Soon, he came to the dead Triceratops. He had been lurking in the forest when the volcano erupted, keeping an eye on the movements of this large, fleshy beast.

"Great! The meat of the armored triceratops is delicious. It is Prince Loki's favorite meat. With this beast, I have a gift to congratulate His Royal Highness on his accession to the throne. His Royal Highness will definitely be very happy."

The giant grinned, revealing a happy smile.

However, when he came to the huge Triceratops lying motionless on the ground, he was stunned on the spot.

"Huh? What's going on? Am I dazzled? I clearly saw a Triceratops that was killed by lava not long ago, how did it turn into a Triceratops skeleton?"

In front of him, the Triceratops, which was still full of energy a few hours ago and was fleeing frantically under the lava and fire rain of the volcanic eruption, had now turned into a huge, bony skeleton.

Looking at the huge Triceratops skeleton in front of him that was as big as a mountain, the giant rubbed his eyes in doubt of life.

He walked closer with his eyes wide open, and after careful observation, he realized that something was wrong.

The Triceratops in front of him was not a real skeleton, but a shriveled flesh and blood, with only a layer of skin tightly wrapped around the bones. And what was a bit weird was that this state of shriveled flesh and blood was rapidly deepening under the giant's nose.

He watched helplessly as the shriveled flesh on the Triceratops' body became even more shrunken, looking like a rotten skeleton after being exposed to the sun for decades.

He didn't know if it was an illusion, but he seemed to see a few imperceptible arcs of electricity, shuttling through the huge body of the Triceratops and finally converging on the head of the Triceratops.

To prove that he was not mistaken, the giant slowly stretched out his fingers and touched the skin of the Triceratops.

However, as soon as his fingers touched it, the shriveled flesh on the Triceratops skeleton began to crack, and countless tiny cracks appeared on the rotten bones. With a series of crisp crackling sounds, the huge skeleton like a mountain shattered into pieces and collapsed with a loud bang, raising a cloud of dust that made the giant cough repeatedly.

"What are you doing?"

The giant was even more confused, as he had never seen such a strange phenomenon before.

A living, breathing large beast turned into dust right before his eyes. It felt as if time for this Triceratops was accelerated thousands of times, and it went through its entire life in a short period of time, from being full of vitality to being buried in the ground and weathered.

He waved his hand to clear away the smoke and dust in front of his eyes. Suddenly, he exclaimed in surprise, leaned over and grabbed a three-meter-tall human skeleton as black as ink from the pile of collapsed Triceratops skeletons.

As the giant's fingers touched him, he felt a tingling electric shock coming from the black skeleton in his hands, which made him shudder involuntarily.

"This...what is this?"

Dozens of minutes later, in an empty space in the center of the Elbaf village, there was a bustling crowd. Giants, who were twenty or thirty meters tall and as strong as mountains, waved their hands and cheered like thunder, watching a battle between giants to succeed the throne.

In the field, there was a sturdy, bearded giant who was at least 25 meters tall, holding a double-edged axe that was more than ten meters long. He stood on the left like a god, overlooking a short and fat giant who was less than 15 meters tall, as fat as a ball, and had little muscle on his body.

"Loki, my only child of Odin, are you sure you want to challenge me, the king of the giants, and charge for the throne today?"

The voice of the Giant King Odin was like thunder, making the eardrums of the giants watching around him buzz.

In response to the Giant King's question, the short and fat Giant named Loki grinned, revealing a mouthful of uneven teeth. "Lolololo, that's right, father. Please abdicate. Leave the position of Giant King to me. I will bring Elbaf back to the top of the world and restore the glorious era of the giant kingdom!"

Hearing his son's arrogant words, the Giant King Odin's face did not show the slightest displeasure. Instead, he smiled. He raised his head and laughed, "Oh ha ha ha ha! You are worthy of being my son, Loki. I hope you can really do it. It doesn't matter if Nika of this generation has failed. As long as we, the Giants, are still here, there is still hope of saving the world! Because, Joyboy, came out of my Elbaf, and this is the hometown of the Sun God! Tell me, Loki! Do you have the confidence to inherit Joyboy's will and become the Sun God of this era!"

"My child is the one who takes the responsibility!"

As Loki responded, a series of illusory figures as tall as mountains and as big as giant gods appeared behind Loki one after another, as if in a dream. In their hands, they held huge axes, swords, round shields, spears, chain hammers, flails, and all kinds of weapons, surrounding Loki like a king.

Odin looked at the giant shadows surrounding Loki, and a flash of sadness emerged in his eyes. But soon, this sadness turned into excitement, heroism, and passionate fighting spirit.

He tore off the snow-white animal skin he was wearing, revealing his muscular chest covered with mottled scars. He roared wildly, and a storm of domineering aura burst out from his tall and majestic body, sweeping in all directions, making the giants who were watching dizzy, staggering and falling.

"Come on! Loki! If your father loses, I will also volunteer to be your guardian, just like those Elbaf warriors you defeated!"

"Father! I won't let you down! I will become the strongest king in the history of the giants! I will become the Joyboy of this era!"

Loki's body was stupid and fat, but the aura he exuded was no weaker than that of the Giant King, and was even stronger.

An inky black halo appeared on the surface of his fair skin, wrapping him up like a huge iron ball, and he officially charged towards his father.

As Loki rushed forward, the phantoms of giants gathered behind him followed closely. One of the phantoms holding a broadsword inadvertently sank into Loki's body. The next moment, Loki's eyes turned bloodshot and he roared wildly. His short and fat body swelled up like air. Muscles like steel and iron emerged and coiled together. A pitch-black sword more than ten meters long extended from his hand and slashed at the Giant King.

"Sun Saw!"

"Wei Guo!"

Odin used the giants' signature slashing attack. A powerful force that was enough to split the sea and break the river blasted out from the giant axe in his hand, turning into a mighty slashing torrent, and slammed towards his son.

The axe and the sword collided with each other in mid-air with a loud bang like thunder. Countless deep red lightning shot out in all directions. The spectators within hundreds of meters were affected and screamed and fell away due to the aftermath.

A massive storm arose in the center of the village of Elbaf. Its rolling impact blew away houses in the distance and shattered the clouds in the sky.

"Is this the power of Prince Loki? So powerful! Even the Giant King is at a disadvantage!" Helding was dazzled and couldn't help but exclaimed.

"The prince wasn't so powerful before, but ever since he got the Soul-Soul Fruit from Charlotte Linling, he absorbs the souls of the beasts on the island every day. His strength is increasing day by day. Now even Odin is no match for him." Dong Li stroked his beard and sighed.

"But I still think that Prince Loki is not suitable for this ability. When Charlotte Linlin was five years old, she caused Elbaf unforgettable pain. After the prince obtained her ability, although he developed the ability of the Soul-Soul Fruit better than Charlotte Linlin, it is still too extreme to seize the soul of the same race through a duel..."

"Broki! Talk less!" Dongli quickly interrupted Broki's words and glanced at the field. With just one blow, he knocked the extremely powerful Giant King thousands of meters away. Behind him were giants, Loki with the souls of giant beasts.

"Every duel of Prince Loki is fair and just, based on mutual consent and fairness. He has never forced anything on the other side. This is his kindness. We giants are born to fight for a living. It is an honor to die in battle! Moreover, those tribesmen who were defeated by the prince are not completely dead. They just entrusted their souls to His Royal Highness and became his patron saints and a part of his power."

Dongli said, patting his chest proudly, "When Prince Loki successfully ascends the throne, I will also prepare to challenge the new king. If I lose, I will become the prince's patron saint and protect Elbaf like King Odin and others!"

"Donli! You!" Broki's heart was shocked.

"Don't look at me like that, Broki." Dongli patted his old friend's shoulder and said with emotion: "Don't you feel that our strength is declining? We are already 160 years old. Although we can still live for a long time, the decline of strength is still inevitable. This feeling of losing strength as time goes by is too painful for a warrior who pursues battle and glory. I really don't want to wait until I am old and decayed, and then be knocked down by a five-year-old child and die in humiliation."

Broki's eyes dimmed, and he nodded silently, "You are right, Donli, I will go with you, and then we will protect Prince Loki and Elbaf together."

As the two were talking, there was a loud bang, and the battle with the King of the Elbaf Giants came to an end.

In front of a collapsed mountain thousands of meters away, Prince Loki, who had merged with the soul of a demon, was fifty meters tall with exploding muscles. He punched through his father's chest and nailed him to the mountain wall in front of him. Blood gushed out from Odin's heart like a waterfall, dyeing the mountain wall red.

Loki's eyes were filled with tears, and he shouted in pain and excitement: "Father! I didn't disappoint you, did I?"

Blood continued to flow out of the corners of the Giant King Odin's mouth, but he grinned, "Oh ha ha ha ha, you are worthy of being the blood of Odin, the strongest warrior of Elbaf. Loki! The position of king is handed over to you. Take out your father's soul and turn it into the heroic spirit of Elbaf. I will protect you and this country forever!"

"Father! Have a safe journey!"

Loki wept as he stretched out his hand and grabbed the giant king whose life force was rapidly fading. A dark, sticky substance was grabbed from Odin's body and released in front of him. The next moment, an illusory giant king appeared beside Loki, looking at him with pride. The huge Elbaf was silent for a moment, and then a deafening cheer rang out.

"King Loki!"

"King Loki!"

The giants cheered the name of the new king Loki, and came forward excitedly and happily to present the gifts they had prepared long ago.

Donli and Broki also stepped forward. Donli took out his favorite broadsword, and Broki offered his round shield. Broki was very happy and took them one by one.

After the battle, he changed from his various explosive and wild giant postures back to his original white-skinned, short and fat giant appearance, with a golden crown on his head. He looked quite funny, like an enlarged version of Charlotte Linlin.

"My Lord Loki, this is my gift."

A bearded giant staggered out from the crowd with difficulty, came in front of Loki, and presented something to him.

Loki took it with a smile and was stunned.

"Hmm? What is this? A human skeleton?"

The giants gathered around were also stunned and looked over one by one.

Many giants had already issued unhappy shouts, and noisy discussions were heard one after another.

"Hey! You bastard, if you don't have a gift, just cheer and no one will say anything, but why did you bring such an unlucky thing up here? You don't think this human skeleton is a treasure, do you?"

"Are human skeletons black? This is the first time I've seen black skeletons."

"Wait, who is this guy? I've never seen him before. Hey! Who's in charge of guarding today? Why don't we even know that there are outsiders in the village?"

The bearded giant was stunned, then he looked up, revealing a weak face with sunken eye sockets, high cheekbones, and he angrily said, "Hey, hey, hey, you bastards, do you have a limit to joking? Don't you know me? I'm the one in charge of guarding today!"

"You? Stop joking. The one in charge of guarding today is Jason, not a skinny old man like you." A giant sneered. At the same time, a guard walked out of the crowd, holding a chain, and was about to catch the bearded giant.

The bearded giant looked around and found that the expressions on the faces of his old acquaintances did not seem to be joking. He immediately became anxious, pointed at his face, and patted his thick beard, "I am Jason! How could you not recognize me? Am I dreaming? Hailding! It's me, Jason!"

Hailding was startled, and looked at Jason's face carefully. After a while, he widened his eyes and said in a lost voice: "It's really you, Jason, you...how did you become like this? It's like you were squeezed dry."

When Jason heard Helding's exclamation, he realized that something was indeed wrong with his body.

He looked at his hands, and what he saw was not the giant arms that were stronger than a century-old tree, but a pair of shriveled and skinny skeleton hands with only skin and bones left.

His strong and full chest became bony, and the leather armor that was previously tight on his body became loose, like a big tent that was leaking air everywhere.

"I...how did I become like this?"

Jason was filled with panic, but when he saw Loki casually throw the black skeleton on the ground, he became excited, rushed over to grab the skeleton, and held it in front of Loki again with both hands. He said in a trembling voice: "My king, I didn't lie to you. This is really a treasure. It must have fallen from an erupting volcano."

"Oh? Really?" Loki showed little interest and didn't want to pay attention.

Seeing this, Jason put the black skeleton on the ground, gritted his loose teeth, took out the extremely heavy axe from behind, and under the suspicious gaze of everyone, he held the axe, gasped, shouted, and chopped down suddenly, and the axe hit the human skeleton on the ground.

The giants only heard a loud bang, and the broad and sharp axe blade in Jason's hand cracked into countless cracks and exploded, leaving only a bare axe handle.

On the ground, the pitch-black human skeleton was not cut in half by Jason's blow, and there was not even the slightest sign of a scratch. It was still as black as ink and intact.

The giants immediately gasped and exclaimed in amazement.

"Oh my god, what kind of skeleton is this? Is it human? Are you kidding? Are human bones so hard? I think this is the skeleton of a demon."

When Jason heard the exclamations of the crowd, a happy smile appeared on his face. He picked up the black skeleton again, carefully wiped off the dust on it, and handed it to Loki.

"My king, look, I told you this is a treasure, right? I've tried it, and this skeleton is incredibly hard. No matter if it's soaked in lava, smashed with a boulder axe, or broken with force, it won't be damaged in the slightest. If it's used as a weapon, it's absolutely an indestructible and peerless blade, most suitable for King Loki, the strongest warrior in Elbaf."

Loki's eyes lit up and he became interested. Just as he was about to take the skeleton and take a closer look, he heard Dongli snort, "That's because you don't have enough strength, Jason. Look at how skinny you are. I don't know what you've been doing lately to get yourself into this state."

As he spoke, he strode forward, snatched the black skeleton from Jason's hand, threw it into the air, then drew his greatsword from his back with his backhand. With a flick of his wrist, black domineering aura wrapped around the greatsword, and with a loud shout, he swung the sword wildly.

"Sun Saw!"

"Dang!" An even more ear-piercing explosion sounded, and the black skeleton that was thrown into the air was chopped off by Dong Li's big sword and flew to a height of thousands of meters before falling down with a whistling sound.

"It's Chief Dongli! He's so powerful, much stronger than that guy Jason."

"Chief Dongli is right. Jason's power is too weak to prove anything..."

The noisy discussions stopped abruptly when the black skeleton fell back to the ground.

Even Dongli's eyes widened.

"Is it really that hard?" He looked at the intact skeleton on the ground and was shocked.

"I've already told you that we can't destroy it no matter what, but you still don't believe me." Jason looked at the dumbfounded giants, and his heart suddenly felt extremely comfortable, even forgetting about the abnormality of his body.

Dongli scratched his beard, somewhat unconvinced. He wanted to ask Brocky to join him and use a combined attack technique, Baguo, to test the hardness of the black skeleton.

But at this time, Loki came over, waved his hand and said, "Chief Dongli, let me try."

"Please feel free." Dong Li nodded and stepped aside.

Loki looked at the skeletons on the ground and waved his hand. A shadow of a giant more than 20 meters tall appeared behind him. It was the soul of his father, the former giant king Odin.

Odin's soul sank into his body as he moved. The next moment, Loki's short, fat, white body swelled up like air, and instantly turned into a 25-meter-tall bearded giant. The soul energy in his hand extended and condensed into a double-edged axe.

Loki held the giant axe in both hands and roared. Beams of black and red lightning appeared on his tall body, wrapped around the giant axe, and slashed down wildly at the skeletons on the ground.

"Ba Chan! Sun Saw!"

"Get out of the way!" Dong Li's eyes twitched, and he used a weakened version of Wei Guo to sweep out the giant standing in front of Loki.

The next moment, a world-shattering slash burst out from the giant axe in Loki's hand, and the ground thousands of meters in front of him was cut open by the axe. A long and narrow crack extended all the way to the coast, and the entire Elbaf village was divided into two.

"Hmm? Something's wrong! Father!"

Just as the giants were marveling at Loki's power, Loki suddenly let out an unbelievable cry.

"What happened?" Dongli and Broki looked over quickly and saw that the giant axe in Loki's hand suddenly collapsed and turned into a black phantom torrent, which detached from his body and drilled into the crack in front of him. Its target was the black skeleton that fell into the deep of the crack.

That phantom was the soul of the Giant King.

As the soul of the giant king Odin was pulled out of Loki, his tall and majestic body quickly turned back into its original short and fat appearance.

He looked furious as he looked at the black skeleton deep in the crack.

"What kind of evil thing is this? It actually took my father's soul away from me!"

(End of this chapter)