General Lanlin of One Piece

Chapter 835: Blood and Flesh Revival

"Shanks, Prince Loki is going to challenge King Odin and attack the throne today. Everyone is going to watch. Don't you want to go and see?"

At the entrance of Elbaf village, in a tavern on the coast, a five-meter-tall, snot-nosed giant child stood in front of the eight-meter-high bar. He looked at the red-haired man sitting on a seven-meter-high stool, pouring wine into his mouth, and asked curiously.

The red-haired man had many white bandages wrapped around his body. He held the wine glass in front of him and poured one glass after another into his mouth. The turbid wine flowed down the corners of his mouth, wetting the clothes and bandages on his chest.

He said nothing, did not answer the giant child's question, nor did he turn around to look, but just drank silently.

Shanks had a hollow look in his eyes, a scruffy beard, messy hair, and a pungent smell of alcohol. His sword Griffin was thrown carelessly on the ground in front of the bar, and the scabbard was covered with disgusting vomit.

"Are you really not going? I heard that Prince Loki can release the heroic spirits of Elbaf, and he's a giant magician." The giant child was not giving up, and wanted to drag Shanks to watch Prince Loki's battle to become king.

The adults said that the battle between the old and new thrones would be very intense, and they were worried that the onlookers would be affected and suffer unnecessary casualties, so underage giants under the age of sixty were not allowed to watch the battle. This made the giant children very excited.

That's why this little giant, who is not even twenty years old, would set his sights on Shanks.

Because Shanks is an honored guest of Elbaf, he is one of the few humans who can directly gain the friendship of the entire giant race. Even the giant king will give him face when he sees him and often invite him to the palace as a guest.

Previously, Chief Donli and Chief Broki had invited Shanks to attend the ceremony, but Shanks refused.

He had been drinking in this bar for several days and nights. He drank when he was awake, slept when he was drunk, drank until he was blackouts, and vomited everywhere.

If he wasn't Red-Haired Shanks, he would have been thrown out by the giant owner of the tavern long ago.

Seeing that Shanks ignored him no matter what he said, the giant child immediately walked out of the tavern dejectedly.

But after a while, he came back yelling and ran to Shanks, who was already drunk and sleeping on the bar, and shouted excitedly: "Shanks, Shanks! There are strangers coming to our village again. Are they people you know? Their boat is similar to yours, and there is a dragon head on the bow."

Seeing that Shanks still ignored him, the excitement on the giant child's face faded a lot, and he walked out muttering.

"Forget it if you don't want to go. I'll go and see for myself. I saw giants on their ship, giants I've never seen before. Are there giants in other places? I also saw a bear, a talking bear. I heard Sister Kaili say, it's some navy..."

"Navy?" Shanks, who was in a coma, suddenly opened his bloodshot eyes, and his observation domineering suddenly spread, sweeping across Elbaf in an instant.

Then, he gritted his teeth, his whole face was distorted, and he instantly disappeared on the high stool, and the Griffin knife on the ground also disappeared.

"You're such a jerk G5! How dare you show up in front of me? You're courting death!"

At the port of Elbaf Island, the Kirin was approaching from a distance, slowly slowing down.

“No matter who you are, stop immediately and turn around and get away! Otherwise, don’t blame us for taking action.”

At the port, even during the grand succession of the throne, more than a dozen giant warriors still held on. They raised their swords, held several huge artillery batteries that were comparable to the coastal defense guns of the naval base, and aimed them at the Qilin from a distance.

On the Kirin, Palmer looked at Elbaf, whom he had always dreamed of visiting. He took a deep breath, walked out, stood at the bow, and shouted loudly: "Don't be nervous, Elbaf's giant brothers, we are not bad people. We are the navy of the G5 branch. You should know Oimo and Cassi, right? They are both serving in our G5 and are serving as major generals in the headquarters."

"I don't care what kind of navy you are, leave immediately!"

The guarding giants roared with impatience.

If it were normal times, they might consider letting the Kirin enter the port to report for them. But right now, the village was in the midst of a battle for the succession of the throne. At this critical moment, not to mention the navy that they had never been very interested in, even the vassal pirate groups of the Red Hair Pirates would have to undergo strict inspection if they wanted to come.

Seeing that a dozen giants in the port had already started loading shells, Palmer became a little anxious, but he didn't know how to explain in order to be allowed to land on the island.

"No need, Palmer, turn around, I'll go and take a look by myself." Yun Que had expected this to happen, so he was not surprised.

The giants are xenophobic and have no good feelings towards the navy. Moreover, the navy has long known from intelligence in the New World that the Red Hair Pirates are very close to the giants in Elbaf.

So Yun Que came here, actually taking a big risk. If Red-Haired Shanks and Blind Swordsman Yixiao were on this island, then they would be in danger.

However, Yun Que had to come because she truly felt an extremely familiar sense of intimacy here, which was the breath of Rorschach.

This feeling was not perceived through the observation Haki, but was indescribable, very much like the kind of telepathy that Bepo had talked about before.

As Yun Que spoke, his body quickly faded and disappeared from the sight of Pammel and Bepo, as if he had merged into the air.

She activated the reflective camouflage ability of the Cloud-Cloud Fruit, turning herself into a transparent cloud. She took off from the Kirin, which was slowly turning around, and flew from high in the sky towards the depths of Elbaf Island, in the direction where the familiar feeling came from.

"Not good! There's murderous intent!"

Suddenly, sensing the skylark flying away, Bepo's white hair exploded and he screamed in shock.

At the same time, a shock wave exploded under the feet of Qilin who was standing beside him, blasting a big hole in the deck of Qilin. The small body jumped out like a cannonball and rushed towards Yunlark.

"Mom! Be careful!"

Qilin screamed, holding the Eagle Eyes' Black Blade Night, and slashed at the void above Yun Que's head.

"You damned fellows, you are so brave! How dare you run up to me? Go to hell!"

"God avoids!"

Shanks' figure appeared in the air above Hibari as if by teleportation. The terrifying domineering lightning was wrapped around Griffin's long sword, and he slashed it down with one blow.

With a "puff", a scarlet blood light burst out from the body of the Qilin that soared into the sky. The small body was cut in half by the domineering sword light, and the blood flowed like a waterfall into the lower air. In an instant, it was unknown whether it was life or death!
"Qilin!" Hibari's eyes were bloodshot, his body expanded rapidly, transformed into the form of a fire goddess, and shot a raging flame at Shanks.

However, she was facing Shanks.

With just one strike, the flames that were rushing towards Shanks like a tsunami were cut in half, and the terrifying blade light pointed directly at Hibari's face.

"Hot breath!"

"Olympus Impact!"

At the critical moment, a pillar of red fire and a violent impact came out of nowhere and hit Shanks's slash together.

"boom!"

The turbulent airflow exploded, blowing Yunlark away.

Shanks swept away the fire column and shock wave with a knife, and continued to rush towards Hibari with red eyes.

"Ms. Skylark, hurry up! Go find the admiral!" Bepo roared, his body swelled wildly, and in an instant he turned into a thousand-meter pink dragon. With Palmer holding the Kusukumokiri, he rushed towards Shanks desperately.

Shanks casually slashed the giant dragon with two swords, causing blood to spurt out. When he heard Bepo's scream, his body shook.

"Rorschach?!"

"What do you mean? Rorschach is not dead yet?"

Shanks was not a fool. He immediately realized that Hibari and the others must have come to Elbaf at this time for something extremely important. This matter was more important than their lives.

Because the navy all knew that Elbaf was where his Red Hair Pirates often stayed, and they also knew that after the Wanbo Island incident, he was taken away by Elbaf's Giant Soldier Pirates.

However, knowing that he might be here, the G5 navy who had a blood feud with him ran here regardless of the danger to their lives.

"Rorschach!" This name that he hated madly appeared in Shanks' mind.

He looked at the skylark who was extremely decisive and directly left Bepo and Palmer behind and flew towards the depths of Elbaf Island in front of him. An idea that made Shanks' murderous intent surge came to his mind.

Could it be that Rorschach is not dead and is on the island of Elbaf right now?
But, how is this possible?
Others don’t know what destroyed Wanbo Island, but Shanks knows that it was Uranus, one of the three ancient weapons, and a national treasure in the hands of the Celestial Dragons.

Under that kind of devastating attack, it would only take a moment for an island to be shattered and a country to be destroyed. Even if Rorschach and Barrett were incredibly strong, they would never be able to survive the attack from that kind of space-based weapons, let alone appear here.

But, that's Rorschach.

Thinking of Rorschach's inhuman performance in the world of Gogo and seeing the abnormal expressions of the G5 members in front of him, Shanks began to waver in his belief that Rorschach was dead.

He turned his head sharply and looked deep into the island of Elbaf.

"Rorschach! I want to see if you are really here?"

His powerful Observation Haki unfolded, covering the entire Elbaf. He sensed the end of the battle for the throne deep in the island, and sensed the life breath of Donli, Broki, Helding, Loki and others.

But Rorschach's presence was not on this island at all.

Shanks found it a little hard to understand why these people from G5 were so sure that Rorschach must be here.

Looking at Hibari flying away quickly, Shanks felt murderous intent.

"Never mind, let's kill these guys first!"

He dodged Palmer's slashing blow with a force of tens of millions of tons, stepped on the air and came to the middle of the pink dragon that Bepo had transformed into, and slashed it with a single blow as Palmer's eyes shattered.

With a swish sound and a flash of blood, the thousand-meter-long dragon let out a painful wail, and its huge body was cut in half by Shanks's sword, falling from the air. "Bepo!!"

Palmer roared in anger and jumped high from Bepo's back. The blood vessels in his arms burst, his muscles bulged, and he slashed at Shanks with a knife.

The extreme power of the Lili Fruit exploded, tens of millions of tons of ultimate physical strength, and one blow collapsed the void in front of it. It was like a powerful attack, and it actually shattered the Bachan Divine Avoidance that Shanks had cut. Shanks, who was caught off guard, was hit like a baseball, and flew thousands of meters away, and crashed into the deep sea like a meteorite.

Without Bepo's support, Palmer's body was too heavy to stay in the air and he fell to the sea below.

The sea surface exploded in the distance, and Shanks, with a gloomy face and blood at the corner of his mouth, rushed out again.

Palmer's explosive attack failed to cause him fatal injuries after all. Shanks's domineering armor was too strong and helped him resist most of the attacks.

His eyes were cold, and he rushed towards Palmer who was falling from the air again with a long knife in hand.

He wanted to kill the G5 generals in front of him and let the navy also taste the pain of losing their companions.

If these people died, even if Rorschach didn't die, he would definitely feel pain, right?
Thinking of this, Shanks increased his speed, flew high into the air, and slashed at Palmer's head with a knife.

But at this moment, another strange change happened. A blurry black shadow flew from a distance and pounced on Shanks' back.

Shanks' eyes turned cold and he slashed backwards with his sword.

With a hiss and a muffled groan, a beautiful woman with bat wings on her back was chopped away by him.

"Stussie! What the hell are you doing?!"

On the distant sea, on the black World Government official ship, Lucci tore off the mask on his face and looked at Stussy with astonishment and anger as he suddenly rushed out from the deck to attack Shanks.

The purpose of their coming here this time was to find Rorschach's body, or to find Rorschach, not to fight with the Four Emperors at all.

However, Lucci did not expect that Stussy would take it upon himself to attack Shanks.

What made Lucci even more annoyed was that as Stussy rushed out, Kaku also rushed out, quickly stepped on the Moon Step, and rushed towards Shanks!

"Damn it! Kaku! What are you doing? Come back to me!" Lucci yelled irritably, his body swelled, black flames emerged, and he had no choice but to follow closely and kill Shanks.

There was no way. Although he didn't care about Stussy's life or death, Kaku was his companion, and Lucci couldn't sit idly by and watch Kaku being killed by Shanks.

Just as unexpected events were happening one after another here, deep in the island of Elbaf, a terrifying change was also taking place.

Loki, whose father's soul was sucked away by the black skeleton, was furious. He picked up the black skeleton that had fallen into the deep crack and was ready to use all means to smash the skeleton and get back the soul of the Giant King.

However, when his palm grasped the black human skeleton again, Loki's expression changed.

He felt a huge suction force that went straight into his soul and erupted from the skeleton in his hand. Visible tiny arcs of electricity spread out from the skeleton, extending to his body and penetrating into his body.

As these tiny electric arcs penetrated, the suction force became stronger and stronger. In just a few seconds, Loki found that 30% of the powerful soul he had accumulated with great difficulty in the past two years was swallowed up in one go. Under the pull of this suction force, even his own soul became unstable, as if it was about to separate from his body.

Loki was very familiar with this feeling. Isn't this what the victim felt when he extracted the soul of another person after obtaining the Soul-Soul Fruit?
Loki never thought that one day he would be able to experience the feeling of his soul leaving his body.

At this moment, Loki's panic quickly emerged in his heart, and the fear of death stimulated his mind crazily. He roared and tried his best to release his powerful domineering aura to block the invasion of these terrible arcs. However, the powerful domineering aura that he was proud of was like nothing under the penetration of these seemingly weak arcs, and it was unable to block the arcs at all.

"Asshole! Jason! You damn asshole! What the hell is this? Are you trying to kill me?"

Loki yelled in exasperation, shaking his hands wildly, trying to throw away the black skeleton in his hand. However, the black human skeleton seemed to have taken root in his hand, sticking tightly to his palm, and no matter how he shook it, it showed no sign of falling off.

Loki only swung his body less than three times, and the huge amount of soul energy that had been accumulated in his body for more than two years was exhausted by 80% to 90%. His fat body shrank significantly, visibly, but became taller and stronger, and even his face seemed to become majestic and handsome.

But Loki didn't want this unreal appearance at all. What he wanted was power, the force that was superior to everyone else.

Seeing that he couldn't get rid of the bones stuck in his hands, Loki's eyes turned red with anxiety. Amid the puzzled, horrified and shocked gazes of the giants around him, he quickly rushed to Dongli, reached out and snatched the big sword from Dongli's hand, and without any hesitation, slashed his own right arm with the sword.

With a "puff", Loki's right arm was separated from his body and fell to the ground with blood splattering.

And the black skeleton that was attached to the palm of his right hand finally separated from Loki's body.

As the skeleton was detached, Loki felt his body and mind relax. The horrible feeling that his soul and body were being pulled and swallowed disappeared. He was sweating profusely, and fell to the ground with a pale face. He still moved his feet, moving away from the black skeleton as if avoiding a snake or scorpion.

"King Loki!" The giants looked at this scene in horror, having not yet recovered from the series of changes.

"Jason! It's all your fault!"

Brockie saw what was going on here, and anger surged in his heart. He slapped Jason on the back of the head, sending the skinny giant falling to the ground.

Helding felt guilty because Jason was a crew member of the new Giant Pirates he formed. Now because of Jason's mistake, King Loki lost an arm, which made him feel guilty and ashamed.

"I'm sorry! King Loki! It's my fault for not disciplining him properly. I'm going to throw this evil creature into the volcano and burn it!" He gritted his teeth and rushed forward, grabbed the black skeleton and ran away.

"No! Hailding! Don't touch that thing!" Dongli was shocked and shouted.

He also realized that the black skeleton was indeed strange. Even the extremely powerful Loki was forced to cut off one of his arms. If it were Helding, he would probably not be able to hold on for even a second.

As soon as Dongli finished speaking, Loki's right arm, which was still firmly attached to the black skeleton held by Helding, shrank and rotted in an instant, and turned into a pile of ashes, which fell to the ground.

On the surface of the black human skeleton, blood vessels and tendons quickly emerged, regenerating like countless red worms wriggling.

“Zizizizi…buzz!”

A circle of dazzling electric light suddenly spread out from the skeleton, and in an instant spread out to a radius of dozens of kilometers. The entire Elbaf was shrouded in this circle of electric light.

All the giants who were affected by the lightning had their bodies shaken violently and became exhausted. Their strong and sturdy figures became visibly thinner, and they collapsed to the ground on the spot, gasping for breath.

Even Donli, who was considered among the strongest warriors in the Elbaf village, and Broki were not spared and had some of their vitality and strength drained away.

"No! Don't catch me alone and grab me, you bastard skeleton!"

Loki let out a shrill scream, and his body became even thinner and shriveled. He seemed to have lost his shape. He was as fat as a ball a moment ago, like an enlarged version of Charlotte Linlin, but now he turned into a walking skeleton. The huge amount of soul energy that had been accumulated in his body for two and a half years was completely drained away.

Hundreds of giants fell to the ground, but looking at the black human skeleton, there were countless blood vessels, meridians, muscles, internal organs, skin and hair, which were spreading and growing wildly.

As the flesh and blood on the skeleton quickly recovered and grew, a terrifying aura that made giants such as Loki, Donli, Broki and others tremble in their hearts rose above the skeleton, as if the entire sky was collapsing bit by bit, making people feel despair.

As this terrifying aura spread, the entire Elbaf became dead silent, and the wild beasts living on the island huddled on the ground, howling in fear.

In the sky, the skylark that was flying towards this side with all its might suddenly had its eyes moistened and tears dripped into the air.

"Brother Rorschach! Is it really you?"

Over the sea outside the island, after just a few moves, Lucci was chopped to pieces by Shanks. Almost dying on the spot, his heart trembled, and he couldn't help but look up at the sky. In his perception, it seemed as if a huge face suddenly leaned down in the vast sky above his head, as if a god was looking down at the world, which made him feel awe and worship.

Shanks, with red eyes, turned his head suddenly and looked towards the island, clenching the Griffin sword in his hand.

"It's really you! Rorschach!"

A ball of white gas exploded in the air beneath his feet, and his figure disappeared in an instant. When he reappeared, he had already arrived in front of the black skeleton whose flesh and blood had revived, and slashed it down with a knife.

"Go to hell! You monster!"

The skeleton has already grown limbs, torso, muscles and internal organs, but only the surface skin has not yet fully grown. At this time, it looks like a bloody man who has been stripped of his skin clothes.

On the face covered with blood vessels and muscles, a pair of blue eyes like the starry sky slowly opened. The gaze was as clear as the sea, but it revealed an indifference that kept people at a distance.

It was Rorschach, who had returned from the dead.

The domineering long sword in Shanks' hand seemed to be slowed down a hundred times in Rorschach's eyes at this moment, and the flow of time seemed to be slowed down.

"Redhead, I'm sorry, but your journey is over."

Looking at Shanks' face twisted by hatred, Rorschach's eyes remained indifferent, like a piece of cold ice.

He slowly raised his right hand, whose skin was growing rapidly, clasped his five fingers together, clenched them into a fist, and lightly punched Shanks in the chest.

"boom!"

A ball of scarlet blood mist exploded with a loud bang. With a clang, a blood-stained long sword gleaming with cold light fell from the air, swirling, and nailed in front of the dazed Loki.

A strong wind suddenly blew away the blood mist in front of Rorschach. He stepped on the ground barefoot and walked towards the skylark that swooped down from midair. His long silver hair fell from his head and fluttered in the wind. Silver lightning surged out of his body, interweaving on his body to form a snow-white military uniform, and his white cloak fluttered.

He slowly reached out and embraced the tearful Yun Que, gently stroking her long hair as he had done countless times before. A hint of tenderness emerged in his cold blue eyes.

"Skylark, I'm back."

(End of this chapter)