Chapter 73: The Calm Earlier than the Storm

Chapter 73 The Calm Earlier than the Storm

“Strawhat Luffy did what?!”

Rayleigh might solely repeat again in amazement.

The contemporary newspaper the Marine handed to Rayleigh had a front-page information story that was past perception. The Pirate World MC punched a Celestial Dragon.

When Rayleigh and each different Participant began on this world, they got some base-level information such because the language, native tradition, and a few minor particulars on how the world considered itself. This meant that each Participant knew that this world thought-about Celestial Dragons on the identical degree {that a} Church thought-about gods. Blaspheming one was grounds for execution and harming the dignity of 1 meant that the following campaign had your title on it.

What was extra attention-grabbing was the shortage of a point out of Luffy’s arrest. Celestial Dragons have been the so-called Reverse Scale of the Marines and touching one was the grounds for an Admiral to be despatched out. If Luffy had been captured, the entrance web page would have included an image of him in chains, nevertheless it appeared that he had miraculously gotten away. As anticipated of the favored son of the World’s Will.

Rayleigh peeked into the Chatroom and requested a query.

[Swordsman: Was anyone there when Luffy punched the World Noble?]

[Captain Jack: I was in Sabaody at the time. Had front-row seats to the whole thing.]

[Immortal Beauty: And the Admiral they sent didn’t see you?]

[Captain Jack: Ha! The best part about always wearing the same outfit and hat when seen is that you become practically invisible if you wear anything else.]Rread newest chapters at novelhall.coman: So what occurred?]

[Captain Jack: No idea. Kizaru and some Bear Robots started attacking every Pirate in sight.]

[Immortal Beauty: So you didn’t actually see what caused it.]

[Justice: I know the details. My Teacher told me. The World Noble went to a slave auction to buy a Mermaid and it seems Luffy was there and punched him. The former Pirate King’s first mate, the Dark King was there as well and stopped Kizaru from capturing Luffy.]

[Lightning Lord: F*cking b stards. When I’m strong enough, I’m gonna blast their entire city to ashes.]

[Dragon Chef: Good luck with that. There are dozens of Mihawk-level swordsmen there who will cut you down even if you fly in from the sky.]

[Justice: Speaking of Mihawk, hey Swordsman, are you coming to Marineford?]

[Swordsman: You mean for the Execution? Yeah, Mihawk is bringing me along.]

[Dyna Might: You’re actually gonna be there Swordsman? I still have a bone to pick with you.]

[Dragon Chef: Swordsman, you’re gonna help the Marines execute Ace?]

[Swordsman: Nope. I just want to find some good opponents. Mihawk won’t get in trouble even if I turn against the Marines so I’ll do what I want.]

[Titan: That makes sense.]

[Swordsman: Who else is coming? This battle should result in the destruction of Marineford, the end of the Whitebeard Pirates, or both. In other words, it is the biggest party we’ve seen as Players.]

[Wild King: I’m coming and I’m bringing an army of Sea Kings. If anyone else wants to come and destroy the Marines, I’ll give you a free ride. Sea Kings can easily traverse the Tarai Currents.]

[Goddess of Ice: You’d better not or I’ll turn you into an Ice Sculpture.]

[Wonder Woman: Why are you still with the Marines when you know how bad they are?]

[Justice: The training is good and we are not ungrateful. I can’t believe how you can just ignore all the good the Marines do just because of the few bad things they are forced to do. If Marineford is destroyed, wild pirates will wreck the world and it will be on your heads!]

[Captain Jack: Meh. Sometimes it takes more effort to keep a broken thing together than it does to allow it to fall to pieces and rebuild it from scratch. If this is all it takes for the Marines to fall, then it is better for it to happen sooner so it can be rebuilt into something better later.]

[Swordsman: Dragon Chef, Titan, are you gonna come?]

[Titan: One of us will. The other will stay to take over Whitebeard’s territory. We’re gonna do best of three to figure out who will go and who will stay.]

[Swordsman: Why do you want his territory?]

[Dragon Chef: I don’t have the Jedi Class so I can’t go there to have fun. I’ll be taking over Titan’s crew when he leaves for the Jedi Galaxy and using the Beast Pirates, Big Mom Pirates, and Red Haired Pirates as sparring partners instead.]

Rayleigh learn over the messages and recalled that a couple of of the Gamers nonetheless lacked a presence within the Drive. Throughout his Nen Coaching Classes, he informed the Gamers to go awaken their Jedi Class in order that he might use Impartation to hurry up the speed they understood his classes, however Dragon Chef was one of many few that didn’t achieve this.

In the beginning of the sport, it was attainable to sacrifice a category to strengthen one other class, however Rayleigh didn’t wish to assume, and asking on the time would have been rude.

[Swordsman: Does anyone have any guesses on who is gonna win? I tried peeking but I only saw static.]

[Wonder Woman: If Little Miss Icicle and her glowing SIMP don’t get in our way, we should easily be able to destroy Marineford.]

[Justice: F*ck you! And you guys are badly underestimating the Marines if you think we’ll lose. All three Admirals, the Fleet Admiral, Vice Admiral Garp, fifty other Vice-Admirals, fifty warships, and a hundred thousand armed Marines will be stationed here with Home Field Advantage!]

[Goddess of Ice: If you don’t want to die, you should stay away. None of you are a match for the Admirals.]

Rayleigh couldn’t guess how the battle would finish however he had the arrogance to outlive any end result. Even Mihawk couldn’t sustain along with his velocity, so how might anybody else hope to take action if there wasn’t a Quick Quick Satan Fruit or one thing.

Pondering on this, Rayleigh began meditating and tried to really feel out if there was a Satan Fruit, a Move or Legislation of the World that might allow somebody to run and transfer just like the Flash. He did not discover something at first, so he delved deeper, silencing all the pieces round him.

Throughout the middle of the world, Rayleigh couldn’t discover something that seemed like a Legislation of Velocity, however he did see a glowing golden regulation. From his senses, it gave the impression to be essentially the most highly effective regulation of all of them, stronger than the remainder of them put collectively. Rayleigh couldn’t cease his curiosity and he delved deeper. The opposite legal guidelines across the golden regulation pale away, freely giving the true type of essentially the most highly effective regulation on the planet. Why did it seem like a jacket?

Rayleigh awoke with a begin when he realized that he had not been meditating, he had been dreaming. And not using a mattress, Rayleigh had not really slept in over a yr, so it wasn’t too stunning that he fell asleep. Nonetheless, what a bizarre dream.

He was presently on a Marine Ship heading for Marineford. Often, Mihawk would simply take his personal boat the place he wished to go, however as a result of imminent battle, Marineford wouldn’t be permitting non-public vessels anyplace near the bottom so that they needed to be taken there by Marine Ship first. Fortunately, the voyage solely lasted a couple of days. They simply needed to sail to Enies Foyer and the Tarai Present would take them to Marineford in a couple of hours.

Out of morbid curiosity, Rayleigh stayed on deck and use Clairvoyance as they sailed previous Enies Foyer to the Gates of Justice. The principle castle-like constructing on the finish of the island was nonetheless in ruins whereas the remainder of the island seemed to be half-way by way of reconstruction.

Rayleigh requested one of many Marines on deck, “How did that occur?”

The Marine in query shook his head, unwilling to say something, so Rayleigh used Jedi Thoughts Trick to ask once more, “You possibly can inform me, you realize I will not say something to anybody.”

The Marine seemed clean for a second earlier than wanting again at Enies Foyer and sighing. “Effectively, alright, however do not inform anybody I informed you.” It appeared that he actually wished to get it off his chest.

Goddess of Ice requested, “Had been you the one who touched my face a couple of years in the past?”

Mimic tapped his face with one hand, turning into a replica of Goddess of Ice. What was attention-grabbing was that this duplicate was the identical age.

Rayleigh requested, “Is it all the time the identical age?”

Mimic modified again and shook his head, “No, however I need not contact a face to replace an current one, any pores and skin contact will do for an replace. In any case, I got here right here for 2 causes. One, I wished to see if I might get a replica of you. Two, I additionally wished to thanks.”

“Effectively, that is direct. What did you wish to thank me for?”

Mimic modified again to Goddess of Ice and a second later, an Ice Sword fashioned in her hand.

Justice exclaimed, “You copied her Satan fruit too?!”

Mimic modified again and shook his head. “Not precisely. You see, after listening to your concept on how Satan Fruits make up the legal guidelines of the world, I began my very own investigation and got here to some conclusions. As a thanks for telling me what you found, I wished to inform you what I found in flip.”

“Oh? What did you discover out?” Though Rayleigh might make his sword chilly, he couldn’t simply make a Sword of Ice as simply as Mimic had utilizing Haki alone.

Mimic continued, “If we’ll use Cultivation Phrases, then you would say that every Satan Fruit grants energy over a sure regulation, however that’s solely half of what it does. Every Satan Fruit additionally grants the consumer the Physique most able to utilizing that Legislation. Earlier than realizing this, even when I copied a Logia Consumer, I couldn’t use the facility of a Logia Fruit. However now I can. I can copy the Physique of a Satan Fruit Consumer and activate it utilizing the Legislation related to that Satan Fruit.”

Goddess of Ice requested, “You imply like Heavenly Ice Physique or Pure Yin Physique, that type of factor?”

Mimic nodded to the politely requested query and continued, “Sure. With out that physique, even in the event you grasp the Legislation of Ice, you can not recuperate your physique from Ice like she will since you lack the innate physique to take action. And I additionally suppose I perceive the principle distinction between us and the Warrior, Ninjas, and Wizards. Once more, utilizing Cultivation phrases, our courses domesticate the Dao whereas they’re Physique Cultivators.”

Rayleigh requested, “So that you suppose that they’ll regularly remake and reforge their our bodies whereas we are able to get hold of the facility of the world?”

“That might take advantage of sense, would not it? Physique Cultivators are often a lot stronger in Mild Novels.” He then stared at Rayleigh for a second earlier than including, “Behind Sword Cultivators after all. In any case, I’ve paid off my very own debt to you, goodbye.”

He then turned to depart, with Justice saying, “Creepy bastard. At the least we all know what he appears to be like like now.”

Rayleigh gave Justice a skeptical look and requested, “Do you actually suppose that was his precise look simply now?”

Justice seemed shocked for a second. Making an attempt to alter the topic, he identified, “Wait, so who’s going to indicate you the place you are going to keep?”

The three remained silent on the query. This was awkward.

Just a few days handed and the temper round Marineford received tenser and tenser.

The day of the execution arrived and the Pirate Chatroom was surprisingly quiet. It was apparent that many plans have been to be set in movement at the present time and the Gamers accountable didn’t need these plans marketed. Rayleigh even felt a small menace to his personal life coming, nevertheless it wasn’t sufficient to concern him.

Three hours earlier than the execution, the prisoner, a younger man with black hair and freckles, was delivered to the newly constructed execution platform. The entire of the internal a part of Marineford was organized like a layered cake with the Fleet Admiral Sengoku, Vice Admiral Garp, the prisoner, and two armed guards set on the highest of the platform. Under the platform stood the three Admirals, Kizaru, Aokiji, and Akainu. Under them have been the Seven Warlords, or no less than 5 of them. Crocodile and the Fishman Jinbei have been lacking. Under them have been strains of Vice Admirals, and the bottom layer under that, standing in entrance of the harbor to Marineford, have been 100 thousand Marines.

Of the group, the one who attracted essentially the most eyes was the Warlord Boa Hancock. She had pale, flawless pores and skin, ebony black, completely straight hair, and a big snake at her aspect that had curled itself right into a standing chair for her. Along with being ridiculously lovely, the girl radiated pure SIMP aura, turning any lesser man who seemed upon her or received too shut into her SIMP. Rayleigh had not seen such a phenomenon earlier than and figured it will need to have been the girl’s Satan Fruit. With out it, she would have simply been a beautiful girl who might in all probability place 2nd or third in a serious Magnificence Pageant at most, however with it, she gave the impression to be essentially the most lovely girl alive.

That stated, the impact was near zero on him. Rayleigh successfully spent his puberty doing the harshest coaching, so the self-discipline he solid saved his thoughts and hormones the place they wanted to be. He acknowledged the impact in the identical manner he acknowledged that ice was chilly, however that did not imply he felt chilly. Nonetheless, it was finest to not look down on her. For all he knew, that was simply her passive SIMP aura and she or he might amplify it 100 million fold, making everybody round her unable to think about her as something however a Goddess descended to Earth who should be worshiped, adored, and obeyed. That was impossible, however Rayleigh would quite over-estimate her than get caught off-guard.

The opposite Warlords every had their very own distinctive quirks. The person referred to as Doflamingo had sharp sun shades, wore a coat with pink feathers, and had a malicious smile of enjoyment on the worry the Marines have been displaying. For some cause, he saved one leg within the air.

The person the Gamers known as a Robotic Bear had a large body and chest, however oddly skinny legs and arms.

The one referred to as Gecko Moria seemed even much less human than Robotic Bear, he was manner taller, had purple pores and skin, two horns on his head, and vertical stitches down his chest.

After which there was Mihawk, simply standing there being his common badass self along with his arms crossed, overlooking the scene that might quickly fall into carnage.

After wanting them over again, Rayleigh realized that every of the Warlords gave the impression to be related to an Animal, both in title or look. Crocodile, Shark, Snake, Flamingo, Bear, Gecko, and Hawk.

For the time being, Rayleigh didn’t have his sword. Protecting his Empty Sword out left him defenseless whereas conserving out the Sword of Babylon required manner an excessive amount of aura because it might solely be used when utilizing each Babylon and Overdrive. He did not know when the preventing would begin or how lengthy it could final, so he needed to save his reserves for the second.

It would not matter although. Even with out the sword, Rayleigh might use Overdrive to spice up his velocity, rework his aura into sharpened sword aura, and combat utilizing martial arts and boxing. No have to go all-out till there was one thing to really combat.

Rayleigh, Goddess of Ice, and Justice really stood on the third degree, the place the Vice Admirals have been standing, however as a substitute of being in entrance of the execution platform, they have been standing nearer to the perimeters.

As soon as everybody was standing of their positions, Fleet Admiral Sengoku, a person with round-rim glasses and a thick black afro took out a communication snail and began talking into it.

“Gents, I’ve one thing to inform you. Portgas D Ace. This man will die right here immediately. And there’s nice that means in that loss of life.”

For the reason that execution shouldn’t be beginning for 3 hours, Rayleigh figured that they both supposed to make an extended present of it, or they have been scheming one thing.

Sengoku positioned the little communication snail subsequent to the prisoner and ordered, “Ace, say the title of your father!”

Not solely have been there audio system round the entire of Marineford, however there have been additionally TV-Snails and this image was being broadcast, reside, to some areas whereas different areas received the audio from Radio-Snails.

Ace shouted in protest, “My father is Whitebeard!”

Sengoku argued again, “No!”

The person bearing the tattoo of Whitebeard on his again declared, “It is true! The one father I’ve is Whitebeard! No person else!”

The Fleet Admiral appeared to surrender convincing him and entered story mode. He informed the world, “A very long time in the past, we have been desperately looking out. As a result of on some island, someplace, that man’s little one is perhaps alive. Cipher Pol might solely give us the smallest bit of data. So we checked all of the new child kids who have been born quickly after, in addition to their moms, and nonetheless we discovered nothing.”

“That ought to have been it… However your mom gave her life in your start, utilizing sheer willpower to carry out a trick. She deceived us, no. She deceived your complete world! Within the South Blue, there’s an island by the title of Batelira. Your mom’s title was Portgas D. Rouge. We by no means imagined what she was able to. Out of affection for her little one. She carried him in her womb for twenty months. And when she gave start, her power lastly gave out and she or he died proper there.”

“One yr and three months had handed because the father died. A toddler born with the blood of the world’s best villain working by way of his veins. That little one was you. There isn’t any manner that you do not know! Your father… Was the Pirate King! Gol D. Roger!”

Rayleigh thought to himself, ‘Effectively, I am positive this may not finish badly in any respect.’

*Writer’s Notice*

Sorry, no battle but. I used to be capable of launch so many chapters back-to-back as a result of I mainly had a backlog of concepts I wrote throughout the hiatus interval all the way in which as much as the battle. However now my reserves are dry and I’ve to return to drawing the plot from that unusual place behind my head I get all my tales from.

I received many of the planning completed this week so now I simply have to hash out the remainder of it over subsequent week so it ought to come subsequent weekend. I would love to do it earlier, however my job modified my schedule to one thing insane for a coaching interval that may final every week and a half, so I haven’t got time to put in writing over the weekdays like I often do.

Now, earlier than I decide to something, if anybody has concepts they wish to see within the battle, be at liberty to make strategies.