Chapter 231 Instant Kill

Chapter 231 Instant Kill

Chapter 231 Instant Kill
‘Boom! ’

The pure white shock wave penetrated the ice prism like a beam of light, blasting the iceberg weighing millions of tons into ice chips all over the sky. A large amount of broken ice fell like a rainstorm, and the temperature of the whole Marijoa dropped by several degrees.

"Ice storm!"

Esdeath's voice sounded again, and overwhelming cold air surged out from her body, carrying with it a sky full of broken ice and rushing towards the direction of Saint Baldora.

Saint Baldora, realizing that the situation was not good, did not care about the damage to his face. The ice under his feet shattered into pieces with the impact. The reaction force generated by the huge impact pushed Saint Baldora's body backwards at a high speed.

Unfortunately, the icy and snowy Marijoa almost became Esdeath's home court at this time. The endless icy air surrounded Saint Baldora from all directions, freezing him in mid-air before the Knight of God could respond.

"General Binglan!"

Esdeath, who had the advantage first, swung her saber forward, and a fully armed ice knight quickly formed in front of her, breaking through the ice and snow and charging towards Saint Baldora. Following closely behind it were hundreds of identical ice knights.

"Ka-ka-ka-ka-ka..."

Countless fine cracks soon appeared on the surface of Saint Baldora's body, which was frozen into an ice sculpture. But before this knight of God could escape, hundreds of ice knights had already crashed into the ice sculpture of Saint Baldora like moths to a flame.

The huge impact force almost made Saint Baldora vomit blood, but the cold air released by the broken Ice Knight froze him again.

To describe it using the terminology of the game, Esdeath's Ice Storm General not only causes damage but also has continuous hard control. What's even more terrifying is this move.

"Bang, bang, bang, bang..."

The ice knights kept crashing into the ice sculptures like a relay.

"...Divine Impact: Break!"

Seeing that those troublesome ice knights seemed to have no end, Saint Baldora, who was repeatedly frozen to the point of unbearable, released a shock wave with all his strength, blasting the ice layer that had frozen him and the ice knights that were rushing towards him into pieces.

'boom! ’

The shock wave released by Saint Baldora was like an out-of-control dump truck, smashing everything in front of it to pieces. Even the ice knights who came one after another could not block this shock wave.

"What an incredible power... but the aim is so poor. No matter how powerful the attack is, it's meaningless if it can't hit the target, right?"

Esdeath, standing on the ice prism, simply ignored the shock wave that passed by her. Her knee-length hair danced wildly in the wind, further highlighting the recklessness of this female general of the empire.

If it was just half a meter away, Saint Baldora's attack would have hit directly. Unfortunately, in the contest of observation Haki, Esdeath had an absolute advantage. At such a long distance, even Saint Baldora could not hit Esdeath despite the difference in observation Haki.

"You've completely pissed me off, woman!"

Saint Baldora, whose body was covered with frostbite, crushed the ice in his palm and stared at Esdeath like a vicious wolf.

If it was a naval officer with strength similar to Saint Baldora, or a sea pirate with many battles, he would have realized by now that he was no match for this icy beauty in front of him.

However, as a Knight of God who was born as a Celestial Dragon, Saint Baldora's strength is more dependent on resources. The "secret treasure" devil fruit worth hundreds of millions of berries in the sea is just an "accessory" for the Knights of God to choose from.

Each of the Knights of God has combat power far exceeding that of the Vice Admiral of the Marine Headquarters, and is even not inferior to that of the Admiral candidate.

However, when this kind of combat power, which relies on piling up resources, faces a top-level powerhouse like Esdeath, the defect of insufficient combat experience is clearly revealed.

Veteran divine knights like Jerolit can even deal with Kaido, the King of Beasts, and the more powerful Charlotte Palace can even fight BIG MOM on equal terms.

Only Saint Baldora not only suffered repeated defeats in front of Esdeath, but also exposed his weak nature.

"Really? It's a pity that a person of your level is destined to perish in front of me!"

Esdeath casually swung her sword and her eyes fell on Saint Baldora's neck, as if she was considering from which angle it would be more appropriate to strike.

To be fair, Saint Baldora is definitely not a weakling. Apart from not having the Conqueror's Haki, his attainments in two-color Haki are even much stronger than many vice admirals of the navy who specialize in physical techniques.

The power of the Paranormal Impact Fruit he possesses is no less powerful than Whitebeard's Tremor-Tremor Fruit.

Even if we ignore Saint Baldora's identity as a Knight of God, if he were thrown into the sea, he would be a strong man at the level of "Vice-Emperor" comparable to Jin and Marco.

But in front of Esdeath, a top-level strong man who truly has no weaknesses, Saint Baldora is just a weakling who lacks combat experience, is not good at domineering, and even the development of his devil fruit abilities is far behind the progress.

"Go to hell and repent! You unworthy people who dared to disobey the Knights of God! The shock of God..."

Saint Baldora grinned and folded his palms in front of him. Although he failed to awaken the power of the devil fruit, as long as he could exert the power of the impact fruit itself, this blow would be enough to destroy those blasphemers who blasphemed the descendants of the Creator!
"You've been overly focused on attack power and ended up relaxing your defense... Mokobotamo!"

Esdeath gently leaped down from the ice prism, and as the hidden ability of the Ice Imperial Tool was activated, the surroundings fell into a dead silence as if time had frozen.

In the past, this trump card of freezing time and space could only be activated once a day, but as Esdeath's strength continued to grow, especially after she mastered the three colors of domineering and further made up for her own shortcomings, the limit on the number of times Mokopotmo could be used has been increased to twice a day.

And Esdeath has one final trump card, which is that her stand can also activate Mokopotmo.

'Da da da……'

In the frozen time and space, Esdeath walked slowly to Saint Baldora. If it were before she joined the dimensional chat group, she would not easily kill such a powerful opponent.

However, since joining the chat group and meeting Borsalino, Esdeath has never lacked opponents. Considering that what Borsalino hates most is complications, Esdeath can't continue playing the cat and mouse game.

Otherwise, she would have tortured the prince of the northern ethnic group for a long time before she was willing to kill him, so how could she be willing to easily kill Saint Baldora, who was a prime target.

The edge of the saber flashed across Saint Baldora's neck, and with the sound of Esdeath sheathing the saber, the surrounding time and space finally returned to normal. "Puff!"

The grim smile on Saint Baldora's face was still there, but his head rolled to the ground like a ball, and blood gushed out and fell on the surrounding ice, where it was quickly frozen.

Compared to Saint Gerolito who has mastered the six types of life return, Saint Baldora, as a superhuman devil fruit user, does not have any incredible ability to survive.

If he was careful enough and used Armament Haki to protect his vital points at all times, Esdeath, who was in a time-suspended state, would not be able to kill him so easily.

However, in order to maximize the lethality of the Impact Fruit, Saint Baldora neglected his own defense, and he did not expect that Esdeath also had the secret of freezing time and space.

The result was naturally that he died without any chance of resistance. Even when the last Divine Knight who had not taken any action wanted to rescue him, it was already too late.

Saint Baldora of the Knights of God died in battle!
"Saint Baldora! Damn it! How dare you…"

Saint Betali, who was rushing over with Moon Steps, watched his compatriot die in front of him. His serious and old-fashioned face was filled with shock and anger, and even his voice became a little hoarse due to the fluctuations of emotions.

Every fellow Celestial Dragon is precious. This is the philosophy practiced by Ancient Saint Fegalando Green, and is also recognized by all members of the Knights of God.

However, now a young compatriot died in front of him, which was tantamount to a slap in the face of Saint Betalli.

Saint Betali's eyes were fixed on Esdeath, with uncontrollable anger burning in his eyes. However, in addition to his anger, Saint Betali was also secretly frightened. This woman actually possessed such terrifying power that she could kill Saint Baldora instantly when he couldn't even react.

"Ok?"

Facing the anger of Saint Betali, Esdeath's attention was drawn to another thing.

Her attainment in Observation Haki is the highest among the three colors of Haki. When she used Mokobotamo to freeze time and space, Esdeath vaguely sensed that there seemed to be some unspeakable horror in Marijoa.

Moreover, Mokopotmo obviously failed to have any influence on that person or existence. Even when time and space were frozen, the threat felt by Esdeath still did not dissipate. She even had a vague feeling that she was being watched.

"Prepare to be buried with Saint Baldora! The ground will crack!"

Betali Saint, who was ignored, stepped heavily on the ground, and a huge crack suddenly appeared under Esdeath's feet. Esdeath fell into it before she could use the Moon Step.

Betali Saint is the user of the natural earth fruit ability. He can freely control the ground beneath his feet. And because of the awakening of the fruit ability, Betali Saint has almost unlimited physical strength and recovery ability as long as he stands on the ground.

"bury!"

With a roar from Saint Betalli, the cracked ground was about to close, and was about to bury Esdeath alive under the ground of Mary Geoise.

"freeze!"

But before the earth could close again, a huge amount of frozen air gushed out from the ground and turned into a thick ice prism, which tightly blocked the crack that was trying to close.

"Don't even think about escaping! Suppress the earth!"

Saint Betali caused the surrounding ground to bulge high and gather towards the center of the crack, like a huge mouth of the abyss that was about to close. He was willing to change the topography of Marijoa in order to bury Esdeath completely underground.

"You troublesome fellow, I don't want to use up my substitute so soon...Eternal Ice Prison!"

Esdeath, who was swallowed by the "Mouth of the Abyss", watched the sky above her head becoming smaller and smaller. She no longer cared about saving her energy and used all her strength to drive the Ice Imperial Tool to release the largest amount of freezing air.

She had frozen time and space twice before, so it was impossible for her to do it for the third time in a short period of time. However, there were still many fierce battles to be fought, so Esdeath had to keep her stand to launch the last Mokopotmo.

In this situation, even Esdeath couldn't care about the problem of physical exhaustion, especially since her observation Haki had already sensed Tornado's breath. Esdeath didn't want to be seen in such a miserable state by that annoying shorty.

A huge amount of freezing air instantly froze the "Mouth of the Abyss" into a huge iceberg that looked like a volcano. Before Saint Betali could drive the land farther away, the freezing air that spread like a tsunami actually froze most of Marijoa into a white world of ice and snow.

Even with almost unlimited physical strength and powerful devil fruit abilities, it is not easy to drive the frozen ground to continue swallowing Esdeath.

Especially before that, Esdeath had already appeared at the top of the iceberg, looking at the Garuda bird flying towards them with a slightly unhappy expression.

"Don't get any closer, sister. It's too dangerous to go any further. Don't forget that Borsalino asked us to help him take care of the snake girl..."

Fubuki sat on the back of the Garuda bird's neck in a duck-like posture, holding the unconscious Snake Girl in her arms. Only in a coma could the Snake Girl guarantee that she would not be controlled by the World Government.

If possible, Fubuki would naturally want to stay as far away from the battlefield as possible, but Tornado is a person who can't sit still, especially when she saw Esdeath showing off her prowess on the battlefield and killing a candidate for army general and a guy who claimed to be a knight of God.

Even just listening to Fubuki retelling the live broadcast content in the chat group made Tornado start to get restless.

When Esdeath brags about her achievements later, she can't say that she also made a contribution by taking care of Borsalino's lover, right?
"What are you afraid of! No one can hurt you while I'm here!"

Tornado said some tough words, but when she flapped her wings, she still flew in a direction away from the battlefield.

She wanted to wait and see if there would be an opportunity to take action. It would be best if the opportunity arose when that ice-cold girl Esdeath was in danger. Then she could take action not only to demonstrate her strength but also to defeat Esdeath.

However, Tornado immediately realized another problem. Wouldn't this mean that she had saved Esdeath? Just imagining this possibility made Tornado feel uncomfortable all over.

Just as Tornado was struggling with various issues, the battle between Esdeath and Betali Saint also entered a white-hot state.

Saint Betali, who can drive the earth to fight, is not a fake like Saint Baldora who only has stats. Even in the Knights of God where every individual is a monster, Saint Betali is a veteran strong man who can rank among the top five in strength.

In particular, the awakening of the natural earth fruit has given Saint Betali an almost unstoppable recovery ability. If he cannot be defeated with overwhelming strength, once the battle enters the level of a war of attrition, even the top strong men are likely to be exhausted to death by Saint Betali.

(End of this chapter)