Chapter 240: Ice Dragon Roars!
Chapter 240: Ice Dragon Roars!
As Esdeath's opponent, Betali Saint was also teased by Esdeath and was a little frustrated.
As a user of the nature-type Earth Fruit, Betali Saint is almost invincible in a pure war of attrition. However, Esdeath's speed and reaction ability are beyond what Betali Saint can handle.
Although he had almost unlimited physical strength and overwhelming destructive power, he was never able to pose a real threat to Esdeath.
However, just as Esdeath once again avoided the trampling of the rock giant and tried to freeze this behemoth, Esdeath, who had not yet touched the stone statue, suddenly changed her expression and retreated rapidly.
The next moment, with Esdeath's position as the center, both the rocks and ice suddenly shattered into pieces of sharp-edged cubes stacked together.
“Hahahahaha, this is really embarrassing. Saint Betali was actually teased like this…”
Three figures landed on the shoulders of the rock giant. One of them, whose face was already full of wrinkles but whose hair was dyed in all kinds of colors, squatted down, patted the stone statue under his feet with a gloating look and spoke.
The relationships among the Knights of God are all very good, but the way they express their relationships with each other is more or less different from that of ordinary people. After all, except for a few normal people in the Knights of God, most of the Knights of God have some problems with their personalities.
Of course, considering that most of the Knights of God have abnormal personalities, perhaps these few normal people are abnormal in the eyes of their companions.
"I don't need any support here, Saint Valvaro. That woman will die in my hands sooner or later!"
Saint Betali's body slowly emerged from the rock statue. He glanced at his four colleagues who came to support him, and spoke with a gloomy face in a bad mood.
Saint Betali, who possesses infinite stamina, is most proud of the fact that he has never been defeated in a battle. Even Saint Green can only suppress him. Any enemy who cannot kill him instantly will eventually be exhausted to death by Saint Betali.
"That being said, there is no time for you to play with her slowly now, Betalli Saint..."
Another divine knight with a big bald head spoke slowly, and while he was speaking, his palm gradually recovered from the countless tiny squares. It was obvious that it was he who had made the attack that forced Esdeath back.
As the user of the superhuman Cube Fruit, Saint Dodagosia can turn himself and even the things he touches into cubes of varying sizes.
And because his devil fruit ability has been awakened, even at a long distance, Dodagosia Saint can turn various objects into cubes and drive the cubes to fight.
"The heinous person who killed the Knight of God must die!"
The last Knight of God whose head was shaped like a goat skull spoke coldly. He was the one who introduced Saint Baldora to join the Knights of God.
Although this did not mean that he had any obligations to Saint Baldora, Saint Pruda would obviously not show mercy to an enemy who killed his descendants.
"But then again, this woman is really rare... No, she can be called the most beautiful woman. It would be a pity to kill her like this..."
Saint Varvaro, with a Shamatte look, stared at Esdeath with greed. An ascetic like Saint Gerolito was also an oddball in the Knights of God. Under normal circumstances, the desires of the Knights of God were much stronger than those of ordinary people, but there were not many things that could arouse their desires.
Apparently, Esdeath's appearance was enough to make the Knights of God fall in love with her. Even though they knew that the ice rose in front of them was extremely prickly and that one of their companions had unfortunately died at the hands of Esdeath, they still could not help themselves like moths to a flame.
"Killing her was an order from the Ancient Saint Grimm!"
Saint Purda, who had a goat skull head, still had a cold tone. Under normal circumstances, he wouldn't mind doing a favor for his companion, but Esdeath was a heinous person who had killed the Knight of God.
Not to mention that she is just a lowly pariah, even if she is an equally noble Celestial Dragon, she will only die if she dares to attack her compatriots!
"Tsk... this is really... Hey, woman, are you ready to be executed?"
Saint Varvaro squatted down in a rogue manner and looked up and down Esdeath's body with a slightly malicious look, as if he was thinking about where to start.
He is obviously old enough to be a grandfather, but at first glance he looks no different from a street thug.
Esdeath, standing on one foot on a slender ice prism, was also looking at these uninvited guests. Although her observation Haki had lost its effect on the chaotic battlefield at this moment, relying on the instincts developed from years of battle, Esdeath could still feel a sense of oppression from those divine knights that was no less than that of Betali the Saint.
"That guy seemed to have said something similar to you earlier. When I killed him, it didn't seem too difficult, did it?"
The corners of Esdeath's mouth turned up, and a dazzling smile appeared on her beautiful face.
The stronger the enemy is, the more excited Esdeath will be, especially since these guys are here to kill her. They will neither show mercy nor run away in the middle of a fight. It can't be better!
"Insanity!"
While the other Knights of God were still in a daze, Saint Betali, who had already fought with Esdeath, was the first to react. His body quickly merged into the rock statue under his feet, and he drove this behemoth towards Esdeath with earth-shaking steps.
After witnessing Esdeath's extremely powerful swordsmanship and physical skills, Saint Betali consciously made the decision not to give Esdeath a chance to get close to him.
Especially the death of Saint Baldora, which still scares Saint Betali.
He had previously tried to set a trap using the idea that Esdeath was trying to surprise him, but he was almost decapitated by the rapidly advancing Esdeath.
So Saint Betali decisively chose to summon the Rock Colossus, and hid himself inside it, controlling this big guy to slowly chase Esdeath, preparing to use his expertise to kill this hateful woman!
"This is really a classic tactic of Saint Betali... But if we continue to fight like this, I'm afraid we won't be able to kill that woman even after the war is over, right?"
Saint Valvaro shook his head. He would never admit that he hated Saint Betali for using this trick because he had no way to deal with this big guy.
"It's a little slow... but it works... Do you want to take action, Saint Valvaro?"
Saint Dagosia touched his big bald head. Although Saint Green had issued a kill order against the blue-haired woman, the Knight of God also had his own ideas. Saint Dagosia did not like to join forces with others.
"Ah... do you even need to ask such a thing... Yunlong!"
Saint Valvaro jumped down from the rock giant's shoulders, and flew towards Esdeath on a 'dragon' made of clouds. As a user of the Nature-type Cloud-Cloud Fruit, Saint Valvaro can not only create and control clouds of different forms, but also freely change the properties of clouds, making them physical and even deriving various strange abilities.
The shape of the cloud dragon looks very abstract, but its flying speed is not slow at all. In just a few breaths, it caught up with Esdeath who was running rapidly in the air on the ice.
Compared to the Moon Steps which easily consumes a lot of physical energy by stepping on the air, Esdeath can save a lot of physical energy by constantly creating ice cubes in the air to gain leverage, and her speed is no slower than when moving on the ground. It is a very excellent way of moving.
Therefore, when Esdeath found that Saint Valvaro was catching up with her so quickly, she only exerted a little effort and left the Knight of God far behind.
"That woman's speed can be even faster. It won't be easy to catch up with her!"
Saint Betali's voice came from the rock colossus behind him. He was quite happy to see Saint Valvaro suffer a setback. However, considering that what Saint Green hated most was the infighting among his companions, Saint Betali still "kindly" spoke up to remind him.
Unfortunately, Saint Valvaro didn't seem to appreciate the reminder. He just controlled Yunlong to change into a faster appearance and was actually prepared to continue chasing.
Realizing that the speed of the God's Knights behind her did not seem to be as fast as she had imagined, Esdeath naturally slowed down and prepared to observe what abilities these God's Knights had.
Although the strong in the world of pirates are not like those in the world of Naruto, where they can defeat the strong with a huge disparity in strength as long as they know the enemy's intelligence, the endless stream of devil fruit abilities can easily kill the enemy at first sight if one is not prepared.
Especially since these Knights of God have a high status, they can get any kind of Devil Fruit. If the Impact Fruit of Saint Baldora falls into the hands of a top powerhouse like Garp, he might be stronger than Whitebeard!
In addition, Saint Betali's earth fruit is in no way inferior to the magma fruit and ice fruit. God knows what abilities these three new knights of God have.
"Damn it! Don't even think about escaping!"
Saint Varvaro almost flew away with his feet on the cloud dragon, but Esdeath's speed was too fast.
What's even more hateful is that every time he tried to speed up, Esdeath would naturally increase her speed, making it so that Valvaro Saint's Yunlong could only barely keep up with her.
When Saint Valvaro realized that he could not catch up and wanted to meet up with his companions behind, Esdeath seemed to have guessed his thoughts and slowed down almost synchronously, giving Saint Valvaro the illusion that he might have a chance to catch up as long as he tried a little harder.
After playing this trick of fast and slow several times, no matter how arrogant Saint Valvaro was, he finally realized that he had been fooled by Esdeath.
"As expected of Saint Valvaro, you are still as reckless as ever..."
Saint Dodagosia, who was on the rock statue, couldn't help but complain. Even when he was complaining about his companions, the big bald guy still spoke in a slow manner.
"Humph, isn't this his usual style?"
Saint Betali, who was hiding in the rock statue, spoke very naturally. However, after seeing that Saint Valvaro was also unable to do anything to Esdeath, Saint Betali felt inexplicably happy.
Even Saint Valvaro couldn't do anything to that woman, so even if someone wanted to laugh at him, they would have to be considerate of Saint Valvaro, who was famous for his sharp tongue.
At this time, Saint Betali was even looking forward to Saint Valvaro suffering a little loss at the hands of Esdeath, preferably a humiliating one. In that way, since he had never suffered any loss, he could look down on Saint Valvaro and mock him.
Thinking of this, Saint Betali intentionally or unintentionally controlled the rock colossus to slow down a little, gradually increasing the distance from Saint Valvaro in front.
"…Asshole, help me! Pruda-sensei!"
I don’t know if he guessed what Saint Betali was thinking, but Saint Valvaro, who was riding the Cloud Dragon, kept changing his expression, and suddenly he shouted loudly to a knight of God on the rock statue behind him.
Hearing Saint Valvaro's request for help, Saint Pruda, whose head was a goat skull, raised his finger and pointed it at Saint Valvaro without saying a word.
"Accelerate the light waves!"
Prodashen is the user of the superhuman acceleration fruit. When he releases accelerating light waves to himself, other people, or even things, the speed of the people or things within the range of the light waves will continue to increase.
The longer the light wave covers, the higher the acceleration rate. Theoretically, this acceleration has no upper limit, but the accelerated state will put an additional burden on the human body. The higher the acceleration rate, the heavier the burden.
Therefore, under normal circumstances, the acceleration multiplier that Saint Proda gives to his companions is between three and five times. If it is higher, the companions may be killed before they can kill the enemy.
"Haha! Let's see how you can escape now!"
Saint Varvaro, feeling that everything around him seemed to slow down, laughed wildly and rode the Cloud Dragon towards Esdeath at an incredible speed.
The speed of the explosion instantly broke the sound barrier, creating a milky white sonic boom cloud in the air.
Fortunately, Esdeath's reaction speed is also quite good. Although she doesn't know why the enemy's speed suddenly became so fast, except for the unreasonable guy Borsalino, Esdeath has never been afraid of anyone in a speed competition.
"Rope Cloud!"
Even when he was preparing to catch up, Saint Valvaro had been on guard against Esdeath getting rid of him again. He stretched out his palm in the direction in front of Esdeath and flicked his fingers quickly like playing a musical instrument. Countless fine rope-like clouds blocked Esdeath's escape direction.
These seemingly fragile rope clouds were created by Saint Valvaro using clouds with properties similar to spider silk. They were not only elastic but also extremely tough. Even a swordsman at the swordsman level would find it difficult to cut them with a knife.
What's more, at this time, there were countless ropes in front of Esdeath, forming a dense net. Even if a sea king crashed into the net, it would not be able to break free.
"Ice Dragon Roar!"
(End of this chapter)