Chapter 241 Room for Maneuver

Chapter 241 Room for Maneuver

Chapter 241 Room for Maneuver

Seeing that the road ahead was impassable, Esdeath was extremely decisive. She turned around and prepared to fight the pursuers to the death.

The huge ice dragon roared and pounced towards Saint Valvaro. The Yunlong carrying Saint Valvaro on its back was just a small loach in front of the huge ice dragon.

"Fire clouds!"

Facing Esdeath's counterattack, Saint Valvaro opened his palms forward, and a large red cloud with sparks emitting from time to time surged out from his hands.

It was clearly a cloud, but it emitted an unusually high temperature. The huge ice dragon crashed into the red cloud and disappeared without a trace. Not only was the ice melted, but even the melted water was instantly evaporated by the high temperature.

However, the ice dragon was just a feint by Esdeath, a little trick to attract the enemy's attention. When Saint Valvaro was dealing with the ice dragon, Esdeath had already rushed rapidly in front of the Knight of God.

"Ice Realm Slash!"

Esdeath's saber exudes a chilling air. With just one slash, a huge amount of chilling air can be injected into the enemy's wound, flowing along the blood to completely freeze the enemy from the inside out.

The strength of the Knights of God is naturally unquestionable, but compared with their combat power on paper that is enough to pose a threat to top powerhouses, the biggest weakness of these high-ranking Knights of God is still their almost meager combat experience.

This is a flaw that cannot be compensated by any instructor or even training method. It is too easy for the Celestial Dragons who aspire to become Knights of God to gain power. They have never experienced life-and-death battles, and have rarely fought against opponents of the same level.

Relying on the strength gained from training and various assistances, they can naturally crush enemies who are far inferior to them. However, once they encounter an opponent like Esdeath, whose strength is even above that of the Knight of God and who has experienced hundreds of battles and crawled out of desperate situations countless times, they will often suffer a great loss if they are not careful.

This is why Ancient Saint Green even considered recruiting the non-celestial dragon Aramaki as a substitute member of the Knights of God, so that the Knights of God would have a chance to make up for the lack of combat experience.

"Iron Cloud!"

Fortunately, Saint Valvaro's reaction speed was not too slow, and he released a large amount of gray iron cloud in time.

This is a cloud with properties like iron. Not only is it weightless, but it can also control its shape to become various weapons. However, at this time, Saint Valvaro obviously couldn't concentrate on controlling the iron cloud. He just tried to use the properties of the iron cloud to resist Esdeath's attack.

"Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."

The solid iron cloud could not stop Esdeath's slash. Although the vast amount of clouds pushed Esdeath away, preventing her sword from directly cutting Valvaro Saint, the armed color domineering attached to the blade was still like a sharp knife, cutting open Valvaro Saint's chest.

If Saint Varvaro had not transformed into an element in time to avoid subsequent damage, the frost that Esdeath infused into the blade alone would have been enough to kill him.

For the vast majority of users with natural abilities, as long as they can transform into elements in time they can be almost immune to physical damage. However, in a chaotic battlefield where the effect of their observation Haki is suppressed to the lowest level, it is not easy to transform into elements in time.

If it weren't for Saint Valvaro's almost instinctive reaction that prevented Esdeath's sword from touching him, the slash wrapped in top-level armament Haki would not have lost its threat just because of his elementalization.

"So it's a nature-type ability... What a troublesome ability..."

Esdeath said that Saint Valvaro's ability was troublesome, but her attention was mainly focused on Saint Pruda on the other side of the rock statue.

The divine knight with a goat skull head seemed to have done something just now, which made his companions' speed increase several times in an instant.

In the eyes of the battle-hardened Esdeath, this ability is much more troublesome than Saint Valvaro who can create clouds and Saint Betali who can control the earth.

After all, with the example of Borsalino, Esdeath understands too well how unsolvable the situation is when the speed reaches a certain level.

Even though she often bullies others at a super fast speed, she doesn't want to experience the feeling of being crushed by others at a faster speed.

"Asshole! Are you looking over there! Iron Cloud Blade!"

Saint Valvaro, who had escaped death, then noticed that Esdeath's gaze had passed over him and fallen on Saint Pruda behind him.

The Divine Knight, who almost suffered a great loss at the hands of Esdeath, suddenly became furious and controlled the iron cloud he had just released to transform it into countless sharp swords and shoot towards Esdeath.

"Ice barrier!"

Esdeath did not care too much about this level of attack. She just raised her hand and created a thick ice wall to block all of Saint Valvaro's attacks.

Except for a few specific abilities, the attack power of most nature-type ability users is just so-so in Esdeath's opinion. Perhaps they are remarkable in large-scale attacks, but when it comes to one-on-one duels, the attack power of the nature-type is not as effective as the top-level three-color domineering.

But Esdeath is well aware of the life-saving abilities of the natural system. Apart from anything else, Betali Saint, the user of the Earth Fruit ability, makes Esdeath helpless in various ways. After trying countless times, she can only be chased and beaten by Betali Saint in the end.

Just now, he had seized the opportunity and still had some hope of severely injuring or even instantly killing Saint Valvaro. However, once Saint Valvaro reacted and focused on protecting himself, even Esdeath would not have a good way to deal with him.

Therefore, Esdeath decisively changed her target and prepared to cause trouble for the other two Knights of God.

"You lowly bastard...how dare you be so presumptuous in front of me!"

Realizing that Esdeath had lost interest in him, Saint Valvaro, who was almost hacked to death just now, now had red eyes.

The self-righteous Knight of God could not tolerate that a mere untouchable dared to ignore his existence, especially since this untouchable was a heinous criminal who had already killed a Knight of God and once posed a fatal threat to him!
"Poison cloud!"

Seeing that the weapons made by Iron Cloud could not penetrate Esdeath's ice barrier, Saint Valvaro gritted his teeth and released a massive deep purple poisonous cloud.

The powerful poison contained in these poisonous clouds can not only easily kill island whales and even giant beasts such as sea kings, but also effectively weaken the target's physique when dealing with some strong people with toxic and anti-toxic constitutions. The poisonous clouds themselves are even highly corrosive, and no matter how good the enemy's defense is, it will be corroded sooner or later.

However, from beginning to end, Saint Valvaro never expected to kill Esdeath by relying on the poisonous cloud. Seeing that the poisonous cloud he released had occupied a large area, this divine knight actually rode the cloud dragon into the sea of ​​poisonous clouds.

"Cloud Demon God!"

Almost at the same time when Saint Valvaro rushed into the sea of ​​clouds, the massive poisonous clouds he released quickly gathered and formed in mid-air, transforming into a cloud giant that was almost as powerful as the rock colossus that had previously chased Esdeath.

At the same time, a large amount of iron clouds previously released by Saint Valvaro were also integrated into the Cloud Demon God, further enhancing the Cloud Demon God's offensive and defensive capabilities.

If Borsalino was present at this moment, he would probably be unable to resist complaining. It turns out that no matter which world the strong are from, they all end up in the same place: everyone likes to drive a Gundam. "Really... another troublesome guy like this..."

Saint Valvaro's moves gave Esdeath a headache. In a battlefield where the perception ability of Observation Haki was weakened to almost nothing, if there was no other way to find the true body of the ability user, it would be extremely troublesome to face big guys like the Cloud Demon and the Rock Colossus.

Even if Esdeath was lucky enough to guess the true locations of Saint Betali and Saint Valvaro, the time it took to break through their defense was enough for these two nature-type ability users to activate elemental transformation to avoid attacks.

Before Esdeath could make up her mind to use the Withered Rose, the mountain-like Cloud Demon God had already waved his palm and slapped down towards where Esdeath was.

The massive poisonous cloud mixed with the solid iron cloud not only has amazing physical destructive power, but the toxicity and corrosiveness of the poisonous cloud are also quite dangerous. Even when Esdeath's Observation Haki has been disrupted to the point of almost losing its effect, she can still feel the almost fatal threat from the giant in front of her!
'boom! ’

The solid ice barrier was shattered by the Cloud Demon with just one blow. Esdeath retreated violently and quickly distanced herself from the enemy in front of her, but the earth on all sides seemed to have life, turning into surging earth waves that swept towards her and were about to swallow Esdeath underground.

"freeze!"

Esdeath didn't want to experience what it felt like to be buried by tens of thousands of tons of earth and rocks. Even if she could use the teleportation function of the dimensional chat group to escape, she would not be able to return to the battlefield of Marijoa in a short time.

The wave of earth and rocks that tried to close together was blocked by a huge iceberg that suddenly appeared, but then the iceberg broke into countless small cubes and shattered into pieces.

Taking advantage of the opportunity when Saint Betali trapped Esdeath, the third Divine Knight, Saint Dagosia, finally took action, and his first attack was a nearly fatal blow.

As the user of the superhuman Cube Fruit, Saint Dodagosia can turn all kinds of things into cubes of different sizes.

Without the iceberg in the way, thousands of tons of earth and rock waves quickly gathered towards the center, ready to bury Esdeath deep underground.

"elder sister!"

Fubuki, who was sitting on the head of the transformed Tornado, couldn't help but exclaim when she saw this. Although their relationship was not very close because of Borsalino, Fubuki couldn't just watch Esdeath, who was in the same dimensional chat group, being buried alive.

"Tsk! What a troublesome guy..."

However, at the same time that Fubuki screamed, the tornado that had chosen to hover in the sky to avoid being dragged into the battle had already dived down rapidly.

The Garuda bird that Tornado transformed into was not famous for its speed, but with the help of super powers, the speed it could burst out in a short period of time was quite astonishing.

When Esdeath, who was almost buried underground, was about to be forced to activate her Stand ability, she suddenly found that thousands of tons of earth and rocks above her head suddenly stopped falling, as if she was held in the palms of two invisible big hands.

Then a large amount of earth and rocks rushed into the sky, opening a passage for Esdeath to escape.

Although she didn't know what was happening, Esdeath reacted immediately after seeing this scene, and rushed out of the underground by stepping on the ice that kept appearing in the air.

"Looking for death! Iron Cloud Cannon!"

Just when they were about to get rid of the blue-haired woman, a strange bird suddenly flew down to disrupt the situation. The enraged Saint Valvaro controlled the Cloud Demon's abdomen to open a big hole, and then launched a huge iron cloud ball from the hole, blasting towards the tornado that was about to pick up Esdeath.

The biggest feature of Tieyun is that it has no weight. The flying speed of the shells made of Tieyun is also quite amazing. They flew in front of Tornado in the blink of an eye.

"This trick..."

Tornado nonchalantly used her super powers to block the enemy's attack. Compared to the devil fruit given to her by Borsalino, Tornado was more accustomed to using super powers to fight.

"hey-hey!"

However, at this moment, Saint Valvaro, who was hiding in the Cloud Demon, showed a sinister smile on his face.

The weightless iron cloud ball was easily stopped in mid-air by Tornado's superpower, but the next moment the solid iron cloud ball exploded, and countless sharp iron cloud cones shot out, about to shoot Tornado into a hornet's nest.

"Ice barrier!"

Fortunately, Esdeath, who escaped at the critical moment, took action in time, and countless iron cloud cones were nailed on the suddenly appeared ice wall, scaring Tornado and Blizzard.

"I didn't expect you to be willing to help. Thank you."

Esdeath, who blocked Valvaro Saint's attack, turned around and smiled at Tornado with some surprise.

She had already prepared herself mentally to withdraw temporarily, but she didn't expect that Tornado, who had always been at odds with her, would be willing to help her.

"Hmph, if you want to thank someone, go find Borsalino. If it weren't for him, I wouldn't help you!"

Tornado groaned, canceled the transformation of Garuda Bird and returned to human form, and also used her superpowers to catch Fubuki and Snake Girl.

In such a chaotic battlefield, it is obviously not a good idea to continue maintaining such a huge size.

Even if she was an animal-type mythical beast devil fruit user, she couldn't possibly compete with those two nature-type divine knights in terms of the ability to withstand damage.

Tornado, who had been watching the battle in the sky, had enough understanding of the abilities of the several God Knights, otherwise she would not have been able to help Esdeath in time.

"Tsk, two against four, how long can you hold off those three guys?"

Esdeath naturally included Tornado into her own combat force, while Fubuki and the still sleeping Snake Girl were simply ignored by her.

She wanted Tornado to hold back Saint Betali, Saint Dagosia and Saint Prouda. If it was a one-on-one fight, Tornado would be confident that she could use her stand to instantly kill the cloud giant.

At that time, the situation was two against three. Although it was still disadvantageous to their side, there was still room for maneuver if the two of them joined forces.

(End of this chapter)