Chapter 510: Exhaustion of Dominance
When Rebecca started to use her instincts, Crocodile's Observation Haki became a little messed up. Most of the predictions that his Observation Haki fed back were wrong. In addition, his speed was not as fast as Rebecca's, so he was slashed several times by Rebecca in a short period of time.
Fortunately, Rebecca did not use the sword wrapped in domineering aura to hit him. Penetrating wounds can be very serious, especially those that penetrate the abdominal and thoracic cavities.
After a few moves, Lao Sha didn't dare to fight Rebecca in close combat anymore. He could only keep a distance and use long-range moves to block Rebecca's attacks while avoiding Rebecca who would catch up quickly.
He wanted to consume Rebecca's Armament Haki. Although Crocodile didn't know how much Armament Haki Rebecca's reserves were, such a young girl wouldn't be that outrageous. This was Crocodile's tactic, to delay time.
"Is this what birds of a feather flock together? I didn't expect that it was just a little girl next to Xuanlong, but she made me so embarrassed. Damn it! If I could find Pluto, I would definitely drive Pluto to the Navy Headquarters and let off a blast!"
Crocodile swayed left and right to avoid Rebecca's attack, but in his heart he had already recognized Rebecca's strength, and of course he recognized Vic's strength even more.
Rebecca's current armament color is indeed too weak. Her domineering aura will quickly dissipate after being wrapped around the flying sword. Otherwise, with her fruit ability to control the flying sword, she can directly wrap all the flying swords with armament color, and Crocodile will not be able to fight and run at the same time.
Unless he kept dodging by transforming into an element and becoming one with the desert beneath his feet, he would definitely be hit by so many flying swords.
Rebecca doesn't have much domineering aura wrapped around Aizen, and she doesn't use armament color on any other part of her body, so just supplying armament color to Aizen can last for a while.
During this period of time, Crocodile was in an extremely miserable state, fearing that Rebecca would approach him. Because his observation Haki could not predict Rebecca's next move, his lower body turned into sand, pushing him to move around to avoid it.
From time to time, he had to turn around and launch long-range attacks to block Rebecca's way forward, which made Wick in the distance shake his head. Crocodile in front of him was so disappointing to Wick that he had lost interest in taking action.
It cannot be said that Crocodile is not strong, it can only be said that Rebecca has grown up now, and has everything she should have, but she is not yet at the top. However, she has no problem in actual combat, she just can't last long.
As long as it's not a full-strength attack from a strong man at the level of the Sea Emperor, Rebecca can still fight in the early stages. Moreover, she also has the instinctive fighting method to restrain Observation Haki, which makes up for the embarrassing situation that her Observation Haki is not as good as others. As long as there is no absolute suppression of speed and strength, Rebecca can still win.
As for Crocodile, a pirate who is more timid, has neither outstanding strength, speed nor domineering. He relies on the ability of his fruit and does not engage in much actual combat. He mostly uses his brain to solve problems. You can tell what kind of pirate he is by looking at his bounty.
Although his bounty has not changed since he became a Shichibukai, it would be difficult for it to increase if he keeps lying low. How can a person accomplish great things by working alone and not trusting anyone?
So during the war at the top, he was evenly matched with everyone, but he never defeated any truly powerful warriors. He was just like a street urchin, attracting hatred everywhere.
It can only be said that the battlefield was too chaotic at the time, and the top masters had no time to take care of him, which allowed him to have many highlights, all thanks to the natural Sand-Sand Fruit.
Although natural abilities are not popular in the New World, their lower limit is still high. With them, you can travel the first half of the Grand Line. If you have some domineering skills, you can show off. If your observation domineering is very strong, you will be almost invincible.
Just like Katakuri, all attacks can be avoided by transforming into elements in advance. Armament Haki is indeed the nemesis of the nature-type ability user, but if you cannot encounter any nature-type ability user at all, no matter how strong the Armament Haki is, it will be useless.
Crocodile saw that Rebecca only wrapped her Armament Haki around her sword, and knew that it would be difficult to exhaust her Haki in a short time, so he also began to use Armament Haki. The battle between Armament Haki and mutual consumption could drain Rebecca faster.
Because he couldn't predict Rebecca's sword moves, he could only cover his entire body with Armament Haki. If the opponent was just unarmed, he wouldn't have to do that, but the opponent had a sword in his hand! Who could stand that?
Crocodile is now able to engage in close combat. He uses his golden hook to collide with the long sword, and his right hand wants to touch Rebecca's body to suck her dry. But will Rebecca's instinctive warning allow Crocodile to succeed?
Although Rebecca's Armament Haki was consumed faster, she was not hit by Crocodile's attacks. She was faster, and if she couldn't dodge, she would harden her Armament Haki to resist. The water-absorbing ability of the Sand-Sand Fruit was useless.
"Nature-types are really hard to deal with. Without Armament Haki, they can't cause any damage. Unfortunately, my Armament Haki is almost exhausted!"
Rebecca's face became a little solemn, and she thought to herself that although her domineering aura had improved a little during this period thanks to the training plan given by Vic, the time was still too short after all, and she could not fight a protracted battle at all. The domineering aura on Aizen also slowly dissipated.
Crocodile's eyes lit up when he saw this. Rebecca's armament color was finally exhausted. He was now invincible, but he had to defeat Rebecca.
But even if Rebecca lost her armament color and wanted to dodge, Crocodile would not be able to catch her. Rebecca's fruit ability allows her to fly, and with the harassment of the flying sword, Crocodile really has no way to deal with Rebecca who flies into the sky.
However, Crocodile became a little too proud of himself when he saw that the outcome of the battle was decided. He sensed that the armament color had disappeared from Rebecca's indigo dye, so he really thought that Rebecca's armament color had been exhausted. How could a young girl have so many evil thoughts!
But he didn't understand what kind of person Vic was. The people around him would always be affected. Rebecca hadn't given up completely yet. She was just bluffing.
It was this carelessness that caused Crocodile to suffer another loss. He was hit in the chest by the armament color that Rebecca suddenly wrapped around him. Crocodile spat out another mouthful of blood, then quickly transformed into an element and moved away from Rebecca.
Crocodile appeared in the distance and looked at Rebecca with anger. He didn't expect that his cunning and scheming mind would be tricked by a simple girl who looked harmless. It was such a shame and humiliation. He swore that he would eat shit if he trusted a woman again!
Seeing that her attack was effective, Rebecca continued to attack without stopping, but Crocodile was no longer fooled and began to cover his entire body with armament color and engaged in close combat with Rebecca.