bacchusnovels Chapter 440: The Legendary Nika!
Chapter 440: The Legendary Nika!
On the battlefield.
Five enormous demon bodies were scattered everywhere.
Feng Shi lay on his side in the rubble, several fist marks imprinted on his left rib, the black light from the wounds flickering.
Gu Ma knelt on one knee, his arm holding the knife trembling uncontrollably.
The strange bird teetered precariously at low altitude, its left wing charred black.
The spider was curled up in the deep pit, its two severed legs growing back very slowly.
The giant earthworm had half its body buried underground, with the exposed part covered in cracks.
Ten scarlet Rinnegan eyes locked firmly in mid-air.
They are recovering from their injuries.
However, the recovery speed has slowed down.
Although not as ruthless as Chen Ye!
Luffy's Ryuo and Haze attacks with every punch are tearing their bodies apart.
Luffy is suspended in mid-air.
He tilted his head.
My neck was cracking.
Then, he grinned, a radiant smile that didn't seem like he had just been in a deadly battle.
He raised his right hand downwards, joined his index and middle fingers together, and gently hooked them twice in the direction of the Five Elders.
The provocation of the Five Elders should be referred to as the provocation of Im.
Below the battlefield.
Roger and Rocks stood side by side.
They kept a close eye on the situation on the battlefield.
Roger's hand rested on the hilt of the famous sword "Ace," ready to draw his sword and join the battle at any moment.
At that moment, his whole body felt like it had been turned on, and he was completely aroused.
From the moment Luffy transformed into white, Roger was filled with fighting spirit.
He stared at the image of Luffy beckoning with his finger.
He slapped his thigh suddenly!
With a "snap".
Then he burst into deafening laughter.
"Hahaha! I'm really starting to like this kid's personality more and more!"
Roger laughed so hard he almost fell over, his eyes narrowing into crescent moons.
"One person fighting five monsters!"
"He still had the energy to stand there and beckon with his finger!"
"This wild energy is even stronger than when I was young!"
He slapped his thigh, his laughter booming and full of energy.
The laughter gradually subsided.
Roger closed his eyes.
He listened with an air of dominance.
Listen to Luffy's power.
Warm and resilient.
The sun and gummy candy.
An ancient echo.
I know you.
But it's not you I'm waiting for.
Roger opened his eyes.
The excitement in his eyes had faded, leaving only contemplation.
He turned to look at Lockes, his voice lowered.
"Lox, do you still have doubts?"
"Whose power is that kid?"
"The heartbeat of the liberation drum?"
"A white form?"
"The power and freedom of rubber."
Roger's lips curled up.
"Nika fruit".
He speaks clearly.
"The more I look at it, the more it resembles that legend."
Lockes did not reply.
He crossed his arms over his chest.
His gaze swept back and forth between Luffy and the Five Elders.
silence.
The battlefield was noisy, but here it was deathly silent.
In Lockes' deep eyes, there was scrutiny, confirmation, jealousy, resentment, and a hint of excitement that he himself refused to acknowledge.
He finally spoke, each word squeezed out from between his teeth.
"I'm becoming more and more convinced."
Rocks stared intently at Luffy's flowing white hair and the surrounding white mist.
This scene overlapped with a fragment of his memory.
Memories left by David Jones.
"His posture."
"His power."
Rocks clenched his back teeth.
"Just as Davy Jones remembers it."
"What Joy Boy looks like after his transformation."
The last four words rolled out from the back of his throat.
"Exactly the same."
A white body.
The drumbeat of freedom.
The way rubber exists.
Everything from his memory came vividly to life before his eyes.
The body of a god.
The one wearing it was not him, Rocks.
Instead, he was just a young man in his early twenties.
Roger's eyes lit up.
He rubbed his palms together vigorously, making a rustling sound.
"Oh dear, you think so too, don't you?"
"I knew it! I knew it!"
He looked again at Luffy, who was bouncing and laughing in the distance, and sighed.
"But seriously..."
Roger stroked his chin.
"Are all young people these days this strong?"
He shook his head, his smile containing both admiration and self-deprecation.
"To have such talent at such a young age."
"They're much more capable than our generation."
"When I was in Raphdru's time, no one was this ridiculously old."
As Roger spoke, he stretched out his right hand and casually patted Rocks on the shoulder.
A muffled "snap" sounded.
Rocks' shoulders stiffened.
His sinister gaze swept over, filled with murderous intent.
Decades ago, that look would have terrified half the ocean.
Roger didn't care.
He laughed, withdrew his hand, took a half step back, and laughed heartily, seemingly carefree.
Rocks shrugged, a look of disgust flashing across his face, but it was quickly overshadowed by other emotions.
His gaze returned to Luffy, his expression complex.
Lox was silent for a moment.
He was lost in memories.
"Those fruits that I've longed for..."
He paused.
"This one is one of them."
Rocks' voice trembled.
"The legendary Nika Fruit."
His gaze returned to the white figure, filled with regret and resentment.
"Maybe this kid ate it."
Rocks gritted his teeth.
"These are the Devil Fruits that I longed for but could not obtain back then."
The voice just fell.
Rocks' entire aura changed.
His gaze shifted from Luffy to the Five Elders, who were writhing.
"but!"
That one word completely suppressed Roger's smile.
Lox's gaze was sharp as a knife.
"Looking at it as it is now, that won't do."
He stared at the smoke and fire ahead.
"This kid is indeed very strong now."
His voice was flat.
"But this isn't Im's true form."
He turned his head sharply and looked directly at Roger.
"None of us have ever seen Im's true strength."
"She only controls those five old men now."
Lox raised his chin, gesturing towards the five demons in the distance.
"They've already made us very difficult to deal with."
He glanced at his own wounds, then at the white-bearded man in the distance, leaning on his sword and panting, and at Shanks, whose arm was bleeding.
"If it weren't for Chenye."
Rocks's eyes were icy cold.
"We're all going to die here."
This judgment is cold and cruel.
He said this with a blank expression, as if he were talking about the weather.
Roger did not refute.
His lips moved, then finally pressed into a thin line.
He knew that Lockes was right.
Speaking of Chen Ye.
Chen Ye arrived.
Footsteps came from behind.
Not too fast, not too slow, not too light, not too heavy, each step is like a metronome.
In this chaotic battlefield, strange and abnormal things are happening.
Roger and Rocks turned their heads at the same time.
Chen Ye was walking from the edge of the deep pit.
His hands were in his pockets, his black hair swayed in the heat, and a half-smile played on his lips.
He walked up to the two of them and stopped.
His gaze casually swept across the battlefield, lingering on Luffy and the Five Elders for a moment, a slight smirk playing on his lips.
Roger opened his mouth as if to speak.
His mouth had just opened.
Chen Ye raised his right hand, his five fingers together, making a clean and decisive gesture of stopping him.
Roger's mouth involuntarily closed, and he swallowed back all his words.
Chen Ye's voice rang out, as calmly as if they were having a conversation.
"You two guessed correctly."
He paused for a moment, his gaze falling on Luffy's fiery white hair.
He spoke at a moderate pace, each word as if carved on a stone tablet.
"Luffy is the one chosen by the Nika Fruit."
"His current power."
"A white body."
"The heartbeat of the liberation drum."
"The free transformation of rubber".
Chen Ye's eyes flickered.
"This is Joy Boy's Devil Fruit ability from hundreds of years ago."
The four words "Joey Boy" were spoken as calmly as reciting a menu.
When these words reached Roger and Rocks' ears, they sounded like four thunderclaps.
Roger's pupils shrank to pinpoints.
Extreme excitement.
Lox's eyes darkened for a moment, clearly a sign of disappointment after confirming certain information.
On the distant battlefield.
Luffy's white figure sprang up again.
"Thump! Tap! Thump! Tap!"
The joyful and free drumbeats of "The Drum of Liberation" pierced through the smoke of battle and echoed throughout the skies of Egherd.