The fact that Rorschach came from the Rubuniru Kingdom in the North Blue was clearly recorded in the World Economic Journal.
Not just Morgans' World Economic Journal, but in the past ten days, all the newspapers in the world had been repeatedly writing about Rorschach's past and his experiences after joining the Marines. It was as if he had taken over the media.
Even more ridiculously, some people had taken Rorschach's photos and printed them as pictorials. The sales were reportedly very impressive, and Marine Headquarters was considering whether to charge for the copyright.
A person with an indifferent personality like Ichiji would naturally not pay attention to such things. That's why he became so furious when he heard Sid say that Rorschach was from this country.
His anger was not just from the embarrassing experience of being shocked by Rorschach a year ago in the North Blue. It also stemmed from Rorschach leading his men to destroy Germa's office in Mock Town and from Yonji being taken to the Marine scientific research base and subjected to all kinds of inhumane scientific experiments.
Yonji had always been very fond of beautiful women. He was the kind of person who couldn't walk when he saw a beautiful woman. But since he was released by the Marines, he would tremble in fear every time he saw a beautiful woman. It was clear that he had suffered inhumane abuse in the Marines.
If it weren't for Rorschach, Yonji would not have become like this. Ichiji had to get revenge for this.
"Since this is that bastard Marine's hometown, then, be destroyed!"
Ichiji grinned maliciously.
"Attack! Shoot him!"
Clyde, with blood still overflowing from the corners of his mouth, gritted his teeth and got up from the ground. He drew the large sword from his waist and, while shouting the order to attack, charged at Ichiji.
The Royal Guard, who had been in a state of panic because of the king's death, immediately found their backbone when they heard Clyde's shout. They decisively pulled the triggers on their flintlock rifles, aiming at Ichiji, who had his right hand raised high.
Bang, bang, bang!
Countless bullets, like a swarm of black bees, instantly shot out from the muzzles of the flintlock rifles, flying toward Ichiji from the long line of soldiers. In an instant, a storm of bullets overwhelmed Ichiji's vision.
Facing such a terrifying barrage of firepower, Ichiji just sneered and flipped his fiery red cape behind him. The number 66 embroidered on the cape glowed with a dazzling light. Instantly, a surge of firepower erupted from all over his body, turning him into a furnace madly gushing out high-temperature flames.
With a bang, a terrifying tongue of high-temperature flame expanded from Ichiji's body, spreading out for a hundred meters. The bullets shooting at him from all directions made a series of popping sounds in the expanding flames, bursting into tiny sparks. Some cannonballs hastily fired by the soldiers were also intercepted and detonated by the flames a hundred meters away, bursting into a series of bright fireballs in mid-air.
Clyde, who was charging forward with his sword, was hit head-on by the flames. All the hair on his body was instantly scorched, and his skin was blackened and blistered by the licking flames. Even the armor he was wearing was heated red by the high-temperature flames, scalding his skin.
But Clyde seemed to not feel the piercing pain. He held the large sword in both hands, roared, and charged head-on through the expanding flames with his large body, like a fierce guardian deity. He swung his sword, pushing aside the flames and striking toward Ichiji's head.
"Die!"
"Stupid!"
Looking at Clyde charging forward with his body on fire, Ichiji sneered and threw a punch. The flames in front of him churned, crashing into Clyde like angry waves.
Bang!
A violent force crushed him. The large sword in Clyde's hands shattered into more than a dozen pieces with a clang. His muscular body was like a sea train had hit it. He flew backward with a bang, drawing a long arc in the sky and falling heavily to the ground.
"General!"
"Attack! Everyone, attack!"
When the soldiers saw that the kingdom's invincible Clyde couldn't even stop Ichiji, they all fell into despair. Some of the soldiers decisively dropped their weapons and ran away. Some of the soldiers, who were loyal to Clyde, gritted their teeth and roared, choosing to hold their ground.
"Kill him! Avenge the General!"
Seeing that Clyde had not gotten up for a long time and was lying motionless in the ruins of the street, the remaining soldiers thought he was dead. They roared with grief and indignation, continuously raising their guns and firing at Ichiji.
"A pathetic trick. Everyone here today will die."
Ichiji took a step, rushed out of the flames, and flew into the sky. The shoes on his feet had a strange buoyancy that allowed him to float lightly in mid-air. He raised his right hand high and then swung it down heavily.
"Open fire! Execute the kingdom destruction plan!"
As soon as he swung his right hand down, the countless black muzzles on the twenty Warships lined up on the sea behind him immediately began to spit out heavy black cannonballs. The clone soldiers standing on the decks also raised their guns and rocket launchers, firing an overwhelming barrage of firepower at Merluse Port.
In an instant, the roar of cannonballs and bullets became a single, continuous sound, like a thunderclap that echoed throughout the surrounding hundreds of meters of sea. The black cannonballs, bullets, and small missiles filled the entire vision of the soldiers in the port.
Not only that, but torpedoes were also launched from the hull of the Warships, like swordfish breaking through the water. They cut through the waves and charged toward the port.
Facing such an overwhelming, full-coverage firepower strike, all the soldiers in the port fell into endless despair. Everyone could foresee that in the next second, when this terrifying firepower poured down, the entire Merluse Port would turn into a living hell.
The roar of the cannons echoed throughout Merluse Port, startling countless members of the Rubuniru Kingdom's royal family, nobles, and commoners. Countless people were either trembling in fear at home, hugging their loved ones, or standing on the streets with the soldiers who were holding their ground, looking at the dark sky covered with gunfire, their hearts ice-cold.
The Rubuniru Kingdom was finished.
Suddenly, Clyde's hoarse voice roared from the ground, "Vice Admiral Rorschach! I beg you! Save us! Save this country!"
Zzzzzzzzz...
At the same time as Clyde's voice sounded, at the moment when the overwhelming gunfire was about to fall, streaks of magnificent and dazzling electric arcs burst out from Rorschach's body. In an instant, they spanned a space of several thousand meters, spreading out in the sky, on the ground, and on the sea.
The tiny electric arcs shimmered with a bright light, leaping on the surface of the cannonballs, bullets, missiles, and torpedoes. Time seemed to have paused at this moment.
The overwhelming barrage of gunfire was completely still, suspended in mid-air. The soldiers' eyes widened in horror as they looked at the black cannonballs so close to them, watching the bullets, which were like swarms of bees and locusts, floating in front of them. They were motionless, like insects trapped in amber.
Not only that, but even the Warships on the distant sea that had fired the cannonballs, and the clone soldiers who were standing on the ships and firing, seemed to have been frozen in time, stiffened there.
"Tap, tap, tap."
A steady and clear sound of footsteps came from the street on the right.
Ichiji's pupils, floating in the sky, shrank. He watched Rorschach rise leisurely from the long bench and slowly walk to Clyde's front, where he stopped. The moment he saw Rorschach, Ichiji's entire face contorted.
"It's you! That bastard Marine!"
Rorschach ignored him and walked straight to Clyde. He bent down and pressed the five fingers of his right hand on Clyde's chest. A powerful bio-current passed from his hand, as if he was recharging the dying Clyde.
Clyde groaned, feeling a strange and powerful force inside his body that made his weak body strong again. Rorschach waved his hand, and the heavy armor covering Clyde's body automatically cracked and separated, falling from Clyde's body onto the ground.
Clyde propped himself up with difficulty and looked at Rorschach with gratitude. "Vice Admiral Rorschach, it really is you. I thought... I was mistaken."
As he spoke, he looked at Sid's corpse with a complicated expression. He hesitated for a moment, then looked at Rorschach and said hoarsely, "Why didn't Vice Admiral Rorschach make a move just now? If it were you, you could have definitely saved the king from Ichiji."
"I don't like people with weak knees, and I don't like a king who treats his people like pigs and dogs." Rorschach stood up straight and looked at Ichiji and the still Warships on the sea. He said indifferently, "In fact, if I hadn't seen something on you that could save this country, I wouldn't have made a move even now."
Clyde was stunned. He opened his mouth but didn't know what to say. He looked at Rorschach's tall back as he slowly walked to the port, facing the sky filled with gunfire, facing Ichiji, and facing the Germa Warships.
A huge sense of majesty radiated from his tall body, making it impossible for people to look at him directly. The soldiers respectfully made way for him, looking at Rorschach's back as if they were looking at a god.
"What did you do?! You bastard Marine!"
Ichiji clenched his fists, bent down, and rushed from the sky. A surge of fierce flames appeared on his fists as he punched toward Rorschach's head.
"Sparking Punch!"
Looking at the ferocious Ichiji diving toward him, Rorschach just extended his right hand indifferently, opened his five fingers, and clenched his fist in the air.
"Ichiji, you're not cute at all."
"Magnetic control! Metal manipulation!"
As he clenched his right hand in the air, the tiny electric arcs that filled the air for thousands of meters shimmered slightly. The next moment, the fiery red Germa scientific combat suit that Ichiji was wearing suddenly twisted and shrunk as if it had a life of its own, instantly constricting Ichiji's limbs as he dove down.
The cape behind him moved without wind, wrapping around his body again and again, tying Ichiji into a large ball. With a bang, he fell head-first to the ground in front of Rorschach.
Rorschach looked at the large hole made by Ichiji's face and couldn't help but sigh. "You see, your skin is really thick, Ichiji. It's harder than a rock."
"What did you do?! Let me go! I'm going to kill you!"
Ichiji twisted and struggled on the ground, looking at Rorschach with a face full of resentment. His pathetic state made the soldiers around him dumbfounded. The soldiers had already seen Ichiji's power. In their eyes, Clyde, the kingdom's first warrior, couldn't even withstand one of Ichiji's attacks. His surging flames could easily block a volley from thousands of people.
But this powerful monster was easily handled like a ridiculous worm in front of this silver-haired man. The soldiers couldn't even figure out what this god-like man had done.
"So you are the so-called masterpiece of old man Judge's life's work? The most perfect lineage factor creation? It seems you're nothing special. Germa's scientific power is really too pretentious." Rorschach slowly raised his right foot and stepped on Ichiji's struggling body, making Ichiji's face instantly turn green.
The intense humiliation made threads of blood appear in Ichiji's eyes. A tyrannical aura was released from his body, making the soldiers who were close to him turn pale and fall to the ground in fear. Ichiji's muscles bulged, and his bones grew madly. In a few breaths, he grew from a height of 1.78 meters to 2.5 meters. The power that burst from his body was so great that it broke the fiery red combat suit wrapped around him.
"Aaaaaah! I'm going to kill you!"
"Double! Sparking Punch!"
Ichiji, who had turned into a 2.5-meter-tall midget-giant, had blood-red skin all over his body and a non-human aura. He roared and punched at Rorschach's heart.
Bang!
The air rippled visibly like water. Rorschach extended his left hand, his five fingers spread open, and caught Ichiji's punch. Ichiji's terrifyingly powerful punch couldn't even make Rorschach's left hand move back a millimeter. It was caught by his palm and firmly held there.
"No! This is impossible!" An expression of disbelief appeared in Ichiji's blood-red eyes. He went insane and punched at Rorschach with his left fist again.
Crack!
Rorschach's left hand closed. Ichiji's right fist was squeezed flat by Rorschach, as if it had been pressed by a million-ton hydraulic press, and was turned into a bloody ball of flesh the size of a finger. He lifted Ichiji by his right wrist and swung his entire body forward.
Snap!
With a bang, the air rippled. Ichiji's body was like a long whip in Rorschach's hand. It was swung, making a short, sharp cracking sound. In this short, sharp sound, all the bones and joints in Ichiji's body came apart.
The power that had been gathered a second ago was completely gone the next second. His whole body became a lump of mud with no bone support, and Rorschach casually threw him to the ground. He tried to move, but his body was limp and he had nothing to push against. He could only struggle on the ground like a human worm.
Rorschach raised a foot and stepped on his head.
Boom!
The ground exploded, and Ichiji fell unconscious, bleeding from all his orifices.
Then, in the gazes of thousands of soldiers, Rorschach pushed his right hand forward. The countless cannonballs and bullets floating in the sky and the torpedoes suspended on the sea all turned around and flew toward the Germa Warships on the sea at a speed faster than when they came.
The Warships on the sea, under the control of an invisible, great power, also moved horizontally on the sea, moving toward the center, as if they were deliberately gathering together, waiting for the bombardment of countless cannon fire.
The next moment, thousands of cannonballs and bullets landed on the clustered Warships. The concentrated strike of the gunfire also ignited the ammunition depots on the ships, causing even larger explosions.
Thus, an endless amount of light and heat erupted on the sea, creating a spectacular mushroom cloud in front of Merluse Port. A violent shockwave swept in all directions, like a hurricane passing through, sweeping over Merluse Port.
The merchant ships that had not had time to leave were lifted a hundred meters into the sky by the shockwave. They flipped in the air and crashed into the royal city a thousand meters away, instantly crushing some of the incompetent royals and nobles into a pulp. Some pirates, slave traders, and arms dealers hiding in the capital also suffered misfortune. They were hit by the merchant ships and pirate ships falling from the sky and died on the spot.
Rorschach did not stop these shocks. He just turned around and, under the reflection of the towering fire cloud, came to Clyde, who was looking at everything in a daze.
"From now on, you will be the king of this country."
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