"Napoleon!"
"Yes, Mama!"
Riding the thundercloud Zeus into the sky, Charlotte Linlin shouted at once.
The hat on her head instantly opened a pair of eyes, then flew off and turned into a gigantic blade.
Born with a maxed-out warrior's talent, Charlotte Linlin was nevertheless a battlemage similar to Kaido.
With the Paramecia-type Soul-Soul Fruit, Charlotte Linlin could freely manipulate human souls and lodge them into all kinds of things, anthropomorphizing them.
These anthropomorphized things were called Homies.
For decades, Charlotte Linlin had extracted unknown amounts of people's lifespans, all taken away as souls.
Humans living in the Totland Kingdom had to pay Charlotte Linlin one month of lifespan as a soul every half year.
With those souls, Charlotte Linlin remodeled Totland so that Homies existed everywhere throughout the kingdom, not only serving as her eyes but forming an enormous rank-and-file defensive line.
Besides ordinary Homies, Charlotte Linlin had three special Homies at her side, all forged from fragments of her own soul, each possessing tremendous power.
These three were the weapon-type Napoleon and the elemental-type Zeus the thundercloud and Prometheus the sun.
When wielding the thundercloud and the sun, Charlotte Linlin was a battlemage whose strength and defense were astonishing, capable of unleashing lightning and flame.
When wielding Napoleon, Charlotte Linlin was a max-level warrior, and unlike Ochoku she also had Conqueror's coating.
At this moment, Charlotte Linlin was in the latter state.
The instant she gripped Napoleon, a piercing red light burst from her eyes, her Observation Haki locking onto Link's position. She clenched the blade with both hands like a baseball slugger and hacked down fiercely toward the ground.
"Elbaf's Spear Ikoku!"
In a flash, a cylindrical shockwave roared downward.
Its scope was vast, its speed terrifying.
Without needing to send a flying slash, Charlotte Linlin could rank among the great swordsmen with this single move alone.
If that massive shockwave fell into the sea of trees, it would surely blast open a gigantic crater.
Such an area of destruction would not be a problem for the sea of trees.
But Link did not dodge, for the pride of an Emperor of the Sea was at stake.
Link formed a one-handed seal and barked, "Sage Art Wood Release: All-Encompassing Bag Technique!"
A giant wooden hand shot up from the forest, its fist colliding head-on with the howling shockwave.
In an instant, the Haki-less shockwave was scattered by the wooden giant fist imbued with natural energy.
"Roooar"
At once, a huge wooden dragon also flew out from the forest, lunging toward Charlotte Linlin in the sky.
"Prometheus!"
"Yes, Mama!"
The sun floating beside Charlotte Linlin plunged toward the wooden dragon and spat a massive pillar of fire, trying to burn the dragon to ash.
In the next second, the sun was dumbfounded.
The wooden dragon ignored the damage of the flames, instead cloaking itself in fire, becoming a fire dragon that kept flying.
A wooden dragon that feared no burning was simply unheard of.
But from this it was clear how much life energy was contained within the wooden dragon.
Prometheus's flames were like weak fire trying to burn a towering tree. In a short time it might scorch a layer of bark, but nothing remarkable.
To burn through the trunk, not only would the flames need to be fiercer, they would have to last.
That short span was more than enough for the wooden dragon.
Seeing Prometheus's fire pillar ineffective, Charlotte Linlin shouted, "Prometheus, come!"
"Yes, Mama."
As a shard of Charlotte Linlin's soul, the sun instantly grasped her meaning, flew over, and fused with Napoleon, forming a great flaming blade.
"Zeus."
"Yes, Mama!"
The thundercloud underfoot shifted from white cloud to black cloud.
Purple lightning curled around Charlotte Linlin.
Gripping the flaming greatblade, Charlotte Linlin became a battlemage.
She sprang away from Zeus, her 8.8-meter-tall, massive body flipping forward several times in midair, then abruptly accelerating like purple lightning to cleave down at the wooden dragon below.
Purple lightning and orange-yellow flame flashed as a tricolored blade-light, finally hewing apart the wooden dragon that had turned into a fire dragon.
Seeing this, Link gauged Charlotte Linlin's strength.
Though aged, Charlotte Linlin truly was the woman with the greatest natural talent upon the seas.
Her innate monstrous strength had let her possess power more fearsome than that of giants since childhood.
With such strength, she needed no sense for the "breath of all things." As long as the weapon was sharp enough, each slash she made was more terrifying than a great swordsman's cut.
Even the wooden dragon's fearsome defense and tenacity were split in two by Charlotte Linlin's doubly enchanted brute-force strike.
Granted, that wooden dragon had not been wrapped in Haki.
But Charlotte Linlin's slash likewise carried no Haki.
This one-force-breaks-ten-thousand-styles approach suited Link's tastes.
Because an opponent like this was far easier to deal with than those technique types and Logia ability users.
Link clapped his hands together and grinned. "Sage Art Wood Release: Wood Human Technique."
Rumble
The transformed forested earth shook violently once more.
Then a wooden arhat over two hundred meters tall, like a giant just awakened, slowly rose from the forest.
A vast shadow climbed upward, and in a blink Charlotte Linlin was enveloped.
The 8.8-meter-tall Charlotte Linlin was the size of a grasshopper before this wooden arhat.
Even Charlotte Katakuri and Pudding watching from the island's edge felt as if a mountain had appeared out of thin air.
"Sage Art Wood Release: Wood Dragon Technique!"
"Wood Release"
Standing atop the Wood Human's head, Link clapped his hands again and unleashed the three-piece combo Hashirama Senju used to thrash Uchiha Madara.
"Advent of a World of Flowering Trees!"
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