Chapter 11: Bakudō #26 — Kyokko (Curving Light)! The Marine Fleet Taken Hostage!
"Sengoku, how are your injuries?"
"Let's attack together. We absolutely cannot let such a dangerous guy continue to run rampant outside!"
Four Vice Admirals gathered around, speaking one after another. Their eyes stared fixedly at Bai Ye, making no secret of the malice within.
The Buster Call was the World Government's highest means of punishment. No matter who it was, anyone who tried to stop it at this time was doomed to die!
One Vice Admiral's hair danced wildly, like a writhing octopus. The end of each lock of hair was curled around a cold blade!
Onigumo (Demon Spider)!
A recently rising rookie Vice Admiral, possessing Eight-Sword Style strength. In combat, he often hacked people to pieces before they could even react!
Another Vice Admiral wore a black tie and a shirt with red polka dots, a cigar in his mouth, and a gentle smile on his face!
Yamakaji (Forest Fire)!
The most gentle-tempered Marine Vice Admiral. However, just looking at the number of times he participated in Buster Calls, disregarding countless wronged souls, one knew that this so-called gentle temper was just a layer of disguise!
The other two Vice Admirals were not as famous as these two, but their strength was also impressive. They were proficient in both Busoshoku and Kenbunshoku Haki, and had mastered the Marine Rokushiki!
To secure a Vice Admiral position in the New World, without sufficient strength, their heads would have long been chopped off by rampant pirates!
Several of them moved in succession, appearing around Bai Ye at extreme speeds like cannonballs, surrounding him in the center!
Sengoku also pulled himself together, exhaling a long breath. As golden light bloomed again, the cracks on the surface of his body healed completely!
"Daring to oppose the Marines! Prepare to accept sanctions! Bai Ye!"
Many Marines watched the scene of Bai Ye being surrounded, cruel smiles hanging on their faces.
"So what if he can barely tie with Vice Admiral Sengoku? In the end, isn't it still a dead end?"
"That's right! Anyone who attempts to stop the execution of the Buster Call has only one path to death!"
"Kill! Gather off the ship, prepare to support the Vice Admirals!"
With the orders given, the warships approached the coast. The Marines lined up neatly and marched down like locusts.
Their movements carried a fierce and brutal aura. Ordinary people would be scared weak in the knees and terrified just by looking at them.
Bai Ye lowered his eyes, glanced at them, and grinned coldly.
With his current strength, dealing with everyone's encirclement was indeed a bit strenuous, but it wasn't impossible to handle.
"Bakudō #26 — Kyokko (Curving Light)!"
Massive amounts of Reiatsu surged out from Bai Ye's body like a tide, gathering in front of him and condensing into a smooth cloak.
Draping the cloak over his body, even light was bent, making it difficult to see any trace of his presence!
The many Marines could only watch helplessly as Bai Ye disappeared into thin air in broad daylight.
"He... he's gone?"
"Did he escape?"
"He's just using some small tricks to hide. It's impossible to escape the Kenbunshoku Haki perception of the Vice Admirals!"
Kenbunshoku Haki was more accurate than any radar detection. Within its range, nothing was unpredictable!
At the limit of cultivation, one could even briefly predict the future!
With the power of several Vice Admirals, they would definitely be able to find Bai Ye...
The hopeful gazes of the many Marines turned to the Vice Admirals, but hesitation rose bit by bit in their hearts.
Because they discovered that the faces of the many Vice Admirals were all full of solemnity and confusion.
Yamakaji's face was gloomy as he looked around coldly. Red light flickered in his eyes. He pushed his Kenbunshoku Haki to the limit, but couldn't find a single anomaly!
"Another ability? Similar to the Doa Doa no Mi (Door-Door Fruit) or Mira Mira no Mi (Mirror-Mirror Fruit), hiding in a different dimension?"
Onigumo retorted.
"Impossible! Even if a different dimension really opened, it's impossible for us not to sense it at all!"
"Shut up!"
Sengoku suddenly interrupted everyone with a low shout. His eyes were sharp as knives as he looked fiercely at a spot more than thirty meters behind him. Busoshoku Haki flowed like a tide.
"Soru!"
Sengoku's speed exceeded the human eye's ability to track. His figure instantly disappeared from his original spot. When he reappeared, he kicked fiercely at an empty patch of ground!
"Sengoku..."
Everyone hesitated slightly, wondering if Sengoku had been provoked into attacking empty air.
"Raikōhō (Thunder Roar Cannon)!"
However, a flash of lightning suddenly emerged above the empty ground, counterattacking madly like a soaring thunder dragon!
Zzzzt!
Yellow electric light wound around Sengoku's pure gold Buddha body, looking quite magnificent!
But beneath the brilliance lay a deep killing intent!
Just a casually splashed electric arc could easily shatter the earth!
"So that's how I was discovered..."
Bai Ye appeared briefly, chuckling in a low voice.
The Kenbunshoku Haki of these few people was far from the peak of cultivation and unable to break through the Kyokko cloak to find his figure.
Sengoku took a different approach. By sensing the airflow around him and the deformation of the earth, he detected Bai Ye's position.
This was also why Sengoku needed to attack with a move that had a wide range but not too much lethality.
Only when he felt Bai Ye's resistance did Sengoku concentrate his dispersed power, intending to suppress Bai Ye!
Since he was detected, Bai Ye naturally wouldn't allow himself to make the same mistake again.
After disappearing from his original spot again, he flashed directly, floating above the heads of many Marines.
"Black Coffin! Purgatory!"
A black curtain over ten meters high appeared out of thin air. As soon as Bai Ye reappeared, he didn't stop at all. Stomping heavily with both feet, he leaped towards the location of the warships.
"Damn it!"
Sengoku glanced at Bai Ye but was forced to rescue the Marines.
Otherwise, hundreds of Marines would be turned into chunks of corpses under a single strike!
"Break!"
The four Vice Admirals no longer stood by. Haki flashed on their bodies as they rushed to the perimeter of the Black Coffin. Controlling their Haki to cover themselves, their blades chopped down heavily!
Pop.
Like a soap bubble bursting, clarity returned instantly.
The black coffin didn't offer any resistance to the group before being directly sliced apart!
Sengoku's heart sank. In the instant of contact, he realized that what Bai Ye released here was just a hollow shell, completely devoid of injected power!
Then his target must be...
Boom, rumble!
A burst of explosions, rolling black smoke, and winding flames!
By the coastline, two warships rocked unsteadily. Their hulls shattered, and seawater poured in madly!
On the lookout tower, Bai Ye watched indifferently. Light and shadows of power flickered in his hand, his expression cold.
"Either... retreat! Or... the entire Marine fleet gets wiped out!"
He didn't have the ability to confront five Vice Admirals head-on, so what?
As long as the Marines couldn't restrict Bai Ye's space to move, he had the ability to slowly slaughter everyone!
Buster Call kills everything?
Then let the Marines be buried with it!
Marine support would take at least a few days to arrive, enough for Bai Ye to slaughter this place clean!
At that time, what if a few Vice Admirals remained alive?
It would still make the Marines a massive joke!