One Piece Talent System Chapter 23-24

After determining that his battle plan has failed, Capone Bege put away his guns without any hesitation and turned to leave.

"Don't you think it's too late to leave now?"

Of course, Ross wouldn't easily let Capone Bege go. He calmly spoke and at the same time stepped forward, rushing towards Capone Bege.

Capone Bege, the character who stirred up a lot of trouble in the original work is indeed not an ordinary man. He could still respond to his Soru.

Bang! Bang!

Instantly when Ross started pursuing him, he resolutely turned around, jumped back, pulled the trigger and fired a series of Seastone bullets towards Ross.

Ross can easily ignore any ordinary bullet, and even if it is a high-standard large lead bullet, it can be blocked by his current Distortion Fruit ability, but he still needs to be a little respectful to the Seastone bullets.

Whiz!

Ross leaned to the side to avoid the bullets, and at that moment Victor and Leckie, who were repelled by him earlier, clenched their teeth and rushed towards him.

If Capone Bege is killed by Ross, they will definitely die too. As long as they can block Ross, there is still a chance for them.

"Are you willing to die for him?"

Ross looked calmly and indifferently at Victor and Leckie, who rushed to block him and gently adjusted the sword in his hand. "Then, I will fulfill your wish."

Buzz!!

Although Ross's sword arts can't be called anything special but with his strong physical strength and speed, his cuts are still extremely powerful.

The sword fell and although it was not wrapped in sword energy, it created heavy wind pressure. It seems to have mountain cleaving and splitting earth might, making people's breath stagnate.

"We need to block this!"

Victor and Leckie's hearts jumped fiercely but at this time they could only clench their teeth, held the Seastone poles in their hands and cooperate to block Ross' sword.

Clang!

The sword and the seastone poles intersected and the sparks flew out in all directions due to the collision.

Seastone's texture is extremely hard, even Happy Spring, one of the 21 Great Grade swords(O Wazamono grade swords) cannot cut that no matter how much power Ross applies.

But Ross' sword has a very strong and violent power contained in it and it pressed against Victor and Leckie who were holding the Seastone pole.

Kāchā! Kāchā!

Ross double-handed sword with his power alone put Victor and Leckie under tremendous pressure and even the ground under their feet showed signs of cracking.

Although Victor and Leckie were barely able to resist, both of their faces flushed red and their arms trembled, clearly suffering from overexertion.

Ross was disinclined to fight them any longer and his hands holding the sword pushed down hard.

Chiii!

Sword energy with a brute force rushed out and cut the ground in front of Ross, forming a crack of about three feet, and Victor and Leckie were naturally directly defeated.

Ross didn't pause and his face was calm and indifferent as he ran the sword through Victor's heart.

"Victor!"

Leckie screamed, he spared no effort and smashed the Seastone pole towards Ross, but both his arms had already lost their strength. Where would he still have the energy?

Ross backhanded his sword and sent Leckie's seastone pole flying, he shook his wrist, and then a head followed by blood flew into the sky.

Killing Victor and Leckie seemed to be a trivial matter for Ross. He didn't gave them another glance. He turned around the sword and looked at Capone Bege who had escaped towards a street.

Whiz!

Ross stepped on the ground and cracks like a spider web appeared on the ground. He was like an arrow fired from a bow as he sped forward, sticking close to the ground.

Almost instantaneously, Ross has crossed the street and caught up with Capone Bege in the middle of the second street.

Bang! Bang!

Capone Bege heard the movement behind him, and without even seeing he fired a row of bullets towards Ross and forced him to evade as Bege continued to escape.

Even though the distance was very close, Ross, who was focused, easily avoided the Seastone bullets.

"Seven, Five. Now you should not have any more bullets."

Ross' calmly says and in one step came behind Capone Bege with Happy Spring in his hands waving out mercilessly.

And just as Capone Bege was about to lose his head, a figure wearing a coat with justice written on it suddenly came in between them.

Clang!

Ross' sword stopped at a half-foot distance from Capone Bege's head. What prevented him from this was enormous shark sword!

The enormous shark sword covered the back of Capone Bege's head and occupied all the space between Happy Spring and Capone Bege's head.

The atmosphere solidified.

Ross slightly narrowed his eyes and looked at Marine who had suddenly emerged. His insignias were different from the colonel he had seen before. It was the insignia of the higher rank and he also found the person in front of him very familiar.

"I finally found you, Ghost Hand Ross."

The tall Marine holding the shark sword and wearing a strange bull-head mask said indifferently, as he blocked Ross' Happy Spring in midair:

"I am from the West Blue T4 branch base. You can call me the Bastille or call me Rear Admiral Bastille."

Bastille!

Ross thought and remembered who this person was. He was a Vice Admiral who, in the original work, had followed Admiral Fujitora to Dressrosa to carry out a mission, but right now he is only a Rear Admiral in West Blue.

There are not many Marine bases in West Blue, and most of them are on islands. The highest officer is only a Marine Captain in them. But, now to capture Ross, if you look in the whole West Blue, there are only a few Rear Admiral bases.

The cigar was still in Capone Bege mouth.

Yes.

The operation to annihilate Ghost Hand Ross was planned by him for many days and even if he failed by some unexpected circumstances. He still has a plan ready for that.

This information of retreat path, he had received two hours ago, and that also happened to be the time when marines arrived and landed on the ground.

He turned to look at Ross, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, like a winner ridiculing a loser, saying: "Before taking any action, you must consider the risk of failure and thoroughly plan your evacuation."

Chiii!

Ross took back Happy Spring, Happy Spring, and the Shark Cutter scraped and a few sparks flew, but there was no damage on the sword.

"Is the West Blue Marine already degraded to the extent of being commanded by a criminal organization?" Ross looked calmly at the Marine Rear Admiral.

Bastille snorted and put the enormous Shark Cutter on his shoulder. He said: "It's just a report from the public… So are you going to surrender, or are you going to wait for me to beat you half to death before taking you?"

He didn't like the criminal organization and he was even more disgusted with receiving assistance from the criminal organization but the Marine Headquarters had issued the order to capture Ghost Hand Ross no matter what and that order has been on his desk for a few months already.

The scene was quiet.

Ross calmly glanced behind Bastille's shoulders at Capone Bege, who stood a few meters away.

He suddenly laughed.

"Why are you laughing?" Bastille asked with a frown.

Ross slowly raised his head, revealing an expression that he had never revealed before. It was hard to tell this expression as a smile but it was really a smile, only it was cruel and bloodthirsty and also a little bit cheerful.

"Marine Rear Admiral."

"It's really…..not a bad Marine rank."

Bastille did not understand what Ross meant.

Whether Ross felt that his rank was very high, or very low, he could not see it from Ross's expression.

Ross' expression was as if he is looking at his prey, but this expression was very strange and laughable in Bastille eyes.

Prey?

He is the captain of the West BlueT4 branch and not the Marine Captain of those branch divisions. His strength has already surpassed the pirates that have the bounty of more than 50 million Berries and he had defeated more than one of those pirates!

Such that before long, with his achievements and age, he will be able to transfer to Headquarters to serve a post or to a large base on the Grand Line and become a Vice-Admiral.

Ross dared to show him this kind of look?

Ridiculous.

And the Marine branch that he leads has already docked two Battleships on the shoreline. Even if Ross wants to escape, he will be bombed by close-range bombardments, including people and ship.

"It seems that you are not willing to surrender…"

Bastille's aura changed from calm to fierce in an instant and he unknowingly revealed a ferocious expression on his face under the bull-head mask.

But there is no doubt of that when he held the handle of his Shark Cutter, the pressure of an strong expert was revealed and it made Capone Bege in the distance look dignified.

"Godfather, Victor and Leckie are already…"

"The guns group have at least 114 casualties and the artillery team has at least 19 casualties."

"The loss is very heavy."

There were scattered members of the criminal organization as well as a large number of Marine forces who came over here and members of the criminal organization reported to Capone Bege.

Marine's attitude towards the members of the criminal organization is very unfriendly, but due to the orders of their superiors, the criminal organization members such as Capone Bege were ignored.

"The loss is very serious, but it does not affect the overall situation."

Capone Bege said with a calm expression, as he had a cigar in his mouth while looking at Bastille and Ross who were confronting each other in the distance.

Although Bastille is proud, he doesn't look down on Ross. Any pirate that has the ability to throw West Blue into chaos, he needs to face them seriously.

Chiii!

His both hands gripped the handle of the Shark Cutter as he fiercely waved it towards Ross. A heavy momentum, bringing along a terrifying and invisible attack, swept obliquely towards Ross.

This enormous Shark Cutter can very easily shot out formless attacks by only relying brute force, not to mention that Bastille's own sword arts were also very extraordinary.

However.

Such a powerful attack also has its weakness that is the speed which is too slow, Ross only needs to step slightly to one side to avoid the attack.

"Soru."

Ross's gaze was like a lion staring at its prey, calm and steady, as he stepped forward and rushed towards Bastille.

Bastille had read all the information on Ross and he knew that Ross could use Soru of Marine's Rokushiki and has the ability to distort steel and even bullets, so when Ross rushed over, he didn't panic, and lifted his huge Shark Cutter and with a mighty force slammed it downwards towards Ross.

"Haaa!"

Because of the close distance, this attack was more difficult to dodge than the previous attack as it directly chops downwards towards Ross.

However, just as the sword fell, Ross' body suddenly just like a piece of paper, swayed and dodged the attack.

Kami-e (Paper Drawing)!

After avoiding Bastille's sword with Kami-e (Paper Drawing), Ross raised his hand and punched at Bastille's stomach.

Even though Bastille was extremely tall, almost twice as big as Ross, he doesn't dare to face Ross's attack head-on. He did not hesitate and used Soru to avoid Ross's fist and at the same time attack with his sword at Ross' back.

Whiz!

Ross looked calm as if everything was within his expectation, he leaped gently and turned over in the air and extended his hand and pressed it on Bastille's Shark Cutter.

Kāchā!

Even though it was in contact for only an instant, the enormous Shark Cutter distorted and cracks appeared on it. One-third of the sword had distorted into a spiral shape.

Seeing that his Shark Cutter was damaged, Bastille immediately flew into rage. Both of his hands lifted the broken Shark Cutter high into the sky. Suddenly, he seemed to split into three and as he chopped down, three different attacks unexpectedly hacked down.

"Is this the combination of Kami-e (Paper Drawing) and sword arts…"

Ross lightly snorted but did not choose to withdraw as he greeted one of the sword by clenching his fist and slamming it towards the attack.

Originally one-third of the Shark Cutter has been damaged, weakening Bastille's attack power, but Bastille still used this type of scattered attack expecting it to finish Ross but to Ross, this attack has already been weakened, so why wouldn't he dare to face it head on?

Buzz!!

Ross directly evaded two of Bastille three attacks and punched towards the last attack.

The moment the formless attack touched Ross' fist, it froze in the air and its form appeared, flickering.

The power of distortion and sword arts attack collided and a powerful explosion erupted out in midair, forming a violent whirlwind, blowing in all directions.

Rumble!

The intangible sword energy produced by Bastille attack twisted and exploded under the power of distortion. It turned into innumerable numbers of small sword energies, which splashed out in all directions, leaving slight cracks on the ground and the walls.

At the same time, with the help of attacks momentum, Ross suddenly stepped forward and grabbed the front part of Bastille's Shark Cutter.

Kāchā! Kāchā!

Even though Bastille retracted the sword without any hesitation, his Shark Cutter was still struck by Ross's palm. In an instant, the entire front part of the sword completely distorted and was squeezed into a iron ball covered in irregular cracks.

The middle part of the Shark Cutter was also greatly affected. Distortions and cracks appeared on the entire sword and edge of the sword, leaving only the third of its part at back still intact.

"Rear Admiral Bastille's Shark Cutter!"

"That is the Paramecia Distortion Fruit ability in the intelligence?"

The numerous Marines in the surrounding saw that Bastille's weapon was almost completely destroyed by Ross and they revealed a look of surprise.

Some Marine Captains had cold sweats on their foreheads. They didn't expect Ross to be even more powerful than the Rear Admiral Bastille. If Bastille lost to Ross, the following consequences would be unimaginable!

"Snipers! Aim at Ghost Hand Ross!"

"The officers above Lieutenant Commander come with me to help Rear Admiral Bastille!"

Several Marine Captains of the T4 base looked at the situation and made a quick decision to support Bastille by joining forces with him so that they can suppress Ghost Hand Ross together.

Bastille thought he was enough to suppress Ross, but he didn't expect Ross to be so powerful. Even he was helpless against him. The decision made by the Marine Captains in the distance was correct. Although he would lose face, he was still a Marine.

For a Marine, they don't care for process and only care about the result.

Chapter 24 Destroying the sword

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