“What the… hell!”
Looking at the buildings on both sides of the street twisting and collapsing, many Marines holding guns in their hands showed a look of horror and a trace of fear in their eyes.
“Block! Block it!”
Even though the Marines were terrified, they still pulled out their swords or some even went barehanded and charged into the collapsed building in an attempt to destroy and prop it up.
However, even if they work together, they still couldn't stop the collapse of the building. And the power of distortion was transmitted through the building and into their bodies, causing a sharp pain in their bodies, they felt as if their muscles have been separated.
Rumble!
As the building was twisting, the walls gradually collapsed and countless stones splashed down. The entire street seemed to squeeze into a ball.
And at this moment, sword energy suddenly burst from the end of the street, splitting the squeezed street and leaving a crack on the ground!
Whiz!
A figure rushed into the street. He was short and stout, dressed in Marine justice cloak, with Rear Admiral’s shoulder band embroidered on his shoulder. It was Rear Admiral Roma of Marine Branch.
“Hez, are you okay?”
After Roma cut the collapsed building and rushed in, he shouted at Hez who was trying to block the collapsed building.
Hez rubbed his wrist and shook his head as he looked towards Ross in the distance with fear and said, “I’m all right… What about Vice-Admiral Dalmatian?
“Almost here.”
Roma responded quietly and turned towards Ross, holding the handle of his sword in both hands and saying, “Let's stop him until Vice-Admiral comes.”
Hez nodded as his expression returned to seriousness, he stood with Roma.
Ross killed Headquarters Rear Admiral Onigumo, they also know that they were not as strong as Onigumo much less Ross who killed him, but if they work together, they should be able to block him for some time, as long as Vice Admiral Dalmatian arrives, Ghost Hand Ross will be stopped!
“Escape?”
Ross looked at Roma in the rescue field with a calm expression.
He didn’t want to talk but when he heard Roma's words, he couldn't understand something. He said: “…what makes you think that I'm going to run away?”
In this sea, in most cases, pirates run away when they meet Marines. Even if the Marine’s force is not enough to defeat them, there are few pirates who would want to confront Marines.
The reason for this result is that in this sea, pirate forces are as many as stars and like stars, they are scattered, while Marine forces are a single entity. Even if some pirate kills the Marine who pursued them, it will only irritate Marine and they will chase him relentlessly and the pursued pirate will lose his opportunity to fight with other pirates.
Apart from the Revolutionary Army, there are few pirates who are confronting Marine and the government. Most of the time when pirates meet Marine, they will turn around and flees regardless of the strength of Marine’s forces.
But.
Ross is not one of the pirates mentioned above.
When he meets Marine, his first reaction is never to run away but to confront the marines. The main reason for this is because the Marines forced him into becoming a Pirate. Moreover, the existence of the Talent System makes Marine’s contradiction with him irreconcilable, The only relationship between them is that of a hunter and his prey.
“…”
Roma’s expression changed slightly when he heard Ross’s words.
In the past, when a pirate met Marines they ran away but from Ross’ attitude, he did not seem to have any intention of retreating, but he intended to confront them!
Madman.
This is Roma’s evaluation of Ross and his confrontation with Marine can no longer be described by the word rampant, in Roma's view, it is simply incomprehensible behavior.
The next moment, Ross moved.
With a gentle step under his feet, Ross used Soru and turned into a shadow. He suddenly charges towards Roma and Hez, with his left and right hands clenched and attacked them separately.
“Here he comes!”
“Watch out!”
Hez’s intention was to confront Ross without retreating, but he was afraid as Ross wanted to fight them which is incomprehensible and he is strong enough to defeat them.
When Ross rushed in, the two men, who had already been on guard moved at the same time. Roma held a huge sword in both hands and broke out with a fierce sword attack against Ross’ fist.
"One Sword Flow, Power Strike!"
At the same time, Hez accurately captured Ross’ figure and jumped backward to avoided Ross’ punch while the two guns in his hands were firing at Ross with a series of Seastone bullets that had just been filled in.
Bang!
The heavy blow from the giant sword collapsed under the power of Distortion Fist and Roma flew backward, his arms were sore and the giant sword was completely twisted.
As for the series of Seastone bullets fired by Hez, Ross simply turned his head and shoulders slightly and avoided all the bullets.
The Seastone bullets which have a weak effect in front of a strong Haki can be avoided or blocked by both Observation Haki and Armament Haki.
Even.
Some people's physiques are strong enough that the seastone bullets won’t even be able to penetrate their skin.
"This is… a Marine Rear Admiral on Grand Line?"
“There seems to be nothing different.”
By performing some subtle moves, Ross's is able to avoid the seastone bullets. He looks up calmly at Hez and suddenly disappears like a bubble.
Watching Ross disappear suddenly, Hez was horrified. He only felt a chill on his back and he did not hesitate to enter the state of Kami-e (Paper Drawing) in Marine’s Rokushiki.
Whiz!
The next moment, Ross appeared on his left side and punched.
Hez was able to avoid Ross’s frontal punch with Kami-e (Paper Drawing), but half of his shoulder was still touched by Ross’s fist.
It was just a little scratch, but in less than a second, the power of distortion was poured into his shoulder, causing his entire shoulder to suddenly show a strange twist.
“Ah!”
Hez covered his arm and retreated with horror and fear in his eyes.
At the same time, Roma, who supported him saw the abnormal twist in Hez’s shoulder and cold sweat flowed on his forehead, he slammed the giant twisted sword in his hand towards Ross.
Ross didn’t retreat. His eyes were calm and indifferent. He directly grabbed the sword blade with his hand and the power of distortion surged from his hand as he squeezed the huge sword with his five fingers.
Kāchā!
With a slight effort from his five fingers, the two-meter-long sword broke off from the middle and the rest of it was spirally twisted, spreading towards Roma.
Roma did not hesitate to let go of his hand and retreat but he was still a little bit affected by the power of distortion and there was a sharp pain in the palm of his hand. He was shocked when he saw the dense blood inside his palm, which was heart-rending.
"Rear Admiral Roma! Rear Admiral Hez!"
Not far away, many Marine lieutenants and soldiers watched as Roma and Hez attacked Ross together and seeing that both Rear Admiral wouldn't be able to defeat Ross they were shocked.
Roma and Hez's strength is second only to Atheus and Vice-Admiral Dalmatian in their G8 marine base. In the past, even if they had more than a dozen elite marines lieutenants working together against them, they were not Roma and Hez's opponents in training.
Even a Headquarters Rear Admiral won't be able to defeat them when they worked together but now they are being suppressed by Ross.
The gap in strength is far too wide.
In the panic, the Marine Captain reacted and ordered the marines to pull out their weapons and attack Ross.
"Quickly give them cover fire!"
"Support Rear Admiral Roma and Rear Admiral Hez!"
Under orders, the Marines rushed up with weapons to attack Ross even though their hearts were filled with fear and horror, After all, they were the elites of the G8 branch base.
Ross calmly looked at the Marines who were rushing toward him.
For Marine, he can remain neutral as long as they are not monsters in human form or provokes him, but all those who try to attack with him will be regarded as enemies.
Ross will kill his enemies.
Bang!
Ross raised his legs and step on the ground under his feet. A power of distortions poured into the ground and spread in all directions with him as the center, Ross spread the power of distortion to the limit.
"Distortion… Whirlpool strangulation!"
In the next moment, the ground beneath Ross's feet suddenly moved and the thick bluestone bricks broke apart inch by inch centering on Ross and began to twist and rotate.
Ten meters… twenty meters… thirty meters…
The range of rotation expanded in all directions at an extremely fast rate until it becomes a circular area centered on Ross with a radius of nearly fifty meters covering all the Marines who were trying to attack Ross.
In a short period of time, the entire area, whether it was stone, mud or building, is turned into a wave-like whirlpool which rotated counterclockwise.
"What happened? What did that guy do?!"
"The ground… the ground is moving!"
After Marine noticed the abnormality of the ground and the buildings around them, their hearts began to feel a kind of inexplicable fear.
The initial speed of the ground rotation is not fast, but it gradually becomes faster. In a short second, many Marines can't keep standing up and they fall on the cracked and moving ground.
Two seconds.
Many buildings in all directions began to collapse one after another.
Three seconds.
With Ross as the center in the circular area of 50 meters, everything is completely turned into a mud-like whirlpool. The earth is cracked and no good road can be seen. All the stones are broken into small pieces and surged like debris flows.
Five seconds.
All the buildings collapsed and turned into rubble.
Many Marines did couldn't even scream out as they were buried in the mud like ground and many broken limbs and bones could be seen, some lieutenants struggled reluctantly in the whirlpool but they could not escape it at all.
As for the two Rear Admiral, Hez and Roma, although they have the intention to stop Ross, both of them have an injured arm. In this whirlpool, they are only able to protect themselves. They can only watch as this piece of land become a grinding disc that smashed everything and took many lives away.
Fifty meters away.
There were also many Marines gathering here but at this moment all of their faces were fearful and frightened and no one dared to step into the whirlpool at all.
How short is the time of five seconds, all the Marines watched as everything in the 100-meter area turn into ruins, crushing and rotating everything, which is a shocking scene that is difficult to describe in words!
Seven seconds.
The vast majority of Marine Captains and soldiers died, leaving only two or three Marine Captains and Roma and Hez who still had some strength to support themselves.
Finally.
Just as time passed to the eighth second, a roar came from a distance.
"… Damn, stop it!"
Almost at the moment when the roar fell, a figure rushed into the whirlpool and attacked Ross with his black fist which was coated in Armament Haki Hardening.
Marine Vice-Admiral, Dalmatian is here!
Faced with Armament Haki coated punch, Ross wasn't surprised and he remained calm. As early as Dalmatian roared, his Observation Haki had accurately captured his every action.
Ross retrieved the power of distortion that had been poured into the ground beneath his feet and quickly shifted the power of distortions to his arms. His fingers clenched into a fist as the power of distortions converged on them, faintly showing a visible twisted curve and he confronted Dalmatian.
Bang!
The Armament Haki coated punch and the power of distortion coated punch clashed with each other.
Almost instantly, a sonic boom was heard and the turbulent waves swept away in all directions, covering the entire Beth Street area and even affecting the battlefield where Laffitte and Atheus were fighting.
In the aftermath, many ordinary Marine soldiers who were too close could hardly keep themselves at their original position but they couldn't open their eyes.
"It seems that your Vice-Admiral finally reached my Captain."
Laffitte grabbed the brim of his hat with one hand to keep it from blowing away and looked at the Rear Admiral Atheus with a light smile.
Atheus was covered in blood but none of it belong to him but came from his Marine subordinates. He looked at the huge collision in the distance and slightly narrowed his eyes and coldly said:
"It looks like it, your Captain will be finished soon and you will also die."
"Oh, I'm afraid that's not necessarily true."
Laffitte raised a strange smile on his face and said: "Maybe it's you who will be finished, Mr. Rear Admiral…"
Atheus did not react at Laffitte's words. Instead, he calmly stared at Laffitte and indifferently said, "No, you're wrong."
"You don't know the power of Vice-Admiral Dalmatian at all. If you did, you'll never say anything like that. You'll only feel… Despair! "