One Piece: Building the Roxas Empire

After he finished speaking, Slit rushed up directly. After using the devil fruit, all the attributes of Slit's body were enhanced several times. His strength was obviously more than one level stronger than before, and had far surpassed the category of vice admiral of the navy.

A punch came at him, and Darius quickly raised Black Cleaver to block it. The attack with armed color domineering was directed at Black Cleaver's axe, and Darius was immediately knocked out by the punch. His feet stepped on the ground, plowing two deep grooves on the ground.

"So fast, so powerful..." Darius was shocked, but after Darius plowed a trail of hundreds of meters on the ground and barely stopped, Slit rushed over again, grinning, "You blocked it well, but how many times can you block it!"

Another powerful blow came down. Darius defended again and was knocked out again. Then he leaned back and did a dozen backflips to relieve the impact. He looked ahead with a serious face, watching Slit jump into the air, and growled, "Stormfoot Tiger..."

Darius looked at the vacuum slash that was flying towards him, and it actually formed the shape of a tiger's head. He chopped it down fiercely with the Black Cut in his hand.

The collision of Black Cleaver and Vacuum Cleave immediately forced Darius to take several steps back. The veins on his arms were bulging. “Hah…”

After a roar, an axe split the Vacuum Slash in half. The Vacuum Slash, which was split into two halves, fell to the ground, and two slash marks as long as a hundred meters appeared on the ground in an instant.

At the moment when the vacuum slash was broken, Slit had already arrived in front of Darius and kicked him hard in the face. Darius immediately started bleeding from his mouth and nose. He was kicked hundreds of meters away and hit the house in front hard.

"Lord Darius..." "Captain..." The members of the Roxas Pirates were shocked when they saw this scene. They were already shocked when Darius was suppressed before, and now seeing Darius being knocked out, it was even more unbelievable.

The red light of observation Haki appeared in Slit's eyes again, and he jumped into the air: "Rasukyuu: Ranbu..."

A series of vacuum slashes kicked towards the broken house, directly slashing and smashing the already collapsed house.

After the attack, Slit landed from the air, folded his arms across his chest, looking confident. The next second, a burst of energy cannon composed of fire, hurricane and lightning suddenly erupted from the house that had been cut into ruins by "Storm Kick·Ranwu" and shot towards Slit.

"Hmph, just a trifle trick, Storm Kick·Slash..." He kicked out another vacuum slash, which collided with the energy cannon and exploded instantly, with streams of hot air spreading towards the surroundings.

Darius crawled out from the ruins at this time. He was in a very miserable state. Not only was he bleeding from his mouth and nose, but his body was also covered with many wounds from the Storm Kick: Dance. Even his own snake scales could not block the sharp blow.

"Damn, the gap between lieutenant generals is too big!" Darius's face looked very ugly. The opponent's strength was beyond his imagination. Whether it was strength or speed, the opponent was stronger than him. The same was true for Haki, especially Observation Haki. There was a completely qualitative difference. Slit's Observation Haki obviously belonged to the category of high-level Observation Haki. All his attacks and defenses were within the opponent's prediction, and the timing of the opponent's arrival could be said to be when Darius was the weakest.

Now his Demonic Sublimation still has more than 20 days of cooldown time, and he had just used Samsara Despair two days ago. If he had Demonic Sublimation, Darius should have a chance to kill Slit with this move, but now this skill is on cooldown.

Slit folded his arms across his chest and said coldly, "You should understand that you can't beat me with your strength. Your mythical beast ability is indeed very strong, but it's only the devil fruit that is strong, not you. If you surrender now, I can still spare your life. Otherwise, I will kill you if you continue."

"Kill me? Ha, stop joking." Darius laughed when he heard it. No matter how unfavorable the situation was, he could not be killed. The ability of Yamata no Orochi, in addition to the eight elemental abilities, also gave him eight lives. What's more, he also had the skill "Destiny" that allowed him to teleport away at any time. If someone wanted to kill him, even the admiral of the navy would not be able to do so.

Slit frowned as he listened, not understanding where the other party got such confidence from. Could it be that he had some trump card? Was it the ability to summon some strange black shadows? It was said that Lieutenant General Bai seemed to have died from this move.

"Calm down, calm down. I have destiny. I can run away at any time. There is no need to worry. The worst case scenario is retreat. Moreover, there happens to be a strong man who is proficient in Observation Haki. He is undoubtedly the best whetstone for me. In the past few years in Boro City, although the amount of Haki has increased a lot, I have never touched the high-level Observation Haki and high-level Armament Haki. If I can also achieve the level of Observation Haki to foresee the future, then I can definitely beat him. What's more, I am only more than 2,000 experience points away from upgrading..."

Thinking of this, Darius glanced at the surrounding navy. Now the Roxas Pirates were at a complete disadvantage, and A Shen and the others had not returned yet, or even if they came back, it would not make much sense. Their strength was too weak. Even if they came back, they could only deal with some other navy at most. Facing Slit, they could not help Darius much. If he wanted to defeat Slit, he had to rely on himself.

After taking a deep breath, Darius calmed down and decided to give it a try. After all, the worst case scenario was to give up the Roxas Pirates. However, it took him several years to build the Roxas Pirates, and Darius was unwilling to give up until the last critical moment.

"Phantom..." Soon, Darius used the skill 'Phantom' to create a phantom clone.

"Clone?" Slit's face became a little serious when he saw another Darius suddenly appear.

"There are actually two Lord Darius." "Is this also the ability of the Yamata no Orochi Fruit?" "Great, Lord Darius does have a trump card. I told you! Lord Darius is invincible." The pirates were all excited at once.

"Hmph, what can one more clone do?" Slit did not take Darius' clone seriously.

A sinister smile appeared on Darius's lips, and the phantom clone quickly ran backwards. Sleet frowned, his observation Haki had been locked on Darius, so he was very sure that the Darius in front of him was the real one, and the one just now was just a clone, because he could feel that the aura of the one who just ran away was much weaker than the Darius in front of him.

"What exactly do you want to do?" Slit asked curiously.

"Of course we have to kill the rest of the navy. After all, it seems that we can't defeat the navy relying on those useless troops alone." Darius said with a playful look.

Slit snorted coldly and focused all his attention on Darius.

At this time, the phantom clone that had already run away also directly entered the human-beast form of the Yamata no Orochi, and began to release various elemental attacks from the snake's mouth, and it did not distinguish between friend and foe at all.

"Wait a minute, Lord Darius, we are your subordinates!" "Idiot, don't enter Lord Darius' attack range!" "No, this seems to be Lord Darius' clone." "No matter what, stay away from Lord Darius' clone." After the pirates saw Darius transform into a human-beast form, they began to attack indiscriminately, or rather, they attacked the navy, which would only accidentally hurt the surrounding pirates.

The pirates could choose to retreat, but the navy had no choice. Their mission was to arrest the pirates. At this time, Slit's adjutant, Major General Philip, drew the sword at his waist and said, "It's just a clone, let me deal with it!"

But the order Darius gave to the phantom clone was to kill as many navy as possible and gain more experience points. So after fighting with Major General Philip for a while, the phantom clone found that Philip was very strong and not so easy to deal with, so he turned around to deal with the rest of the navy.

Back on the main battlefield, the battle between Darius and Sleet has lasted for half an hour. After transforming into the tiger form of the Cat-Cat Fruit, Sleet's strength has increased significantly. Before he used the devil fruit, Darius could still fight him, but now that the opponent has used the devil fruit, his speed and strength have crushed Darius, putting Darius at an absolute disadvantage.

"Six-style secret technique. Six Kings Spear..." A terrifying shock wave penetrated the body of Darius. A large amount of blood spurted out of Darius' mouth. He flew backwards with a bang and slid on the ground for more than ten meters.

"Cough, cough, cough..." Darius covered his chest and forced himself to kneel on the ground. He felt that his internal organs had suffered great damage from the blow just now. Then, Darius wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and stood up again.

"You kid, you're really tough!" Seeing Darius stand up again, Sleet was a little surprised, and he had to admire Darius's willpower and ability to withstand beatings. In just a short while, Darius had suffered a lot of injuries, and there were several holes on his body poked by the finger gun.

But every time he was defeated, Darius was able to stand up very tenaciously. This is also a characteristic of animal-type ability users, which is to be able to withstand attacks.

Of course, Darius has another advantage, that is his talent Wind of Resurrection and equipment Steel of the Heart. Steel of the Heart gives him a large amount of health, and Wind of Resurrection allows him to recover a certain amount of blood after being injured, which also increases Darius's endurance. Although the feeling of being beaten is indeed very uncomfortable, it is not easy to defeat him easily.

"Crippling blow..." He swung the axe again, cutting a deep groove on the ground in front of him.

"It's useless, you can't beat me, just give up!" After dodging the attack, Sleet continued to talk trash and launch mental attacks on Darius.

"Huff, ha ha ha, you talk so much fucking nonsense!" Darius grinned. Although he was injured and the blood in his body began to boil, Darius forced himself to stay calm because he understood that if he wanted to improve his Observation Haki, he had to stay calm, and the opponent in front of him was a perfect opponent.