One Piece: Building the Roxas Empire

Darius knew nothing about Slit's subtle calculations. At this moment, he saw this as a godsend opportunity and wanted to permanently bring this powerful navy under his command. Although Slit was not an admiral, he was also a substitute for the admiral, and was infinitely close to the admiral of the navy. His strength was strong enough to make it difficult for Darius to defeat him even if he activated the demon sublimation. However, Darius was confident that under the demon sublimation, even if he slowly grinded him, he could kill him.

What's more, the black spear that has always been in Darius's equipment bar is something that can sign a soul contract with the dead. As long as he kills Slit and then signs a soul contract with him to resurrect him, Slit will immediately become his loyal servant.

Darius was very clear about the value of intelligence. If he could plant a high-ranking spy like Slit in the navy, it would be like planting a pair of eyes that could see through the navy's movements in his intelligence network. Future operations would undoubtedly be more powerful and more handy.

However, reality extinguished his beautiful vision like cold water. Slit, the brave man who seemed willing to sacrifice himself to cover the navy, did not hesitate to transform into a beast after a brief confrontation with Darius, and fled the battlefield at an astonishing speed. This scene made Darius furious.

"Asshole, why are you running? Come and fight me, Slit." Darius roared and chased after him, but Slit didn't reply. The speed of his beastly form was beyond his reach.

In anger, Darius turned his anger to the fleeing navy soldiers. In his opinion, these soldiers were not as fast as Slit, and they became the targets of his anger. He declared coldly: "Since you want to escape, I will get rid of these navy soldiers first. If you want to stop me, just try!" After that, he turned around and launched a fierce attack on the deserters like a demon in the shadows.

Countless shadow demons emerged under his control, greedily devouring the lives of the navy soldiers, trying to force Slit to change his mind. But Slit seemed to ignore them, not only did he not slow down, but he rushed forward even faster, quickly fleeing the battlefield, without any intention of looking back.

Originally thinking that the sound of the retreat order was the dawn of survival, the navy soldiers saw Darius coming towards them and cried out in despair: "No! Vice Admiral Slit, save us!" "Damn it! Why didn't Vice Admiral Slit stop him?"

At the same time, the members of the Roxas Pirates saw Darius approaching from afar. The shadow demon that followed him like a shadow was like the mouth of the abyss, swallowing up all the light. They shouted in horror: "Lord Darius, wait a minute, we are still here!" "Idiot, don't get close to the captain, those shadows will devour your life, run away!"

When Darius was slaughtering the navy wantonly, he looked back and was surprised to find that Slit had not shown up to stop him. This made him suspicious: Could it be that this guy had really abandoned the army and fled? So determined?

Looking back, Slit had once used his body to block his own Yamata cannon, vowing to defend the navy to the death, but now when he heard about the retreat, he ran faster than anyone else!

"Asshole! The navy should retreat separately! Don't gather together." Slit's escape made his adjutant Philip angry and helpless. He shouted the order and then quickened his pace of escape. Knowing that even Slit was no match for Darius, he had no chance of winning. He could only protect himself by abandoning part of the navy.

Darius was furious when he saw the navy scattering and fleeing for their lives, but he would never miss the opportunity to strike hard at the downfall.

"Roxas Pirates, listen up, don't let them escape, destroy the navy!" he shouted sternly.

"Yes!" The pirates responded excitedly one by one. They were usually hunted by the navy, but now they had a chance to fight back. Such an opportunity was rare. How could they not be excited?

When Darius's eyes locked on Philip, his expression instantly became solemn. He was not completely ignorant of this rear admiral of the Navy Headquarters. It was said that Philip had once held the rank of vice admiral, but due to a major mistake, he was unfortunately demoted to rear admiral. Despite this, his extraordinary strength should not be underestimated. Even when Ashen and Red Chain Snake, the two strongest officers under his command, joined forces, they could only draw with him, which showed how unfathomable he was.

Seeing that Slit had taken the opportunity to escape, Darius thought to himself and immediately locked onto his next target, Philip. He quickly adjusted his posture, like a venomous snake ready to strike, spewing out hot flames from its mouth, forcing Philip to stop his escape. It was this moment of pause that gave Darius an excellent opportunity to pursue.

"Hmph, Navy, where do you want to escape to?" There was unquestionable majesty in Darius' voice. He pressed forward step by step and stopped Philip.

Faced with this sudden sense of oppression, Philip's face instantly turned gloomy. He knew very well that if he chose to retreat at this moment, not only would he lose face, but it would also seriously undermine the morale of the navy. He glared at Darius, and his heart was full of contempt and anger for Slit's desertion. Even though they were comrades-in-arms, he could not tolerate such cowardly behavior.

However, Philip was no pushover. His speed was not as fast as Darius's, and running away blindly and exposing his back to the enemy was not a good idea. The only way was to fight back, perhaps there would be a glimmer of hope.

Driven by anger and determination, he resolutely exerted the power of his devil fruit and instantly transformed into a huge black gorilla, which was exactly the chimpanzee form of the Man-Ape Fruit he possessed. Among the animal-type devil fruits, the Man-Ape Fruit is not the top one, but its unique advantage is that it can maintain a high degree of flexibility and combat effectiveness in both the beast form and the human-beast form, which is completely different from the pure claws and teeth attack method of Slit's cat-cat fruit beast form.

"Damn it! Don't underestimate me!" Philip roared, emitting a strong fighting spirit, ready to engage in a life-and-death duel with Darius.

Darius looked at the rear admiral, who was about forty years old, younger than Slit, and said contemptuously: "Humph, do you think your strength can match Slit's?"

"Hmph, even if I'm not as good as Lieutenant General Sleet, I still have my own justice." Philip also understood the gap between himself and Darius. He didn't dare to have any reservations and directly killed Darius, hoping to take the opportunity to escape.

Darius was not afraid at all. He had already let Sleet run away today. The main reason was that this guy ran too fast. After using the beast form, he ran on four legs and he could not catch up with him at all. However, he would never let Philip escape.

The two men quickly started fighting. Philip's strength was estimated to be similar to that of Lieutenant General Bai, but it was far inferior to Lieutenant General Sleet. After only a few minutes of fighting, Major General Philip showed signs of fatigue.

"Ha ha ha, is that all that's missing?" Darius looked at Philip, who was extremely exhausted, with a sinister smile on his face. Without giving him a chance to breathe, Darius rushed up again and chopped him down with an axe.

Philip raised his saber and fought back with difficulty. He had already consumed a lot of his domineering energy when facing Red Chain Snake and Ashen on the battlefield. Now he was facing the shadow demons summoned by Darius. These shadow demons were omnipresent and penetrated Philip's body again and again, making him extremely weak.

Two more shadow demons passed through Philip's body, and Philip suddenly felt weak again. Darius roared and chopped down fiercely with an axe, splitting Philip in two, and his body fell heavily to the ground.

"Uh, puff..." At this time, Philip could no longer speak. His body was completely cut off from the left shoulder to the right abdomen. There was no way to survive at all. Philip only felt that his eyes were getting darker and darker, and his pupils began to quickly dilate. The surrounding shadow demons also passed through Philip's body and quickly absorbed his remaining vitality. Philip, who had no way to survive, lost his breath completely after being sucked away by the shadow demons for several waves, and passed away.

Suddenly, the words "Experience Value +1298" appeared above Philip's body.

At this time, within the range of Darius, there are no navy or pirates within a radius of 500 meters. The pirates are now chasing the navy, but the demon sublimation did not disappear immediately. Instead, after about ten seconds, after a burst of energy explosion with Darius as the center, all the shadow demons completely disappeared. This also means that there are no humans within a radius of 500 meters.

"Okay, let's try the power of the black spear next!" Darius muttered to himself. It has been six years since he received the call of destiny, but he has never bound anyone because the people in Boro City before were too weak and it was not worth it for him to use the black spear on them.

Moreover, Darius had set his sights on the navy from the beginning. It can only be said that Slit ran too fast, otherwise he would definitely choose to sign a soul contract with him.

Darius has now used the black spear to bind Philip's soul. Soon, Darius saw a blue soul on Philip's body. When the black spear was inserted into Philip's body, it began to gradually merge into Philip's body. The body that was originally split in half by an axe, after the black spear melted, began to stick his body together again, and began to help him recover from his injuries.

This kind of soul contract was the first time Darius used it, so he was very curious whether there would be any soul spells or something like that next.

After all, there is still some gap between reality and the game, and it was the first time Darius used the soul contract with the black spear, so he didn't know what would happen and could only stand there and wait.