One Piece: Building the Roxas Empire

At this time, Darius turned into a bird and flapped his wings and flew towards the mangrove No. 69. In this state, he would not be suspected by anyone. He believed that even if he got close to the Red Earl and Kong, he would not arouse their vigilance.

On the other side, Admiral Zephyr and Vice Admiral Sleet had already passed through the World Government's channel on the Red Earth Continent and successfully returned to the Grand Line. They also understood the tension of the current situation. Marshal Kong was fighting with the Red Earl at Mangrove No. 69, and the Noxus Pirates had even kidnapped the Celestial Dragons. Which of these things is a big deal!

Zephyr and Slit quickly assigned tasks. Zephyr said, "Vice Admiral Slit, you have dealt with the Noxus Pirates several times. This time, I'll leave the mission of rescuing the Celestial Dragons to you. I have to rush to support Marshal Kong as soon as possible. The Marshal is old after all, and I'm worried that he can't handle the Red Earl."

“Leave it to me! Admiral Zephyr.” Slit nodded. He originally wanted to take on the mission of rescuing the Celestial Dragons. This way he could gain the favor of the World Government, and he might even have a chance to become an admiral of the navy in the future!

At this time, on the side of Mangrove No. 69, Darius turned into a flying bird and was watching the fight between Red Earl and Kong. Now Kong was indeed at a disadvantage, and Darius was looking for an opportunity to give him a fatal blow.

"Over there are navy warships. Are the supports coming so soon?" Darius, who was flying in the air, saw the navy warships coming from a distance. He knew that there must be strong men from the navy coming. He had to act as soon as possible, otherwise it would be troublesome when the strong men from the navy came to support him.

Thinking of this, Darius quickly flew down to the battlefield below. Kong and the Red Earl had been fighting for several hours now. Kong's observation Haki was now all concentrated on the Red Earl. It could be said that the two were fighting a life-and-death battle, which was extremely tragic. At this time, there were dozens of sword wounds on Kong's body.

Although Red Earl was also injured, his observation Haki was stronger than Sora's. More importantly, Red Earl was younger than Sora.

However, Kong might not have noticed the bird in the sky flying towards him, but the Red Earl noticed it, and was just a little curious. The battle here was so intense, why did the bird dare to fly towards this side.

However, even though it was a little strange, the Red Earl didn't have the energy to care about it now. After all, he was facing the Admiral Kong and he had used 100% of his strength. He also wanted to defeat the Admiral as soon as possible and then retreat. After all, the longer it dragged on, the more disadvantageous it would be for him.

"It's been dragging on long enough, let's end this quickly! This is my last blow." The Red Earl rushed towards Kong again, ready to defeat him with his strongest blow.

“Come on!” Kong Ye didn’t seem to be afraid at all. He hardened his whole body with Armament Haki and growled, “Steel Bone·Crush…”

A punch and a sword, the attacks of the two collided with each other, and there was a loud bang. The collision of the Conqueror's Haki and the collision of the Armament Haki suddenly tore the sky apart. The red Conqueror's Haki lightning carried a substantial attack. At this time, Darius, who had turned into a bird, also released the state of Mangekyou under the collision of this Haki and restored his original appearance, but now Darius was close enough to Sora.

"What?" For a moment, both Red Earl and Sora were shocked, not understanding how Darius could suddenly appear here, and so close to them. However, Darius had already raised Black Cleaver, with a strong Armament Haki wrapped around it.

"Crippling blow..." The axe chopped down with all his strength. Marshal Kong, who had his back facing Darius, was unable to defend himself at all, let alone dodge, and was hit hard on the back by the axe.

At the same time, when he was hit by Darius' axe, the attack lost balance, and a red sword pressure in front of him fell heavily on Marshal Kong's body. He was hit in the chest and back, blood gushed out, and he fell directly to his knees on the ground.

The Red Earl's face looked extremely ugly. His fight with Kong was interrupted by someone, which made the Red Earl feel humiliated. He stared at Darius with cold eyes. Darius raised a hideous smile, but ignored the Red Earl's anger. He looked at Kong who was kneeling on the ground. His full-strength attack just now had severed his spine. He should be unable to move now. Coupled with the Red Earl's frontal sword, even if Kong was very strong, he would be seriously injured and dying.

"Admiral Kong, do you remember? I told you last year that I would kill you. I never thought that this day would come so soon." As he said that, Darius raised the axe again and aimed at Kong's head.

"Stop..." At this moment, an angry voice came from a distance. It was Admiral Zephyr of the Navy Headquarters, who was jumping towards them with the Moon Step.

He had come to support Marshal Kong as soon as possible, but he did not expect that Marshal Kong would be defeated and is now in danger. It was simply unbelievable, but the most important thing right now was to save Marshal Kong.

"Admiral Zephyr..." The Red Earl looked at the admiral who had arrived. He did not expect that the admiral would come so quickly. At the same time, he was a little curious whether Darius dared to really kill Navy Marshal Kong.

Darius glanced at Zefa, and without any hesitation, he swung the Black Cleaver in his hand quickly.

"Sizzle" Black Cut fell, and in the angry eyes of Zephyr, he directly chopped off the head of the navy's highest authority, Navy Marshal Kong.

Soon, Kong's head rolled to the ground and his headless body fell down completely. The dignified admiral of the navy was killed by a surprise attack in such a frustrating way.

Then, a string of numbers appeared on Kong's body: "Experience +..."

"Damn pirates..." Zephyr was angry. As an admiral of the navy, he witnessed the marshal being killed by pirates with his own eyes. This was undoubtedly a huge shame for the navy. His fist hardened by armament color slammed towards Darius.

Darius was not afraid at all. He wrapped his armament color around Black Cut and chopped at Zephyr with a fierce axe.

"Boom" the axe and the fist collided. Zefa did not have the Conqueror's Haki, but his Armament Haki was unexpectedly powerful. After the two were in a stalemate for a moment, there was a "boom" sound of the air explosion, and the two were bounced away.

Zefa was a little shocked. Although he knew Darius was very powerful, he didn't expect Darius to be able to block his angry punch head-on, and...

Zefa looked down at his palm and saw a bloody mark on the back of his hand. He was just injured by his axe. Although the wound was not serious, it was a great shame for him, who was known as the "Black Wrist", to have his arm injured! Could it be that this guy's Armament Haki had reached the same level as his?

Darius said to the Red Earl beside him jokingly, "Senior Red Earl, I think you have completed your mission this time! Congratulations on successfully killing Admiral Kong. I believe it won't be long before you surpass Golden Lion, Whitebeard and Roger and become the strongest pirate in the world."

The Red Earl, who was not far away, also put the umbrella sword back into the scabbard at this time, and said to Darius in a cold voice: "Humph, young man, you are still too young. You want to divert the trouble? Such despicable means will not work on me. I will remember this account with you, and I will settle it with you later."

After the Red Earl finished speaking, he turned around and left. The battle with Kong just now had already consumed a lot of his physical strength and domineering power. He didn't want to continue fighting with Zefa, the admiral of the navy.

Darius looked at him and turned to leave, but Zefa would not give Darius a chance to escape. He immediately rushed up and punched Darius, saying, "Don't even think about escaping..."

Darius looked at Black Cleaver and immediately raised his axe to chop him down. The fist and the axe collided again, and the two men stepped back. Darius found that Zephyr completely ignored the Red Earl and focused all his attention on him. He said in a cold voice: "Hey, hey, hey, aren't you going to catch him? Navy, he's a pirate with a bounty of more than 35 billion!"

The Red Earl also glanced at Zefa and Darius, and left without hesitation.

Zefa watched the Red Earl leave, and although he was very angry, he did not stop him. Perhaps Zefa knew that he could not stop both Darius and the Red Earl at the same time, so he could only let the Red Earl leave. What's more, he saw with his own eyes that Darius killed Marshal Kong. Although according to the intelligence, it was the Red Earl who attacked the naval base of Mangrove No. 69 and he was the one who took the initiative to provoke Marshal Kong, it was Darius who finally killed Marshal Kong.

Looking at the young pirate in front of him, Zefa's eyes were cold. He knew that even Slit had suffered at the hands of Darius, so he knew how powerful the pirate was. This made Zefa not dare to be careless. He threw his cloak of justice aside and said coldly, "I will arrest the Red Earl sooner or later, but you, the pirate Darius, have committed countless crimes. You have killed countless innocent civilians in the West Sea and the Great Waterway, and almost destroyed the Drum Kingdom. Now you have cruelly killed Marshal Kong. Your crimes are extremely serious. Today, I am risking my reputation as the Navy Admiral 'Black Arm' to arrest you."

Darius's mouth curled up in mockery as he listened. "Why, I killed your marshal, and you just want to arrest me? Shouldn't you just kill me directly?"

Zefa's eyes were cold, and his fists had been hardened by the Armament Haki: "To kill you, the judge of the Judicial Island will have to try you. As a marine, I will only arrest you."

Darius' body gradually transformed into a human-beast form. He was covered with a layer of white snake scales, seven snake heads grew on his shoulders, and eight snake tails appeared behind his buttocks. His height increased to four meters. He grinned and said, "You are indeed worthy of being the 'no-kill' admiral in the navy! But can you really arrest me?"

As they spoke, the two men moved at the same time and rushed towards each other.