Starting from pirates and conquering all worlds

“Ah… ha…—, Wh… Why…”

Feeling the intense pain surging like a tide across his face, Jester was both furious and bewildered.

His multiple-layered barrier magic had clearly succeeded in blocking the opponent's punch.

Why was it that the force of the punch still penetrated through and struck him?

Crocodile, of course, wouldn't tell Jester about what 'Flowing Sakura' was.

The key was that his face was too close to the barrier; if he was a meter or two further away, he probably wouldn't have been hit.

But who told him to lose focus?

Just as Crocodile was about to pursue, Princia's flying kick arrived.

【Bang！！】

This time, Crocodile used only his Haki-reinforced right palm to grab the woman's metal-clad foot.

The surging shockwave instantly vented in all directions, stirring up his ink-black cloak of justice.

“I will defeat you!” Princia said coldly, her eyes firm.

Crocodile smiled, chewing on his cigar, and said, “Woman, what's your name?”

“Hmph, Clover Kingdom's Eleventh Generation Magic Emperor, Princia Choux… Choux-Rabbit.”

When mentioning her surname, the woman seemed a little embarrassed.

“Usagi? Rabbit?!”

Having already eaten the translation konjac, Crocodile was very puzzled by this.

He didn't understand why someone's surname would be Rabbit.

“Noisy! So noisy!”

Princia, angered out of embarrassment, immediately retracted her right leg and swung a heavy punch.

Instantly, a sonic boom erupted, and the wind from the punch howled.

But such a powerful punch was still blocked by Crocodile's left hook.

“Alright, Miss Rabbit, my name is Crocodile, Sand Croc General of the Marine Headquarters.”

As soon as he finished speaking, his eyes turned sharp, and he stopped teasing her.

His right arm instantly transformed into a jet-black sand sword, stabbing towards the woman's abdomen.

This was a direct killing move.

Who knew Princia would disappear again, and at the same time, a three-meter-tall puppet warrior appeared in front of Crocodile, taking the sand sword's blow in place of her.

Looking above.

There, a glowing red international chessboard was slowly rotating.

One puppet soldier after another continuously leaped out.

Their existence wasn't to besiege Crocodile, but to provide Princia with exchange targets.

【Boom！】

The iron fist touched his back, and his body exploded with a bang, turning into a large amount of yellow sand.

The yellow sand then formed a huge fist, knocking the woman down on the spot.

In the blink of an eye.

Princia broke through layers of sonic barriers with her back and crashed straight into a majestic ice mountain below.

Arousing a sky full of snow mist and ice shards, triggering violent tremors and landslides.

“It's finally getting interesting!”

“You otherworldly sand bastard!”

At this time, Jester, not far away, saw traces of blood on the back of his hand after wiping his mouth.

Suddenly, his mental state became unusually agitated, unable to distinguish whether it was excitement or anger.

But as he roared to the sky, a large amount of purple crystals emerged around him.

Their numbers were so great that they formed more than a dozen thick, long tentacles.

They slammed towards Crocodile's location all at once.

Such an amazing scene attracted the attention of many Magic Emperors and Giant Vice Admirals in the midst of battle.

Seeing this, Crocodile sneered, “Hmph, finally getting serious?”

The previous battles were purely warm-up exercises for a General-level combatant.

Now it could be considered the real start.

Countless amounts of yellow sand and gale-force winds rapidly formed between heaven and earth.

Before long, this area became dark and gloomy, with fierce sandstorms howling everywhere.

【Rumble — — — — — — 】

The next moment.

The large-scale barrier magic activated by Jester and the sandstorm awakened domain activated by Crocodile.

Collided violently together.

At the same time.

Bare-chested Barrett was also fiercely battling with the 'Twenty-Seventh Generation Magic Emperor' Conrad and the 'Twentieth Generation Magic Emperor' Edward.

Edward's ice wedge magic was mainly the same few things.

The 'Guardian of the Ice Hell World' was responsible for frontal obstruction.

The 'Doomsday Martyr' was responsible for carrying him at high speed while launching 'Frost Beams' to harass.

The 'Ice Hell World Confessional' was responsible for maintaining a low-temperature environment.

Although it was useless against Barrett.

It was still a considerable negative impact on the Giant Vice Admirals present.

Fortunately, they were protected by the Holy Light energy in the Righteous Angel form.

Otherwise, they would probably have been frozen into giant ice sculptures.

As for the effect on the other Magic Emperors.

Because this was Edward's magic domain.

Therefore, he could provide a certain amplification effect to those Magic Emperors who also used ice attribute magic without causing interference to his own side.

Just like Yuno's magic domain, Star Paradise, could automatically distinguish between friend and foe according to his will and produce different effects.

Therefore, the magic domains activated by other Magic Emperors were also the same.

The effects and states beneficial to one's own side were almost entirely shared.

The effects and states unfavorable to one's own side were only targeted at the Giant Vice Admirals.

It could only be said that magic was such a magical thing.

Therefore, despite the Giant Vice Admirals having a great advantage in numbers.

The Magic Emperors, relying on the 'Triumph' fortress and the cooperation of magic between each other.

Were still able to resist the former's offensive with some difficulty for the time being.

Conrad noticed Barrett's incredibly powerful close-quarters combat ability.

Therefore, he didn't plan to clash head-on with him.

He continuously cast various magic 'stolen' to either dodge attacks or create distance.

At the same time, he allowed streams of magic gates from all directions to shoot various attack magic at Barrett.

However, what was different from before was.

These magics would combine with each other along the way to form even more powerful composite magic.

The power of which was so great that even Barrett would experience a slight pause in his movements when colliding with it.

This was already very impressive!

Those Generals with weaker Haki than him would probably be blasted back a meter or two.

“I have always had a question in my heart, could you please answer it for me?”

Conrad said calmly while fighting Barrett.

But Barrett had no interest in communicating, throwing his whole heart into the battle.

Transforming into an extremely swift silver lightning shadow, he flew at high speed through the crisscrossing magical offensives.

From time to time, he would smash a huge ice man out of the way with a punch.

Conrad didn't seem to care and continued to ask, “I can understand your idea of conquering the world.”

“But I am puzzled by the method of rule that Julius spoke of.”

“Why is it enslaving the entire population? It doesn't seem like the best choice at all.”

“Clearly, a gentler method of rule would reduce our resistance.”

“Is it really because you are used to being overbearing?”

His words clearly showed no doubt about Julius's words.

Because in Conrad's mind, Julius, although laughably naive.

Never lied and would never joke about the lives of the people.

So since he said that the World Government would enslave the entire population and rule by force.

That must be the truth.

Of course.

Conrad didn't really care how the people would fare; in fact, his plan was even more cruel than enslavement.

He just didn't understand why the World Government would do this?

“Hmm?”

Douglas Barrett raised an eyebrow after hearing this guy's words.

The World Government enslaving the entire population?

What nonsense was this?

Oh—, so that was it, another world that had been fooled into stupidity.

But what did that have to do with him?

He wanted to fight, and the army under his command needed military achievements, so it was best to continue fighting!

Barrett curled the corners of his mouth, revealing a playful sneer, and replied casually:

“Ah, that's right, the World Government is very overbearing and doesn't allow any world to resist!”

Anyway, he didn't lie.