【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

Chapter 357 In a desperate situation

Blackbeard endured the pain in his shoulder and immediately stretched out his hand towards Ace. Black smoke came out of his body and his palm turned black in an instant. He opened his hand and grabbed forward, "Dark Water!!"

Ace naturally saw Blackbeard's action, and immediately sprayed flames and turned around to fly behind him, but even so, his body still flew uncontrollably towards Blackbeard's hand.

"Ace!" Lucci immediately rushed towards Blackbeard and swung his knife, trying to stop Blackbeard's attack on Ace, but he didn't expect Blackbeard to be so insidious and actually pulled Ace in front of him.

Lucci's pupils shrank, and he forcibly changed the direction of the attack, slashing downwards diagonally.

This was the opportunity Blackbeard wanted. He swung his other hand without hesitation and punched Lucci's exposed weakness. The fist wrapped in armament color hit Lucci's neck hard.

Almost instantly, a mouthful of blood spurted out of Lucci's mouth, and his body instantly hit the ground. He was knocked backward by the force and finally fell to the ground powerlessly.

"Lucci!!" Ace yelled angrily. Before he could fight back, a huge hand ruthlessly pressed him down. Ace struggled continuously, but his weak body could not give him any help at all. "Let me go! Blackbeard! You bastard! Lucci, are you okay?!"

"Hahaha!" Blackbeard held down the struggling Ace and slammed him to the floor, then grinned at Lucci who was lying on the ground.

Ace's angry curses and Blackbeard's evil laughter vaguely reached his ears. Lucci moved his fingers, weakly grasped the knife in his hand, supported himself with his elbows, and staggered to his feet.

Lucci half-opened his eyes, and watched Ace struggling under Blackbeard's palm with blurred vision. Feeling the severe pain from the back of his neck, he raised his hand slowly, and the almost suffocating pain slowly disappeared. His vision cleared for a moment, but the throbbing pain in his head became more and more frequent, accompanied by an unknown feeling of nausea, which almost overwhelmed him.

"Lucci, I'll ask you one last time, join me!" Blackbeard grinned at Lucci who stood up, "Hahahaha, sooner or later I will become the Pirate King! Rule the whole world!!"

"You're dreaming!" Lucci exhaled, tightened his grip on the knife, flashed behind Blackbeard, and swung the knife down.

Before Blackbeard could turn around, he immediately activated Haki to protect himself and block Lucci's sudden slash, but he was still knocked away by the huge force.

He didn't understand why Lucci could still have such fast speed and strength even though he was injured, and he hardly felt weak during the battle, but he soon understood. Thinking of the wounds on his body when he caught him and his fruit ability disappeared, Blackbeard stood up and laughed triumphantly, but his eyes suddenly darkened. "Vice-captain, your ability is really amazing. Since you are unwilling to join me, then I can only leave your fruit ability to you!"

Lucci didn't respond to Blackbeard, but instead launched a series of slashes at Blackbeard. Ace also jumped up the moment Blackbeard flew out, and at the same time, he set his body on fire. He crossed his index fingers and launched an attack towards Blackbeard together with Lucci, "Cross Fire!!"

Blackbeard felt the attack coming towards him in an instant, and he couldn't help but open his eyes wide and waved out a piece of darkness to block it, but his darkness could only absorb the first slash that attacked him. The subsequent cross fire could not be absorbed in an instant, and his clothes and exposed skin were instantly wrapped in fierce flames.

"Aa ...

"Got it!" The sniper fired his gun frantically, three bullets fired at the same time, cutting through the air, fiercely firing towards Lucci who was swinging his knife at the captain, two bullets aimed at Lucci's knife, and one at his heart!

He had been hiding in the shadows and shooting, but this guy seemed to be able to predict the trajectory of his bullets. Except for the wound on his arm at the beginning, he almost never hit anyone. This was an insult to a powerful sniper! He would not allow this to happen, so when they were at a disadvantage to the captain, he approached the battlefield.

Ace noticed the bullets being fired, but he was too far away. Ace gritted his teeth and made a gun out of his index finger, firing flaming bullets in the direction of the shooting, trying to stop the bullets in the air.

But the fire bullet he shot out was much weaker than usual. Eston panicked and rushed towards Lucci. His fire couldn't stop the bullet. His attack only slightly deviated its original trajectory and couldn't completely stop it. "Lucci, get out of the way!!"

Lucci noticed the shooting behind him, but ignored it and continued to concentrate all his domineering power on the knife, quickly swung the knife towards Blackbeard. His attention was completely focused on Blackbeard who was lying on the ground screaming in pain. This was the last chance, he had to get rid of Blackbeard in an instant.

Blackbeard grinned as he saw Oka's bullet successfully hit Lucci's chest and the knife in his hand, thinking that Lucci would fall down immediately.

The next second, Blackbeard's eyes widened in astonishment, and the blade enlarged in his eyes. Blackbeard looked at the blade that continued to fall in disbelief, and his strength did not even weaken. Blackbeard raised his hand in panic to block in front of him, trying to mobilize Haki to protect himself, but the Haki did not even have time to wrap around his arm before the slash had already fallen.

Blood splattered. The blade, gleaming with a cold light, didn't even pause as it chopped down the sturdy arm in front of it. Blood splattered everywhere. Blackbeard's forearm was instantly cut in two, and a huge gash was also cut in his chest. Large streams of blood gushed out instantly. "Wow! It hurts so much!"

At this moment, Ace, who was a step late, successfully knocked Lucci away. The huge collision made both of them fly out, but they just avoided a lava attack.

Blackbeard screamed in agony as twice as much pain shot through his arms and chest, but the next second even greater pain spread throughout his entire body as he felt his flesh melting in the heat.

Even though he successfully activated his Haki at the last moment to block Lucci's slash, and the Haki on his chest also successfully blocked most of the damage, the sudden magma fist almost melted the remaining arm that was not covered by Haki into bones. The flesh on some parts of his arm even exposed the white bones. Only his Haki and incredible resistance to pain could prevent him from fainting completely.

Ace gasped and stood in front of Lucci, lighting his body on fire, staring vigilantly at the navy who suddenly interrupted the battle. He didn't think the navy would send an admiral to hunt down someone like Teach. Teach posed a far greater threat to pirates than to the World Government. They wouldn't deliberately send an admiral to do such a thing. There was only one possibility, his target was him and Lucci.

"Ace, let's go!" Lucci grabbed Ace's wrist and looked at the navy with a pale face. Like Ace, he instantly understood that this admiral was coming for them, and they no longer had the ability to fight.

Ace's body was already exhausted and he was seriously injured. Their fruit abilities were almost exhausted and they were unable to fight against a navy admiral.