【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

Chapter 356 Combat

"Hahaha, you better surrender to me!!" Blackbeard laughed arrogantly.

“Blackbeard!!” Lucci slowly approached Blackbeard and took a step forward. A powerful domineering aura burst out from him. The powerful domineering aura enveloped Blackbeard and his crew, causing them to waver under the pressure. Even Blackbeard began to sweat. Lucci stared at Blackbeard indifferently and said in a low and dangerous voice, “Don’t think I’ll let you leave alive!”

Feeling the stickiness in the air, Blackbeard looked at Lucci with a distorted face. He actually had such powerful domineering aura, but as long as he was a fruit ability user, he would definitely win!

"Asshole, if you refuse to submit to me, then prepare to be swallowed by the black hole!!" Blackbeard stretched out his hand, fingers grasping the air, and the darkness beneath his feet began to twist and come alive. Then he waved his hand towards the ground, "Dark Point Road!!"

Lucci immediately leaped back, pulling the battle away from the area, and Blackbeard's crew also began to move, catching up, sending seemingly harmless apples flying towards him one by one.

Ace gritted his teeth as he watched the confrontation between Lucci and Blackbeard, angry that he couldn't help. Ace was so immersed in his anger at himself that he didn't notice the shadow behind him. By the time he reacted, he had been taken away from the area.

"Wait! Can you help me untie it!?" Ace hurriedly struggled to stop the black figure, stopping him from continuing to run with him. He couldn't let Lucci fight alone.

He knew that this was a shadow created by Lucci, and he vaguely remembered that it was this kind of figure that saved him in the sea once. Since it could ignore the sea water, the method to unlock it that Lucci mentioned might be this. Ace had a strong expectation in his eyes, and he really hoped that his guess was true.

Shadow tilted his head and stared at the chains on Ace, then reached out his hand after a moment.

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Lucci shuttled through the broken streets, attracting the attention of all Blackbeard's crew members. His observation Haki predicted the trajectory and landing point of each attack. While cutting open the exploding apple, he used the power of the fruit to dodge the poisonous mist and bomb fragments emitted from the exploding apple, as well as the bullets shot from a distance and the sword moves that stabbed from the air from time to time.

Blackbeard frowned as he watched Lucci move like a ghost amidst the onslaught of attacks. Aside from the first two, none of his crew's attacks had managed to harm him. Had he simply grown stronger in the time he hadn't been around? Or had he always been this strong? What a shame! If he had submitted to him, he wouldn't have been so obsessed with handing him over to the World Government in exchange for his position as a Shichibukai warlord.

"Dark Water!!"

Lucci was jumping away from the ruins to avoid the bullet shot from the dark, when suddenly a huge force pulled him away from his original path. Although Lucci had been prepared for Blackbeard's fruit ability, his body was still pulled out a distance uncontrollably and fell heavily to the ground.

"fire punch!!"

A fist-like flame interrupted Blackbeard's movements. Blackbeard was instantly engulfed by the flames and rolled on the ground due to the burns, but at the same time, a black smoke gradually devoured the flames burning on Blackbeard's body.

Before Lucci could stand up from the sudden disappearance of Blackbeard's gravity, the sickly guy in Blackbeard's team who had been throwing apples at him suddenly rushed towards him on horseback with a double-sided sickle in his hand. Lucci immediately released his Conqueror's Haki and directly hit Poison Q and the horse under him. The sudden huge pressure froze the evil smile on Poison Q's face. The sick horse under him could not withstand the pressure and fell to the ground with the sick knight.

Lucci didn't hesitate and immediately swung his sword back. The huge blow, accompanied by cracks in the ground, instantly knocked the sick doctor away, and he fell into a mud pit in the distance and completely lost consciousness.

Very good, one taken care of. Lucci didn't pause and used his shadow shuttle ability to quickly approach the other two Blackbeard crew members. The distance between the three was shortened instantly. The muscular guy didn't even react and was directly pierced by his sword move and lost consciousness instantly.

The guy with the cane sword reacted in time. The moment he approached, he flew into the air and shot at him with a pistol. Lucci dodged sideways, narrowed his eyes, jumped up and launched a series of slashes at Lafayette in the air.

Lafayette looked at the powerful slashes with fear in his eyes. He knew that he could not block them, so he immediately turned around and tried to hide, trying to fly upwards to avoid the dense slashes, but his speed was too slow and he fell from the air in an instant.

Lucci turned his attention back to Blackbeard. Ace's large-scale flames did cause damage to Blackbeard, but Ace's injured and weak body obviously could not exert his true strength. Even the power of the flames he emitted was much weaker.

Thinking of this, Lucci immediately intervened in the battle and slashed at Blackbeard with his sword before he could grab Ace with darkness.

Blackbeard noticed Lucci's attack and immediately stopped controlling the black smoke in his hands, and hardened his arms to block Lucci's straight sword attack.

Ace took this opportunity to jump up, away from Blackbeard's control, and shot flaming bullets at Blackbeard as he jumped. "Fire Gun!"

Blackbeard screamed in pain. He didn't have the chance to control the darkness to absorb Ace's gun attack. He endured the pain and quickly kicked at Lucci.

Lucci immediately put away his knife and jumped back to avoid the attack, but at this moment, Blackbeard used his fruit ability again, and he and Ace's bodies flew uncontrollably towards Blackbeard's hand. At the moment they were about to get close, Lucci and Ace attacked together, and Lucci's knife quickly embedded into Blackbeard's shoulder. He was originally attacking his neck, but Blackbeard moved at the last second to avoid the fatal blow.

At the same time, Ace's fire spear stabbed at Blackbeard, and the fire spear instantly pierced Blackbeard's chest. After the hit, the moment he stopped controlling his dark power, Ace quickly retreated and kept his distance. He already knew Blackbeard's ability thoroughly, so naturally he would not give him the chance to catch him.

"Wow! That hurts!!" Blackbeard shouted in pain, but quickly fought back. He was originally going to grab Ace with his hand, but instead he clenched his fist and hit Lucci's abdomen hard, knocking him out.

"Lucci!!" Ace shouted worriedly as he saw Lucci flying backwards, but he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Lucci quickly steady himself, and focused his attention on Blackbeard again.

Black smoke instantly enveloped the flames on Blackbeard's body and the wound on his shoulder. Blackbeard rolled on the ground in pain. After the black smoke completely devoured the flames, he stood up. The wounds on his body had obviously disappeared, and only the slash left by Lucci remained, but it no longer oozed blood in large quantities.

Ace gritted his teeth and looked at Blackbeard, knowing that he had once again completely absorbed the fire damage he had inflicted with his ability.

After being knocked several meters away, Lucci flipped back, quickly stabilized his body, raised his eyes and frowned at Blackbeard who absorbed the damage again.

The power of Blackbeard's attack was unexpectedly strong, but after that battle he understood the principle of his devil fruit. His attack was most likely to transform the damage absorbed by the black hole, so if they wanted to defeat him, they had to kill him with one blow.

Thinking of this, Lucci spat out the blood in his mouth, felt the extent of the injury in his abdomen, and decisively used the ability of the fruit to transfer again.

After absorbing the damage, Blackbeard naturally would not sit still and wait for death. He knew clearly the power that would be exerted when the two of them fought together, so he had only one way to break through!