Chapter 23: A flying sword strike, and a fist of lava.
Sakazuki watched the Oro-Jackson come closer and closer, his face serious, more calm than even Commodore Baruch's.
"Everyone prepare for battle, even if the other side is Roger's Pirates, there is no way we can lose without a fight."
The Roger Pirates had not yet reached the level of shaking the sea, so even the rookie Sakazuki was not afraid in this situation, but rather seethed with fighting spirit.
Not only Sakazuki, but Vitesse and the rest, they were all just as ignorant of Roger's pirates as Sakazuki, only two knew more, Baruch and John, whose hearts were already skipping a beat.
"It's really a case where not knowing is good."
Baruch looked at the morale of the recruits and felt strong emotions in his heart, these people really didn't know the fear of the Roger Pirates, but he knew that all of them together would not be enough to kill the Roger Pirates, only Garp could save them today.
After about ten minutes, the two sides had closed within a few hundred meters, and Sakazuki and the others, who had long been at the ready, set up their cannonballs and fired at the Oro-Jackson pursuing them.
"Explosion..."
Cannons rumbled on both sides, and shells fired rapidly at each other's ships. The shells fired by the warship could not hit the Oro-Jackson, but the Roger Pirates' shells hit the warship several times.
"The distance is still not enough."
Sakazuki looked at Oro-Jackson, who was still some distance away, with a solemn expression, he was ready to use his ability to attack the other side, but due to the distance, there was not much confidence, so he never launched it. .
John's will was on all this time, and suddenly his face changed dramatically, and he shouted "Beware!".
As soon as the words left his mouth, he saw an amazing blue blade rising into the sky and swiftly flying towards the warship, a flying strike that only a top-level great swordsman could use.
The slash split the sea water and was rapidly approaching, Jon was the first to notice him, and at his loud cry, the others also braced themselves, but when they actually saw the slashing blade's mane approaching, they were still terrified.
"Lock him down, we can't let the warship be destroyed."
If this strike hits a warship, it will definitely cut through it." Sakazuki let out an explosive cry and took the lead.
"Magma Fist!"
A huge fist of lava burst out and crashed into the flying axe, and the others did the same, blocking it with all their might.
All of them managed to block the slashing blade before it was about to strike at the warship.
"Is the flying slash at the level of a great swordsman really so terrible that it reaches such strength?"
John sucked in cold air, the slash just stunned him, even though he knew about the gap between himself and the main force of the ocean, he never thought that the gap would be so big, if he was alone, he definitely would not be able to withstand this blow just now, and could only use his will of observation to evade him.
"Accelerate, speed up, the other side is not something we can handle, Vice Admiral Garp will be arriving soon, we must hold out."
Baruch loudly motivated the crowd, they didn't even see the other side, the flying slash almost cut through the warship, any not stupid person could see the difference between the two sides.
Caffrey piloted the warship with a stoic expression, he was considered relatively calm and piloted the ship with all his heart and soul, it was just that the speed of the warship was built into him, he reached top speed and now he could only steer the ship to dodge an enemy attack .
Roger put the sword away in his hand and laughed out loud, "In order to be able to block my slashing attack, you seem to have two brilliant abilities."
Although he did not use his full strength in a slashing attack, this blow was extremely powerful for a strong man of his level, and the fact that the people on the warship were able to block it showed that there were still capable people on the ship.
Reilly asked, "Are you trying to kill them all?"
"Right now we're a thorn in the navy's ass anyway, so destroying a few of their warships would be a way to pay them back."
Skoper Gaban, another of Roger's pirates, stepped forward.
"Gaban is right, we are fighting not only with the fleet, but also with them."
"I'll do that too."
A man with a sniper rifle could be seen raising a weapon and aiming it at the warship in front of him with an "explosion".
The mast on top of the warship with the naval ensign on it crashed down, startling John and the other people on top of the warship.
"Broke the mast with one shot, what a strong sniper."
John was startled by the sight of the broken mast, his will of observation not even fully grasping the trajectory of the shot.
"The people on that ship are all monsters, it's not something we can handle, why is Garp so unreliable, hasn't support come in yet?"
There was anxiety in John's heart, judging by the current situation. The Roger Pirates clearly didn't want to let them go, and Garp hadn't come with support yet, if they continued like this, they would soon be caught up.
"Sakazuki, we must do our best to delay them and wait for Vice Admiral Garp's support."
Sakazuki nodded, "Understood."
On top of this warship, there were not many people with ranged attack abilities, not to mention that they were Roger Pirates, normal attacks would be completely ineffective against them, so the magma fruit ability was the best for those who could delay them Now.
Both of Sakazuki's arms turned into lava, at this point he was not yet the fleet admiral he would become decades later, and had not yet fully developed the Magma Fruit, and naturally Ryusei Kazan, the final move, had not yet been completed.
However, Ryusei Kazan had not yet been completed, but based on the characteristics of the great magma fist, he was still learning how to erupt magma.
Sakazuki's arms that turned into lava can be seen targeting the Pirate Roger's position and throwing out a fist of lava that quickly fired in the direction of the pirate ship.
But, unfortunately, the fist of lava did not hit the pirate ship, but fell into the sea when it was at some distance from it, apparently failing.
Face unchanged, Sakazuki continued to use his ability, again spewing out a fist of lava, this time shooting at a long distance, but still at some distance from the pirate ship.
The successive setbacks didn't dampen Sakazuki's mood, and he soon got back into his groove, spewing a continuous stream of lava punches from both hands, exactly blowing up Oro-Jackson.
"That guy, what a monster."
John, standing next to Sakazuki, watched Sakazuki's movements from start to finish, clearly seeing Sakazuki's progression from rust to mastery in less than a minute before and after, and he could guarantee that Sakazuki hadn't spewing lava so quickly before.
In the blink of an eye, a dozen lava blasts crashed with precision in front of Oro-Jackson, and by the sound of it, they were far more powerful than a cannonball's explosion.
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