One Piece: Obtaining the Black Dragon King Fruit at the Start

Chapter 145 Attack of Whitebeard and Sakazuki

The collision between Murakumogiri and the white energy beam generated an extremely powerful shockwave. This shockwave, like a ferocious beast, continuously pounded against the ice on the surface.

Under this powerful force, the ice shattered and evaporated, turning into a white mist that permeated the entire battlefield.

Time passed slowly amidst this fierce battle. After an unknown amount of time, the white energy pillar in the sky was finally completely obliterated by Whitebeard's indomitable will and powerful strength.

At this moment, Whitebeard was already exhausted. His legs gave way, and he collapsed onto a piece of ice.

"That was incredibly dangerous. If we hadn't fought with all our might, the Whitebeard Pirates would probably have been wiped out today." Whitebeard felt both angry and relieved.

Looking at the constantly breaking ice around him, he knew that he could not stay here any longer. So, he forced his exhausted body to jump step by step onto the broken stones on the ice and desperately fled into the distance.

Meanwhile, Minos, the Black Dragon King in the sky, roared in anticipation of the system notification sound, imagining the scene of Whitebeard and the others being annihilated.

However, as time passed, the system notification tone failed to appear.

This greatly disappointed him. He opened his dragon mouth wide in a ferocious grin and roared, "Old white-bearded bastard, you're lucky today! Once I break through to the King level, it will be your death day!"

Black Dragon King Minos never expected that Whitebeard, who had been weakened by numerous battles, would still possess such power to withstand his immense breath attack, which filled him with anger and resentment.

After a moment of silence, Black Dragon King Minos activated his Observation Haki once more, sweeping across the icy battlefield below like fine threads, attempting to find traces of Aokiji and Sakazuki.

At this moment, on the icy battlefield below, Sakazuki and Aokiji were retreating towards the warship.

Sakazuki looked at Aokiji beside him, a sense of unfamiliarity welling up inside him. "When did Aokiji become so powerful? He's even almost as strong as me now."

In his mind, Aokiji had always been far inferior to him, but the current situation forced him to re-evaluate the person in front of him who he once considered inferior to himself.

Thinking of this, Sakazuki clenched his fists tightly, his heart filled with resentment and dissatisfaction.

"Even if Minos and Whitebeard were stronger than me, I would accept it. But Aokiji, who is a year younger than me and lazy all day long, is now on par with me!" He gritted his teeth inwardly.

Finally, Sakazuki stopped, his gaze sharp as he stared intently at Aokiji beside him, and asked in a deep voice, "Aokiji, that's your Devil Fruit awakening, isn't it!"

Aokiji, who was still annoyed that his attack had been easily neutralized by Whitebeard, was temporarily distracted by Sakazuki's words.

He glanced at Sakazuki, whose face was gloomy, and knew that this guy wouldn't give up until he got an answer.

Aokiji gave Sakazuki a deep look, his gaze carrying a hint of coldness, and slowly said, "That's right, that's Devil Fruit Awakening."

Sakazuki felt a little relieved upon hearing this answer, but he felt an overwhelming sense of resentment.

"I've worked so hard for so long and barely reached this level. Why can that lazy guy Aokiji do it so easily?"

Sakazuki grew angrier the more he thought about it, but he still suppressed his emotions, took a deep breath, and continued to look at Aokiji, asking, "When did you awaken?"

Sakazuki's relentless questioning caused Aokiji to frown deeply. He felt that Sakazuki was pushing his luck, as if he were someone easy to talk to.

Thinking of this, Aokiji looked coldly at Sakazuki and said in an unfriendly tone, "This doesn't seem to be your business!"

As soon as Aokiji said those words, the already cold air seemed to drop to freezing point, the surrounding temperature plummeted, and the atmosphere became even more tense.

Sakazuki and Aokiji remained locked in a stalemate, neither speaking.

After a long while, Sakazuki gave Aokiji a cold look and uttered two words indifferently: "Let's go!"

After saying that, he ignored whether Aokiji followed or not, and quickly turned and walked towards the warship.

Aokiji watched Sakazuki's departing figure, his gaze filled with solemnity.

In just that brief exchange, he could clearly sense that Sakazuki's attitude towards him had become even colder, and the existing conflict between the two seemed to have become even more acute at this moment.

"What a nuisance!" Aokiji sighed helplessly, stopped thinking about it, and hurriedly ran towards the warship.

Meanwhile, Minos, the Black Dragon King in the sky, finally located Sakazuki and Aokiji using his Observation Haki.

A deep roar came from his ferocious dragon mouth: "Finally found it!"

Then, it opened its massive dragon mouth again, and a blinding white light instantly gathered from the depths of its throat. It roared viciously, "Take this! Black Dragon's Roar!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a beam of blazing white energy shot out from the sky like lightning towards Aokiji and Sakazuki.

On the ground, Sakazuki and Aokiji, who were almost on the warship, suddenly felt a burning pain from above, as if a ball of fire was burning above their heads.

The two were startled and quickly looked up at the sky.

All I saw was…

In the sky, another enormous white beam of energy was hurtling straight toward them with overwhelming force.

As the beam of light drew closer, the intense heat intensified, as if the entire space was about to be ignited by this terrifying energy.

Seeing the powerful white beam of energy about to reach him, Sakazuki roared angrily, "This must have been done by that brat Minos! No one but him would do such a despicable thing!"

Looking at the somewhat distraught Sakazuki in front of him, Aokiji shook his head helplessly and said, "At this moment, we should be focusing on blocking that white energy beam as soon as possible, instead of getting hung up on who did it."

He paused, his gaze fixed intently on Sakazuki, and slowly said, "We must intercept them as soon as possible, or our warships will be destroyed."

Hearing Aokiji's words, Sakazuki gradually calmed down. He looked at Aokiji and snorted coldly, "I can handle this alone. You don't need to interfere!"

"Huh?" Upon hearing this, Aokiji's expression froze instantly, and a surge of anger welled up inside him.

"Even at this point, Sakazuki is still thinking about showing off by himself, disregarding the bigger picture!"

He thought to himself that, in his opinion, the best option was for the two of them to work together to ensure the warship's integrity.

Thinking this, Aokiji looked coldly at Sakazuki and said calmly, "Whatever!" After saying that, he stepped back to the side, looking coldly at Sakazuki, ready to watch his "performance".

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P.S.:(◣_◢)