Chapter 214 - Bounty hunter!

Elsewhere on the battlefield…

Elene and Kuzan were engaged in a fight against 7 people in marine's uniform.

Elene and Kuzan though knew that these 7 people were not humans… they were diávolois… of that they were sure.

And the best thing to do when fighting against diávoloi is to attack them with everything you have from the start, and take them down before they transform…

And that was what Elene and her fellow crewmate Kuzan had tried to do…

"There is one more of them, but he is heading up the castle, most likely to sneak attack Ian…" Elene told Kuzan as they both furrowed their brows…

While they were strong… they were not strong enough to take down multiple enemies at their same level…

Plus they also had to worry about any one of them injuring their nearby allies…

Any short distraction would have their enemies run and join the fight upwards…

Originally they were 10 people in the room when Elene and Kuzan arrived, they both at that moment attacked with their strongest attacks not bothering to think on it anymore…

Kuzan directly using his strongest trump card he like all other admirals had.

Aokiji's trump card was related to him freezing everything in the surrounding area which he chooses, and in that area, the time would start to move slower…

He could not freeze time after all… not yet at least…

Using this trump card would usually leave him weak and unable to use his devil fruit ability for a while… this was what happens to him every time he uses it…

But this Kuzan was different… he had an upgrade courtesy of Ian, as such his ability became more powerful and had more range than before… with the side effects being removed…

Kuzan froze the room from which they felt their enemies with this ability, and then attacked with huge Haki infused ice pillars that started descending on the room…

Elene not falling behind used her strongest ability with which she had killed big mom earlier.

The area that the room was in was engulfed in shadows, and the gravity inside started to tear apart anyone who was trapped… the room was soon deleted from existence along with the spears of ice that were penetrating it, which left only a bit of the ice spears outside the area.

And this led to the current events…

Where Elene sensed that one of the ten had run away somehow…

And two of the remaining nine were caught in hers and Kuzan's attack and died while the rest survived.

This left the two of them against the seven left…

The one that ran to join the rest above could be seen when she focused on where he was.

She then saw him climbing the castle from the outside instead of climbing the stairs from the inside, and by the speed, he was going, it was only going to take him a few minutes to reach the top… though she managed to know who this person was… as he was not wearing marines uniform…

"Isn't he that famous bounty hunter?" She muttered to herself…

Elene didn't want him to reach the top, not because she was scared for Ian or didn't trust him, no, but rather she had said she would take care of them but this one slipped out from her watch…

There was also the fact that he was the strongest among the ten, as she used observation to gauge his strength…

Kuzan shared a look with her and tried to follow after him using Moon steps, but three of them intercepted his way…

"Tsk!" Elene seeing this clicked her tongue…

She would just have to leave it to Ian, or anyone who was not engaged in a fight from her side and could stop him…

After all, she can't lose focus when against seven enemies as strong as her…

"Let's deal with them first, Ian can manage on his own anyway…" Elene muttered in annoyance but Kuzan heard her and he got" down to continue their fight…

"We'll just have to leave it to you boss…" Kuzan said as he saw Ian fight against Kaido and Shiki…

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On another side in the battlefield, both Luffy and Zoro were engaged in a fight against the fiveTobiroppo…

All of them had eaten an ancient Zoan devil fruit…

One of them, Page one, was in his hybrid Spinosaurus-human form right now. He was the one that Luffy had attacked earlier…

The next was, Ulti, and she also was in her human-pachycephalosaurus hybrid form…

Then there was Black Maria, the 8m tall woman, in her hybrid spider-human transformation…

The next one was said to be strong enough to possibly challenge one of the all-stars for their position, so he was quite strong. His name was Sasaki.

He had eaten a triceratops ancient Zoan devil fruit. And right now he was transformed into his human- triceratops hybrid.

The last person who was going against the two was someone that was a marine formally…

He was named Drake and he ate the Ryu-Ryu no Mi, Model: Allosaurus, an Ancient Zoan-type Devil Fruit that allows him to transform into a full Allosaurus and a half Allosaurus hybrid at will.

These were all the people that Zoro and Luffy were up against.

But Luffy who had attained a new form of Haki during their time in Wano, being internal destruction and Emission, was not having any trouble fighting against them all.

Similarly for Zoro who had Enma on him.

"This is fun…" Luffy yelled out with a smile on his face…

"Bastard… how is that air blade of the sword guy fun?' some of them thought in anger…

In fact, any attack made by Zoro was always dodged hurriedly and looked on in fear…

This was how strong it was.

The attack even after dodging would continue on to take a few of the larger enemies that were on the battlefield showing that Zoro calculated his trajectory well… those that were hit would fall down, with no exceptions…

And Luffy was taunting them unaware by saying the fight was fun…

"Gomu-Gomu no: Elephant gun!"

Luffy would then enlarge his fist and coat it with Haki while dealing internal destruction to anyone he touched…

The only one who was brave enough to tank his attacks was Sasaki since his form was a triceratops, and those had a lot of defense… but even so, he would cough blood after and fall back after gaining an opening for the rest…

But it would all fall apart when they try to attack Luffy who has his arm extended, and instead of landing any attack, they would have to dodge Zoro's sword strikes…

"We should wrap this up soon Luffy!" Zoro then told Luffy, but as he was moving his gaze to the castle in the distance he noticed someone climbing it at a fast pace…

Feeling his aura he noticed that this guy was as strong as Kaido and Shiki…

This made alarms ring in Zoro's head…

He hurriedly looked at Luffy and told him.

"Luffy, can you take them all on?" Zoro asked quickly.

Luffy seeing this also got serious. He gave him a nod but asked.

"What's wrong?" He asked.

Zoro pointed at the castle and the person who was climbing it.

"We can't have him join the battle, Ian is already fighting both monsters on his own…" Zoro said.

Luffy nodded.

"Go then. I'll deal with them and follow you!" Luffy said.

Zoro then started to run towards the castle at full speed.

When he was near enough he brought two swords and readied himself in a two-sword style stance.

He then swung his swords releasing two massive blades so huge and fast they reached the place where the person was climbing in a second.

But the person casually flipped themselves in the sky upwards and latched on above the area of the strike, and didn't even turn to look at Zoro for a second.

The wall of the castle broke apart in the area Zoro's strike landed, but since the castle was quite huge it didn't manage to sever the whole floor.

"That bastard!" Zoro muttered as he saw this. He knew who this person was even way back then when he was a still bounty hunter… He knew this bounty hunter was quite strong as it was said that he had even tried to collect Whitebeards and Mihawk's bounty and even more great people like them…

Zoro shook his head, he knew that such an attack wouldn't work even if he tried it again, so he started to run, this time his speed was faster and he decided he would just follow him until he catches him.