Chapter 139: Honeycomb Island Incident: John is defeated! Arthur is in danger...

In this frozen central square, pirates from other areas of Beehive Island quickly arrived.

In the buildings, on the rooftops, in the snowy alleys, they once again surrounded Arthur as if on a forced march.

Upon seeing this, John immediately retracted his body back into his body…his expression was somewhat embarrassed, and he was extremely uncomfortable with the power of the devil fruit he had just consumed.

His performance in actual combat could kill him.

Arthur sensed the presence of the people around him and said to John:

"Once the gap in strength is too big..." Arthur said, the domineering color in his body was madly brewing and accumulating:

"It will result in an absolute crushing victory!"

Red lightning burst out from Arthur's body, and the violent domineering impact wantonly destroyed the pirates in the surrounding snow and ice.

There are many pirates with weak willpower and insufficient qualifications to fight against Arthur's domineering color.

He was drowned in the flood of domineering color, foaming at the mouth, and fell to the ground unconscious.

"What a powerful domineering color...!"

The powerful domineering Haki shocked all the pirates rushing out of Beehive Island.

Someone was in a trance, covering his swollen head and looking at the flat road along the pier to the square.

The sight of the frozen statues and the sea of ​​blood and corpses of thousands of people is chilling.

"What happened at the dock...?"

"Don't be distracted, that guy is running towards us!"

"Ugh!"

Arthur held the knife and turned into a gust of wind, starting a new round of ruthless killing.

With one strike, the bodies of the pirates flew into the air.

Some fell from the square into the sea, and some fell into the streets and alleys of the town buildings.

John looked at Arthur with an unhappy expression and shouted, "Are you saying that your current strength has crushed me!?"

"I have the entire Beehive Island's military force behind me. Someone like you..."

As he spoke, John suddenly spotted Arthur fighting in the crowd, knocking a pirate away.

Lower your body and place the Cooper in your left hand just under your legs.

He sheathed the blade in his hand and slashed towards the entire Beehive Island.

"Dragon's Light, Ring Break." Arthur poured all his strength into the attack, shaking the heavens and the earth.

The huge circular cutting wave instantly spread in front of him.

"This is..." John's pupils dilated, and the world in front of him seemed to stand still.

The buildings near the square in his eyes had already stopped in the air the moment Arthur drew his sword.

His own pirates had already fallen to the ground unconscious due to the slashing waves piercing their bodies.

puff!

The chopping wave pierced through his chest. The injured John knelt on the ground, feeling the severe pain in his chest and vomiting blood.

A loud bang was heard from the center of Beehive Island toward the sea.

The severed skull castle collapsed, the island shook, and the pirates who barely huddled on the ground were terrified.

Arthur's horrific attack ended.

The buildings and pirate corpses in the sky fell into the island like a torrential rain, rumbling and raising smoke and dust everywhere.

Boom! Arthur, who was shrouded in smoke and dust, waved his knife to disperse the smoke and dust.

He panted in his chest, picked up Cooper again, and walked quickly to John's side: "I have nothing behind me, John, only the knife and the eagle in my hand. And you hurt the eagle that I raised with my own hands. Even if I have to sacrifice my life, I will make you pay a heavy price."

“Ha…ha…” John found it difficult to relieve the pain, and he was still kneeling on the ground, gasping for breath after hearing Arthur’s words.

"It's not that you are too weak, but that I grow too fast." Arthur walked up to the injured John, stood in front of him kneeling and looked at him coldly.

"Heh..." Suddenly, the corners of John's mouth rose evilly, and he swung a knife at Arthur in front of him with lightning speed and domineering power.

Arthur saw this, his eyes narrowed slightly, and his feet had already taken action the moment he made his move.

The blade in John's hand fell from Arthur, and with a smile on his face, he watched his knife pierce through Arthur's body.

There was a bang.

Arthur used Paper Painting: Remnant Body to leave a mirage of himself at the original place.

The man was already standing beside John, looking at the horrified expression on his face.

"Clone...?" John was startled and looked at Arthur who was swinging a knife at him very quickly. He immediately split a clone from his body to block it.

boom!

The heavy slash collided with the two swords of his clone.

“Kneel again!” Arthur wrapped the domineering color around the blade, increased the strength, and with one cut, he made John's clone kneel in front of him.

The ice layer where the two were located began to crack.

"Silver Axe, what are you doing? Come and get rid of this guy!" John shouted to Silver Axe who was also severely injured by "Dragon Mang·Ring Break".

"Don't order me, John!" When Silver Axe heard John's voice, his rough muscles began to wriggle.

This provided him with a constant supply of divine power, and he picked up the axe again and swung at Arthur.

Arthur, who was suppressing John's clone, looked at him alertly: "Do you really think I dare not take your axe?!"

"Haha, then you try to take one!" Silver Axe had blood oozing from the corner of his mouth, and he smiled happily when he heard Arthur's words.

The moment he got close to Arthur, he swung the axe down with his divine power.

At this moment, Arthur's sword was wrapped in domineering color, and he immediately turned the blade to chop at the axe blade of his weapon.

The axe blade and the knife edge collided in the air.

"Damn Domineering Haki..." Silver Axe used Armament Haki to fight back, watching his weapon collide with the blade in Arthur's hand through the air.

A feeling of pain spread throughout his body.

However, in the next second, the attack trajectory of the axe blade was resolved by Arthur using the remote effect of the Conqueror's Haki and his own swordsmanship skills.

Forcibly transferred to John's body beside him.

"Silver Axe...!" John's clone was terrified and had no time to dodge before being chopped into pieces by the axe.

Boom!

The axe blade hit the ice, and Arthur laughed and distanced himself from them.

In the central square of Honeycomb Island, a canyon crack appeared in the ground and it kept shaking.

"Oh, it hurts!" John's clone was killed, and he could clearly feel the feeling of being split by the axe.

He cried out in pain and cursed loudly while grabbing Silver Axe's armor.

"You seem to have a misunderstanding of my strength." After a fight, Arthur, who had a clear understanding of the opponent's strength, held his sword and stared at their infighting with a smile on his face.

"Three years ago, I was able to capture Shiki and beat him to a pulp! Why do you think you can easily defeat me when you have always been defeated by Whitebeard, Shiki, and Roger?"

After the Battle of Edwor (three years ago), Arthur's sword swing was very powerful.

As long as you get stabbed in the face, you won't be safe.

"And, John, you don't even know how to use such a great fruit ability." Arthur laughed at him.

The fruit of clone, if Arthur really had this ability, he would be able to do a lot of things with it.

In John's hands, it became a burden that reduced his strength. Perhaps he had not immediately realized the horror of this fruit.

John and Silver Axe stopped arguing and both looked in the direction of Arthur.

Cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

John glanced at the armband on his left eye:

"Aren't you being too arrogant? I'm just testing the power of the devil fruit. Do you really think you're a big shot?"

Looking at Arthur strolling leisurely again, John felt an inexplicable fear in his heart.

"No one else, don't make a move. Let me chop off his head and hang it on the dock!" John roared to clear the fear in his mind. He held the knife in both hands, stopped using the power of the devil fruit, and instantly flashed in front of Arthur.

He swung his two swords wildly, fighting him fiercely with pure swordsmanship and domineering.

With decades of fighting skills and strength, he and Arthur were evenly matched for a while.

"My domineering aura is depleting so quickly..." John kept swinging his double blades.

The whole body was gradually enveloped by the cold air around Arthur's body.

As long as he didn't activate his domineering aura, it would seem as if the cold air could enter his body and freeze him instantly.

"Life returns, martial body!" As Arthur swung the sword, his body suddenly underwent earth-shaking changes.

The body muscles quickly tensed and contracted, and in an instant, the whole body turned into a pure and slender devilish muscle shape.

The force was slightly reduced and the speed of the knife swing suddenly increased, making it difficult for John to resist.

As the blades were alternating, John's defense was broken by Arthur, whose body had undergone a drastic transformation.

He kept hitting his chest, blood splattering.

This process lasted for a day and a night.

The two great swordsmen clashed with each other in swordplay, hacking at each other until they forgot everything else.

Everything around them was forgotten.

One day later, under the scorching sun.

The two figures were still fighting fiercely, and John gradually became exhausted and his arms became stiff.

"What's wrong with this guy's body..." John swung his sword with all his strength. From being evenly matched to being suppressed by Arthur head-on, his eyes were full of disbelief.

Looking at Arthur's body, the muscle threads seemed to be spliced ​​into the flesh like steel.

After entering this form, his sword-swinging speed doubled, but his strength did not decrease at all, making him difficult to resist.

"I can't swing the sword anymore. My strength is being taken away... I am losing my consciousness..."

"John!!" Silver Axe rushed towards Arthur with an axe.

In the sight of other pirates around, Arthur's knife was as fast as an afterimage, slashing John's chest back and forth repeatedly.

However, John had stopped swinging the knife without realizing it, and was almost chopped to the point of losing consciousness.

Boom.

The silver axe approached, and Arthur, who was almost in a state of complete combat, swung down with an excited and crazy axe.

Forcibly ended the confrontation between John and him.

"What's going on..." John fell down, supported by Silver Axe, his dying expression full of confusion.

Confused about life...

I was confused about myself...

He had clearly hurt Arthur before, but in the blink of an eye the situation turned to Arthur's side?

He simply couldn't accept...being defeated by a guy like Arthur.

I don’t understand why the other party has become so powerful in just a few years.

His mind quickly reviewed his life.

"Aren't you fond of threatening people?" Arthur walked towards John: "Why don't you say it now?"

After saying that, Arthur held John's silver axe in front of him and swung it out in a flying slash.

The slash cut through the air and instantly reached Silver Axe.

Seeing this, Silver Axe used his weapon to block in front of him and grabbed the axe handle with one hand to block it.

He left the unconscious John behind and walked towards Arthur with an axe in hand.

"Captain John was... knocked out?"

"Hey, what's going on?"

The pirates nearby, looking at John's appearance, began to doubt the direction of this battle.

"Everyone, charge at him!" Silver Axe ordered all the pirates: "Don't worry about life or death, kill the hand!"

The end of the duel between John and Arthur Swordsman does not mean that the matter is over.

"Yes, Captain John has been knocked down, and we still have Lord Silver Axe!"

"That guy looks like he's out of breath. Let's attack him in groups and take him down!"

"If you don't have the ability to fight in close combat, don't get close to him. Shoot him with guns and cannons. Even if he is a monster, it's only a matter of time before he falls!"

Arthur's chest kept rising and falling as he watched the large number of pirates swarming in for the third time. He struggled to hold on while holding Cooper and looked around:

"How many pirates are there on this island?"

"The new era has just begun, and you want to target Beehive Island to increase your reputation?" Silver Axe swung his weapon at Arthur.

Arthur dodged the axe blade just like he did when he landed on the island.

"I only came here to get the eagle. I didn't mean to start a fight." Arthur dodged and slashed at Silver Axe's body with his knife.

Ding!

It's not just the strength that's declining due to physical strength, or something else.

The blade hit Silver Axe's body, but was directly blocked by the shell wrapped in domineering aura.

Makes a crisp sound.

"Hmm?" Silver Axe looked in the direction of Arthur's blade and found that his opponent's strength had greatly declined after the battle with John. He smiled and said, "It seems that you can no longer break my body and domineering aura."

boom!

A bullet fired by a pirate nearby pierced into the flesh of Arthur's back.

This caused his body to tremble, and before he could retract the blade from the silver axe, he saw the axe blade of the silver axe swinging towards him.

Arthur's eyes widened as he held the blade in front of him, "I'm so tired... I can't block this."

Bang!

The moment the divine axe blade hit Arthur's blade, he was chopped off and flew out.

Arthur's body was wrapped in the impact airflow and flew towards the nearby ruins.

"Little furry boy..." He forcibly moved the Cooper in his left hand in front of him, used his body as a cushion, and smashed into the ruined building.

Smoke and dust were everywhere.

"Cough..." In the smoke and dust, Arthur knelt on one knee covered in blood, supporting himself on the ground with the blade of his knife and breathing heavily to relieve his fatigue.

"After experiencing the backstab of a civilian, I never thought that the Warring States would regard you as my weakness... I would also fight with all my strength for a certain creature."

Arthur had inadvertently exhausted his own strength during the duel with John.

It's just that the body was in excitement and didn't notice it.

Just when he was about to take a break, a shell flew through the smoke and dust and landed in front of him.

Seeing this, Arthur picked up Cooper and turned around, allowing the explosion and debris to hit him.

"It hurts so much..." Arthur realized that he had been alone on Beehive Island until now, and he didn't even have time to rest.

So he picked up the ice dragon and placed it before his eyes, muttering to himself:

"I'm asking you for a favor, Ice Dragon. Don't worry about my physical condition. Overdraw my lifespan and release the power of extreme ice until I collapse."

The blade seemed to have heard Arthur's words and suddenly sucked his palm.

This caused Arthur's black pupils to suddenly dilate and turn dark blue.

It was as if some kind of restraint was lifted, and the world around Arthur's body became extremely dark in an instant.

Arthur knelt in the darkness, maintaining the posture of protecting Cooper.

Suddenly, he found that the blade in his right hand had disappeared.

"Where is my knife?" Arthur was startled and felt his left hand was empty, so he turned around to look.

Cooper also disappeared into his left hand.

"Am I dead?"