Chapter 158: Drifting to Wano Country, Seriously Injured and Still Unhealed

In the New World, there are many reefs near the coast of Wano Country.

In the night, blood dripped from the corners of Cooper's mouth. He stood on a pillar, looking at the rolling waves below, breathing very rapidly.

Under its claws was a salmon that was more than ten meters long.

The record pointer on the ankle was damaged, the glass was broken, the pointer was bent and could not be used again.

Arthur, who was lying beside it, also had blood on the corner of his mouth and was in tattered clothes. He stared at a large waterfall in the distance and asked:

"Can someone like me really become a king?"

"Or, I've been at sea for almost ten years, fighting all the time, and I'm still unable to deal with three generals... Do I really have the strength to rule this ocean?"

"Don't trust anyone, don't seek help, don't build or rule any power...even at all costs alone..."

"The names I have been given are nothing more than propaganda created by the World Government to flatter me and by people on the sea who don't know my past to brag about me."

"I need a real name, an overwhelming name that can suppress all powerful enemies, and I will create it myself through fighting!"

"How many days has it been since the Barrett incident, Cooper?"

"Cooper." (Seven Days, Arthur) Cooper listened to Arthur's complaints, and finally there was one sentence without complaint or self-doubt, so he responded.

Although Arthur escaped unscathed from the battle of Kraye Island, he suffered heavy injuries that would be difficult for him to recover from in a very short time.

They even began to have serious doubts about their own abilities and became confused about the future.

Can one person really reach the top? This thought kept growing in his mind.

Soon, Arthur stopped thinking about it, played with the scabbard of the black knife in his hand, looked at Cooper who was eating and said:

"After eating the fish, let's go to the country above the waterfall and talk to Kaido."

Cooper nodded in response.

In the current timeline, Oden should have agreed to let Kaido dance on the street.

After dinner, Arthur grabbed Cooper's eagle claws and flew to Wano Country above the waterfall.

After about half an hour, he and Cooper arrived at the bright sea above Wano Country from the dark sea with cold winds and boiling sea water.

"Cooper?" (The one ahead seems to be a desert, and there is civilization, Arthur)

Using his sharp eagle eyes to explore the desolate island coast ahead, Cooper smelled the scent of death.

It seemed that a fierce battle had taken place on the coast ahead, and quite a few people died.

"A strong smell of blood... no... decay." Arthur also felt it.

They fell from the air onto the coastal dock and found that there was no one around.

The long-abandoned dock was filled with the bones of reptiles and fish.

There are so many tombstones that you can't see the end.

Cooper looked at a flock of carnivorous crows and rushed towards them with his fur pants in hand.

The flock of crows wanted to fly away, but they were forcibly caught one by one, lined up in a row and scolded.

"Queen Ling." Arthur walked to a nearby stone tablet and read the words on it.

Reiko, a region located in the northeast of Wano Country.

It was a desolate and barren land, strewn with tombstones.

"Is this the place where the dead are buried?" After learning the place and the environment, Arthur walked alone into the endless barren desert.

He had nothing with him except a knife.

Cooper, who had been intimidating the crows nearby into standing in a line, hopped along and followed closely behind.

This walk is just one day.

Late at night, in the desolate land behind Linghou, Arthur walked forward firmly with sweat all over his body.

In the endless wasteland, he suddenly discovered that someone had lit a bonfire next to a dead tree in the distance.

The man was sitting cross-legged in front of the campfire, gnawing on meat, and his back seemed familiar to him.

"It's so disgusting. The geology and water quality of Linghou have deteriorated again." Shimotsuki Gyuwan sat by the campfire and evaluated the food conditions in the Linghou area.

He was shirtless, revealing a toned and muscular body.

She has short dark blue hair and two blades hanging from her waist.

"Excuse me…"

“Hmm…!” Shimotsuki Ushimaru was startled when he heard the unfamiliar voice, and turned around quickly holding the hilt of the knife.

Looking at the young man in black clothes and long hair who suddenly appeared behind him, he was already breaking out in a cold sweat.

"When did this guy come close? My perception was so poor that I didn't detect it at all." Shimotsuki Ushimaru thought to himself, looking serious and alert to Arthur.

"Zoron?" When Arthur saw his appearance, his eyes suddenly widened, and his face darkened after he said this subconsciously.

Zoro has green hair, but the guy in front of him has blue hair.

"Zoro? Who?" Shimotsuki Ushimaru heard Arthur's words and responded: "My name is Shimotsuki Ushimaru, and my name is Queen Ling!"

"I made a mistake." Arthur realized that he had made a mistake and said to the local.

"Hmm?" Shimotsuki Ushimaru suddenly looked at the scabbard in Arthur's hand: "This sword is extraordinary, where did you get it?"

Arthur frowned, acknowledging the other party's observation skills, and said, "Sword."

Cooper, who was standing by, smelled the fragrance of the wine, ran towards Shimotsuki Gyuwan's pile of supplies, and began to taste the sake in his wine flask.

"An eagle that can drink, haha, is really rare." Shimotsuki Niuwan said with a smile.

I couldn't detect Arthur's aura, and the other party didn't speak calmly.

It seems that there is nothing suspicious about him except the three scars on his left eye.

"And dancing," said Arthur, who was already sitting down by the fire.

"What's your name? Can I see the knife on your waist?" Shimotsuki Niuwan asked curiously.

I vaguely realized that Arthur, like the knife, was not ordinary.

"Arthur, I won't even show you this black knife." Arthur introduced it to him, refusing to look at the knife.

"Black sword?!" Shimotsuki Ushimaru was shocked. The country of Wano had just lost the black sword of the sword god Ryuma, Shusui, so he became suspicious of the sword in Arthur's hand.

"Then, if I use my status as a daimyo to conduct a routine inspection on you, will you let me take a look?" Shimotsuki Ushimaru threatened with his status.

"Who is it?" Arthur stared into his eyes the whole time, with a smile on his face. "If you want to duel, maybe I'll let you see. You are a swordsman, right?"

"That's right." Shimotsuki Ushimaru had the same idea. He wanted to test whether Arthur was just pretending or was really strong.

He drew the two swords from his waist, stood up from the campfire, and said:

"The black sword relies on one's own domineering aura, and only after thousands of battles can there be a very small chance of refining it."

"You? You look so young, how could you possibly be able to master the black sword?"

"It's been a long time since I heard you bring up age as an issue." Arthur saw that the other party was shirtless, so he also lifted up his ragged black robe.

The fatal scars all over his body seemed to be instantly engraved into Shimotsuki Ushimaru's mind.

It was so overwhelming that his eyes began to scan every scar on Arthur's body.

Those scars seemed to add an invisible pressure to Arthur's calm appearance.

"With these scars, why are you still alive..." He exclaimed in surprise, unable to suppress the shock in his heart.

He saw with his own eyes two blades appear in Arthur's left and right hands.

An ice blade made from the power of extreme ice.

A black knife made by Arthur himself.

He took the two knives in his hands, but put the Ice Dragon in his waist and stored it away. He said to Shimotsuki Ushimaru:

"I can also use dual swords, a style that only attacks but does not defend."

As soon as he finished speaking, the wound in Arthur's body caused him to spurt blood and vomit on the ground.

"Cooper!" (Arthur, don't force it) After seeing this, Cooper gave up his wine and rushed to Arthur.

He patted his back with his wings and blood involuntarily flowed out of his mouth.

Shimotsuki Ushimaru was shocked by the scene before him and asked, "You look like you've been seriously injured?"

"That's enough to deal with you." Arthur adjusted himself quickly, his brain ringing.

Arthur didn't know why his recovery from this injury was so slow.

Kong, Sengoku, and Garp, not only are two of them awakened users of the Mythical Beast Fruit, but one of them is also a domineering and extremely powerful person.

In the battle on Kraye Island, the three of them were as good as him in terms of physical skills.

His powerful physical skills and domineering aura caused serious damage to his internal organs.

"If you try to show off your bravery, you will end up dying in vain!" Niu Wan was infected by Arthur's strong willpower.

Deciding not to disappoint his opponent, he accepted the duel and rushed towards him with two swords in hand.

If Kozuki Oden had not suddenly returned from overseas, he might have mobilized Linghou's powerful military force to go to war with all the daimyos of Wano Country in other regions.

Shimotsuki Ushimaru's blade was wrapped with Ryuzakura, and he launched a fierce attack on Arthur.

Arthur dodged the fierce blow by turning his body, and Shimotsuki Ushimaru's blade kept slashing on the ground, causing cracks to appear in the surrounding ground.

"I can't predict his next move. He is seriously injured, but his body is so agile." Shimotsuki Ushimaru swung the blade, thinking in his mind how to break his move.

If the two swords in your hands cannot kill people, no matter how powerful your swordsmanship is, it will be of no use.

"Interesting. It's really exciting that a powerful warrior suddenly breaks in from outside the island and challenges me." Shimotsuki Ushimaru said to Arthur.

But from the way Arthur moved his body and dodged his swordplay, he could already tell that Arthur was much stronger than he was.

"I'm hot, how about some blood?" Arthur's aura changed dramatically.

No longer calm, but filled with the ferocity of a wild animal, he found the right opportunity to swing his double-edged sword and knock him away from him.

"Ugh..." Shimotsuki Ushimaru was knocked off balance by the sudden attack.

Just when Arthur's double swords were about to hit him, Shimotsuki Ushimaru's body stabilized in an instant, and he counterattacked Arthur with his powerful sword moves.

"Iai!" The domineering energy flowed out of Shimotsuki Ushimaru's body and lingered around his entire body.

With a startling move, it instantly pierced Arthur's body.

Ding!

A crisp sound entered Shimotsuki Ushimaru's ears, startling him. He turned around and looked at Arthur who was motionless behind him:

"You blocked it? Your swordsmanship is pretty good."

"Great swordsman?" The ice blade in Arthur's hand broke, and it broke in an instant when it blocked Shimotsuki Gyumaru's "Iai".

He looked calmly at the broken ice blade in his hand and continued, "So, swordsmen can be found everywhere in this country? Outside the island, anyone who dares to call himself a samurai will be hunted down mercilessly by the government."

After hearing what Arthur said, Shimotsuki Ushimaru couldn't help but ask curiously, "Is the world outside the island so cruel? Then those people in my family really went to an incredible world."

He highly recognized Arthur's strength.

Even though he was seriously injured, he was able to block the sword attack that I launched instantly without moving at all.

Shimotsuki Ushimaru tacitly ranked him as stronger than himself.

“It’s so cruel that one has no choice but to climb up, otherwise their fate will be in the hands of others.” Realizing that the other party was very powerful, Arthur drew out the black knife and turned to walk towards him.

The moment he saw the black knife in Arthur's hand, the smile on Shimotsuki Ushimaru's face completely disappeared.

The black sword needs to go through countless battles and be tempered thousands of times before it can be refined.

The black blade in the opponent's hand had a blue ice-snow pattern, which was completely different from the famous sword Qiu Shui.

"Let's fight, Shimotsuki Gyumaru." Arthur ran towards Shimotsuki Gyumaru like a ghost, as fast as lightning.

The sudden surge in pressure and challenger made Shimotsuki Ushimaru sweat profusely and he resisted tenaciously with a knife.

In the desolate Linghou Township at night, the flashes of swords flickered and collided alternately, and lasted for the entire night before they calmed down.