One Piece: General Blue

Rorschach's face remained expressionless as he forced the suppressed Aristo to retreat with a single strike. He stood unmoving as seven or eight massive blood-red tendrils crashed down on him, engulfing his body entirely.

The enormous tendrils rained down attacks on him like a storm.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The dull sound of impacts echoed across his body.

Rorschach appeared as though he had turned into a piece of iron placed on an anvil, enduring the relentless hammering of seven or eight massive mallets.

Yet, his body was unlike mere iron.

No matter how fiercely the blood-red tendrils struck, Rorschach's body remained unscathed.

The deep-blue aura covering his body surface constantly diminished under the tendrils' attacks, but in the next instant, an even more intense aura surged from within him, enveloping his entire form anew.

This terrifying spectacle left even the resolute Aristo in shock.

This was the awakened deep-blue aura of Rorschach.

Its nature was identical to that of the aura awakened by Douglas Barrett, the demon's progeny.

And that nature was immensity.

Although Rorschach had awakened this aura merely three months ago, the sheer volume within him had already reached unimaginable levels.

In his prime, Douglas Barrett could extend his Armament Haki to cover an entire island, shrouding a colossal titan over a thousand meters tall.

The density of his Armament Haki was nothing short of monstrous.

In contrast, in the manga, Luffy's Fourth Gear consumed his Haki within minutes, requiring ten minutes to recover.

Yet, Barrett could coat his thousand-meter-tall body effortlessly, highlighting the exaggerated immensity of this deep-blue aura.

Even more remarkably, this aura not only possessed vast volume but also outstanding quality, qualifying it as one of the finest forms of aura capable of achieving top-tier potential.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

The dragon halberd wrapped in deep-blue aura swung in Luo Xia's hands like a massive hammer. With each strike, it shattered the blood-red tendrils mid-air.

"Little Navy brat! I acknowledge your strength! But if you think this alone will defeat me, you're far too naive!"

"Blood Sea Assimilation! Blood Demon!"

Aristo's eyes turned crimson, veins bulging and glowing a bright red.

The blood raining from the sky, the crimson waves spread across the grasslands, and the bloodwater spun up by Rorschach's tornado—all converged toward Aristo's body.

As the vast amounts of blood returned to Aristo, his aura grew devastatingly fierce in an instant.

A thick, metallic stench of blood emanated from his gradually enlarging figure, permeating Rorschach's senses like the scent of rust.

Aristo unleashed the long-accumulated essence of blood from thousands of people within him, as well as the blood drained from hundreds of naval soldiers at Base 66 earlier.

As the life energy within this blood filled his body, Aristo's height swelled from nearly four meters to over eight meters.

His body became riddled with crimson cracks, resembling a gigantic porcelain figure shattered and then glued back together with blood-red adhesive.

The sight was terrifying and grotesque.

Even the slender rapier he held in his hand expanded rapidly under the wrapping of blood, transforming into a massive greatsword over five meters long. Now wielded by the blood-red giant Aristo, it added to his intimidating presence.

As a blood demon, Aristo grinned, exposing crimson gums, looking like a fiend crawling out of the depths of hell.

Even his voice carried layered echoes, as though thousands of voices spoke in unison.

"Hehehe, little Navy brat, let's see now who's stronger!"

Thud!

Thud!

His footsteps shook the ground, making the grasslands tremble with every heavy step.

"The me now is not the me from before. My body holds the strength of thousands! Try to withstand this!"

Swish!

The massive blood-red greatsword descended toward Luo Xia. Before it even reached him, the blade's pressure split the ground, carving a fissure over a hundred meters long.

"Wind Strike! Spiral Thrust!"

Rorschach's right hand curled slightly as he gripped the air, summoning a ferocious gale. The hurricane-like winds drove the Sky Dragon Halberd into a rapid spin, producing a piercing whistle as it thrust toward the descending blood-red greatsword.

Clang!

A deafening metallic clash erupted. Rorschach let out a muffled groan as the force from the collision pushed his halberd-wielding arm backward, slamming it against his own chest.

"Hahaha! Block it! Go ahead, block me! What's wrong? Can't stop me now?"

Aristo, gripping his greatsword with both hands, swung with overwhelming power, sending Rorschach and his halberd flying several hundred meters.

Rorschach's figure streaked through the air in a straight line before crashing into a towering Yarqiman Mangrove.

The immense force drove him straight through the massive red tree, penetrating from one side to the other and scattering countless wood splinters into the air.

"Ugh, such immense strength."

Rorschach stood up from the shattered crater, wiping a trace of blood from the corner of his mouth.

The power of Aristo's strike had managed to penetrate Rorschach's aura armor, injuring his body.

And this was purely a force-based attack.

"Another ability that gathers the strength of others. Compared to abilities requiring diligent training and personal development, this does provide a shortcut for an explosive increase in power."

"But to amass power this way, aside from the countless lives sacrificed, the side effects are tremendous."

Watching Aristo charge forward like a wild beast, his massive form smashing through the enormous Yarqiman Mangrove with a cruel smile on his face, Rorschach couldn't help but think of Hody Jones and Gecko Moria.

Harnessing the strength of others was indeed formidable, but it often led to the loss of reason.

"Die! Die! Just die already!"

The nine-meter-tall blood-red giant swung his massive greatsword, slicing through the air with a force so overwhelming that it seemed poised to cleave Rorschach—and the entire Mangrove Area 66—in half.

The sheer force of the swing compressed the air within hundreds of meters, creating a colossal shockwave. The slash tore through giant trees, uprooted soil, and left visible sonic boom rings trailing through the air.

The violent winds swept across the land as Rorschach's silver hair danced wildly in the storm.

"Azure Scale Form!"

With a surge of explosive energy, his muscles swelled dramatically. Deep blue, aura-coated scales spread across his powerful physique.

Crimson antlers extended skyward at an angle, while his bright azure eyes transformed into dignified and imposing vertical pupils of a darker blue.

Standing on two reverse-jointed legs that cracked the ground within dozens of meters, Rorschach gripped the deep-blue Sky Dragon Halberd with two electrified qilin-like arms glowing with blue-white lightning. With a powerful leap, he launched into a downward strike!

Savage bolts of thunder, thick as ancient primordial trees, flashed from the halberd, surging forth with explosive energy.

"Ninety Million Volts!"

"Thunder Dragon!"

(End of Chapter)

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