One Piece: The Strongest Trait System novel Chapter 140

Chapter 140 - [140] : Terror of the Ultimate Human! Closest to Hell!

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Two charred bodies crumpled heavily onto the decks of two warships—Their lifeless forms told everyone present one horrifying truth...

These two battle-hardened Marine HQ Vice Admirals—had been killed by Sky Sovereign Rowen's attack.

"VICE ADMIRAL DOBERMAN!!"

"VICE ADMIRAL STRAWBERRY!!"

Screams of grief and fury erupted from the two stricken warships.

Momonga, Yamakaji, and Onigumo's faces contorted in horror.

Akainu's face turned a ghastly shade of pale purple.

Two Marine Vice Admirals, Doberman and Strawberry—DEAD!

Those Air Doors suddenly appearing beside them, the instantly exploding terrifying lightning—gave them absolutely no time to react!

They couldn't even react.

Because their Observation Haki—had been completely overwhelmed by the violent thunderclaps accompanying the initial lightning pillars! Without Observation Haki—they hadn't even sensed the Door-Door Fruit's activation beside them!

Those initial lightning pillars—their purpose wasn't only to destroy the two warships without Vice Admiral protection. It was also to completely overwhelm and shut down the Observation Haki of the other Vice Admirals!

Leaving them completely vulnerable to the suddenly appearing Air Doors!

A Devil Fruit's Awakened power required time to fully manifest its effects, especially long-range effects.

If their Observation Haki hadn't been completely scrambled by the Rumble-Rumble Fruit's 'Thunder Sound', they would have sensed the Door-Door Fruit's energy gathering in the air and moved away.

But now, stripped of their Observation Haki, the moment those Air Doors opened—with the terrifying speed of Rowen's lightning—Doberman and Strawberry had no chance!

Not even enough time to fully deploy Armament Haki for defense.

Killed—instantly!

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This—was Rowen's calculation!

Starting with Akainu's Meteor Volcano, this man's schemes had unfolded step by step!

Using the Door-Door Fruit to transfer the magma attack, sinking three warships.

Then, using simple Rumble-Rumble lightning strikes to disable two more.

Of the ten Buster Call ships—half were now gone!

And under the barrage of relentless lightning attacks, driven by frustration and rage, their only thought was to reach the shore quickly, engage Sky Sovereign Rowen and the Straw Hat Pirates in direct combat!

They never expected those initial lightning strikes—weren't even intended to destroy the warships or prevent their landing—their true purpose was to annihilate their Observation Haki, to disrupt their thinking, forcing them to focus solely on landing!

Under those conditions, Doberman and Strawberry, with their Observation Haki neutralized, had zero defense against the combined, sudden attack of the Door-Door and Rumble-Rumble Fruits, instantly obliterated!

Furthermore, the man specifically targeted the two ships furthest from Akainu, giving the Admiral little time to react! And it was timed precisely at the moment they were closest to landing!

Closest to success... is when you're most vulnerable.

Closest to success... is when you're closest to hell!

A series of calculated steps—and before even seeing Sky Sovereign Rowen's face, they had lost five ships, two Vice Admirals!

What a catastrophic loss!

Even facing an Emperor's crew, Marine HQ had never suffered such devastating casualties so rapidly!

The remaining three Vice Admirals—Momonga, Yamakaji, and Onigumo—felt a profound chill in their hearts.

This strategy... was the Human-Human Fruit's enhanced intellect at work!

Only now did they remember—

This man—wasn't just a Rumble-Rumble Fruit user, an incarnation of lightning. He was also an Ultimate Human, with intellect comparable to Sengoku the Buddha's strategic brilliance!

Marine HQ, thanks to Sengoku's Buddha-like wisdom, often cornered their enemies with strategy alone—

But now, they faced an Ultimate Human, Sky Sovereign Rowen, who possessed comparable intellect. And Sengoku the Buddha wasn't even here; he was commanding from HQ!

Directly confronting the union of intellect and power—it was too terrifying.

One move—and Marine HQ suffered such devastating losses!

Momonga, Yamakaji, and Onigumo could see him now in the distance, that imposing figure casually opening Air Doors with a flick of his finger—and they instinctively flinched.

Facing this Emperor who capsized five Buster Call warships and killed two Vice Admirals with barely an effort...

Even these battle-hardened Vice Admirals felt a flicker of fear, a desperate urge to retreat.

Before someone whose power and intellect were on another dimension—fear was the natural response.

For Marine HQ Vice Admirals to feel this way—

—Countless Rear Admirals, Commodores, Captains, and common soldiers were utterly terrified. The World's Most Dangerous Man—at this moment, they finally truly understood that title's meaning!

Facing this man—even Marine Vice Admirals had one foot in the grave!

The terrifying combined might of his multiple Devil Fruit powers had caught even Admiral Akainu's Buster Call off guard!

Five warships. Two Vice Admirals... the Buster Call fleet was more than halved!

And these horrific casualties—occurred in less than ten minutes after engaging this Emperor!

How could these Marines not be terrified?

The Buster Call, heralded as the embodiment of Absolute Justice, capable of annihilating everything, a force of destruction meant to erase any trace of its target...

Yet before this man—even the Buster Call seemed less terrifying.

The World's Most Dangerous Man... Sky Sovereign... Rowen!

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"Human-Human Fruit... Door-Door Fruit... Rumble-Rumble Fruit..." Akainu snarled, glaring at Rowen in the distance, his heart filled with cold fury.

Under his command, the Buster Call fleet—suffered such catastrophic losses so quickly!

Doberman, a core member of his 'Hawk' faction—gone!

Akainu could accept the deaths of his subordinates in battle, but not meaningless deaths like this.

Dead before even making contact, victims of the man's schemes.

"Two Vice Admirals down. Three left. Leave them to you, Luffy," Rowen stated calmly, lowering his outstretched finger.

Though the five Vice Admirals were nothing to Rowen himself, for Luffy and the others, it was still too much.

Of the Monster Trio, only Luffy at his current level could fight a Marine HQ Vice Admiral and not be completely outmatched.

Zoro, though now able to access a fraction of Haōshoku Coating's power through his Asura Aura, couldn't threaten these elite Vice Admirals on his own.

He would need support, like Vivi with her Sand-Sand Fruit, to contend with one.

Sanji's strength lagged slightly behind Zoro's, requiring even more allies to face a Vice Admiral.

The rest of the crew, aside from Rowen, were simply too outmatched against five Marine HQ Vice Admirals.

Three Vice Admirals plus the other officers of Captain rank or higher—were ideal opponents for Luffy and the others to gain experience.

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"S-SUGEEEEEE! Two Vice Admirals—just like that—gone?!" Franky stared, his jaw slack, at the scene.

As a student of Tom, he had heard tales of the Buster Call's terror.

Five Vice Admirals, ten warships, and ten thousand elite soldiers...

The Buster Call seemed as fragile as paper!

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Robin's Armament Haki—AWAKENED!

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"GREAT ERUPTION——!"

CRACKLE! BOOM!

"HAKOKU SOVEREIGNTY——!!!"

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

A terrifying shockwave of Haōshoku Coating exploded outwards!

His attack—combined his peak physical power with the full force of Haōshoku Coating!

Spear of Elbaf! Hakoku Sovereignty!

The monstrous physical shockwave—further empowered by intensely violent and tyrannical Haōshoku Coating—was unleashed the moment Rowen's fists connected, colliding head-on with Akainu's approaching magma fist!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!

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