vncnus Chapter 291 The Waltz of Pursuit, C-Rank Summon Complete
Chapter 291 The Waltz of Pursuit, C-Rank Summon Complete
Chapter 291 The Waltz of Pursuit, C-Rank Summon Complete
Doflamingo breathed a silent sigh of relief; his feather coat was already soaked with cold sweat.
He looked at the feathered serpent god in the sky, which resembled a second sun, and then at Luo beside him, whose expression was complicated. Countless thoughts raced through his mind.
With the help of the Marine soldiers, Kizaru and Fujitora managed to stand up. The two admirals looked at Quetzalcoatl with deep apprehension and scrutiny.
They knew this Heroic Spirit, and that his Master was Smoker, but witnessing his power firsthand still exceeded their expectations.
Smoker's warship docked, and he jumped off the ship, quickly walked to Kizaru and Fujitora, and asked them about the situation in a low voice.
Then, he looked up at Doflamingo and Law, his brows furrowing even more.
"Doflamingo is currently the government's most dangerous target," Smoker said coldly.
"And you, Supernova Trafalgar Law. It seems you are one of the participants in this Second Holy Grail War."
Doflamingo quickly resumed his nonchalant smile.
"Fufufu—Lieutenant General Smoker, and two other generals, it seems your original target was Law."
Luo remained silent, utterly exhausted, the belongings of Mr. Classon still burning warm in his arms.
The God of Healing stood beside him, his verdant life force silently nourishing his wounded body and soul.
He knew that from this day forward, everything would be different. He had stepped into a more dangerous vortex, but for that faint hope, he had no choice.
In the sky, Quetzalcoatl slowly descended and landed not far from Smoker.
His warm divine radiance had diminished considerably, but his presence was still impossible to ignore.
Smoker looked at the complicated situation before him: two dangerous individuals with heroic spirits and two seriously wounded generals.
And then there was the Beasts Pirates retreating in the distance—he felt a headache coming on.
"All those involved, surrender!" Smoker finally made the decision.
"Stay in prison and obey orders until Marshal Sengoku gives further instructions!"
The Beasts Pirates' ships disappeared at the horizon of the blizzard, but the sea that had been ravaged by Cú Chulainn's magic and Noble Phantasm was still boiling, with a huge sinkhole greedily swallowing the overflowing seawater and making a thunderous roar.
The air was filled with the pungent smell of sulfur mixed with melting snow.
Doflamingo made his decision almost the instant he finished speaking: he absolutely could not go with the Navy.
"Fufufu————" He pushed up his sunglasses, a wide grin spreading across his face, but without any real smile.
"Lieutenant General Smoker, and two other generals, thank you for making this long journey. However—"
The ground beneath his feet suddenly softened, turning into countless white lines that spread in all directions!
"We have urgent business to attend to, so we'll have to stay and have some time to spare!"
"Sixteen Sacred Bombs - Divine Slaughter!"
The target wasn't Smoker, nor the feathered serpent god in the sky, but the rudder and main gun of the naval warship behind them!
Sixteen dense, black and red, domineering strands of thread tore through the air, instantly traversing hundreds of meters!
"How dare you!" Smoker roared, his body instantly turning into smoke as he attempted to intercept.
But the wiring harness is moving too fast and the angle is too tricky!
"Gravity Blade - Slow!" The heavily injured Fujitora barely managed to lift his broken staff, and purple gravity ripples spread out, causing the speed of the bundle to decrease by 30%.
Kizaru transformed into golden light, and the Ama no Kusanagi sword reappeared, severing seven strands in succession with a series of clangs!
But the remaining nine arrows still accurately hit the warship's critical parts!
The rudder shattered, the mainmast snapped in half, and the secondary guns were pierced! The entire warship began to spin out of control due to inertia, completely losing its ability to pursue!
"Doflamingo!!!" Smoker's eyes widened in horror as his smoke-like body lunged forward!
Just then, the sun in the sky moved.
"Oh dear, that won't do! Fighting is fine, but bullying my Master's ship is not allowed!"
It landed gently beside Smoker, its bare feet stepping on the scorched snow. Where it stepped, the snow melted, and tender green shoots of grass grew at a speed that defied the laws of the seasons.
"Little White, don't rush~" Quetzalcoatl patted Smoker's shoulder, and the latter stiffened, clearly not used to the title. Quetzalcoatl smiled, then looked at Doflamingo, hands on his hips.
"Little pink bird, you damaged our boat, you have to pay for it!"
Doflamingo's eye twitched.
He had imagined countless scenarios of confronting this god-level heroic spirit, but none of them were like this—a bizarre feeling as if he were being lectured by the older sister next door.
"Fuh—fuh—fuh—" He managed to maintain a smile.
"Your Excellency, this is just a small misunderstanding. We can discuss compensation later, but right now—"
"Now you're going to run away, right?" Quetzalcoatl tilted his head, his smile unchanged.
"That won't do~ My Master said he's asking you all to go back. Although I don't really like forcing people—"
He raised one hand, palm up.
A warm golden light gathered in the palm of his hand, and then transformed into a palm-sized hummingbird made of light.
The hummingbird flapped its wings and uttered a melodious chirping.
"But since I promised, I have to keep my word~ So————"
The hummingbird took flight, leaving a golden trail in the air.
"Could you please take a short rest?"
As soon as the words were spoken, a warm golden light spread out like ripples from the light hummingbird!
Where the light reached, the blizzard melted, the chill dissipated, and the air was filled with the moist and warm atmosphere of a tropical rainforest. You could even hear the faint chirping of birds and the rustling of leaves!
But Doflamingo, Law, and the Heroic Spirits around them all felt a strong sense of crisis the moment that light struck!
"This is—the realm of life!"
Asclepius said in a deep voice, slamming his serpent staff on the ground. His turquoise life domain was fully unleashed to fight against the incoming golden light!
Two life forces, similar in nature but different in essence, collided, producing a hissing sound, as if two different ecosystems were fiercely fighting for territory!
"ROOM!"
Luo gritted his teeth and unleashed his domain, attempting to use spatial displacement to retreat with the God of Medicine. However, he was horrified to discover that the spatial structure within this golden domain had become exceptionally solid, and his abilities were suppressed like never before!
"Fufufu—what a warm welcome!" Doflamingo laughed wildly, waving his hands frantically.
Countless white lines surged from the ground, the air, and even from his own body!
"Then we must return the favor properly, Shakespeare!"
"I am here, Master." The playwright, who had been silently observing, bowed gracefully, his quill pen having somehow opened a thick, old book.
"It's your turn! Rewrite the 'script' for this area!"
"Yes, sir." A dramatic, fanatical glint flashed in Shakespeare's eyes as he wrote furiously in the air with his quill!
"The performance has begun, let's give it a thunderous roar (First Folio) – Act IV: The Misplaced Stage!"
Magic erupts!
But it's not an aggressive kind of magic; it's some kind of more abstract and bizarre power!
That power was formless and intangible, yet it instantly permeated the golden life domain unfurled by Quetzalcoatl and began to—alter the narrative rules within it!
Koyater chuckled and looked at Shakespeare with great interest.
"An interesting ability... not direct confrontation, but altering the course of the story—are you a writer-type Heroic Spirit?"
"Indeed, Your Majesty the Eminent Goddess." Shakespeare bowed gracefully.
"I am William Shakespeare, a storyteller."
"Excuse my bluntness, but the plot of forcibly keeping us here lacks dramatic tension and does not conform to the characters' motivational logic."
"Therefore, I have dared to offer a slight embellishment to this scene."
He flicked his quill pen!
A strange sight occurred: a huge trapdoor marked "EXIT" suddenly appeared beneath Doflamingo's feet.
Several curtains with the words "Backstage Access - No Unauthorized Personnel Allowed" suddenly appeared around Luo and the God of Medicine;
In front of Smoker and the naval soldiers, a huge sign read: "Audience Seating - Do Not Go On Stage."
It's not a hallucination.
Under the influence of Shakespeare's Noble Phantasm, these stage installations were temporarily given conceptual realism, forcibly inserted into reality, and interfered with everyone's cognitive and behavioral logic!
"Wh--what the hell?!" Smoker tried to break through the audience sign, but the sign didn't budge, as if it had really become an insurmountable barrier.
As long as he still believes in the basic theater rule that audience members shouldn't go on stage, this sign is real to him!
"Oh my, this is fun!" Quetzalcoatl was not angry at all; instead, he clapped his hands and laughed.
"I want to play too!"
He put his hands together in prayer position and then pulled them apart as if opening a gift box.
A miniature, vibrant tropical jungle phantom unfolds from the sleeve as its center!
The shadowy jungle landscape is crudely overlapped and intertwined with Shakespeare's stage setting, creating a bizarre and surreal spectacle.
On one side is a trapdoor marked EXIT, but banana leaves are growing out of the crack in the door.
On one side is the curtain of the backstage passage, which is covered with vines and flowering tropical plants!
Two completely different fields or rules are encroaching on and overlapping each other!
And taking advantage of this extremely chaotic lull—
"Now! Law!" Doflamingo roared, and the trapdoor beneath his feet suddenly opened, causing him to plummet to the ground.
Through the exit that had been temporarily conceptualized by Shakespeare's Noble Phantasm, they appeared directly on the ship that had been hidden a hundred meters away.
"ROOM - Baton!" Without hesitation, Law and the figure of the God of Healing disappeared within the domain and returned to the ship. "Catch them!" Smoker roared, his entire body turning into smoke as he tried to bypass the stands, but the jungle phantom of Quetzalcoatl sprouted a dense thicket of thorny cacti in front of him.
This was clearly a joke from the older sister, but it was incredibly effective.
"Even though I don't like forcing people..."
Quetzalcoatl watched as Law and the God of Medicine had already run far away, and as Doflamingo frantically urged the strait boat to leave.
"But it would be very impolite to let the guests leave like that~"
He gently raised his hand and flicked his finger in the direction of the departing boat.
"Please accept this small gift!"
A warm golden light, like a firefly, slowly drifted toward the line boat.
The speed didn't seem fast, but it was as if it had locked onto the target, and no matter how you turned or accelerated, you couldn't shake it off!
"Damn it! What is that?!" Doflamingo's face turned ashen.
"An extremely high concentration of magical energy—" Asclepius said solemnly.
"If I were hit, I would probably die without a doubt."
"Can you stop it?!" Doflamingo roared.
Shakespeare's gaze turned grave: "It's difficult. To block this attack, we'd probably need that berserker from before, but we won't take the hit!"
On the other side, Asclepius on the submarine nodded in agreement.
"My medical skills can harmonize the flow of life, but this thing is a distorted form of life's own blessing, and forcibly treating it may backfire."
The medical genius provides a quick analysis.
"Then let it miss!" A resolute glint flashed in Luo's eyes, and the R00M domain expanded within a very small area, enveloping the incoming golden light.
"Scan—Analyze—Found! Although almost completely quantized, extremely weak structural nodes still exist!"
The ghost's cry is drawn!
"ROOM: The Scalpel!"
It's not a chopping motion, it's the most precise surgical cut!
The blade flashed across the golden light's trajectory, precisely striking the most vulnerable conceptual node in the golden light's energy structure!
laugh----
The golden light trembled slightly, its stable internal structure was briefly disturbed, and its flight trajectory deviated by an extremely slight margin. It flew past the stern of the line boat and fell into the sea.
boom!
A burst of golden light erupted, and countless seaweed, corals, and even small fish grew, reproduced, and piled up at an insane rate.
In just a few seconds, a huge, ever-expanding reef formed, almost blocking the line boat's retreat!
"That guy Law—he actually deflected that attack! We can't keep this up any longer, let's go!"
Doflamingo broke out in a cold sweat, and with the speedboat at full power, he narrowly escaped through the gap in the still-closed reef and sped off into the open sea!
Behind us, on the coast of Mignon Island.
"Oh dear, it got dodged~" Quetzalcoatl withdrew her hand, pouting slightly in regret, but then laughed again.
"But it's okay, I left a sunlight mark on that little boat~ As long as it's in the sunlight, I can roughly sense the direction~"
Smoker looked at the line boat that had become a small black dot, and then at the smiling older sister beside him who was completely unpredictable, and felt a sense of powerlessness.
"Why didn't you just stop them?" he asked through gritted teeth.
"Because that's not fun~" Quetzalcoatl said matter-of-factly, then patted Smoker's head, causing the latter to stiffen again.
"And, Xiaobai, didn't you notice? That pink bird and that gloomy little doctor, they're not on the same side!"
"That young doctor is carrying a very heavy sadness in his heart. Forcibly arresting them might not be the best solution."
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Smoker froze. He did sense the strange atmosphere between Law and Doflamingo, but—
"This is the order of the Warring States Marshal!" he insisted.
"Okay, okay~" Quetzalcoatl waved his hand. "That's why I came to help, right? Don't worry, they can't escape—"
"The next Holy Grail War is about to begin, and we won't have to worry about not seeing them then—"