Chapter 774: Chapter 468: Soldier Versus Soldier, General Versus General

"Disaster Pirates!"

Among many ships of the Big Mom Pirates tasked with intercepting the Straw Hat crew, Charlotte Daifuku was rubbing his waist, summoning a Smoke Demon, and riding the smoke towards the largest flagship.

On the deck of the Death Star, Lily had already reached the front, calmly watching the incoming purple-black demon. Next to her, on the left, Marika had a full smile, while on the right, Renedia bared her small fangs, showing no intention of taking action.

Even Gin behind them just stood quietly with his arms crossed.

The storm was still fierce, and the strong winds blew at everyone’s clothes and hair.

Just as the Smoke Demon, wielding a large sword, was about to slash down in front of Lily, a sound of breaking the sky suddenly came from behind. A smoke ring spread from the side-rear of the flagship, carrying a silhouette that quickly crashed into the incoming sword.

Bam!

After a moment of stalemate between the heavy force and the slashing sword, the figure extended a fist, compressing it inward like a spring, and punched the Smoke Demon’s face, dispersing it. The figure did not stop and swung out another smoke ring in the air, landing on the ship where Charlotte Daifuku was.

"Oh?"

Daifuku looked at the guy crouching on the deck, whose legs had turned into springs, "You want to fight me?"

Bellamy raised his head, flashing a wicked grin: "Your opponent is me!"

Rumble!

As he spoke, a warship appeared from the side-rear of the flagship, fired a cannon directly at this Cake Ship, then accelerated to ram it hard.

A large number of pirates jumped down from the warship, drawing out their blades and firearms, gathering behind Bellamy.

Meanwhile, the entire grand fleet at the rear of the Death Star moved out, with half advancing towards Cake Island and the other half attacking these Cake Ships on the sea.

"Found you."

On the front deck of a ship, Urouge carried a lead pillar, letting the ship fire cannonballs left and right, before a distinctly different ship sailing towards them.

On that ship, he saw Snack, who had already drawn his sword.

Urouge broke into a peculiar grin: "Last time, my victory wasn’t satisfying. This time, it should be easier."

"That’s not your target."

Another ship sailed parallel, and Hawkins drew a few Tarot Cards, glanced at Snack ahead, and said calmly:

"Your solo win rate is 80%, and the divination results are favorable... no need to overthink, we’re not here for one-on-one duels. Our plan is to quickly defeat those troublesome ones."

In large-scale combat, discipline is paramount.

The strategy Lily devised is to first eliminate the difficult members of the Big Mom Pirates, preventing them from confronting their subordinates. Otherwise, even if Sage defeats Big Mom, the losses would be unbearable.

Cannon fodder?

Even cannon fodder takes time to recruit; the sea doesn’t refresh at midnight...

The hard-to-recruit and train subordinates are used to deal with the minions of the Big Mom Pirates, not to prove the rumor that many ants kill elephants.

Robbing, occupying, stabilizing, which doesn’t require manpower?

The best strategy is, of course, soldiers against soldiers, generals against generals.

Snack isn’t important, but making Snack lose is very important.

Moreover...

"Take him out first."

Hawkins put away the Tarot Cards and drew his long sword, "Then we’ll find Cracker. Last time, my fight with him was unfinished."

In this regard, he doesn’t need the demeanor of a strong man; the strategic plan comes first. If two people can easily solve one, there’s no need for one-on-one.

Boom boom boom!

The appearance and attack of the Disaster Grand Fleet, of course, triggered the counterattack of the Big Mom Pirates, with a large number of cannonballs being fired from the Cake Ships, clashing with the Disaster Grand Fleet.

Although these weren’t the sort of cannons that could be fired while getting rained on the deck, the cannons inside the hulls could still be fired.

Most of the Cake Ships were targeting the foremost Death Star; they weren’t blind, knowing it was the flagship.

"Sugar Manatee!"

On one of the ships, Perospero waved his Candy Stick. A large mass of sugar fluid descended from the stick, covering the sea surface, forming a gigantic sugar fluid wave that rose higher than the Death Star, rushing towards it fiercely.

Sea water renders Devil Fruit ability users powerless, but it’s never heard of having no effect; only an ability user can restrain another ability user.

"Kinetic Energy Heavy Cannon!!"

Just as the Sugar Manatee surged forward, a beam of white light unexpectedly shot out from the Death Star, blasting a large hole into the Sugar Manatee, exploding at the center of the hole, making the entire Sugar Manatee splatter.

"Hehehe!"

Renedia aimed her extended Mechanical Hammer ahead, shouting towards Perospero’s direction: "Sticky pest! This time I’ll definitely smash you to bits!"

"You damn brat!"

Veins bulged on Perospero’s forehead, "I’m not a sticky monster; it’s sugar! Fire the cannons! Fire!"

Boom boom boom!

Nearby Cake Ships continued to fire cannonballs; some ships had just finished one volley when another shot from a nearby Disaster Warship hit the midsection, snapping the keel, sinking the ship.

Even so, a large amount of cannonballs flew over from the forward fan-shaped position.

Just as the cannonballs flew to mid-distance, a sudden burst of black water jets exploded from the front deck of the ship, piercing through the cannonballs in unison, blowing them apart in mid-air, causing the water jets to get cut off and fall into the sea.

Upon closer inspection, it wasn’t ’water jets’ but countless strands of black hair forming into tresses.

Marika maintained her smiling face, her full hair dancing wildly, growing towards the outside world, transforming into countless piercing spikes, puncturing and exploding all the incoming cannonballs.

"Ah..."

She looked in a direction, and with her long black legs, she stepped forward, launching through smoke rings as her hair receded back, caught an incoming cannonball, and before it could explode, she threw it back with her hand, with immeasurable speed and force, piercing through a Cake Ship.

Whiz!

In the next instant, she leapt through the air, grabbing a mast, lifting half a Cake Ship, and with her chest rising and falling, making her chest even more conspicuous.

Thud!

Half of the Cake Ship was hurled out by her violently, breaking through a smoke ring, crashing towards a ship in her front direction.

Shh!!

Just as the Cake Ship reached above that ship, it was sliced horizontally by a watery slash, splitting it in two, sinking into the sea.

Smoothie coldly eyed Marika jumping in the air, pointing her large sword into the sky.

"Then, your opponent is me." Marika said with a smile.

"Already prepared... no matter who it is, I’ll kill them to show you that the Four Emperors are not so easy to raid!" Smoothie said coldly.