After killing the pirate, Ranzuki erupted with his full power.
He was a Super Kage-level existence, and Sage Chakra greatly enhanced his physical abilities. At this moment, amidst the crowd, he was unmatched.
Cutting through them like vegetables!
Watching Ranzuki's current slaughter, this idiom came to people's minds.
Their eyes widened, mouths agape, staring at the carnage unfolding before them, seemingly forgetting their own predicament.
After killing another pirate with a 250 million Berri bounty, Ranzuki arrived at the highest point of the ruined palace, looking down below.
From here, he could clearly see the barrier he had set was still shrinking, constantly dissolving everything within it.
Whether it was flowers, trees, or buildings, or even... human lives.
And somewhere in this city, Kei Yuki and a group of ninja-pirates were maintaining the sealing barrier.
This made the pirates who were frantically trying to break through the barrier despair. Because with their strength, they simply couldn't break this barrier.
Of course, there were not only pirates at the edge of the barrier, but also grieving civilians.
However, who would care...
At this moment, more people had gathered below the palace.
Pirates and civilians combined, the number had reached twenty to thirty thousand. After all, once people encounter a terrible disaster, they subconsciously distance themselves or gather towards places with more people.
Bang!!!
Gunshots rang out. Snipers, having figured out the situation, angrily fired at the barrier.
However, let's not even mention how incredibly enhanced Ranzuki's perception was as a fourth-stage Sage.
Just with the Observation Haki he currently possessed, it would be extremely difficult for these snipers to hit him.
"To break that barrier, we can only kill Ranzuki, who is maintaining it. Let's all go together!"
Someone shouted below, and immediately more than ten pirates jumped up and charged towards Ranzuki.
"Boring."
The corner of Ranzuki's mouth curled up as he formed hand seals.
Sage Art: Water Release: Great Waterfall Technique!
Great Waterfall Technique, this was definitely a powerful jutsu. And enhanced by Sage Chakra, this jutsu could only be described as terrifying.
A gigantic water blade that pierced the sky appeared, fiercely stabbing downwards!
And where the water blade plunged, the earth was submerged by water, forming a massive swirling vortex!
This water area was so vast, it seemed to engulf everything below.
The faces of the pirates charging towards Ranzuki completely changed.
They unhesitatingly activated their Armament Haki, quickly retreating, praying they wouldn't be hit.
After all, most of these pirates were Devil Fruit users.
And Devil Fruit users had an innate fear of water.
Regardless of whether it was seawater or not.
People wanted to escape the attack range of this jutsu, but if it were that simple, it would be too much of an underestimate of Ranzuki, too much of an underestimate of this Sage Art.
Soon, the range of the water area occupied almost a quarter of the entire city.
Of the tens of thousands of people gathered here, at least ten thousand were submerged in this water area.
Swish!
The sound of a blade cutting through the air came from beside his ear, but Ranzuki didn't even move, allowing the blade to pass through his body.
"Ranzuki, you even killed innocent civilians! I heard you killed a Celestial Dragon before and called you a hero, but now it seems you're just a butcher!"
Vista angrily spoke.
Although as a pirate, he had witnessed many innocent people being killed by the strong, but seeing Ranzuki kill tens of thousands of innocent people at once, he couldn't suppress the anger in his heart.
"And what?"
Ranzuki didn't care about Vista's anger at all.
It's not like they were people from the Sage Shinobi Nation.
Boom!!!
A gigantic elephant trunk slammed down, smashing the castle where Ranzuki had just been standing into smithereens.
It was Jack. He felt a bad premonition within the barrier and his heart was already filled with panic.
At this point, Jack no longer intended to hide his strength. He only wanted to kill Ranzuki and stop that barrier!
Unfortunately, the difference in strength between him and Ranzuki was too great. Let alone killing Ranzuki, he couldn't even injure him.
Charlotte Perospero was also looking for an opportunity to strike.
He naturally couldn't just wait for death. Under the pressure of the life-threatening situation, almost everyone here, except for Ranzuki, had united.
However...
Looking at Ranzuki in the sky, with a pair of beautiful wings on his back, Charlotte Perospero's mind seemed to short-circuit.
Not only him, but almost all the pirates who were thinking of defeating Ranzuki and escaping from the barrier felt despair as they looked at Ranzuki, who was dozens of meters above them in the sky.
This guy could actually fly!
What kind of monster was this!!!
Right, the tree!
It must be that tree!
Ranzuki, this guy who defied common sense, must have gained this ability from that tree, that plant that defied common sense.
If they ate the fruit from that tree, perhaps there was still hope!
Some people thought of the tree and rushed into the palace without hesitation, wanting to grasp at this last shred of hope.
With a flap of his wings, Ranzuki in the sky arrived above everyone.
These were the Wings of Wind. Hui had long since included this jutsu in the merit redemption system, and Ranzuki and the other nine youths who first entered this world could obtain it for free.
"...Are you looking for that tree? How naive."
He spoke, and the people directly below paused.
"What... what do you mean?!" Someone loudly questioned, their eyes turning bloodshot as they looked at Ranzuki.
"What do I mean? It's just what you think it means." Ranzuki said casually, the corners of his mouth curling up in a faint, ambiguous smile.
Bang! Bang! Bang!!!
More gunshots from the snipers. At this moment, everyone here wanted to kill the devil in the sky.
Ranzuki dodged the bullets. He looked around, his wings fluttered, and he soared into the sky.
Leaving only a sentence that echoed in everyone's ears.
"I won't play with you guys anymore. You can play with this guy instead. Good luck."
As his words fell, a chubby, cute boy appeared, wearing the same clothes as Ranzuki but appearing plumper.
Such a fellow made people puzzled, and a sense of foreboding arose in their hearts.
And if anyone from the Sage Shinobi Nation were here, they would definitely exclaim in shock.
One of the secret techniques of the Hozuki Clan, Steaming Danger Tyranny!
And this wasn't ordinary Steaming Danger Tyranny, but Sage Art: Steaming Danger Tyranny!!!
In the next moment, Steaming Danger Tyranny activated.
After he exploded several times and re-condensed, some people despaired.
They tried to contact people outside, hoping that someone could break the barrier from the outside and let them out.
However...they couldn't communicate with anything outside the barrier.
This seemed like a death trap. Whoever was inside would die.
"Damn it, what should we do?!!!"
Someone roared in anger, then their eyes turned horrified.
Because the chubby guy who had just exploded and killed dozens of people had condensed once again!