The angry sea formed by the gathering of trees, coupled with the blazing flames on the branches, made Aramu's offensive even more powerful.
Twisted rhizomes broke out of the ground and entangled themselves with Esdeath's body. After rushing within three feet of Esdeath, the rhizomes suddenly stopped. The ice crystals formed on the surface of the rhizomes froze them in place.
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"Woo——"
The wind howled, the whirlpool of the snowstorm formed a hemisphere, and the red flames looked like candles blown out by the strong wind at any time in front of the snowstorm.
The branches burning with flames were whipped into the blizzard. The moment they came into contact with the dense snowflakes and ice slag, the flames were automatically extinguished. The burnt branches froze and cracked into pieces.
But Aramaki did not stop his offensive. The vast forest rushed into the blizzard one after another. The two natural disasters continued to consume each other until one of them fell!
In the middle of the blizzard, Esdeath swung a sword in the direction of Aramu from afar. The sword energy was wrapped in freezing air and rushed out of the barrier formed by the wind and snow. Everything the sword energy went along the way was covered with ice, and even the air was frozen.
, the trees rushing forward stopped.
Aramaki opened his eyes wide. Curved and thick trees grew out of the ground, forming a thick wall of trees in front of him.
The sword energy carrying the terrifying freezing energy bombarded the wall, and the sound of ice condensing made Aramu tremble with fear. The low temperature penetrated the wood, and frost condensed on the other side of the tree wall.
"Bang!" A few cold lights flashed, Esdeath smashed the wall with his sword, and rushed in alone.
Huang Mu hurriedly attacked, but the tree giant bent a sharp and thick branch and suddenly stabbed it out.
Esdeath raised her sword, and the attack between the two was finally lifted.
"Click——"
The blade of the sword cut the branches, and Esdeath sprinted all the way. The blade of the sword that cut the branches moved accordingly, and cut off half of the tree giant's arm.
"ah--!"
Aramaki let out an angry roar and slammed his other arm at Esdeath, who was running on his arm.
Esdeath jumped away to avoid the attack, and the tree giant's attack suddenly fell on him. Esdeath used the moon step to flexibly change the direction of travel in the air, and finally rushed in front of Aramaki, the sword tip flashing with cold light.
Enter the tree man's body.
"Freeze it!"
Starting from the point where the sword blade struck, the tree man's body quickly condensed a thick layer of frost at a speed visible to the naked eye. After a few breaths, the tree man seemed to be covered in ice armor and turned into an ice sculpture.
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"boom!"
Esdeath kicked the huge ice sculpture to pieces, and countless ice cubes of various sizes, covering part of the tree man's torso, flew around.
Esdeath spotted a relatively large ice block and rushed towards it, and with her domineering knowledge, she accurately found the Aramu entity hidden in the broken wood.
"Kaka"
Before Esdeath could rush in front of him, there was a crisp sound of ice cracking, and cracks appeared in the ice surrounding the tree man's torso.
The next second, the ice burst, and fine ice shards flew around. The piece of wood gradually condensed into Aramu's body.
"Take the move!" Aramaki spread his arms, and countless branches stretched out from his arms, fingers, and body. These branches pierced the ice covering the wood and connected with the remains of the tree giant in the air, connecting Ai
Surrounded by Siders.
"Be crushed to death by the forest!"
Big trees grew from the remains of the Tree Giant. Dozens of huge trees were spawned by Huang Mu in the air. Based on the remains of the Tree Giant, like pythons, their thick trunks spiraled inward, trying to
Esdeath squeezed inside.
"Mokobotemo!" Esdeath's fingers met, and a blue light bloomed from between his palms, instantly encompassing the island floating in the sky and Eric soaring in the sky.
The long river of time was frozen at this moment, and time stopped in an instant for Esdeath!
The whole world seemed to be coated with a layer of faint blue dye, the twisted and growing trees, the flying ice shards, the mud falling from the glass on the island... Everything in the entire space fell into a strange stasis.
The only exception was Esdeath. Her figure sprang out from the intertwined trees, escaped from the trap created by Aramaki, entangled the overlord-colored and domineering sword blade, and pierced the motionless Aramaki's chest!
The next second, the strange solidification was broken, and everything was given color again. The falling soil and splashing ice continued to fly along the original trajectory, but the twisted and growing trees stopped growing.
"Cough...!" Huang Mu, whose heart was pierced, coughed out a mouthful of blood. A chill spread from his heart to his whole body, making his limbs extremely cold.
He lowered his head and looked at his chest. On the other end of the Western sword, Esdeath, holding the hilt of the sword, was staring at him expressionlessly.
"How... did you do that?" Aramaki asked in disbelief. How could Esdeath, who was far away in the forest trap, suddenly appear in front of him and pierce his heart with a sword blade?
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"You are going to die." Esdeath had no intention of answering the dead man's question. He suddenly pulled out his Western sword and swung it to the side to shake off the blood beads on the blade.
"Kakaka-"
The cold energy in Huang Mu's heart exploded. Starting from his heart, ice crystals quickly spread to his internal organs. The surface of his body was also covered with a layer of ice at this moment.
"How... could I... lose to... a cadre of the Yonko Pirates..." Aramaki's voice was full of confusion, confusion, and fear hidden in it.
"I...have not obtained...enough power..." Aramaki vomited blood and muttered to himself incoherently.
"No...I can't...die like this...!"
“Ahhhh——!”
Just before the end of his life, Aramaki let out a roar full of unwillingness. The entire forest he spawned twisted and grew crazily with Aramaki's thoughts, as if nature was angry.
Dense and thick tree roots drilled out of the surface, and the soil on the island was no longer visible to the naked eye. The entire island ground was covered by forest roots, swallowing up Esdeath not far away in an instant.
"The counterattack before death is quite impressive."
The forest gradually stopped growing, and several trees were gradually covered with frost and formed into ice sculptures. Then they suddenly cracked into fine ice foam and dispersed into the air, and Esdeath walked out of it.
"Thank you." Eric, who had been holding the island up, lowered himself and said, "You have been fighting for almost two days and one night, please rest for a while."
"Well..." Esdeath put her head on Eric's shoulder: "Leave me for a while, I feel... a little tired."
Eric glanced at Esdeath's attributes. His swordsmanship rose to nine stars, and his devil fruit ability and weaponry and domineering rose to nine and a half stars.
Although Esdeath's overall strength has not yet reached nine and a half stars, if one or two more attributes are improved, it might be okay.
…
"So tired!" Perona held a stack of books, threw it on the table with a bang, stuck out her tongue, and sat limply on the ground: "These are the last ones, right?"
"Perona, be careful." Robin said angrily, "These books are very precious documents and information."
"Then don't let me move!" Perona jumped angrily: "It took us a day and a night to move so many books, without even a break in between. You are even more evil than Eric!"
"I will convey your words to Eric unchanged." Robin replied with a smile.
"..." Perona suddenly wilted.
Polqi on the side said: "That's why Captain Eric often forces you to exercise."
"No..." Perona seemed to have been betrayed: "Polqi, isn't your physical strength about the same as mine!? Why are you not tired after moving for so long?"
"Well..." Bolqi recalled: "Because last year I often rehearsed, toured, and danced for more than two hours, and before I knew it..."
"Wow...run away! Traitor!"
"Perona, your physical strength is not as good as Yoshino's, but you still have the nerve to talk about things."
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" Perona looked at Yoshino with tears in her eyes.
The rabbit doll on Yoshino's left hand said: "Erza-chan, are you looking down on Yoshino?"
"Sorry, Yoshino, that's not what I meant." Erza apologized seriously.
"It's okay, it's okay, Miss Erza, there's no need to apologize, I know you don't mean any harm." Yoshino waved her hands repeatedly.
"But it's such an astonishing amount..."
"These books are only a small part of them." Sauro said with a smile: "There are still many books in Elbaf, and one ship cannot transport them all."
"I can't believe that such an astonishing number of books were actually transported and protected by just over thirty scholars..."
"That's why we call it a miracle..." Sauro said with emotion.
"Robin, I will bring the remaining books. But..." Sauro changed the subject and said, "Can you let me meet Kui Long."
"You want to see Eric?" Robin was stunned: "However, the captain is not in China at the moment."
"Where did he go?"
"Eric will be back soon." Before Robin could speak, Kuang San answered with a sweet smile.
Sauro made up his mind and said, "Really? Then I'll just wait here for a few days."
…
Eric, who got the Sensen Fruit as he wished, returned to China two days later with Esdeath and Egil.
"Huh?" As soon as he entered the door, Eric's eyes were attracted by the books piled up half of the room.
"Eric, you are finally back." Robin breathed a sigh of relief.
"Where did you get all these books?"
"An old acquaintance brought me here." Robin pursed his lips.
"Huh? Aren't all your old acquaintances...uh?" Eric suddenly stopped talking, not knowing how to continue.
"It seems that the captain also has something he doesn't know about." Robin was as happy as if he had defeated Eric.
"I'm not an omniscient and omnipotent God." Eric curled his lips, picked up a book and flipped through two pages.
If you don’t understand, skip it.
"Eric, I'll take you to meet someone." Robin invited.
Eric teased: "It turns out he's not your lover. I thought you were hiding someone secretly..."
Eric's inner network has long been aware of a strange aura, a giant.
"Love... Hidden people..." Robin secretly rolled his eyes.
"Anyway, you will definitely be surprised."
"Okay." Eric shrugged: "It can't be the resurrection of the dead, right?"
"..." Robin suddenly stopped, looked back at Eric, and said to himself: "I always suspect that you are deliberately pretending not to know."
"Lead the way quickly." Eric urged.
Robin did not dwell on the topic and continued to lead the way, and together with Eric came to the room where Sauro was temporarily staying.
"Hello, His Majesty Eric." Sauro thought for a moment and politely added the suffix "Your Majesty" to the end.
"Hello." Eric responded, carefully looking at the bandaged giant in front of him, thinking that he was a bandage lover like the Kuangsanjiangwang.
At least there is no shortage of weird people in the world of pirates. Two years later, there was a man named "Severely Injured" Arubio in the Chambord Islands.
"My name is Sauro, I heard Robin say, do you know me?"
"Huh?" Eric frowned and looked at the other person carefully, and he could vaguely see Sauro's outline.
"Aren't you dead?"
"Telei hee hee..." Sauro let out that strange laugh: "In the fire, I finally saved my life."
"Did the flames burning on O'Hara melt the ice of the blue pheasant..."
"You seem to have witnessed the destruction of O'Hara with your own eyes." Sauro asked: "Could it be that you are also a survivor of O'Hara?"
"No, I'm from Donghai."
"Yeah……"
"So, those books were all brought by you? Those historical documents that were thrown into the lake and saved from being devoured by fire..."
"That's right." Sauro confirmed Eric's guess.
"Do you have any requirements?" Eric asked. Savulo deliberately stayed here to wait for him. There must be some conditions.
"Because these books were protected by O'Hara scholars with their lives, I hope you can protect these documents."
"No problem, I want to build a library of these books."
"Eh?" Robin and Sauro were startled at the same time.
"Robin, why are you surprised?" Eric said angrily: "I carry out compulsory education in China. Isn't the content of education all about knowledge?"
"Sorry, I didn't connect the two things." Robin said embarrassedly.
"I even want to publish the contents of these books to the world."
"Don't!" Sauro immediately stopped him: "I don't want these documents to be put in danger!"
"Although the World Government cannot do anything to the Kingdom of China, if the agents of the World Government who sneaked into the Kingdom of China set a fire in the library, it would be all over!"
Eric frowned and asked, "Don't you have any backup copies of these books?"
"Uh...what is backup?"
"..." Eric was speechless and explained: "A book is copied into many copies. If the original copy is damaged or lost, there will be other copies, and the knowledge and history will not be cut off."