"Such comfortable wind..."
It was a strange exclamation, and combined with the current scene, it felt incredibly eerie.
Hearing this voice, Jack suddenly stopped his advance, cautiously looking up ahead.
His right hand, the one that had just held his sword, was still trembling slightly.
The envoy's power truly far exceeded Jack's imagination.
If someone were merely watching from the side, they wouldn't be able to feel that extreme strangeness at all.
It was different from the opponents Jack had fought before, even different from his own captain, Kaido the Hundred Beasts.
It wasn't a pure form of violence, but a mixture of many inexplicable emotions, blended together, ultimately forming an ultimate distortion!
Such a verbose description wasn't Jack's usual style, but he genuinely felt in his heart that this was how he should describe the current situation.
But...
Even if it was strange, so what?
His elder brother, nicknamed "Queen of Plague," was an expert in the use of chemical weapons.
The Poison Gas Weapons created by Queen of Plague were incredibly valuable treasures, even in the underworld!
And what was equipped on his ship, the Mammoth, was a highly concentrated anesthetic gas, specially prepared for Jack by Queen of Plague, following Captain Kaido the Hundred Beasts' orders, before they set sail.
No matter how strong someone was, they couldn't avoid breathing.
Just one whiff of that new dark green poison gas would cause them to collapse on the ground, helpless!
The surrounding pirates were the best proof of this.
Without prior warning, some of them didn't have time to put on their gas masks. After inhaling a few breaths of the gas, they immediately collapsed.
The pirates who were lucky enough to put on their gas masks in time hurried to check on their companions.
But Jack didn't care about that at all.
"Don't worry, they'll just be bedridden for a few days at most. It's not a fatal gas."
After speaking, Jack's attention returned entirely to the densest part of the toxic fog.
The envoy's voice was coming from there.
His right hand was still trembling, and a dull ache was faintly spreading.
What a joke, I'm Jack the Drought!
How could I be struggling with some no-name nobody!
I need to finish him off quickly and complete Captain Kaido's orders...
Jack thought to himself.
He rechecked the gas mask on his face, then held another scythe-shaped saber in his left hand and slowly stepped forward.
At the same time, the voice coming from the gas began to fade.
"Such comfortable wind..."
"So comfortable..."
Finally, there was complete silence!
Seeing this, Jack couldn't help but feel a surge of joy.
Perhaps it was due to their physiology that the gas hadn't taken effect immediately!
Just as he was about to push aside the fog to see what was inside, a wave of intense coldness suddenly washed over Jack.
He instinctively raised his hands.
And in the next second, Jack began to be grateful for his decision.
Because at that very moment, the envoy transformed into a black shadow, bursting out of the thick fog, and a punch directly struck Jack's forearm!
Crack!
A crisp cracking sound echoed – the sound of bone breaking.
"Pain!"
The word exploded in Jack's mind.
How long had it been? How long had it been since I felt such piercing agony in a fight?
I have the power of an ancient zoan-type Devil Fruit, and yet my bones were broken by a mere punch?
With a body so much thinner than mine, how could he unleash such astonishing power!
No, that wasn't all...
What bothered Jack even more was, how could that person move safely in such a large amount of anesthetic gas without a gas mask?
This defied all common sense about the human body!
If Queen of Plague were here, he would surely exclaim loudly: "This guy is definitely not human!"
Hmm?
Wait?
Not human?
Jack suddenly realized something and his head shot up.
He saw a few tiny black dots floating before his eyes. Jack focused and realized they were tiny black sand particles.
And the source of those black sand particles was the envoy's direction!
Jack followed the direction the sand was drifting and saw that the envoy was covered in black Armament Haki, looking as if he was wearing an armor of it.
Full-body Armament Haki coverage!
The extremely high-purity Armament Haki covered the envoy's body. Even in the New World, where powerhouses abound, such formidable Armament Haki was rarely seen.
A Logia-type Devil Fruit user?
A top-tier Armament Haki master?
Jack searched his mind for names of experts who fit both these criteria, but couldn't identify anyone.
Logically, someone like that shouldn't be unknown on this sea, especially someone daring to challenge the Beasts Pirates.
Besides, what was that thought that flashed through my mind just now?
Not human?
Does that mean this guy in front of me is not human at all?
Ha, how could that be possible!
Can someone who isn't human use such powerful Armament Haki?
Jack didn't believe it.
At the same time, Jack became enraged.
He roared and broke free from the envoy's punch, and his already robust body underwent a drastic transformation.
Jack's body began to swell, his limbs and torso becoming exceptionally thick, and a huge dark silhouette slowly rose on the deck of the Mammoth.
Seeing this, the pirates who were still conscious became panicked, shouting:
"Captain Jack, don't fight on the ship, you'll affect us!"
Don't fight on the ship?
You damn imbeciles, should I go to your house to fight!
And besides, it's not like I want to do this...
What captain in the world would want to fight at full power on their own ship? Especially those who are quite confident in their own strength.
But the current situation forced Jack to do so.
Because if I don't go all out, I'll be the one to be finished off!
Jack roared, his body completely transforming into its zoan form, becoming a giant mammoth.
Zoan-type, Mammoth-Mammoth Fruit, Ancient Zoan, Mammoth Form!
The colossal mammoth roared and targeted the envoy's direction, stomping its foot down.
It was a force that could definitely crush an entire warship!
In other words, Jack was willing to sacrifice his ship, the Mammoth, and pour all his effort into crushing the envoy to death!
"Die!"
The voice of the giant mammoth echoed in everyone's ears.
And in the next second, a figure suddenly leaped from the deck and stomped on the mammoth's back.
This attack directly slammed the mammoth onto the deck, nearly crushing the entire ship!
Piece after piece of black light armor fell from the figure.
The envoy's distorted voice slowly echoed.
"Die..."
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