Chapter 251 Punishment
“If you use me like this, you should be prepared to be killed, Kaido! Divine avoidance!”

Shanks, who was used by Kaido, was not without temper. He was inexplicably forced to become the murderer of the Knight of God. In shock and anger, Shanks swung his sword mercilessly to make a flying slash with domineering domineering.

This is the swordsmanship he learned from Captain Roger. With one strike of the sword, even ghosts and gods will be frightened away. As long as the user is strong enough, even gods will have to avoid this strike!

When Kaido bit Saint Evans and broke out of the siege, Ancient Saint Green, who knew Saint Evans’s defense well, did not care too much. He knew very well that with Kaido’s strength and his current state, it was impossible for him to pose a fatal threat to Saint Evans in a short period of time.

In order to give his companions in the Knights of God more opportunities to train, Ancient Saint Green resisted the urge to take action.

But Ancient Saint Green never expected that Kaido would be so traumatized by the death of his men that he would rather risk being killed by Shanks than kill Saint Evans who had mocked him.

When Shanks’s sharp divine slash rose into the sky against Kaido’s hot breath, the stone slab under the feet of Ancient Saint Green, who finally realized that something was wrong, shattered instantly, and his figure almost turned into a shadow and rushed towards Kaido.

However, the rescue of Ancient Saint Green came a little late after all. Shanks’ slash was just as Kaido expected. The top-level domineering aura coupled with the attack power of the great swordsman-level swordsmanship easily broke through the double defense of Saint Evans, and even cut a deep flesh groove on Kaido’s dragon face where the bone could be seen.

The reason why he can achieve this level is, on the one hand, that Evans Saint’s shell has been burned red by Kaido, and his own defense has been greatly reduced, but the more important reason is that Shanks’ attack power has reached a level comparable to Roger. Even with Kaido’s terrifying physique, he will be injured by Shanks if he is not careful.

In comparison, Whitebeard’s Tremor-Tremor Fruit is not very effective against Kaido. This is why when Whitebeard was still alive, Kaido dared to repeatedly cause trouble for the Whitebeard Pirates, but rarely took the initiative to attack the Red Hair Pirates.

On the contrary, Red-Haired Shanks often took the initiative to cause trouble for Kaido, as if he never worried that Kaido would target them like a mad dog.

“Wow! It hurts! Saint Shanks, how dare you hurt your compatriots…”

Obviously, his injuries were not much more serious than Kaido’s, but Saint Evans, who had never experienced a life-and-death battle, could not help but scream. If he had not been held in Kaido’s mouth, he would probably have rolled on the ground in pain.

However, Saint Evans did not have the chance to scream soon. As an awakened animal-type devil fruit user, the side effect of the Diamond Beetle’s shell, which had extremely terrifying defensive power, was that its recovery speed after injury was far slower than that of other animal-type devil fruits.

After all, the difficulty of repairing the body and repairing the shell are not at the same level, and Kaido will not give Saint Evans the opportunity to repair his shell.

“Hot breath!”

Completely ignoring the huge wound on his dragon head, Kaido took a deep breath and exhaled hot dragon breath again, but this time all the flames were directed at Saint Evans.

The broken shell only healed a small area in a short period of time and could no longer prevent the flames from pouring into the body of the King Kong Rhinoceros Beetle. Instead, the once strong shell became a “tool” for Kaido to kill Saint Evans.

In just a few seconds, Saint Evans, who once prided himself on his defensive power, was completely destroyed by Kaido, leaving only a shell that seemed to be made of steel but was empty inside, which was spit out by Kaido.

Shanks was about to say something when his face suddenly changed drastically. He didn’t care that Kaido, the Beast King who had just killed one of his “compatriots”, was right in front of him. He ran away without a trace as if he was feeling guilty after doing something bad.

Although Shanks is not afraid of fighting with anyone, even Borsalino who once beat him up, it would be good to have the experience of being pinned to the ground and rubbed less often.

Especially since the one who came towards him aggressively was his cheap father who loved his fellow Celestial Dragons to the point of being almost paranoid, Shanks didn’t want to take the blame for Kaido.

“…What a heinous crime this is… You who have murdered two knights of God, in the name of the commander of the Knights of God, the Ancient Saint Fegalando Green, I sentence you to death!”

Ancient Saint Green didn’t even look at Shanks. His sharp eyes were fixed on Kaido, who was covered in wounds and had a gash on his head.

Although Shanks can be considered Kaido’s “accomplice” in a sense, compared to Kaido who actually killed Evans Saint, Shanks was more forced to protect himself.

This has nothing to do with the fact that he is the son of Ancient Saint Green. Even if it were another Celestial Dragon, Ancient Saint Green would not vent his anger on others for such a reason.

Of course, the premise is that the person must be a Celestial Dragon. If the person being used by Kaido to kill Saint Evans is Beckman, Ancient Saint Green will most likely take Beckman to bury Saint Evans with him.

“Ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh, you want to kill me? Come and try if you have the guts!”

Kaido, who killed Saint Evans, calmed down a little at this time. Of course, the main reason was that the oppression brought to Kaido by Ancient Saint Green was getting stronger and stronger, just like Rocks in the past.

In his peak state, Kaido could fight against Ancient Saint Grimm, but now he has fought bloody battles with several powerful opponents for a long time. His record of killing two Knights of God is almost the most eye-catching existence in this war.

Even Esdeath, who also has a double kill record, namely Army General Iron Fist Ryulu and Divine Knight Baldura Saint, is inferior to Kaido.

After all, Esdeath had been forced to “retire” under the siege of the Knights of God. Although Kaido was not in good condition at this time, his record of killing two Knights of God one after another made Kaido look even more powerful.

Even Ancient Saint Green, who had the most confidence in the Knights of God, was forced to take action himself to prevent the monster Kaido from counterattacking and taking away another Knight of God before he died.

“Death! Monster!”

Ancient Saint Grimm drew his sword as soon as they disagreed. As the only two non-powered people in the Knights of God, Ancient Saint Grimm, like Red-Haired Shanks, are both powerful swordsmen at the level of great swordsmen.

“Roar! Bad wind!”

Having felt the oppression from Ancient Saint Grimm that was comparable to that of Rocks, Kaido did not dare to be careless at all. He opened his mouth and spit out countless wind blades to slash at Ancient Saint Grimm.

“Hanging!”

Ancient Saint Green casually swung his sword in the wind, and actually merged the wind blade spit out by Kaido into a strange slashing wave, which then rolled towards Kaido.

Because of his injury, Kaido’s movements were obviously slower than usual, and he didn’t even have time to react before he felt his huge dragon head being entangled by an invisible ‘rope’. As Ancient Saint Grimm swung the sword in his hand, the ‘rope’ suddenly strangled Kaido’s neck.

The invisible ‘rope’ was extremely tough, and no matter how hard Kaido tried, he could not break free. Instead, it became tighter and tighter, making it difficult for Kaido to breathe.

Kaido was forced to transform from beast form to orc form. He originally wanted to get rid of the constraints of the “rope” by changing his form.

But what he didn’t expect was that this invisible “rope” under the control of Ancient Saint Green actually tightened synchronously as if it had life, giving Kaido no chance to get rid of it.

“die!”

Ancient Saint Green swung his sword again with an expressionless face. The ‘rope’ formed by the wind and the slashing waves kept tightening, and it seemed that Kaido, the Beast, was about to be strangled to death. “Roar! Hot Breath!”

Kaido endured the stranglehold that almost strangled his tongue, and forcibly transformed into the blue dragon form. He finally broke the “rope” and spit out a large amount of hot dragon breath towards the Ancient Saint Green.

“Filthy beast… beheading!”

Seeing Kaido break free from his restraints, Ancient Saint Green’s eyes gradually turned cold, and he casually slashed out with a knife, separating the blazing dragon breath and slashing towards the neck of the Azure Dragon.

Kaido, who had just been slashed by Shanks, subconsciously wanted to dodge, but the speed of Ancient Saint Green’s flying slash was too fast, and it directly cut a huge wound several meters long on Kaido’s neck.

After a series of fierce battles since landing on Marijoa, Kaido’s physical strength and even his armament domineering were in a seriously insufficient state. In addition, the wounds all over his body greatly reduced his defensive capabilities. It is not difficult to imagine the result when facing the Ancient Saint Grimm in his prime.

“Roar……”

A large amount of blood gushed out, and Kaido’s roar became a little weak, but this knife also made Kaido completely sober. For a moment, all the beasts had the idea of ​​escaping.

If he continues to fight, he might be able to cause some trouble to his opponent, but in his current state, there is a high probability that he will really lose his life if he fights hard.

However, when Kaido’s gaze inadvertently swept to the place where King died in battle, the Pirate Emperor, who was known for his cold-blooded cruelty, suddenly froze.

Although King risked his life to cut off the head of the Divine Knight Saint Nicholas, the revenge of the remaining two Divine Knights was not something the Beasts Pirates could withstand.

Except for Quinn and Jack, the two tough and strong big guys, whether it was the Flying Six, the Barbarian Tyrants or the real fighters, they all suffered heavy casualties under the targeting of the Knights of God.

Only Black Maria and Runti were still alive among the Flying Six. However, Black Maria had her limbs broken and was lying on the ground dying. Runti, covered in blood, was crying while holding her brother Peggy Wan whose head had been chopped off. It was obvious that she no longer had the ability to continue fighting.

The huge Barbarian Tyrants were almost wiped out, with only one in ten of them left. The Giver Corps was littered with corpses, and the former Hundred Beasts Pirates were now on the verge of collapse.

“Brother Kaido! Leave us alone and go!”

Quinn, with a bleeding head, suddenly found that Brother Kaido had escaped from the siege of the Knights of God. He was overjoyed and completely ignored the fact that he was in danger. He barely mustered up his last bit of strength and shouted at Kaido.

As long as Brother Kaido is alive, the Beasts Pirates will not perish!
“How dare you, bastard! Brother Kaido, let me help you!”

Thanks to Quinn’s intentional protection, Jack, who was in relatively good condition at this time, followed Quinn’s sight and saw the scene where Kaido had one of his dragon claws cut off by the Ancient Saint Grimm. His eyes suddenly turned red with anger, and he turned into a huge mammoth and rushed towards the Ancient Saint Grimm.

“No passage here…!”

But just as Jack rushed over, the divine knight Saint Stettin, who was previously responsible for dealing with Quinn, blocked him and slowly crossed his arms in front of him.

Jack, who was charging, suddenly stopped in his tracks. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t move forward even a single step.

“Ahhhhh! Get out of my way!”

The furious Jack transformed into his orc form again, drew out his fanged long knife and slashed at Saint Stettin.

“Jack stop it!”

Quinn was so frightened when he saw this scene that he shouted at Jack in horror.

Although Quinn looks as stupid as Jack, he is actually one of the top scientists in the world. As early as when he faced Saint Stettin, Quinn had already realized the horror of the forbidden fruit.

“Attacking is prohibited here… Violators will be punished!”

Saint Stettin smiled as he watched Jack’s long knife slash at him, almost cutting him in half.

However, the next moment, the injury on Saint Stettin’s body was restored to a wound less than the width of a finger, and in its place was the fallen body of Jack, which was split in half.

The superhuman forbidden fruit can prohibit anything from happening, but when the ability user prohibits something that is in progress, if the forbidden thing happens, the ability user can activate the ability of the forbidden fruit to punish that thing.

At the same time when Jack hit Saint Stettin, Saint Stettin simultaneously activated the ability of the Forbidden Fruit. As a result, Jack violated the prohibition and the consequences he caused were directly returned to Jack himself.

However, this way of fighting is also quite risky for Saint Stettin. If he is a little bit slow in timing the prohibition, the consequence is that he will be hacked to death by the enemy before the ability of the prohibition fruit can be activated.

“Tsk, it’s been too long since I took action, and something almost happened…”

Saint Stettin looked at the wound on his shoulder and felt unhappy. He thought it would be just some superficial injury at most, but the knife almost cut his shoulder blade.

“Jack!”

Quinn, who saw King and Jack die in battle one after another, fell into a state of madness. Although he often quarreled and even fought with King, and often scolded Jack, his young brother, together with King, the three leaders of the Beasts Pirates had been together for more than 20 years, and had long regarded each other as companions no different from family members.

“bury!”

But when the runaway Quinn turned into a giant brachiosaurus and rushed towards St. Stettin regardless of anything, a middle-aged man with a serious expression stood in front of him and stretched out his hand towards Quinn.

The next moment, the ground beneath Quinn’s feet collapsed and turned into a huge sinkhole. Quinn, caught off guard, fell directly into the sinkhole.

The height of the tiankeng was obviously not enough to kill the thick-skinned boss, but the next moment, hundreds of thousands of tons of earth and rocks fell, completely burying Quinn hundreds of meters underground.

“Thank you, Saint Betalli. To be honest, it still hurts to get stabbed again…”

(End of this chapter)