One Piece: Surrounded at Marineford? Just kidding!

Chapter 258: The Dragon's Show of Power? An Ineffective Probe!

The gale sounded like the howling of ghosts.

Only this one sound remained in the world.

Three black tornadoes, stretching from the sky to the ground, and three world-destroying black dragons emerging from the abyss, formed a triangular formation, blocking all escape routes for the sailboat.

The pressure arrived before the wind did.

The sea beneath the ship was forced to create a giant crater hundreds of meters in diameter, and the seawater was pushed outwards, creating a ring of giant waves tens of meters high.

A sailboat is like a withered leaf in a storm.

The keel of the ship was groaning and creaking, as if it would fall apart at any moment.

Are they going to greet us as soon as they come up?

If we don't respond immediately, both the ship and the people will be torn to pieces.

"Hmph! A mere trick!"

Zefa's eyes blazed red, radiating fighting spirit.

He took a step forward, and the deck beneath his feet cracked, instantly straightening his hunched back.

"Let me handle this! I can blast away winds of this strength with a single punch!"

With a furious shout, he began to gather strength in his arms.

The metal was covered in jet-black Armament Haki, making it heavy and hard.

Faced with natural disaster, this former chief naval instructor chose to confront it head-on with his own body.

This is the first time in many years that his arms have demonstrated their strength!

On the other side, Aokiji and Kuzan also made their move.

A breath of cold air escaped, and the surrounding air suddenly froze, with white frost spreading beneath his feet.

"Ah la la la la... What a warm welcome ceremony!"

Aokiji squinted, his tone languid, yet the chill seeped into his very bones.

"If we don't want the ship to sink and everyone to perish, it seems we have to freeze this sea along with the storms—an Ice Age."

The two former representatives, representing the Navy's top combat power, unleashed their auras simultaneously, managing to rival the world-destroying storm.

However, just as the two were about to make their move...

"No need."

A calm voice pierced through the wind and rang clearly in their ears.

Chen Ye had somehow ended up standing at the very front of the ship.

He didn't strike any pose; his hands remained behind his back, his white robes fluttering wildly in the wind, yet not a speck of dust touched them.

Facing the three all-consuming black wind dragons, he remained calm, as if watching a clumsy farce.

Zephyr and Aokiji concealed their presence and stopped what they were doing.

As they watched Chen Ye's retreating figure, a strange sense of security welled up within them.

Wherever this man is, even if the sky falls, it will have to be rebuilt according to his rules.

Chen Ye raised his head slightly, his gaze piercing through the chaotic air currents and looking directly at the heart of the storm.

A faint golden stream of data flashed in his deep eyes.

At that moment, in his vision, all power was dismantled.

Wind is the code of high-speed flow, and stones are the regular lines representing "kinetic energy" and "mass".

He doesn't need to use his fists to fight against power, nor does he need to use frost to freeze matter.

As the "Time and Space Emperor," he only needs to modify parameters.

Chen Ye raised his right hand, his index finger pointing lightly at the oncoming storm of destruction.

He parted his lips slightly and uttered two words.

"still."

The moment the words fell.

hum.

An invisible, powerful force field spread outwards at an incredible speed, centered on Chen Ye's fingertip.

The force field swept across the deck, across the sea, and across the arrogant black tornado.

The next second, a scene that would have made Newton jump out of his coffin was born.

The world stopped the instant the force field touched the edge of the tornado.

The wildly spinning wind wall froze.

Those white boulders that cut through everything hovered in mid-air, defying gravity, maintaining a flying posture.

The sandstorm, the swirling seawater, and even the ripples in the air were all frozen in time.

The apocalyptic disaster of the previous second.

The still amber of the next second.

The sound of the wind disappeared.

The sound of the waves disappeared.

The whole world was deathly silent.

Only the faint sound of the three people's clothes fluttering on the boat was particularly jarring in the deathly silence.

Zephyr's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets, his mouth slightly agape, and his Armament Haki-enhanced arms, brimming with power, froze in mid-air, looking rather comical.

He had lived for seventy-four years, seen the white-bearded creature shatter the atmosphere, and the golden lion float on an island, but he had never seen such an unreasonable force.

What kind of confrontation is this?

It means to erase.

Therefore, it is crushed by rules that transcend physics and are of a higher dimension.

Ah la la la la la!

"What...what is this...?"

Aokiji pushed up his sunglasses, a layer of cold sweat seeping from his back.

If this force of "stillness" were to act upon a person, it would likely freeze even their soul.

A few seconds later, the time limit for the violation expired.

The golden data stream in Chen Ye's eyes disappeared, and he lightly snapped his fingers.

"Smack."

The crisp snap of fingers is the incantation to break the spell.

All the matter that was "frozen" in mid-air instantly lost its eerie levitation force and its original terrifying kinetic energy.

"Splash splash splash!"

Tens of thousands of tons of seawater poured down like a torrential downpour.

Those originally deadly boulders and sandstorms, like soulless shells, crashed vertically into the sea, creating countless chaotic splashes.

The three enormous tornadoes, which had been so powerful, vanished completely in the blink of an eye with just a few words from Chen Ye.

The sea quickly returned to calm, as if everything that had just happened was an illusion.

Only the lingering moisture in the air proves that the natural disaster truly occurred.

"call……"

Zefa exhaled a long breath, dissipating the domineering aura on his arm, and stared at Chen Ye's back with shock in his eyes.

"You... every time you make a move, it makes me wonder if we old-fashioned folks should really go to a museum."

Chen Ye didn't turn around, but just smiled faintly.

"Mr. Zephyr, if we can't even accept a simple greeting gift, what right do we have to discuss cooperation?"

After speaking, he raised his gaze slightly to the sky not far ahead. His voice was not loud, but it carried far.

"Now that the test is over, shouldn't we show ourselves?"

"Monkey D Dragon".

As soon as he finished speaking, the air in the previously empty space in front of him began to distort.

A stream of blue air gathered out of thin air, swirled, and intertwined.

Lifted by this airflow, a figure appeared.

He wore a dark green hooded cloak, and beneath the shadow of the hood, a resolute and aloof face was faintly visible.

The iconic red square tattoo on his left cheek was particularly eye-catching in the sunlight, exuding a dangerous aura.

He stood on the void, and the wind was part of his body, naturally supporting him.

The commander-in-chief of the revolutionary army, Monkey D. Dragon, the world's most vicious criminal.

At this moment, the man who had been a headache for the world government for twenty years remained silent.

His deep, unfathomable eyes were fixed intently on the young man at the bow of the ship.

Those three tornadoes were his awakened level of power, enough to easily destroy a naval fleet.

He had anticipated how the other party would respond—perhaps with Zephyr's iron fist shattering him, or perhaps with Aokiji's ice seal freezing him.

But he hadn't expected that the other party would so easily dismantle his carefully prepared show of force in just a moment.