(Vol 4) CHAPTER - 24 { Annihilation }

"We shall part from here."

Sabo hugged the officers from the East Revolutionary Army including Koala.

He and three more departed from the island, later Koala also set off.

Betty gazed at the sea horizon, in her mind were multiple thoughts.

"Commander, let's return."

Betty nodded and turned back towards the old temple. Beside her were seven senior officers.

As the group had almost reached the temple stairs, a huge shadow casted on them.

"This?"

Betty showed confusion, her eyes automatically looked upwards at the sky to see.

Immediately, her eyes widened in disbelief. Not just her, the other seven officers were also shocked beyond words.

Up in the sky, a huge creature with a long body covered in dark green scales floated.

Its mouth opened as a dark green energy ball condensed between the jaws.

Boom!

The burst of energy pushed the air back, the energy beam drilled through and headed towards Betty's group.

"No!"

Boom!

Betty didn't even get a chance to speak a sentence as the energy beam blasted their body into shreds which directly vaporized into nothing.

Rumble!

The entire island shook violently, all the members of the East Revolutionary Army inside the island were perplexed.

But it didn't last long as another energy beam melted through the ground and exploded on the East Revolutionary Army's camps.

Boom!

This continued for a while until the island was split into many parts and the land was filled with craters.

The creature, Akuma in his Leviathan form, stared down at the land with an annoyed and irritated look.

It's been a long time since he made a move. This time, he had to get rid of the Revolutionary Army.

If he wanted to Dominate the entire world, wiping out the World Government was necessary.

But the Revolutionary Army was also an organization that needed to be taken care of.

Because the Revolutionary Army might later on become a huge problem.

Black smoke came out of his teeth gaps, Akuma swam up in the sky vanishing in the white thick clouds.

* * *

Swoosh.

The wind pushed a wave of water at the ship's hull. Sabo stood on the bow with a worried face.

"I am getting a grave feeling in my heart about the loud explosions near the East Army base."

Sabo crossed his arms over his chest while the ship was caught in the waves trying to sail forward.

As the ship slowly got closer to the island, Sabo's face turned grim.

"No way!"

Sabo looked at the island which was split into different parts. The sea water filling in the craters were all colored in red.

It was blood!

Thud.

The ship hit the land, Sabo jumped on the land and ran forward as fast as he could.

"Betty! Carl! Jack!"

Sabo called out, but there wasn't any response. He stopped in front of the hundreds of dead bodies.

Burned, that was how almost all of them died. Sabo fell to his knees, tears ran down his cheeks and dripped from the chin.

"Guys…"

He clenched his fist and slammed on the ground, gritting his teeth as he looked up in the sky.

"Ahhh!"

* * *

The sky was clouded, a huge black shadow moved in between the clouds.

"Next, was it Kaido? It should be."

Akuma moved his long body and swam in the sky. The few body parts where the sunlight managed to reach, the scales on those parts shined brightly.

He lowered his head and saw a few pirate ships in the sea that got circled by the Navy ships.

Akuma dived and swam towards the ships. His gigantic body soon floated above the pirate and Navy ships.

On the Navy ships, the soldiers were terrified. Seeing Akuma's figure above their ships, their whole bodies trembled.

"D-Devil!"

"Ahh!"

"Fuck! Why did the Devil come!"

Fear was easily visible in their eyes. One of the Navy ship captains looked solemn.

On the other hand, the pirates rejoiced with Akuma's entry.

It seems that the pirates thought Akuma had approached to help them out from this disadvantageous situation.

"Navy, you dare sail in the New World's sea! Have you not already seen how violent the pirates were?"

Akuma spoke as the voice that came out was slightly old but filled with might and a hint of sinister.

Hearing him, the soldiers on the Navy ships paled. They felt as if someone had poured cold water on their warm body.

"Devil! Don't interfere. We didn't come to find trouble with you or your pirates. These ones don't have anything to do with you!"

A captain walked out of the front most Navy ship just before the pirate ship.

He had lots of scars on his face, showing that he was definitely a veteran in his job.

"Oh. A brave Navy soldier. Is it a captain?"

Akuma was surprised indeed that there was a soldier to speak back to him among these tiny ships.

He lowered his head and brought it down to the Navy ship's level. His right eye narrowed at the captain's figure on the deck.

His single eye alone was bigger than the captain. The soldier behind the captain stumbled back in terror.

"Do you have what it takes to back your words?"

Akuma asked, his eye focused on the captain's face to see sweat on his forehead.

"D-Do you know that we have the Marines, and there is still the World Government! We don't want trouble, please leave."

The captain spoke as his voice shook slightly. Akuma blinked and then raised his head again.

"G-Good. Leavy, Devil!"

Seeing Akuma move back, the captain thought that his words were able to make Akuma hesitate.

But unfortunately, it wasn't that. Akuma in the sky, opened his mouth wide as dark green light compressed and condensed into an energy ball.

"D-Devil!"

The captain's expression turned ugly immediately, but he couldn't do anything as the energy beam exploded on their ship.

Boom!

The dark green energy beam moved left and right destroying all the Navy ships surrounding the pirate ship.

"Hail the Devil!"

"Hail the Devil!"

The pirates on the pirate ship, all roared loudly. Akuma stopped the energy beam and exhaled black smoke.

"Weak! Disgrace!"

With a glare, Akuma looked down at the pirates. He then fired another energy beam which blasted the pirate ship into pieces.

All the pirates were killed.

Akuma headed back towards the direction of Kaido's territory.

* * *

"Ahhhh! Release me! RELEASE ME!"

The loud shouts roamed through the whole laboratory. Hamburg sighed and shook his head.

This voice belonged to Kiya, who was imprisoned with tight chains and locks made of pure sea stones.

Boom.

The walls of the laboratory shook. Kiya slammed his head on the floor cracking it.

"I will kill you Akuma! I will rip you apart! Come here!"

Hamburg showed an irritated look. He signalled his assistant.

"Give him another dose of drugs. Increase the quantity, it seems this fellow is quite a beast."

Hamburg instructed his assistant, then he concentrated back on his current project.

On the huge table, tons of materials were placed. In the middle was a huge black object.

Bomb of Mass Destruction!

Akuma ordered Hamburg to mass produce this so that they could annihilate the entire World Government in a single attack.

As for the Marines, Akuma decided to put them aside for now.

Before that, he had to deal with the Beast Pirates and Red Haired Pirates.

After which the Devil's Pirates would completely occupy the New World as its territory.

"Sir, it's rather complex. We would need a few days to just understand the timer here."

One of the explosive specialist, said with a frown on his face as he looked at the huge bomb.

This bomb was already deactivated by Akuma so there's wasn't any danger of it suddenly exploding in the study.

"It is. But we have to hurry. Captain said that we don't have enough time. Something big will occur soon."

Hamburg placed his hands on the table and smiled at the people around him.

'What could it be?'

Even Hamburg was curious. Akuma was being hasty for the first time in front of him.

Meanwhile, the main Revolutionary Army was shocked and furious about the news of the East Army's tragedy.

A meeting was going to be held once Sabo returned to the main headquarters of the Revolutionary Army.

Interesting fact was that Sabo met with Koala once again and asked her to be present for the meeting as well.