69 69- Help the crew escape

Kaya and Kuina quickly picked up Zora and carried her to the ship. Mihawk looked at them and smiled, "Do you really think I'm going to let them escape?"

Mihawk moved quickly and wanted to cut the ship with his sword, but Ethan stood in front of him and repelled the blow with all his strength, but he still retreated ten steps due to the strength of Mihawk's strike.

At this moment Ethan's body began to shift and Ethan's hand started to change and long claws appeared from his hand and black scales started covering his hand and half of his arm. The scales looked like part of the armor. On the back of Ethan, two wings of two meters appeared, and under it appeared a tail of three meters long, covered with black scales, and black horns appeared above the head of Ethan.

This transformation gives Ethan a 50% increase in strength, agility, stamina and vitality.

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[Status]

•Name: Ethan Brown

•Level: 53 (175,400/176,000 EXP)

•Strength: 114(+50%) = 171

•Stamina:95(+50%)=143

•Agility:105(+50%)=158

•Vitality:81(+50%)=122

•Status points you own: 394

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Ethan became much stronger than before, the reward he got because of his baby girl increased his strength a lot. Despite this, this strength is still not enough to fight Mihawk.

"You're right, we can't escape from you." Ethan sighed as if he had lost hope and that they couldn't escape Mihawk.

"Nami, lower all the sails." Ethan looked at the ship, his eyes shining.

'Didn't he tell us to run away a little while ago, why would he want us to lower the sails?' All the girls thought when they heard Ethan's orders and were perplexed.

"Ethan must want us to fight the swordsman together. Girls, lower the sails and let's kick this swordsman's ass." Lucy smiled and began to explain what Ethan wanted.

'We don't need to lower the sails in order to fight Mihawk.' Although the girls thought this way, they listened to Lucy and quickly lowered the sails.

Mihawk wasn't expecting Ethan to do this, "Do you think that if you all fight me, you'll have a chance to defeat me or survive? You really don't know how big the gap is between my strength and yours."

"I know how strong you are. And I know that even if my crew and I fight against you, we will not win. But who told you that I would make my crew fight you?" Ethan's smile widened and at this moment all the sails were lowered.

"Girls, hold on tight." Ethan screamed as he quickly moved his hand from bottom to top towards the ship. The water under the ship began to ripple and the water level began to rise. Suddenly a pillar made of water from under the ship threw the ship away, the ship flew very quickly away and after a few moments the ship could no longer be seen anywhere.

"The Great Pillar of Water."

Ethan used water control and magic to do this move. It was similar to the Knock Up Stream that the Straw Hats used to get to Sky Island, but it's much smaller.

Ethan wanted to get on the ship too before it set off, but Mihawk tried to attack the ship so he had to stop him.

After he fended off Mihawk's attack, he flapped his wings and flew away. But Mihawk swings his sword and shoots a blade of air at Ethan, hitting his wing and cutting him, causing Ethan to fall on the broken ship piece.

"You have no hope of escaping." Mihawk looked at Ethan coldly, he was so careless he didn't think Ethan had such strength to throw the ship away. Even though the ship's crew escaped, he would definitely not let Ethan escape, nor would he give him a chance at all.

Ethan stood in excruciating pain, looked at his wings and saw that one of his wings had been cut off and he could no longer fly.

Ethan's wings were as hard as steel and were difficult to cut, but Mihawk cut them as if they were paper.

Ethan frowned, he lost his chance to escape Mihawk won't give him another chance.

'Since I don't have a chance to escape, I will fight to the end.' Ethan held the two swords tightly and then drew them from their sheath.

Nothing happened when he pulled Wado Ichimonji out of his scabbard, but when he pulled Tetsusaiga out of its scabbard he felt a powerful force sucking his life out.

The black scales on his right arm started making cracking sounds and some cracks appeared on them.

"AAAAAA" That Ethan was feeling an intense pain he had never seen in his life. He felt that the pain was hitting his soul itself, not just his body.

Mihawk who wanted to attack stopped and looked at Ethan who was trying to let go of the sword but he couldn't. "This sword is really interesting, I've never heard of it before. After your death I will take it with me."

'Damn, am I going to die because of this sword?' Ethan couldn't accept that he was going to die because he pulled a sword out of its sheath.

'Don't be kidding me, I'm not going to die this foolish way.' Ethan gritted his teeth, not wanting to die here like this.

Now he wanted to get stronger in order to survive all dangers, strong enough so that no one in this world would stand in his way, strong enough to carry this sword without suffering.

Suddenly a wave of energy shot out from Ethan's body that made the sword stop harming him.

Ethan took a deep breath. All the pain in his body and soul had disappeared and he felt very comfortable.

[Congratulations, you have learned the skill of Haoshoku Haki.]