Chapter 1678 The Strange Bull Demon
Chapter 1678 The Strange Bull Demon
"Guluulu——"
A loud, embarrassing rumbling sound broke the silence of the people on the giant skeleton's spine.
Luffy clutched his deflated stomach, a sheepish, silly smile spreading across his face.
Using Nika's power had taken a huge toll on his stamina; it felt as if every cell in his body was burning energy frantically, and the white color on his body had now faded.
"All you can see is bone, no flesh." He clicked his tongue, somewhat regretfully, and stepped on the cold, hard spine beneath his feet.
"If there's any meat, even raw, I'd take a bite or two." For Luffy, who loves meat more than anything, this vast sea of bones in front of him is not something that can whet his appetite, and it doesn't look like something he'd want to eat.
"Idiot, is this the time to be thinking about this?!" Kidd yelled irritably, but quickly explained the current situation to him, especially the truth about the terrifying presence beneath his feet.
"The monster under your feet is Allen; it's him in disguise!"
"Huh—?" Straw Hat Boy blinked in disbelief, but unexpectedly, he didn't shout or yell. He just tilted his head and showed an expression of sudden realization.
"No wonder I felt like I'd seen this big bone under my feet somewhere before..." That familiarity, tinged with a tragic air, belonged to Allen.
"Then... is Allen going to take us to Marineford?" Luffy looked up, his eyes burning with renewed eagerness.
Now that those five annoying old monsters seem to have been blown up, we can't afford to waste any more time in the Sabaody Archipelago. Saving Ace is the most important thing!
"Something's not right. Eren under our feet hasn't moved for a long time." Ever since they were spat out, this massive skeletal giant has remained in a prone position, eerily silent.
"Could it be that his hasty use of the King of Men's power has made him somewhat disoriented?" Capone Becky voiced the speculation in everyone's minds with concern.
"Won't he lose his mind and start attacking indiscriminately?"
This unsettling thought was quickly replaced by a loud noise coming from ahead.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The heavy, rapid, and powerful sound of running approached them from afar, rushing towards them at an astonishing speed.
Those were the terrifying muffled thuds of four powerful hooves pounding on hard bones. Each landing caused the massive bones beneath them to tremble slightly, as if a charging chariot was approaching.
"Something's coming!" Luffy jumped up and down, looking ahead.
Between the rows of pale ribs, a huge black shadow covered in needle-like black hair was charging at them with its head down and its pair of ferocious, protruding fangs pointed at it.
"It's that big wild boar! They didn't die either!!" Luffy shouted.
"Damn it!" Kidd's face instantly turned ashen.
His biomagnetic field perception clearly detected Feng Xi's presence, and the aura on the other party was almost completely unharmed.
This not only means that Feng Xi himself withstood the explosion, but it is also a deadly signal that the other four Five Elders are probably also unharmed.
They, like themselves, were instantly transported to the battlefield by the devastating explosion and Allen's transformation.
Feng Xi's pair of giant fangs protruding from its mouth were now covered with a layer of jet-black, glossy Armament Haki, hardening them to the extreme.
With overwhelming force, it charged head-on at the four people standing on the spine. If the blow landed, it would probably shatter all the bones in their bodies.
"Don't be impulsive! Get out of the way first—" Kidd's warning was still incomplete.
"Gum-gum-gum—" Luffy roared excitedly, swinging his right arm wildly.
The rubber arm expanded rapidly in the air, its muscle texture becoming more defined and exaggerated, and in the blink of an eye, it transformed into a giant's fist.
He actually chose the most direct and head-on approach, confronting them head-on!
The giant fist collided fiercely with the jet-black fangs. Feng Xi's unstoppable momentum was slightly slowed by this punch, but that was all.
"What?" Luffy's smile froze, replaced by disbelief and astonishment.
He felt as if his fist wasn't hitting bones, but rather crashing into a mountain range hurtling towards him at full speed.
Even with the defense of martial arts energy, an irresistible force surged through his arm, accompanied by a deep, bone-chilling pain.
If it were a normal person's arm, it would probably be fractured or have broken tendons from such an impact; even a comminuted fracture would be considered a minor injury.
Luffy cried out in pain as he was violently thrown backward by the irresistible force, crashing directly off the towering spine of the Founding Titan.
"Luffy!" Kidd exclaimed.
At this critical moment, the Straw Hat Boy, who was falling downwards, suddenly stretched out his intact left arm and wrapped it around a thick rib.
After spinning around several times, his arms wrapped tightly around his ribs, stopping his fall.
The next moment, with the great elasticity of the rubber contracting, he bounced back from below like a bouncy ball that had been thrown with force, landing on his ribs a little further away.
Luffy's face was slightly pale, and his right arm trembled slightly.
In the short time that Luffy was knocked away and Kid and the others were dodging, several other terrifying figures appeared silently. As expected, none of the Five Elders were dead.
The four monsters, Ma Gu, Feng Xi, Sha Chong, and Itsu Zhen Tian, did not rush to attack, but instead subtly adopted a defensive posture.
Their gazes frequently swept towards the area slightly behind the center, displaying unprecedented respect.
There stood the ox-demon that was the embodiment of Satan's sanctuary.
The demon at this moment was somewhat different from the one they had seen before.
Its body seemed even taller and more solid, and its ominous aura was several times stronger.
Its lower body's spider legs appeared to have become more numerous and thicker, and it was clear that some of the spider legs could even fork and wriggle, creating an eerie, inhuman feeling.
Satan Saint's upper body was shrouded in a layer of flowing shadow, which twisted and expanded continuously, exuding an unprecedented aura of danger.
The four Five Elders guarded the area, and the most enigmatic and unpredictable figure in the middle was the Bull Demon, a sight that had never been seen before.
Kidd's Adam's apple bobbed. "Could it be that among the Five Elders, he is the strongest?"
Facing five unharmed Elders who seemed ready to fight seriously, there was no way out.
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