Chapter 700: From Today Onward, I Am One of the Four Emperors!

“A tsunami is coming. Should we take cover?”

Crocodile, with a cigar in his mouth, looked at the black raindrops still falling. He then turned to gaze toward the coast, where towering waves were roaring and crashing toward the shore. Judging by their scale, they might even sweep all the way to the castle.

During the battle between the Dragon Hunter Pirates and the Big Mom Pirates, quite a few people had been injured. Fortunately, Ian had resolved the fight faster than expected. With Big Mom’s fall, the Big Mom Pirates no longer had the will to fight.

However, the tsunami was unexpected. If the seawater rushed in, injured people who couldn’t escape in time might be swept away.

“But where can we hide?” beside him, Enel tilted his head and said, “Honestly, this captain really knows how to cause trouble…”

Before Enel finished speaking, a streak of ghostly green light suddenly flashed across the sky!

Like a thunderbolt descending from the heavens, this eerie green light struck the towering tsunami wave, blasting a huge hole in it as it fell into the sea.

Hearing this sound, everyone couldn’t help but look up toward the sky.

After Big Mom fell from the Sky Island, Ian followed closely, flying down. At this moment, he was floating mid-air, and the pair of demon wings burning with black flames behind him were so enormous compared to his body, so striking.

The cigar in Crocodile’s mouth fell with a plop. Ian’s current form was completely beyond all of their expectations.

A terrifying posture, a suffocating aura. Compared to before, everyone knew that Ian was now even stronger. At that moment, everyone understood how Big Mom had been defeated…

“Is he even human!?”

Cracker and the other children of Big Mom gritted their teeth as they looked at Ian in the sky. Although they hated him for killing their mother, they couldn’t help but feel a sudden fear upon seeing his form.

Under everyone’s gaze, Ian pulled his hands apart in front of him, and then a ghostly green energy spear appeared before him.

“Lanza del Relámpago!”

With a flick of his hand, Ian threw the energy spear like a lance from mid-air into the towering tsunami below.

Boom! Another violent explosion was heard.

The power of that previous Black Cero was truly immense. After exploding in the sea, it had actually triggered a tsunami, something Ian hadn’t anticipated. So now he had to clean up the mess.

This Lanza del Relámpago naturally came from the Ulquiorra card’s skill. Its name is similar to Mikasa’s card “Lightning Spear” skill, but they are completely different. The “Lightning Spear” involves throwing lightning power and doesn’t explode, but the Lanza del Relámpago is purely a Nen ability.

One after another, several Lanza del Relámpago crashed down, blasting several large holes in the tsunami’s giant waves. The power within the waves was disrupted; although a large amount of seawater still rushed onto Whole Cake Island, the most powerful crests were gone, and the tsunami naturally dissipated. ᚱÃ₦ÓBËș

Ian casually destroyed the tsunami. Du Feld and the other underground world bosses were already dumbfounded. As for Judge and Ichiji, they were also drenched in cold sweat, involuntarily comparing in their hearts the scene when Ian led a group of Shichibukai to hunt down Germa. They sadly realized that now, even without any help, Ian could easily destroy the Germa Group all by himself.

After confirming that the tsunami could no longer damage the island, Ian slowly descended from the sky.

When he was not far above Whole Cake Island, everyone could truly feel how enormous the wings behind him were. Almost half of the castle area was covered by his wings, casting a massive shadow over everyone.

As Ian descended, the black raindrops in the sky suddenly stopped, making everyone immediately realize that the black rain was caused by Ian.

But what was even more astonishing was the change in Ian’s appearance. At close range, everyone noticed that there were two strange tear-like marks at the corners of his eyes.

Similarly, his gaze at this moment was chillingly cold…

He hovered in mid-air, slowly scanning the members of the Big Mom Pirates below.

Big Mom’s children had various thoughts at this moment. Some still resented Ian for killing their mother and hadn’t given up on the idea of avenging her. But others, upon seeing Ian’s gaze, almost collapsed.

They were afraid because they understood that if Ian wanted to eradicate them completely, none of them present could escape!

Now that Big Mom was dead, Katakuri was also dead, and Perospero was missing—probably dead too. The remaining people were no longer enough to resist the Dragon Hunter Pirates…

Taking a deep breath, Ian in mid-air suddenly spread his arms and shouted loudly, “Big Mom is dead! From today onward, I, Ian, will become the new Yonko! The Dragon Hunter Pirates will become the crew of the new Emperor!”

As Ian’s shout echoed, the crowd below instinctively took a step back. Although they had already realized it when Big Mom’s corpse fell, hearing Ian’s declaration now still made everyone shudder.

But then, a huge cheer erupted. All members of the Dragon Hunter Pirates raised their hands and shouted loudly in celebration!

“Haha! The captain has truly become one of the Four Emperors!”

“I knew it! This day would come eventually!”

“The Dragon Hunter Pirates as one of the Four Emperors—that name sounds great!”

In the crowd, Crocodile lit a new cigar and snorted coldly, “At least he remembered to make such an announcement…”

Enel pouted, hugging his golden staff without saying a word.

As for Robin, Nana, and Reiju, they smiled as they watched Ian’s imposing figure. They understood that with Ian’s declaration, it marked the successful rise of the Dragon Hunter Pirates, and the birth of the youngest Emperor in history…

In the crowd, Morgans, his hands trembling, secretly raised his Visual Den Den Mushi and captured Ian’s declaring figure.

He knew that this photo, along with the one of Big Mom’s corpse, would become the biggest headlines in his newspaper…

However, where there is the excitement of the victor, there is naturally the unwillingness of the defeated. Cracker and the others—how could they accept that the Big Mom Pirates were just beaten down like this? So amid the cheers of the Dragon Hunter Pirates, Cracker gritted his teeth, jumped up, and, holding his longsword, slashed toward Ian in mid-air, shouting, “Murderer! The Big Mom Pirates won’t be trampled by you so easily!”

“How foolish!”

This idiot dared to attack Ian while he was still in his strongest form!?

Facing Cracker’s slashing sword, Ian shook his head, pulled his hands apart, and a ghostly green light appeared again, forming a lightsaber like that of a Jedi Knight. Then he gently swung it toward the oncoming Cracker!

*Luz de la Luna!*

A ghostly green sword energy flew out, directly cutting Cracker’s sword in half. Then, without losing momentum, the sword energy sliced Cracker’s body in two!

With an expression of disbelief, Cracker fell from mid-air. His upper body landed on one side, his lower body on the other, and the spraying blood blossomed like flowers in the air.

Ian showed no mercy, directly killing Cracker.

He knew very well that a Yonko pirate crew wouldn’t collapse so easily. Although Big Mom was dead, her remaining children might still harbor illusions. Ian certainly couldn’t create a massacre on Whole Cake Island, so he had to suppress their hopes with thunderous means. Anyone attempting to resist must be ruthlessly eliminated!

This is the pirate’s law!

After killing Cracker, Ian pointed the Moonlight Sword in his hand toward Big Mom’s children below, whose faces were filled with terror, and said coldly, “Who’s next?!!?”

With Cracker’s fate as a warning before them, Amande and the others naturally didn’t dare to make a sound.

“Victory belongs to the king, defeat to the bandit. If you Big Mom Pirates have forgotten this principle, I don’t mind reminding you!” Ian snorted coldly. “If you give up resistance, I might spare your lives! But if you stubbornly resist, don’t blame me!”

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