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"Bastard brat!!"
Veins bulged on Crocodile's forehead.
As he was sent flying, his right hand fiercely swung out!
"Desert Spada!"
Countless grains of sand coalesced into a sharp sand blade, shooting towards Judge.
"Crack..." The small hill, already pitted and scarred from the wind and sand erosion, was directly split open, looking somewhat ghastly and shocking.
"Swish!"
The red figure flashed.
The next instant, Judge directly appeared behind Crocodile, his Haki-clad pitch-black fist smashing towards Crocodile's head.
The sharp golden hook instantly turned pitch-black and shiny, fiercely meeting the attack.
The sharp point of the hook, glinting with a cold light, was enough to make one's scalp tingle.
"Clang!!"
A strong gust of wind swept out!
Like the surface of the moon, the uneven surface of the small hill cracked open like a spiderweb.
"Haki?"
Judge's gaze focused, and he couldn't help but laugh.
How could someone who became one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea in their twenties possibly not know Haki?
After all, how did he lose his left hand? Could it be that he really wouldn't learn his lesson?
"Brat, attacking 370 as soon as you arrive, what on earth do you mean?" Crocodile's face was somewhat ashen as he asked in a cold voice.
His gaze carried undisguised killing intent!
Having already designated Alabasta as his territory, he had originally intended to inquire about the other party's purpose. But before he could even make a move, this Germa brat had struck first. How could he not be enraged?
"Nothing much, just want to finish you off, it's that simple..."
His free left hand instantly turned black as ink, emitting a bizarre black smoke, aimed at Crocodile: "Dark Water!"
"Ugh!"
Crocodile's expression changed drastically, and his entire person was uncontrollably pulled towards Judge.
"Damn it!" Without time to think much, his right leg transformed into a sharp sand blade, clad in pitch-black Haki, and fiercely kicked towards Judge.
"Weakness is a sin..."
With a cold laugh, his Haki-covered right leg directly met the attack: "The first day you became a pirate, you should have deeply understood this principle, right!"
"Clang!!"
A violent shockwave swept out.
Crocodile's strength was even far greater than Gin's before, only slightly inferior to "Demon Sheriff" Laffitte.
However, the Seven Warlords of the Sea was, after all, an institution specifically used by the World Government to balance and stabilize the situation on the great seas, and thereby weaken the ever-increasing pirate forces. If its members were all trash, it would be fundamentally impossible to achieve the goal of awing the great seas and stabilizing the situation.
If any pirate with a little bit of strength could easily become one of the Seven Warlords, then this institution of the Seven Warlords wouldn't have taken over a dozen years from its establishment until just a few days ago to finally fill the last vacant seat—"Tyrant" Bartholomew Kuma.
Although the World Government had previously intentionally left the last seat vacant, with the intention of having countless pirates kill each other and compete for it.
"Hawk Eyes" Mihawk naturally needs no further mention. The title of "World's Strongest Swordsman" alone was clearly not something the World Government itself hyped up. Otherwise, given Hawk Eyes' arrogant personality, he would absolutely disdain such a "gimmick"!
"Heavenly Yaksha" Donquixote Doflamingo developed the abilities of the Paramecia-type String-String Fruit to the "Awakening" stage. A series of techniques had already turned this actually quite ordinary Paramecia Devil Fruit into something spectacular, his strength astonishing. If it were a few months ago, before Judge obtained the Dark-Dark Fruit, and they had clashed without scruples on some deserted island, the outcome would have definitely been a fifty-fifty draw!
"Empress" Boa Hancock, a woman with the aptitude for Conqueror's Haki. Even elite fighting forces like Marine Vice Admiral Momonga could only rely on pain to distract themselves from the desires stirred up by the infinite charm of the Love-Love Fruit. That exaggerated fruit ability was the nemesis of the absolute majority of powerhouses!
Gecko Moria (bife), a former powerhouse of the West Blue. Even though he was tragically defeated by Kaido of the Hundred Beasts, he was still highly valued by the World Government and invited to join the ranks of the Seven Warlords. The fact that his entire pirate crew was wiped out by Kaido alone, striking him so hard he even lost his confidence, not to mention how much strength he still retained today, his peak strength was clearly not weak!
"Knight of the Sea" Jinbe. Fish-Men's combat power underwater was absolutely not weak. Although when the World Government initially recruited him as one of the Seven Warlords, they hadn't publicized to the outside world the political factors of not oppressing other races, and it was more symbolic, Jinbe's own strength was indeed passable!
And then there was "Tyrant" Bartholomew Kuma, who had just passed the World Government's review and became the last of the Seven Warlords. Just to become a Warlord and present a satisfactory gift to the World Government, within two or three consecutive months, no less than ten pirate crews with bounties exceeding one hundred million Berries were destroyed by him. The ability of the Paramecia-type Paw-Paw Fruit was simply outrageously strong.
The above, plus the forces under some of them, were absolutely enough to awe, even suppress, the absolute majority of pirate forces on this great sea.
Although most pirates absolutely didn't know that the Seven Warlords, who appeared to be lackeys of the World Government, were actually in a relationship of mutual cooperation, even mutual exploitation and scheming with the World Government, a relationship where they would stab each other in the back without hesitation if given the chance, and the vast majority were unruly and arrogant, making it fundamentally impossible for them to truly unite.
In Judge's view, if Crocodile hadn't stayed in the first half of the Grand Line, relying on his Logia-type Sand-Sand Fruit and basically not encountering any decent opponents, he would absolutely not have received further tempering and grinding, and his strength might have been even stronger than it was now.
This point, perhaps, was also true for "Empress" Boa Hancock of Amazon Lily.
"Clang!!"
"Gah..."
His right shoulder firmly gripped by a blackened left hand, Crocodile's entire person was smashed in the abdomen by Judge's fist. His face contorted, and he spat out a large mouthful of blood!
"How is that possible!?"
He looked at Judge with disbelief; his ability had actually failed at that moment!
Haki could hit their physical bodies, that was true, but it couldn't make their elementalization ability disappear.
"Very surprised?"
With a sneer, another knee strike heavily slammed into his abdomen!
"Gah... Bastard!!!"
Crocodile couldn't help but spit out blood again, his face ferocious. The golden hook on his left hand, clad in Haki, angrily stabbed towards Judge's face!
The next moment——
"Thump!!" His entire person was lifted up and fiercely slammed onto the ground, skin broken and bleeding.
The gap between the two was too great; they were simply not on the same level!