One Piece: Reborn and Skypiean

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Chapter 228

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Amon had expected many things, even something as absurd as this here: "The Advanced Conqueror's Men have the essence of lightning, which is why it originally looked like it broke a black lightning bolt. Using it, more advanced users can achieve lightning speed. " He did expect something like this, but it didn't happen, fortunately. But the thing that happened was still terrible and sudden.

Amon stood several hundred meters away from Shanks, the red horizon stretched out at the western end.

"That's an interesting technique."

Shanks smiled hearing that. "Nothing is impressive, Captain Roger could have done more."

Amon looked at him for a moment. Amon was quite confused at first, but after all, he could think thousands of times faster than a normal human, so now he had reached many possibilities. But…

"The objection explains what it is, exactly?"

...Why not ask the man directly? Living in this world for so long, he knew how his people were. Shanks did not mind explaining this, he just looked like that person.

And indeed, Shanks laughed softly. 

"The three types of Haki - Armament, Observation, and Conqueror - have three stages to them." He smiled kindly. "In Armament, you can project your desires onto your skin, giving yourself additional endurance, that's the first stage. In Stage 2, you can project your desires beyond your skin, like an outer protector, or Ryou as most people know.Stage 3 is something I don't have, so I can't tell you more about him.

After a while, he continued. “Let's skip the Observation as well, you know better than me in that regard. Move to Haki Conqueror, it's.well, similar to Armament."

Shanks shrugged. "First of all, you need to realize why everyone does not have the Conqueror's Haki. In simpler terms, only people with the Supreme King Will can use the Conqueror's Haki, and like weaponry, there are 3 stages in this. Haki also.”

"Oh? I'm not expecting you to start teaching me here .... Although I think I have time.” Amon chuckled, he's interested.

Shanks also chuckled and continued, There is a deeper reason why he did this, but Amon does not know. 

"When one used Armaments, for a normal person it came out smoothly, but for a person with the Supreme King Will, his strength became crude, filtered, to match a normal person. The nature of the Armament was like a quiet fountain, while the nature of the Conqueror was like a forest fire.”

“Contrary to Armament, when using Conqueror Haki, you can project your Stature King in its original form, no filter holding it back. The raging flames, when projected outward, burned the desires of those within reach, causing the weaker-willed ones to lose their consciousness. ”

"I assume this is the first stage of the Conqueror Haki?"

It was obvious, and Amon had just said to explain that he was still listening, but Shanks's headband left him even more confused.

"To be honest, it's yes and no." 

Amon frowned as Shanks continued.

"The Conqueror's Men do have three stages, as I said, but .. although there is indeed a fixed hierarchy between them, you don't always start from the weakest stage, sometimes, though, You start in the middle or even the highest stage. ."

"The first stage is - let go of your desires like a sea of fire. The second is - to coat your body with this sea of fire. The third is - Manipulating this sea of fire to form anything.

Of the three, one could be randomly born with one of them, not the weakest, unlike the Armament."

Shanks revealed a mysterious smile. When Amon fell silent in his place. He didn't know what he expected from Shanks' explanation, but this was definitely not it. 

Shanks continued. "For example, you start with the weakest, projecting a sea of fire outside, the most common." Amon had no idea how Shanks got this news. “But Kaido unlocks the powerful as his starter skill, the ability to coat his punch with raging flames, which is quite rare. Finally, I. began with the strongest, the ability to manipulate and shape anything with raging fire, the least common, the most, and I only know 3 people with this power who are still alive today.”

The first two, he was familiar with, but the third caused Amon to recall the Asura Zoro technique. From what he remembered, Zoro should have used his Conqueror Haki to form two more heads and six more swords - so he started with the strongest Conqueror Haki type? This was almost like the affinity things of a Cultivation Novel. 

....On second thought, he remembered Raki had a technique similar to Zoro as well. 

'Eh, fuck.' 

And here he had fun teasing her.

Shanks also did not need to explain that even if one started out with one of the skills, that one could always acquire the other two skills by training, that one would always be able to acquire the other two skills, although they would definitely be less powerful than the one who started on that path.

"There's an anomaly." Shanks suddenly said. “For example, Monkey D. Garp has the Highest Will, but he cannot use the Conqueror's Haki for reasons I don't know. However, he was able to use the Supreme Will on his Armament, which created an effect that was almost similar to the Conqueror Layer. Anyway, we're off topic."

It was then that a half-transparent purple square box, similar to the one at Shanks' fingertips, suddenly appeared around Amon, trapping him inside.

"That's how I stopped your previous moves. I'm making invisible boxes all around you, causing you to be cut off from the outside world."

"..."

This now. This is the shit he's talking about.

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That's not how Haki should work. It's basically Green Lantern shit ...

Come to think of it, didn't the green lantern use their will as well? Damn, apparently Oda took inspiration from that. Ugh, and I don't know anything about this.

Hah. I wonder how strong Roger is, or Xebec. Although I don't have to worry about the past, I still have to worry about Imu.

I'm hardly worried about Shanks. He's.well, strong, but I'm not a kid either. This power may be new to me, and I may not be skilled enough to use it yet, but I have time. 

"Then, let's continue where we're going."

Shanks had explained enough as he ran towards me, invisible to the eyes of normal people, perhaps even the eyes of Commander Yonko, but I could see him moving. I can see him jumping into his atom. There's a reason why Shanks said I know more about Observation than he does.

Shanks darted behind me, his one hand piercing through his Haki Construction that I could not pass through, which meant that the construction creator could pass through it at will, and punch towards me.

However, I entered my top speed, in a very familiar slow world. I just wrapped my fingertips with my Goro-Goro electricity and the backlighting crackled Conqueror Haki, giving it a mix, making it stronger than it should be because both are lighting, he said, even if one is spiritual and one is real. 

If I can't use my lighting to injure him, I will use my own Conqueror's Haki. It's like using a thorn to remove a thorn.

I just stuck my finger into the 'Wall' in front of me, while Shanks' fist kept coming towards me. He's fast, maybe as fast as the Kizaru I fought years ago, but I'm faster.

My finger just hit the wall without making a hole unlike I expected, but a dent did appear, so I kept jabbing my finger against the wall before a small hole was made at the 4th push. I just turned into my logia form and gradually went through the hole at lightning speed.

I don't want to fight this guy, not because I'm afraid, but because I have better things to do. Focusing on this battle would get my sins killed, after all, they were fighting against the three factions that were there, the Whitebeard Pirates, the Marine Pirates, and the Beast Pirates. I can't let them die, so I have to go.

Bzzt~

Carefully I let out a sound, now I can control my teleportation voice, but Shanks needs to know I'm gone, and he does.

Leaving the slow-moving Shanks behind, I flew to sea level right where the Shanks ship was waiting. I just damaged the parts of the ship that allowed him to travel and fly, I don't need him following me.

Shanks said he could form something, so maybe he could form another ship as well, but I doubt he could keep it enough to reach Marineford, because if he could… I won't be able to get out alive.

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Bzzt~

His punch did nothing as Shanks frowned and stopped. 

Looking around he could not find Amon at all. Using his Observation Haki to search for Amon, he instead finds something else, he realizes that something has happened to his boat. It was not enough to make him drown, but it was enough to render him useless for now.

Shanks clenched his jaw. 

"Well, I put it off for at least 20 minutes."

Shanks knew, from the very beginning, that Amon could free himself at any time, the 'Voice' around him telling him so, along with his own. He sees a future where he tries to keep Amon busy with fights, he has just escaped, Amon has no reason to fight him, and Shanks is not fast enough to stop him, but he is not, so he at least decided to buy some time by talking, but none of his future was waiting for Amon for civilized talks. However, the explanation about Haki was successful.

Of course, this meant that Amon would soon grow stronger, Shanks knew someone like him would be able to learn the 3rd skill in a few more years, but that would not have happened without him explaining it, he could've done it. immediately knew about it, anyway. Maybe it was true in this war? After all, there was Sengoku and Kong there. If they decide to intervene .. he will learn about it anyway.

He only hoped that the 20 minutes he bought would be enough.