Starting as a Roger Pirates Apprentice

Chapter 523: God Valley Arc: 【Overlord Severance】

The winds and clouds converged.

In God Valley, the bloodbath was still raging.

"What kind of monster Conqueror’s Haki is this..."

Garp clenched his fist and once again took Rocks’ slash head-on with a punch. After all, he was the World King. Even with the Conqueror’s Haki of Roger and Garp together, they couldn’t even break his defense. This was the absolute suppression of the strong Conqueror’s Haki over those below.

Roger also felt the hand gripping his blade tremble slightly.

"Yeah... this is really troublesome!!!"

The two of them had chosen to answer Rocks’ request and were preparing to take down the demonized Rocks, but the monster in front of them was honestly hard to handle.

"Damn it..."

Both of them stood ready. Orin also noticed the situation here. The current battlefield didn’t have many people—only three or four main combatants—but compared to the so-called Summit War, it was even more intense. After all, for all its grand scale, the Summit War was mostly filled with cannon-fodder soldiers. The real protagonists were just the admirals who were basically paddling, and an old Whitebeard who already had one foot in the grave. And now?

An almost peak-era Roger, Garp, two candidates who had already reached the king tier in their youth, one demonized Rocks who slaughtered ordinary admirals and emperors like dogs, and off to the side, the shadowy Imu who was watching with unknown intentions.

Even Orin, on this battlefield, had to watch out for that sinister Imu. One careless moment and getting turned black would be the end, and the era after this would become Imu’s forever, ruling alone.

With a shot he blew off Imu’s shadowy head. Orin kept vanishing and reappearing, dodging all of Imu’s black tentacles. Although he guessed that black-brick control had many prerequisites—like violent emotional fluctuations and the like—but what if he was wrong?

Orin circled around to the battlefield on Rocks’ side.

At this moment, Garp was sent flying back by a slash from Rocks, and then Rocks seized the opening in Roger’s attack, looking like he was about to deliver a fatal blow.

"Oh no...!!!"

Young Roger’s pupils shrank as he reacted quickly, but even so, this strike wouldn’t take his life—it would still cause serious injuries.

Just as Roger was about to grit his teeth and take it head-on...

"Divine Departure!!!"

The violent clash of Conqueror’s Haki made the coats on Roger and Garp whip loudly as they raised their arms to block the shockwave. Between them, a figure appeared. Though he looked a bit slender standing before Rocks, he still caught that blow steadily.

"Oh!! It’s Orin!!!"

"Orin?!!!"

As the Conqueror’s Haki collided fiercely, the ground of God Valley collapsed. Orin’s clearly grown Conqueror’s Haki was stubbornly resisting Rocks’.

"As expected... after personally clashing with the [World King], the upper limit of Conqueror’s Haki is rising!!!"

A person’s experience and circumstances determine the upper limit of their bearing—that is, the upper limit of Conqueror’s Haki. If you keep spinning in circles below the level of admirals and emperors, then even if Orin has the talent and ambition of a top-tier monster, he’ll only get lost in one pirate game after another. Just like Linlin: her physique was comparable to Orin’s, but she didn’t have matching resolve and ambition. When she heard Orin tell her to leave, she hardly hesitated before dragging Kaido away. Because she felt there was no need to butt heads with monsters like Rocks and terrifying figures like Imu, and from the bottom of her heart she felt she wouldn’t be a match for Rocks.

But Orin’s thought was only this: Sooner or later, I’ll become as strong as Rocks!!!

So he dared to draw his gun on Rocks and Imu. Even if he was actually no match, he still had to test it, even if he ended up badly wounded. After all, only when your strength comes up can you do whatever you want in the future.

Garp and Roger were stunned for a moment. They hadn’t expected Orin to appear now—wasn’t he just dealing with Imu a second ago...

They looked into the distance, where a figure was still continuously blowing Imu’s head off.

"???"

"This is...???"

Roger thought for a bit, then suddenly punched his palm, eyes sparkling.

"Oh!!! I get it, it’s a clone!!!"

"Wano’s ninjutsu has clones in it!!!"

"Eh?? Really!!!"

Garp was also completely bluffed, even his snot came out.

But Orin ignored these two goofballs and focused entirely on the clash in front of him. The demonized Rocks was faintly stronger than before, and for Orin, this young-era overlord, it was still somewhat strenuous to fight him.

Forced back by a powerful slash from Rocks, Orin was sent flying by [Divine Departure], bouncing across the ground and plowing a ravine hundreds of meters long.

"Orin!!!"

Seeing Orin fly that far, Roger opened his mouth wide and shouted.

From the pile of rubble, a hand stretched out from between the rocks and grabbed on, pulling himself up. Orin hadn’t been this battered in a long time; his eyes began to grow heavy.

Sending you off is really not easy...

The strength of the Rocks before him had already surpassed all opponents Orin had ever faced, forcing him to pull out one of his trump cards.

"Hey!!! Roger and Garp!!!"

Orin hoisted Ace—whom he had brought from the future—over his shoulder and shouted at the somewhat stunned Garp and Roger.

"If you attack together, you should be able to slightly weaken this guy’s Conqueror’s Haki!!!"

The Rocks in front of them had clearly become a monster—where almost no attack could deal real damage. Although Orin could break through with great effort, it was still better to have Garp and Roger, these two top heroes of the era, lend a hand and let Rocks leave with some dignity.

After all, two kings and one future world overlord—this send-off lineup was already luxurious enough.

"Oh!! Got it!!!"

"Kuhahahaha!!! Looks like there’s no other way!!!"

One wore a red captain’s coat, the other a navy justice cloak, standing shoulder to shoulder.

Conqueror’s Haki gathered as the two leapt up and launched their attacks at the same time.

"Divine Departure..."

"Fist..."

Staggering slightly, Rocks’ figure slowed for a moment.

And Orin’s figure shifted. [Black Gun] Orin and [Divine Departure] Orin came side by side, a blade and a spear meeting in one place, charging toward the Conqueror’s Haki that was advancing into the super-king tier and detonating.

Terrifying black-and-red thunder slowly turned into supreme lightning that blanketed all of God Valley. The black spatial power pushed to its limit gathered at the point of convergence, forming a small black hole that twisted everything.

Looking at Rocks’ painful tears and that ferocious demonized expression, Orin’s face was expressionless. No one knew what he was thinking, because no one had ever truly stood at the heights and achievements the two of them could reach.

He put everything into the name of the move.

[Overlord Severance]!!!

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