Chapter 89

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"Prepare Squad One, move to the designated location for support immediately!"

"Get Squads Two and Three ready!"

"Rescue team, provide covering fire and hurry to get the wounded to the rear!"

"Keep advancing, no retreat, leave that guy to me!"

...

Hina, entrusted with an important task, displayed her swift and decisive side, arranging the battlefield meticulously and advancing steadily.

Under her command, a large number of pirate grunts were killed.

Several officers of the Donquixote Family were also entangled by her men. After all, among them were elite navy soldiers and officers brought from the navy headquarters by Tsuru!

The current situation was a game of king against king, general against general, soldier against soldier.

In a dignified manner, they exerted their power to dominate!

Were it not for the vast amount of weaponry secretly stashed by the Donquixote Family on the island, and Hina's deliberate attempt to reduce navy casualties, they might have already achieved more spectacular results!

But as the navy progressively moved towards the center of the island, the cunning pirates began to fight while retreating. Using their familiarity with the terrain, they separated and ambushed groups of navy soldiers, leading Hina to finally lose her patience.

The last of Squads Two and Three were dispatched by her, using their numerical advantage to immediately suppress the pirates' counterattack.

As more and more navy soldiers under attack were rescued, Hina's tense mood was somewhat relieved.

However, if Tsuru were at her side at this moment, he would surely remind her not to exhaust all the trump cards until the final step!

Hina's decision to deploy all forces indeed suppressed the pirates' arrogance and sent them into successive defeats.

However, as the battlefield commander, Hina only had a handful of navy soldiers left for her protection.

And someone had been waiting for this opportunity for a long time!

Ten mechanical spiders had somehow quietly approached to within ten meters of Hina.

Then, they suddenly accelerated and crossed this short distance, rushing straight towards their target!

"Watch out!"

Several navy soldiers responded very quickly, immediately shielding Hina and drawing their weapons to deal with these oddly shaped spiders.

But the moment their weapons touched the mechanical spiders, the intense light and massive explosion instantly caught everyone's attention.

Who would have thought these fast-moving mechanical spiders could explode?!

Although the explosive power of a single unit was not strong, the explosion of ten mechanical spiders had undoubtedly cleared the navy soldiers protecting Hina.

And before the smoke could disperse, a strange-looking meat worm suddenly dropped from the sky and landed nearby.

Next, this disgusting creature, as if sensing something, sprang up and dove into the smoke.

But it wasn't over yet!

The "Autonomous Spider Mines" and "Facehugger Dolls" were just appetizers meant to distract the opponent.

From the beginning, Abel had never intended to deal with Hina just with these two tools.

And now, his charge-up was finally complete.

"Asura Aurora Slash!"

Abel was seen holding a scythe in his left hand...

With his right hand gripping a short sword, Abel made a vigorous swing forward!

A soaring slash, more than ten meters long, rushed towards Hina.

Even with Abel's multiple enhancements to his physique, he felt exhausted after unleashing this strike and had to catch his breath.

However, his gourmet cells immediately began to work, replenishing his stored biological energy.

As the smoke dissipated with the wind, Hina held a disgusting creature trapped within a cage trap in her hand. The repulsive creature was constantly squirting something at Hina with an organ of some sort.

Then, the slash was already just a few meters in front of her!

Hina, who hadn't even flinched when this disgusting creature nearly threw itself at her face, suddenly showed a change in her expression, looking incredibly serious.

Clearly, she too felt the power of this soaring slash.

At this point, it was too late to dodge.

She chose to cross her arms in front of her, simultaneously mobilizing her inner strength.

"Black Shield Array!"

"Haki: Armament!"

Numerous black iron bars gathered in front of Hina, neatly stacked on top of each other, forming a very solid and thick shield!

She then used Haki to protect herself.

Unfortunately, her mastery of Haki was not yet perfect at this point, and she couldn't cover the black shield generated by her Devil Fruit power.

Otherwise, her defense power could have increased by another significant level!

When the two forces collided, sparks and electricity escaped along the path!

However, there was still a problem. Abel's soaring slash was only released through a skill. It might pass off as a pseudo-swordsman's trick in front of the uninitiated, but in the eyes of those with discernment, it was not as refined and was far from invincible.

Just as the black shield was about to be broken, Hina managed to complete a sideways turn of her body, then rolled outwards using the force, successfully escaping the crisis.

The unstoppable aurora sword energy cut a large rift in the ground along its path, smoothly slicing through any unlucky individuals who failed to dodge, like tofu.

Upon seeing this, Hina couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.

The series of attacks just now had indeed overwhelmed her, but once she had caught her breath, she would certainly not give the opponent such an opportunity again.

However, at this moment, a sense of enormous danger that made her hair stand on end was urgently warning her.

She instinctively turned her head and was surprised to see the youngster she had previously encountered.

She immediately remembered the soaring slash from before, and her heart was filled with shock!

How much time had passed?

She still remembered that back then, this boy could only unleash a soaring slash less than two meters long.

But that soaring slash just now... was it over ten meters long?!

Such a growth rate was indeed terrifying and startling!

Of course, what Hina didn't know was that the soaring slash she just saw was the result of Abel's skill leveling up to LV3, and the full-power release.

Compared to the initial stage, it was a world of difference!

So, what was Abel doing at this point?

It turned out that even the maximum-power Aurora Shura Slash he used just now was not his planned trump card.

His real killer move had just begun!

The talent of the "Heart of the Wight" had silently activated, and all-around physical attributes had directly received a twofold increase!

At the same time, Baby-5 began to use "Soul Resonance," making the soul wavelengths of the two not only completely identical but also initiating a certain kind of magical resonance!

Hence, when Hina looked up, she saw Abel with his scythe's true form fully unleashed.

It was like a wicked ghost who had crawled back from hell, holding the reaper's scythe, coming to claim her life!