Dragon Beast Bane, Dragon King Blood Marrow

Lawrence had never felt such terrifying killing intent before. He looked up and saw the entire world seemingly turn pitch-black.

Moreover, that intense fluctuation indiscriminately pierced through every living thing here. Lawrence felt the flesh giant trembling continuously, yet it could not break free.

That killing intent seeped into the marrow, filling living beings with fear and making their cells tremble…

The golden ripple wings behind Lawrence constantly shifted shape. He could feel that horrifying killing intent growing ever more intense.

This monster, neither human nor dragon, wielded the authority of slaughter and death. He was certain that if not for the special properties of his Life Furnace, he would likely have been killed outright earlier.

The effect of the Life Furnace’s eighth tier was that one was many. It could be a single lifeform, or a composite of countless lifeforms.

The Life Ladder and death itself were probably naturally opposed. Death could inherently take life away, but likewise, when vitality was strong enough, it could suppress death’s authority.

But now, the other party had displayed an entirely new ability related to killing intent. This ability possessed an overwhelmingly powerful restraining effect against living organisms.

Woooo—crash!

A terrifying sound suddenly erupted through the air, like the howl of an evil ghost. Lawrence plummeted from the sky the next moment.

Golden Ripples circled the flesh giant’s body layer after layer, and the flesh giant’s body immediately began to transform.

A Vacuum Wave suddenly pierced down from the sky. With a bang, it punched through the transforming flesh giant. As the golden Ripples twisted and its flesh regenerated, countless azure Vacuum Waves had already burst forth.

Lawrence’s countless compound eyes clearly saw the scene within the pitch-black space. Countless figures flickered throughout the area. That monster seemed to have split into thousands, every phantom attacking with a different motion.

And this barrage of attacks he suffered was merely the aftershock produced by the other party’s punches.

When an enemy’s strength was too terrifying, every punch they threw—even when not aimed at him—would generate long, narrow Vacuum Waves from the force of the wind.

And his true target…

Lawrence saw the upper body of the towering flame giant bend and fall through the dark space. Its waist and abdomen had been completely smashed apart.

Flames erupted uncontrollably from that enormous upper body, but they no longer carried any might.

The Flame King was doomed…

Lawrence’s heart trembled. He believed that after his Life Ladder entered the Ninth Tier, he truly possessed the strength to fight—and even defeat—a Dragon King.

But the battle between himself and a Dragon King that he had imagined was not like this. The monster before him was not fighting a Dragon King at all. He was… hunting a Dragon King!

Lawrence did not dare delay. He did not know why the other party had not chosen him as the priority target, but this was his last chance.

His plan of first ascending the Life Ladder, then forcing Seraphina to hand over the Origin Substance had now failed. He could only forcibly devour her… What happened afterward would probably depend on his luck.

A Vacuum Wave blasted a huge hole through the flesh giant, which had already curled itself into a ball. Yet beneath this ball of flesh, countless roots had once again grown and burrowed into the ground.

A pitch-black Vacuum Wave struck the ball of flesh. Death intent instantly spread, and huge chunks of flesh immediately peeled away from it.

Bai Cangshu unleashed his killing intent with wild abandon. This was his first attempt at using Satsui no Hado while wielding qi with an actual energy intensity close to one hundred and sixty points after activating Kaio-ken.

Because its level was not high enough, the incomparably violent Satsui no Hado was firmly suppressed and tamed by the stronger, more domineering qi.

The Shun Goku Satsu, which had originally been nearly impossible to control, became completely manageable at this moment. Bai Cangshu had even deliberately directed most of his attacks at the flame giant’s waist and abdomen.

He had even intentionally held back, making the attacks that triggered Death Intent Senluo miss their mark.

He was immersed in the exhilaration of having complete control over his strength. Once every experiment had yielded results, and Lawrence had, as he wished, shed his shell and gone in search of Seraphina, whom Artoria had taken away—

With a sharp clang, the Black Sword: Dragon Slayer appeared in his hand.

The death intent he had long restrained until it nearly surged alongside Yellow Springs instantly flowed over the black sword.

Bai Cangshu watched the falling, tumbling upper body of the Flame King, suddenly raised his sword, and launched himself forward in a slashing charge.

Within the black space covered by Satsui no Hado, it seemed as though thousands upon thousands of Bai Cangshus simultaneously emerged from every corner of the space, each carrying a pitch-black Claymore and turning into a streak of light as they slashed upward.

Countless black streaks of light converged into one enormous sword radiance.

The sword radiance was clearly reflected in Surtur’s magma-gem eyes. He calmly realized that his life had reached its end.

"Sorry, brother…"

The last thing Norton had said to him before his death was, "Then you be the king." But unfortunately, he still could not do it.

Black sword radiance shot into the sky, carrying magma and flames with it as it flew upward like a storm.

Surtur’s enormous head spun through the air, already beginning to turn into black volcanic rock. Life had vanished from that body.

You killed King of Bronze and Fire: Surtur

Obtained A-rank Anomaly Point ×1

Obtained Dimensional Points ×20000

Milestone: Dragon Slayer Hero progress updated. Current: 2/3

Milestone: King-Slayer unlocked. Current: 1/4

A flood of notifications appeared. At the same time, Satsui no Hado was forcefully suppressed by qi and withdrawn back into his body. Bai Cangshu looked at the Drop Card slowly forming before him, seemingly still wreathed in flames and magma.

You obtained Drop Card (Red)

Just as Bai Cangshu was about to crush the Drop Card, he felt the black sword vibrate out of nowhere. The Dragon King’s Blood remaining on its blade was shining with a fiery glow.

At the same time, a faint fiery radiance began to stain the black sword. With a thought, Bai Cangshu casually flicked it.

Whoosh!

A huge flaming sword flower bloomed.

Your item, Black Sword: Dragon Slayer, has had its second seal removed.

Black Sword: Dragon Slayer attributes updated.

Black Sword: Dragon Slayer

Quality: Extremely Rare · Supreme

Description: A Dragon Slayer that traveled through countless worlds alongside Guts. It absorbed many other powers and became a special weapon.

Sharpness: High; Durability: Extremely High

Usage Requirements: Strength >35, Constitution >35, possess Armament Haki, Energy >30

Effect 1: While holding this sword, Armament Haki will be drained. When swung, it will also deal Haki damage.

Effect 2: When struck by this weapon, damage immunity abilities are ineffective.

Effect 3: Destruction. When Black Sword: Dragon Slayer is swung, it emits the destructive authority of the Flame King, dealing destructive damage to enemies with medium priority. Abilities with priority below medium cannot restore it.

Effect 4: Dragon Beast Bane. When slashing creatures with dragon bloodlines, ignores their defenses.

Effect 5: Unknown (removing the third seal requires God's Blood)

Bai Cangshu swung it twice. This sword was even more advanced than he had imagined, and he had some new speculations about the level Guts had once reached.

As part of the plot mission alongside Roland, Azure Sky’s former Third Tier Title-level Reincarnator, Bai Cangshu had originally believed that after acquiring Haki, Guts’s strength was probably only in the upper-middle range of the Strong-tier.

But now it seemed that, as a Plot Character connected to the Black King Society, Guts had more secrets than that.

Unsealing it with Dragon King’s Blood had granted it the Dragon Beast Bane effect, so the effect corresponding to the third seal was also quite obvious.

As long as Bai Cangshu killed a god with this sword, Black Sword: Dragon Slayer would gain a special effect against gods. Judging from what Guts had experienced in his original world, this property was clearly meant to target that Abyss God.

Furthermore, Bai Cangshu saw that after being unsealed with Surtur’s blood, the sword’s original limb-severing effect had also been enhanced, gaining certain effects related to flame and destruction.

If he killed a suitable god, this sword would probably receive further enhancements.

"The sword is a fine sword. The only flaw is… I’m not a swordsman."

Bai Cangshu put away Black Sword: Dragon Slayer. More speculation arose in his mind regarding the three items in that treasure trove from the One Piece World.

Paramecia Type: Heartfire Fruit;

The sealed Black Sword: Dragon Slayer;

And one severed arm of the Black King.

Perhaps these three were not meant for the same target. That treasure itself had been waiting for different people…

Bai Cangshu crushed the Drop Card. Flames flared fiercely for a moment, then turned into specks of starlight and vanished.

You opened Drop Card: Surtur

You obtained Dimensional Points ×5000

You obtained Surtur's Marrow (Red)