Super Card System

As Aokiji and his group departed, Arest’s naval ship had already arrived at the harbor of Golden City.

Once onshore, Arest glanced around. The once-glorious Golden City, with its bright lights and dazzling buildings, was now shrouded in darkness. The neon colors that had once illuminated the city had long since faded.

After being swept by the tsunami, the city was littered with various corpses. These bodies belonged to Tesoro’s former henchmen, as well as some greedy pirates who had remained behind. The corpses were half-buried in the rubble, barely visible.

Arest walked over to a pirate’s corpse, bent down, and picked up a soaked bundle from the pirate’s back. With a gentle shake, the bundle opened, and a clatter of gold items spilled onto the ground.

“The Lord says, what good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?”

Shaking his head, Arest discarded the cloth covering the bundle, carefully checking his pristine white robes, making sure they hadn’t been stained by the filth around him. He then took out a handkerchief and wiped the cover of his Bible, removing any water droplets, before turning to the navy soldiers behind him and ordering, “Find Tesoro!”

“Yes, Admiral Arest!” The navy soldiers stood at attention and saluted before quickly spreading out with their weapons, beginning their search throughout Golden City.

During their search, the navy soon found a critically injured World Government intelligence agent, who provided them with the location of Tesoro. Arest immediately led the soldiers to the specified spot.

When they finally found Tesoro, they discovered him lying among a pile of rubble.

Tesoro, who had once been clad in fashionable and luxurious attire, was now in a pitiful state. His right shoulder bore three bleeding wounds, slowly oozing blood—marks left by the Dragon Claw technique when Tesoro, overestimating his own strength, tried to confront Dragon and had his Haki defense brutally pierced.

Tesoro was panting heavily, his entire body soaked through, and scattered around him were shards of broken gold.

He had completely miscalculated. It was one thing to be unable to defeat Ian and his powerful crew, but when he faced Dragon, he suddenly realized that Dragon was far stronger than even Aokiji!

Although Dragon was labeled by the World Government as the most dangerous criminal in the world, his low profile meant that very few people had ever witnessed his power firsthand. Consequently, few truly understood the extent of his abilities. Tesoro made the same mistake; when the tsunami struck, even the advantage of being in his own domain was stripped away from him.

People often cling to a sense of false hope. When facing Dragon, Tesoro, not knowing the true extent of his opponent’s power, had dared to think that maybe Dragon wasn’t as formidable as rumored.

But the result… The result was that Dragon gave Tesoro a harsh lesson in reality.

Fortunately for him, Dragon didn’t kill him—he only severely injured him. When the waters receded, Tesoro had barely managed to cling to life, lying here, struggling to breathe.

Hearing footsteps, Tesoro weakly lifted his head to look at the newcomers. When he saw the figure in the Navy admiral’s uniform, he couldn’t help but mockingly laugh, “You’re late! But who are you?”

“Hehe,” Arest chuckled. “Allow me to introduce myself. I am the newly appointed Navy Admiral, Arest. A pleasure to meet you, Mr. Tesoro.”

“The World Conscription Plan, huh?” Tesoro had heard of it. He let out a cold laugh, “You must be the first civilian admiral recruited, right? Didn’t expect the World Government to act so quickly!”

Arest handed the book he was holding to a nearby navy captain, then stepped closer to Tesoro, looking down at him and saying, “Mr. Tesoro, I’m afraid I must regretfully inform you that you are under arrest.”

“Hahaha!” Tesoro burst into laughter upon hearing this. Struggling, he clutched his bleeding shoulder and stood up, saying, “I figured you were here to arrest me. But do you really think I’m just going to surrender quietly?”

Arest remained silent, simply watching him calmly.

With a wave of his hand, the shattered gold on the ground began to flow like liquid again, swirling around Tesoro’s arm. Although the seawater in the Golden City had receded, leaving the gold slightly wet, it didn’t hinder Tesoro’s Devil Fruit ability. Manipulating the gold, Tesoro felt a bit more confident, saying, “You’re a Navy Admiral; I might not be able to defeat you, but if I want to escape, you won’t be able to stop me!”

“Mr. Tesoro, where could you possibly run to?” Arest said calmly. “Please don’t make this difficult for me.”

“Anywhere is better than being locked up in Impel Down!” Tesoro sneered. “I fought so hard to gain my freedom…”

With that, Tesoro moved. With a flick of his hand, the swirling gold shot toward Arest like a bolt of lightning.

But that wasn’t all. The other gold scattered on the ground suddenly seemed to come alive, rushing towards the Navy soldiers behind Arest.

As the Navy soldiers struggled in panic, ensnared by the gold, Tesoro took off, trying to make his escape.

However, before he could get far, Arest, who was still wrapped in gold, spoke up, “Mr. Tesoro, you’re bleeding. That’s a very dangerous situation, you know.” 𝙧

Tesoro heard the voice but paid no attention to it. He thought the amount of blood he was losing wasn’t enough to be life-threatening, so he ignored Arest’s warning.

But just then, Arest managed to push his right hand out through the gaps in the gold restraints and, with his palm facing Tesoro’s direction, clenched his fist from a distance.

“Repel!”

In the next instant, Tesoro, who was running at full speed, suddenly felt an intense wave of dizziness, and his entire body went limp and powerless. He stumbled and, with a heavy thud, crashed to the ground, sliding a short distance before coming to a halt.

“Wha… what’s happening!?” Tesoro, lying on the ground, felt as if his mind had become clouded, unable to think clearly, let alone muster the strength to stand.

At the same time that Tesoro fell, the gold that had been wrapped around Arest and the Navy soldiers turned limp like soft noodles, dropping off their bodies. As the gold hit the ground, it clanged loudly, having reverted to its original hardness.

After freeing himself, Arest didn’t rush over immediately. Instead, he calmly brushed the dirt off his pristine white uniform before slowly walking towards Tesoro.

“What… what did you do to me?” Tesoro weakly turned his head to face Arest, asking in a panic.

“I already told you, bleeding is very dangerous,” Arest replied with a smile. “Especially in front of me, it’s even more so!”

As he spoke, Arest’s right hand slowly rotated, and suddenly, a thin stream of blood began to flow out from the wound on Tesoro’s shoulder, flying directly into the palm of Arest’s hand.

The blood streamed continuously, forming a growing red orb in Arest’s hand, getting larger and larger.

Tesoro watched this in shock, unable to comprehend what was happening.

“As you can see, I’m a Paramecia-type Blood Fruit user,” Arest said, gazing at the blood orb in his hand while smiling at Tesoro. “My ability is quite simple: I control blood—whether it’s my own or my opponent’s. The reason you felt weak just now was because I made the blood in your body expel the oxygen. In other words, you were simply suffering from hypoxia!”

“Damn it… damn it!” Tesoro finally understood. No wonder his Devil Fruit powers had failed. Without oxygen in his blood, he couldn’t maintain his stamina, and without stamina, he couldn’t continue to activate his Devil Fruit abilities. This new Navy Admiral, Arest, had such a terrifying Devil Fruit power!?

However, Arest wasn’t done with him yet. Still smiling, he continued, “That’s not all. There are many ways to manipulate blood, like… heating it!”

As his words fell, Arest’s left hand made another slight motion, and in the next second, Tesoro let out a blood-curdling scream!

The pain was excruciating, unlike anything he had ever felt!

Tesoro felt as though every drop of blood in his body was boiling at that moment, scorching his veins as it coursed through them, sending waves of intense pain throughout his nervous system. How could anyone withstand such agony!?

“But I’m not done yet!” Arest chuckled, even going so far as to lick his lips slightly, before twisting his left hand again. “Reverse flow!”

Then, all of Tesoro’s blood began to flow in reverse within his body!

“Ahhhhhh!!!!” Tesoro’s agonized scream echoed far across the desolate Golden City, reverberating continuously.

The nearby Navy soldiers, watching as Arest tortured Tesoro in such a manner, felt a chill run down their spines. Seeing the expression of excitement on Arest’s face, they suddenly realized that this newly appointed Navy Admiral was not the kind and gentle priest he appeared to be…

He seemed… to have a thirst for blood!

As Tesoro convulsed and writhed on the ground, Arest showed no sign of stopping. The blood he had previously drawn from Tesoro’s wound had originally gathered into a blood sphere in Arest’s palm. But now, with a mere thought, the blood formed into a crimson dagger!

“100cc, Blood Spike!” (cubic centimetres)

Arest gripped the blood-formed dagger in his right hand, pressed down on Tesoro’s hand with his left, pinning it to the ground, and then suddenly stabbed downward!

Even though the dagger was thin and made entirely of blood, it possessed a hardness far surpassing steel. With a soft slicing sound, it effortlessly pierced through Tesoro’s hand and the ground beneath it!

Leaning down, Arest whispered with a chilling smile in Tesoro’s ear, “Now do you understand? Any living being with blood flowing through their veins is in extreme danger in front of me once they’re wounded… If you can’t quickly stop the bleeding, you’ll end up just like this—completely powerless.”

Finished speaking, he paid no more attention to Tesoro’s reaction. He stood up, brushed off his clothes, and with a wave of his hand, commanded, “Take him into custody!”

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