Super Card System - S.C.S Chapter 743: Metal Storm

No wonder Ian was suspicious. Even though Fujitora had mentioned earlier that the Mink Tribe highly values their fur, Ian didn’t think she would fight to the death with everyone just because he had burned a bit of fur on her face.

If it were that brute Jack the Drought, Ian wouldn’t have had any doubts; he’d just beat him senseless. But… she was Queen the Plague!

Ian had long speculated that among the main officers of the Beasts Pirates, there should be a strategist type, and this strategist was most likely Queen the Plague. Now, suddenly encountering her here, and with her actions seeming illogical, Ian naturally had to be cautious.

Expanding the range of his En field again, Ian began to sense whether there might be any ambushes nearby.

But the surroundings were empty; Queen the Plague had really come alone!

This made Ian even more puzzled. After thinking it over, he gritted his teeth and decided that sometimes there’s no need to overthink. Since Queen the Plague dared to stay and fight, he just needed to capture her and not let her escape. Even if she had any backup plans, he could use brute force to overcome them!

With this thought, Ian spread his flaming wings and flew into the sky!

Sheathing his two swords at his waist, Ian freed up his hands and aimed them at the ground. Then, a massive amount of electric sparks burst from his hands, crackling as they struck the ground.

Then, countless metallic sand particles broke through the ground around him, drilling upwards and floating in the air under the influence of Ian’s electromagnetic field!

**Iron Sand Storm!**

Taking advantage of Marco and Izo entangling Queen, Ian concentrated on controlling the iron sand. This time, the area he controlled was especially vast, covering several hundred meters around them. The sight of hundreds of thousands, even millions, of iron sand particles floating up was astonishing. Queen the Plague also noticed Ian’s actions; one of her heads turned toward him, and she opened her mouth to spray poison. However, Ian didn’t pay any attention, suddenly rising a bit higher and easily dodging.

At this moment, Queen didn’t know what Ian was up to. She just instinctively felt that something was wrong and believed she absolutely couldn’t let Ian complete whatever he was doing. So, after missing her attack, she immediately pounced toward Ian again!

As she moved, she seemed annoyed by Marco and Izo getting in the way. With a paw imbued with Armament Haki, she swiped at Marco. Marco also used Armament Haki, meeting her attack with a kick, but the difference in strength was immense. Marco was directly sent flying by her paw, crashing heavily into the ground.

At the same time, one of her heads opened its mouth to bite at Izo. Izo was significantly weaker than Marco and naturally didn’t dare to take it head-on, so he flipped to dodge.

Though it takes time to describe, this all happened in an instant. Queen the Plague broke free, forcefully kicked off the ground with her four legs, leaping into the air, and her three large, razor-toothed mouths snapped toward Ian.

However, facing the leaping Queen, Ian didn’t panic at all. He freed his right hand, spread his five fingers, and met her attack.

**Crash!** A sound like shattering glass echoed. The three-headed giant fox didn’t even touch Ian because, as she got close, Ian used Orochi’s skill **”Yata Mirror”**, directly shattering the space in front of him!

The massive impact from the broken space sent the giant beast flying backward. Queen the Plague’s three heads all let out a wail as she crashed to the ground.

However, being a Zoan awakened user, her body was incredibly resilient. She rolled on the ground and stood up again.

But her middle head, which had been closest to Ian and should have been the first to bite him, had also taken the brunt of the force. The immense impact shattered many of the fangs in that head’s mouth. Now, broken teeth mixed with the blood gushing from her mouth dripped onto the ground.

Queen the Plague glared fiercely at Ian, a hint of resentment flashing in her eyes.

Ian looked down at her from above, snorted coldly, but didn’t continue attacking. Instead, he focused again on controlling the iron sand around them.

Under Ian’s control, the iron sand began to coalesce from its scattered state and started to rotate slowly.

Queen spat out a mouthful of blood and once again raised her three heads simultaneously, aiming at Ian in mid-air. She opened her mouths, preparing to unleash poison and flame pillars again.

**Fire Fist!**

At that moment, Ace’s voice suddenly sounded, and a massive blaze flew over, directly hitting one of Queen’s mouths. The poison she had just spewed collided head-on with the flames, causing an immediate explosion. The green poison turned to blue smoke under the high temperature.

That head let out a wail, but before her other two heads could turn toward Ace to counterattack, a powerful gravity suddenly pressed down, forcefully pulling her massive body downward!

It wasn’t just Ace; now even Fujitora had joined the battle. Ian’s Dual Heaven Returning Shield had successfully expelled the Sea Sponge Worms from their bodies as foreign objects. Without the worms’ restraint, the two could finally use their Devil Fruit abilities without any interference!

Now Fujitora took action, applying a massive gravitational field onto Queen. Although she struggled to support herself on all fours, she could feel all the bones in her body creaking.

Knowing she couldn’t stay under Fujitora’s gravity field any longer, Queen’s four limbs suddenly exerted force, trying to leap away.

With her current Sulong form’s strength, she could naturally escape a considerable distance to get out of the gravity field. However, Fujitora had anticipated her move. Just as she was about to act, he suddenly increased the gravity’s intensity.

With a **boom**, the ground beneath Queen was compressed downwards by the immense gravity. The force she had just gathered was suppressed by the increased gravity, and this time, her entire body was crushed down, collapsing onto the ground.

“This time, you don’t have any helpers to free you!” Fujitora said, holding his cane-sword and closing his eyes. He walked over slowly with Ace, speaking as they approached, “So just stay down and wait for the captain’s move to finish!”

“Roar!” Her response was an angry roar from Queen.

As mentioned before, the Sulong form is somewhat like a berserk state. Even now, under such immense gravity, Queen hadn’t given up resisting. Filled with intense fighting spirit, she tried once more to stand up.

However, unexpectedly, Fujitora increased the gravity again!

“Such gravity isn’t even my limit. Are you sure you want to try?” Fujitora said.

In fact, Fujitora had never used his gravity field at full strength because he felt it was too cruel. If used at full power, the enemy would be directly crushed into a meat patty. Given Fujitora’s character, he wouldn’t go to such extremes even against an enemy…

However, Queen the Plague, transformed into this three-headed monstrous fox, was indeed fierce. Fujitora’s gravity field was now about twenty times normal gravity, barely suppressing her. It was astonishing how powerful Zoan awakened users could be…

Seeing Queen suppressed, Marco landed from the air and stood beside Fujitora and Ace with Izo. He looked up at Ian in mid-air and asked with some confusion, “What’s he doing?”

“I don’t know!” Ace also shook his head in puzzlement. “But it seems to be some new move?”

They had seen Ian’s Iron Sand Storm before, but this time, it was different. Within the gradually converging iron sand storm, they saw that between the rotating iron sand, a large amount of electric sparks was flowing!

At first, they were puzzled, but gradually, they began to understand.

This guy Ian, he was using electricity to accelerate the iron sand!

Yes, accelerate! The spinning iron sand particles were rotating faster and faster within the powerful electric field, to the point where even their visual perception was affected. It looked like countless threads spinning rapidly.

At this moment, Ian had quietly activated the Bankai of his Senbonzakura to provide more Nen output for himself. This was another new move he had come up with, consuming a tremendous amount of energy.

As the Iron Sand Storm accelerated, a gradually increasing suction was pulling everyone toward the storm. Realizing something was wrong, Ace and the others quickly retreated.

However, Queen, suppressed in place by Fujitora’s gravity field, couldn’t move. Even she, now finding herself in a roaring storm, couldn’t help but reveal a hint of panic in her beastly red eyes!

This was a powerful storm formed by countless iron sand particles. Because the rotation speed was so high, the black storm had become like a massive, solid cylindrical iron barrel. From within the center of the storm, Queen’s vision was entirely occupied by this black iron curtain!

Suddenly, the pressure beneath her vanished. Fujitora had canceled his ability at this precise moment. The abrupt disappearance of the gravity field resulted in Queen, the massive three-headed monstrous fox, being instantly swept into the iron curtain storm with a **whoosh**!

On the outskirts of Kyoto in Wano Country, such a sudden appearance of a black storm connecting heaven and earth was startling. Within the twisting form of the black storm, a fiery red color was suddenly mixed in!

After being drawn into the storm, Queen finally realized how terrifying it was. Every piece of iron sand in the storm had been accelerated by Ian using the principle of his Railgun skill. Although accelerating so many iron sand particles at once consumed an enormous amount of energy, causing the iron sand’s speed not to reach the level of the Railgun, it was roughly equivalent to bullets fired from an ordinary handgun!

This meant that the moment Queen was sucked into the storm, she was subjected to tens of thousands of bullets!

Even though she had been mentally prepared, covering her entire body with Armament Haki for defense, Queen still suffered severe injuries. Her three fox heads simultaneously spewed blood into the sky!

In this torrent of bullets, Queen lasted only two seconds before collapsing. Her body rapidly shrank as she released her animal transformation and Sulong form.

This inadvertently saved her life. Shrinking her body meant a smaller surface area subjected to the attacks.

When Ian canceled his ability and let the storm dissipate, Queen fell from mid-air, crashing to the ground, already unconscious.

At this moment, all the bones in her body were broken inch by inch. If not for the powerful vitality of a Zoan awakened user sustaining her, she might have been killed instantly by Ian’s move…

After the storm dissipated for a while, silence finally returned to the surroundings. Ace stared in amazement at the spot where the storm had been. The flowers and grass on the ground had long disappeared, leaving only spiral-shaped grooves on the ground—carved out by countless iron sand particles…

“Now I believe you really have the strength of an Emperor, you bastard…” Ace turned to Ian, still feeling lingering fear, and said, “Every time I see you, you seem to have developed even more powerful moves…”

Marco, Izo, and Fujitora all nodded in agreement upon hearing Ace’s words.

Only Bonney ran over, reached out, and poked the unconscious Queen the Plague. Then she hesitantly said to Ian, “Weren’t you a bit too harsh on this woman? At this rate, how are you going to find a wife in the future?”

Ian was almost choked to death by Bonney’s words…

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