"Death" is not the most accurate of all Hawkins' "Pursuit Cards", but it is undoubtedly the most terrifying in terms of lethality.
Even monsters as strong as Smoker in the eyes of ordinary people were now extremely weak, let alone others.
On the flagship deck, Kebi received a phone call. All the people on a warship fell to the ground. Before he could ask clearly what happened, a sound of falling to the ground suddenly came from the other end of the phone, and then there was no sound. It's creepy.
"Those soldiers are already dead as expected... Why?!"
When he first awakened to see and hear color on the top, Kebi's ability to perceive the breath of life was far beyond that of ordinary people, so he was very sure of this.
But through the thick fog, he didn't know what was happening.
There was only a strong sense of threat coming over him, making him tremble all over.
Suddenly, two lines of tears of blood shed from Kebi's eyes and he roared angrily.
"Everyone, step back immediately and leave the fog!"
He discovered that the warships that lost information were all those closest to the pirate fleet... These soldiers used their own lives to leave intelligence for them, telling them the enemy's attack range.
After receiving the order, the already distraught soldiers took action quickly, pulled up the anchor, controlled the sail, and turned the warship.
Standing on the slowly moving deck, Kebi looked up at the densely fogged central area and clenched his fists.
"Lieutenant General, don't lose!"
Hawkins must have used this move to deal with Smoker. If even Smoker was defeated, Kerby didn't think he could make any changes with his current strength.
…
At the same time, in the center of the battlefield.
As the central area where the curse broke out, the pirates on the pirate ship were undoubtedly the first group of people to fall to the ground. They fell to the ground one by one. After just a few breaths, their skin wrinkled and they died like mummies.
"Hehehe, are you feeling uncomfortable, Lieutenant General Smoker?"
When Hawkins saw this scene, his calm face showed a rare trace of relief.
"Do you feel that your strength is still accelerating?"
"That's right!"
Hawkins burst out laughing: "The God of Death will turn the devoured vitality into nourishment for his own growth, and it will continue to amplify over the duration!"
"If you provide it with enough living animals, it can even destroy a country in a few minutes!"
As if to verify Hawkins's words, the body of the zombie in mid-air grew at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the scythe that harvested life became more and more chilly, piercing the bone marrow.
In the hood, the reddish red dots in the eye sockets of the skull made of straw became brighter and brighter, as if it had come to life. It opened its mouth with a vivid expression, swallowing and drinking.
"Your life has entered a countdown, Smoker!"
"If you don't want to die... come and beg me! I'll give you a chance to change your destiny, 'White Hunter' Smoker!"
"I… "
Looking at his skin that was gradually drying up, feeling that his physical strength was disappearing bit by bit, and the power of his heart beating slowly weakening, Smoker opened his dry lips and said.
"I beg you!"
"ah?"
Hawkins was stunned for a moment, then suddenly ecstatic.
"What did you say? Louder, I can't hear you!!"
"I said, I beg you... cough, cough, cough, cough!!!!"
Smoker shouted loudly with a heartbreaking cough.
Looking at Hawkins, who had a look of mixed surprise and disbelief in front of him, Smoker grinned.
"I beg you... please..."
"Stop being so funny!!"
"Nani?!!"
Hawkins' proud expression froze on his face. At the moment when he was most proud and thought he had subdued the famous White Hunter, Smoker's words made him feel more uncomfortable than eating shit.
"you wanna die!!"
"Ahem, cough, cough, really, you are hopelessly stupid, Hawkins..."
Smoker weakly propped himself up and sat on the ground.
There is no doubt that the curse of death is very terrifying. Even if he is not directly sucked dry and cannot die for a while, the life force has been sucked away, making it difficult for his body to move and unable to launch an effective attack at all.
But he still smiled openly, almost to the point of tears.
"If you kill all the pirates around you, won't your own stand-in be useless?"
"So what?!"
Hawkins asked in anger and surprise.
The "God of Reaper" has this shortcoming: after it is activated, it does not distinguish between friend and foe.
Even Hawkins, as the master, must use the demon-conquering form to transform ordinary flesh and blood into a scarecrow form in order to avoid being targeted by death.
It's not that Death couldn't draw out his life force, but that he used the scarecrow form to deceive Death's judgment and regard him as dead.
Therefore, without the target to divert the damage, the hundreds of stand-in dolls he currently hides in his body are simply scrapped and become dispensable.
"What can you do now?"
Hawkins raised his sword and looked at Smoker warily. Suddenly, he didn't understand something and decisively stepped back.
"What a risk, what a risk, I almost got fooled!"
"You want to provoke me to get close to you, and then take the opportunity to sneak attack, right... In fact, you still have the strength to fight, right, Smoker!"
If he is really irritated and does not wait for the God of Death to drain his life force bit by bit, but chooses to approach him actively, then with the opponent's power to develop the smoke fruit to the awakening level, it is not a problem to inflict fatal injuries on him.
Without the stand-in doll, one can imagine the outcome.
But... there are no ifs in everything!
"The wheel of fortune has long told me that this battle is either victory or defeat, life or death! I didn't expect it, Smoker, before I set off, I had already made a divination for my action, and your plan has been seen through by me. "
Hawkins looked at Smoker with a smile, as if looking at a dying dog, full of complacency and confidence.
"No, actually... well, forget it, you won't believe anything I say anyway."
Looking at this scene, the sarcasm in Smoker's eyes became more and more obvious.
He shook his head feebly, took out two cigars from his breast pocket, and then took out a lighter with trembling hands, seemingly ready to light a cigarette.
"So I decided to ask you to experience for yourself how stupid this decision you made is."
"Stop pretending! I won't be fooled, Smo..."
Before the syllable of "ge" was spoken, Smoker pulled the trigger and ignited the flame.
The next second...
Bang! ! ! ! !
A fire with a diameter of hundreds of meters suddenly bloomed in the foggy world. The blazing light was accompanied by a strong impact and swept across the entire dense fog area in the blink of an eye.
The howling wind whipped up waves hundreds of meters high, pushing the warships out of the foggy area far away one by one. There is a sinkhole-like gap in the original sea surface, and you can even see the bedrock of the seabed!
The violent shock caused chaos on the deck. Fortunately, they were far apart and were pushed by the sea water before the impact came, so they were not seriously affected.
Kirby, who was as drowned as a rat, climbed up from the deck, looked at the messy sea surface, where not even a single piece of wood could be seen, and roared: "Lieutenant Admiral!!!"
However, apart from the rolling waves, no one could be seen anywhere.
"Ahem, are you okay, Captain Kerby?"
Suddenly, a familiar voice appeared behind him.
Kebi's eyes suddenly widened and he turned around in disbelief: "Lieutenant General?!"
"Ah, it's me... cough cough cough!"
Smoker was still dressed in a jacket that showed off his breasts, holding two cigars in his mouth, looking at him with tired but energetic eyes, and a slight smile on his lips.
"I have to say that Hawkins' ability is quite troublesome, but he is a bit stupid."
"I didn't even understand the properties of my smoke, so I revealed my trump card and wanted to kill him with one hit... Really, I'm hopelessly stupid!"
"As it turns out... Kirby."
Smoker patted the shoulder of Kirby, who looked confused, ignorant, weak, and scared, and said.
"Occult science cannot defeat science!"
"Do you want to know more about dust explosions?"
The smoke produced by the Smoke Fruit is not water mist, nor is it the residue left after burning tobacco. The smoking habit has nothing to do with the fruit's ability!
He is just a chain smoker who happened to eat the fruit of smoke.
In fact, Smoker can freely change the shape of smoke, making them soft or hard to adapt to different attack methods. After awakening, it has the ability to continuously change its inherent characteristics.
So these smoke powders are flammable if Smoker wants to!
Thinking about it from another angle, as an esper, he can't create water vapor, right? !
"So... he was directly killed by you?!"
"To be precise, not even the scum is left."
"What about us?!"
Kebi suddenly roared with fangs, roaring and flipping the table.
"If I hadn't ordered to exit the foggy area, wouldn't we have been killed too!!!"
It's going to kill someone!
Smoker looked impatient about this.
"Don't worry, there are so many ifs and what-ifs... I know exactly whether you are in the misty world I created! If I hadn't made sure that you had left, how could I have acted like this..."
Hearing this, Kebi stopped and looked at him with emotion: "Really?"
"That's right!"
immediately…
"Look into my eyes and talk, you bastard!!!!"