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OPI Chapter 195: The Unseen Enemy's Power
🕑 Added 2024-07-12 05:43:07 +0000 UTC[Boom! Boom! Boom!]
The blue sky filled with projectiles that flew through the air with a sharp whistle, turning into flames and shock waves as they hit the ground.
The ground shook with each explosion, and brown pieces of debris scattered everywhere. In the blink of an eye, dust and smoke covered the Dimensional Gate.
At this moment, Charlotte Cracker stood in front of the dimensional gate with a serious expression. Behind him were his siblings, Charlotte Oven and Charlotte Daifuku.
There were also several army officers. One of them sighed. "As we thought, we can't do it. The enemy wants to completely seal off our passage."
Cracker had created three hundred Cookie Soldiers with his Devil Fruit ability, but shortly after crossing the dimensional gate, they were destroyed by the incessant bombardment.
Daifuku glanced at Oven who went to comfort Cracker, and then said: "Compared to that, I am more surprised by the other side's ability to predict the future."
"Didn't you notice? The enemy didn't start firing until all the biscuit soldiers had crossed. They didn't fire either before or during the crossing. Doesn't that suggest they knew exactly how many we would send?"
Everyone looked at each other in concern upon hearing this, realizing that the enemy from the other world was more difficult to handle than they had imagined.
At that moment Crocodile arrived along with two people.
"Lieutenant General Crocodile!"
"The higher-ups are also curious about the enemy's ability to foresee the future. So we're going to do a test." Crocodile then introduced the people behind him. "This is Brook from CP9, user of the Revive-Revive Fruit."
"Yohohohoho, nice to meet you, please take care of me~~" Brook took off his hat and bowed, but this time he wasn't showing his skeleton face, instead he was wearing a realistic mask that made him look a lot like his old self.
This was because his skeleton face had become a public image of the 'Soul King', a world star, so he had to hide his true identity during missions.
Crocodile continued to introduce the figure to his right.
“And this is Gecko Moria, jailer of Impel Down and user of the Shadow-Shadow Fruit.”
"Kishishishi~" Gecko Moria was in a very good mood, happy to have the opportunity to travel and see other worlds, especially one in a state of war, which he found fascinating.
“What do you plan to do?” Oven asked curiously.
“Brook and Moria have three missions.” Crocodile replied as he lit a cigarette.
“First, determine if the enemy’s ability to foresee the future includes seeing things invisible to the human eye, such as souls.”
“Second, check if the enemy has any means to attack or capture non-physical entities, such as souls or shadows.”
“Third, gather as much valuable information as they can. Unfortunately, they cannot take the Den-Den Mushi with them, so they will have to report back to us on their return.”
Daifuku was pleasantly surprised, and several other military officers also nodded in approval.
"Then you two, let's start." Crocodile said solemnly to Brook and Moria.
"Yohohohoho~ Very exciting task, I will do my best!"
Brook, laughing, sat down on the ground. Moria, for his part, immediately activated his Devil Fruit ability.
The next moment, the shadow beneath Moria twisted and then rose from the ground before turning into a silhouette identical to Moria's.
Meanwhile, Brook's soul floated out of his body, appearing as a dark green ghost before everyone present.
"Go, good luck~" Crocodile said with a smile. Then, he couldn't hold back his laughter and started laughing out loud, while Brook's shadow and ghost slipped into the dimensional door. "Kuahahahaha!"
...
The dimensional door was really like a door. Once opened, one could see the other side. So, at a short distance, one could still observe what was happening.
So Crocodile and the others, who were on the other side of the dimensional gate, were surprised to see that Moria's shadow had crossed over without any problems. No enemy fire had fallen, allowing him to fly away undisturbed.
After a while of not seeing any reaction from the enemy, Moria made his shadow return through the dimensional door to take a Den-Den Mushi with it.
[Swish! Swish!]
But when the shadow had barely crossed the dimensional door with a Den-Den Mushi, two projectiles exploded, filling the air with flames and shock waves that passed through the dimensional door.
"Hmph!" Luckily, at that moment Crocodile acted quickly, throwing out a large amount of sand as a shield.
"Damn, the Den-Den Mushi is dead!" Gecko Moria cursed in frustration.
...
"The enemy was targeting the Den-Den Mushi, which means they know what it is. Their ability to foresee the future is truly impressive." In the Room of Authority, Ju Peter saw this scene and sighed. "So no matter what we do, it has actually been calculated by the other side!"
"This complicates things. It seems we can only get more information through Brook's testimony." Mars said with a resigned expression.
Warcury mused: "If the enemy already knows everything about the future, he surely has an idea of the strength of both sides."
"If they think they're stronger than us, why don't they just attack us instead of staying stuck? After all, maintaining an army of millions consumes astronomical resources every day."
Saturn said, doubtfully: "Could it be that the enemy knows that the dimensional gate can be closed and that's why they don't want to risk being trapped in our world? From the beginning, they haven't thought about invading."
Warcury frowned and nodded silently.
The situation seemed to have reached a standstill again.
...
Five hours later, Brook's soul returned with disheartening information.
"The enemy camp is huge. I could only see a small part of it floating, but at least I remembered the general location of the artillery batteries." Brook said, embarrassed.
"Did you find their headquarters or the name of their faction? Anything peculiar?" Crocodile asked.
"I didn't see anything strange." While recalling, Brook said: "But there is a serious problem, that is, the enemy's language and writing. I can't understand or read them at all, so I can't find the enemy's headquarters at all."
"There is no Japanese and English there?" Crocodile looked at Brook in surprise. So far, the two worlds they had encountered had these languages, albeit with some grammatical differences.
"No." Brook shook his head in certainty. "Even if there is, it can't be the other party's main language."
The situation again reached a stalemate.
...
The next day.
After much discussion by the World Government, as well as Imu's approval, it was decided to send General-level fighters to obtain information from the other world.
General Byrnndi World along with five lieutenant generals and ten major generals behind him and appeared in front of the dimensional gate.
Among them, the most famous was Jozu. The others were nameless warriors.
"Remember, when you cross the dimensional gate, don't hesitate to immediately fly into the sky and then follow me at full speed towards enemy lines." Byrnndi World instructed the fifteen men behind him.
"Yes, General!" Jozu and the others responded in unison.
"Let's go!" Byrnndi World shouted loudly and at the same time activated the ability of his Devil Fruit, then immediately turned into an afterimage and rushed through the dimensional door.
[Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!]
Immediately, Jozu and the others moved at high speed.
"Huh?!" Byrnndi World had barely stepped out of the dimensional gate when his Kenbunshoku Haki detected something. He instinctively raised his head and saw a dazzling white light burst into his field of vision. "Not good!!"
[Boom!!!]
A huge explosion occurred, the entire world seemed to turn white in that instant.
Even the heat and fog coming through the dimensional gate caused a part of the base to explode.
This scene left everyone stunned.
"Nuclear bomb?!" On the Moon, in front of the virtual screen, Imu stood up suddenly.
Although the Den-Den Mushi only transmitted a flash of white light, as he watched the destruction of the base, Imu immediately thought of this possibility.
“No, we need to check for radiation!” Imu immediately took out a Den-Den Mushi and called the Five Elders.
At this moment, the area around the Dimensional Gate base was in chaos. The soldiers did not know how to react.
Luckily, it wasn't long before a group of Cipher Pol agents, along with a dozen investigators in hazmat suits, arrived at the scene. In addition, these researchers carried radiation detectors.
Investigators walked carefully through the rubble, watching radiation meters.
But the further they went, the stranger it looked. They couldn't detect any radiation. Instead, they found Jozu, seriously injured and unconscious.
He was immediately transferred to the medical department of the army headquarters.
However, they did not find the other people. When they cleared away the debris, the dimension door seemed to have not been affected at all.
Sakazuki, who had arrived to inspect, looked through the gate and his expression changed drastically when he saw the charred corpse of Byrnndi World.
There was no trace of anyone else, probably disintegrated by the explosion.
The army general... was dead!
