But this time, it seemed as if the heavens had mercy on them, and a beam of light soon appeared in the distance.
"It's the exit!"
Musshuru cried out in surprise, and while trying to hold back the increasingly pungent smell around him, he quickly walked forward and climbed up along the pipe that appeared in front of him.
Everyone hurried to catch up, but they didn't expect that the difficulties before them were just the beginning.
Even with Musshuru's physique, it took him nearly two hours to climb to the top of the Drum Castle along the pipeline. Most of his subordinates who followed him fell down halfway due to exhaustion, and their life-and-death situation was unknown.
In the Drum Castle, a sewage pipe was broken from the inside, and Musshuru crawled out while trembling all over.
He glanced around, then ran toward the top of the castle according to the route he remembered, with an increasingly smug smile on his face: "Doesn't that old guy like this place very much? He even expelled me from the country to the barren nation just for those bastards!"
"I'm going to destroy everything he holds dear!"
"White Knight Gawain and his men would never have thought that I would enter Drum Island through the underground pipeline and take the opportunity to sneak into the Drum Castle."
Soon, he came to the top floor of the Drum Castle, and his heartbeat started to speed up…
Squeak!
The door was open.
But Musshuru's face turned pale the next moment because the giant cannon that he had placed his hope in the Drum Castle had now been chopped into several pieces.
What made him feel even more horrified was the thin figure standing on the city wall, looking at him.
"Yo, there's a little mouse here."
Kuro grinned, raised his hand, and pushed his glasses up with his palm.
The sharp blade at his fingertips flashed with a cold light, making his murderous intent even more apparent.
"Are you surprised?"
Musshuru showed a look of fear, but quietly condensed a ball of spores in his hand and threw it directly at Kuro.
Then, it exploded in mid-air before it hit Kuro.
Boom!
Countless spores spread out instantly, but they were not the familiar purple spores but black spores.
"This is part of the spores that I cultivated in my body. Its toxicity is more than a hundred times that of ordinary spores!"
"You would regret—"
Whoosh!
Five hideous scratches that extended from the lower abdomen to his chest appeared on Musshuru's body, almost ripping him open on the spot and causing him to swallow back his next words.
Musshuru opened his mouth and spat out a large mouthful of blood; only then did he realize that his opponent had appeared in front of him without him noticing.
He didn't even have the chance to beg for mercy before his body was pierced by Kuro's Cat Claws.
"I really… want to find you so much!"
Kuro gritted his teeth, feeling extremely relieved.
During this period, Musshuru hid very well, and both he and Gawain subconsciously ignored the underground waterway.
After all, with the climate of Drum Island, eight out of ten people who dare to invade from there will be frozen to death.
"Oops!'
"The captain's body is injured!"
Several panicked voices broke the silence at the scene.
Kuro looked up, and then, in the distance, several pirates who had just climbed out of the pipe were seen diving back in at an even faster speed as if they were avoiding some ferocious beast.
Some people even threw away their weapons just to run faster.
"Um?!"
Kuro realized something was wrong and frowned slightly.
He subconsciously wanted to pull back his weapon but found that his arm was already tightly grasped by Musshuru, whose face was extremely pale, but the smile on his face became more ferocious.
"The fact that you can come here means that King-sama has either not arrived yet or he has already fought with White Knight Gawain or even lost!"
Kuro's eyes were grim. He raised his hand and swung his sword to cut off Musshuru's arm, then threw it aside in disgust. He also took the opportunity to escape, and his eyes fell on Musshuru as if he were looking at a dead person:
"Who's-Who died; King was defeated; there is no hope for you."
"Yeah?"
Musshuru smiled bitterly and coughed out a large mouthful of blood: "But no matter what the result is, it makes no difference to me now."
"Do you know?"
"There are two ways to make the spores in my body burst out completely."
"One is that I release it myself, and the other is that I die!"
"Otherwise, do you think that old guy would just exile me?!"
As he spoke, he looked down at his wound; the life in his eyes gradually faded, and all that remained was unspeakable hatred and resentment.
"I do not understand!"
"Why are the lives of those bastards more important to him than mine?"
"In that case, I will destroy it all!"
As the sound fell to the ground, Musshuru took his last breath.
His body also began to expand rapidly the next moment, just like a balloon.
In just a few seconds, it formed a huge sphere over fifty meters in size, almost completely occupying the top floor of the castle.
Kuro retreated again and again, and when his eyes fell on the sphere, he still felt a little uneasy.
"Damn it!"
His mind suddenly recalled the information he accidentally saw when he was looking through the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia.
The effects of some devil fruit abilities are permanent.
Just like a person petrified by the Love-Love Fruit, the effect will not disappear even if the user dies; the same is true for Musshuru's ability.
Those spores that were created because of him are real existences in themselves and will not disappear because of the disappearance of the person with the devil fruit ability.
"This is the highest point in the Drum Kingdom. If I let that guy explode here, everyone will die!"
"Gin, Zoro, and the others…"
Kuro looked at the huge sphere that was expanding in front of him, and a sense of helplessness gradually emerged in his eyes.
What he regretted most at this moment was that he had killed the other party before he had figured out the intelligence.
But not to mention that there are countless Devil Fruits, many of whose abilities are not recorded in the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia, such as Gawain's Red Dragon fruit, and some of them are not even fully recorded.
Some devil fruit abilities will also show different characteristics depending on the person who uses them!
"We're in big trouble!"
Without any hesitation, Kuro took out the Den Den Mushi from his arms and immediately spread the news.
"Captain!"
"Musshuru is willing to self-destruct in order to spread the spores in his body to the entire Drum Island. We… "
"I… saw it!"
Far away in the sky, even though he was still tens of kilometers away, he could see that the sphere in the Drum Castle was getting bigger and bigger.
It expanded and even became a huge sphere close to 100 meters.
"If that thing is allowed to spread here, no one in this country will survive."
"Let's… retreat!"
Kuro's voice trembled, and the huge sphere behind him exploded in the next moment.
Bang!
The pitch-black spores gushed out, and in an instant they became like a black cloud, filling the mountain where the Drum Castle was located, and with the help of the sea breeze, they began to spread to the entire island.
It is a pity.
This time, the weather was not on the side of the Drum Kingdom.