One Piece: The Power System

Chapter 40 - Trial Of Power Part 3!

Nami and Vindicate fought off the Wraiths, this wasn't so easy later. They manage to take two of them down with the Purification water, killing one instantly and weakening one severely. Bullets, swords, and any normal weapons were useless against them. Of course, if you had Haki then hitting them wouldn't be a problem but none of them knew this technique.

The crippled Wraiths was slowed from its injuries which allowed Nami to finish it off as Vindicate fought the 3rd Wraith. This Wraith wasn't stupid, it saw how its teammates were killed and did things more cautiously.

Its eyes flashed red and a laser shot out of them!

Bzzz!!

"Not good!" Vindicate moved away to dodge, but he was too slow and he was lasered in his low side! He was still quite exhausted, he would need to do more training in the future. Vindicate could be deemed as one of the strongest in the four seas for sure, but exhaustion and damage from the Ghouls were wearing on him!

"Ahgg!" Vindicate's eyes went wide from shock, he fell to the ground holding his lower side.

"Halalala!" The Wraith seemed to be laughing at Vindicate's defeat, its black-hole eyes returned to black holes after the laser was shot. It grinned sinisterly, it recognized Vindicate's power but not Nami who it saw as weak.

Nami bit her teeth and shot at the wraith who was still caught up in victory, but he noticed and it missed. Vindicate seemed to have fainted from the trauma, he wasn't looking so good! It was similar to how Hawkins was lasered by Kizaru at Sabaody Archipelago.

"No!" Nami was a bit panicked seeing the current situation but knew she had to plan something. The Wraith shot another laser but Nami ran around to dodge them.

"Halalala!" The wraith laughed seeing the ant run for its life. Nami pistol's fell as she ran, she looked surprised when she dropped it as she moved away from the fountain. The wraith saw an opportunity to kill this person outright and rushed her.

Nami was pinned at a dead end with no way out, it looked hopeless! The Wraith brandished it blade-like claw and drew in for the kill. It stabbed towards Nami, its target was her heart, it was going for the sure kill.

Blood splashed about when she was impaled and wraith laughed loudly. It claws even went through the rock behind her!

However, once it looked at Nami, it noticed that she was still alive. The Wraith was stunned, how could she live from being stabbed in the heart? It checked a saw that the place it stabbed was her upper shoulder, she had moved just on time.

"Haha, just as planned!" Nami threw the bottle of Purification water on the wraith. That's right, she drew it in on purpose. She dropped her gun on purpose, she acted scare on purpose, well, she really was scared. Nami knew it would continue to shoot lasers if she didn't drop her gun or move away from the fountain, so she took the risk.

SSsss!

"HOOOOAAA!" The Wraith howl an unworldly screech, it had been fooled by an ant with no strength! The Wraith began to melt away, with complete grievance, trick by some lowly weakly, how pitiful!

[Congrats, you've completed the Fourth Wave!]

[Next Wave starts in an hour!]

*pant pant* Nami was breathing roughly, that was to close for comfort! Her shoulder was bleeding pretty badly, she didn't have many bandages left. Nami got up and ran over to Vindicate who had a hole in his side, his condition was much worse.

"The rewards better be worth it!" Nami was quite angry, she used her last bandages on him since his condition was way worse and she was a caring person like that. She applied antibiotics and many other things to better his condition.

She couldn't carry him, so she could only drag him deeper into the cave. The next round was the last, she was worried about the final creature. "I better fill up my water bottle with some more of that water, it's my best bet." Nami laid Vindicate in a secluded part of the cave, she was about to walk away but she came back and grabbed Vindicate's empty bottle as well to fill.

Nami could only hope he didn't die from his wounds, she also hoped that he wasn't in a coma.

Spring Valley.

Erica was currently engaged in battle against two Golems, she had killed one out of the three. The type of Golems she was fighting now were steel Golems. They could remind anyone of a giant Registeel of some sort. They were surprisingly quick for their size and hard to take down, Erica led them far away from Nojiko who was fainted in a safe place.

These Golem had one eye as well, but it was green, it could also fire a cannon laser. It took time to charge but once it was let loose it would be terrifying. As she was running away from the Golems who were around 35 feet tall, she saw something in the distance.

"What is that?" Erica said to herself, she didn't think much and ran to it. What she was greeted with was a platform that was on the grass. In the middle was a strange weapon, it looked like some high tech from the future.

Erica grabbed the gun, it was red and light gray. The features were just like that of the incinerator from Halo 4! The Golem moved in quick! Erica clicked the button on the side of the launcher and the number two popped up. She instantly believed that this was the ammunition, like the common sense she had, she took aim and pulled the trigger.

The scenery in the area changed in bright red as the red laser was shot from the launcher. It was a red Laser similar to Cero from bleach.

BOoM!

The area shook as shockwave rippled out, the Golem next to the Golem that was hit stumbled a bit. Winds kicked up causing Erica to cover her face from them.

"HMMMM!" The Golem gave a cry once it was hit by the beam, it went crashing down instantly! There was now only one Golem left, these trials had things like this to help them defeat really hard opponents but they were very limited use only. The purification water required you to actually hit the target with it to do anything while this weapon only gave you two shots and you would have to hit it.

"Yeah!" Erica jumped up in triumph but it wasn't over yet, the other Golem began to charge up a laser to destroy the platform and Erica. She couldn't one-shot a steel Golem like she did a Stone, Mud, and Clay Golems. The durability of a steel Golem was much beyond all others before it.

"Oh, Shit!" Erica could only move away as fast as she could. She wouldn't be hurt by the laser, but the weapon would surely be destroyed, it still had one shot left on it.

BZZZ!

With that, a yellow cannon was fired by the Steel Golem, the light was brighter than the sun according to Erica. A deafening explosion could be seen, Erica was blown away by these terrible shockwaves as so was the weapon in her hand. What was left was a huge crater where the platform once was, these Golem were much more smarter than the once before it.

Once everything calmed down, all there was left was dust from dirt and many rock and pebbles. The Golem stood in place waiting to see the results of everything and if it killed its initial target. The golem couldn't fire any more lasers since it had to charge up more energy to use another one.

Erica emerged from the rubble and looked at the Golem secretly through the dust clouds. She intended to save the last shot of the cannon for the last creature. Erica sighed, she may have to work on her stamina or she might face some problems in the future.

"Okay, I'll charge up one last attack to take it down, it took a little damage from the cannon when I hit the other Golem." Erica put her hand together and formed a triangle shape with her hands like a Tri-beam.

"Secular Fire!" This attack was also similar to Portgas D. Ace's Crossfire attack where he would form his index finger into a cross. Erica spoke in a low voice but the scorching sound was noticeable, the Golem put up its arm to guard its head from the triangular attack.

The land was set ablaze at this point, the land will probably never be the same again after today's fight. Erica moved toward the Golem using Geppo, she aimed for its Eye since it was their weakness of all places.

The Golem was blindsided by the black fire that it was guarding from. The Golem had some good resistance to fire, this was also because the temperatures on Erica's flames had weakened due to her loss in stamina.

Erica landed on the Golems head, she turned into fire and rammed directly into the golem's eye at full force! The Golem's head was covered in fire, that turned from black to blue, the eyeglass cracked, and then it exploded. Erica silhouette passed through the Golem's head as she slammed in the ground in a messy meteor-like fashion.

The Golem fell soon after, the battle with the Golem had finally ended.

[Congrats, you've completed the Fourth Wave!]

[Next Wave starts in an hour!]

*Pant Pant*

"Great, this is good!" Erica laid on the ground in a star-shaped way panting with a smile on her face. Once she lost all her stamina she could no longer retain her intangibility from basic attacks.

Honestly, she just wanted to fall asleep right now, a bed was all she could think of. Erica even started hallucinating about sheep jumping over a fence. She steeled her will and sat up, she needed to find that cannon to use on the last creature in the last wave.

Erica searched but couldn't find it in the rubble anywhere, she was currently not in her logia form. She couldn't even go into it, she was drained of energy with no more medicines to help her recover.

"Where is it, I know it was around here somewhere, why can't I find it?" Erica started to worry, she knows for sure that the weapon wasn't destroyed. Suddenly, a limping figure slowly made its way over, it could be no one else other than Nojiko.

"We have one more round left, then we can leave this place." Nojiko had a weird smile on her face as she walked over.

"Yes, I'm so exhausted right now that I don't even think I can conjure a fire the size of a nail." Erica smiled bitterly, she had nothing left.

"T-then how are we going to beat the last wave?" Nojiko's forehead suddenly filled with beads of sweat, this wasn't good news at all.

"There is a weapon around here that can be used on the final creature to put it down but I can't find it through this rubble." Nojiko's spirit rose, there was hope, all she had to do was find this weapon and everything was settled.

They both did the best they could to find the weapon. Time passed as they both searched through the rocks in search of it. "This is bad, we have only three minutes left before the next wave starts!" Nojiko heard the announcement and stated her worries.

"Damn! It'll be pretty messed up if it appeared after we died! Hahaha!" Erica laughed at the crazy thought of that, that would indeed be pretty fu**ed up!

"D-don't s-say crazy things, Erica!" Erica's words scared Nojiko, why was she talking like it was hopeless!?

"Hehe, Sorry, let's keep looking until the very end." Erica didn't want to scare anyone, she hadn't given up yet, she was still breathing. Three minutes was nothing and passed really fast and then...

[Wave 5 Final Wave! Fifth out of Five Waves!]

Nojiko gulped and listened while Erica paused and went silent.

[1/1 Diamond Golem!]

Dread Forest.

Time had passed for Nami and Vindicate to, she had managed to help him get a bit better. Vindicate was at least was breathing normally now, but she and he were not in a good position. She left the cave and left him inside to not cause the creature to aggro him.

Suddenly.

[Wave 5! Final Wave! Fifth out of Five Waves!]

Nami gripped her pistol and looked around listening.

[1/1 Elemental Lich!]

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