Clang——!
Blood splattered everywhere.
An arm was thrown high into the air, then fell helplessly into the ocean.
“…..Humph!”
Pain shot through his right shoulder with an intense burning sensation, forcing Akainu to wince in pain. He staggered back a few steps before barely managing to regain his footing.
He had completely failed to block Fang Mingjing’s sword.
Even though he had activated Armament Haki at the last moment to defend himself, Fang Mingjing still effortlessly severed his arm.
“Hey, are you alright, Sakazuki?”
“This kid, we must kill him here!”
Akainu’s face was grim as his bleeding right shoulder rapidly transformed into a cloud of billowing magma, conjuring a temporary arm through elementalization.
BOOM!!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
From the distant warship, several cannons aimed at them, and with the orange light bursting from the black barrels, several cannonballs, accompanied by the pungent smell of gunpowder, flew swiftly towards them.
They missed.
Although the cannonballs missed, the impact of their plunge into the ocean created surging waves, finally breaking apart the already fragmented boat of Mihawk’s.
“Trying to sink us here, Navy?”
Holding a large fragment of his sword, Mihawk leaped onto a piece of driftwood. His eyes, sharp as a hawk's, locked onto the Yellow Ape, who stood suspended in mid-air.
“Gotta do whatever’s easiest…Besides, we haven’t figured out this kid’s abilities yet.”
With air superiority, Kizaru was the most carefree of the three.
“It’s alright, we’ll just take a warship later.”
“Such arrogant brats!!”
Akainu couldn’t tolerate Fang Mingjing’s audacity here. A flash of anger crossed his otherwise stoic face, and his magma-forged fists pounded out, attempting to crush Fang Mingjing and the broken wood beneath him in the ocean.
“I told you magma doesn’t work on me.”
Fang Mingjing simply wrapped a layer of spiritual energy around his hands and directly blocked the terrifying magma.
However, the falling magma still burned the piece of driftwood he was standing on.
“How is this possible—?!”
“Nothing’s impossible, you just got unlucky.”
Fang Mingjing smiled, gently flicking the magma off his hand.
“Speaking of which, aren’t there three admirals? Why are only two of you here?”
“You arrogant little punk!!”
“The arrogant ones are you.”
BOOM!!!!!!!!!!
At this moment,
The air erupted as if it had been detonated, and a monstrous aura spread out.
“Wha—?!”
Akainu’s enraged face froze in place.
A power like he had never felt before, an unprecedentedly vast aura.
In any case, it was definitely not something a human could possess… something like a monster's aura.
A vast, sun-like shadow rose above the ocean.
As the terrifying light and heat spread in all directions, the sky gradually darkened, and even the ocean seemed to cry out.
Despair-inducing spiritual energy spread out.
At that moment, everyone felt an inexplicable sense of tension run through their bodies, and the Navy and World Government agents on the warships were involuntarily forced to collapse onto the deck.
“……”
Impossible…
That’s simply impossible…!
How could such an enemy exist?! How could we possibly win?!
“….Click…Click!”
At this moment, Akainu’s eyes were bloodshot.
The sound coming from his mouth, it was unclear whether he was gritting his teeth or just his teeth were chattering.
“You…who…are you?”
“Fang Mingjing.”
A clear and youthful voice answered.
Both Akainu and Kizaru could only stare wide-eyed as he slowly raised his hand, an unstoppable premonition of death flooding their minds, but…even more terrifying was that, despite this thought, they couldn’t move a single step.
As if they were paralyzed, unable to move…
Fang Mingjing slowly closed his hand into a fist. With this action, at that moment…
The swirling clouds in the sky seemed to transform into a raging beast. With a deafening roar, the sea split open, and with Fang Mingjing’s position as the center, the ocean split in two, revealing a bottomless abyss of darkness.
At this moment, what appeared before them was unclear whether it was the power of creation or the might of destruction. As everyone witnessed the falling sky, the parting sea, and the plunge into an endless vortex, they couldn’t help but feel a sense of fear and awe.
Only the figure who was the perpetrator of this scene, amidst the swirling vortex of heaven and earth, let out a light laugh.
That posture was like…
——As if he had tamed the world itself.