Yami and Aokiji didn't know how long they had been fighting in the air.
But neither of them could do anything to the other.
Aokiji was the youngest of the three Admirals, and also the weakest among them. The Ice-Ice Fruit was incredibly powerful, holding a unique advantage in a world where the majority of the surface was sea.
However, the Logia Ice-Ice Fruit also had a very obvious flaw.
The Devil Fruit leaned more towards control and support. In terms of offense, as long as someone was not afraid of being frozen, its destructive power was inferior to Akainu's magma or Kizaru's light.
Yami was one of those who was not afraid of being frozen.
Yami's physical constitution was extremely powerful. It would take a certain amount of time for the Ice-Ice Fruit's cold to penetrate his skin's defense and seep into his body.
During that time, Yami remained conscious and had several ways to break Aokiji's ice seal.
One, break free with monstrous strength.
Two, break free with multiplied strength.
Three, devour it with darkness.
Yami's favorite method of breaking free was devouring it with darkness.
A user of the Dark-Dark Fruit takes double damage when injured, but the darkness of the fruit can also absorb damage.
Just as Aokiji had said, the Dark-Dark Fruit was the bane of some Logia users.
Of course, Yami didn't have the absolute advantage either.
After fighting Aokiji for a while, Yami discovered another flaw in his Black Hole.
Yami had used Black Hole multiple times and had finally succeeded in catching Aokiji once. Just when he thought he could finish off a Marine Admiral, he discovered something.
As the Black Hole was about to devour Aokiji's arm, a shockwave suddenly erupted from Aokiji's hand.
Unlike other energy attacks that would be violently devoured by the Black Hole upon getting close, this shockwave did not flow into the black hole. Instead, it fought against the invisible gravity, severing the gravitational tether binding Aokiji.
Although the shockwave didn't resist for long, quickly weakening without a continuous supply of energy before being devoured by the Black Hole, that short amount of time was enough for Aokiji to distance himself from it.
Indeed, that shockwave was high-level Armament Haki.
In the original story's Summit War, the three Admirals had used a similar shockwave to nullify Whitebeard's earthquake power.
Haki was a versatile power; no matter how unbeatable a Devil Fruit seemed, Haki could be used to resist and counter it.
Yami wasn't surprised by this new flaw. He just hadn't expected the Black Hole to have so many weaknesses. It seemed this hastily created new move still had areas that needed improvement.
Indeed, no amount of training in seclusion could compare to a single fight with a strong opponent.
Turning to glance in a certain direction, Yami suddenly smiled at Aokiji, who was some distance away. "Thank you for the lesson, Admiral. But I have things to attend to now, so I won't be playing with you any longer."
"Before I go, let me show you something good."
Yami suddenly clapped his hands together, interlacing his fingers. Terrifying darkness surged from his body, gathering between his hands. Within the black mist, there was a transparent halo containing the power of multiplication.
Yami let out a soft cry.
Following his cry, Yami slowly separated his interlaced hands.
A black energy sphere, entirely black but covered in a transparent halo, materialized between his hands.
Then, with a motion of raising his hands, Yami sent the black energy sphere flying towards the sky.
The entire process took place in a matter of seconds, and even Aokiji couldn't interrupt Yami's actions.
Swoosh—
After throwing the black energy sphere into the sky, Yami, without another word, used a thirty-fold amplified Geppo and fled with a piercing sonic boom.
"Not good!"
At that moment, Aokiji seemed to sense it as well. His expression changed in alarm, and he turned to flee without hesitation.
Unfortunately for him, his speed was not multiplied by the Paramecia More-More Fruit; it was far too slow.
After leaving Yami's hands, the black energy sphere was ascending at a moderate pace.
At the same time, its volume was visibly expanding.
Ten times, fifteen times, twenty times, twenty-five times, thirty times... one hundred times!
Almost every second, the volume of the black energy sphere increased severalfold.
If it were just its volume increasing, it wouldn't have been enough to make Aokiji flee without looking back.
The key was the energy contained within the black sphere.
With each expansion, Aokiji's Observation Haki could sense that the energy within it was also expanding.
When the black sphere stopped expanding, a dazzling white light suddenly burst forth from within it, transforming it into a black sun shining with white light that illuminated the fog-shrouded Florian Triangle, which was perpetually in a state of night.
Rumble...
Wherever the white light shone, the area began to tremble violently.
Below, Thriller Bark shattered in an instant, and countless stone fragments, large and small, shot into the sky.
Like Thriller Bark, the sea was also illuminated by the white light.
Countless tons of seawater, as if controlled by the Float-Float Fruit, formed giant pillars of water that rose into the air.
The ghost ships illuminated by the white light met the same fate.
Similarly, Aokiji, caught in the white light, was pulled irresistibly towards the black sun.
No matter if he used Haki to resist, froze the moisture in the air with his Ice-Ice Fruit, or used Soru and elementalization, he could not break free from the gravitational pull.
Unless he could teleport and instantly escape the range of the white light, no matter what he did, he could not escape its pull.
Because... it was a hundred-fold gravity!
This was Yami's current strongest ultimate technique.
The fact that half of the primeval forest on the deserted island where Yami and the others had trained for a month had been turned into a barren wasteland was not because of Kurouzu, but an accident caused by Yami while developing Planetary Devastation.
And that was just a prototype. If it hadn't been, the entire deserted island would have been stripped bare, not just half of it.
Now, this Planetary Devastation was not only the finished product, but its gravity had been amplified a hundred times, making it the ultimate gravitational force.
Unless one had a corresponding repulsive or gravitational force to resist it, or could shatter the black sun in the sky with absolute power, no one could escape its gravitational pull.
Even someone as strong as Marine Admiral Aokiji was no exception.
With escape no longer an option and his ice attacks being absorbed by the gravity, Aokiji could only choose to give up, allowing the gravity to pull him onto the forming mass of debris.
Looking at the seawater rising from below, at this moment, Aokiji was suddenly grateful that he was a user of the Logia Ice-Ice Fruit.
Otherwise, he probably wouldn't have been able to escape this calamity
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