The battle intensified, and a violent aura swept across the entire frozen sea area.
The originally smooth and mirror-like azure ice crystal was unrecognizable under the confrontation of the three.
Especially every time Loki landed, he could crush the hard ice layer, causing it to crack and sink, forming a huge ice valley.
"Truly terrifying."
Guyram stood at the edge of the Conqueror's deck, sniffing his nose, his tone full of awe.
If he were put into the battle, he would probably be destroyed instantly.
This new boss is truly terrifyingly strong.
"World."
"?" World looked down at his brother in confusion.
Binjack pointed into the distance and gave him a look.
"..." World was silent for a moment, then turned his head to continue watching the battlefield: "Brother, do you remember our dream?"
"To sail the sea freely and explore this world. What's wrong?"
"That's right, but we are too weak. If we continue as before, we won't be able to witness such scenery at all." Ambition burned in World's eyes.
Since obtaining the More-More Fruit, he felt that no one could stop him, and everything would be destroyed in front of him.
But the reality is not like this. Boss Loki crushed his pride effortlessly.
And now, the battle before his eyes.
Every move is at a level he can hardly reach even after a hundred-fold enhancement.
Binjack was stunned, then smiled: "You're right, we are too weak. I was just worried you were unhappy."
"No, I am more excited than ever." World clenched his fist.
Only by following Boss Loki will I have the opportunity to participate personally and become part of this scenery!
"That's good." Binjack felt relieved and looked at the battlefield together.
Compared to the tumultuous battle between Loki, Roger, and Gaban.
Although the smell of gunpowder in the other battlefield was not strong, the degree of danger was not diminished at all.
The other battlefield was not so grand.
Clang!
Rayleigh moved his blade to the right, colliding with the edge of the appearing Napoleon. His figure was like a willow catkin, moving with it.
Charlotte Linlin didn't chase anymore. Bat wings trembling, she hovered in the air, looking at Rayleigh with annoyance: "Do you pirates outside only know how to hide?!"
In Elbaf.
Fighting with Loki and Uncle Harald.
It was always head-to-head. Even if she couldn't win, it was because her body was too small and her strength wasn't enough.
But these people outside.
Shiki, and this four-eyed guy.
All like rats. Just a little touch, and they all slip away.
Not confronting her head-on at all.
"This is not called hiding, little girl. This is the strategy and wisdom of combat."
Rayleigh pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, the corner of his mouth curling into an elegant smile, unaffected by the opponent's words.
Except for the unstable mastery of Conqueror's Haki Infusion.
Strength, speed, defense—she far surpasses him in all aspects.
She is even a flying Zoan user; her recovery power is likely stronger than his too.
He, an ordinary swordsman, would be crazy to go head-to-head.
"Phew~" The taunting skills taught by Loki didn't work either. Charlotte Linlin, repeatedly frustrated, breathed a bit hurriedly.
Didn't Loki say that besides him, few people in the outer sea could beat her?
Why are all the ones I met so hard to defeat?
Loki wouldn't lie to me, so I must be too weak. I need to use more powerful skills!
"Ugh ah!!!"
Charlotte Linlin let out an infrasonic roar.
Rayleigh frowned, condensing the Haki protecting himself a bit more.
Buzz buzz buzz!!
If eyes could peek under Charlotte Linlin's skin at this moment, they would see her blood circulating at a speed unimaginable to ordinary people.
Charlotte Linlin's blood pressure surged. Her snow-white skin turned red visibly, even emitting scorching steam, and her aura became increasingly violent.
"?"
Rayleigh felt something was wrong, roused his Haki, and raised his vigilance fully.
He had seen plenty of Marine Rokushiki (Six Powers), so he was naturally familiar with their principles. Most of them are based on manipulating blood.
The opponent's current state is clearly forcibly strengthening herself by accelerating blood flow at the cost of damaging her body.
Whoosh!
Suddenly, Charlotte Linlin disappeared from the spot, leaving only a scarlet afterimage. At the same time, her cold voice came from Rayleigh's ear.
"Four-eyes, try hiding again!!!"
"!!!"
Rayleigh's combat instinct was faster than his thought. He quickly blocked his long sword horizontally in front of his neck, pressed his other hand firmly against the side of the blade, and fully activated his Haki defense.
Clang!!!!
Napoleon pressed Rayleigh's saber into a bend. Rayleigh's face flushed red, veins on his forehead bursting. He could even feel the coldness on the sharp serrations, and the bones all over his body made crisp sounds under the impact of the immense force.
Failing to succeed in one blow, Charlotte Linlin retracted her sword and slashed again. The momentum of the sword became increasingly fierce, each slash carrying the power to destroy mountains and islands.
Rayleigh was hammered into the ice surface inch by inch like a nail. His whole body's tendons were stretched to the limit and even began to crack.
Pfft! Blood spilled from the corner of Rayleigh's mouth, but his eyes were unusually calm, and his heart was settled.
This forced strengthening that violates the limits of the human body inevitably cannot last.
He could clearly feel that Linlin's aura was weakening continuously at a faint speed.
"Phew!"
Charlotte Linlin exhaled a breath of turbid air with a bloody smell, her force pausing slightly.
"Now."
A cold glint flashed across Rayleigh's lenses. He exerted force with both arms abruptly, pushing away the pressing Napoleon. He leaped up, Armament Haki and Conqueror's Haki gathering on his long sword, and swung heavily towards Charlotte Linlin.
"Higanbana (Equinox Flower) Blade!!!"
Blade light bloomed like a flower, accurately hitting Charlotte Linlin's chest.
She groaned, a blood flower exploding on her chest. As if hit hard, she smashed heavily into the depths of the ice under her feet like a kite with a broken string. The ice layer cracked instantly, burying her completely.
"Newcomers on the sea are getting more and more dangerous."
Rayleigh wiped the sweat from his forehead, sighed with emotion, then smiled smugly: "Little girl, you're still too green!!!"
He looked towards the battlefield of Roger and Gaban, preparing to go help.
In the next instant.
Rayleigh's steps stopped abruptly, turning his head in astonishment.
Boom!!!
The glacier exploded. Charlotte Linlin flew up carrying a frozen hundred-meter sea snake.
The body of the sea snake withered and shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye, its vitality being drawn away continuously.
And Charlotte Linlin's aura became increasingly strong, the wound on her chest healing rapidly.
"No way." The smile on the corner of Rayleigh's mouth froze.
Even if Zoan recovery ability is strong, it should follow basic laws, right? Directly absorbing others' vitality and converting it into her own vitality.
Is this reasonable?!
Rayleigh's heart, which had just settled down, rose again.
Facing such an opponent, unless one blow knocks the opponent down completely losing combat effectiveness, or directly unconscious.
Obviously, he can't do it.
"Four-eyes, do you think you can kill me?!"
Scarlet light burst in Charlotte Linlin's eyes, entering the blood-burning state again. Napoleon, lingering with a trace of furious Conqueror's Haki, slashed heavily towards Rayleigh, the force even stronger than before.
"Higanbana Blooms!!"
Rayleigh smiled bitterly, his long sword meeting the difficulty.
Roger, Gaban, think of a way yourselves; I can't help you for the time being.
Time passed second by second.
The setting sun sank into the sea level, and the bright moonlight rose, sprinkling on the frozen battlefield, illuminating this messy ice field in a pale white.
"That should be enough." Loki's voice was cold as iron, his scarlet vertical pupils locked tightly on Roger and Gaban, taking a step forward, "If you can't bring out more, then you can lose!"
From the initial fluster when dealing with the combined attack of the two, to the current calmness and ease.
His body had long adapted to this rhythm, and his skills of fighting one against many also improved rapidly in actual combat.
This spar should end.
Rumble~
As if confirming Loki's words, thunder roared in the sky.
After half a day of fighting, a deep valley with a radius of several thousand meters had been ploughed out on this frozen sea.
The disappeared ice and snow had turned into moisture, replenishing the cloud layer, turning into Odin's power.
"Gaban, I'm going to use that."
Roger exhaled a breath of white air, his face serious.
"That move of yours isn't mature yet, right? Don't send yourself away if you can't defeat Loki then. At worst, just admit defeat."
The corner of Gaban's mouth twitched.
Although Armament Haki and Conqueror's Haki are both Haki, when used simultaneously, they are two distinct forces.
Mostly Armament Haki protects the body and weapons, strengthening intensity, while Conqueror's Haki enhances destructive power.
After competing with Garp in Conqueror's Haki many times, Roger had a genius idea.
Use Conqueror's Haki and Armament Haki simultaneously, condense them into a point, and then slash out.
But it has never succeeded. The most serious time almost blew up the ship directly.
"I won't admit defeat. We can't drag on any longer. Gaban, give me some time."
Roger raised his blade, concentrating and pouring in all his remaining Haki.
Humans are fragile. Overly cold or overly hot environments will affect their combat effectiveness.
Even with Haki protection, fighting in this ice and snow until now, they have also been affected slightly.
While the opponent still moves freely.
Now the sun has set, and the temperature drops again.
If dragged on, the situation will only get worse.
This is the last chance.
"Okay!" Gaban instantly understood the key point and didn't persuade anymore. He pushed off the ground with both feet, charging towards Loki with all his might. All the remaining Haki in his body was poured into the dual axes. The axe blades surged with black Qi glow several meters long, launching the final containment offensive:
"Axe Heaven Music!!!
"Not enough." Loki strode forward, his sole stomping down heavily, crushing the ice layer compacted by the battlefield into powder. He gripped Iron Thunder tightly, smashing towards Gaban's dual axes with unstoppable power.
Thump!!!
White airwaves exploded in a ring shape with the two as the center. Iron Thunder steadily crushed the dual axes, pushing Gaban down continuously.
Just as Gaban was about to be smashed into the ice layer by the giant hammer, Loki suddenly stopped his movement.
Just a spar; no need to kill.
Maybe can trick them into fighting the World Government together.
Then, Loki's vertical pupils looked at Roger. Seeing the destructive changes caused by the entanglement and friction of Armament Haki and Conqueror's Haki on the blade in his hand, he couldn't help but be pleasantly surprised: "Roger, as expected of you, actually developing such a Haki technique."
Even if he disdained Roger's lack of self-control in front of women.
He had to admire Roger's combat skills.
He tried to combine Armament Haki and Conqueror's Haki but couldn't find a clue.
Unexpectedly, Roger has already figured out something interesting now.
Although it looks imperfect and took half a day to prepare, it is amazing enough.
"Hahahaha~ I think so too!"
Roger laughed out loud, but the smile soon froze on his face.
The two types of Haki on the sword body began to lose control, colliding with each other, likely to erupt at any time.
"Come on, Loki!!!"
Roger hesitated no more, carrying Ace which vaguely distorted the air, rushing towards Loki at extreme speed.
He must slash out this sword before the Haki completely loses control, otherwise all efforts will be wasted.
"Come come come!!"
Loki responded excitedly, his fighting spirit soaring. He gathered all the Conqueror's Haki he could mobilize at this moment onto Iron Thunder. Thunder and Haki intertwined, forming a brilliant light cocoon, hammering heavily towards Roger: "Ragnarok!!!"
"Kagutsuchi (Fire God)!!!"
Roger leaped up, slashing upward with his long sword. The two types of Haki rubbed against the air, actually igniting a scorching flame. Wherever the blade passed, even the air was ignited. The scorching heat wave collided with the biting cold air, forming a weird energy turbulence in mid-air.
Boom!!!
Before the giant hammer and the long sword truly collided, the violent wind pressure and flames had already squeezed and torn fiercely in the air, illuminating the entire ice valley red as day.
Immediately after, two streams of Haki condensed to the extreme collided across the air, emitting a deafening roar.
But in the next instant, the crimson light ball on Ace's blade exploded completely due to Haki losing control.
Boom boom boom boom~~
The violent fireball instantly submerged Roger himself. The scorching heat wave swept around, evaporating all the remaining ice and snow, stirring up a huge amount of white mist, like a gauze curtain hanging from the sky, blocking everyone's sight.
At the edge of the ice pit, three groups of people stood distinctly, their eyes locked tightly on the center of the white mist, their expressions varying.
The crew members of the Roger Pirates looked nervous, whispering:
"Who won in the end?"
"Must be Captain Roger, right? We were two against one! Definitely won!"
"That's right. He used that move that almost roasted us into suckling pigs at the end; he will definitely win."
"..."
Under the banner of Paradise.
"Commander Shark, His Majesty Loki, is he okay?" The newly joined mixed-blood Fish-Giant Sebastian asked worriedly.
Because of blindness from years of fighting, he couldn't see the specific situation.
"Foolish, how could His Majesty Loki lose?!" Shark glared.
"What if he really lost?"
"Then there must be something wrong with the world. But it won't be like that. Even if the world wants to knock down His Majesty Loki, His Majesty Loki will definitely use his magnificent power to knock this damn world to the ground single-handedly and reshape it into the shape he wants!"
"If really..."
"Enough!" Shark was furious: "You just joined, I don't blame you. Don't let me hear you say such things in the future! Otherwise, I will launch a holy jihad against you under the witness of His Majesty Loki!"
"If there really is such a day, it must be that we as subordinates didn't work hard enough. At that time, I will personally offer myself to become power in His Majesty Loki's hands."
"..." Sebastian shrank his neck.
This Fish-Man, does he have mental problems?
However...
"Do we have to do that too?"
Shark said disdainfully: "Hmph, a person with filthy thoughts like you is unworthy of tarnishing His Majesty Loki's pure soul!"
At the right time.
The white mist had its heat sucked away, condensing into frost, revealing Loki's majestic body.
Leaning on Iron Thunder on the ice layer, the thunder and Haki around him gradually restrained. Although there were many coagulated wounds on his bare upper body, his breath was still steady.
And in the ice water at his feet, Roger was red all over, his hair and clothes scorched black by flames, gasping for breath, paralyzed on the ground. The Ace long sword in his hand also fell aside, obviously having lost combat effectiveness.
"Did you see that?! Did you see that?!"
Shark was even more excited: "Did you see His Majesty Loki's heroic posture of victory?!"
"Suppress all opponents!!!" Panda also roared excitedly.
The Paradise Earthshaker Legion, each one looked uncontrollably excited.
Forming a sharp contrast with the silent atmosphere of the Roger Pirates.
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