"Explosive Iron Claw!!!"
Countless invisible edges intertwined, piercing through layer after layer of space and tearing open pitch-black cracks.
Amid the raging currents, a streak of golden light flashed past.
Golden radiance burst forth, and the scattered golden photons slipped around every sharp edge before reforming in the distance into Borsalino's figure.
The shadow behind him was like a dark wolf from the Netherworld, chasing closely after him. Wave after wave of claw wind tore through the sky, flashing forward at terrifying speed.
Every region the two figures crossed left behind a chaotic field of lingering sharpness that refused to fade…
And the brief collisions between them from ti to ti sent heaven and earth trembling.
"Monkey!"
"Could it be that the humans of this era are not only arrogant and ignorant, but only know how to dodge?"
After a stretch of pursuit, Wushuang ca to a halt in midair. His beast-like pupils stared fixedly at the traces of golden light Borsalino had left behind.
His displeasure was utterly undisguised.
The Nether Race was a race born for battle.
And as one of its Thirteen Great Generals, Wushuang was naturally no different.
Yet—
Borsalino kept evading, never once clashing with him head-on, leaving him feeling deeply bored…
It even gave him the sense that all his strength had nowhere to go.
At the end of the golden trail—
Dots of photons gathered into Borsalino's form. Stretching lazily, he yawned and said:
"I say… old man from four thousand years ago… you just woke up, so don't be so aggressive, alright?"
"What if your old bones fall apart in a bit?"
"A true warrior desires only battle!"
Fixing his gaze on Borsalino, Wushuang flicked his hand in disdain and said contemptuously:
"I truly don't understand…"
"…how a coward like you managed to reach this level."
"Could it be that this era has no one left, so you only slipped into power when no one was watching?"
Veins bulged at Borsalino's temples.
Even soone like him, who usually cared very little about most things, could not help but feel a trace of anger rise.
There was no denying it—
He did like to slack off.
But—
His own talent was extraordinarily high, and before reaching the position of Admiral, he had trained just as hard as anyone else!
Such words, directly denying everything about him, truly left him displeased.
His right hand pointed into the air.
Endless brilliant photons gathered, forming more than ten beams of light that floated before him. The lazy look on Borsalino's face gradually faded.
"I originally only wanted to take it easy for a bit…"
"But to actually be looked down on like this…"
"…then I suppose I'll have to show you…"
"…the power of the fastest Logia Devil Fruit user."
The mont his words fell—
The more than ten golden beams suspended before him shot out instantly, attacking Wushuang from every direction.
"Slash—!"
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Before the lasers could even descend, Wushuang had already turned into an afterimage and charged forward, his claws crossing in front of him.
Countless sharp edges tore all of the lasers apart.
The remaining specks of photons exploded one after another in the air.
However—
The power of those tiny explosions was so weak that they could not even break through Wushuang's armor.
"Ama no Murakumo Sword!"
Borsalino lightly reached into the void with his right hand.
A sword forged from photons appeared in his grasp.
With one hand, he swung the blade of light.
Wrapped in Armant Haki, the sword of light carried trendous force as it collided violently with the claws rushing toward him.
A crisp ringing sound echoed through the sky.
"Yata Mirror!"
At the very mont of the clash, Borsalino fired a path of light from his left hand into the void.
In the next instant, he threw away the sword of light ford from countless photons and transford into photons himself, fleeing at extre speed.
"BOOOOM!!!"
The instant Borsalino left—
The sword of light he had abandoned exploded.
The terrifying photon energy contained within it reached saturation and erupted all at once.
The released power blasted out a shockwave over a hundred ters high.
The deafening roar was like the growl of so ancient beast.
The smoke produced by the explosion covered the heavens entirely, completely blotting out everyone's vision.
After swiftly traveling along the path of light, Borsalino reappeared hundreds of ters above the battlefield.
Looking down from above at the dense cloud of dust below, he slowly pushed both hands forward.
A violent hum of photons rang out as his entire body was engulfed in concentrated light. Endless photons from every direction gathered before him.
They ford sphere after sphere of energy, each only about the size of a basketball.
The densely packed photon bombs churned violently, filling the entire sky and blotting out even the fading sunlight.
It was a terrifying force—
One that did not lose out even to an Admiral-level teor Volcano!
The dense sea of photon bombs covered the sky, their dazzling brilliance so intense that countless people across the sea could not even keep their eyes open.
Below—
Within the thick cloud of smoke and dust—
A streak of dark shadow flashed.
Wushuang shot upward with endless sharpness, tearing through layer after layer of explosive aftershock and charging straight toward Borsalino.
Behind him, the shadow of a ghostly wolf from the Netherworld flickered without end.
"Yasakani no Magatama!!!"
Floating a hundred ters above the battlefield, Borsalino let out a low shout, and with a single thought—
In an instant—
The countless photon bombs filling the sky all descended.
Individually, those photon bombs might not have matched the power of Sakazuki's magma fists.
But—
Their number was countless tis greater than the teor Volcano!
Under such an overwhelming bombardnt, there was simply no gap through which to escape!
"Hahaha! Hahaha!"
"Monkey! Now this is more like it!"
"This is the kind of battle a true warrior should have!"
The endless photon bombs falling from above reflected in Wushuang's pupils.
Not only did he show no fear or retreat—
He beca even more excited.
The wolf shadow behind him grew increasingly solid, while pitch-black abyssal energy churned wildly around his body.
"Explosive Iron Claw!!!"
The Mighty Claw crossed before him and released wave after wave of black energy.
That black energy intertwined into countless sharp edges, taking the form of an enormous wolf's claw that smashed directly into the falling photon bombs.
A chain of explosions rang out without end as the interwoven giant claw pierced through one photon bomb after another.
Once the photon bombs broke apart, the enormous energy within them exploded in a continuous chain.
From a distance—
The entire sky within a radius of several hundred ters had already fallen into one violent explosion after another.
The violently surging photons destroyed everything around them in a brutal storm…
Dark clouds of destruction enveloped the sky outside Impel Down!
"Hahaha! Hahaha!"
"Wonderful! Wonderful!"
"I can finally feel the joy of battle again!"
Both of his hands moved so fast they left afterimages. With peerless sharpness, he tore apart every photon bomb before him.
Inevitably—
The force from the shattered photon bombs still surged toward Wushuang.
Even though the explosions had weakened after being torn apart—
They were still not to be underestimated!
Especially at such terrifying volu!
Even a Marine Headquarters elite Vice Admiral would have only one outco if struck by so many aftershocks—
Death.
Yet facing the endless explosive aftershocks, Wushuang did not defend or dodge at all.
Instead, he crashed straight into them with his overwhelmingly powerful body!
Within that battlefield where darkness and light intertwined—
At the source of all the dark abyss, the gigantic lone wolf of the Netherworld flickered repeatedly.
The exploding aftershocks that struck Wushuang were all blocked by the armor of the Nether Race and the black energy around him!
Bathed in endless light—
Wushuang looked like a god of war!
If it could be said that—
The battle between Borsalino and Wushuang had only just begun—
Then—
The battle between HanFeng and Sakazuki had already entered a fierce deadlock!
With the two of them at its center—
An area spanning several thousand ters had completely turned into a battlefield.
The sky was filled with scorching magma and freezing air.
The sea below was a complete ruin.
Evaporation and freezing interwove together, forming a bizarre spectacle.
The region where HanFeng fought was filled with frigid air and heavy snow.
The region where Sakazuki fought was flooded with searing heat waves that filled heaven and earth!
Just because of their battle—
The weather across the surrounding several thousand ters had already begun to change!
World-destroying!
At this mont—
The all-out clash between Sakazuki and HanFeng truly allowed the civilians, pirates, and bounty hunters of the lower and middle ranks across the sea to understand—
What it ant for heaven and earth to be destroyed.
The power that could alter the color of the sky, boil the sea, burn mountains, and change the climate of an entire region with the slightest movent…
Made them understand, more clearly than ever before, just how insignificant they truly were.
In the eyes of true powerhouses—
They were no different from insignificant ants.
At the sa ti—
In a corridor near the plaza of Impel Down—
A figure slowly erged.
He wore black armor and a black cloak dotted with silver, held a pitch-black long blade in one hand, and his face was hidden behind a mask. His hair was tied back neatly.
Through the gaps in the armor and beneath the mask, one could vaguely see—
That his skin was not the usual white, yellow, or brown of ordinary humans.
It was blue.
"System…"
"Activate the Origin Barrier. Range… everything below the first level of Impel Down!"
Standing in the dark corridor of the first level, Defying the Heavens spoke in his mind to the system.
"Ding… eight Special Energy Points deducted… Origin Barrier deployed!"
The cold voice of the system quickly responded.
The mont the system's voice fell—
An invisible barrier spread out from Defying the Heavens's body and swiftly enveloped every region below the first level of Impel Down.
And all of this—
Including the CP0 agents in the nearby central plaza and the Chief Warden Magellan—
Went completely unnoticed.
Devil Fruits were incomparably rare. Even with Defying the Heavens's strength, acquiring a large number of them in a short ti was not realistic.
And using everything about Defying the Heavens himself to advance his role-playing progress was equally difficult.
After all—
The stronger the character, the harder it was to increase the role-playing progress.
Under such circumstances—
He had turned his attention to one of the system's functions:
The Origin Barrier.
It could deploy a barrier made of origin power that prevented the origin force within Devil Fruit users who died inside it from scattering and escaping.
There was no denying it—
For other people, this ability might have been completely useless.
After all—
The origin power of a Devil Fruit ant nothing to anyone else, and they did not even know such origin power existed.
And besides that one function, the Origin Barrier could not even isolate energy.
In other words—
Apart from preventing origin power from scattering and escaping, the barrier could not even stop an ordinary human being!
But for Defying the Heavens—
Its effects were extraordinary.
As long as it could stop the origin power from escaping, he could use the system to absorb that origin power and convert it into Special Energy Points!
And for his current situation—
That was an extrely fast way to raise his role-playing progress.
Of course—
Such a powerful function naturally consud a large amount of Special Energy Points.
If it were used only for a few ability users, not only would it fail to earn him any Special Energy Points, he would even lose quite a few instead!
After thinking it over carefully, Defying the Heavens realized that across the entire sea—
Only Impel Down truly t all his requirents.
There were many ability users here!
And…
Its defenses were not actually that strong!
Although an unexpected situation had arisen and the World Governnt and the Marines had sent many strong fighters to guard Impel Down—
That was still within an acceptable range for Defying the Heavens!
The only issue was that if so many strong fighters all remained concentrated at the prison's main entrance, it would be very difficult for him to slip inside unnoticed…
And before harvesting enough Special Energy Points, he had no desire to launch a full-scale battle against such a number of powerhouses!
So—
To infiltrate Impel Down smoothly, he had arranged for Wushuang and the others to stir up so trouble.
The goal was to lure away so of the powerhouses gathered in the plaza of Impel Down.
At the very least—
He needed to lure away Garp, who stood at the level of a Four Emperor!
And the result…
Was obvious.
Not only had Garp left!
Even the three Admirals of Marine Headquarters and one Admiral-level CP0 agent had all been drawn away.
"Wushuang and the others…"
"…did well…"
Walking through the dark corridor of Impel Down, a faint smile appeared beneath Defying the Heavens's mask.
As long as he could enter Impel Down without causing a disturbance…
Then everything would basically be settled.
With his current strength, inside an Impel Down that no longer had even a single Admiral left behind—
He had nothing to fear.
"The hunt begins…"
The corners of his lips lifted slightly as black and green energy surged around him.
In the next mont—
Defying the Heavens's figure vanished.
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