Frozen Sea
"What?" Even Marco, who had always been calm and collected, couldn't help but exclaim in surprise. The amount of information in Vista's words was so great that he couldn't believe his ears. "Vista, are you sure you're not drunk and haven't woken up yet?"
Jozu asked in astonishment, "Although I don't know much about swordsmanship, I do know that the classification of Famous Sword is nothing more than the fifty Skillful Grade Sword, the Twenty-One Great Grade Swords, and the Twelve Supreme Grade Blades at the top. When did a classification that Above Supreme Grade Sword appear?"
"Although I know this is too fantastical, it is the truth." Vista's smile had vanished, replaced by a solemn expression. "As you know, I've challenged Hawkeye no less than ten times. Although the gap between us is like heaven and earth, I've never felt such a terrifying aura from him. I have a feeling that if I were to fight Nightmare, the twin swords in my hands would shatter into dust instantly, just like my Old Man's Naginata!"
"That's truly astonishing!" Seeing that Vista had already put it this way, Marco naturally no longer doubted him, but his fear of Roy only intensified. "Nightmare's strength was already incredibly powerful, and with a divine weapon that surpasses even the Supreme Grade Sword, he's practically a tiger with wings. No wonder Kaido was defeated by him."
"It's been so many years since I've felt this exhilarating fighting spirit, Kuralalala!" Whitebeard straightened his giant-like body and looked down at his opponent, saying, "Nightmare Brat, come back somewhere else, don't damage my ship."
"Alright, this place does restrict my actions." Roy stepped into the void and flew to the surface of the sea, looking down at the ocean below and muttering to himself, "Although I can't freeze the entire ocean like Aokiji, freezing just this area shouldn't be too difficult."
Amidst the puzzled gazes of the Whitebeard Pirates, Roy threw a punch at the sea beneath him.
Diamond Starfall Fist!
Crunch, crunch...
The sea froze instantly, as if time had stopped, etching the rise and fall of the waves onto the surface, and even turning the Sea Kings lurking beneath the surface into lifelike ice sculptures.
"Ah..." Izo and the others opened their mouths wide, unable to speak, and could only let out dry howls.
"Isn't this Marine Admiral Aokiji's ability?" Jozu couldn't help but swear.
"I'd heard long ago that he could use almost any Devil Fruit Ability if he wanted to, but I didn't believe it before. Now it seems he's right!" Vista said, his lips twitching.
"That's right. I remember Nightmare's fire abilities were also unpredictable, even I couldn't control them." Looking at the situation before him, Ace recalled the scene at Sabaody Archipelago and could only helplessly complain, "God is so unfair, is there anything this guy can't do?"
"Kurarara, kid, the battlefield you created is not bad." If it were an ordinary Devil Fruit User, they might be worried that Roy would suddenly melt the glacier, but Whitebeard had no such worries. After all, even the Navy's secret "Six Powers" were no longer a secret to people of the Four Emperors level, and flying by Geppo was not a difficult thing for them.
"Since you're satisfied, let's get started. I can't wait to test your mettle as the World's Strongest!" Roy held his sword across his chest, his fighting spirit boiling.
"Then so be it." The Whitebeard leaped into the air, his coat billowing in the wind, his massive figure seemingly blocking out the sunlight, with only the milky-white aura swirling around his right fist standing out. "You'd better not get killed so quickly, Nightmare Brat!"
The void, like a mirror, shattered layer by layer under Whitebeard's terrifying punch, unleashing boundless power that pulverized everything in its path.
The shockwaves reached the frozen sea, and the glacier shattered instantly, as if unstoppable by the mighty power of heaven.
"Don't make a fool of yourself, Whitebeard. You're far from being strong enough!"
Roy brandished the Seven Star Sword and unleashed a fierce strike. Seven-colored, dreamlike light swirled around the forbidden attack, as if it were a power interwoven between reality and illusion, an attack that transcended dimensions.
Boom!
The dreamlike colors and the overwhelming power collided together.
It was as if the glacier, which had never melted for thousands of years, shattered instantly. Cracks in the ice layer, covering a radius of a thousand meters, spread in all directions like a spider web. With just one strike, it destroyed most of the battlefield.
The raging air currents, like an apocalyptic storm, swept everything visible to the naked eye into the sky. Even the Moby Dick, trapped in the ice, was caught in the gale. If Marco hadn't transformed into Phoenix in time to disperse the storm, the Moby Dick would probably have been torn to shreds in the hurricane.
On Roy's side, Augustine increased the gravity, firmly attaching the Ark Maxim to the ice to prevent it from being blown away by the terrifying storm.
It felt like an eternity before the aftershocks finally dissipated with a deafening roar.
"You little brat, you're quite capable." The Whitebeard landed on the shattered ice, completely unaffected.
"So-so, but if this is all you're capable of, I'll still be quite disappointed with the so-called World's Strongest." Roy floated up and down in the void, with the bottomless abyss created by Whitebeard's punch right beneath him.
"You snotty brat, you're just as arrogant as the rumors say. But this ocean isn't your place to rule!" Whitebeard bent down and pounded the void with his fists, causing cracks to appear in the space as if they were appearing on a mirror and spread towards Roy.
"Whitebeard, you're old!" Roy's eyes flashed with seven-colored light, and he once again overlapped illusion and reality, entering a state of Virtualization. In an instant, he dodged Whitebeard's attack, appeared above Whitebeard in a flash, and slashed down.
Boom!
An extremely powerful Conqueror's Haki surged wildly from Whitebeard's body, even causing Roy to lose his composure for a moment. Then, an equally fierce and tyrannical Conqueror's Haki soared into the sky, violently intertwining and clashing with Whitebeard's Conqueror's Haki.
Both sides possessed the most powerful Conqueror's Haki on this vast ocean, capable of directly influencing the physical with their aura. Under the clash of these terrifying Conqueror's Haki, the sky instantly darkened, dark clouds gathered, and black lightning flashed within them. This made everyone who had retreated to the edge of the glacier feel oppressed and breathless, as if their souls were covered in dust.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Just as the two sides were locked in a stalemate, suddenly, three equally domineering and fierce auras surged in, turning the already intense collision into a violent explosion that tore the remaining glacier into fragments, and hundreds of meters high waves surged in like a tidal wave.