Issho could not see, yet he could still clearly sense the gravity fluctuations around Garen, nearly identical to his own.
"Gravity."
Issho sighed softly, his expression growing much more solemn.
"No wonder you are rumored to be the one and only wielder of multiple abilities in this world. Have you even mastered my ability?"
His greatest strength was directly using gravity to torment his enemies' bodies. It could suppress their movements, partially bypass their defenses, and strike with precision and efficiency.
Yet Garen, who possessed the same ability, could easily neutralize it, rendering most of Issho's attacks and suppression methods useless.
However, that did not mean Issho had run out of tricks.
Besides his skill with the sword, his development and application of his Devil Fruit Ability went far beyond simply crushing people with gravity.
After hesitating for only a moment, Issho immediately changed his approach.
"Gravity Blade: Levitation!"
He gripped the hilt tightly with both hands and lightly tapped the ground with the tip of his blade. The earth beneath his feet immediately began to quake violently.
The rock and soil beneath Issho cracked and loosened, eventually peeling away into a massive floating boulder.
Issho rose into the air atop the giant rock, while countless chunks of stone broke free from gravity's restraints and shot skyward like rockets from the violently shaking ground.
Amid the dancing stones that filled the sky, the entire floating island trembled violently, as though it might sink at any moment.
In just a few breaths, several meters of rock and soil had been stripped from the arena grounds, while the sky was occupied by countless floating boulders.
Those massive rocks slowly drifted and rotated around Issho, who stood suspended in midair, outlining the shape of the invisible force field around him like satellites guarding