Chapter 170: World Breaker (45)
"Not bad, Waldo. I never expected you to retain strength of this level!" Longinus walked forward steadily. During the time he spoke, his injuries had already mostly recovered.
Although Waldo was indeed powerful, his body could no longer sustain this kind of high-intensity battle.
Otherwise, even knowing how strong his opponent was, he would not have steadily raised his enhancement from thirty times to one hundred times.
"Brat, there's plenty more you can't imagine!" Waldo clenched his fists. Ever since he realized that the Red Hair Pirates seemed to have planned this in advance, his heart had kept sinking.
At fifty-eight, he could not yet be considered old. But those ten years of being frozen had inflicted irreversible damage upon his body, and the betrayal of his subordinates had nearly shattered his convictions.
Waldo had to admit that he was no longer a match for this Marine—unless he... removed his restraints and went all out.
But that outcome would be no different from death. Even if he won in the end, he would become a cripple with no strength left.
Yet he no longer intended to run away!
"Why the silence, Waldo? Weren't you going to show me what you could do?" Longinus exhaled a breath of stale air and looked at him with a stern gaze.
"I simply never expected that my final battle would be a duel against a Marine brat like you." It was as though he had unlocked the shackles in his heart. Waldo's aura continued to rise, and the previously illusory, scattered Armament Haki around him became heavy and solid.
"Now this is starting to look like a real fight." Longinus spread his Observation Haki across the battlefield, covered his body in Armament Haki, and stared intensely at his opponent.