"Should I go?" Jinbe casually turned the helm aside, dodging the incoming cannonballs as he asked Ronglin. After all, if a boss always charged ahead personally, it would make his subordinates seem incompetent.
"No need. I should stretch my limbs a little." Ronglin shook out his arms and legs, while intimidating force continuously radiated from beneath his feet. "If I stay still for too long, I feel like I'm going to rust."
Whoosh!
With a sharp sound, Ronglin shot into the air. Stepping on Moonwalk, he flew straight toward Blackbeard's fleet head-on, completely ignoring the cannonballs filling the sky!
Haki: City Crusher!
High in the air, Ronglin gathered his power. Rings of powerful airflow converged around his fist, and once the ferocious Haki-wreathed strike had formed, he punched down at the warship leading the fleet. His Observation Haki had sensed a relatively powerful presence aboard it.
The misty spray that had gathered in the sky was rapidly blown apart to either side by Ronglin's overwhelming strike. The shockwave from City Crusher came crashing down from above.
"Ha ha ha! What an arrogant kid!" Champion Burgess laughed loudly. His massive body tensed, and he blasted into the air. The armor around his elbow flexed as he struck upward, meeting Ronglin's descending shockwave head-on.
Boom!
Burgess felt as though a thousand-ton hammer had smashed his entire body into the ground. The instant he came into contact with Ronglin's force, every bone and joint in his body crackled. As soon as his attack erupted, it was swallowed by the force of City Crusher. Before Burgess could react, he was blasted back while spraying blood, crashing into the warship like a meteor.
Buzz!
Just as Ronglin's attack was about to slam into the warship—an impact that might have sunk it outright—a sword aura over