I've Grown Stronger, and You've Grown Weaker!

Garp faced the golden blade light that seemed to occupy most of the sky above him.

He merely tensed his bulging muscles, pouring the indescribably vast power within his body and the Haki in his heart into his massive right fist like a flowing stream.

The red glow on the surface of that dark fist immediately became even brighter. Then, without any flourish, he swung it upward.

[Duang!]

Garp was like a tiny black-and-red pebble that happened to block a single point along the blade's edge.

The moment the two collided in midair.

A piercing metallic clash rang out between heaven and earth. It felt like a sharp blade had struck heavily against a hard little steel ball.

And in the end.

The blade failed to cut through the steel ball. Instead, it was stopped by that tiny point.

At the same time.

The immense force rebounded onto both sides.

Everyone watched as the massive blade light, which seemed capable of splitting the earth, first shuddered violently. Cracks then spread across its surface before it exploded in midair with a thunderous boom, turning into flecks of golden light dancing throughout the sky.

[Bang!]

That "little steel ball" became a black-and-red meteor as it plummeted downward, smashing a vast stretch of the island's surface apart in the blink of an eye.

Thick smoke billowed, and the earth shook without end.

That exchange just now.

In the hearts of many, could be called a pinnacle clash between Swordsmanship and Physical Arts in the Sea Star World.

There was no need to say much about Garp's Physical Arts. If he claimed to be second in the world, then no one, including Zephyr and Bullet, would dare claim to be first.

As for Shiki's Swordsmanship.

Though it seemed somewhat debatable, when one thought about