Seeing the sky clearly divided, with two Conqueror's Haki constantly intertwining and pulling at each other, the reporters on the distant island went absolutely crazy!
Were they frightened?
How could that be!
They're really hyped up!!!
Why did Red-Haired Shanks, one of the Four Emperors, suddenly appear? And why did a conflict suddenly arise between the Red Hair Pirates and the Dark Bird Group?
Why did Rayleigh and Shanks, both former crew members of Pirate King Roger, end up fighting each other?
These questions alone could keep the journalists writing for a whole month!
Next month's newspapers may not all be special reports, but even in regular newspapers, today's events can dominate the front page for at least six issues!
Immediately, the reporters grabbed their cameras, which they had originally intended to use to film the return of the Dark Bird Ship, and frantically used up their film on Red-Haired Shanks and Rayleigh.
As for the sky.
Griffin Gryphon and the Cane Sword clashed violently, their Conqueror's Haki's Haki swirling wildly within the area where Emission.
Then, just as the mass of air reached its maximum convergence, it suddenly exploded.
In an instant, Shanks retreated about twenty meters, his foot slipped, and he stood still in mid-air as he charged toward Rayleigh.
Meanwhile, Rayleigh flew backwards for more than seventy meters before regaining his balance. By the time he adjusted his center of gravity and stood up again, Shanks had already rushed in front of him.
Seeing Rayleigh's full head of white hair, Shanks raised his sword and slashed, shouting.
"If you have your own plans, then on the day the pirate crew disbands, you should have told Roger, and more importantly, we!"
"Then what?!!"
Holding his sword with both hands to block Shanks' blade, Rayleigh laughed and said to Shanks.
"My old dream has been worn away by Roger's terminal illness. In the last few years before my old friend's death, are you going to make me do something that will hurt him?"
I clearly could and had the ability to do more, but at that time, my dream was shattered with the passing of my old friend!
Now, another person has appeared before me, and he has rediscovered and pieced together my dream!
Having met such a person, why wouldn't this old man follow him? Haha!
Because I have never considered myself to be the best, nor have I ever believed that there could be anyone better than Roger in the world!
You're working backwards from Roger's answer to you, while I'm solving the new problem Gawain gave me!
So, Shanks, let's settle this with the sword in your hand!!!
In the next instant, the swords in their hands clashed repeatedly in the air, and each time they collided, the distance between the two swords was different!
Sometimes it was thirty or fifty centimeters, sometimes it was three or five meters. For a full ten minutes, their knife-fighting never stopped!
The air around them had already been churned into fragments, and the clouds and the sea had been shattered by layers of force.
From a distance, the sea and the sky appear as one above the other, one growing upright and the other growing upside down like a lotus flower.
Their duel truly broadened the horizons of the crowd below!
Benn Beckman and his team in Shanks' crew were full of amazement.
"Lucky Roux said excitedly."
"They were really having a blast fighting, haha, both of them are technically skilled and both have Conqueror's Haki, it was really exciting!"
Among the current Four Emperors, very few are skilled in using techniques. Whether it's Newgate, Big Mom, or Kaido, their fighting styles are all very open and aggressive, with very little technique.
In most fights, it's just a matter of head-on confrontation!
"Those kinds of battles may look more intense, but they're not as aesthetically pleasing as the battle before us!"
"Yes..."
Yasopp.
"Whether it's the Raimei Hakke, the Napoleon Ikoku, or even just Whitebeard's Quake Shock."
Those moves are all old-fashioned, head-on style!
Unfortunately, Shanks is missing an arm, lacking a point of leverage, and therefore lacks the conditions for a head-on confrontation.
As Rayleigh ages and his health declines, he shifts his focus more towards combat skills!
The fight between these two was truly exhilarating and a delightful surprise!
I can learn different things, haha!
As soon as he finished speaking, Yasopp clapped his hands to the crowd.
"Everyone should hurry up and watch, watch and learn as much as possible, because they probably won't be able to fight for much longer!"
After all, it was just a greeting, haha, but it's gotten to this point, it's almost reached its limit!
Just as Yasopp finished speaking, the intense rhythm of the sword fighting in the distance finally slowed down!
As he swung his sword repeatedly, Shanks chuckled softly.
"Grandpa, you're getting old after all; your pace is slowing down, haha!"
"Bullshit! I just thought that was enough. Since you still want to fight, then continue!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Rayleigh's old eyes lit up, and he immediately quickened his movements.
For a moment, the pace of their knife fight even accelerated compared to the beginning.
Seeing this, Benn Beckman, standing at the Jaya pier, smiled and nodded.
"It's almost over, they really had a blast!"
As for us, let's prepare ourselves and have a good chat with that old man.
First, let's talk about the old man's choice to set sail again. In my opinion, no matter how he sets sail, it's better than being by the side of a Celestial Dragon!
Secondly, Shanks asked the old man about Uta's situation. Although he didn't say it aloud, he actually cared a lot about his daughter...
Etc!"
In that instant, Benn Beckman's right hand suddenly reached for his pistol, and he coldly looked towards the southwest sea!
At the same time, even Rayleigh and Shanks, who were clashing swords in the sky, were stunned!
On the distant sea, an incredibly swift red figure was hurtling towards them with a jet of energy. Accompanying the figure was an aura of Armament Haki so thick it was terrifying, and the smell of Magma that made the air even hotter!
"It's Akainu! How could he suddenly appear!"
Benn Beckman said harshly.
"Even if it were any other Admiral, there might still be room for negotiation, but it was that Red Dog who came!!!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Benn Beckman raised his gun and aimed it at the rapidly approaching Akainu.
Meanwhile, watching Shanks and Rayleigh locked in fierce combat in the air, Akainu wore an expression of immense admiration.
"I never expected that Rayleigh, that old guy who came from a pirate background, would go to such lengths for Saint Gawain!"
Since Shanks already has people involved, I'll first take care of Red-Haired Shanks' ship, cut off the Red-Haired Pirates' escape route, and then make Jaya their burial ground...!"
At this point, Akainu's temple throbbed; an invisible danger was approaching him!
Suddenly, he transformed into countless magma liquids, like one lava ball after another, scattering across the sky!
The next moment, a bullet imbued with heavy Armament Haki struck a magma pellet that Akainu had split off from.
Even though that magma grain was also coated with Armament Haki, the magma mass still showed a slight damage.
A moment later, the magma in the air quickly solidified, instantly reverting to Akainu's appearance.
Immediately afterward, Akainu continued flying while glancing at his little finger, which now had an extra bloodstain.
"Ben Beckman, haha, just like Yasopp, he's impossible to guard against!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the airflow emanating from Akainu's lower body became even more frenzied, and he instantly accelerated, arriving directly above the Red Force!
Raising his fists, Akainu brandished his magma-transformed arms and roared.
"Great Eruption!!!"
In an instant, countless lava Magma, billowing with flames and blackish-red smoke, crashed towards the Red Force!
"Damn it, his target is our ship!"
"Damn it, stop it!"
"This guy is going to ruin our comrades!"
"He's trying to cut off our escape route!"
In an instant, Benn Beckman and his team rushed into the sky, each targeting different Magma meteorites, either smashing them away or firmly blocking them!
While Benn Beckman and his crew were protecting the Red Force, Akainu remained in the air, using his Observation Haki to explore the entire Jaya!
In just a moment, Akainu revealed an extremely satisfied smile.
"Jaya indeed has less than two thousand people left, and it's filled with the smell of burnt corpses!"
As expected of Saint Gawain, even the Lawless Zone that the Five Elders secretly permitted was swiftly and thoroughly wiped out by him!
His decisive and ruthless actions are truly admirable!
But aren't the Saruyama Alliance Tour Group pirates too?
Has he surrendered to Saint Gawain's command?
By the way, according to Fleet Admiral Sengoku, there seem to be important research cadres under Saint Gawain on Jaya!
What a hassle!
As he muttered to himself, Akainu's body suddenly grew larger in mid-air, with endless magma gushing out from his body, turning him into a magma giant hundreds of meters tall!
At the same time, he yelled at the people of Jaya.
"All of Saint Gawain's subordinates should go to the forest south of Jaya, or at least leave the dock!"
As for this land near the dock, I wish to borrow it!!!
As soon as the words were spoken, the hundred-meter-tall Magma Akainu suddenly crashed down onto the dock.
Then, he slammed his enormous right hand onto the ground near the dock.
In the next instant, without caring whether the people near the dock had time to escape, he shouted loudly.
"Awakening, Crimson Lotus Hell!!!"
Accompanied by Akainu's voice, the land near the dock within a kilometer radius of him was completely transformed into a surging Magma Sea!
The endless magma was completely beneath Akainu's feet, and it continued to boil and churn around him, with sulfurous bubbles constantly bursting out of the magma!
Countless plumes of white steam rose from the point where the magma met the sea, and the nearby ocean immediately began to boil!
As for the magma that comes into contact with the sea, it continuously cools and then recovers its temperature, making the violently erupting water vapor even hotter!
Just like Momousagi once said, he said Garp could beat Akainu to death in a volcano!
Some might argue that even if Akainu is weaker than Garp, he shouldn't have been defeated by Garp on his home turf, right?
However, as Admiral whose strength is centered on Devil Fruit, these Logia-type Logia Devil Fruit Awakening.
Wherever they go, that's their home ground!
Just imagine, even Devil Fruit User like Doflamingo, after Awakening powers, could turn the ground and buildings into strings!
Does Akainu need a volcano to give himself a home-field advantage?
Absolutely not!
Because all Awakening -Logia Devil Fruit User have their own home turf, they naturally have a considerable advantage!
Sakazuki is like a series of walking volcanoes!!!
The moment Sakazuki transformed the dock, the Saruyama Alliance Tour Group, whose legs had been trembling, all fled into the distance like madmen!
Cricket so angry he was practically spitting out his own saliva.
"Run! Damn it, what kind of monsters are these? They're all fucking monsters!!!"
"Yeah, bro, that's terrifying!!!"
"Yes, bro, that was terrifying!!!"
The three leaders of the Saruyama Alliance managed to escape with cries of pain, but their more than a thousand underlings suffered a direct loss of about a hundred men in this wave!
But they had no time for sadness; instead, they tried to run directly towards the more distant Southern Forest!
After all, they could see that the Magma field was constantly expanding outwards!
As the Saruyama Alliance fled in a frantic retreat, Rayleigh and Shanks were both stunned!
The two ended their fight in the next instant and rushed towards the dock!
Shanks charged forward while yelling at Akainu.
"Sakazuki, give me some face and let me be your opponent, but don't touch my ship!!!"
Meanwhile, Rayleigh swiftly rushed above the Saruyama Alliance!
"Cricket, take all the remaining women and children from Golden Town!!!"
And the Dark Bird Group! All members of the Dark Bird Group, heed my command: save the women and children of Golden Town!!!
With Rayleigh's voice, Spandam and his group immediately felt reassured. They stopped fleeing and instead headed back towards the Women and Children's Orphanage in Golden Town, which had not yet been affected by the Magma.
Even Rayleigh himself carried six or seven children, using his Geppo to send them off into the distance!
As for Franky, he stretched out his mechanical arms, grabbed five children, and ran while crying his heart out.
"Aaaaaah, my house! My house, which I just built less than ten days ago! Aaaaaah!!!"
On the other side, he looked at the Red-Haired Shanks rushing towards him, and then at Rayleigh and his group who were rescuing women and babies.
Akainu sighed in utter dissatisfaction.
"If we let Red-Haired Shanks and his crew return to the New World, how many more women and children on the islands will be forced to continue living under the control of these wicked pirates!"
Although Rayleigh has been changed a lot by Saint Gawain, this narrow-minded compassion is still disgusting!!!
At this point, Akainu clenched his fists and slammed them hard into the ground.
"The Sea of Crimson Lotus!!!"
The moment his enormous fist slammed into the ground, the boiling magma first dented, then surged hundreds of meters high like a tsunami, rushing straight toward the Red Force at the edge of the harbor!
At the same time, Shanks abruptly stopped in front of the lava wave, raised his right arm to hold the sword horizontally, and roared angrily.
"Conqueror's Haki!"
After a brief roar, an incredibly intense Conqueror's Haki rapidly spread out in front of him. The Inazuma formed by the Conqueror's Haki was so thick that it was almost tangible, and it even contained a trace of Armament Haki!
The next moment, centered on the Griffin Gryphon and using the surging Conqueror's Haki as a vehicle, Red-Haired Shanks, at the cost of retreating hundreds of meters, barely managed to stop the giant wave of magma unleashed by Akainu at a distance of less than seventy meters from the Red Force!
Then, Shanks took a deep breath.
"Beckman, let's keep this crazy Admiral occupied!"
Everyone else, quickly send Red Force to the open sea!!!
Sakazuki, that guy is a madman in the Navy!
His madness surpasses even that of Shiki the Shiki from One Piece!
"Good!"
Upon hearing this, Benn Beckman, holding a pistol in his left hand, drew his knife in his right.
He turned slightly to the others and spoke.
"You guys go and set sail, anchor the Red Force in a safe location, and be ready to pick up Shanks and me at any time!"
We might not see Uta this time; Akainu's arrival was too sudden!
With that, Benn Beckman stepped into the air and charged towards the ground that had been completely turned into lava!
Immediately afterwards, Lucky Roux and his group also quickly steered the boat out to sea.
As for Yasopp, he stood on the ship's railing, spear in hand, coldly gazing at the enormous Akainu.
"How dare you become so huge in front of me, heh..."
But as soon as he finished speaking, the giant in the distance shrank instantly, and in its place emerged nearly a hundred Magma Whip, each tens of meters thick and hundreds of meters long, bursting forth from the magma ground!
After blocking the Magma Sea, Shanks instantly closed in on the gigantic Akainu and slashed with his sword.
When facing sword energy of the Four Emperors level, a gigantic but not agile body is not the best way to deal with it.
Akainu then returned to his normal height.
But that doesn't mean his damage output has decreased!
You should know that the reason he grew larger before was to use the power of the Devil Fruit Awakening as quickly as possible to expand and spread out his home field, the Magma Sea!
Think about it, his power isn't to turn into magma, but to manipulate magma, so right now his surroundings are full of magma!
Therefore, at this moment, all the land transformed by his Awakening can already be considered a part of him!
This is the true power of Logia Awakening!