"Defense?"
"Or attack?"
Ares was naturally no stranger to Armament Haki. It could enhance his defense and attack, but when it came to the essence of Armament Haki...
Ares was stumped. Whether defense or attack, he did not believe either was the essence of Armament Haki.
Just as Ares was thinking,
Faced with such a powerful and somewhat violent slash, Rayleigh did not dare be careless in the slightest. He gripped the long sword in both hands and poured his Armament Haki into it.
Black-purple flames of energy ignited along the meter-long blade, swirling around it.
"One Sword Style—Pluto's Sorrow!"
Although Rayleigh had not yet gained the title of "Pluto," the ruler of hell, symbol of the underworld, had never been anything close to a pushover.
Once a general achieved success, ten thousand bones would wither.
Throughout his adventurous voyage, he had defeated countless people. His strength was only slightly inferior to Roger's, making him the undisputed "second" of the Roger Pirates.
Rayleigh now revealed the imposing aura of "Pluto."
In his thirties, he was at the age when most people in the world of One Piece improved their strength the fastest—and were about to reach the peak of their lives.
A slash as brilliant as an "aurora" burst from the long sword.
This slash completely overwhelmed all the surrounding light, becoming the most dazzling radiance of all!
Beneath that intensely brilliant light lay the sign of an exceptionally powerful strike.
This strike displayed Rayleigh's strength as a great swordsman. Very few people across these seas could produce a slash dozens of meters in size.
Boom!!!
The red and white slashes collided violently, splitting the entire world in two and turning it into a red world and a white world.
After a brief clash,
the red slash Ares had unleashed