Clang--
A piercing sound rang out in the air.
In an instant, the dazzling slash shattered into a sky full of stars, sparkling fragments falling from above like jade beads.
It formed a magnificent sight.
The Armament Haki covering Rocks's forearm vanished. This was a combat technique. When most powerful fighters battled, they only covered part of their arms with Armament Haki, mainly to concentrate their Haki and make it denser and more powerful.
They did not cover their entire bodies. Although that looked intimidating, it spread the Haki too thin, making it far less powerful than concentrating it on a small area.
Boom--
The eerie black dragon formed from billowing black smoke suddenly shattered beneath Ares's Monstrous Strength, dissolving into wisps of black smoke that dispersed.
At that moment.
Rocks also reached Ares, his dark, gleaming fist shooting straight toward Ares's face.
He said arrogantly and unconstrainedly, "Countless powerful men have tried to challenge my position and authority, Rocks, but no one has ever succeeded, because I represent the strongest combat power in the world!!!"
The wind howled around his fist!
"Blood-colored Armament—Hasshoken!!!" Ares's blood and vital force surged like a dragon, and he became like a king of all beasts wreathed in towering flames.
He used the Hasshoken he had just learned from Chinjao, leader of the Happo Navy.
Combined with his unique Blood-colored Armament.
This punch could truly shake heaven and earth and make ghosts and gods weep!
Crackle, crackle, crackle--
Before their fists even collided, terrifying black-and-red lightning suddenly appeared throughout the sky, tearing apart the space around them like a spiderweb.
The shockwaves contained within the essence of Hasshoken spread outward in ring after ring.
The earth shattered. All around them, it was as though a level-ten typhoon had arrived, with the escaping shockwaves crushing