At the distant horizon, a burst of white light exploded without warning, instantly engulfing the boundary between the sea and the sky.
It was as if a nuclear bomb had been detonated over the sea, turning the entire sky a ghastly white.
" Lord Marshal! Lord Marshal!"
Perona's shout shattered the tranquility of the deck. She instinctively rolled up her sleeve to shield her eyes, her voice tinged with excitement. "Hurry! The sky ahead has split open!"
Before she could finish speaking, Akira's figure appeared beside her like a ghost.
Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, and the other trainees were also drawn to this amazing phenomenon and rushed onto the deck, all looking towards the place where the white light was shining.
"Wow! What a dazzling light!" Luffy's eyes sparkled with curiosity.
"Such a powerful aura!" Zoro's hand had unconsciously landed on the hilt of his sword.
Before everyone could recover from their shock, Akira lowered his eyelids, and his ultimate Observation Haki surged out like a silent tide, sweeping across the undulating sea at an unimaginable speed, and in an instant, he arrived at the island shrouded in white light.
His "vision" pierced through the raging thunderclouds and the devastating energy storm, precisely capturing the two auras locked in a fierce battle.
One was as violent as a landslide or tsunami, while the other was as steady as a mountain, with a calm and composed demeanor.
Akira slowly withdrew his Observation Haki, his expression remaining completely calm.
Don't panic.
Akira glanced at the interns who had come onto the deck and said calmly, "It's Loki fighting Shanks."
Upon hearing this, Perona's eyes lit up instantly, and she exclaimed excitedly, "Wow, is that giant so fast?"
As she spoke, she floated to Akira's side, her tone full of disbelief, "Less than two days after leaving Elbaf, you've already stormed into the redhead's lair. Looks like you've been harboring quite a few grievances!"
Immediately afterwards, she excitedly grabbed Akira's arm and shook it vigorously. " Lord Marshal, let's go join the fun! This little girl wants to see the big guy and Shanks fight!"
at the same time.
The Red Hair Pirates ' territory, that nameless island.
The fighting has spread from the beach to the heart of the island.
Loki's towering body, exceeding sixty meters in height, resembles a moving castle.
With each step he took forward, the entire island trembled violently, and the earth cracked open with spiderweb-like fissures. Every swing of the giant hammer Iron Thunder in his hand summoned thunderclaps from the sky, and purplish-black Inazuma rained down from the heavens, indiscriminately bombarding every inch of the island's land.
Those members of the Red-Haired Pirates who were just celebrating were now completely sacrificed in this battle of gods.
"Ah--"
"Run! It's thunder!"
"Help!"
Screams and wails rose and fell as the Red Hair Pirates ' crew members fled in disarray, unable to escape the lightning that covered the entire island. People were constantly struck by lightning and blown into Inazuma, or thrown away by the violent shockwaves, crashing into the rocks and trees like kites with broken strings.
At this moment, Shanks had no time to care about the crew on the island. Faced with the relentless and unreasonable onslaught that pressed forward like a mountain, he could only rely on his agility to dodge left and right, and then use his Observation Haki to predict Loki's attack trajectory at the critical moment, thus launching a counterattack.
Shanks ' strength is beyond doubt. Amid Loki's ferocious attacks, he sometimes used the momentum of collapsing boulders to propel himself into the air, and sometimes he swayed and passed through the gap between two intersecting Inazuma bolts.
Two completely different yet equally terrifying Conqueror's Haki clashed wildly in the sky above the island, generating visible black and red arcs of electricity.
The mountains continued to collapse in the aftermath of their clash, swathes of primeval forest were razed to the ground, and the entire island groaned in despair.
In the distance, the core members of the Red Hair Pirates looked grave, forced to retreat repeatedly by the terrifying pressure emanating from the two.
Beckman, a cigarette dangling from his lips, appeared calm, but his furrowed brow betrayed his inner turmoil. Yasopp's eyes sharpened, his posture suggesting he was ready for battle at any moment. Raki Rue also unusually paused his eating, gripping his massive elbow in one hand while tightly clutching the pistol at his waist in the other.
They all realized that Shanks was being forced back step by step by Loki.
However, when their gaze swept across the beach and they saw the Giant Warrior Pirates members, wielding massive axes and shields and standing like statues in full battle array, they forcibly suppressed their urge to attack.
It's not that we can't beat them.
Rather, they knew deep down that this battle was a long-standing feud between Loki and Shanks. If they intervened and formed a siege, the already raging giant prince would definitely go completely insane, and at that time, Loki would not hesitate to slaughter all the crew members on the island.
Just as the officers were getting anxious, Loki, who had been relentlessly pursuing Shanks and bombarding him, suddenly let out a deafening laugh.
The laughter was filled with undisguised disdain and contempt for Shanks.
"Hahaha! A coward is a coward! All he does is hop around like a fly!"
Loki grinned, revealing a bloodthirsty smile, his voice like rolling thunder, " Shanks! If you keep dodging like a clown, believe me, I'll stop right now and smash all those crying-for-his-mother trash on the island into mincemeat first?!"
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly raised the Iron Thunder in his hand, and lightning blazed on the head of the hammer. He then swiftly and decisively brought it down on Shanks, who had just dodged!
Rumble--
Amidst the deafening explosion, it seemed as if the sky and the earth were about to be cleaved apart by this single blow!
Just then, Shanks, who had just slipped away, slammed his feet onto a huge tree trunk that was bent and about to break from the Conqueror's Haki.
The next second, the trunk of the giant tree, like a spring compressed to its limit, suddenly rebounded!
Using the force of the rebound, Shanks ' figure surged back at a speed too fast for the naked eye to perceive, his longsword Griffin emitting a piercing screech, its tip aimed directly at Loki's massive throat!
Shanks is incredibly fast!
In the blink of an eye, the sword tip, wreathed in black and red Conqueror's Haki, appeared before Loki's throat.
However, Loki showed no panic in the face of this fatal sword strike.
A cruel smile flashed in his enormous eyes.
He, who also possesses powerful Observation Haki, had already anticipated Shanks ' attack!
Just as the sword tip was about to pierce his throat.
Loki suddenly lowered his head, opened his blood-red maw, and bit down hard.
The next second.
"Clang--"
A piercing clang of metal clashing against metal exploded in everyone's ears!
Griffin, who followed Shanks in his conquests and rose to become one of the Yonko of the New World, had his sword tip, imbued with Conqueror's Haki, bitten firmly in Loki's mouth!
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