Red-haired territory, on a nameless island.
"Hahaha! Shanks! Your end has come!"
With a maniacal laugh, Loki's massive body unleashed unparalleled power, causing the ground beneath his feet to crack and crumble. Like a moving mountain, he charged at Shanks with overwhelming fury, launching his most ferocious attack!
He swung the Iron Thunder in his hand into a black storm, each swing drawing lightning from the sky and turning the entire island into a lightning inferno!
Faced with this purely unreasonable and destructive attack, Shanks ' expression was more solemn than ever before.
With a stomp of his foot, his figure vanished from the spot in an instant, using his Observation Haki to Future Sight to move at high speed through the gap between the hammer and the lightning.
However, Loki's attack range is simply too large!
boom--
With a single blow, the ground where Shanks had just dodged was smashed into a giant crater, and the violent shockwave created a hundred-meter-high wave of earth that sent him flying.
"All you do is hide? Coward!"
Loki roared, clenching his other fist and covering it with jet-black Armament Haki, like a black meteorite, and fiercely blasted towards Shanks in mid-air!
With no foothold in mid-air, Shanks could only hold the broken Griffin horizontally in front of his chest and pour his Conqueror's Haki into it without reservation.
Rumble--
Fist and sword clashed, producing a deafening roar!
Shanks felt an irresistible force coming from the sword, his arm went numb instantly, and he was sent flying like a cannonball, crashing into a mountain and shattering it.
"Boss!"
Beckman and the others, who were being suppressed to the ground by the Haki giant, changed their expressions drastically. They tried to stand up but couldn't even move a finger. They could only watch helplessly as their captain was suppressed by the raging giant prince.
As core members of the Red Hair Pirates, they were all well aware of their captain's strength. However, while their captain was powerful, he was now facing the Elbaf who had required the entire crew to imprison him in the past!
Loki struck a successful blow, and his offensive became even more frenzied.
He strode after Shanks, his warhammer Iron Thunder transforming into a flurry of hammer shadows, relentlessly smashing down on the area.
Come on, come on!
"Keep going, keep going, keep going!"
" Shanks, your dodging technique was really clumsy! Hehehehe~"
Loki's arrogant voice resounded throughout the heavens and earth, and each time his voice fell, a deafening explosion followed.
Boom! Boom! Rumble!
The entire island trembled violently under the onslaught of the storm.
The earth was torn apart, mountains were leveled, and more than half of the islands cracked and sank into the sea under Loki's giant hammer, creating towering waves on the surface. The remaining half also disintegrated, turning into countless floating islands of varying sizes, drifting with the surging sea.
The heart of the battle had become a scene of utter devastation.
Finally, amidst the collapsed ruins, Shanks ' figure soared into the sky.
Although he looked somewhat disheveled, the fighting spirit in his eyes burned to its fullest extent.
" Loki!"
With a roar, Shanks concentrated all his power into the broken sword, and crimson Conqueror's Haki soared into the sky, transforming into a slash that tore through the heavens.
" Divine Evasion!"
Faced with this overwhelming attack, Loki neither dodged nor evaded, but instead let out an even more ferocious roar.
Shanks! Prepare to die!
As the words were spoken, Loki swiftly raised his warhammer high above his head, channeling all his Haki and power into this single strike.
The hammer falls!
Sword and hammer collided with a deafening roar in mid-air!
In that instant, the whole world went silent.
Then, a white light engulfed everything!
Click--
Shanks ' broken sword, Griffin, could no longer withstand the force and shattered into countless points of light.
He himself was struck head-on by that destructive force, spitting out blood as he flew backward like a kite with a broken string.
At the same time, Loki, who had unleashed his strongest attack, had also exhausted all his strength.
His massive body, over sixty meters tall, swayed, then staggered backward a few steps, nearly falling over.
Just as he was about to collapse, a powerful yet gentle force came from behind him, steadily supporting his massive body.
Immediately afterwards, Akira's figure flashed out from behind him, and he calmly glanced at the exhausted Loki.
"Well done, Loki!"
Before he could finish speaking, Akira's gaze had already locked onto Shanks, who was flying backwards in the distance.
The next second, without the slightest hesitation, he drew his sword with Inazuma.
It lacked any earth-shattering momentum; it was merely a seemingly casual slash from a distance.
A black slash wave, imbued with the strongest Conqueror's Haki, instantly traversed the distance of space and struck Shanks precisely.
Shanks' pupils constricted suddenly as he tried to defend himself and dodge, but he was horrified to find that he couldn't even muster the slightest thought of resistance in the face of that slashing wave.
That Conqueror's Haki was an absolute, unyielding, and repressive force!
boom--
The shockwave carrying the slashing wave exploded with a deafening roar. Shanks didn't even have time to utter a muffled groan before being swept away by that force, shooting straight into the sky like a blood-red meteor, instantly disappearing into the clouds.
Beckman, Raki Rue, and the others, who were pinned to the ground, stared blankly at the scene, their minds completely blank.
it's over?
Their captain was just killed with a single blow?
After a brief moment of shock, Lucky Roux suddenly raised his head and shouted at the top of his lungs, " Akira, what happened to the one-on-one fight? You actually ambushed our boss!"
"A sneak attack?"
Akira skillfully sheathed his sword, then turned his head to look down at Lucky Roux and the others who were being suppressed by Conqueror's Haki, and said calmly, "I'm just taking him home!"
High in the sky, the air currents howled.
Shanks felt his body was completely out of his control, enveloped by an unparalleled will, hurtling through the air at an incredible speed.
He tried to break free, but found that his Haki was as insignificant as a firefly compared to the bright moon in the face of that power.
After an unknown amount of time, the power that had been enveloping him suddenly vanished.
A strong feeling of weightlessness came over me.
Immediately afterwards, he traced a parabola in the air and plummeted uncontrollably downwards.
He suddenly opened his eyes, his body breaking through the thick clouds.
The moment Shanks saw what was below, even with his composure, his pupils constricted violently, and his face was filled with utter horror.
It was neither a turbulent sea nor the remains of a broken island.
Instead, it is a vast, unbroken red continent.
Red Line?!
Akira... actually cleaved him from his own territory in the New World directly into the sky above the Red Line with a single strike?!
How is that possible!
In utter shock, Shanks, like a burning meteorite, streaked across the sky and plummeted straight toward the Holy Land located at the top of the Red Line.