Blackbeard

The gravitational pull of darkness and the force of space interacted together, generating a massive energy shock like a nuclear explosion. The black and white air currents spread out in a ring in all directions, creating magnificent ripples!

From the darkness, Blackbeard emerged, his right hand clenched into a claw, the dark gravity in his palm forming a spiral. "Black Vortex!"

Even Buggy couldn't resist the powerful gravity; his body was involuntarily pulled towards it. He quickly used one foot to pierce the ground as a fulcrum, lifted the other foot, and swept out a crescent-shaped white stream of air that rushed straight towards Blackbeard's hand!

The airflow arrived in an instant, Blackbeard's expression changed slightly. He dared not take it head-on and quickly retreated. While dodging, he wanted to raise his hand again to use Black Vortex.

However, Buggy wouldn't give Blackbeard that chance at all, unleashing Tempest Kick, each slash forcing the latter to dodge.

Although Blackbeard's dark power could absorb attacks, the pain he suffered was twice that of an ordinary person. He was unwilling to take the risk of using his own body to take the attack, and instead tried to find Buggy's weakness.

"Critical."

Hundreds of fine white lines on Buggy's body instantly merged together, and he entered his strongest state without hesitation.

In a normal state, when a fist is thrown, the force in the muscles will inevitably disperse in all directions and cancel each other out. However, in a 'Critical' state, every muscle, organ, tissue, and hair in Buggy's body will exert force in the same direction, thus generating several times the force of a normal punch.

Shave!

Buggy vanished from his spot in an instant. Blackbeard's pupils contracted sharply, and he used all his strength, but his body could only turn slightly backward.

Boom!

In an instant, a tremendous force struck his neck, sending him flying more than twenty meters before he crashed to the ground with a loud thud!

Blackbeard, enduring excruciating pain, quickly rolled over on the spot, and another thunderous sound rang out, sending countless stones flying in all directions, filling the air with dust.

"Black Vortex!"

Blackbeard, his face contorted in pain, clenched his claws again toward the smoke and dust, creating a black vortex.

"Too slow..."

A cold voice came from behind, followed by a foot that contained terrifying power, slamming down heavily on his head. In an instant, the entire ground collapsed due to the force, forming a huge hole, and Blackbeard's entire body was also pressed into the hole!

Buggy stood by the cave entrance, withdrew his foot, and then jumped down.

Beneath the platform lay a vast space, though it was dark, seemingly due to its sealed design. However, for Buggy, who was Observation Haki, even without using his eyes, he could detect Blackbeard's movements.

"Blackbeard, stop hiding, I know you're not dead..."

Buggy stood still, not hearing any movement. Blackbeard, who should have been at his feet, was nowhere to be seen.

"Um?"

Sensing a faint gust of wind from his left, Buggy raised his foot and kicked, but instead kicked a rock. The rock, struck by Buggy's kick, shattered a section of wall a hundred meters away like a bullet, the sound echoing throughout the room!

Blackbeard finally made his move, unleashing Black Vortex once more. His rich combat experience and keen intuition allowed him to seize the moment when Buggy revealed a weakness. The suction force of the dark power pulled the misjudged Buggy into his palm, and then, in one swift motion, he unleashed a full-force attack, sending the latter flying!

Because of the Dark-Dark Fruit's power, Buggy's Devil Fruit ability was sealed the moment Blackbeard touched him, and his body returned to normal. The sheer power of Blackbeard's punch was beyond his imagination. Buggy finally experienced firsthand what it was like to have a claw mark left on Shanks' face that Shanks couldn't forget. His body smashed through three circular pillars with a diameter of at least ten meters before finally crashing into a rough wall.

When he stood up again, he could feel that his body was a little numb and his spine was slightly damaged.

While the Dark-Dark Fruit cannot transform into an element like Logia and requires enduring twice the pain, it provides extremely durable defense and the ability to counter Devil Fruit. Blackbeard's own power is also terrifying. If he had actually obtained Whitebeard's Tremor-Tremor Fruit during the Marineford War, then... his level of danger would have increased tenfold!

"What a pity, what a pity..."

Buggy's body was writhing in white lines, and he entered a Critical state once again. "Your time ends here for today."

"Hahaha--"

Blackbeard's wild laughter echoed within the sealed space, "If I can obtain your power, I can make up for my miscalculation during the Marineford War. Whether it's the Four Emperors or the Pirate King, they will all belong to me!!"

"Yeah..."

Buggy merely sneered, clenched his fists, and slammed them into the air. In an instant, the power to shatter space roared outwards, and the hundreds-of-meters-wide room couldn't withstand it, cracking open in countless places. Stone chips rained down, and the next moment, a huge group of rocks fell down, while beams of light shone in from the outside!

Finally, as the rocks fell, the entire house collapsed. Blackbeard, his face covered in blood, fearlessly used Blackbeard smoke to absorb all the rocks. Once his figure was fully exposed to the sunlight, he released several groups of rocks, which rained down on Buggy like locusts.

Buggy unleashed the spatial power from his fist once more, the Space Beam Cannon shattering all the rocks with devastating force, and continued its trajectory toward Blackbeard with undiminished momentum. At the same time, he used Shave, following closely behind the Space Beam Cannon, and blasted spatial energy at close range the instant he was close to Blackbeard!

Blackbeard desperately resisted the approaching Space Beam Cannon with his dark power, leaving him no time to deal with Buggy was closing in from behind. He was blasted away by the massive spatial energy, coughing up a lot of blood!

Buggy didn't stop his attack, continuing to follow Blackbeard's flying body. His fist unleashed spatial energy, delivering a devastating blow like a siege cannon strike, slamming into Blackbeard's stomach!

Blackbeard's flying body came to an abrupt halt, like a meteor falling to the ground, its trajectory abruptly altered, and it slammed into the ground!

Centered on Blackbeard, countless cracks hundreds of meters long spread outwards in all directions from the ground. His face was covered in a mixture of blood and dust, his white eyes were bloodshot, and he looked extremely pained.

Looking at the other person, Buggy picked up a rock from the ground, rubbed it with his hand, and one end of the rock became as sharp as a blade at his will. Then, the rock was covered with a layer of Armament Haki.

Buggy looked down at Blackbeard, who was lying motionless on the ground.

"It's all time to end this..."