Blooming Darkness

"Hahaha..."

Blackbeard, his mind clouded and his face contorted with rage, still laughed maniacally. In a flash, he reached out and gripped Buggy's leg tightly. "I lost... How could I possibly lose?!"

Buggy frowned slightly and used pure physical strength to shoot the sharp stone he was holding toward Blackbeard's wrist!

The power of Armament Haki endowed the sharp stone with tremendous penetrating force, not only piercing the latter's wrist but also embedding it firmly into the ground, fixing his hand to the ground.

Blackbeard winced in pain and instinctively released his grip. Buggy quickly retreated a distance, feeling the sealed power surge through his body once more. He calmly looked at Blackbeard, "You've lost. Neither the past nor the present will be your era..."

"Really? I lost... Hehehehe..."

Blackbeard's laughter grew even more arrogant, his eyes bloodshot, and an intense darkness emanated from his body, shooting skyward in an instant. "Then I, Marshall D. Teach, shall open the first chapter of this turbulent era!!"

Buggy's expression changed. He sensed an incredibly powerful energy hidden within the darkness. If he were to touch this power, his entire body would likely be torn apart. Even if he had a body that Chop-Chop, he would still be unable to escape the gravity of the darkness.

The billowing black fog, like a sandstorm in the desert, covered an area of hundreds of meters in radius, obscuring the sky and the darkness swallowed up the clouds on the horizon!

All the pirates who were fighting felt this enormous pulling force, and they all stopped fighting and looked incredulously at the black mist on the central platform that even light could not escape. Just one more glance felt as if their entire body and soul would be drawn into it.

What... what on earth happened?!

Surprise and fear flashed across the pirates' faces. They could vividly feel the power, accompanied by the aura of death, emanating from the center, and for a moment, everything they could see seemed to turn into only black and white!

The billowing black mist began to contract, and the immense gravitational force pulled and gathered everything towards the center!

Whether it was the Blackbeard Pirates, the Whitebeard Pirates, or the Buggy Pirates, under the command of their respective officers, the pirates instinctively chose to retreat outwards without daring to stop for even a moment.

Buggy, closest to Blackbeard, had his ankle entangled in a black mist that resembled roots on the ground. The pulling force on him was dozens of times greater than that outside the mist. Faintly, Blackbeard's painful panting could be heard in the darkness. "Zehahaha... Run! Try and escape if you want..."

Is this your trump card?

Buggy stopped retreating and chose to stay put, constantly adjusting his physical condition and accumulating energy.

"That's right... This is the ultimate power of the Dark-Dark Fruit: it captures everything, devours everything, then collapses, gathers, and destroys everything... Even I myself will be completely destroyed!"

Blackbeard's voice didn't sound like that of a loser at all; instead, it was filled with arrogance, pride, and an inexplicable madness. "Only the most perfect fruit is worthy of the most perfect me!"

"You're quite the ambitious one, even in death you're trying to drag everyone down with you, but..."

Buggy unleashed all his power, punching the darkness ahead with both fists. "Sorry!"

Myriad Phenomena Void!

The overclocked resonance power that had been lingering within the body and in space suddenly erupted forward!

The intense resonance spread like Domino, instantly engulfing the entire space. The spatial force was devastating, unleashing a terrifying power akin to a nuclear explosion!

At the same time, the darkness, which even light could escape, rapidly contracted, instantly releasing an overwhelming pulse, layer upon layer, as if it were the destruction of a neutron star, seemingly about to destroy everything!

The collision of the two powerful energies tore everything apart. The massive shockwaves blew away all living things within a radius of several thousand meters. Trees rooted tens of meters deep were easily broken like tender branches. Buildings crumbled into countless pieces, turning into sand and gravel that filled the sky. The sea surface, several miles away, was also disturbed by the aftershocks, creating thousands of waves!

I don't know how much time has passed...

The energy finally subsided, and the invisible darkness gradually disappeared. However, the distorted air failed to return to normal for a long time, as if this space had entered a folded and destroyed form due to the energy surge. Just as the battle between Akainu and Aokiji changed Punk Hazard, the spatial environment within a radius of several thousand meters was also forcibly altered due to the interaction between spatial power and dark gravity.

At this moment, only Buggy, trembling uncontrollably, remained in the center of the space. His pale face was filled with indescribable exhaustion, and his body was covered with various wounds, from which blood continued to gush out.

The gravitational pull of the dark collapse created by Blackbeard at the cost of his life was so immense that even he could not escape it, and he was completely crushed into dust. In a neutron star-like instantaneous explosion, he turned into countless dust particles and disappeared from this world.

It has to be said, the power of the Dark-Dark Fruit is truly terrifying...

This battle was several times more exhausting than the one against Kaido. If Buggy hadn't used the power of spatial resonance with all his might to disintegrate it, the darkness after the collapse would have spread at the speed of light, forming a neutron star explosion that covered the entire island and instantly killed everyone on the island!

About ten minutes later.

Buggy's right hand fingers were finally able to move slightly. He had not yet regained feeling in his limbs, and the only thing he could feel was the beating of his heart in his chest.

Not far ahead, a man slowly walked over, raised a hand to adjust his baseball cap, and looked at Buggy coldly. "It's all over now..."

"It's you..."

Buggy's eyelids twitched involuntarily. He was completely paralyzed and had no way to deal with the man in front of him.

The so-called spatial resonance is like striking a large bell from the outside with a mallet. If this space is considered as this bell, then everyone inside is like a mosquito, and under the energy generated by the violent sound waves, they will be shocked to death in an instant.

Although Buggy is inside the resonant space, he can reduce the damage from the scattered particles by splitting himself into countless particles. However, this does not mean he is completely immune to damage. He will still be paralyzed by the shockwave, and the greater the power of the spatial resonance, the longer he will remain paralyzed.

Just as Blackbeard's use of his life force to cause a terrifying collapse of darkness, and Whitebeard's body experiencing a certain amount of backlash after using a shockwave, the use of powerful force is not without its costs.

"This final battle is happening faster than I expected..." The man approached BuckyBucky, molten lava emanating from his body.

"Akainu..."