Moke reached toward the sun. Bathed in sunlight, his body began to transform, turning into light itself.
"Light Gathering!"
In an instant, Moke altered the direction of the surrounding light, drawing it all into his hand. A sphere of light quickly formed!
But it was not over yet.
The range from which the light gathered grew wider and wider. Ten meters, twenty meters, thirty meters... one hundred meters, two hundred meters... until, at last, all the light above the entire island converged in Moke's hand.
"Rumble..."
Under that terrifyingly focused light, even the air had ignited. A ring of white flames appeared around the light sphere!
Most bizarrely, not a single trace of light remained anywhere on the island.
It was as if night had fallen.
But the strangest part was that the sphere of light was so dazzling, while the surroundings held not even the faintest glimmer—only darkness.
It truly fit the saying: absolute light was equivalent to absolute darkness.
Because before absolute light, no other color could exist.
As more and more light gathered, the sphere rapidly swelled in size. By the time all the light on the island was in his hand—
the sphere had reached a full twenty meters across. With the flames burning around it, it spanned more than a hundred meters.
In the sky, it resembled a miniature sun.
On the ground, Blackbeard's pupils trembled as he muttered, "This move feels strangely familiar! I thought Captain Ace had arrived!"
At that moment, Blackbeard no longer dared to be careless.
He unleashed his strongest move, transforming the darkness he had just released into a massive sphere of darkness resembling a black hole.
"Hah..."
The two shouted almost simultaneously.
Moke: "Holy Light—Flame Emperor!"
Blackbeard: "Dark Star..."
One hurled the flaming sphere in his hand toward the