Hancock's Sense of Crisis

Boom!

A terrifying beam of light grazed the spot where Adams had been standing and slammed into the distant sea, erupting with an earth-shaking roar. A hundred-meter wave exploded into the air, vaporizing a vast stretch of seawater in an instant as white mist rose.

After missing with one blow, the Azure Dragon circled through the air, its cold dragon eyes sweeping over the ground.

The next second, Adams burst out of the earth a hundred meters away, his breathing slightly rushed.

Almost at the exact instant he appeared, thunder boomed again!

The Kaido replica instantly returned to human form and appeared before him again as if teleporting. Both hands gripped the Hassaikai, covered in hardened Armament Haki. As it swung, it even left an unbroken stream of afterimages. Its assault was like a raging storm, without a single gap.

Adams's eyes sharpened. The muscles across his body suddenly swelled, tree-ring-like patterns appearing over his skin, while his pupils glowed with a beastly yellow light.

"Ha!"

With a low roar, he swung Shusui and met the attack head-on with all his strength.

Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!

The dense, suffocating clash of weapons rang across the deserted island like a blacksmith's hammer. Every collision erupted with blinding sparks and shockwaves.

Yet what made Adams increasingly grim was that even after transforming into his human-beast form and greatly increasing his strength, the Kaido replica before him still possessed greater raw power than he did.

With every clash, he could feel the other side's vast, bottomless strength, like an abyssal sea.

More importantly, the hardness of the Armament Haki displayed by the Kaido replica far exceeded Adams's expectations. Every exchange sent a rebounding force through his arms, numbing them, worsening the cracks in his hand bones, and making Shusui's blade hum.

Adams