Counterattack

As time slowly passed.

Seawater surged into the massive crater blasted open where Warship Island had been, its roaring echoing across the sea.

The dust from the explosion gradually dispersed, leaving the entire sea murky and filthy, littered with floating soil and fragments of rubble.

With Warship Island gone, the black clouds shrouding the island also dissipated, and the sky became clean and clear once more.

The bright moon hung high overhead, illuminating the sea as stars glittered across both the sky and the water.

Amid the flickering light, fiery red flames and azure slashes reflected against one another throughout the world.

Though it was an incredibly beautiful sight, everyone watching the battle from the sea was tense beyond measure.

Looking up, Ye Mu, his entire body wreathed in flames as though he had become a god of fire, traced graceful crimson lines through the heavens.

Around those flaming trails, John stood atop a rapidly flying white cloud, dual blades in hand, transforming into streaks of white that followed close beside them in dazzling interplay.

The two were moving so fast that the people aboard the warship could only see a red line and a white line streaking through the air, colliding from time to time as flames and lightning scattered in all directions.

As the battle continued, John became increasingly adept at controlling the Devil Fruit he had just eaten.

Not only could he fly atop white clouds, he could also use the clouds beneath his feet to create lightning, wrapping it around his twin blades and giving his slashes the effect of lightning.

In comparison, Ye Mu seemed to have made no progress at all. He merely wielded the black Lion Maru and the flaming Heaven, dealing with John's attacks with complete focus.

The result was plain to