Pirate: I Maxed Out Conqueror's Haki Before Anything Else

Xia Le opened his mouth.

A massive Thunder Pillar blasted out, punching hole after hole through the tsunami ahead as it shot toward Shiki.

Shiki darted through a string of afterimages, dodging the enormous pillar.

But after only a few breaths, his breathing had grown ragged.

He pressed one hand over the charred hole in his abdomen and wiped the blood from his mouth with the other. His heart hammered.

"Let's see which of us is really the strongest!"

"Xia Le!"

With a roar, Golden Lion Shiki slashed out with both legs.

"Lion: Thousand-Cut Valley!"

Razor-sharp slashes screamed through the air and reached Xia Le in an instant.

Xia Le snapped up his right leg. Black-Red Lightning coiled around it as he swung.

"Thunder God: Tempest Kick!"

The enormous slash stretched nearly ten thousand meters. It collided with the countless slashes ahead, canceling them out one by one.

Then Xia Le moved both hands and slowly bent forward.

He set the massive island and the smaller islands around it down on the sea, sending towering waves surging outward.

Then he clenched his right fist and punched forward.

"Fist Bone: Collapse!"

The oncoming tsunami shattered beneath his fist and burst into a storm of spray.

"Jihahahaha!"

Golden Lion charged in again, his legs slicing through the air again and again.

Huge slashes severed both arms of Xia Le's Thunder God form in an instant, but they rapidly reformed amid flickering lightning.

"Tch!"

"A body made entirely of energy?"

Golden Lion narrowed his eyes.

The next moment, a net woven from thousands of lightning bolts rushed toward him.

Crackle!

Countless explosions rang through the air. Even the space around them seemed to warp.

Sweat beaded across Golden Lion Shiki's forehead. Red light flashed in his eyes as he darted through the net,