Hades watched the battle and waited for Garp to arrive.
The fight against Garp would be Teach's true test.
Teach was only twenty, while Garp was in his prime.
Thirty-seven years separated them.
It would be an extremely difficult fight.
Teach had fought countless battles in the Sky Arena.
But fighting a Top Combatant was another matter entirely.
Unless one fought with technique, as Hades did.
The fight would become far simpler—and far deadlier.
It would come down to strength, reflexes, the Three Types of Haki, and physical endurance.
Teach was at a disadvantage in every one of those areas.
Anyone who reached the level of a Top Combatant at twenty was an absolute monster.
But becoming one of the stronger Top Combatants—reaching Admiral level or even the pinnacle of the seas—was another matter.
At that age, Teach had not had nearly enough time to build the necessary foundation.
Not even the Gravity Field could make up for that.
Not unless he had a time machine that let him train for ten days while only one day passed.
The idea of working a hundred times harder was a joke.
Everyone had the same amount of time. Could effort alone make training a hundred times more effective?
The future Pirate King was an exception.
Even if he awakened Future Sight, mastered Internal Destruction, and could use Conqueror's Haki Coating,
that did not mean he had truly reached the pinnacle of the seas.
Hades had mastered all those crucial techniques at a young age too.
In the end, that future Pirate King relied on the power of the Human-Human Fruit, Model: Nika.
His rubber body let him withstand blows, while its elasticity gave him destructive power that more than made up for his physical shortcomings.
Then there was his extraordinary recovery.
But