Shanks watched Mu Le fly straight into the sky as soon as she left the tavern. "Heh! A Human-Shaped Superman Fruit, huh?" Without dwelling on it, he quickly followed her.
The two soon reached the shore. "Here will do!" Mu Le gave Shanks an indifferent glance.
Shanks nodded. With one in the sky and the other on the ground, their fierce auras began to clash.
As Shanks released his Conqueror's Haki, dark clouds gathered overhead, blanketing the sky in black. Meanwhile, the light around Mu Le grew ever more dazzling, like a sun determined to pierce the darkness.
The more Shanks unleashed his Conqueror's Haki at full strength, the more astonished he became. On these seas, if he claimed to have the second-strongest Conqueror's Haki, no one would dare claim first place.
Yet even under the full force of his Haki, the figure in the sky did not budge.
"What's wrong, Mr. Pirate? Is that all you've got?" Her clear, lovely voice drifted from the golden ball of light, sounding relaxed and carefree. In truth, Mu Le was beginning to feel a slight strain. Although the Holy Light Clerics all possessed powerful wills, she could not help admiring someone who had honed his will to its absolute limit.
"I admit you're strong, but now I'm going to get serious!" Shanks drew the Samurai Sword at his waist and swung it rapidly, sending countless waves of Sword Aura slashing toward Mu Le.
Like a Light Spirit in the sky, Mu Le kept flashing through the gaps between the waves of Sword Aura.
But Shanks swung faster and faster, until Mu Le seemed to have vanished from the sky altogether. If not for the occasional flash of light, anyone unaware of what was happening might have thought she had fled.
"**Light Magic,