The central plaza of Hachinosu had been reduced to scorched, fractured earth.
"That really is a terrifying fruit!" Gern held Black Blade: Eight Desolations angled toward the ground.
Pale particles of High-Frequency Vibration wreathed its edge, their slightest tremor making the surrounding air hum under the strain.
His military boots trod the cracked ground. With every step, the rubble hovered eerily for a moment before falling.
"Other people spend half their lives-or their whole lives-working hard, while all you have to say is 'More-More'!"
"Marine." World rolled his neck with a series of cracks, the More-More Fruit's energy forming a faint halo around his fists.
"How does a hundredfold strength feel? If you can barely hold it off, how many of my punches can you take?"
"Let's find out." Gern turned his blade and suddenly lowered his stance.
Boom!!! Spiderweb cracks erupted simultaneously beneath the spots where they had stood.
In the time it took the watching Marines nearby to blink, the two figures had already collided thunderously in the island's center!
"More-More: Hundredfold Giant Fist!" Under the fruit's power, the Armament Haki on World's right arm swelled instantly. His fist became a monstrous mass the size of a small hill and came crashing down with mountain-crushing force.
The pressure of his punch compressed the air into a visible, cone-shaped shock wave. Before it even touched the ground, it had forced a twenty-meter-wide depression into it.
Gern's pupils narrowed slightly. With a clang, he swept his Armament Haki-coated Black Blade: Eight Desolations upward.
"Heavenquake Tremor Fang!" The instant the blade met the giant fist, time seemed to stop.
Humm! First came an eerie silence, followed by a thunderous rumble!!!
The ground within a hundred meters of the collision rolled and heaved like ocean waves!
The energy storm unleashed by the