Bullet spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva, yet his lips spread into a savage grin. "Now that's more like it..."
Before he finished speaking, his right fist slammed into the ground!
"Combined Boxing Cannon!"
The entire island shuddered violently. Countless rocks, wrecked warships, and even metal fragments in the sea converged on him as though alive.
In an instant, a giant steel fist rose from the ground, and Bullet swung it hard.
Boom! The fist crashed down, its wind compressing the air into visible vacuum ripples.
Gern vanished at the sight. A crater a hundred meters across erupted where he had stood, and the shockwave threw up waves of earth several meters high around it.
"Heavenquake: Void Step!" The next instant, Gern had planted his foot on a joint in Bullet's giant fist.
He flashed into the sky like lightning and opened his right hand. Black Blade: Eight Desolations flew straight back into his palm, wreathed in pale quake waves, and he immediately cleaved downward.
"Heavenquake: Realm Shatter!"
Clang! The clash of metal rang through the heavens.
At the last possible moment, Bullet formed a giant shield from the fused metal. Blinding sparks erupted as its surface met the blade's tip.
"Already awakened?" Gern's pupils narrowed as he watched the flowing Armament Haki covering the shield's surface, constantly redistributing its strength as though alive.
"You noticed?" Bullet's voice emerged from the metal giant. "My fused Armament Haki can adapt to attacks automatically!"
As he finished, the metal suddenly broke apart, becoming countless sharp fragments that shot at Gern from every direction.
At the same time, Bullet's true body charged through the rain of fragments, his right fist wrapped in black-and-red Conqueror's Haki lightning as it drove straight toward Gern's face.
"Heavenquake: Mirror Break!" Gern curled both hands into claws