Gern's gaze did not waver in the slightest as he faced the attack.
He did not even change his stance. Holding Eight Desolations in a reverse grip, he simply swept it horizontally from left to right in a seemingly casual stroke!
Whooom!
Where the blade passed, space seemed to be cut like cloth, leaving eight parallel spatial rifts that refused to close!
The massive lion-headed mountains of earth were silently sliced apart the instant they touched those eight parallel rifts.
They became countless neatly cut chunks of rubble, losing all momentum before they could reach Gern and collapsing with a thunderous crash that sent dust a hundred meters into the air!
"I'm not done yet!!" Golden Lion's eyes bulged with fury as his hands moved wildly, controlling everything on the battlefield he could manipulate.
Broken masts, warships, pirate ships, shattered gun emplacements, enormous blocks of ice...
Everything he could control hurtled madly toward Gern!
Yet Gern merely raised his eyes and swept a cold gaze around him.
An ultrahigh-frequency vibration field instantly expanded around his body!
Every object that entered the field, regardless of its size or material, was shaken to pieces!
"Golden Lion." Gern's voice rang out without a trace of emotion.
A shockwave exploded beneath his feet, leaving a distinct footprint in the ground as he bent and launched himself forward.
Moving far faster than Golden Lion could react, he appeared directly before him!
The five fingers of his left hand spread wide, coated in Armament Haki, and clamped firmly around Golden Lion Shiki's head!
"Argh!" Golden Lion was caught completely off guard.
Gern engaged his waist and core, using Golden Lion's head as a pivot as his entire body began spinning violently like a windmill!
The two traced a dizzying arc through the air!
**"The age of