"Nothing but an ant!" Sanjuan Wolf's roar shattered the clouds within a kilometer.
With every step his 180-meter body took, brute force compressed the seawater into a solid mass, creating temporary patches of "land" hundreds of meters across.
But that "land" shattered a second later, throwing up hundreds of tons of seawater like countless depth charges detonating at once.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" Sanjuan Wolf's fists were suddenly coated in pitch-black Armament Haki.
Before his fists even arrived, their wind plowed a kilometer-long vacuum trench through the sea, leaving the water on either side standing vertically like cliffs!
"No wonder Instructor Zephyr said giant sea kings were terrifying. Just watching a 180-meter-tall guy like you move around is enough to give me a headache."
Gern held Black Blade: Eight Desolations across his body, the Armament Haki and vibration particles coiling around its blade intertwining into a black-and-white film of light.
"Clang!!!!" The instant fist met blade, a hundred-meter-wide sphere of energy erupted from the point of impact, filled with white lightning vibrating at high frequency.
As the sphere expanded, it forcibly displaced the seawater within a kilometer, exposing the reefs and sediment on the seabed.
Spray froze into ice crystals along the sphere's edges, only to vaporize into white mist a second later.
"Crack, crack, crack..." The rock beneath the seabed fractured under the vibrations.
The powerful vibrations from Gern's Devil Fruit ability triggered movements in small tectonic plates, and an "island" of shattered rock rose out of nowhere beneath their feet!
"Interesting." Gern's military boots sank deep into the rock, but an excited grin curved his lips.
The edge of Black Blade: Eight Desolations scraped against the enormous fist, throwing off dazzling sparks, each one exploding into a miniature tremor blast in midair.
Meanwhile, Sanjuan Wolf's pupils shook as he