"How am I supposed to collect it? Absorb it with the blacklight virus?" Mercer asked the system in his mind.
"Yes. If you feel that is unsafe, you can use the Space Stone in conjunction with it."
The system replied.
"Got it."
Mercer watched the Silver Surfer a short distance away, holding the Thunder Blade at his waist with his left hand, his right palm hovering over its hilt.
"Mortal, you..."
The Silver Surfer tried to speak, but Mercer had no intention of exchanging more words. Lightning flashed, and he vanished.
In an instant, a faint rumble of thunder reached the Silver Surfer's ears. He whipped his head around as a flash of light hurtled toward him.
"One-Sword Style: Iai-Death: Thunder Lion's Song!"
This was a modified and enhanced version of Zoro's One Sword Style, which Mercer had acquired earlier.
By adding the Rumble-Rumble Fruit's power to the original Death: Lion's Song, he had evolved it into Death: Thunder Lion's Song, multiplying the original technique's power.
The Silver Surfer was no ordinary opponent, either. In that instant, powerful energy gathered around his arms, forming a round shield to block the strike.
Boom!
An enormous blast rang out in the sky, and a visible ring-shaped shock wave spread outward from the two of them.
Every cloud within a hundred-meter radius was scattered by that ring-shaped shock wave.
He blocked most of the damage from Thunder Lion's Song, but the remaining force still sent the Silver Surfer flying more than a hundred meters before he could stop.
Mercer flashed away again. While the Silver Surfer was being driven backward, he darted straight to his side and grabbed his Surfboard.
The blacklight virus began absorbing the energy within it. Worried that the virus would not be able to withstand it, Mercer