"What, after all this time apart, am I not allowed to have gotten a little stronger?"
Shane raised his leg and launched a flying kick.
"Hasshoken: Arms Like Mountains!"
Chinjao raised his arms to block. They both had advanced Armament Haki, but he had mastered it longer, so naturally, he believed he had the advantage!
Who could have imagined that the force of Shane's kick was nothing like what a normal person could produce? It was absurdly powerful.
He already possessed mountainous strength, and his violet haki perfectly fused various elements and Devil Fruit abilities.
Even the shockwave shattered the port!
The already depleted Happo Navy actually had to endure Shane's wide-ranging attacks as well.
When the violet haki attacked, it did more than batter his enemies.
Neither lightning nor flames were missing.
The ground instantly plunged into an endless sea of fire, while dark clouds covered the sky, filled with raging lightning!
The moment Shane appeared, he seemed like an overlord incarnated from heaven and earth.
The blow he dealt Chinjao went far beyond strength. He overwhelmed him in every respect!
"The captain's already this strong!"
Urouge's eyes widened. Apprentice crew members like them had only learned about the related events afterward, through the newspapers.
It turned out that several fierce battles had taken place after the Sabaody Archipelago.
No wonder Shane had a bounty of seven hundred million Beli. As far as he was concerned, his captain fully deserved an even higher bounty!
Even a billion would have seemed reasonable to Urouge!
"Chinjao!"
"The times change abruptly. An opponent you look down on can become someone you're powerless to fight in the blink of an eye."
"Those youngsters are following the storms of the sea, boarding ship after ship bound for the New World."
"Yet you keep repeating