At the same time, a fierce battle broke out in the Lulusia Kingdom in the Paradise.
Meanwhile, the Red Hair Pirates in the New World were rapidly approaching the border of the Sky Empire's Torrent Province.
However, Shiki clearly wouldn't choose to fight the Red Hair Pirates on the border of Torrent Province.
The Red Hair Pirates had just finished resupplying and sailed more than 50 kilometers, about 430 kilometers from the border of Torrent Province, when they encountered an island that seemed to have fallen from the sky.
Boom boom boom!
More than a dozen islands crashed down from the sky one after another.
This immediately triggered a tsunami tens of meters high and a violent shockwave.
Red-Haired Shanks unleashed a powerful slash imbued with Conqueror's Haki, yet it failed to destroy the island wreckage hurtling towards the Red Force. Fortunately, the other members of the Red Hair Pirates joined the effort, destroying the falling rocks.
But Beckman's expression was very unpleasant.
Of those dozen or so islands, only three crashed around the Red Force; the rest crashed down in a circling pattern.
The sea area that Shiki chose was only about 70 meters deep. When the islands circled around and crashed down, they encircled the location of the Red Force, turning it into a lake.
Looking down at Shiki on the deck below, Red-Haired Shanks, perched high above, gently lit a cigar. "Hmph... Are you satisfied with your grave?"
" Shiki has really changed a lot!" Red-Haired Shanks replied with a smile.
"You're very confident, I hope you can maintain that confidence later..."
The words had barely left his mouth when Shiki's blade was already drawn.
" Crimson Heart, Net of Deception!"
An impenetrable slashing wave descended from the sky, blasting towards the Red Hair Pirates.
Red-Haired Shanks drew his sword, Gryphon: "Come on!"
The clouds in the sky were instantly blasted apart by Conqueror's Haki.
The slashes collided with each other, unleashing an even more terrifying shockwave.
Beckman raised his pistol and drew his sword at the same time.
Yasopp's sniper rifle was aimed at Shiki.
The core members of the Red Hair Pirates all gathered their Armament Haki.
Meanwhile, on the Sky Empire's side...
Monet, Blazing Sun, Hermit, Foz-Foe, Seki, Mantis, and Black Maria all landed on the ruins of the island where they had crashed earlier.
"Oxygen Snow - Suffocation Hell!" Monet was the first to strike, unleashing a wide-range negative skill.
Beckman already knew some of Monet's abilities through underground intelligence dealers, so everyone in the Red Hair Pirates was equipped with oxygen tanks.
Nitrogen Snow – Snowflakes Falling on Earth!
Whoosh... Under the Blizzard, the lake on the island was frozen solid in an instant.
After all, the people on the Sky Empire's side are all Devil Fruit User, so Monet naturally wanted to create a terrain that was advantageous to her side.
"Roar!" Seki transformed into his beastman form, the Triceratops.
"Roar!" Foz-Foe also entered beastman form, transforming into a saber-toothed tiger-man.
Blazing Sun led the two men Beckman, and the others to charge forward.
The Hermit raised his rifle, the bullet coated with Corrosion Gas and Armament Haki.
Black Maria unleashed a dense web of spider silk, spreading out in all directions.
The Mantis made a special hand gesture and transformed into a gigantic barrier giant.
Meanwhile, Shiki and Shanks, the main forces of both sides, had already clashed on one of the ruined islands. Shanks' Conqueror's Haki was indeed very powerful, but Shiki directly borrowed Noah's Conqueror's Haki, which was equally powerful.
Although Noah in the Lulusia Kingdom was temporarily unable to use Conqueror's Haki while Shiki was using Conqueror's Haki, Noah's strength was not diminished much by the Strength Fruit. Moreover, his purpose was to buy time so that Shiki and the others could deal with the Red Hair Pirates first.
Although Shanks knew from underground intelligence dealers that Shiki's Conqueror's Haki was extremely powerful, he didn't pay too much attention to it, after all, he had witnessed Golden Lion's Conqueror's Haki back when he was in Roger Pirates.
However, as soon as they clashed, he realized he had underestimated his opponent. Shiki's Conqueror's Haki's Haki was unexpectedly powerful, even suppressing Shanks's prized Observation Haki Killer to the point of being ineffective.
Even more terrifying is that Monet's Suffocation Hell continues to affect the entire battlefield.
Shiki had made thorough preparations.
Before the battle began, he had Luo come over and perform a minor modification on all the personnel who needed to participate in the battle, implanting a breathing bag in their lungs. Inside this breathing bag was a card, namely [ Magic Card: Oxygen Tank].
[ Magic Card: Oxygen Tank] has a very large oxygen storage capacity of 4 cubic kilometers and is set to a slow release mode.
Therefore, none of the Sky Empire participants present needed to inhale oxygen from the surrounding environment, allowing them to engage in high-intensity combat directly in Monet's Suffocation Hell.
This situation directly led to an invisible widening of the gap between the two sides.
As the saying goes, one side gains and the other loses. The members of the Red Hair Pirates are, after all, human beings who need to breathe and eat. Even with their amazing physical strength, they cannot withstand prolonged, high-intensity battles in an oxygen-free environment.
Even though Beckman prepared a lot of oxygen cylinders, it was to no avail.
After all, the difference between an external oxygen cylinder and an implanted oxygen cylinder Magic Card is like heaven and earth.
"Everyone, get away from that Blizzard Monet as soon as possible and head to the beach. They are all ability users..." Beckman shouted to his companions as he unleashed a slash.
Blazing Sun grinned, revealing his white teeth. "Hahaha... Beckman, you do have some brains, it's a pity you're following a stupid captain..."
But Beckman didn't respond at all, instead continuing to yell at his teammates, "Don't waste your breath on them, they're stalling for time..."
" Frenzied Fury Killing Fist!" Blazing Sun's hands transformed into countless afterimages.
A series of fist-shaped, high-temperature shockwaves swept towards Beckman.
"Sword Zen - Deflection!" Beckman brandished his sword, spinning rapidly to deflect the incoming high-heat shockwave.
Boom! Boom! Boom! The shockwaves that bounced off the surrounding ice created a series of large craters, and the intensely hot seawater stirred up thick white steam.
" High-Pressure Steam Fist!"
Using the surrounding high-temperature water vapor, the Blazing Sun quickly condensed into dense, high-pressure, high-temperature water vapor fists, which rushed towards Beckman.
Beckman retreated hundreds of meters, his palm plunging into the ice, lifting up hundreds of meters of ice to form an ice wall that blocked the steam fist.
As the two exchanged blows, they gradually arrived at the ruins of an island to the northwest.
The others, also engaged in fierce fighting, gradually moved to the island ruins in various locations.
Beckman, standing on the edge of the island, showed no sign of relaxation, because there was no oxygen here either.
This is the terrifying aspect of Logia users. Their ability to alter terrain, climate, and environment—a catastrophe-level power—is almost a nightmare for their enemies.
While the Snow-Snow Fruit less effective at lowering temperatures than the Ice-Ice Fruit- Ice-Ice Fruit, it is more convenient for creating and maintaining a large-scale anaerobic environment.
At this moment, Monet did not participate in the battle at all, but instead focused on maintaining the Suffocation Hell, turning an area with a radius of more than 30 kilometers into an oxygen-free human forbidden zone.
Shanks and Beckman, who could have fought Monet, were held up by Shiki and Blazing Sun, and the other members of the Red Hair Pirates were clearly not capable of fighting Monet.
In this situation, if the Red Hair Pirates cannot break through Monet's Suffocation Hell, and once their oxygen tanks are exhausted, they will face utter defeat.