Sky Empire.
The battlefield is a ring-shaped abandoned island in the southwest of the Torrent Province.
After a day and a night of fierce fighting, neither side has suffered any casualties.
As soon as Yasopp dodged a corrosive bomb, he felt a deadly threat loom over him, and he quickly retreated several hundred meters to the left and rear.
However, that danger still looms large.
The next moment, his eyes widened.
With a snap, several cracks appeared in the body of his last oxygen cylinder, and in no time, all the oxygen inside leaked out.
'This is bad! I clearly dodged their attack, so why was my oxygen tank destroyed?' Yasopp was completely baffled, but he knew he had to get there as soon as possible to meet up with Beckman and the others.
He raised his sniper rifle and aimed at the Hermit approaching in a raging storm.
Click!
'Nani?'
The sniper rifle's trigger broke off.
His expression changed, and he quickly pulled a pistol from his backpack.
Click! The pistol malfunctioned as well.
"Too late!" The Hermit had already appeared not far from the Yasopp.
Before Yasopp could even process why his pistol was corroded, he swiftly drew a dagger from his belt, imbuing it with Armament Haki.
" Hermit - Light Corrosion!"
"Ah..."
The sudden, intense flash of light instantly blinded Yasopp.
Yasopp, whose physical skills were already relatively weak, was struck by the Hermit's palm, and immediately Armament Haki mixed with Corrosion Gas rushed into Yasopp's internal organs and bones.
*Pfft! Hermit then slapped his hands together, sending a terrifying Corrosion Gas into Yasopp's body.
"Ahhh..."
Sizzling sounds... A moment later, Yasopp was covered in white smoke. His skin first swelled up, then deflated like a punctured balloon, and finally even his bones were completely dissolved.
The Hermit looked at the completely dead Yasopp, his face showing no emotion.
In order to kill this guy, he deliberately entangled with him for a whole day and night, secretly eroding his equipment through continuous light and air corrosion.
After all, Yasopp's Armament Haki is limited, so he would definitely prioritize protecting his body and the sniper rifle in his hand, leaving almost no protection for other items. This gave the Hermit an opportunity to ambush him.
The first member of the Red Hair Pirates to fall has appeared.
In mid-air, Shanks, who was locked in a fierce battle with Shiki, sensed Yasopp's death and a look of sadness and anger appeared on his face.
"This is what happens when you overestimate yourself!" Shiki unleashed a barrage of slashes without any mercy.
At this moment, Shanks was filled with regret. After a day and a night of fighting, he had basically figured out Shiki's strength. Even with the added power of Conqueror's Haki, he was still struggling against Shiki, having lost an arm.
" Shiki! Take this! Divine Departure!"
"Kid, you're not Roger! Crimson Heart Godslayer!"
Boom! A ruined island was shattered and then slowly sank into the sea.
Shanks flew backwards, landing on the ice, and the reaction force shattered hundreds of meters of ice.
Supporting himself with Gryphon, Shanks' forehead was covered in cold sweat, and his chest heaved. "Huff, huff..."
However, he quickly pulled out his Den Den Mushi: " Beckman, in the captain's name, I order a full retreat! I'll cover the rear! Execute the order!"
"Hahaha, kid, you want to leave now? Isn't it too late? None of you are leaving today!" Shiki descended from the sky, looking down at Shanks.
Shanks gripped Gryphon tightly, his Conqueror's Haki surging. " Shiki, if I choose to die with you now, you might survive, but the rest of the Sky Empire might not."
"You overconfident brat, have you ever seen my true power?" Shiki took the cigar from his mouth, his gaze calm yet tinged with a mocking sneer.
"?" Shanks was speechless. He didn't know how to answer for a moment. After a day and a night of fighting, he believed that he had a clear understanding of Shiki's power.
Shiki stubbed out his cigar, then sheathed Oto and Kogarashi, exuding Haki.
Shanks sensed a deadly danger with his Observation Haki: "This..."
'Divine Arrival - Hundredfold Power!'
Boom! Shanks' pupils contracted sharply, his body twisted like a boiled shrimp, and his internal organs were ruptured and collapsed by the violent force.
"Pfft!" As he flew backward, Shanks spat out blood.
Boom! His body was slammed into the glacier, hundreds of meters deep.
At this moment, Shanks felt as if every cell in his body was screaming, his internal organs were wailing, and his bones were shattering.
"Cough cough... How is it possible... to have such power..."
"Frog in a well! Die! Perish with your ridiculous ideas! Absolute Killing Fist!"
The air was filled with punches, like meteorites crashing onto the earth.
With each punch thrown.
The earth and glaciers will crack even more.
The sea and islands within hundreds of kilometers around were trembling slightly.
Even Morgans, who was watching the live stream, was dumbfounded. He was just as shocked as everyone else watching the live stream. Shiki's most powerful technique was not swordsmanship, but his fist, which represented absolute power.
Shanks, who was at the center of the attack, was now powerless to resist, and his Armament Haki and Conqueror's Haki were rapidly fading with each punch.
In less than three minutes, Shanks had taken more than a hundred punches from Shiki.
The bones were completely pulverized.
The flesh was almost completely rotten.
The internal organs were completely dismembered.
Shiki stopped attacking, glanced coldly at the dead Shanks, deactivated his Divine Descent Mode, picked up the Great Grade Sword Gryphon, and casually manipulated the surrounding glaciers to bury the guy completely.
On one side of the battlefield.
Just as Beckman was about to notify his companions, he felt a Vivre Card in his pocket burst into flames. He pulled it out and immediately felt a chill run down his spine. "How is this possible?"
He then looked up into the distance and saw that Shiki had floated back into the air, and the Vivre Card in his hand had burned out. A sense of despair instantly enveloped Beckman's heart.
"Hehe, it seems your captain is finished!" Blazing Sun walked over from not far away with a smile.
"Sword Zen: Bloodshed!"
"Hot Wind - Turning the World Upside Down!"
The ambient heat around Blazing Sun's body changed rapidly in an instant, causing the atmosphere to become chaotic and the airflow to become extremely strange.
Beckman's slash was like a blow into a swamp.
"I can already foresee your death..."
As soon as he finished speaking, more than a dozen steam dragons enveloped Beckman.
"Sword Zen: Death Ground!"
Beckman gripped his longsword tightly and approached Blazing Sun, his eyes fixed on Blazing Sun with a death-defying resolve.
" Great Expansion!" The heat within Blazing Sun's body was released instantly, and a terrifying heat shockwave swept out in all directions.
Sizzle...
Despite being covered in Armament Haki, Beckman still couldn't completely withstand the heat shockwave that reached several thousand degrees Celsius, but his inner will compelled him to grit his teeth and persevere.
"Trying to die together? That's not a good choice!" A maniacal smile crept across Blazing Sun's lips, " Great Heat Death!"
Beckman's knife.
The fist of the Blazing Sun.
In that instant of collision, the Great Grade Sword, imbued with Conqueror's Haki and Armament Haki, was shattered to pieces by that crimson Iron Fist.
The fist, which destroyed the knife, struck Beckman in the chest the very next second.
Boom! Beckman's body flew backwards for hundreds of meters. During the flight, his body seemed to enter a boiling, chaotic state until it finally vanished into thin air.
This is the Blazing Sun's ultimate killing move - Great Heat Death.