The golden light shattered the cliff, sending countless rocks flying in all directions. The sheer force of the explosion drew the attention of all the Marines who had come with Kizaru.
Everyone was stunned by what they saw.
"What's going on?!"
"Did they start fighting?"
"So, that Uya really is a pirate!"
Several naval soldiers, watching the terrifying explosion—more terrifying than a cannonball exploding—couldn't help but swallow hard.
Someone instinctively suggested, "Should we go and support Admiral Borsalino?"
Upon hearing this, some of the surrounding navy personnel immediately looked at the sailor as if he were an idiot.
Didn't you see that terrifying momentum? Going there isn't about providing support; it's about courting death.
Moreover, Kizaru is a Marine Headquarters Admiral and the Marine Headquarters' top combat force. That Uya, although he seems to have fought Hawk-Eye to a draw, is no match for Kizaru.
"Not bad speed. Can you dodge my attack?" Kizaru said with a smirk as he watched Uya evade his attack.
"However, I am, after all, a naval admiral, and I cannot let you run wild, otherwise I would lose all face, so..."
Kizaru was taller than Uya. All three admirals of the Navy were very tall, so his gaze towards Uya had a somewhat condescending quality.
In the next instant, Kizaru's body suddenly transformed into a beam of light, rising abruptly into the sky, his hands waving in front of him.
Buzz!!
A dazzling golden light gathered, as if transforming into a sun in the sky, followed by countless golden rays pouring down like a storm.
"Eight feet... a jade Tomoe!"
"Are they finally getting serious?"
Uya gazed calmly at the sky, watching the dazzling golden light pour down. His eyes flashed, and he simply swept his sword horizontally.
Uya's Sword Intent is an invincible Sword Intent that is even more domineering than Hawk-Eye's; with one strike, I am invincible.
Such Sword Intent is not something that ordinary people can possess. Even the kings of this sea would find it almost impossible to have it, and even the world's greatest swordsman, Hawk-Eye, is no exception.
Only Uya, who has reached the pinnacle of the world, stood atop the sky, and become a god, possesses such invincible Sword Intent.
Uya's Sword Intent is all-encompassing, with no retreat and no defense!
Because he never needs to defend himself!
Even when faced with Kizaru's frenzied attacks with the Yasaka Magatama, Uya showed no intention of defending himself. Instead, he swept his sword horizontally, sending the sword energy soaring into the sky.
Boom! Boom! Boom!!!
The golden sword energy and Kizaru's laser kept colliding, creating countless explosions and roars, a scene resembling the end of the world.
Although this is an island located in the latter half of the Grand Line, a battle of this magnitude is not something that can be seen casually. The civilians on the island are all watching this scene with expressions of shock.
Some people recognized the golden laser, or rather, they recognized Admiral Kizaru.
"This... isn't this Marine Headquarters Admiral?! What's he doing on this island?"
"A Marine Admiral has personally intervened; could it be that one of the Four Emperors is on this island?!"
Watching the terrifying roar of the explosion in the distance, with its aftershocks rippling outwards, even some well-informed people showed expressions of shock and disbelief.
Aside from the Four Emperors, there are almost no people who can command the personal attention of a Marine Admiral!
Between heaven and earth, golden light connected in a line, constantly exploding.
Uya's sword blocked most of the laser beams, but a small portion still managed to pass through Uya's Uya energy and land on him.
Kizaru clearly hadn't expected Uya to choose to confront his attack head-on. He had only intended to scare Uya and show Uya that a White Sea Admiral was not someone to be trifled with.
"Oh dear, this is terrible. He probably won't die, but if we take him back to Marine Headquarters, Mr. Sengoku will probably be unhappy."
As he spoke, Kizaru stopped attacking, scanned the area with his Observation Haki, and sensed that Uya was not dead, so he landed back on the ground.
However, upon landing on the ground and seeing Uya's appearance, Kizaru's expression faltered slightly.
The scene I had imagined— Uya lying there covered in wounds—did not occur. On the contrary, Uya didn't have a single scratch on her body!
"How terrifying! Could it be Logia Devil Fruit user?!"
Seeing this, Kizaru's eyes widened. Although his tone remained lewd, his gaze finally turned serious.
Logia Devil Fruit users are almost never weak; they can become very strong with just a little development. Even someone like Smoker, with his Smoke-Smoke Fruit, was practically invincible in the first half of the Grand Line, where almost no one used Haki.
"Is that all?" Uya asked Kizaru calmly, his sword still held horizontally in front of his chest.
"Since he's Logia Devil Fruit user, then I really have to take this seriously. This is no joke."
Kizaru's gaze became slightly more serious. He stopped using laser attacks from a distance and suddenly appeared in front of Uya in a flash. With incredible speed, he raised his leg and kicked at Uya.
"Speed is power. Have you... ever been kicked at the speed of light?"
Even under these circumstances, Kizaru couldn't shake his carefree and irresponsible personality, still speaking and attacking in a lewd tone.
Upon hearing those familiar words, Uya's lips curled into a slight smile. He simply neither dodged nor evaded, letting Kizaru kick down.
boom!!!
Kizaru kicked Uya, but it was as if he had kicked thin air; the kick passed right through him, and a golden light blasted into the distant ground, creating a deep crater.
"Huh?!"
Seeing this, Kizaru couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, because he had used Haki. Even if Uya was Logia, it was impossible for him to pass through directly. At most, Uya would have to use Haki to clash with him head-on.
Before Kizaru could react, Uya in front of him slowly disappeared!
It was clearly an afterimage!
"What?!"
Upon seeing this, Kizaru was immediately horrified. Using his Observation Haki, he tried to retreat, but it was too late.
If there is any speed faster than light, then without a doubt... it's the power of space!
The next moment, a sentence that Kizaru knew very well appeared in his ear, and the tone was also slightly mocking.
"Speed is power, so... have you ever been Space Slash?"
laugh!!
Silently.
It was as if this world had been transformed into a scroll painting, which was suddenly cut in half, with the top and bottom sections abruptly separated.
Kizaru's body, with his upper body on top and his lower body below, was directly split in two by this misaligned heaven and earth!
Without a sound, Uya's figure seemed to step out of the void and appear behind Kizaru, Kizaru face showed a look of shock and disbelief.
The disjointed world paused briefly before returning to normal, as if the scene just now had been a complete illusion.
But Kizaru's body was indeed split in two!
Kizaru's two halves of his body crashed to the ground simultaneously, but in mid-air they transformed into golden light, flashed briefly, and then retreated to a distance.
"This, this is..."
Although Kizaru, who had recovered, appeared to have no visible injuries, his face bore an undisguised look of horror.
This was the first time since he obtained the Glint-Glint Fruit that someone had launched an attack that caught him completely off guard!
This is simply unbelievable!
" Elementalization is truly a wondrous power. It seems that only attacks using Armament Haki or those with opposing attributes can strike a physical object; otherwise, even spatial manipulation won't work."
Seeing that Kizaru had returned to normal and was not injured, Uya had a thoughtful expression on his face.
That Space Slash just now wasn't done by him with his sword. His power hasn't fully recovered yet, and he can't shake space.
That Space Slash was an ability he activated after his body became Intangibility and merged into space.
"..."
This time, Kizaru was no longer nonchalant; there seemed to be a bead of cold sweat on his forehead. Even though Uya's attack hadn't hurt him, it had still frightened him quite a bit.
Unless he's deliberately toying with ordinary pirates, where he might intentionally let them attack him a couple of times, he would never intentionally allow himself to be attacked by someone like Uya, or even any pirate in the New World who knows Haki.
He had absolutely no intention of being attacked by Uya Uya, but he was attacked anyway. Neither his speed nor his Observation Haki was of any use.
This completely terrified him.
If Uya's attack just now contained Haki, wouldn't it have completely cut him in two and killed him outright?! (To be continued.)