One Piece: The Will of Conqueror is the strongest

Two shadow clones swiftly appeared on either side of Kuzan, flanking him from the left and right, while simultaneously throwing their longswords made of condensed iron sand at him.

"Iron Sand Rain!"

Along the way, the longsword dispersed and condensed into thousands of sticks, which rushed towards Kuzan like a torrential rain.

Kuzan casually waved his hand, conjuring ice shards to block the attacks.

"What an incredibly diverse range of abilities."

"Transformation, clones, flames, energy bodies, and even metal manipulation?"

"What kind of Devil Fruit ability is this?"

Kuzan was a little confused about what kind of Devil Fruit user Brando was.

These clones felt real to him, not illusions, and they could even use other abilities.

"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"

Two powerful fireballs followed.

Kuzan didn't even blink, dodging the attack with a simple Shave. His Observation Haki had been locked onto Brando's main body, having targeted him the moment Brando used Shadow Clone.

He charged straight through the ice towards Brando's main body.

However, he was attacked by a barrage of attacks along the way, including flames, water cannons, and shuriken and kunai made of various iron sand.

At this moment, Brando was like a magic machine gun, constantly using various methods to stop Kuzan.

"I wish I could draw some powerful lightning release techniques."

Brando was completely focused at this moment, not daring to be careless in the slightest.

He's now using this barrage of firepower to prevent Kuzan from getting close. With Shukaku's chakra, he can now wage a war of attrition, unlike when he was dealing with Crocodile.

Crocodile isn't very good at close combat, so Brando needs to get close. Right now, his close combat skills are inferior to Kuzan's, so he needs to suppress Kuzan and prevent him from getting close.

Most vice admirals still possess human-like physical attributes, but when they reach the level of emperors, they become like monsters. Brando felt that these guys, relying solely on their physical attributes and dual-color Haki, could possess Kage-level destructive power.

"You seem afraid of me getting close."

Kuzan also realized this and immediately understood that Brando was not good at close combat.

He also discovered that Brando was using those blood-red eyes to pinpoint his location.

"The Ice Age!"

Kuzan unleashed Ice Age again, but this time he created a large number of giant ice pillars to obscure the view.

Kuzan himself can use elementalization to move quickly among these ice pillars.

"A hegemonic nation!"

The two shadow clones used their own power at the cost of their own lives to unleash the Overlord Technique, which destroyed a third of the ice pillars on the field in one fell swoop.

But Kuzan quickly filled the gap.

These icicles can be made in any quantity, which is nothing to Kuzan, a Logia-type Devil Fruit user. When it comes to consuming resources, Kuzan has never been afraid.

"Damn it, the amount of iron sand being refined isn't keeping up."

Brando himself is extracting metal from the ground from all directions.

At the same time, once the shadow clones are used up, they must be replaced immediately. If there are fewer than three shadow clones, it is impossible to stop Kuzan's attack.

If you weren't a vortex-type constitution, you wouldn't have been able to withstand it long ago.

"Amaterasu!"

Brando didn't hold back either, directly using Amaterasu to release a large amount of black flames to cover the ice pillars, blood tears sliding down his cheeks.

At the same time, when the shadow clone controls the iron sand, it first touches the black flames to enchant them. The scattered iron sand can also spread the black flames, and it will also use fire jutsu to attack the black flames to spread them.

Kuzan also realized this, understanding that once the black flames touched him, he could not get rid of them. So he controlled the ice surface to rise and push it to both sides, constantly moving the black flames away.

"Um?"

"One of them escaped?"

Kuzan sensed with his Observation Haki that a Brando aura was rapidly departing, but Kuzan was certain that this was not the real person. After all, having fought for so long, his Observation Haki could sense the differences between these individuals and the real person.

Brando's main body did not launch an attack, so he controlled his chakra to at least half of its capacity, with the other half distributed among his shadow clones.

Therefore, their aura is stronger, and those with strong Observation Haki can easily distinguish them.

Kuzan ultimately chose not to pursue them because he discovered that these clones were simply energy entities that would turn into smoke after being dealt with, and had no other physical form.

However, Kuzan also discovered that he could still be seen even when he used icicles to block Brando's view, which puzzled him.

"The chakra left in the metal on Kuzan is almost depleted and needs to be replenished."

Brando placed his hands on the broken ice layer of the desert beneath his feet, continuously refining iron sand.

He was able to pinpoint Kuzan's location because the first shadow clone left chakra on the metal of Kuzan's body using Magnet Release.

This allows the Uzumaki clan's sensory abilities to come into play, allowing them to sense Kuzan's approximate location. When Kuzan transforms into an elemental form, the objects on his body are also elementalized, but this also leads to a depletion of chakra.

"If this is all you've got, then it's time to end this fight!"

Kuzan experienced many of Poplando's attacks and found that only the spiraling energy ball that emitted a piercing sound posed a real threat to him.

They can withstand all other attacks.

However, he wasn't sure if the other party had any other tricks up their sleeve, but the fact that one of their auras had just escaped was something he was quite concerned about.

"You're such an arrogant loyal dog."

Brando responded.

At the same time, a large amount of iron sand stained with black flames floated around his body.

Kuzan remained silent, only tensing his body, before charging straight at Brando like a cannonball, forcefully breaking through the powerful dragon fire released by the shadow clone, ignoring the iron sand covered in black flames.

"Has a layer of ice armor formed on your body?"

Brando's kaleidoscope clearly showed the condition of Kuzan's body, and the constantly falling ice blocks shook off the black flames on his body.

The Phantom Body Flicker Technique is useful for beating weaker opponents, but it becomes quite useless when the opponent has extremely strong eyesight or sensory abilities. Observation Haki is very effective against this technique.

Brando didn't want to get close to Kuzan, so he activated the Lightning Release Cells to enhance the reaction, and then used Shave to retreat quickly.

At the same time, the shadow clones also desperately attacked Kuzan.

Seeing this, Kuzan prioritized dealing with the shadow clones. After covering his body with ice armor to deal with the black flames, Kuzan was not afraid of the shadow clones' other attacks. So basically, as long as he got close to the shadow clones, he would kill them with one punch. He even took a hit from a shadow clone's self-destructive Rasengan, only with a little blood at the corner of his mouth.

"They're stronger than me, their bodies can hold up better, and their stamina is greater!"

Brando continued to release shadow clones.

However, Kuzan quickly dealt with it. The Tailed Beast's chakra absorption was not enough to replenish itself, and Amaterasu could not lock onto Kuzan at all. Kuzan's Observation Haki reacted and he dodged it.

"Xiaodu, you're not going to die here, are you?"

Shukaku did not interfere with Brando, but after learning about the situation outside through chakra, he immediately started speaking in a sarcastic tone.

"Ha, I'm going to become the second Sage of Six Paths, how could I possibly fall here!"

Brando has already felt the backlash from overusing his shadow clones; the mental pressure is too great, and his body is also bearing the burden of his shadow clones being constantly destroyed.

If it weren't for his vortex physique, he would have given up long ago.

But he still stubbornly answered Haki Crane.