I am the Bandit King of the East Sea.

"Is this the power of the world's strongest man, Whitebeard?"

Kidd and other supernovas stood dumbfounded in the corner of the battlefield.

"No... Whitebeard may not be the strongest in the world right now." The eccentric monk Urouge glanced at the other legendary pirates on the battlefield.

Mountain Bandit King, Pirate King, Sky Emperor Shiki...

This gave these supernovas a very strange feeling.

These are the remnants of the old era...?

What the hell are these remnants?

These people combined are practically blocking the path to the new world, aren't they?

The strength of the old-era powerhouses has not diminished; they have become terrifyingly powerful. How can these newcomers possibly rise to prominence?

In the original plan of Kid and the other Supernovas, after successfully coating themselves in the Sabaody Archipelago, they would travel to the New World to begin challenging the Four Emperors...

But now, they have foreseen one mountain after another that stands in the way of the new world!

Let alone these rookie pirates, if these legends of the sea were to cooperate and advance or retreat together, even the current Marine Headquarters would probably not fare well.

Unbeknownst to them, the bald man also sighed inwardly.

Roger, Whitebeard, and the enigmatic Golden Lion... it's extremely rare for these legendary figures of the sea to stand on the battlefield together. In the bald man's eyes, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, with the potential to breach the Marine Headquarters.

"If we want to break through the World Government's Holy Land of Liberation and realize our grand plan, the Navy is an insurmountable obstacle that we must overcome. There is no room for maneuver."

"At that time, the world will usher in the dawn."

"How difficult it is to break through the Marine Headquarters head-on! Such an opportunity may never come again, it's a pity that people's hearts are not united." The bald man sighed.

......................

"Whitebeard, how are you feeling right now?"

Sig turned to ask the white-bearded man beside him.

"It's alright." Whitebeard clenched his fist, sensed the power within his body, and truthfully reported:

"I still have the strength to fight now. But if the battle lasts too long, I might not be able to hold out..."

Whitebeard underwent emergency surgery and was regressed 12 years, so he was not fully recovered, and his serious illness was not cured.

He's in relatively good condition right now, but only temporarily. The injuries he sustained can't be fully healed with just a few minutes of emergency surgery.

A figure like Whitebeard needs a strong opponent to restrain him on this battlefield; otherwise, if the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit were fully unleashed, it would cause extremely powerful destruction.

"That's good."

Sig nodded, listening to the bald man's whispers while observing the situation on the battlefield.

I just spent a few minutes fighting Blackbeard alongside Whitebeard, and now the situation on the battlefield has changed again.

Blackbeard was slammed into the sea by Whitebeard, and his twisted and deformed body was torn apart by the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, remaining forever at the bottom of the sea.

The rest of the Blackbeard crew, including fighting champion Burgess, also began to scatter and prepare to escape.

However, the Seven Warlords of the Sea is an individual title, not a title for a pirate crew. Blackbeard's crew members were not Seven Warlords of the Sea, and with Blackbeard's death, their status as pirates became very awkward.

The Whitebeard Pirates see them as accomplices of Blackbeard, and the Navy is unlikely to help them.

As for other parts of the battlefield... Sig's expression changed slightly as he listened to the bald man's explanation.

After Higuma and Ace escaped, the mountain bandits and pirates began to support Luffy, Ace, and the execution platform assault team, and started a great retreat.

Now, this assault team, under heavy encirclement by the navy, has broken through to the central area of ​​the headquarters plaza, and has almost completed half of the retreat.

Once Ace and his crew reach the glacier area and coordinate with the main force of the mountain and sea bandits, they can begin a full-scale withdrawal from the battlefield.

However, the Navy admirals also moved. A dark red figure flashed by. Akainu had given up on targeting Whitebeard. He turned and moved like the wind, decisively rushing towards Ace.

They attacked Whitebeard earlier because a shot from a sniper under Blackbeard shattered Whitebeard's aura as the world's strongest, making the Navy think they had an opportunity to take advantage.

But now, after witnessing Whitebeard's earth-shattering attack, Akainu and the others realized that their opportunity had been lost and Whitebeard was no longer a breakthrough point. So they turned their main attack towards another easy target: the death row inmate Portgas D. Ace and his group.

A dark red figure traversed the battlefield. Akainu's body was half-elemental, and he spewed magma upwards as he approached Ace and the others from the air at top speed.

Meanwhile, a few hundred meters away on the other side.

Clang!

A crisp sword cry resounded across the battlefield as a dazzling, massive cyan sword light slashed through, cleaving the frozen glacier peak of the Azure Pheasant in two. The iceberg fell from the middle, the cut as smooth as a mirror.

Luffy instinctively pulled his arm back, still a little shaken; his arm had almost been severed.

Hawkeye Mihawk blocked their path, the black blade in his hand gleaming coldly.

Just minutes earlier, foil player Vista had fallen into a pool of blood.

Once Hawkeye gets serious, Vista the foil can't stop him.

Hawkeye didn't use his assassin. Every swordsman in the world who could earn his respect was one less to kill, and he had been standing at the top of the world for a long time.

After defeating Vista, Hawkeye drew his sword and looked around, feeling lost.

Although he defeated Vista, Roger, Whitebeard, and others were surrounded by powerful opponents at the time.

Hawkeye longed to fight against figures like Whitebeard and Roger, who stood at the top of the world... but a multi-against-few attack was not what he desired.

As for Sig...

Hawkeye and Sig have clashed several times, and to be honest, none of the fights with Sig have been pleasant experiences.

In the end, Hawkeye did not join the battle to besiege Roger and his crew. Instead, he temporarily pointed his black sword, Yoru, at Luffy and his crew on the battlefield to pass the time.

The title of Shichibukai also saved him a lot of trouble, so he did not openly confront the Navy—of course, he did not care how many Navy people died under the influence of his sword light.

With Hawkeye on one side and Akainu rushing to the scene on the other, the team that stormed the execution platform was still in grave danger.

Sig looked into the distance at Hawkeye and Akainu, but he was also exhausted... to be precise, his clone was still holding Barret back.

A thought flashed through Sieg's mind. With a flick of his wrist, the Boruto manga was materialized and then enveloped in a massive amount of telekinetic energy, hurtling rapidly towards Ace and the others.

He himself stepped onto the clouds and flew towards Eagle Eye, which was hundreds of meters away.

At that moment, a flash of blue light appeared, and Eagle Eye slashed down with his sword, knocking to the ground a bald, monk-like man whose arms had transformed into blades.

He lunged forward, dodging the Queen of the Ivankov's flirtatious wink, while simultaneously slashing at Luffy's back with his sword.

But then a soft clang was heard, and Black Blade Night's downward slash was blocked by some kind of metal weapon.

"Hmm?" Hawkeye raised his eyes slightly and saw a golden metal hook attached to the wrist of a beautiful woman who was smoking a cigar and wearing a coat.

Amidst the billowing yellow sand, Crocdale's figure appeared. She glanced at Mr. 1 lying in a pool of blood beside her, her expression grim.

"Hawkeye, I'm in a bad mood." Crocodile said with a sullen face, exhaling a puff of smoke.

"That's your problem."

Hawkeye was also in a bad mood. On this battlefield at the top of the mountain, he had not found a worthy opponent and could only kill pirates to pass the time.

He quickly sheathed his sword and gathered his strength, then swung it out once more. Facing a Logia-type Devil Fruit user, his black sword, Nightfall, was now imbued with Armament Haki, and he held nothing back.

when!when!when!

Each strike caused the glacier to crack and carved long trenches into the ground. Hawkeye's blade grew faster and faster, while Crocodile's defense was in dire straits.

"Although you are not a swordsman, you are quite good for being able to temporarily stop the world's number one black sword, Yoru."

Hawkeye whispered.

"But that's where it ends."

He held the black sword, Night, diagonally across his shoulders, the world's number one black sword faintly shimmering with a bluish-black light, just as he was about to unleash a slash.

A familiar voice suddenly came from afar and rang in their ears at the same time.

"Crocodile, I've come to save you!"

The two of them paused simultaneously, and their expressions changed slightly.

The difference was that Hawkeye's eyes gleamed with a sharp light, a mixture of anticipation and hesitation. Crocodile, on the other hand, showed a flicker of panic on her face.

next moment.

A figure shot in from afar, riding on a cloud of auspiciousness, and holding a two-meter-long extended version of the greatsword spear.

However... his sword tip wasn't aimed at Hawkeye, but rather at Crocodile!

"Forgive me, Crocodile, this is the last time. I'll be kinder to you next time," Sieg thought to himself.

Faced with Crocodile, a Logia-type Devil Fruit user who was unable to catch a blade with both hands or be harmed by sword light, Li Jing's astonishing swordsmanship, the best in the Shang Dynasty, was fully revealed.

"That person is... Sig!"

"Wait, the person in front of him is Hawkeye Mihawk!"

"Is the legendary duel between the Mountain Bandit King and Hawkeye about to begin again? Will the title of the world's greatest swordsman be decided today?" Countless people turned their heads to look, including many of the sword-wielding marines.

Ten years later, the duel in Loguetown has long become a legend.

The bandit king, who had been living in seclusion in the East Blue for many years, was about to return to the Grand Line when he encountered the world's greatest swordsman, a younger generation.

The two sides clashed instantly, but the outcome remained uncertain. For a decade, countless people have debated this duel.

Ten years later, the duel between Wang Rixiong and Hawkeye in Loguetown did not attract many onlookers, nor did it become widely known among powerful figures.

But now...

Many pirates swallowed hard, and even Vista, lying in a pool of blood, managed to stand up and look around.

Is the real battle about to end?

The greatsword, three or four meters long, charged at high speed, and in an instant, Crocodile was completely shredded into a cloud of yellow sand that danced wildly in the air by the sword light.

The sword light, still possessing considerable momentum, slammed fiercely into Hawkeye Mihawk, who was standing in front of Crocodile.

"This..." Hawkeye's gaze sharpened, and in an instant, the fighting spirit in his golden eyes surged!

Finally... has it finally arrived?

He had waited for ten years, and had encountered and sparred with Sieg several times, but he had never been able to wait for... a true duel between swordsmen!

It is neither an inconceivable sword of the heavens and earth, nor a mysterious flying sword technique!

It is not a sword, but a real sword held in one's hand!