I am the Bandit King of the East Sea.

Roger drew his sword, his eyes sharp, ready to strike.

"You're being too naive. I won't hold back."

Roger leaped into the air, his movements as swift as lightning, and slashed his long sword toward Sigma from afar.

"hostage?"

Sigma chuckled.

"You're so naive..."

Facing Roger, who charged forward with his sword drawn at lightning speed, Sigma stood still and moved slightly, simply extending his palm.

Clang!

A crisp sword sound suddenly rang out from afar, followed by a long sword that pierced through the air like lightning and landed in Sigma's palm.

Sigma gripped his longsword, his eyes slightly unfocused.

However, a large part of his memory was missing, and he couldn't recall it no matter how hard he tried.

In Sigma's mind, he was still stuck ten years ago, before the war of the Fifty-Six Emperors.

Compared to his past self, Sigma noticed a significant and inexplicable increase in his telekinetic abilities. His reputation as the Mountain Bandit King had reached an unparalleled level, his power had grown considerably, and he had even subdued space pirates with interstellar travel capabilities...

These things are quite unfamiliar to him, having had ten years of his memories removed.

But the sword in his hand was an exception.

"It's probably been ten years since I last held a sword, old friend."

Sigma looked at the straight-bladed longsword in his hand, a look of reminiscence in his eyes.

Chapter 977 The Mountain Bandit King's Lifelong Enemy

Sigma has no memories of the last ten years in his mind.

He hadn't used a sword in at least ten years, but in his memory, it felt like it was just yesterday.

"Forget it, I don't want to."

At that moment, Roger's sword was already slashing at Sigma's face.

Facing Roger's rapidly slashing sword, Sigma made a fist with his left hand and used telekinesis to manipulate the one-armed Bucky to float in front of him, as if he were taking him hostage.

But in the next moment.

Sigma slashed forward with his longsword, the blade cleaving Bucky's head in two, meeting Roger's longsword head-on!

A crisp sound rang out!

The dazzling sword light that erupted in an instant flashed like lightning. A wave of energy swept out from the swords, causing both swords in their hands to tremble. Bucky, who had been cleaved in two by Sigma, was shredded into pieces of flesh.

However, the mass of flesh was still affected by the invisible force and could not break free. Instead, it reassembled into a human shape.

Buggy's Chop-Chop Fruit ability is the opposite of the Gum-Gum Fruit. The Gum-Gum Fruit is immune to blunt force, while the Chop-Chop Fruit is immune to slashing attacks.

This is similar to the elementalization ability of the nature system, but not entirely the same.

Logia-type Devil Fruit users have no physical body after transforming into their elemental form, so they are not afraid of physical attacks. However, as long as Armament Haki is applied, it is possible to grab the physical body of a Logia-type Devil Fruit user.

However, the body of a person with the ability to tear apart is a physical entity, so even if it is cut apart a thousand times by a slash imbued with Haki, it will not be harmed.

But under the influence of telekinesis... even when Buggy's body is torn to pieces, he still cannot escape the invisible restraints and can only be slashed repeatedly, constantly returning to human form.

Ta-da!

The clanging of swords clashing was incessant, and dazzling sword lights crisscrossed and slashed open.

The two clashed back and forth on the boundless land, their figures flashing by and creating a gust of wind. Their speed was so fast that the pirates present could hardly see them with their naked eyes.

All they heard was the clanging of swords, and crisscrossing ravines appeared on the boundless land, the earth groaning beneath their feet.

But Roger grew increasingly confused as the fight progressed. He glanced at Sigma and Bucky in front of him, unable to understand what was going on.

This is clearly not about taking Pakistan hostage.

In that brief exchange...the two of them completely ignored Bucky, showing no intention of holding back at all.

This indicates that Sigma is also very familiar with the Chop-Chop Fruit's abilities, and he cuts without hesitation when necessary.

This is not how hostage taking should be done.

“Every time Sigma strikes, he has to cut Bucky first… Is this to show that even if he’s multitasking and suppressing Bucky, he’s still powerful?” Roger felt a surge of anger.

laugh!

In the brief moment of his distraction, Roger was forcefully cleaved back by the sudden, dazzling sword light, staggering dozens of meters before landing on the ground in mid-air.

"His nose hairs have all turned white; he should have been enjoying his retirement long ago. Why bother getting involved in this mess?"

Sigma leaped forward, and as his sword flashed once more, a surge of psychic power, like an invisible wall, pressed down on Roger from all sides.

Boom!

Roger had no way to avoid this sword strike. As he was about to raise his sword to meet it, he was squeezed by a wall formed by telekinesis. He and his sword were cleaved apart by Sigma's sword, and a wide trench split open in the ground beneath his feet. He and his sword were cleaved into it.

"Lion's Might - Earth Strike!"

At that moment, the roar of the golden lion also emerged from the side.

The newly split earth quickly closed up again, and a series of lion-headed mountain peaks roared out from the abyss below, with Roger, who had just been cleaved off, standing atop one of the lions' heads.

“Your time is long gone,” Sigma whispered. “Give up.”

At that moment, a powerful psychic force, like a mountain collapsing and a tsunami crashing down from afar, seemed to suddenly bear an immense pressure as heavy as a mountain, and shattered in an instant.

Immediately afterwards, another bright sword light flashed across the sky and earth like lightning.

Crack, boom.

The wide ravine beneath their feet had only closed halfway when it was cleaved open again by a massive sword light amidst another tremor, and the entire earth trembled and groaned.

Boom boom boom!

Sigma simultaneously employed his formidable swordsmanship and telekinesis, effortlessly cleaving the earth with every move. His sword flashed, wielding its power across the boundless earth, causing skyscrapers to collapse and the earth to tremble, displaying unparalleled might.

At the same time, from the corners of the city ruins, spears flew through the air from afar, their tips gleaming with a cold light.

After subduing the space pirates, the moon can be said to have become Sigma's base of operations.

Previously, they had prepared a large number of Seastone spears in Loguetown to deal with Lox and his men, so there was no problem with them here.

With the crisis of the asteroid impact averted, the battle, which had been briefly suspended, has resumed and is rapidly escalating, with the bandits gaining a significant advantage.

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

At the height of the war.

In a corner of the battlefield, inside an abandoned high-rise building, Sieg's figure emerged.

"Eaten by the Lord of the Near Seas again, that's truly a mortal enemy... Why did I say 'again'?"

Another death has reduced the power of cause and effect by 3 units, leaving 4 points remaining.

Sieg shook his head and refocused his attention on the battlefield, especially on Sigma.

At this moment, Sigmar was unmatched. Using swordsmanship and telekinesis simultaneously, and manipulating the seastone spear through telekinesis, he was essentially fighting both Shiki and Roger single-handedly in a short period of time.

Sig watched this scene from afar, his mind filled with doubt.

"In short, let's assume Dracula is dead."

"This may be related to the last ten years, which were not mentioned in the second will."

The date on the will ended before the Battle of the Fifty-Six Emperors.

That time, it should have been the first time that the Mountain Bandit King Sigma arrived at the Infinite Land. Here, he not only fought against the Fifty-Six Emperors, but also clashed with so-called extraterrestrial beings... which probably refers to space pirates from the deeper reaches of space.

If Dracula died in that battle, then the current Sigma is just an imposter... This seems plausible.

But at this moment, Dracula was clearly using the severed-armed Bucky to unleash the powerful swordsmanship brought by Li Jingka, which was obviously a characteristic of the shadow clone and Sigurd himself, and no one else could impersonate him.

Even now, he still doesn't know what Sigma's current situation is. His behavior is full of contradictions, and Sigma is finding it difficult to judge.

The light screen unfolded before him, and Sig began to examine the cards while pondering a strategy... Finally, his gaze fell upon the chuunibyou card.

Chapter 978 The Final Battle, The True and False Mountain Bandit Kings 2-3

On this battlefield of the boundless land, the restrictions on Li Jing's swordsmanship were completely lifted, and Sigma displayed astonishing swordsmanship skills, with each strike possessing the formidable power to split mountains and shatter rocks.

Aside from Bucky being caught off guard by Sigma's presence, which is somewhat jarring, this is clearly a climactic battle across the infinite land.

Of all those present, only Sieg understood the underlying meaning.

Sigma's every sword strike wasn't actually aimed at Roger or Shiki, but at Bucky, the one-armed man he had kidnapped.

He had already done this before.

Long before time travel, during the Impel Down wars before the creation of Dracula's shadow clone, Sigurd had used this technique on Crocodile.

The only difference between the two is that... Crocodile won't cooperate with Sig; he can only sneakily stab her from behind. The direction and angle of the attack are not determined by Sig, but entirely by their positions.

And what about Bucky in Sigma's hands?

Sigma doesn't care about Bucky's personal wishes at all.

Under the control of telekinesis, Sigma would use telekinesis to grab Bucky and block the direction from which Roger and Shiki's attacks came, before slashing at them with his sword.

Compared to Sig's operation, Sigma only has two more things.

First, he possesses extremely strong telekinesis, which allows him to completely suppress Bucky. He can move Bucky wherever there are enemies, making him a tool without any blind spots.

Secondly, his standards are even lower. Sigma acts without any restraint as a strongman. He directly grabs Bucky, an enemy much weaker than himself, without caring about the opinions of others. Bucky is powerless to resist.

"Without a doubt, Sigma used a technique I've used before... So, who exactly is he?"

Sig suppressed his doubts and began to think about strategies to deal with Sigma.

The pitch-black flames have caused each of the current four stages to progress in turn, with the scope of their impact on reality deepening with each stage.

The first stage features pure fire effects, the second stage adds the energy annihilation wave-countering ability, which can damage the elemental bodies of Logia-type Devil Fruit users, and the third stage adds environmental destruction.

The fourth stage adds the ability to explore the mental world to the [scene destruction] effect of the third stage, with the effect being "If you believe, it exists; if you don't believe, it doesn't."