I am the Bandit King of the East Sea.

"Little girl, it's no use."

Rixiong stepped forward, grabbed Weiben's mechanical arm, and casually tossed her away, sending her flying hundreds of meters away.

Thousands of meters away, CP0 Eagle looked at the mountains that had merged back together and subconsciously swallowed.

But after seeing Viben being thrown out by Higuma, he curled his lip.

"What a pedantic sense of justice..."

As CP0 members, they don't really value this kind of justice that doesn't involve killing.

“Simple, we can kill him after the battle is over. Right now, it seems that General Higuma has a clear advantage,” the short, stout CP0 officer next to him replied.

"The prisoners who killed General Higanbana? You're just looking for trouble. I advise you not to have such thoughts."

CP0 Eagle shook his head, then looked at the two mountains that were close together.

"Besides, how could a mountain bandit king die so quickly?"

Before he could finish speaking...

The distant mountain began to tremble once more, as if some terrifying beast was about to awaken beneath it, or like a volcano about to erupt, its terrifying power immediately apparent.

next moment.

Boom!

From the mountaintop, a colossal pillar of black flames shot into the sky, soaring high into the clouds, like a volcanic eruption of black flames.

Amidst the intense, dark flames, Sieg stepped through the air as if on invisible stairs, ascending and emerging bathed in the black flames.

“You’re really strong,” Sig said, lifting his chin.

At this moment, he was covered in mud and gravel mixed with blood, looking very disheveled. Only his face was relatively clean, and his eyes remained calm and composed, without the slightest ripple.

"However, I hereby announce... the battle has entered its second phase, and I'm about to turn the tide."

His hands, the fully covered armament-colored gloves, were torn in several deep rips.

The beating that Higuma gave him earlier would all be reflected in his gloves. It's like a game character with a "clothes-tearing" system; even if he gets relentlessly attacked, his armor will still break down as his health decreases.

Moreover, even with his Armament Haki gloves still largely intact, he couldn't completely block Higuma's relentless attacks. Sig was already severely injured, bleeding profusely from all over his body.

The Japanese bear narrowed its eyes and nodded in deep agreement:

"As expected of you."

He clenched his fists and soared into the sky using the Moon Step technique.

At that moment, Sieg sneered and gently extended his palm.

"Zawarudo!"

Time freezes at this moment.

The black flames surging around Sieg stopped, the birds flying in the distant sky froze, and everything seemed to come to a standstill.

Sig opened his inventory.

Then he took out a big piece of meat and started eating it like crazy.

Chapter 1076 The Limits of the Emperor Engine 1-2

When Sieg suddenly pulled out a large piece of meat and started gnawing on it, even the Sun Bear was taken aback.

"Ah, this..."

While he was still in a daze, Sig had already finished the first big meat stick with the ravenous appetite of a starving dog and started to pull out the second one.

Sig was eating a large piece of meat, but he felt that Sun Bear, who was frozen in mid-air by Moonwalk, was staring straight at him, with no emotion in his eyes.

"Aren't you angry? I healed right in front of you?" Sig asked.

“What’s there to be angry about?” Higuma replied.

"Which powerful being in the multiverse doesn't have some kind of cheat code? Hard work is just a standard requirement; who doesn't work hard?"

Upon hearing this, Sieg lowered his head and then ate even more heartily.

"Card abilities are cheat codes, but Devil Fruits aren't official cheat codes?" Higuma scoffed.

"Even Whitebeard couldn't break through the Barrier-Barrier Fruit's attacks head-on, and the Door-Door Fruit can open a different dimension for refuge... Aren't these powerful abilities that one can possess simply by eating them?"

"With the power of a Marine Admiral, obtaining a powerful Devil Fruit wouldn't be difficult."

"If I could get my hands on a bug-like Devil Fruit like the Toy-Toy Fruit, the Rewind Fruit, or the Ghost Fruit, I reckon I would have already cleared the game."

Higuma's ambition lies elsewhere.

Hearing this, Sieg sighed slightly, then continued to devour the large meat stick.

The creation of the shadow clone Higuma occurred after the events of the True and False Mountain Bandit Kings and the Seven Emperors of Kenzan Island carrying a coffin.

The appearance of the fake mountain bandit king not only attracted the attention of the navy, but also drew the attention of the mountain bandit group, including Baldy, Crocodile, and "Little Crocodile," to come to the rescue.

The bandits plunged into the Navy's encirclement to rescue "Sigurd," who had no choice but to reveal his identity. In the end, he used the Magikarp Card to transform "Krugs," triggering a massive tsunami that crashed through the Navy's blockade, ending the battle and allowing them to leave.

In that incident, Sig saved the bandit gang, and the bandit gang also saved Sig.

However, this also brought back the identity of the Mountain Bandit King to the world, forcing Higuma to give up his identity as a Marine Higuma and return to being the Mountain Bandit King, thus beginning his dangerous and exciting life as a Mountain Bandit King.

There are actually two reasons for the creation of the shadow clone, Higuma.

First, Sieg was reluctant to completely give up his newly established status as a naval captain and wanted to have his shadow clone boost his compatibility.

Secondly, if Higuma had disappeared, then Ain, who was at headquarters at the time, would not have fared well either.

Through repeated interactions, the shadow clone Higuma was born. From the very beginning, Higuma hypnotized him with the determination to train and become stronger. After returning to headquarters, Higuma repeatedly hypnotized himself to squeeze out his own potential.

Therefore, although the shadow clone Higuma is the same person as Sigurd, he has a much stronger obsession with becoming stronger than Sigurd himself.

Ultimately, this indirectly led to the current battle.

The two sides were not engaged in a life-or-death struggle, and the outcome was not important.

To be precise, shadow clones do not have the concept of "death" and are not completely independent individual lives.

As for Sigma, who lived in a different world and took a different path, that's another matter entirely.

All Higuma wanted was a battle against his own body, after ten years of training, to fully unleash his power.

Sieg was well aware of this.

Therefore, at this point in the battle, both sides tacitly refrained from using moves that were considered undignified, such as catching a blade barehanded or the Thousand Years of Death.

"As expected of me, your awareness is truly high..."

Sig looked at Higuma with a sigh, and then he saw...

"Café chili sauce!"

At some point, Rixiong also pulled out a large piece of meat, poured some chili sauce on it, and then started eating it voraciously.

"Wow... it's the same type of ability as mine." Sig exclaimed on the spot.

Without further ado, the two began to eat at an astonishing speed as time stood still and everything froze.

"Ora ora ora ora...."

"Wood big wood big wood big wood big..."

The two of them ate the meat at a rapid pace while making sounds that were difficult to understand.

The inventory is shared. When the inventory time is paused, both sides are like Link eating fifteen meat clubs after defeating a Centaur to low health, and can only perform the mechanical action of "using items" in the inventory interface.

However, relatively speaking, Higuma was at a disadvantage. He suffered less severe injuries, having only been hit by a barrage of bullets at the beginning and then struck head-on by a Viben missile.

While the sun bear was fully healed, Sig was still eating voraciously.

There was nothing Higuma could do... When time stopped, he was unable to fight, so he simply reviewed the battle that had just taken place.

In fact, he still encountered resistance in this battle.

Even after unleashing his [Life Return - Paper Painting Martial Body] form and unleashing a flurry of blows, he still couldn't fully unleash his power.

"It's due to the airflow..." Higuma began.

"You have been secretly using telekinesis to manipulate air currents, that is, wind, to interfere with the battle."

"Including the very beginning, when we used telekinesis to accelerate the bullets... the bullets were silent because we eliminated air resistance through telekinesis."

"However, my movements were constantly affected by the turbulent airflow, which reduced their power."

Sigurd's telekinesis, combined with Veben's Armament Haki bullets, amplified its power. Even Higuma couldn't completely ignore the attack and take it head-on.

And disrupting his attack by using turbulent airflow...that's also crucial.

Wind may seem useless, lacking significant impact, but it can be surprisingly effective when used at the right time.

At a crucial moment in battle, when the enemy is exerting force, a perfectly timed gust of wind might cause them to misalign their force and twist their back.

"You guessed right."

Sig responded.

However, this is not entirely accurate. Due to the presence of Armament Haki gloves, the power of Higuma's attacks is reduced by two levels.

For example, the move that sent him flying into the mountainside: [Six Styles Secret Technique - Fist and Spear - Piercing the Mountain].

When he launched this attack, Sig was unable to dodge, but he managed to conjure a wind shield in front of him using telekinesis. This was of course no match for Sun Bear's attack, but it did reduce its power somewhat.

Sig glanced at the Armament Haki gloves on his hands.

After the battle, the gloves were torn in several shocking ways, turning them into battle-damaged gloves.

Once this thing is completely destroyed, Sig will be gone.

Although this thing can slowly repair itself, the repair speed is obviously far slower than the speed at which the sun bear destroys it.

The power of Sun Bear's attack was astonishing. It shattered the wind shield and cracked the Armament Haki glove. Even after the two layers of reduction, it was still enough to severely injure him, leaving him on the verge of death and emptying his health bar.

"Their telekinetic power is still not strong enough... If they possessed a massive telekinetic power on the scale of Sigma..."

Make bricks without straw.

Sig possessed Sigma's memories and experience, but his strength was significantly inferior to that of Admiral Higuma. He was already quite good at being able to withstand Higuma's Six Powers Secret Techniques head-on with his telekinetic wind shield and Armament Haki gloves.