The natural system started off strong, but the navy finally reached its peak!

The Black Blade Eight Desolations drew a perfect arc, shattering the space in its path as if it were a mirror.

Faced with Gern's slash that tore through space, Roger suddenly twisted his wrist, and Ace's blade drew a dark red lightning bolt through the air.

A domineering arc of electricity danced on the blade, illuminating his unconsciously widened smile.

"What an infuriating guy."

Even so, on this turbulent sea, in this legendary era where heroes rose up...

Only this man before me has grown up so brilliantly that it's impossible to look away!

Undoubtedly, in this era

He, Gern Reginald Sigmar

He is the most dazzling new star on this vast ocean!

"Heavenly Tremor - Collapse of the Boundary!!!"

Roger's pupils reflected the blinding white light of death.

The Haki swirling around Ace's sword suddenly surged, and the dark red lightning materialized from Conqueror's Haki formed a rotating black hole at the hilt, with dark red lightning flowing across the blade.

With a flick of his wrist, the blade slashed upwards, tearing a dark red crack in the space where it passed.

"Clang!!!" The moment the two swords clashed, time seemed to stand still.

The two energies, dark red and pale, formed a clear dividing line at their point of clash.

The dark red, domineering lightning and the pale, fragmented patterns devoured each other, and the resulting turbulent energy flow shaved the ground within a kilometer radius down by three feet.

"As expected!" the two exclaimed in unison, their eyes burning with the same intense fighting spirit.

"Your terminal illness really doesn't affect your strength!" Blood seeped from the mouth of Gern's hand, but he laughed even more wildly: "Roger!"

"You've gotten so much stronger, it's like you've been upgraded to a whole new level!" Roger's lips curled into a long-lost arrogance: "Gern!"

As the two exerted their strength simultaneously, the point of collision first collapsed into a singularity of absolute darkness, and the energy at the point of clash reached a critical point.

Immediately following was a dazzling white light, followed by a deafening explosion.

The shockwave spread out in a spherical shape, knocking both of them back simultaneously.

“Since that’s the case…” Roger shook his numb arm.

The weariness in his eyes vanished, replaced by the sharp edge of the pirate king who once dominated the seas.

"Let this final battle of my life come even more fiercely!"

"As you wish!" Gern slammed the black knife into the ground, his hands forming claws in front of his chest.

Countless pale white points of light emerged from the void and coalesced in his palm into a dazzling, irregularly shaped, undulating white sphere.

And when his energy reached its limit, he suddenly ripped his arms open to the sides—"Heavenly Tremor: Heavenly Prison Gate!!!"

Twelve enormous white halos suddenly appeared in the sky above the entire deserted island, arranged in a circle.

Each halo unleashed a pale beam of light, hundreds of meters in diameter, enveloping the island in a destructive shockwave matrix.

Faced with this scene that resembled divine punishment, Roger's pupils dilated violently, and then he burst into a hearty laugh.

"Hahaha! You...you're really terrifying!" He stomped his foot on the ground, and the reaction force caused a huge crater tens of meters in diameter to explode.

The domineering aura emanating from Ace's sword was condensed to the extreme, and the blade was completely enveloped in dark red lightning.

"Divine Dodge!!!" The moment this slash was unleashed, space was neatly sliced ​​open.

Wherever the dark red blade light passed, even the descending pale beam of light was split in two.

Gern, however, neither dodged nor evaded. He clenched his left fist, wrapping the compressed shockwave around his knuckles.

Pale cracks appeared all over his arm, as if it might shatter at any moment.

"Supreme Hadouken!!!"

The fist and the blade collided again, and this time the impact blasted a huge crater with a diameter of one kilometer into the center of the island.

Seawater rushed in, instantly forming a circular lake.

As the smoke cleared, the two men gazed at each other across the lake.

..........

Immediately afterward, Gern's pupils contracted sharply, and Roger's blade had become a dark red afterimage in his field of vision.

"Faster than Rayleigh!!"

"Once a battle begins, it won't stop easily, kid."

A sharp whistling sound rang in Gren's ears as the air was sliced ​​apart, and he could even feel the Conqueror's Haki boiling over Ace's blade on his skin!

At the critical moment, he suddenly turned to the side, the black sword Hachisō slashing upwards at his left ribs, the hilt colliding with Ace's.

A pale shockwave and dark red lightning exploded in a ring-shaped impact, and flying sparks rained down, melting the rocks beneath their feet into honeycomb-like holes.

"Your 'divine evasion' can't cut through the omnipresent molecules!"

Gern's molecular state trembled and reformed his body. Then, his right leg suddenly swept across, and the boot heel, wrapped in a domineering purple-black axe, chopped down on Roger's knee like a battle axe.

"Is that so?" Roger seemed to have expected this. He used the recoil from the clash of his twin swords to perform a backflip in mid-air, and Ace followed up with a downward slash, the blade grazing Guern's shoulder.

But the aftershock of Gern's kick still tore a hundred-meter-long trench in the ground, and the rubble it kicked up pierced the distant reefs like bullets.

"As expected of someone with Observation Haki at the level of listening to all things..." Gern noticed the knife wound on his shoulder but didn't care at all.

During this battle, his breathing remained perfectly steady, but his heart pounded violently in his chest at a fighting pace, his blood surging like boiling magma!

Suddenly, Gern's left hand formed a claw and clenched into the air, bursting forth with blinding white light from between his fingers.

"Heavenly Tremor - Rift!" Five parallel spatial rifts instantly tore through the atmosphere, and the shockwaves sliced ​​towards Roger's landing point like invisible blades.

Wherever it passed, the earth cracked, and the air was compressed into visible vacuum tunnels.

Seeing this, Roger, who had not yet landed, chose to twist his waist. Ace's blade drew an arc, and dark red Haki unfolded like a curtain, shattering all the shock slashes.

In an instant, the refracted pale white energy slanted into the sea, instantly turning the waves a kilometer away into mist.

"Use my 'Divine Evasion' as a springboard? Not a bad idea!" Roger kicked off the ground the instant his feet touched it, causing the ground to collapse like tofu under the immense force.

His figure had already transformed into a dark red meteor, the tip of his blade pointing directly at Gern's throat!

“And something you’re even more familiar with!” Gern suddenly released the black knife, crossed his arms in front of his chest, palms facing outwards.

"Heavenly Tremor - Mirror Reflection!" A pale shield composed of high-frequency shockwaves appeared out of thin air.

The moment Ace pierced the shield, the shield shattered like glass, but the recoil caused Roger's hand to split open, and blood dripped down the hilt of his sword.

"Got you!" Gern seized the opportunity to lunge forward, his right fist wreathed in a spiraling shockwave as it slammed into Roger's abdomen.

"Black Shock - Vortex Bone!"

Roger's pupils contracted. Instead of dodging, he used Ace's momentum by plunging him into the ground and raised his knee to take the punch head-on!

With a muffled thud, flesh and shockwave collided, his trouser leg shattered instantly, and his calf muscles spasmed from excessive force, but Gern's punch was also abruptly stopped.

In the instant of their stalemate, Roger suddenly grinned, his bloodstained teeth flashing menacingly in the lightning: "You think... I'd fall for the same trick twice?!"

His left hand, which wasn't holding a knife, suddenly wrapped in Conqueror's Haki, and he delivered a chop to Gern's neck!

Gern leaned back to dodge, but still had several strands of his hair cut off.

He used the momentum to draw his sword and flip backward, landing on one knee with his left palm pressing down on the ground, shouting "Heavenly Tremor, Earthly Roar!"

The entire island trembled like a giant drum, countless pale cracks spread from Roger's palm, and the ground beneath his feet suddenly collapsed into an abyss!

"Tsk...!" Roger hurriedly leaped into the air, but Gern's black blade was already slashing down like a shadow, the blade not yet reaching him.

Roger's shirt had been torn open with several bloody marks by an invisible spatial rift!

"Clang!" The moment Espar blocked the black sword, Roger suddenly changed his move, the blade sliding down the edge of the Eight Desolations sword, aiming straight for Guern's finger!

Gern was forced to let go and discard his knife, but he took the opportunity to spin around and sweep Roger's temple with a whip kick.

Roger ducked to dodge, and swung his sword at Gern's waist and abdomen, but the blade was firmly clamped by the opponent's hand covered in Armament Haki!

Their noses were almost touching, and their hot breaths, mixed with the smell of blood, sprayed onto each other's faces.

“Your knife is too slow…” Gern gasped with a cold laugh, blood dripping from the cut on his palm, but it was evaporated into a blood mist by the shockwave before it hit the ground.

Roger's breathing, too, was heavy and labored due to his terminal illness; the sweat on his forehead was instantly vaporized by his domineering aura.

It's impossible to say that a continuous, high-intensity clash of Conqueror's Haki has no effect on a terminal illness!

"You'd better watch yourself! You crazy lunatic..." Roger suddenly roared, and Ace's blade erupted with a final burst of dark red lightning.

Seeing this, Gern retreated decisively, but the blade still sliced ​​through his uniform on his chest, revealing the metallic-looking Armament Haki skin beneath.

The two distanced themselves again, staring at each other across the ravaged battlefield.

The sea breeze, carrying wisps of smoke, swept by. Gern licked his chapped lips, while Roger shook his numb arms.

The boy who couldn't even withstand a single "divine evasion" attack back then is now briefly able to put up a fight that feels evenly matched.

Chapter 191 I saw an incredible future!

The sea breeze, carrying the smoke of gunpowder, swirled above the circular lake.

Gern's right sleeve was already shredded, and his exposed skin was covered with pale cracks.

Each breath causes the cracks to open and close slightly, as if they might burst at any moment, but they are a symbol of an earthquake!

With a smile, Gern slowly raised his left hand, palm facing up, and then his five knuckles clenched together with a sharp "crack".

"Heavenly Tremor - White Vortex!!"

"Boom—!!" The ground of the entire deserted island twisted and creased like a towel gripped by a giant.

Countless pale beams of light, each over ten meters in diameter, burst forth from the ground, instantly vaporizing the rocks in their path.

"This destructive power is outrageous! Damn it." Roger's figure darted rapidly between the beams of light.

Each of Ace's swings precisely cleaved through the core of the shockwave; the moment the dark red blade collided with the pale energy...

The shockwave from the explosion tore his cloak to shreds, and his bare back was already covered with fine bloodstains.

"Is that so? Too bad, it's not over yet!" Gern chuckled, deliberately letting his right hand hang down at his side.

The cracks in that arm had spread to the shoulder blade, but the trembling fingertips were still gathering vibrating particles.

As he slammed his hands into the ground, a visible, pale ripple spread outwards from his palms the instant they touched the soil.

"Heavenly Tremor, Earth-Rumbling Kagura!!!"

The earth was like a blanket lifted up by an invisible giant hand, tens of thousands of tons of rock layers were thrown into the air by the shock waves, and the high-frequency vibrations wrapped around the surface of the boulders made them glow with a dark red halo like red-hot iron.

Roger's pupils contracted sharply, and his eardrums buzzed from the shockwave, but he grinned instead.

"Using my 'Divine Evasion' as a springboard... and now you're using the entire island as a weapon?"

He suddenly slammed Ace upside down into the ground, and the Armament Haki wrapped around his fists began to flow like liquid, with dark red streamers forming spiral spikes on his knuckles.

"Overlord's Corpse - Soaring to the Heavens!!"

Two torrents of fist energy shot into the sky, causing all the boulders rushing towards him to explode, and the flames connected to form a crimson sky.

The aftershocks even pierced through the clouds above, tearing a huge gap in the sky, allowing sunlight to pour down like a waterfall.

But at this moment, Gern's figure had already disappeared from the spot.

"Up there!" Roger suddenly looked up, a purple afterimage still lingering on his retina, but his Observation Haki was already triggering a frantic warning.

High in the sky, the black blade Bahuang that Gern held in his hands was no longer a weapon, but a "spatial rift" enveloped in pale white energy.

The light around the blade twisted into a vortex, and the high-frequency vibrations made the atmosphere emit a mournful cry of impending collapse.

His descent left a vacuum tunnel in the air; before the blade even arrived, the ground beneath Roger's feet had already cracked open in a spiderweb pattern.

"Heavenly Tremor - Eight Desolations... Crack!!!"

"Clang!!!" Roger's ankles sank completely into the rock, hastily blocking the attack.

However, the vibration frequency contained in this strike was far greater than before, and it was unclear whether this was due to the influence of the vibration space or something else.

At this moment, Ace's blade began to bend!

With a crisp cracking sound, Roger was cleaved into the ground by this blade, causing the ground within a radius of a thousand meters to collapse radially.