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

The reef beneath Roger's feet shattered silently, but the debris did not fall; instead, it defied gravity and floated into the sky.

Click.

There was a crisp sound.

Roger looked up abruptly and saw pale cracks appearing across the entire sea.

"boom----!!!!"

"Snap, snap, snap!!"

A vacuum cylinder with a diameter of ten meters suddenly exploded on the sea surface, and then the vacuum field suddenly expanded at a speed of a hundred times.

The seawater was forcibly "shaken" into a more fundamental particle state by some force that transcends the laws of physics.

It transformed into a hazy sea of ​​mist, revealing the seabed rock that had not seen the sun for tens of thousands of years.

Even more terrifying, in this waterless abyss, countless pale white cracks began to appear throughout the entire space!

100 meters, 1000 meters, 10,000 meters!!

It was as if an invisible giant hand had forcibly "dug" away the entire sea area, and the seawater was completely pushed aside by the terrifying force of the tremors, forming a huge, bottomless cavity.

Even more terrifying, the edges of this cavity seemed to be fixed by some force, preventing the surging seawater from flowing back in.

It's like creating a vast, water-free "domain" that stretches for tens of thousands of meters!

"How is this possible..." Roger hissed in the violent air currents, a look of shock appearing on his face for the first time.

"Roger—!!!!"

A roar, like the howl of a behemoth from the abyss, shook the seawater at the edge of the vacuum zone, causing it to boil violently.

Immediately afterwards, in the deepest part of this vacuum abyss, a dark shadow was slowly rising.

Furthermore, the cracks spread wildly from the center of this dark figure, instantly covering the entire surrounding airspace!

Each crack flowed with pale, high-frequency vibrations, leaving its mark wherever it passed.

The clouds in the sky were shaken into fragments, and sunlight refracted into distorted bands of light in the broken space.

The sea surface solidified into a strange crystalline state, and the spray remained frozen in mid-air, retaining its splashing shape.

The seabed rock layers undulate and deform like clay being kneaded by an invisible giant hand, forming a shaking mountain range thousands of meters high!

Roger stood there atop the ever-rising, newly formed rock peak, his pupils reflecting the apocalyptic scene.

The physical laws of the entire world are collapsing and reforming around Guern!

"Fruit awakening..." Roger's muscles tensed instinctively. "How is this possible for a Logia-type...?"

"Where are you going?" Gern floated into the air, revealing his muscular body covered in scars.

He casually held the Black Blade Eight Desolations in his right hand, then slowly raised his left hand, palm facing upwards.

The pale cracks within this space simultaneously lit up with dazzling light, and countless spatial fragments began to rotate around him, forming a pale white star ring with a diameter of ten thousand meters.

Immediately afterwards, he clenched his fist.

Suddenly, the star ring contracted, and all the shattered space instantly collapsed!

For a split second, the world stood still.

Birds froze into silhouettes; the blood droplets Roger coughed up hung suspended at his lips; even the wind became stiff silk.

Then—BOOM!!!

The seawater in the vast ocean was shaken into a mist in a fraction of a second, and then reformed into countless giant blades of water in the next moment.

The sky, the sea, and the air all became the mediums of his vibration, and everything in this realm of "world" became his weapon!

Gern stood in the center, like a god who controlled collapse and tremors.

"This battle is not over yet!"

Chapter 193 A World-Shaking Battle!

Within the Earthquake Zone, the air was torn apart into countless tiny particles by high-frequency vibrations, shimmering with an eerie luster under the pale cracks.

Every grain of dust disintegrated in the tremors, turning into tiny fragments of fluorescent light, as if the entire space had been kneaded into a distorted scroll by an invisible hand.

The rock beneath their feet groaned under the weight, cracks spreading like a spiderweb, and boulders defying gravity, levitating and slowly rotating under the pull of pale energy.

Gern hovered in mid-air, his black blade, Eight Desolations, pointing diagonally at the sea. The purplish-black domineering aura wrapped around the blade intertwined with the pale shockwave, writhing like a living thing.

His pupils had turned completely pale white, and each breath he took caused the surrounding space to resonate.

Even sound could not travel; the battlefield fell into an eerie silence, with only the trembling hum of the blades piercing the eardrums.

"Is this... the power of awakening?" Roger's hair fluttered wildly in the raging, domineering airflow.

There was no other way; at this moment, he had to maintain a high level of Haki to avoid being affected by the Heaven-Shatter Fruit.

Otherwise, in this field, if he relaxes his guard even for a moment, this man in front of him can shatter everything in an instant with just a glance!

This is the terrifying nature of Logia-type Devil Fruit awakening!!

From human to a god of rules!

"However, you've only just awakened!" Thinking this, Roger gripped Ace's blade tightly, dark red Haki flowing across the blade like magma.

The rock beneath his feet cracked, and in the instant he leaped up, the ground collapsed with a deafening roar.

His figure transformed into a streak of red light, tearing through the silent air as he hurtled straight towards Gern!

"Divine Evasion!!" The trajectory of the blade solidified into a materialized dark red slash, cutting spiderweb-like cracks into space.

"They're here?" Gern didn't flinch, his left hand clenching into a fist with fingers spread wide—"Heavenly Tremor: Void Shackles!"

"Boom!" Roger's slash stopped abruptly ten meters in front of Gern, as if it had hit an invisible barrier.

The dark red crystal clusters collided violently with the pale shockwave, and the resulting energy turbulence pulverized the surrounding suspended rock fragments.

The pale shockwave left lingering spiral patterns in the air, like frozen lightning.

"Natural systems are a bit troublesome!" Watching Gern control the vibrations of all matter anytime, anywhere without a medium...

Roger grinned, but his face showed discomfort as he felt the force of the impact on his hand.

At the same time, he thought to himself, "It can even interfere with space... I have to get close!"

“Here…” At this moment, Gern suddenly spun around, and the Black Blade Eight Desolations slashed upwards at an angle that defied the laws of physics.

"I'll give you everything!!"

Where the blade passed, space peeled away like glass, revealing the pitch-black void behind it.

"Heavenly Tremor - Boundary Severance!"

Roger's pupils contracted sharply; his Observation Haki foresaw the terrifying nature of this attack, and Ace's sword instantly became covered with three layers of Ryuo Haki.

But just as he braced himself against the slash, the air beneath his feet froze solid, and a chill spread from his feet.

"Crack!" The moment the crystal shattered, Roger used the force to fly backward, sparks flying from the friction of his boots, but in mid-air, his retreat was blocked by twelve pale beams of light descending from the sky.

The beams of light intertwined to form a cage, each one wrapped with high-frequency vibrations powerful enough to shatter an island. The chill condensed into ice crystals, which climbed and grew on the surface of the beams of light.

"Can you still use the freezing ability?" Roger's breath condensed into white mist in the frigid air.

The ground beneath their feet had been frozen into a mirror-like layer of ice by the shockwave, and the chill climbed up their boots, stirring up tiny ice crystals with every movement.

The moment the beam of light fell, it not only caused a deafening roar, but also froze everything it touched.

The air solidified into jagged ice peaks, and the flying pebbles condensed into suspended hailstones in mid-air.

He narrowed his eyes, a domineering aura emanating from the blade, dispelling the biting chill.

"But... do you think you can trap me like this?!" His laughter suddenly exploded, wild and unrestrained, as if even the frozen space was shattered.

Ace's blade tip pierced the gap in the pillar of light, and dark red Haki surged like boiling lava. Even before the blade reached the surface, the terrifying pressure caused spiderweb-like cracks to appear on the pale pillar of light.

"I've dealt with guys who have awakened their Devil Fruits before!!"

Conqueror's Haki erupted, dispelling the effects of the Devil Fruit and creating a safe zone for himself within the Heavenly Tremor Domain.

"Dawn!!" A dark red thunderstorm exploded from the tip of the blade, and the cage of light pillars twisted and expanded under the impact of the domineering aura, finally shattering under the pressure!

The shattered, pale energy scattered like meteors, and the moment it hit the sea, a thousand-meter-high column of water shot into the sky, freezing in mid-air into hideous ice spikes, with countless ice crystals refracting a blinding cold light.

"Is that so? But within my domain, I am omnipresent!"

Gern's voice seemed to come from all directions, but his figure disappeared the moment he finished speaking.

Roger's Observation Haki triggered a frantic warning, and a needle-like chill ran down his spine—behind him!

At the critical moment, he suddenly twisted his body and kicked back fiercely with his heel wrapped in Armament Haki!

"Bang!!" The heel collided violently with the pale claw marks, the shockwave exploded in a ring, the ice shattered, and the rocks floated in the air. Both of them were blasted back dozens of meters at the same time.

But during the process, Gern suddenly spread his arms, and pale shockwaves gathered wildly in his palms. His left hand ignited a crimson blazing star ring, while his right hand condensed a dark blue frost star ring.

Two opposing energies twisted and intertwined in the air, and the shockwaves tore fine cracks in the surrounding space, as if even light was being swallowed up.

"Tribulation Shock - Ice and Fire Purgatory!" He clashed his two palms together fiercely.

In an instant, shockwaves of extreme heat and extreme cold roared out like a raging dragon!

The left half of the battlefield instantly transformed into a molten lava inferno, with the ground cracking, lava erupting, and the intense heat distorting and warping the air.

The right half of the battlefield, however, was frozen into an endless ice abyss, with raging cold air and ice crystals growing like blades, as if time itself had been frozen.

Roger's pupils suddenly contracted. "If you can't dodge... then cut through!!"

He let out a wild laugh, and the Conqueror's Haki wrapped around Ace's sword suddenly erupted. Dark red lightning surged like a raging tide, and he slashed down with his sword amidst the shockwave of ice and fire!

Wherever the blade passed, space was cleaved open, ice and fire shockwaves were torn apart by the domineering aura, and lava and ice shattered in the blade's light.

But the residual impact still sent him flying; his suit froze in the extreme cold and then charred and torn in the high temperature.

Gern's figure slowly emerged from the embers of ice and fire, his pale pupils locking onto Roger, his voice cold and deep:

"No wonder he's the man who made Kaido admit that 'Haki surpasses everything'!!!"

“Indeed astonishing… but in this world, even ‘gods’ must yield to the law of tremor!”

Gern suddenly raised his arms high, palms facing the sky, and pale shockwaves surged upwards like a raging tide.

In an instant, the air over the entire sea area began to tremble violently, and the clouds were torn and twisted by an invisible force, forming a giant vortex with a diameter of several thousand meters at an altitude of ten thousand meters.

The center of the vortex was pitch black, as if connected to another dimension, with countless streaks of purplish-black lightning churning in the clouds, roaring and howling like a raging herd of dragons.

"Shake the heavens..." Gern suddenly pressed his hands down, "Divine punishment!!!"

Rumble——! ! !

The sky collapsed.

Dark lightning poured down like a torrential rain, each bolt carrying high-frequency shockwaves, tearing fine cracks in the space wherever it passed.

A void of darkness seeped from the cracks, swallowing light and sound, and the battlefield instantly fell into an eerie silence and shattered light and shadow.

The sea surface was crushed into huge craters by invisible pressure, the island's rock layers crumbled inch by inch, and the rubble floated in the air, only to be pulverized into dust in the next second.

Roger looked up, his pupils reflecting the black lightning and fissures falling from the sky.

Temperatures at the poles, now even the sky can be manipulated...

Compared to an earthquake, you're practically a natural disaster!!!

……

"Is this the power of perfecting the Observation Haki, which allows one to hear the voices of all things?"

Gern's pupils suddenly contracted as he stared intently at Roger, who was calmly adjusting his posture not far away, his knuckles turning slightly white from gripping the knife so tightly.

"A move like the Consecutive Shock Flash... can be completely predicted after being used a few times."

"Hahaha!" Roger's lips curled into a wild laugh, his eyes blazing with a crimson light.

"It seems you haven't fully adapted to your awakened state yet, Gern!"

Before he finished speaking, the ground beneath his feet exploded with a deafening roar, and his figure, wreathed in crimson arcs of electricity, charged forward like lightning.

"Clang!" Ace slashed down with overwhelming domineering power, and the terrifying pressure of his domineering aura even caused the elemental transformation and even the Devil Fruit ability around Gern to pause.

At the critical moment, he suddenly raised his sword to meet the attack. The Eight Desolations Blade precisely blocked the attack, and countless vibrating particles frantically devoured the impact.