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

It was as if the whole world had been shattered by that kick!

In other words, our Crocodile was completely twisted from being kicked!!!

"Bang!!!!!" Crocodile was like a cannonball, shooting backward at several times the speed he had used when he was fleeing!

It smashed through layers of floor and walls below, and finally, with a loud bang, it was embedded deep in the ground floor of the stronghold, kicking up clouds of dust!

The entire stronghold fell into a deathly silence once again.

Only Gern slowly descended from the sky, gently dusting off non-existent dust from his trouser legs.

"Take one down."

Chapter 306 Silence

Meanwhile, Doflamingo, using the air passage to escape at high speed,

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Crocodile being kicked into the ground by Gern like a dead dog, his life hanging in the balance, and his heart sank to the bottom.

"Ugh..." he couldn't help but mutter under his breath, his voice filled with fear and resentment, "Couldn't even last a minute?! This useless sand crocodile!"

He finally understood that relying on others to buy time was wishful thinking! Now he could only rely on himself!

Without any hesitation, Doflamingo immediately pulled out his small personal Den Den Mushi from his pocket and growled in the fastest, most urgent tone, "Everyone! Immediately! Right now!"

Scatter and escape! Don't look back! Don't gather together! Every person who can escape is a winner! Assemble at Upside-Down Mountain!

Before he could finish speaking, a chilling sensation that sent shivers down his spine instantly swept over him!

He suddenly looked up.

Suddenly, Gern appeared in front of him like a ghost, almost face to face!

His face still wore that chilling "gentle" smile.

Meanwhile, Gern's right index finger had somehow risen, and the tip of his finger precisely and gently touched the center of Doflamingo's forehead!

The two of them were frozen in mid-air in this extremely bizarre posture.

"Finished the call?" Gern smiled, his tone relaxed as if greeting an old friend. "Then..."

"it's your turn."

The moment the words fell, the tip of Gern's index finger, which was pointing at Doflamingo's forehead, suddenly burst forth with a blinding pale white light!

The highly compressed and condensed high-frequency vibrating particles instantly transformed into a straight, slender, yet destructive pale ray!

"Pfft!" The ray pierced Doflamingo's forehead instantly without any hindrance!

"Ugh!" Doflamingo's body jerked violently as if he had been hit by a sniper rifle, his eyes widened abruptly, and the light in his pupils vanished rapidly.

He lost all strength and fell straight backward, plummeting from the sky.

However, just as his body had fallen less than half a meter, a sudden change occurred!

The body of "Doflamingo," whose forehead had been pierced, suddenly collapsed and disintegrated like a puppet that had lost its support!

It transformed into countless dense, wriggling white threads, which scattered and drifted in the air!

Meanwhile, the true aura of Doflamingo had already appeared hundreds of meters below in a completely different direction, fleeing at an even faster speed!

"Oh?" Gern looked at the slowly dissipating, thread-based clone in the air, and for the first time, a genuine look of surprise and appreciation appeared on his face.

"A line clone? You can use it like that?"

He stroked his chin, watching Doflamingo's disheveled retreating figure, and couldn't help but admire him.

"Your talent for developing Devil Fruits is truly remarkable... You've managed to create so many variations with just a Paramecia-type String-String Fruit."

Although he spoke words of praise, the playful glint in Gern's eyes, like a cat toying with a mouse, only intensified.

Immediately afterwards, his Observation Haki locked onto the aura of the real Doflamingo as he fled.

"No matter how many tricks you use, it won't change the outcome."

Gern clasped his hands together in front of his chest, palms facing each other.

Amidst the buzzing sound, countless violent, irregularly jumping pure white high-frequency vibrating particles were frantically compressed and condensed, instantly forming a white sphere of light that trembled continuously and emitted an aura of destruction!

Immediately afterwards, he pulled his hands sharply to both sides!

The highly compressed vibrating sphere was then stretched and shaped, instantly transforming into a weapon about two meters long.

A pale javelin composed entirely of extreme vibrational energy, its shaft constantly distorting the surrounding light!

With one hand, Gern held the vibrating javelin, which emitted an ominous buzzing sound, hovering it above his head.

Then, he pointed lightly in the direction Doflamingo had fled.

"Heavenly Tremor - Divine Spear!"

"Whoosh!!" The pale javelin vanished instantly!

It's not a traditional physical acceleration, but rather a way of almost distorting space, shooting towards the target along a straight trajectory!

Where the javelin passed, the air seemed to turn into fragile fabric, easily torn apart to reveal visible details.

Like a rag being wrung out in terrifying wrinkles, it then shatters inch by inch under high-frequency vibration, leaving behind a brief, distorted vacuum trajectory!

Almost at the same instant that Gern pointed his finger, the Destruction Javelin appeared out of thin air directly above Doflamingo's head!

Unable to dodge! Unable to block!

Doflamingo only had time to feel a deathly aura descending from the sky, a force powerful enough to freeze one's soul!

He looked up in despair and saw a scene that resembled the end of the world.

The space above him, within a radius of tens of meters, seemed to have turned into fragile glass, covered with dense, ever-spreading cracks!

The ground beneath their feet silently collapsed and disintegrated, forming a perfectly regular, bottomless semi-circular crater!

Doflamingo, on the other hand, was firmly pinned to the spot by the invisible, tremor-like pressure.

Unable to move even a finger, he could only watch helplessly as death approached, his body even began to show double images due to the extreme vibration frequency!

Just at that critical moment, when Doflamingo was about to be completely shattered into the most primordial particles by this "divine spear"...

A cold, steady whisper, seemingly capable of isolating all sound, suddenly rang out at the edge of the battlefield.

"Silence."

An invisible yet incredibly powerful force descended instantly!

A hemispherical, completely transparent field suddenly unfolded at an astonishing speed, precisely enveloping Doflamingo and the tiny area around him!

The moment this realm appeared, everything within it seemed to be muted; all sounds, energy fluctuations, and even rules were forcibly silenced!

The vibrations caused by the divine spear, upon reaching the boundary of this silent realm, revealed an incomparably violent high-frequency vibrational energy.

It melted, subsided, and disintegrated as quickly as ice and snow under the blazing sun!

Before it could completely penetrate the domain, it vanished without a trace, not even causing a ripple!

Doflamingo, who was being suppressed at the bottom of the pit, suddenly felt the terrifying pressure that was enough to crush him disappear!

His body felt lighter, and he instantly regained his freedom. Without time to think, his survival instinct kicked in, and he sprang to his feet.

He flew backwards as fast as he could, his face filled with shock and disbelief at surviving such a close call!

Gern hovered in mid-air, watching the silent domain that appeared abruptly and then vanished just as quickly.

And behind the area, there appeared out of nowhere, wearing a black feather coat and with clown makeup on his face.

Corazon, his fingers lightly touching his lips, a smile playing on his lips.

"It seems the Silence-Silence Fruit really can counteract my vibrations!" Gern stroked his chin.

"Never mind, at least we've achieved our goal."

........

[Comment from Xianyu: From a scientific point of view, sound is a sound wave produced by the vibration of an object.]

If the Silent Fruit can isolate sound, its essence may be that it interferes with the transmission of vibrations or stops vibrations altogether.

The core of the Heaven-War Fruit's power is precisely the ability to generate and control powerful vibrations.

Therefore, in principle, the Silence Fruit could directly suppress or eliminate the vibrations caused by Guern, thus rendering them ineffective.

However, the soundproof barrier of the Silence-Silence Fruit has a limit, just like the domain created by Law's Op-Op Fruit was shattered by Blackbeard.

In other words, if Gurn's "Spear of God" had been thrust directly into Doflamingo instead of detonating in mid-air, the Silence-Silence Fruit would have had no chance of eliminating the power.

In other words, the Silence-Silence Fruit does indeed fundamentally suppress the generation of vibrations in its power principle (just like how it protected Doflamingo from vibrations in the story above).

However, it cannot be completely ineffective, since the damage already caused cannot be erased.

Of course, it's also possible to develop it to its fullest potential, since One Piece is a world based on idealism.

However, the Silence-Silence Fruit would clearly be a greater counter to ability users who rely entirely on sound.

Chapter 307 Success

Watching Corazon use the barrier created by his Silence-Silence Fruit powers to cover Doflamingo's hasty escape.

Instead of continuing the pursuit, Gern slowly descended from the sky.

At that moment, Hawkeye, carrying the black sword "Night," walked over from not far away.

He glanced in the direction where Doflamingo and Corazon had disappeared, and said in his usual calm tone, "Wouldn't this be too obvious?"

"Obvious? To ordinary people or fools, perhaps." Hearing Hawkeye's words, Gern couldn't help but chuckle and shake his head: "But our Doflamingo..."

He's a smart man, and a very suspicious one at that, a smart man who likes to complicate simple things.

At this point, Guern stretched: "The more coincidental or deliberately arranged something seems, the more the overthinking brain of him will come to the opposite conclusion."

Doflamingo now firmly believes that his 'clumsy' yet 'deeply loving' younger brother...

It was in a critical moment, risking his life, that he unleashed astonishing potential to save him from the 'natural disaster.'

“And me…” Gern shrugged, making an arrogant yet helpless expression, “Please! I am ‘Skyquake’ Gern!”

A madman who doesn't even respect the World Government, outwardly obeys the Marine Headquarters but inwardly defies it, and is so lawless that he dares to abuse the Celestial Dragons!

In my eyes, what is Doflamingo?

Is it worth me going through all that trouble to put on a show just to pave the way for his brother? This is an insult to my public image!

Gurn, mimicking Doflamingo's possible thought process, laughed and said, "So, not only will he not doubt it now, but he will also be extremely grateful to Corazon, and his trust level will be at its maximum."

After all, that 'divine spear' I just fired, even though it exploded in mid-air, I actually used 30% of my strength!

If it weren't for the Silence-Silence Fruit's ability to temporarily soothe the aftershocks of the tremor, Doflamingo would have been finished long ago.

Seeing Gren's smug, vain, and boastful appearance, Hawkeye expressionlessly looked away; he simply couldn't bear to watch.

This guy can be just as awful and narcissistic as he is at times, as absurd as his abilities.

At this moment, as if suddenly remembering something, Gern looked around and asked, "By the way, where's our '50/50'?"

"Fifty-fifty?" Hawkeye was puzzled by this strange term.

“Ah, it’s Crocodile, that guy,” Gern explained.

"Look at him, he can hold his own against Whitebeard, he can hold his own against Barrett, and he can even exchange a blow with me (although he got instantly killed). Isn't that a 50/50 match?"

Hawkeye: "..." (Incomprehensible yet deeply shocked.jpg)

He thought for a moment and replied calmly, "He escaped. The moment he hit the ground before you landed, he turned into quicksand and disappeared underground. He was very fast."

"What?!" Gern was shocked, his eyes widening in disbelief. "No way? That kick to his head was a real one!"

He didn't use any overwhelming power, but the vibrations were definitely there! Logically, his brains should have been smashed to pieces! How could he get up and run away?!

He stroked his chin, a look of extreme interest on his face: "Tsk tsk tsk... Sure enough, the nickname '50/50' isn't for nothing; he really does have something going for him!!"

Hawkeye watched as Gern praised Crocodile's ability to escape, then silently pulled his hat brim down again.

Being with this guy always brings about things that... refresh your understanding of the world.

.........

Meanwhile, on the vast blue sea, an inconspicuous little boat gently bobs with the waves.