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

In an instant, the azure seawater was completely cleared away, revealing the damp seabed below, which was filled with trenches and reefs!

At the very moment this underwater battlefield was formed, Gern, high in the sky, was not idle either.

First, without hesitation, he hurled the Black Blade Eight Desolations high into the air.

He then quickly brought his hands together in front of his chest, spread his fingers, and pointed his palms at the white beard below!

Then, he gently clapped his hands together!

"Skyquake - Airspace Collapse!"

Centered on Whitebeard, within a radius of one kilometer, the internal "structure" of everything—from the newly exposed seabed and the remaining seawater to the air itself—was forcibly detonated at this moment!

The space seemed to transform into a massive, cracked pane of glass, which then shattered under the influence of an invisible force!

This is a collapsing domain composed of countless spatial fragments, attempting to annihilate everything within its range.

But, at the very moment it took shape

"Whoosh!"

A flying slash wrapped in black and red lightning forcibly tore apart the collapsing space that had not yet fully closed, and shot straight at Gern's face at a speed beyond comprehension.

It was a preemptive strike by Whitebeard before he activated his domain!

"Damn it." Gern's pupils contracted, forcibly interrupting the continuous output of his power, and dodged to the side.

The slash grazed his chest, and at the same moment, as his body stiffened from dodging...

The light behind him suddenly vanished, revealing a tall figure who, using the recoil from the shockwave and his Observation Haki to anticipate the attack, appeared.

It had already broken through the edge of spatial collapse and appeared behind him!

It's Whitebeard!

He never intended to achieve anything with that slash; it was merely a feint to force Gern to reveal a weakness!

In Gern's Observation Haki perception, a terrifying aura erupted from behind him, causing the hairs on his body to stand on end and his pupils to tremble violently!

"It's over, kid!"

Whitebeard gripped the Murakumogiri tightly with both hands, and the massive naginata showed no mercy as it slashed down fiercely towards Gern's back!

"Break—Collapse the Heavens!!"

"Bang!!!!"

Gern only had time to hastily gather Armament Haki on his back before he felt an indescribable force slam into him!

"Pfft!" A mouthful of blood spurted out, and Gern's vision went black. He was like a soccer ball that had been hit by a powerful shot.

It transformed into a blur, hurtling towards the exposed seabed below at a speed too fast for the naked eye to follow!

"Long!!"

The seabed trembled violently, creating a huge crater with a diameter of over 100 meters, and spiderweb-like cracks spread for hundreds of meters.

The white-bearded figure descended slowly from mid-air, his chest rising and falling slightly, while Murakumo Kirito pointed diagonally downwards.

Looking at the billowing smoke and dust, his gaze remained solemn, without the slightest relaxation.

Chapter 466 Who is the strongest? (Part Two)

Smoke and dust still lingered in the giant crater on the seabed.

A cold, low shout rang out.

"Heavenly Tremor - Thousand Light Wheels!"

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!!!"

In an instant, hundreds of pure white energy rings with serrated edges shot out from the billowing smoke and dust at high speed!

Its trajectory was unpredictable, covering every angle of the sky, the rings cutting through the air with a piercing shriek.

Like a swarm of bees, they enveloped the white-bearded figure in mid-air!

Whitebeard's expression darkened, and he swung the Murakumogiri in his hand!

"Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!...!!"

Murakumogiri's blade struck each incoming light wheel precisely, and the top-level vibrational force attached to it instantly invaded the internal structure of the light wheel, detonating it in mid-air!

However, when the last halo was shattered, Whitebeard's expression did not relax; instead, it became even more solemn.

"If I could... I really wouldn't want to see... a future like this!"

On the seabed, the smoke and dust were forcibly dispersed by an invisible force, revealing the figure of Gern deep within.

He knelt in the center of the giant pit, his tattered shirt torn off, a trickle of bright red blood hanging from the corner of his mouth.

He then looked up, his eyes showing no anger, only almost absolute calm.

He stared at the white-bearded man, raised his hand, and slowly raised the corner of his bloodied mouth, uttering a sound.

"Domain expansion".

The moment the words fell.

"Buzz—!!!"

A cylindrical vacuum region, about ten meters in diameter and completely transparent, appeared without warning, centered on Gern's body!

Immediately afterwards, this vacuum cylinder expanded wildly in all directions at a speed that defied common sense and exceeded visual perception!

It wasn't an impact, it wasn't an explosion, it was... "erasure"!

Wherever the vacuum realm passes, it touches upon broken reefs, sunken seabeds, residual seawater, and even air and light...

All matter and energy are subject to a pure "vibration" force that transcends the laws of physics.

It was forcibly disintegrated and shattered at the "structural" level, "shaking" into the most primitive and basic particle state!

There was no loud noise, only a continuous, low hum.

Within the domain, all things returned to nothingness, transforming into a boundless, ever-surging, and expanding pale white sea of ​​mist composed of the finest particles!

And that's not all!

Within this pale white sea of ​​mist, countless dense, pale white cracks, resembling shattered porcelain, began to appear!

100 meters! 1000 meters!

The speed and scope of their expansion are astonishing!

Compared to his initial awakening during his battle with Roger, when the fruit's range was still uncontrollable...

Now, Gern has completely grasped this power!

After doing all this, Gern slowly raised his left hand and made a snapping motion towards the white-bearded man, whose expression was more solemn than ever before.

And at the moment when the middle finger and thumb are about to touch

"Click".

A crisp snap of fingers echoed through this deathly, pale realm, like the final sound of judgment.

"Stop the shock, return to zero".

Time seemed to be gripped by an invisible hand!

Within that realm, the world stood still!

It wasn't that time stopped, but rather that the "vibration" that constitutes the world was forcibly paused for 0.5 seconds!

The thermal motion of air molecules, the churning of the particle sea, the propagation of spatial cracks...

Everything based on the phenomenon of "vibration" came to an abrupt end!

A suffocating silence enveloped everything!

Whitebeard, relying on his peak Haki, forcefully countered the solidified influence of the Devil Fruit's rules.

But the next moment, a hint of shock flashed in those eyes that had seen it all before.

Especially when he habitually tried to activate the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, he discovered that the power that had been with him for almost his entire life...

At this moment, it felt as if I had been cut off by an invisible blade!

Within this 0.5-second "shock-stopping" zone, all vibrations return to their origin, including... the very foundation upon which the Tremor-Tremor Fruit is activated!

Gern stood at the center of the pale world, like a god who wielded the laws, and slowly spoke.

“Here, vibration… is defined by me.”

After saying that, Gern ignored the change in emotion that flashed in Whitebeard's eyes and slowly pressed down his right index finger.

"I made it... quiet."

As the words fell, the word "quiet" seemed to contain a supreme command.

The "shock stop" state, which was forcibly paused for 0.5 seconds, did not recover; instead, it fell to a deeper level!

Within the domain, all the fog seas that were "shaken" into fundamental particles contained the last trace of microscopic thermal motion.

The thermal vibrations that constitute "temperature" were forcibly stripped away!

In an instant, absolute zero descended!

The space itself was groaning under the extreme low temperature!

Visible blue cracks started at Gern's fingertips and spread like a plague to the entire area in an instant!

In a fraction of a second, the entire Pale Mist Sea transformed into an absolutely still and absolutely cold space!

Whitebeard's massive body was also frozen in this absolute cold and silence, his movements immobilized!

However, this extreme silence lasted only a moment.

Gern raised his finger upwards.

"I made it... restless."

The instructions have changed again!

"boom!!!!"

The "vibration" authority that had just been stripped away was returned and detonated with a frenzy a thousandfold!

All the fundamental particles constituting the realm were instantly accelerated from a state of absolute stillness to a near-destructive frequency.

It began a frenzied, extreme vibration, collision, and friction!

The azure crystal coffin, at an extremely low temperature, underwent a reversal from absolute zero to... absolute high temperature in a fraction of a second!

It has no flames, yet it is hotter than the core of the sun!

Terrifying heat was generated from the frantic friction and collision at the particle level, distorting and deforming space, and making light blurry and flicker as it passed through this area!

The azure ice crystals didn't even undergo a vaporization process; they directly sublimated into a pure white, blazing inferno!

The transition between extreme stillness and extreme movement, the alternation between freezing and melting, is only a thought away, a finger's breadth away, for Gern!

However, Gern did not immediately launch another attack. Instead, he deliberately relaxed his suppression of Whitebeard's Tremor-Tremor Fruit power.

"Buzz!" Almost the instant the restraints were released, Whitebeard unhesitatingly activated the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit once again, and a white aura instantly enveloped his fist!

However, just a moment before the vibration was about to leave his hand...

Gern's lips curled slightly as he gently beckoned to Whitebeard's fist, which was imbued with the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit.

“Even your vibrations…”

Before the words were even finished, the rules were altered!

Whitebeard's pupils contracted sharply. He clearly felt the Tremor-Tremor Fruit power gathering in his fist as if it were his own arm.

At the peak of its impending explosion, in an instant, it suddenly lost all its "form" and "will"!

That white sphere of light, powerful enough to shake islands, tear apart seas, and vibrate space, did not explode, nor did it spread.

Instead, to his astonished and bewildered gaze, it disintegrated like quicksand, transforming into countless visible, fine, dust-like pale white vibrating particles.

It slipped out of control, drifting away silently, gathering in wisps towards Gern's slightly raised palm.

Gern opened his palm, letting the vibrational energy particles that originally belonged to Whitebeard swirl around his fingertips.