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

And fragments of smaller islands further away, which he forcibly seized, trailing long cloud tails.

Like a real meteorite from outer space, it crashed down fiercely towards where Gern was!

It blotted out the sky, and shadows enveloped everything!

At the same time, Gern also stopped.

He took a deep breath. Despite the serious injuries he sustained in the battle with Whitebeard, his momentum only increased at this moment.

With one hand gripping the Eight Directions Blade tightly, high-frequency vibrating particles wrapped around the blade, he unleashed a single slash at the massive shadow falling from the sky in the form of an Iaijutsu!

"Heavenly Tremor - Instant Hellfire!"

There was no grand display, only an extremely thin, highly condensed, pale white thread-like slash, rising against the heavens!

This thin line seemed to disregard spatial distance, instantly sweeping past all the fallen island debris.

The next second, a breathtaking scene unfolded.

All the massive debris falling, whether rock, steel, or anything else, in the same instant...

Following the path traced by that thin line, it silently split in two!

The cut was as smooth as a mirror; the severed remains, no longer under the control of the Float-Float Fruit, turned into countless pebbles.

They fell from either side of Gern and crashed into the sea, creating towering columns of water, but they failed to harm him in the slightest!

"You bastard!!"

The Golden Lion's eyes were bloodshot; he hadn't expected that of the three legends, only he would feel this way when facing this man...

Even after fighting Whitebeard, he was still so powerless!

While the golden lion was momentarily stunned, Gern had already used his Flash to pass through the falling rain of rubble and appeared in front of it!

"Tsk!" Faced with the sudden attack, Golden Lion directly crossed his twin swords and slashed out.

"Slash Wave!"

Without dodging or avoiding, the tip of the Eight Desolations Blade instantly condensed into a point of extreme compression shockwave, which was thrust out and shattered, precisely striking the center of the Golden Lion's crossed swords!

"Clang!" A shockwave violently spread through the golden lion's arms and even his entire body!

"Ughhh!!" The golden lion let out a painful groan as his tiger's mouth split open!

The withered tree and the cherry blossom almost slipped from their grasp!

He was sent flying backward, crashing through several floating boulders before finally coming to a stop.

"Pfft!" He then knelt on the ground, breathing heavily, with blood continuously oozing from his mouth and nose.

"Your era is over, Shiki." Gern's cold voice rang in his ears.

"Bullshit!!" Shiki's roar echoed across the battlefield.

"I am the Golden Lion!!!"

Even though the battle with Zephyr and Akainu had taken a heavy toll, Shiki still managed to open his arms wide, unleashing the full power of his Float-Float Fruit!

"Lion's Might - Earth Strike!"

"Boom!!"

Centered on him, within a radius of several thousand meters, broken rocks and even the remains of sunken ships all defied gravity and soared into the sky!

Countless boulders and rocks converged and compressed wildly in the air, instantly transforming into several enormous and ferocious lion heads comparable to mountains!

They opened their massive, rock-formed mouths, letting out a silent roar carrying the overwhelming force to crush everything in its path.

They pounced and crushed down on Gern from all directions!

Chapter 471 The Blackbeard Pirates Appear

Faced with this move, Gern's eyes remained completely unmoved.

He didn't even change his posture; he simply took the Eight Directions he was holding in his backhand and casually swung it horizontally from left to right!

"Buzz!"

Where the blade sliced ​​through, space seemed to be cut like a piece of cloth, leaving eight parallel spatial cracks that could not be healed for a long time!

Those massive lion-head-shaped earthen mounds were silently sliced ​​apart the moment they came into contact with the eight parallel cracks.

It turned into countless neatly arranged pebbles, and before it even got close to Gern, it had already lost all its kinetic energy and collapsed with a roar, raising dust that reached hundreds of meters high!

"It's not over yet!!" The golden lion's eyes were bloodshot, his hands flailing wildly, manipulating everything he could control on the battlefield.

Broken masts of warships, pirate ships, shattered cannons, massive blocks of ice...

In short, he threw everything he could control at Gern!

However, Gern merely raised his eyes and coldly surveyed the crowd.

Centered on his body, an ultra-high frequency vibration field instantly expanded!

Everything that entered the area was shattered, regardless of size or material!

“Golden Lion.” Gern’s voice rang out, devoid of any emotion.

A shockwave erupted beneath his feet, leaving a clear footprint in the ground. His figure instantly bent and sprang forward.

With a speed far exceeding that of the Golden Lion, it appeared directly in front of him!

With his left hand spread out, covered in Armament Haki, he firmly grabbed Shiki the Golden Lion's head!

"Ugh!" The golden lion was caught off guard.

With a burst of power from his waist and abdomen, using the golden lion's head as a fulcrum, his entire body spun violently like a windmill!

The two drew a dizzying arc in the air!

"The era of the Flying Pirates has ended..."

Gern's roar, accompanied by the whistling sound of high-speed spinning, tolled in Shiki's ears like a final death knell!

"it's over!!!"

At the moment the spin reached its peak, Gern combined all his strength with the terrifying centrifugal force generated by the rotation.

He poured all the destructive power of the Heaven-Shatter Fruit into his left arm, grabbed the Golden Lion's head, and hurled it down like a meteorite onto the shattered earth below!

"Earthquake, Skyfall..."

"Divine Strike!!!"

"Whoosh—BOOM!!!!"

A terrifying impact sound, indescribable in words, rang out!

Shiki the Golden Lion's body transformed into a blurry streak of light, crashing into the already overburdened half of the plaza below at a speed exceeding the limits of sound!

A massive crater, hundreds of meters in diameter and seemingly bottomless, formed instantly.

The terrifying shockwave spread outwards in a ring, leveling everything around it and raising towering clouds of dust!

Even the crowds fighting near the execution platform were thrown into disarray by the massive tremor!

At the center of the giant crater, spiderweb-like cracks spread for kilometers, leading to the bottom of the crater.

The golden lion's dilapidated form, deeply embedded in the rock, could be vaguely seen, but there was no sound from it anymore.

"Huh...huh..."

After the brief battle with the Golden Lion ended, Gern-Tik breathed a sigh of relief.

But then, intense fatigue and injuries came crashing back like a tidal wave.

He staggered, instinctively clutching his chest, a sweet taste rising in his throat.

A long-suppressed surge of stagnant blood finally couldn't be contained and was vomited onto the ground with a "plop".

There's no way to say that the battle with Whitebeard at his peak had no impact. In fact, by the end of the fight, his internal organs had been severely damaged, and his Haki and stamina had been greatly depleted.

Adding to the seemingly overwhelming battle with the Golden Lion, it was actually a forced acceleration of his growth.

In particular, Gern doesn't have any special racial or bloodline advantages, nor does he have the protagonist's halo.

Therefore, in an instant, this belated feeling of intense pain and exhaustion spread throughout his body.

"Oh?! Are you finally tired?!"

"Hahaha!!!"

At that moment, a loud, arrogant laugh came from the direction of the white-bearded body, breaking the brief silence of the battlefield.

Gern gripped the Eight Directions tightly and looked up toward the source of the sound.

Blackbeard Marshall D. Teach had somehow appeared beside Whitebeard's body.

His face was radiating undisguised smugness, and he even reached out and patted the white-bearded man's already cold arm in a provocative manner.

"Hahaha, I thought you'd die here too, 'Skyquake'!" Blackbeard grinned, revealing his missing teeth, and chuckled wickedly.

"After all, my father was very strong at his peak! But I never expected that he would be the one to die."

After saying that, Blackbeard changed the subject without waiting for Gern's reply, his eyes fixed on the obviously unsteady Gern, and continued to gloat and kick him while he was down.

"But you must be tired too! Hahaha!!"

Even the strongest person has moments of weakness! (Tian Zhen)

Besides... in the current situation!!

As he spoke, the group of vicious thugs he had brought out from Impel Down Level 6 appeared behind him.

Along with his original crew, they all stepped forward and subtly surrounded Gern!

"The Evil King" Alvaro Pizarro carries a weapon he found, his face displaying a cruel mockery.

"Be careful, this is 'Heavenly Tremor'." Former warden Shiryu of the Rain slowly drew his famous sword "Thunderstorm".

"It's so beautiful! Even a dead body could be collected, right?!"

"The Crescent Moon Hunter" Katrin Demi licked her lips, her eyes filled with the excitement of seeing her prey.

"Giant Battleship" San Juan Wolf stood behind the crowd, raising the half of his hand that had been severed by Gern.

"Long time no see, Tianzhen!"

The 'Cursed Healer' Samuel Kronos hid beneath his hood, exuding an ominous and eerie aura, with mycelium sprouting around him.

"Even while I was in prison, I always remembered you!"

In addition to Blackbeard's original crew: Gizar Burgess, Van Augur, Lafayette, Doc Q...

The entire Blackbeard Pirates crew has made their appearance!

Faced with the undisguised malice and encirclement of the entire Blackbeard Pirates crew

Instead of showing the slightest fear, Gern let out a soft laugh.

He then slowly straightened up. Although a dull ache still lingered in his chest, his eyes remained so sharp that it was impossible to look directly at him.

“A pack of hyenas.” Gern’s tone was flat, tinged with deep contempt, his gaze piercing through the crowd and landing directly on Blackbeard, the leader.

"Blackbeard, it seems you've been hiding for so long, only now finally daring to crawl out from the shadows... You've got your eye on me!"

Blackbeard, his thoughts exposed, was not angry at all. Instead, he opened his arms and let out his signature strange laugh.

"Hahaha!! You're right, Tianzhen!"

Your abilities... that battle just now proved their worth to the world!

Such immense power, even if I don't use it, I still have to... accept it!!!

His eyes were filled with greed and ambition, as if Gern was already his for the taking.

"is it?"

Gern scanned the group of thugs before him, men who would strike fear into the hearts of even the New World.

"So what do you think..."

"In this state, I will kill you all..."

"How long will it take?"