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

As soon as he finished speaking, Gern's right hand suddenly opened its five fingers, and a blinding pale light burst forth from the fingertips.

"Earthquake - Rift!"

"Whoosh!" Five parallel spatial rifts instantly tore through the atmosphere, and the shockwaves cut through everything in their path like invisible blades.

Rocks, trees, and even the air disintegrated into dust under the high-frequency vibrations, and five deep furrows, several meters deep, were plowed into the surface of the deserted island, stretching straight toward Kizaru!

"Oh my~" Kizaru's Observation Haki went into overdrive, and golden light swirled in his pupils.

"Getting hit would be really painful." His body transformed into photons in advance, and five slashes pierced through the afterimage.

The collapsed rock face neatly cut the giant boulder a hundred meters behind into six sections, raising clouds of dust that blotted out the sky.

On the observation warship, Onigumo's six swords clattered to the ground: "These are way more useful than slashing attacks, aren't they?!"

In the smoke and dust, Gern's figure had long since disappeared.

"Whoosh!" Sonic boom clouds exploded one after another across the deserted island. Gern used his shockwave to transform into a stream of particles and darted through it at high speed, leaving afterimages with each flash.

Just as Kizaru reassembled himself a hundred meters away, his sunglasses reflected a cold glint from his left.

"Compared to light, it's too slow~" He chuckled softly, his figure transforming into photons once more.

He reappeared above Gern, then spun 360 degrees, his toes gathering light.

In an instant, the golden light from the light-speed kick came from the completely opposite direction!

"Sorry, my Observation Haki is stronger than yours." At the critical moment, Gern pushed out with one hand: "Shaking Wall - Flawless Circle!"

"Buzz!" Countless white vibration rings intertwined to form a spherical barrier. The moment Kizaru's light-speed kick hit the barrier, the high-frequency vibrations bounced the impact force back geometrically!

"What?!" A crack appeared in Kizaru's sunglasses, and he was thrown backward by the shock, the cuff of his gold suit tearing with a "rip".

"Wow!" The spectating navy members all stood up, and Gion's nails dug deeply into her palms: "Even Captain Borsalino's light-speed kick could be deflected?!"

Kizaru adjusted his posture in mid-air, his toes turning slightly.

"It hurts, doesn't it?" He had barely recovered when Gern's low growl suddenly came from the ground: "After all, forces act in opposite directions, especially at the speed of light."

"And you weren't elementalized just now." The Black Blade Eight Desolations slashed upwards with all its might, the blade making contact with Kizaru at that very moment...

"Boom, crack!!!" The spherical explosion created giant waves on the ground within a fifty-meter radius.

The space beneath Kizaru's feet twisted violently, and he was thrown into the air!

"Got you." Gern's figure appeared ghost-like above him, the dark red patterns on the Eight Desolations Blade had completely turned black, and lightning of Armament Haki danced on the blade.

"Not good!" Kizaru's pupils shrank sharply.

"Heavenly Tremor - Collapse of Realms!" The black blade, Bahuang, slashed down with the power to shatter space!

At the critical moment, golden light burst forth from Kizaru's palm—the Ame-no-Murakumo Sword!

"Clang!!" The sound of the sword of light colliding with the black blade resounded through the sky, and the shockwave tore a huge ring-shaped hole in the clouds.

As the two struggled, they plummeted downwards, and the energy released at the point where their blades clashed caused the center of the deserted island to cave in into a bowl shape!

"Clang! Clang! Clang!" The two sides had already exchanged dozens of blows by the time they landed.

Every clash between the sword of light and the black blade exploded with dazzling sparks, and the simple and unadorned duel left the spectators speechless!

"Your swordsmanship..." The sword conjured by his ability couldn't withstand Armament Haki, so Kizaru suddenly took a half step back, his Ama no Kusanagi sword blocking a diagonal slash. "Who did you learn this from?"

“Self-taught, commonly known as 'wild hacking around'!” Gern grinned, and suddenly changed his move, slashing upwards with his blade, the shockwave deflecting the lightsaber by half an inch.

While the Glint-Glint Fruit offers a significant speed advantage, in short-range burst combat, Gurn's Heavenly Tremor has the upper hand!

"Vibration, this is so troublesome~" Kizaru sighed, but his figure suddenly blurred, creating distance and giving him an advantageous space.

Immediately afterwards, ten golden beams of light burst forth from his fingertips, forming a net that enveloped all of Gern's vital points!

Seeing this, Gern actually threw the Eight Desolations flying, crossed his hands in front of his chest to form a triangle, and forcibly shook the space in front of him.

"Folding Mirror - Sky-Shaking Prism!"

"Crack!" The high-frequency vibration caused space to briefly distort and shape, preventing light from shining directly into it.

In just a moment, Kizaru's beam was refracted into a shower of golden light!

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!" The refracted beams of light blasted dozens of lava craters into the edge of the deserted island. The mast of a warship that was observing the battle was grazed by it and instantly vaporized into blue smoke.

"What a joke!" Huo Shaoshan's cigar fell from his mouth onto his crotch. "It can even distort light?!"

"Tsk tsk tsk!" Kizaru hovered in mid-air, the lenses of his sunglasses already broken.

Meanwhile, his suit was battered and bruised, but his smile grew even more menacing: "Looks like these three months of vacation won't be easy to get after all~"

Gern caught the falling Eight Desolations, the shockwave turning the dust around him into powder: "It's not too late to admit defeat now, senior."

"That won't do~" Kizaru clasped his hands together, a dazzling golden light gathering in his palms, his eyes losing their laziness and gradually becoming sharp.

"Gern, have you ever been hit by a lightning-fast combo?"

"Yata no Kagami: Light Speed ​​Corridor!" Countless mirrors of light generated in the air.

Kizaru's figure was reflected infinitely in the mirror, and in an instant, hundreds of golden afterimages attacked from all directions!

Chapter 66 Shock and Imprisonment - Absolute Zero!

Above the deserted island, Kizaru's figure was frantically refracted among countless mirrors of light.

Hundreds of golden afterimages attacked from all directions, each carrying terrifying power propelled by the speed of light.

Gern's Observation Haki was at its maximum, but Kizaru's speed was already nearing its limit.

The trajectory of the light-speed movement appears as a blurry golden line in perception, making it impossible to pinpoint its true form!

"This is really troublesome..." After being hit more than ten times, Gern's pupils contracted, and the blade of the Black Blade Eight Desolations trembled slightly.

The next moment, his eyes suddenly turned fierce.

“Since we can’t find it…” Gern pressed his right hand, fingers spread, against the air in front of him, “then, let’s destroy it all!!”

"Skyquake - Airspace Collapse!"

"Boom—Crack!!" Centered on Gern, the spatial structure within a radius of one kilometer suddenly distorted!

The ground cracked like fragile glass, with countless spiderweb-like fissures spreading wildly. Rocks, soil, and even the space itself disintegrated into dust under the high-frequency vibrations.

The entire deserted island trembled violently, and the aftershocks created giant waves tens of meters high on the sea surface, causing the deck of the warships observing the battle to tilt to nearly 45 degrees!

"Hold the helm steady!"

"Is this some kind of natural disaster?!" The soldiers gripped the railings in terror, watching helplessly as the surface of the deserted island crumbled like a biscuit, floated into the air, and then turned into dust in the shockwave.

In an instant, the space seemed to be crumpled by an invisible hand, and the light refracted into eerie rainbow-colored ripples in the distorted air.

On the flagship, Steelbone Kong's cloak fluttered wildly in the blast wave, and a rare look of horror flashed in his eyes: "This destructive power..."

"It's already far beyond the range of Kuzan and the other two." Sengoku's expression turned grave as he directly experienced the destructive power of Gern for the first time.

Keep in mind that he was responsible for restraining Whitebeard, and he had faced Whitebeard before.

But Whitebeard couldn't have produced such precise and shaping vibrations!

Zephyr stared intently at the battlefield, his sunglasses reflecting the shattered sky: "That Borsalino brat..."

"Hmm? Looks like he was sent flying by Gern's shock?" Karp squinted.

……

On the deserted island, amidst the billowing dust, Gern stood up, panting heavily.

The collapse of the airspace had exhausted him, but he still couldn't see Kizaru anywhere in his sight.

“Where did he hide…” Gern gripped the black knife tightly.

Suddenly, a golden light flashed in the reflection of his eyes.

"later!!"

"Too late~" Kizaru's voice rang in my ear.

"Bang!!" The light-speed kick struck Gern hard in the back, sending him flying like a cannonball. He crashed through three rocky mountains before finally coming to a stop, blood spilling from the corner of his mouth!

A murmur rippled through the spectator stands.

"Damn it! In that terrifying situation just now..." Onigumo's sword fell to the ground again.

"Colonel Borsalino... he's not injured?!"

As the smoke and dust cleared, Kizaru's body solidified on a broken rock, revealing an unharmed body beneath his tattered suit.

"What a terrifying tremor." He slowly dusted off the dust from his shoulders. "If I had been any slower, I would have been shattered."

On the flagship, Kong took a deep breath: "Gern's destructive power is indeed terrifying, but Borsalino's defense and speed..."

“He’s the most troublesome of the three,” Zephyr, who had taught Kizaru, said in a deep voice, “and also the strongest of the three.”

Sengoku adjusted his glasses: "And that guy probably wants to end the battle..."

As if to confirm Sengoku's words, Kizaru in the sky suddenly stopped smiling.

"Had enough fun?" He slowly raised his right hand, his index finger pointing at Gern in the distant ruins, a flash of light covering his fingertip like a tide.

"This next move... will be very quick." Golden light condensed into a point of blazing white at his fingertips, and the air distorted due to the high temperature.

Gion, who was watching the battle, suddenly stood up: "Captain Guern..."

"Whoosh!" An extremely thin beam of light pierced through the sky, vaporizing even the dust in its path.

As soon as Gern raised his head, golden light reached between his eyebrows!

"Clang!!" At the critical moment, the Black Blade Eight Desolations blocked the attack, and the black, domineering lightning collided fiercely with the golden light.

But the force of the beam still propelled Gern backward, his feet carving two scorched furrows in the rock!

"It's not over yet~" Kizaru's voice came from all directions.

Gern looked up abruptly—ten figures appeared in the sky at the same time, each with a star-piercing beam of light condensed at its fingertips!

"Ten shots in a row." Ten Borsalinos tilted their heads simultaneously. "Can you withstand that?"

In an instant, ten blazing white beams of light intertwined to form a net of destruction, and the deserted island completely collapsed amidst a roar.

Gern's figure was swallowed up by the blinding golden light, and the navy in the stands held their breath.

however

"Buzz!" A wave of energy suddenly erupted, forcefully creating a domain within the beam storm.

Gern was covered in thick Armament Haki, with his Black Blade Eight Desolations blocking his way.

Despite the force of the beam pushing him back and his feet carving scorched furrows in the ground, his gaze grew ever more piercing.

“Senior Borsalino…” Gern’s eyes were calm, “Can your light go even faster?”

The next second, his figure suddenly disappeared!

"Shaking Flash - Extreme Speed!" A high-frequency vibrating stream of particles enveloped his body, approaching at a near teleportation speed.

Kizaru's pupils contracted slightly. Not wanting to be outpaced, he instantly transformed into photons and ascended into the air, and then...

This is exactly what I wanted!

"Heavenly Shock - Star Ring!" Gern swung his sword fiercely, and a ring-shaped shockwave spread out from him!

Wherever the shockwave passed, the air was instantly displaced, the clouds were shattered into nothingness, and even light was briefly frozen in the distorted space.

The seawater surrounding the deserted island was shaken up by giant waves tens of meters high, forming a siege around the island.

And above... a vacuum zone briefly formed in the sky!

While the speed of light is unstoppable, Gern doesn't need to intercept light; he only needs to intercept Kizaru.

"Huh?!" Sure enough, the sudden difficulty breathing made Kizaru subconsciously slow down.

The photonic body sluggishly slows down in the vacuum, its speed forced to decrease.

“Got you.” Gern’s voice was cold and calm.

Armament Haki and vibration particles slowly swirled around the blade of the Black Blade Eight Desolations.

But this time, the vibrating particles did not vibrate violently at high frequencies; instead, they were eerily calm.

Kizaru's Observation Haki was flashing warnings, but he couldn't dodge immediately.