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

But he didn't stop moving at all; his emaciated body suddenly swelled and deformed as he ran, transforming into a human-beast form.

His upper body remained a withered human form with the bones of a horse, and he wielded the first generation Kitetsu, his speed increasing dramatically!

In an instant, he covered a distance of tens of meters and approached Gern.

The demon sword in his hand, "First Generation Kitetsu," had already been used in the most classic draw-and-slash stance!

Even before the sword was drawn, a chilling aura from the underworld emanated from the hilt!

"Yellow Springs Slash!"

The sword flashes as it is drawn!

The pale yellow line that severed the boundary between life and death silently slashed through space, heading straight for Gern's neck!

Just as Gern had used Conqueror's Haki to repel Blackbeard and break free from his control, he faced this sword-drawing slash.

Instead of retreating, he turned slightly to the side.

He wielded the side of his black sword "Eight Desolations" to meet the thin, eerie yellow line!

"clang!!!"

Blades clashed!

The first generation of Ghost Clan's sword light slashed on the spine of the Eight Desolations Blade, and domineering lightning intertwined!

A stalemate? No!

Gern's tactical intentions went far beyond simply blocking!

Just as the blades clashed and their forces collided...

With a flick of his wrist, Gern pulled!

The blade of the Eight Desolations gently swept outwards along the edge of the Ghostly Blade.

At the same time, with the footwork coordinated, the body pivots on the left foot and suddenly makes an extremely smooth turn!

This turn not only dissipated most of the impact of the Yellow Spring Slash.

This instantly turned Gern from facing Nassshuro Sei to having his back to him!

Nasujiro's pupils contracted!

Turning your back to the enemy is a cardinal sin for a swordsman!

Based on their previous fight, he subconsciously made an instant judgment.

Gern turned around, undoubtedly to use the force of the rotation to launch a fierce reverse spinning slash!

The target is most likely your own back or waist!

"Hmph! A mere trick!" Nasujiro Sei scoffed inwardly, his extensive combat experience prompting him to react immediately!

All four legs came to a sudden stop, and the upper body twisted simultaneously.

The sword in his hand suddenly changed from a forward slash to a horizontal parry, protecting his side and rear!

The chilling aura of the underworld intensified on the blade, preparing to take the spinning slash that Gern had anticipated head-on!

Unfortunately, the expected spinning slash did not occur after Gern turned around.

He merely hovered the tip of the Eight Desolations Blade behind him with an effortless, terrifyingly precise control.

That is, exactly as he turned around, less than an inch in front of Nasujuro Sei's forehead, who was parrying with his sword.

The tip of the knife trembled slightly.

Time seemed to freeze at that moment.

Nasujiro Sei's parrying motion froze, his pupils fixed on the tip of the blade before him, his astonished face reflected on both sides of the Eight Desolations Blade.

"You bastard..."

Nassou-sei never expected that Gern would predict his prediction.

This seemingly simple turn and hover is actually a manifestation of peak control over the rhythm of battle, the opponent's psychology, and one's own strength!

Gern didn't look at him, but instead tilted his head slightly, gazing at the remaining eight star rings in the sky that were still slowly rotating.

He gently exhaled a breath.

"Earthquake..."

The moment the words fell

hum! !

In the sky, one of the star rings that was closer to the ground suddenly collapsed inward and condensed!

In an instant, it compressed into a stream of light so fine it was almost invisible.

It descended from the sky and entered the tip of the "Eight Desolations" blade that was hovering between Nassshuro's eyebrows in Geen's hand!

The blade of the "Eight Desolations" suddenly trembled!

The color instantly changed from pitch black to a nearly transparent white, and was wrapped with dark purple, domineering lightning!

At the tip of the blade, a single point of pure, concentrated white light, piercing the souls of all things, silently illuminates!

"Heavenly Lock - Soul Shaking".

Guern's voice was very soft, like a pronouncement.

After saying these four words, he held Bahuang's hand and let it fall naturally downwards.

The tip of the knife left Nasujiro Sei's brow.

Gern's figure landed lightly from his mouth, his back to Nasujuro Sei, who was still in a parrying stance.

His gaze calmly shifted to Saint Satan, who was approaching with a look of surprise and uncertainty, and Blackbeard, who was getting up in the distance.

Nothing happened.

There was no earth-shattering explosion, no scene of flying blood and flesh, and not even a trace of energy fluctuation was leaked out.

It was as if Gern had merely touched Nassuro Sei's forehead with the tip of his blade before sheathing it.

Saint Satan rushed to Saint Nassuro's side, looked at his still stiff and motionless figure, and tentatively called out.

"Nasujiro?"

Nassuro Sei did not answer.

He maintained his horizontal parrying stance, his head slightly lowered, staring intently at the hand holding the sword.

It then slowly moved towards Satan Saint...

"Really..."

Nasujiro finally managed to squeeze out a faint, almost inaudible sound from his throat.

“…What a terrifying guy…”

The words were spoken.

Under the sudden, contracting gazes of Satan and Blackbeard, and even in the astonished look Luffy couldn't help but cast from afar.

Nasujiro Sei's tall, horse-bone, beast-like body

Starting from the beginning, along some extremely fine, regular plane

Layer by layer, piece by piece, it separates and peels away from the left and right sides!

It wasn't an explosion, nor was it shattered; rather, it was precisely "sliced" open, like an anatomical diagram!

Skin, muscles, bones, internal organs...

All organizations are acting on the same force at the deepest level of matter.

Under the terrifying force of the vibration that caused the atomic-level resonance collapse, it was evenly divided into countless thin "pieces"!

These "pieces" did not scatter, but rather mysteriously remained suspended in their original positions.

It retains a roughly human-shaped outline, but has been transformed into a chilling, layered "sliced ​​specimen".

Immediately after

A soft sound, a gentle breeze rustling through.

All the "thin slices" fluttered down to the ground.

On the spot, only Nasujuro Sei's first generation Kitetsu, whose Yellow Spring chill rapidly dissipated, fell to the ground with a "clang".

One of the Five Elders, the financial god of war, Izambaron V. Nassshuro Sei...

He was completely... killed by Gern's "Heavenly Lock - Soul Shock" move...

It's a "film"!

Even the immortality granted by the Abyss Pact could not be reversed!

Absolute silence enveloped the area.

For the first time, Satan Saint experienced 'real' fear!

Because a member of the same star died!!

A 'Five Elders' who looked exactly like him was killed right in front of him!

Death in the truest sense!!

Blackbeard was so frightened that he retreated repeatedly!

Gern slowly turned around and looked at the first generation Kitetsu, now truly without its master, lying on the ground.

This time, instead of picking it up, he stepped on it and looked at Satan Saint and Blackbeard.

"next."

"who is it?"

Chapter 701 Fist Kills the Demon!

Nassuro Sei's "death" instantly set the entire battlefield of Egerde ablaze with chaos.

A strange, suffocating silence descended.

Luffy in battle with three of the Five Elders (Saint Maz, Saint Pitt, and Saint Vochuli).

They stopped what they were doing without prior arrangement.

Luffy (Gear 5) floated in mid-air, his snow-white hair swaying slightly.

He looked down at his hands, which had just been locked in a fierce struggle with the other person.

I glanced again at the pile of dust in the distance that was rapidly dissipating in the wind.

And there was the First Generation Kitetsu lying alone on the ground, a blank expression on his rubber face.

"Eh..."

"That skeletal monster... it's actually... dead?"

In his mind, these "Five Elders" monsters were indestructible, existing as some kind of "rule".

Nika's form of pleasure and the will to "liberate" made him fearless.

But this was the first time I had ever witnessed an enemy of this caliber being completely and cleanly "annihilated".

It's like someone who can't even kill themselves, but someone else can actually kill them!

The three elders opposite

Itsumade (Saint Maz), Sandworm (Saint Pitt), Fengxi (Saint Worchli)

Their reaction was even more intense and... subversive.

At the moment Nasujiro Sei "died," everything froze completely.

Instead, there is a deep-seated dullness and bewilderment.

The Abyss Contract... has failed?

Immortality... has been broken?