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

"I believe intuition is enough!!!"

"Oden Two-Sword Style: Peach Blossom Spring!!!"

"Whoosh!" Time seemed to stand still at that moment.

Above the deserted island, a thin, crimson-black line flashed by, like lightning tearing through the sky.

There was no dazzling slashing storm, no exaggerated energy burst, only a pure and ultimate "flash"!

Gern's Observation Haki allowed him to see the future in an instant, but the speed of this strike had already exceeded the scope of "prediction"!

"Shhh!!"

The blade flashed across Gern's chest, severing silently, and a thin line of blood slowly appeared.

The pale particles vibrating at high frequency were actually cleaved in two by this one strike, and even space itself was briefly cracked open with a dark rift!

"Cough!" Gern's muffled groan was particularly clear amidst the smoke of gunpowder.

He slowly lowered his head, looking at the gruesome wound on his chest.

The blood froze for a moment before gushing out like a spring, staining the white uniform a striking scarlet.

Oden's figure appeared dozens of meters behind him, his twin swords hanging down, blood dripping from their tips.

His breathing was heavy and labored, and his muscles trembled from overexertion, but the smile on his lips grew increasingly ferocious.

"How about it... does this strike match your 'Heavenly Tremor'?"

"Cough cough..." Gern did not answer, one hand covering the wound on his chest, the other hand supporting himself by the Black Blade Eight Desolations stuck in the ground.

After stabilizing for a while, he managed to pull out the Eight Desolations Blade, and the pale particles on the blade condensed again.

But this time—they were no longer scattered shockwaves, but flowed like liquid, gradually covering the entire blade!

"You deliberately took the 'micro-vibration core' head-on so that the vibration feedback would interfere with my Observation Haki prediction."

Oden grinned: "My intuition tells me you think I rely on my intuition."

"Heh..." Gern chuckled softly, looking at the wound on his chest, blood trickling down his fingertips.

But the moment it touched the Black Blade Eight Desolations—it was instantly vaporized into a blood mist with a "whoosh!"

He looked down at the trembling blade in his hand, the pale, vibrating particles that had been coiled around it.

At this moment, it churned like boiling magma, and a kind of awakening hum came from the depths of the blade.

"Whoosh!!" A dark purple bolt of lightning suddenly erupted from the Eight Desolations Blade, swirling around the blade and causing spiderweb-like cracks to appear in the surrounding space!

Gern's pupils contracted slightly, then a cold smile appeared on his lips.

"I see..." He tightened his grip, and the Black Blade Eight Desolations trembled even more violently, as if responding to his fighting spirit and once again fully channeling Gern's Conqueror's Haki!

The patterns on the blade changed, with dark purple arcs of electricity intertwining and swirling with pale, high-frequency vibrating particles.

They gradually merged into a completely new power—a purple-white destructive energy!

"Only when facing a strong opponent will you cooperate with me?" Gern whispered, his voice tinged with sarcasm, yet also with excitement.

The next second—"BOOM!!!"

Dark purple Conqueror's Haki erupted from Gern's body like a volcanic eruption, and a violent torrent of energy shot into the sky, completely tearing apart the clouds above the deserted island!

The entire island trembled under the combined pressure of Conqueror's Haki and the power of the Heaven-Shatter Fruit, and the seawater surged back, forming giant waves tens of meters high!

Oden's pupils suddenly contracted, and his Conqueror's Haki instinctively countered it, causing crimson and black lightning to explode around him.

Originally, Gern's Conqueror's Haki was only slightly stronger than his.

But this time... it was a crushing defeat in an instant!

"How could your Conqueror's Haki in the Navy be stronger than Hakuji's!" Oden gritted his teeth, his muscles tensing, and the blades of Enma and Ame no Habakiri were once again wrapped with Conqueror's Haki arcs.

Gern slowly raised his black sword, Hakkoku, the tip pointing directly at Oden, purple-white energy condensing on the blade.

The surrounding air was distorted and collapsed due to high-frequency vibrations, as if even light was being swallowed up.

“Kozuki Oden…” Gern’s voice was cold and calm, yet carried an undeniable authority.

"Next, you'll understand..."

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Chapter 102 Peak showdown!

“Just what I wanted!!!”

Oden's blood-stained lips twisted into a maniacal grin, blood dripping from his body onto the ground. His arm muscles bulged, veins standing out like angry dragons.

Enma and Tenyu Habakiri hummed and trembled in his palm, the crimson-black overlord-colored lightning on the blades becoming increasingly violent.

Gern stared coldly, the wound on his chest still bleeding, but the Black Blade Eight Desolations trembled violently in his hand, the purple-white destructive energy coiling around the blade like a living thing.

Oden's wild figure was reflected in his pupils, and his Observation Haki had already covered him, allowing him to sense every vibration in the air.

"Boom!!" The two figures disappeared from their original positions at the same time, their speed so fast that they left afterimages in the air.

When they reappeared, "Clang!!" The moment their blades clashed, the entire deserted island trembled violently.

Centered on the two individuals, the ground, with a diameter of several hundred meters, collapsed with a deafening roar, and spiderweb-like cracks spread wildly.

Seawater gushed out from the crack and was evaporated into white mist the instant it came into contact with high-frequency vibrating particles.

The clouds in the sky were torn open by the powerful shockwave, creating a huge gap that allowed sunlight to pierce down like a sharp sword.

"Hahaha! That was exhilarating!!" Oden laughed wildly, his arm muscles bulging as he unleashed his twin swords like a storm.

"How could I only realize the strength of a man like you now!" A storm of crimson and black slashes swept in, each blade carrying the power of Conqueror's Haki capable of tearing the earth apart.

Gern's eyes narrowed, the Black Blade Eight Desolations spun in his hand, and he reversed his grip and swung it horizontally.

The blade left eight parallel spatial cracks where it sliced ​​through the air, the cracks like fangs snapping shut, pulling the enemy into a shockwave field.

Immediately afterwards, he raised another blade with his left hand, "Heavenly Tremor - Thousand Light Wheels!" Hundreds of high-frequency shockwaves burst from the blade, colliding with Oden's slash in mid-air.

"Boom boom boom!!" The continuous explosions completely overturned the ground within a radius of a kilometer, and the rubble was shattered into dust, which was then suspended in the air by the shock wave.

"Oh! Oh! Oh!" Oden shouted as he charged out of the dust, his twin swords slashing out in a cross pattern.

"Peach Blossom Spring!" This slash was as fast as lightning, a thin crimson-black line flashing through the air.

But this time, Gern's Observation Haki once again allowed him to see into the future, and he dodged to the side at the last second.

In an instant, the blade grazed his shoulder, leaving a trail of blood.

Then, Gern turned around and appeared above Oden, his left fist wrapped in high-frequency vibrating particles, and slammed it hard into Oden's back.

"Black Shock - Star Piercing!"

With a dull thud, Oden was blasted back dozens of meters by the punch, but he flipped his body in mid-air, his feet carving two deep furrows in the ground.

After regaining his balance, the smile on his lips grew even more ferocious. "That's it! Let's do it again!!"

At this point, Gern's strength was not much different from Oden's, and neither of them could defeat the other in one blow!

Therefore, this was the first time Oden had a truly satisfying fight.

And Gern could clearly feel that as long as he could defeat Kozuki Oden by himself, his strength would definitely have fully entered the Admiral level!

This was the first time he had faced such a powerful opponent without any help from anyone, and had to engage in a life-or-death battle!

For a moment, the two fought with completely different styles:

Oden was a pure dual-wielding swordsman, every move embodying the ultimate level of swordsmanship.

The slashes roared like an enraged dragon; wherever the blade passed, the earth split open into abysses.

As the twin swords were wielded, crimson and black lightning poured down like a torrential rain.

Gurn is a perfect combination of swordsmanship, Devil Fruit powers, and physical combat skills.

The Black Blade, imbued with destructive energy, cleaved through space with a single strike.

Vibrating particles were compressed to the fist's tip, and with a single punch, mountains collapsed.

The combination of elemental teleportation and high-frequency shocks makes it virtually impossible to defend against.

The entire deserted island was completely unrecognizable after their battle; the surface was covered with giant craters hundreds of meters in diameter, and the deepest fissures led all the way to the seabed.

The surrounding seas were whipped up by tsunamis tens of meters high, which crashed against the distant warships, pushing them further and further away.

At the same time, the clouds in the sky were completely cleared, and the sunlight shone directly down, forming an eerie iridescent halo in the rising water vapor.

..........

"Sorry, Navy, I need to deal with you!!!" Oden's roar, with his disheveled hair, shattered the billowing dust.

His feet sank into the cracked earth, his waist arched back like a taut bowstring, and Ame no Habakiri and Enma crossed behind him.

Crimson, blood-red Conqueror's Haki erupted from the hilt of the sword, coiling and swirling along the blade, condensing into two eerie crimson orbs at the tip.

The muscle fibers throughout his body made a tearing sound as they were unable to withstand the strain. The fragments of his kimono turned to dust in the powerful torrent, completely exposing his upper body!

“You’re not qualified to say such things!!” Gern’s pupils suddenly contracted.

The Black Blade Eight Desolations trembled with pleasure in his palm, and the dark red patterns on the hilt writhed as if alive, instantly transforming into grotesque purplish-black veins.

The Black Blade Eight Desolations' blade wildly and autonomously guided the boiling Conqueror's Haki within Gehn's body, with dark purple lightning and pale shockwaves intertwining in a spiral at the blade's edge.

"Buzz buzz buzz!" The low-frequency buzzing suddenly turned into a piercing shriek.

The space around the blade began to crack extensively, and each leaping dark purple lightning bolt tore open a spiderweb of black cracks in the void.

Gern gripped the hilt with both hands, the veins on the backs of his hands bulging like writhing dragons, and slowly raised the black blade above his head, assuming the most basic yet most deadly high-level stance.

"Oden Two-Sword Style: Togen Totsuka!!!"

"Heavenly Tremor - Void Rift!!!" Two figures charged forward simultaneously.

Oden's twin swords drew a perfect blood-red cross in front of him, the cross in front and him behind, like a shooting star streaking across the sky.

After unleashing an extremely fast cross-shaped slash, the person followed closely behind, cutting through even the light in their path, leaving behind two dark, vacuum-like trails.

Gern's black blade slashed straight down, and before the blade even arrived, the air within a hundred meters in front of him was already crushed by the high-frequency vibrations.

The moment the three blades clashed

"Zheng!!!"

A dazzling white light erupted at the point of impact.

Time seemed to freeze at that moment. The surface of the deserted island rose in concentric circles around the two people, and tens of thousands of tons of rock were lifted into the air by the shock wave.

The sea surface first caved in, creating a giant crater a kilometer in diameter, which was then followed by a ring-shaped tsunami hundreds of meters high.

"Crack...crack..." Amidst the teeth-grinding sound of space shattering, the crimson orb on Oden's twin swords fiercely battled the purple-white energy of Gern's blade.

A pitch-black spherical void appeared at the center of the collision, swallowing up all the surrounding light, dust, and even sound.

The clash of their Conqueror's Haki sparked crimson and dark purple flames, each spark creating a crater ten meters in diameter upon impact.

"Haa!!" Oden's forehead veins bulged, and the muscle fibers in his arms broke one after another, but under the stimulation of the domineering aura, he forced himself to continue to exert force, pressing the twin swords slowly towards Guern's throat.

Gern's hand was split open, and blood dripped from the hilt onto the trembling blade, instantly evaporating into a blood mist.

At the same time, he could clearly sense that the Black Blade Eight Desolations was vibrating more and more joyfully.

"Boom!!!" The second wave of impact erupted.

Oden's left sword suddenly changed its move, and the Ame no Habakiri slashed upwards towards Gern's chin.

Gern suddenly turned his head, and the blade grazed past him.

At the same time, his left fist, wrapped in a shockwave compressed to the extreme, slammed into Oden's abdomen.

"Pfft!" The blood mist that Oden spat out was shattered into atomic mist before it even hit the ground.

But suddenly his Yama Blade grew three inches, and his crimson-black aura solidified into a blade of light, piercing into Gern's right shoulder.

The two men retreated simultaneously amidst splattering blood, each carving a trench a hundred meters long in the ground.

As the smoke and dust dissipated, the entire deserted island was divided in two along its central axis.

Chapter 103 Shaking Ashes - Crimson Lotus Prison