Boom!
Shanks and Big Mom separated, watching each other from a distance.
Shanks' expression was solemn.
Big Mom's Conqueror's Haki was terrifying, and her strength was just as absurd.
It reminded him of the legends about Charlotte Linlin. They said she had been able to defeat giants since childhood.
When she was still only a few years old, she had even slaughtered a village of giants. To this day, the giants still hated Big Mom for it.
Big Mom's expression was also ugly.
The two of them had fought for a full day earlier, but most of it had been probing each other while waiting to see whose crew would collapse first.
Unexpectedly, on her side, Katakuri was being held back, Daifuku was the same, Cracker was being kited by that gunman, and Oven had even been defeated by that fat man.
That finally made her stop holding back. She began fighting Shanks seriously.
But during that Conqueror's Haki clash just now, she discovered that this brat had already reached roughly the same level as her, even if his raw strength was still inferior.
"Mamamama! Not bad, brat. But it still isn't enough."
Charlotte Linlin suddenly leapt into the air and sent out a slash.
"Elbaf Spear: Ikoku Sovereignty!"
Shanks narrowed his eyes.
"A giant warrior technique?"
As he spoke, he swung his sword and sent a sword aura flying into the sky.
Boom!
The two sword auras collided in midair and exploded.
Charlotte Linlin descended from above, raising Napoleon and chopping at Shanks.
Shanks quickly moved aside.
Her strength was already enormous, and now she was borrowing momentum from the air. Taking that head-on would put him at a loss.
Boom!
Charlotte Linlin split the ground open.
Shanks kicked off the ground and charged at her, his sword sending out slash after slash.
Charlotte Linlin did not dodge. She allowed the sword auras to strike her body.
Clang, clang, clang!
The sword auras hit her body and produced the sound of metal striking metal.
Whoosh!
Shanks kicked off the ground, jumped up, and drew his sword back.
"Divine Departure!"
"Hm!"
Big Mom raised her blade and slashed at the Conqueror's-coated attack.
Clang!
After a brief deadlock, Big Mom knocked the slash into the sky and punched at Shanks as he flashed to her side.
Shanks also swung his sword.
Boom!
Another collision of Conqueror's Haki erupted.
The two remained locked for a moment, then each pulled back.
"Mamamama! Still not enough, brat."
Charlotte Linlin mounted Zeus and flew into the air. She raised Napoleon as lightning gathered around her.
"Tenman Daijizai Tenjin!"
Big Mom controlled Zeus, using lightning to bombard the surrounding area indiscriminately. Each bolt had its own will, changing direction to attack Shanks whenever he tried to dodge.
Boom, boom, boom!
Lightning constantly chased Shanks as he moved at high speed.
"What a pain."
Shanks slashed out, his sword aura deflecting the incoming lightning and sending it blasting into the surroundings.
"Mamamama! It's not over yet!"
"Thunderbolt!"
Charlotte Linlin controlled Zeus, bringing down a massive bolt of lightning from the sky toward Shanks, who was rising with Geppo.
"Dangerous."
Shanks pushed off hard and hurriedly split the giant lightning pillar apart.
Boom!
The lightning pillar blasted a huge pit into the ground.
"Mamamama! Choosing to fight me in the air… I have to say, brat, you're really stupid."
Clang, clang, clang!
The two clashed repeatedly in the sky, but Shanks was at a disadvantage. She had a thundercloud under her feet and a fireball assisting from the side.
Clang!
Big Mom knocked him away.
"Emperor Sword: Broken Blade!"
She covered Napoleon with Prometheus' flames and slashed fiercely at Shanks.
Clang!
The moment they collided, Shanks felt a tremendous force rush toward him, even greater than before.
Whoosh!
Unable to hold on, he was knocked down toward the ground.
Boom!
Shanks had a close meeting with the earth.
"Mother's Flame Slash!"
Charlotte Linlin used Napoleon, wreathed in a massive amount of flame, to launch a slash at him on the ground.
Shanks quickly jumped out of the pit and slashed directly at her arm.
"Divine Departure!"
Big Mom turned and chopped down.
Boom, boom!
Their Conqueror's coating collided again. Black lightning crackled around them, and the ground burst apart.
"Hey, hey, isn't this way too terrifying?"
Whitebeard's sons stared at the two people clashing in the field.
The arrogance they had shown earlier, their belief that their father was invincible and their talk of dominating the New World, had vanished.
Whitebeard was indeed strong.
But looking now, which of the Three Emperors was easy to deal with?
Even Shanks of the Red Hair Pirates could fight one of the Three Emperors like this.
Jozu's face looked ugly as he watched the two collide, then looked toward the other battlefields.
Oven, the opponent who had troubled him most, had been defeated outright.
Although Jozu was diamond, Oven could generate heat. Even so, someone from the Red Hair Pirates had beaten him.
Jozu only felt his face burning.
He had always looked down on the Red Hair Pirates. They had been forced to retreat once, and people like that were losers in his eyes.
Unexpectedly, in just a few years, they had slapped him in the face with their strength.
Not only was their captain absurdly strong, but their crew members were terrifying as well.
Katakuri had been held back and still had not escaped his ability after two days.
The others were not doing much better. One after another, they were either held back or defeated by the Red Hair Pirates. Even Charlotte Daifuku was being pushed back.
Marco's eyes were a little dim.
The brat from Roger's ship had grown to this level, while he was still standing still.
Even Kuro from White Ghost's side made him feel troubled.
If not for his Mythical Zoan as a foundation, Marco could not guarantee he could stop Kuro.
Whitebeard took in his sons' reactions and did not regret bringing them here to broaden their horizons.
The effect was good.
No one was shouting about dominating the New World anymore.
When he looked at Marco, Jozu, Vista, and the others, Whitebeard sighed in his heart.
They had reached their limit.
After the last great battle, they had indeed trained their Haki bitterly, but it was still just that.
Once his body recovered after drinking the medicine, they stopped training so hard. One by one, they believed that as long as he was here, the Whitebeard Pirates were invincible.
But they had never thought about what would happen one day when he was gone.
Would they be able to withstand the rules of this sea?
The strong prey on the weak. Those who adapt survive.
The person Whitebeard had once favored most was White Ghost.
He had planned to make White Ghost his son after the brat entered the New World and let him take over the Whitebeard Pirates.
That brat had methods, strength, and could make money.
Whitebeard liked seedlings like that the most.
If he refused, then Whitebeard would just beat him up. With the power Whitebeard could display now, he feared no one in a one-on-one fight.
But after the news spread that White Ghost had fought the three Admirals alone, Whitebeard killed that idea in his heart.
Heh.
They were already standing on equal footing now.
Only an idiot would come and become his son.
If he raised that idea, that guy would probably draw his sword and fight him without hesitation.
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