Chapter 188: Warring States: I Plan to Sell Some Navy Bases

"Mr. Garp, it seems time has left no mark upon you."

Mihawk had no intention of retreating.

He was the World's Greatest Swordsman and a pilgrim who had grasped a higher Jiangdian; he now symbolized the peak of Jiangdian in the Pirate World.

In the past, he would never have had such thoughts; he had only wanted to find skilled Sword Masters to fight.

Like the world's strongest, Whitebeard, who possessed the power of the strongest Paramecia, the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, even Mihawk could only concede defeat.

Because this was the limit of pirate Jiangdian.

Just as women could not become the strongest Sword Master, it was like a rule of how the world operated.

No Sword Master would feel that they could defeat all enemies with Jiangdian, so one only needed to become the strongest among Sword Masters.

But now, it was different.

It turned out... in some other worlds, true Jiangdian experts could defeat all powerful enemies with a crushing posture.

Whether they were Faxiux, Tixiux, Lixiux, Foxiux, or Moxiux... in front of a Jianxiux, they were all like paper.

You cannot beat a Tixiux?

That is not because of Jiangdian, but because you are not strong enough; as long as you are strong enough... one sword breaks ten thousand laws!

A battle intent, intense to the extreme, rose from Mihawk.

"My name is Qiaolake'er Mihouke!"

"I will prove the power of Jiangdian to this world, a power not distinguished from Devil Fruit users and Haki practitioners... not the so-called strongest creature, strongest man, strongest Paramecia, or strongest Zoan."

"But the strongest in the true sense!"

At this moment,

Countless fist shadows gathered and stacked in the sky; Doflamingo retreated a great distance.

Even Dragon, who bore the Wind Dragon Bloodline, was unwilling to take this move head-on.

Their keen combat awareness and biological instincts both sensed the danger of this move.

"Mihawk, is it? I have always regarded you as an ordinary Pirate; it seems I was wrong!"

Garp's gaze was grave.

On Mihawk, he smelled the same aura as the late Pirate King Roger.

That was a sufficiently pure will.

Roger was the purest Free Will on this sea back then.

And the Mihawk before him was a will derived from Jiangdian.

"Remarkable!"

Following Garp's exclamation,

The fist shadows filling the sky all vanished; to be precise, they condensed onto the fist Garp was about to swing.

"Come!"

Mihawk discarded all flashy variations and techniques,

His battle intent and sword Qi climbed to the peak, and he swung out a single, strongest Jiangji.

The Jiangji was not as large as a mountain as before, carrying a blinding sharpness.

Instead, it was like a crescent of green.

Green Flame · Yellow Springs Palace!

This was the name of this Jiangji.

"Is Mihawk seeking death?"

Some Pirates revealed looks of confusion and incomprehension.

Compared to the fist shadows filling the sky swung by the Navy's Garp, which had an imposing momentum like a rainbow, could even a fledgling Sword Master not swing out such a Jiangji?

It was not even as good as Tempest Kick.

Even Zoro, who was fighting the Navy, felt strange seeing this scene.

Only the Revolutionary Army Leader and Doflamingo, who were closest, sensed that this sword Qi contained power no weaker than Garp's Iron Fist.

Crack!

The sky split open like a mirror.

The entire Death Island suddenly fell silent at this moment, as if everything had lost its sound.

Boom.

The collision of sword Qi and fist.

A shockwave that seemed capable of overturning the sea spread out along the center; the ground was blasted into deep pits by this air fluctuation, and it continued to spread outward.

Countless players suffered, like wild grass struggling hard in a gale, and were instantly swallowed.

The aftermath of the two's collision spread to the edge of Death Island; the seawater boiled and was pushed away to the surroundings, and the entire island sank into it.

"Hehehe."

Doflamingo laughed wildly,

Seeming to be able to see the panicked faces of the audience behind the Den Den Mushi after this move, including Sengoku and the Five Elders at Marine Headquarters, as well as the Four Emperors of the Pirates.

This is the new era!

All former rules and laws could only be eliminated by the Samsara Game; anyone who failed to master the abilities of the Samsara Game, even Im, who stood at the peak of the world, would be reduced to a weakling to be bullied at will.

Silence.

The silence of the whole world; the air seemed to have stagnated at this moment.

Sengoku stared blankly at Death Island, where the dust had not yet settled,

Turned his head, looked at a certain Vice Admiral who was constantly analyzing data, and asked: "Didn't you say that according to the data sent back by a branch Colonel, Death Island has the protection of special energy, and its overall strength is several times that of the real world? Can you be specific to an exact number?"

The Vice Admiral who was addressed snapped back to his senses, glanced at Death Island with lingering fear, took a deep breath, and said, "The soil, rocks, seawater, buildings, and other materials from Death Island have already been purchased by the Haijunzhibu and are about to be sent back to Marine Headquarters."

"Before the materials are analyzed and studied, no data can be used as a reference standard."

Listening to his ambiguous answer, Sengoku frowned slightly and said, "I don't need standard data from material research; just tell me the estimate."

"Nine times."

The Vice Admiral answered cautiously.

Nine times?

Sengoku took a deep breath, and a layer of fine sweat appeared on his palms involuntarily.

If one were to calculate based on this.

The shockwaves from the collision between Mihawk and Garp could even split the Red Line.

A single battle between the two could even alter the map plates of the Pirate World, causing the Si Hai to become one.

Sengoku, who had already speculated that the game merchant was mysterious and powerful enough, felt that even though he had prepared himself mentally, he was still left dizzy by this news.

A battle as blatant as this,

even the Five Elders wouldn't be able to sit still, right?

"Bring me the Navy's defense deployment map!"

Sengoku suddenly waved his hand, ordering Navy soldiers to retrieve the defense deployment maps for Marine Headquarters and the branches.

Including the four great sea areas and the Grand Line.

The defense deployment map contained all of the Navy's training grounds, Navy bases, stationed Navy forces, as well as buildings, facilities, and islands related to the Navy.

"Fleet Admiral Sengoku, isn't it a bit inappropriate to mobilize the armies of the four seas right now?"

Some Vice Admirals close to the World Government raised objections.

They were people planted by the World Government within Marine Headquarters to monitor and better control the high-ranking Navy officials.

To them, all interests had to be centered on the World Government.

Previously,

Sengoku had demanded the use of military funds with a tough stance, which was already dancing on the edge of what the World Government could tolerate.

Now, he actually wanted to mobilize the Navy of the four branches and the Grand Line without informing the World Government?

Marine Headquarters,

was merely a subordinate Organization of the World Government; although it controlled a large number of troops, it was just like a Jiangjiun in some kingdoms whose level of technology was still in the ancient era.

All actions had to follow the orders of the king, which was the World Government.

Mobilizing a large number of troops from the four seas without authorization.

This had already touched the bottom line of the World Government.

"Mobilize the Navy?"

Sengoku scanned their indignant faces with a puzzled look and explained, "You all misunderstand; I have no intention of mobilizing these Navy forces."

As long as it wasn't mobilizing the Navy, it was fine.

The Vice Admirals on the side of the World Government all breathed a sigh of relief.

The current Sengoku was completely different from before, filled with a sense of sharp, exposed edge.

If it wasn't necessary, they didn't want to have a conflict with Fleet Admiral Sengoku; after all, he was the supreme commander of the Navy on the surface.

However, the next words made their vision go black.

"I intend to sell off some useless Navy bases and facilities in exchange for Reward Points to support the East Blue."

(End of this chapter)