Chapter 308

"Blackbeard, Marshall D. Teach's—"

Seeing everyone's gaze fall upon him, Makarov took a deep breath, turned toward the distant council hall, and after signaling everyone to step back, gathered his magic power.

The next second, Makarov once again transformed into a giant, clenched his massive fist, golden magic power coating it, and threw a punch that slammed brutally into the council hall.

Although it wasn't as shocking as Bai Huzi's, the impact of the giant fist carrying magic power was still extremely powerful, directly shattering the council hall and crumbling the surrounding earth. Immediately after, a crack appeared before everyone's eyes and kept spreading.

However, clearly this had not achieved the effect Makarov wanted.

"Step back."

Just as Makarov was preparing to continue, Bai Huzi had already stood before Makarov 660, clenched his fist, white light surfaced, and smashed a punch forward.

Crack—!

The atmosphere cracked, and the fissure spread rapidly, extending more than ten times the previous distance!

Having entered the three-star state, Bai Huzi—whether in strength or ability—had received an extremely terrifying boost. Now, if he were to face Celestial Sage Serena again, a few punches would likely end the fight outright.

As the atmosphere shattered, an incomparably terrifying shockwave force spread out.

Like an invisible giant claw, it tore crack after crack across the broken ruins, quickly spreading past the ground Makarov had destroyed, causing the entire ruined battlefield to begin shaking violently.

The force of the tremor tore the earth, spreading toward deeper ground.

Just as it was about to slam into the area beneath the council hall, from within the thick smoke produced by the shattered space, a massive figure flew out and landed on the ground, and at the same time a scream rang out.

"Aaaah~ That hurts! It hurts like death!"

……

"What is that?"

"Who is it?"

……

The council hall collapsed with a rumble, and dust filled the sky.

Seeing someone burst out from underground, the mages in the distance who had not overheard Makarov and Bai Huzi's conversation were stunned as well.

But before they could speculate further, Bai Huzi's voice had already revealed the black shadow's identity.

"Teach!"

"Zehahahaha… long time no see, old man, and everyone. Oh right, old man, how's your body? I missed you so much."

Climbing up from the ground, slowly brushing the dust off his body, the black shadow walked out of the smoke—and this person was none other than the Blackbeard whom everyone present gritted their teeth at!

"Blackbeard! You bastard!"

Before Bai Huzi could reply, staring at Blackbeard with that stubble-covered face, mouth missing a few teeth, laughing wildly, Grand Doerma's eyes were nearly shooting fire!

"Oh? Isn't that the President of the Council, my lord?" Blackbeard still laughed wildly and said: "The war is over, so can I become a councilman now?"

"Wait… no, whether you can even remain a councilman is uncertain now. How about you give me the position of Council President? As long as you give me the Council President's seat, I'll tell you right now how to traverse space."

"How about it, quite the bargain, right?"

As if deliberately saying so, every word from Blackbeard was like a sharp blade, stabbing viciously into Grand Doerma's heart.

Hearing Blackbeard's words, if he weren't deeply burdened with grave injuries, Grand Doerma would have lunged over to bite the flesh off him.

"Teach!!"

Bai Huzi's low voice drew near from afar, his thrown fist shattering the atmosphere, and the terrifying shockwave force surged out once more, spreading toward Blackbeard's position.

The visible shockwave crumbled the earth and blew everything away.

Faced with this incomparably terrifying shockwave force, Blackbeard, who had originally been full of bravado, was somewhat panicked and immediately darted to one side.

And the spot where he had just been standing had already become a deep trench.

"Zehahahaha… you really don't hold back, but then again, how could you possibly hold back?"

Blackbeard got up, still shaken, but looking at Bai Huzi, who had walked over at some unknown point, the wildness on his face did not diminish in the slightest.

"Hey, hey, hey, old man, we just met and you're already drawing a blade on me—is that really necessary?"

"You don't deserve to be my son, Teach."

Bai Huzi's tiger-like eyes were filled with murderous intent as he said in an exceedingly low voice.

"You violated the one iron rule of the ship. You not only killed Saqi, but also captured Ace. No matter where you flee, you must die!"