Chapter 150

Luo En dodged the bear's strike and retreated back in front of them, his expression calm and composed.

"Seeing me, you don't seem surprised at all."

Huang Yuan landed on the ground and gazed at him.

"I guessed it already, so there's nothing to be startled about."

Luo En smiled, "Still, your speed is much faster than I expected."

"How could we possibly deal with someone like you if we weren't fast?"

As Huang Yuan spoke, his figure vanished instantly.

The next instant he appeared before Luo En, his glowing right leg lifting to sweep sideways: "Have you ever been kicked by light?"

"No."

Luo En, anticipating the motion with Kenbunshoku Haki, kicked out in response.

The moment their legs, wrapped in Armament Haki, collided.

With the explosive force of their kicks and clashing Haki, a terrifying shockwave erupted outward!

The ground beneath their feet sank abruptly, the earth trembled, countless cracks spread in all directions, layer upon layer collapsing!

The compressed air let out a deafening roar, and gales raged wildly.

The thick snow all around was completely blown away, trees in the mountains snapped, and the ground was ripped outward.

Guina and the others were forced to retreat backward.

In this sea of floating snow that covered the entire island, a spherical, snowless space with a radius of a hundred meters formed around the two of them!

Huang Yuan, hands in his pockets, looked down at Luo En, who had blocked his Flash Kick, and wore his usual sly grin as he spoke slowly:

"Is this your current strength? Truly terrifying…"

Luo En, his black hair whipping in the wind, looked up at him with a harmless smile.

"If you're going to fight, stop talking nonsense."

"So terrifying."

Huang Yuan laughed, his body dissolving into photons.

Luo En's figure vanished from his spot at the same instant.

The battle between Huang Yuan and Luo En was beyond the reach of even the strongest Guina; their speed was too fast for the naked eye to follow, and without Kenbunshoku Haki, one couldn't even tell where they were.

For a time, their figures kept appearing and disappearing in all directions, flashing into view for an instant before vanishing again.

Every time their attacks clashed, it was like thunder booming, with immense noise and force.

The sound could be heard from every corner of Drum Island.

"What's going on?"

Households across Drum Island opened their doors and looked up at the sky.

In a small village, everyone poured onto the streets.

They saw a flash of yellow and black light far off above the mountains.

The earth trembled violently.

Under the stunned, frozen gazes of everyone in the village, the mountainside ahead exploded as if struck by a bomb, flattened entirely, leaving only a massive crater.

"Is this… divine punishment?"

Due to their battle, avalanches erupted across Drum Island; the meat-eating rabbit Rabon fled in panic, and the entire island descended into utter chaos.

The tree hollow hut where Dr. Kureha and Chopper lived.

After the earth shook violently once more.

Dr. Kureha could no longer hold back and stepped outside.

"What on earth is happening?!"

Curious, Chopper followed her outside.

The moment they stepped out—

Bii!

A yellow laser shot diagonally down from the sky, striking the mountainside nearby, triggering a massive explosion; the powerful shockwave spread outward, and before Dr. Kureha and Chopper could react, they were blown backward, carried through the open door and flung back into their hut.

"Ow ow ow."

Dr. Kureha rubbed her head and got up.

Chopper lay upside down beside her, dazed and blank-faced.

When the human and the reindeer finally rose and stumbled to the window to look outside—

Upon seeing the scene before them—

Chopper's eyes nearly popped out of his head.

"Eh?!!"

Dr. Kureha, over a hundred years old, felt cold sweat trickle down her forehead.

The mountainside that had been there moments ago had been flattened by the explosion's shockwave, leaving behind a massive, deep crater!

"What on earth… is going on?!"

Dr. Kureha was utterly baffled.

"Dr. Doree… look above the crater!"

Chopper's voice trembled.

Dr. Kureha turned her gaze upward and saw Huang Yuan standing in the sky, wearing his Justice coat; her pupils shrank sharply.

"Gah… that's… a Marine Admiral?!!"

Shuu!

A pitch-black crescent-like slash flew from the deep crater toward Huang Yuan in the sky.

Huang Yuan raised his hand, condensed a sword of light, gripped it in both hands, and brought it down in a slash, blocking that incomparably heavy strike.

At once, Dr. Kureha and the dumbfounded Chopper saw a black-clothed youth with flowing black hair, gripping a black blade, slowly rise from the deep crater.

The instant Dr. Kureha laid eyes on him, a storm of shock surged within her heart.

That guy, could it be…?!

After Luo En and Huang Yuan finished their kicking contest, they once again clashed in swordsmanship.

The instant their black blade and sword of light collided.

A streak of black light swept out in all directions, cleaving through everything in its path.

A golden slash soared into the heavens, slicing a rift more than ten kilometers long through the dark clouds above.

While Luo En and Huang Yuan were locked in fierce combat, Spider and Dobrman had also arrived on the island, leading Marines armed with swords and spears in launching an attack on Kuina and the others.

Kuina took on Spider alone, while Konis and Xiao Qi faced Dobrman.

Luo Bin and Bonney dealt with the surrounding Marines.

Bartholomew Kuma did not make a move, merely standing not far from this battlefield, gazing toward that other one.

On the seas near Drum Island, the ships of some pirates, reporters, and others drawn by the commotion had already arrived. Spotting the warship anchored at the shore, some pirate vessels halted on the spot — they had no desire to attract the attention of a Marine Admiral; watching from afar was more than enough.

Reporters under Morgans, president of the World Economic News, sped up and headed for that island.

They were going to broadcast this great battle live!

……

Chapter 135, Sky Calamity's Brigade vs. Marine Vice Admiral! A Live Broadcast Shaking the Seas!

At this moment, Drum Island was divided into two battlefields.

On the battlefield before the severed Drum Mountain.

"A two-sword-style female swordsman? What's your name?"

Spider, a Vice Admiral of Marine Headquarters who wielded eight swords, his face fierce beneath a helmet, stared at Kuina opposite him and spoke.

After their earlier clash, he acknowledged that the blue-haired woman before him was indeed, just as Peach Rabbit had said, a swordsman worthy of being met with his full strength!

"Kuina. Shimotsuki Kuina."

Kuina, gripping the Grade-Grade blade Wado Ichimonji in her right hand and the Skillful Grade blade Hira in her left, stared at him and replied calmly.

"I'll remember that."

Spider finished speaking, his figure flashed — Soru, one of the Marine Six Powers.

Kuina activated her Observation Haki.

Without even looking, she slashed both blades behind her.