Chapter 218

The others in the newsroom also broke into cold sweats, their hearts trembling.

"That traveler Luo En again—he's truly a madman, even daring to assassinate a Celestial Dragon."

"This is a massive news story! If we report it, the entire world will be shaken."

"But we definitely can't report it—if the World Government finds out, they'll surely rage…"

"Chief, what should we do?"

Under everyone's gaze, Moria's bird-like face twisted into a mad grin: "Does the World Government really think they're gods? I'm the News King! How could I possibly let such a colossal news story go unheard by the world?! Spread the news immediately!"

"Also, tell the people on the Shichibukai Islands to set up the image-phone worms and capture as much footage of the scene as possible!"

"Y-yes! Understood!"

……

The Shichibukai Islands consist of many giant trees, divided into 79 independent zones.

Luo En and Huang Yuan's battle raged from Zone 22 all the way to Zone 54.

When Zato Maru arrived on the Shichibukai Islands aboard a warship with the Pacifistas.

The two had already fought their way to Zone 60, the government's headquarters.

Tao Tu and Tina had also followed closely, arriving in this zone.

They had just reached this area.

When they saw far off in the sky.

A black-red aura and a brilliant golden light slashed across the heavens and collided violently.

With a terrifying roar, two immense pressures exploded outward—the ground beneath them was instantly ripped away, and Tao Tu and Tina were shoved backward ten meters by the gale.

Centered on the point where the two figures collided, a spherical zone of a hundred meters in diameter formed, where the black-red Haki and golden light continuously scraped and clashed, unleashing shockwaves beyond imagination, like tidal waves spreading outward.

The government and Marine buildings below were instantly obliterated by the shockwave; the Marines were blown clean away by the gale.

"If you insist on brute force, you're even less a match for me."

Luo En, his body radiating scorching blood-steam, black hair whipping in the wind, spoke calmly to Huang Yuan before him.

In Huang Yuan's suddenly shocked gaze.

On his jet-black right fist, hardened with Flowing Cherry Haki, his power coalesced and surged again.

He shattered Huang Yuan's Haki like dry grass before a storm.

Under the stunned eyes of Tao Tu and Tina below.

Huang Yuan was blasted away by Luo En's punch!

He flew in a straight line out of Zone 60 near the coast, smashing through countless tree branches and trunks, flying clear beyond the Shichibukai Islands and out over the sea.

Zato Maru had just stepped onto the island when he saw Kizaru being blasted off it.

Before he could even react in shock.

A vast volume of seawater beneath Huang Yuan suddenly surged upward.

Forming a vertical rectangular prism of water, hundreds of meters high and a hundred meters wide, slamming upward toward the airborne Huang Yuan.

The timing was flawless.

"Old man?!"

Zato Maru couldn't help shouting.

Just as Huang Yuan was about to be trapped inside.

He summoned a Totsuka Sword and slashed downward, cleaving the water prism in two.

Vast amounts of seawater crashed back into the ocean, stirring up monstrous waves.

A crimson glow flashed in the sky.

Luo En, drenched in blood-red vapor, appeared above Huang Yuan, who had just finished his slash. His right leg, wrapped in Flowing Cherry Haki, descended like a black-red lightning bolt, smashing down onto Huang Yuan's shoulder!

Zato Maru hadn't even registered what had happened.

Huang Yuan's body plummeted like a meteor toward the sea.

At the very last moment before impact, Huang Yuan turned his body into photons and vanished from the sea's surface.

Photons coalesced—Huang Yuan reappeared on a warship near the shore, staring at Luo En with a grim voice:

"It seems your Kenbunshoku Haki has reached the level of foreseeing the future… How terrifying…"

"Old man!"

Zato Maru and the other Marines immediately turned their gaze toward him.

But when they saw Huang Yuan standing on the warship's deck, his right shoulder collapsed, blood trickling from his mouth.

Every one of them was seized by dread.

That… Huang Yuan, the Admiral… was actually injured?!

How is that possible!!

Zato Maru, who understood Kizaru's strength better than anyone, was drenched in cold sweat, trembling all over.

Even the Old Man isn't his match?!

Just how strong has that guy become?!

191—power surpassing an Admiral!

Above the sea.

Luo En, clad in black, stood in midair, eyes closed, black hair fluttering.

Below, Zato Maru and the other Marines gripped their weapons tightly, sweat on their brows, eyes filled with deep wariness as they stared at him.

Some Marines' hands and legs trembled; they swallowed saliva repeatedly, their shoulders weighed down by his aura and pressure, nearly too heavy to lift.

"Old man…"

Zhan Taowan stared at the wounded Huang Yuan, his face dark with anger as he glared at the figure above.

"Peacekeepers!"

With a roar, three Peacekeepers raised their palms and opened their mouths toward Luo En above.

"Attack!"

Instantly, six devastating laser beams shot simultaneously toward Luo En in the air.

Luo En dodged effortlessly.

A blood-gold ripple spread from his brow.

The overwhelming pressure of his Conqueror's Haki swept precisely over Zato Maru and the other marines; under this crushing force, row after row of marines rolled over with white eyes.

Zhan Taowan knelt on one knee, his pupils trembling violently, his spirit on the verge of collapse from the shock.

"Damn it!"

The three Peacekeepers prepared to launch a second attack on Luo En.

But they were sliced apart by a cyan wind blade unleashed by Rowen's Tempest Kick.

Sssss!

The three Peacekeepers exploded outright.

The blast's heatwave flung away the unconscious marines; Zhan Taowan, near one of the Peacekeepers, was blown straight into the sea.

"Yata no Kagami—Aurora!"

On the warship's deck, Huang Yuan gathered blinding mirror-like light in his hands and fired it toward Luo En.

"Useless."

Rowen, using his Level 7 Kenbunshoku Haki and Level 5 Future Sight to fully predict Kizaru's movements, dodged in advance and kicked upward, slashing a Level 10 Tempest Kick toward Kizaru.

Huang Yuan dodged.

The warship split cleanly in two.

Below, the sea was torn open by the cyan wind blade wrapped in Armament Haki, a fissure hundreds of meters long, seawater surging.

Luo En and Huang Yuan's battle continued across this stretch of sea.

Outsiders could not intervene at all.

News of Luo En killing a Celestial Dragon in the Sabaody Archipelago had spread through the media, shocking the World Government.

The Five Elders, enraged, ordered CP0 to immediately lead troops from the Holy Land Mary Geoise toward the Sabaody Archipelago to capture the Traveler Luo En.

Admiral Akainu, Sakazuki, was also speeding toward this location aboard a warship.

Just as Akainu reached the sea hundreds of miles from the Sabaody Archipelago.

On the distant sea.