Chapter 85

What should we do?

How could he possibly know what to do?!

He doesn't even understand what this sudden attack was!

When the trembling subsided.

The southeastern region of Ghost Island no longer existed; the island's total area had lost a quarter, and several massive fissures extended outward from the southeast, nearly splitting the island into several pieces.

The central fortress had collapsed by nearly half, the forests had been flattened, and the massive circular walls surrounding the perimeter had suffered heavy damage from the chain of shockwaves and tidal waves.

The entire Ghost Island had been shattered by that single blow.

When Moria arrived at the edge of the destroyed southeastern region with Perona and the transparent-fruit user Absalom, along with several general zombies including the swordsman Ryuma.

They saw a young black-haired boy, dressed in black pants and a white hoodie, slowly climbing out of the vast pit where seawater was slowly rising.

Golden lightning still crackled faintly along his right leg.

"Maybe I aimed a bit off…"

Luo En muttered to himself.

"Too much focus in the power, and it's my first time using it, so control was difficult—next time I can adjust the leg motion…"

That terrifying attack just now.

Was it from this boy?!

Moria found it hard to believe.

"It's him, my lord! I just saw him fly into the sky!"

Perona pointed at Luo En and shouted.

Now Moria had no choice but to believe it.

"You… who are you?"

Moria stared fiercely at the black-haired boy, "Why did you attack us?!"

Luo En didn't even look at him; he only fixed his gaze on Ryuma, the swordsman general holding the black blade among the zombie generals.

"Just testing a technique—it has nothing to do with you."

Moria froze, then opened his mouth wide:

"Huh?!!!"

"Because of this, you destroyed my ship?! You obliterated my ship and say it has nothing to do with me?!!"

Luo En glanced at him and said, "Moonlight Moria, don't you hunt down pirate ships you encounter?"

Moria fell silent.

Luo En's calm gaze swept over them all and the zombies, finally settling on Moria's face: "If you have complaints, I welcome you to attack me."

Hearing such arrogant words, Moria could no longer hold back.

"Unforgivable!"

He let out a piercing roar, "Attack him!"

The transparent-fruit user Absalom instantly vanished.

Several massive animal zombies lunged and bit toward Luo En.

Perona activated her fruit ability, sending several ghostly clones flying toward Luo En.

The zombie generals Ryuma and Jiro simultaneously struck, two flying slashes slicing toward Luo En.

Luo En reached out and drew from thin air the great sword Nijūichi Kō, Lei Qie.

Zizzi.

Golden lightning surged along the blade of Lei Qie.

"Thunder Breathing: Sixth Form—Thunder Crash, Thunder Roar!"

Luo En unleashed the technique at the Sword Saint's level of cutting through iron.

Its power was more than ten times greater than before.

In an instant, countless golden lightning slashes erupted outward from him in all directions!

The slashes from Ryuma and Jiro were shattered.

The animal zombies were instantly cut into countless pieces.

Absalom, who had stealthily closed in, recoiled in horror—but too late; a slash of aura struck him, severing his shoulder instantly, blood gushing out.

Perona's ghosts could ignore these physical slashes, but they could not disregard the aura embedded within them, which threatened her.

She immediately retreated, floating upward to dodge, barely avoiding the attacks; her small face was now pale with fear and sweat.

"Damn it!"

The massive, grotesquely shaped Moria roared and activated his ability.

"Shadow Box!"

His shadow instantly transformed into countless flying bats, surrounding Luo En.

Luo En stepped down, vanishing from his spot and reappearing instantly before him.

"What?!"

Moria's eyes widened.

Luo En calmly swung Lei Qie.

But his slash passed cleanly through Moria's body without touching any solid form.

"Shadow Doppelgänger! Hehehehe."

Moria, having swapped his body with his shadow, chuckled triumphantly, "Your attacks cannot hit me!"

"Go on! I leave it to you!"

His words fell.

Jigoro and Ryuma simultaneously launched attacks on Luo En from two directions.

A glint flashed in Luo En's eyes.

Perfect timing!

Luo En, wielding Lei Qie, engaged the two former sword masters in fierce combat.

The blade of Lei Qie clashed against the Black Blade Shusui, also one of the Twenty-One Great Grade Swords, producing a series of crisp sounds.

Streaks of flying slashes scattered outward from the three of them in every direction.

Sword Qi overflowed in all directions.

Any zombie beasts that approached were sliced into several pieces.

Perona, hovering in the air, seized the chance to use her Devil Fruit ability, hoping to plunge that guy into a negative state.

But even while fighting those two powerful zombie sword masters, the black-haired youth was still able to dodge her ghost clone.

When the black-haired youth glanced sideways at her in the air.

Perona instantly felt as if she had fallen into an icy abyss, a chill spreading through her heart.

It felt as though if she moved even a little more, her head would immediately be separated from her body...

She immediately dared not make any more small movements.

"Hanauta Sancho: Arrow Notch Slash."

The sword art Ryuma displayed, whose corpse had been placed into Brook's shadow, was also Brook's sword art.

It was not at all the true strength of this Dragon-Slaying Swordsman.

"I see."

After Luo En had roughly figured out the limits of what they could currently achieve, he stopped holding back.

Wielding Lei Qie, the slashes he unleashed grew heavier and more随心所欲.

Every single slash carried the true meaning of Iron-Cutting.

Lei Qie collided with the Black Blade Shusui and the blade in Jigoro's hands!

Clang!

A streak of incomparably sharp sword light flashed past.

The surrounding ground was cut open in a cross-shaped pattern, and a building ahead was swept by the sword Qi, its upper half sliding down slowly.

Sliding down along with it were half of Jigoro's body, and the arm with which Ryuma gripped the Black Blade Shusui.

"Yo ho ho ho! Beautiful swordsmanship!"

Brook's voice came from Ryuma's mouth; blue flames rose from the severed-arm wound, then quickly spread across his entire body.

"I'm counting on you with this blade. Yo ho ho."