279- Reaching a new level of Haki

"Don't think you're the only one getting stronger." Kairi shouted angrily as she decided to use all her strength in one attack.

Ethan didn't care what Kairi was saying and raised his leg and shot an air blade at her.

Kairi grabbed the sword with both hands and space energy began to gather around the sword blade and swung the sword and easily destroyed the air blade.

Kairi noticed Ethan's fist rushing towards her and hit his hand with the blade of the sword which altered the trajectory of his fist, causing Ethan to be surprised because she hadn't shown such strength before. Ethan kept trying to punch her but she managed to change the trajectory of his fist each time and then Ethan noticed that space energy was still gathering around the sword as if it was storing energy in it.

Ethan was using all his strength in every punch but she could still stop his attacks with her sword which left him dumbfounded.

Kairi was planning on giving everything she had in one attack, so she was draining her Haki and Stamina very quickly and after doing this attack she wouldn't have the ability to use Haki and Devil Fruit abilities.

Ethan used the Observation Haki and saw the future and knew the power of this attack.

...

*space cutter*

Keri hit Ethan's fists and spread his arms so he wouldn't defend himself and then with all her might she cut his chest with all the space energy stored in her blade.

Blood spurted everywhere as a smile formed on Kairi's face, "I managed to cut him off."

Ethan's defense was similar to Kaido's at this point, and Kairi's ability to injure him was quite an achievement and it could be said that she deserves to be as strong as a low-level Yonko.

Ethan's chest was cut from his right shoulder to his left waist and blood gushed out but his expression did not change as he looked at her coldly. "Are you happy!"

....

*space cutter*

Ethan without any hesitation moved very quickly and dodged her attack although he would be fine even after being injured but it was better to dodge.

But it seemed that trying to dodge her attack was useless because the attack penetrated space and appeared in front of him again, but Ethan was not confused or frightened as if he had expected it and without any delay covered his chest with dragon scales and a barrier of space energy.

But the attack broke through the barrier and hit the dragon scales, causing a profound effect on it, and the attack could not penetrate the dragon scales.

When Ethan covers his body with dragon scales, his defense has bypassed Kaido.

Ethan's expression did not change as he looked at her coldly. "Is that all you have!"

Kairi raised her head and looked into Ethan's eyes, cold crept into her bones, and she was trembling in fear, and her lips turned blue and it became hard for her to breathe. Ethan's eyes were like an abyss that she wanted to swallow and torture.

The Conqueror Haki was pouring out of Ethan's body and devastated the surrounding area.

Ethan felt that his Conqueror Haki had reached a new level and wanted to try it so he grabbed her sword with his left hand and punched Kairi in the stomach with his right hand with great force.

Kairi fell to the ground while holding her stomach feeling terrible pain but the strange thing was that there was no wound.

● Author: Ethan's Advanced Conqueror Haki is different from Shanks's and has a different ability.

"I understand, now I can harm the soul directly without harming the body." Ethan grabbed her by the hair and lifted her off the ground. There was no pity in his eyes when he looked into the eyes of this woman.

'That's strange. She looks so weak.' Ethan looked into her eyes that filled with tears and fear and then knew why she was so scared and couldn't resist, "Your haki has run out, isn't it?"

Her body trembled when Ethan said that confirming his guess. Immediately after that, without any hesitation, Ethan broke all four of her limbs, causing her to scream in pain and agony.

...

Cyrus stood in the distance watching everything that happened but he didn't care and started trying to use his strongest attack.

The flames on the entire island started to gather towards him and the flames around his body started getting hotter and starting to turn blue, the buildings around him started melting from the intense heat.

Blue flames gradually began to gather above his head until he formed a sun.

*Blue Sun*

Ethan grabs Kairi by the hair and starts walking toward Cyrus upon noticing what he's doing. Ethan looked at the blue sun emitting so hot that all the buildings around Cyrus had melted.

"Kairi, hold that bastard over there no matter what." Cyrus asks Kairi to use her space manipulation ability in order for Ethan to not escape the attack.

Kairi didn't have the ability to use the Devil Fruit anymore because she was too exhausted so she couldn't stabilize Ethan or even protect herself from this attack by making her body intangible.

Kairi was very scared because if this attack hit her even the bone in her body would vaporize.

Kairi tried to scream to tell Cyrus to stop but couldn't utter a single letter and also couldn't move a single finger of her body.

Ethan looked at her coldly and was using his space manipulation to silence her.

However he wasn't planning to dodge this attack in the first place so he just stood there as if Kairi had used her ability.

Seeing Ethan not moving a smile appeared on Cyrus's face and then he threw the blue sun that exceeded a radius of 50 meters towards Ethan.

Although the attack was powerful, it was slow and perhaps without Kairi's help, such an attack might not have hit a Yonko level person's body.

Ethan looked at the approaching sun and never moved from his place, which made Emma who watched feel anxious and wanted to intervene but upon seeing Ethan not worried she forced herself to stay in place and see what would happen because Ethan seemed confident of himself.

The sun reaches Ethan and hit him, and there was a powerful explosion that made the blue flame spread over a range of 300 meters and destroy everything and make in the middle a crater of a volcano.

The buildings turned into magma and began to flow into the crater, the blue flame still burning.

Within the blue flames Ethan was still standing holding Kairi by her hair and apparently unaffected by the blue flames as he walked towards Cyrus while firing a Conqueror Haki causing a sweat to appear on Cyrus' forehead but he didn't look as frightened as Kairi's.

Cyrus was confused. 'Why is this bastard unaffected by fire whose temperature exceeded 4000 degrees Celsius?'

While Cyrus is confused Kairi knows the reason well, 'This monster stole my technique again.'

Yes Ethan used the Kairi technique and made his body and her body intangible so the flames around them wouldn't affect them.

After Ethan came out of the blue flames range, he used his teleportation to appear in front of Cyrus and kicked his knee and the blow was so strong that he broke his leg and bent it in the opposite direction.

The pain was unbearable and Cyrus fell to the ground in amazement and agony, he protected his leg with his Haki and also that his leg can turn into a flame in order to reduce the damage so it is impossible to break it.

Ethan himself did not expect that his kick would break Cyrus' leg, Ethan looked at his leg in astonishment and saw that it was incredibly black and even there was no reflection of light as if his leg had been dyed with Vantablack.

Realization appeared on Ethan's face, "So this is the next level of Armament Haki."

It's similar to Yami Yami no Mi's ability when he touches an opponent he will lose his Devil Fruit ability as if he didn't eat it in the first place.

During this battle Ethan became much stronger, it was unknown whether it was due to his high talent or the anger within him.

Ethan used the Armament Haki on his hands and it was wrapped in Vantablack, then grabbed Cyrus by the throat and lifted him off the ground.

In response, Cyrus tried to use the flame to attack Ethan, but his eyes opened wide when no flame came out.

Ethan left Cyrus' neck and grabbed him by the back of his head. Then he let go of Kairi's hair and punched Cyrus in the face and all his front teeth were broken, but Ethan did not stop and continued punching.

Cyrus didn't stand still and started punching Ethan with all his might too but his punches didn't affect Ethan at all.

Ethan didn't stop punching even after Cyrus stopped moving and his head shattered. He only stopped when he heard the system's notification that he had obtained Mera Mera no Mi.

Ethan dropped Cyrus' body on the ground and looked at Kairi crawling on the ground trying to get away.

Ethan grabbed her by the head and hit her on the ground, then they lifted her up and hit her on the ground again, and he kept doing that until her face was covered in blood.

Ethan lifted her from the ground by her hair and looked at her coldly and started punching her in the face using the Conqueror Haki to attack her soul, causing her to suffer horribly.

Ethan kept punching her all over her body, sometimes using Conqueror Haki to torture her soul and sometimes using only Armament Haki and attacking her body, breaking the bones of her body bit by bit, in the end all the bones of her body were broken.

Halfway through, she started begging him to stop but he didn't listen and he looked at her coldly and showed her no pity.

Eventually she started begging him to kill her but he used life energy to heal her body and started doing the same from scratch.

Ethan healed her body twice and eventually killed her.

Ethan sat on a high rock looking at the burning island and it was not clear what he was thinking at this moment.

The news of Cyrus and Kairi's death spread quickly which demoralized the pirates so they were easily slaughtered by the Mercenary Guild, but many pirates thought death was their destiny anyway so they started fighting more fiercely in the hope of taking one or two enemies with them before death.

There were many Mercenary Guild members on the verge of death but suddenly life energy came to their bodies, fully recovered and they returned to fight. Everyone was confused by their sudden recovery but Ethan spoke inside their minds and told them to fight without worry and he would cure them.

Emma gets close to Ethan, so he notices her presence.

Ethan looked at her but didn't say anything.

She approached him and hugged him, but before hugging him, Ethan asked the system to clean his body and remove all the blood in exchange for some points because he didn't want Emma to get dirty by the dirty blood.

She hugged him, buried his face in her breast and combed his hair with her hand. "Do you feel comfortable after you killed them and got your revenge?"

"comfortable?! I don't feel comfortable." Ethan answered honestly, "Revenge and killing them won't bring her back."

Emma didn't say anything else and made him lie on the ground and put his head on her lap.