Chapter 53: Striking a Legend
Chapter 53: Striking a Legend
Garp looked up, meeting a pair of eyes that contained endless malice, yet not a hint of madness.
Garp didn't understand why a brat who looked only a few years older than Ace held a malice toward the Marines that not even the top-tier monsters had ever shown. But he knew what he had to do at this moment: make this enemy of the Marines stay here forever and prevent the birth of a second Charlotte Linlin.
The next moment, an endless power burst forth from Garp's body. Black and red arcs of electricity coiled around him, and his eyes glowed with a red light. Streaks of black and red lightning shot across the sea's surface, and the formless impact kicked up a hurricane, creating storm-like, terrifying waves on the open water.
The powerful pressure washed over Louis, continuously bombarding his body and mind, forcefully blasting him back dozens of meters.
"Conqueror's Haki?"
"I have it too!" Louis narrowed his eyes. The next moment, a second wave of Conqueror's Haki erupted. Black and red lightning intertwined and clashed, hanging high in the sky, forming a giant black and red web that covered the heavens.
The Conqueror's Haki clashed on the sea's surface, and the already tsunami-like waves became even more violent. As far as the eye could see, the ocean trembled like water in a basin, and the seawater was tossed about as if in an earthquake, creating an apocalyptic scene.
On the surface of the sea, Garp looked at Louis, who was also surrounded by black and red arcs of electricity, without a trace of surprise in his eyes. He knew that for an existence like this, born with extremely high talent and standing above millions, possessing Conqueror's Haki was a very normal thing.
After a brief clash, Garp no longer held back. The powerful Conqueror's Haki, cultivated over decades of fierce battles with countless powerful beings, slowly began to suppress Louis's. Then, he used Geppo and instantly disappeared.
When he reappeared, he was already in front of Louis.
Garp's body surged with Haki, and the power he exuded was like a tangible black and red airflow swirling around him. He raised his iron fist, which crackled with black and red arcs of electricity, and swung it mercilessly at Louis.
"Conqueror's Coating?"
"Come on!" Louis, instead of retreating, advanced.
As everyone knew, even though Louis had shed the title of illiterate through self-study, he still didn't know how to write the word "coward."
A person can lose, but they cannot be a coward!
Losing might not necessarily shatter one's beliefs, but being a coward would inevitably lead to the collapse of one's beliefs and the decline of one's Haki!
Louis's majestic Haki spread from his palm, and a black airflow rapidly coiled around his spear, which was already glowing with a pale golden light. With a flick of his single arm, Louis hung a blazing sun on the spear, which was simultaneously coated in Armament Haki, and met Garp's iron fist head-on.
The next moment, the searing spear and the iron fist wreathed in Conqueror's Haki collided.
BOOM—
A sound like an earthquake suddenly erupted. The massive impact kicked up a chaotic hurricane, shifting the dense clouds in the sky and allowing the warm sunlight to once again shine down on the sea.
"Kid, your Haki isn't strong enough!" Garp grinned.
After a brief stalemate, Garp exerted his strength, knocking Louis's spear aside, and his iron fist instantly landed on Louis's chest.
BANG—
The black and red arcs of electricity pierced Louis's body. While continuously striking his body and mind, it instantly sent him flying.
After flying horizontally for dozens of meters, Louis spread his wings and shot out flames to stop himself. The next moment, propelled by the flames, he charged forward again.
"Not injured?" Garp was stunned. To take a Conqueror's Coated punch and not be injured—this was a situation he had only ever seen with Charlotte Linlin.
"Is this another iron balloon?" Garp was somewhat astonished. It wasn't just his powerful defense that was like Charlotte Linlin's; the two dormant life signatures also reminded Garp of Homies.
But he quickly pushed the thoughts aside and once again threw a punch at Louis, who was charging at him with a piercing sonic boom.
Louis's Observation Haki, combined with his vision, displayed every detail of Garp's punch in his field of view. He tilted his head, causing Garp's punch to miss. At the same time, the Seven Star Sword, coated in both Armament Haki and the power of the Life-Life Fruit, swept out, slashing across Garp's body.
CLANG...
The blade cut across flesh, yet it was met with the sound of metal clashing.
"Armament Haki?" As he flew past Garp, Louis narrowed his eyes and coated one of his wings in Armament and the Life-Life Fruit's power, turning it into a giant blade and slashing at Garp's chest again.
To this, Garp grinned. His burly, bear-like body leaned back, allowing the blade-wing to graze past the tip of his nose. Then, he used the strength of his waist and legs to flip himself in mid-air, facing Louis's back and throwing another punch.
Louis, with his Observation Haki, clearly perceived all of this. The halo above his golden hair spun, and the flames coiling around his white wings expanded again, shooting out to propel him instantly away from Garp's iron fist.
BOOM—
A blow powerful enough to collapse mountains landed on the sea's surface. The Conqueror's Haki, combined with the force of the punch, once again created a huge depression in the sea. Layers of waves formed a tsunami, rushing toward the distant Elegia.
Garp looked at the golden figure that had once again flown to a height of several thousand meters in an instant, feeling extremely frustrated. "Such speed... I'm afraid only Borsalino could truly catch him."
Several thousand meters in the air, Louis glanced at the tsunami rushing toward Elegia. With a thought, he controlled his ability's creations to quell it. At the same time, Garp also looked thoughtfully at the distant Elegia.
Louis stood high in the sky, looking down on Garp, who was using Geppo to stay afloat above the sea. Then, under Garp's gaze, he raised his hand and, from a distant thundercloud, summoned a ball of lightning that radiated a dazzling white light.
Compared to his formidable defense and speed, Louis's attack power was still relatively weak. An attack that could one-shot a Vice Admiral or a CP0 agent was just so-so to a top-tier existence like Garp. Louis also understood that, at the tender age of 12, if he wanted to inflict effective damage on an enemy far superior to himself, he had to borrow the power of a natural disaster.
The next moment, the ball of lightning, hovering and crackling in Louis's palm, merged into his spear. In an instant, the metal spear blossomed with a silvery-white light, imbued with the great power of a natural disaster.
Then, for the third time, Louis dived. As he moved, his golden hair flew, imprinting his cold, stern face firmly in Garp's mind.
BOOM—
A roar like ten thousand thunders clashing together sounded. The searing white spear left his hand, turning into a streak of lightning that, at the speed of lightning, shot straight toward Garp.
Meanwhile, on Avant Heim.
Shanks and the others were gathered together, surrounding their daughter for a final farewell before departure.
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