The natural system started off strong, but the navy finally reached its peak!

A knife wound was clearly visible on it, with strange, pale particles dancing around the edges.

"The shock and domineering aura... did it penetrate directly?" For the first time, a look of seriousness appeared on his ferocious face, and he abruptly raised his eyes.

"You're the Navy's 'Skyquake'?!"

"You only recognize me now? Looks like my reputation hasn't been as high as it used to be during my administrative leave!"

Gern flicked the blood off his blade: "Your ability is indeed troublesome, but mine isn't bad either!"

"Don't get cocky! You think you're Whitebeard?! You bastard!" Wald suddenly clenched his fists together.

"Momo - Two Hundred Times Acceleration!"

"Boom!" As soon as he finished speaking, Wald's figure vanished from the spot, his speed boosted to its limit by his Devil Fruit ability.

This movement is so fast that it's almost impossible for the human retina to detect it.

Only occasionally could one see a series of afterimages flashing around Gern, each flash accompanied by a sonic boom cloud exploding.

"Two hundred times?" Gern suddenly turned to the side, his black blade precisely blocking the fist that came hurtling from the void.

"But it's still too slow for my Observation Haki!"

After all, whether it's Rayleigh, Grimm, or even Vice Admiral Garp at full power, their speed is much faster than yours.

Without looking up, Gern took a half step back, and the ground where he had been standing was blasted into a ten-meter-deep crater by the kick that came from above.

"Behind him." He slashed backward with his sword, the blade colliding with his knee, which was covered in Armament Haki, creating dazzling sparks.

Wald grew increasingly alarmed as the fight progressed; Wald's speed had increased two hundredfold, making him theoretically impossible for anyone to completely capture.

But this young naval rear admiral seemed to be able to foresee the future, intercepting precisely every time.

"Observation Haki? No..." He suddenly noticed the gravel beneath Gern's feet vibrating at a specific frequency, and abruptly realized...

"Is it a vibration sensor? No matter how fast I move, it will still generate physical vibrations, but this guy is a Logia-type Skyquake Human!"

"You only just realized it now?" Gern suddenly grinned and stomped his right foot on the ground. "Earthquake! Earthquake!"

"Boom!" The entire plaza floor shattered instantly!

Countless pebbles were suspended in the air by the vibration waves, forming an absolute domain with a diameter of 100 meters.

Wald's high-speed movement was immediately hindered, and each step he took triggered a chain of vibrations, allowing Gern to accurately predict his trajectory.

"Got you." A cold voice rang in my ears.

Wald turned around hastily and saw Gern's fist right in front of him.

"Black Shock..." A spiraling pale shockwave swirled around the fist held at the waist as it was unleashed, the trajectory of the punch causing the surrounding space to tremble and collapse.

"Piercing Star!!"

"Bang!!!" The fist slammed solidly into Wald's abdomen.

There was no spectacular explosion; the point of impact only produced a visible shockwave ripple.

It burst through his back, triggering a cylindrical blast that reached a distance of over 1,000 meters, leveling a small hill in the distance.

"Whoa!" Wald's eyes bulged out, and blood mixed with fragments of internal organs gushed from his mouth.

Then his body flew backward like a tattered sack, crashing through countless buildings before finally stopping just outside the town.

"Wald!!" Bingjack, who had been left to watch the game from a distance, shouted in alarm.

Amidst the smoke and dust, Wald staggered to his feet, revealing a dent the size of a bowl in his abdomen.

Seeing this, he placed his hand directly on his chest, "Momo - Multiply Recovery".

"Hahaha..." After finishing, he wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, his smile twisted in a sinister grin.

"My regenerative abilities can also be enhanced a hundredfold!"

Gern frowned slightly.

The Momo-Momo Fruit can even amplify cell regeneration speed; no wonder the World Government is so wary of this ability.

He was even grouped with Roger, Whitebeard, Shiki, and others into a dangerous series.

If this falls into the hands of someone who knows how to play the game, wow! Unbelievable.

The sea breeze, carrying smoke from the battlefield, swept across the battlefield, and the air was thick with the atmosphere of tension.

Wald grinned, his blood-stained lips twisting into a grotesque smile.

His rough fingers grabbed the already tattered captain's coat and ripped it open.

"Rip!" The sound of fabric tearing shattered the silence, revealing his body covered in hideous scars.

Each scar is like a battle mark etched into steel, and the muscles rise and fall with each breath.

"Scared?" Wald's deep laughter rolled like muffled thunder. "Ha...too late!"

"Because..." The two fists collided, and the energy waves, amplified a hundredfold, exploded out in a circle of air.

"The warm-up begins now... It's time to end!!"

"Not bad! It suits your status." Gern's footsteps left fine cracks in the scorched earth.

The Black Blade Eight Desolations spun lightly in his palm, its blade tracing a cold arc.

He raised his left hand, his long, slender fingers unbuttoning the top button of his justice cloak.

A soft "click" sounded, yet it felt like a kind of announcement.

The cloak of justice slipped off and billowed into the air!

Dark purple Conqueror's Haki erupted into the sky like a volcanic eruption, tearing the clouds in the sky apart with swirling cracks.

The gravel beneath our feet trembled and floated, and the air hummed uncontrollably due to the extreme pressure.

“What a pity, what a coincidence.” Gern raised his eyes, the vibrating particles gathered in his left palm trembling violently.

"I think so too."

Chapter 171 The Limits of Multiplication

The sky over Hatchinos Island was torn apart by two completely different forces...

"Momo, 300x speed!" Wald's figure suddenly blurred, and the ground where he was standing exploded into a spider web-like crater with a diameter of ten meters.

The Armament Haki-infused fist, accelerated three hundred times, drew a vacuum in the air, accompanied by a sonic boom cloud, and headed straight for Gern's face.

Gern's pupils contracted slightly, and the black blade swept across the eight directions.

"Clang!!!" The sound of metal colliding echoed throughout the island, and the shock wave spread in a ring, leveling all the ruins within a radius of 100 meters.

Gern's military boots dug two deep furrows in the ground, and the blade of the Black Blade Eight Desolations trembled slightly from the force it bore.

"It's not over yet!" Wald grinned and changed his move, his left fist also accelerating and amplifying three hundred times as much as before, slamming into Gern's abdomen.

Gern's left hand was instantly covered in Armament Haki, and his fist gathered vibrational particles to meet the attack.

"Boom!!!" The moment their fists collided, space seemed to be torn apart.

The energy storm generated by the clash between the pale shockwave and the multiplied impact sent both of them flying.

"In that case, let's go even faster!" Wald adjusted his posture in mid-air, pushed off the ruins with his feet, and disappeared again.

"Momo - 400x Speed!"

This time, even Gern's Observation Haki could only catch a blurry afterimage.

"Bang!" A heavy punch slammed into Gern's back, slamming him into the ground and sending up a wave of dust tens of meters high.

Amidst the smoke and dust, Gern slowly rose, wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth, his eyes gleaming with even greater fighting spirit: "Interesting..."

Wald stood not far away, his muscles gleaming with a metallic sheen from his full-body Armament Haki, but his smile grew even more ferocious: "What? Can't keep up already?"

“No.” Gern suddenly laughed. “I was wondering how many times your body can handle?”

Wald's pupils contracted.

Gern's figure vanished abruptly, not with a shave, not with moonwalk, but with pure—"Shock Flash: Molecular Leap!"

Wald turned around hastily, only to see that Gern had already appeared behind him, his Black Blade Eight Desolations slashing down diagonally with pale particles vibrating at high frequency!

"Heavenly Tremor - Skybreaker!"

"Momo - 500x Speed!" Wald unleashed his power, using his Devil Fruit ability to increase his speed to the limit once again, barely managing to avoid the fatal blow. However, his right shoulder was still grazed by the blade, instantly turning it into a bloody mess.

"Pfft!" Blood splattered, and Wald staggered back, his eyes filled with disbelief: "You...how could this be..."

"Your acceleration is strong, but you still have your limits (your potential is insufficient)." Gern flicked the blood off his blade.

"And the vibration... was not there."

"What a joke?!" Wald grinned maliciously and threw a handful of bullets, the metal marbles gleaming coldly in the sunlight.

"Momo - 100x Range Extender Cannon!"

In an instant, dozens of projectiles expanded rapidly in the air, each transforming into a giant cannonball.

The surface of the projectile glowed red due to air friction, and the sonic boom generated by the surge in speed shattered all the windows of the surrounding buildings.

A barrage of destructive projectiles, amplified a hundredfold, rained down on Gern like a meteor shower!

Seeing this, Gern remained calm, his left hand with the five fingers slightly spread.

The surrounding air shattered slightly, and then eight pale white energy spheres appeared out of thin air, their surfaces crackling with high-frequency electric arcs.

"Heavenly Tremor - Eight Extremes Jade".

With a flick of his finger, eight Zhenyu beads shot out as if they were alive, tracing perfect arcs in the air and precisely intercepting every incoming shell.

And at the instant the Zhenyu made contact with the cannonball, "Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The shockwaves from the series of explosions shaved the ground within a radius of 100 meters down by three feet, sending smoke and dust billowing into the sky.

However, under the cover of the explosion, Wald suddenly appeared beside Gern.

At the same time, a triumphant smile appeared on his lips, and a strange, amplified glow emanated from his left palm.

"You've made a fatal mistake, Navy!" Wald's eyes flashed sharply. "A swordsman should hold his weapon firmly..."

"Momo - Fifty Times Impact!" The palm, imbued with amplified power, slammed down on the hilt of the Eight Desolations Blade.

Under the force of fifty times the impact, the black blade shot out like an arrow.

With a "clang," the blade sank deep into the rock wall a hundred meters away, leaving only the hilt trembling outside.

Having succeeded, Wald leaped backward, his feet carving two deep furrows in the ground. He crossed his arms in front of his chest and grinned maliciously.

"Now, let me see you without your knife..."

Before the words were even finished—"BOOM!!!"

An overwhelming surge of Conqueror's Haki erupted like a tsunami, and the air hummed under the extreme pressure!

Gern's figure suddenly blurred, and almost the instant Wald landed, he was already close to him!

"Who told you..." Gern's right fist was wreathed in a dark, reddish aura of Haki.

The purplish-black arcs of Conqueror's Haki crackled wildly across his fist, a scene that magnified in Wald's pupils.

"Do I need a sword to fight?"

"Black Shock - Fallen God Nail!!" A simple, unadorned straight punch, yet the moment it was unleashed, the space itself shattered like glass!

"Bang!!" The bones in Wald's hastily raised arms snapped under the strain the moment they made contact!

Before the force of the punch had dissipated, the terrifying shockwave pierced through his defenses, sending him flying!

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" His body pierced through the island like a cannonball, smashing through the ruins and rock walls along the way.

It finally crashed hard into the reefs on the eastern coastline!

“Cough…” Wald spat out a mouthful of blood, his eyes filled with shock.

"This power... how is this possible...?"

You can't possibly be twice as strong as me, I don't believe it!!!

The next second, Wald's muscles began to swell unnaturally, and the blood vessels under his skin bulged out like giant pythons!

"Momo - Ultimate Multiplication Giant Transformation!!"