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

His face went from initial shock to ashen, then revealed an extremely suppressed...ugly expression.

As Gurn looked at Shanks' expression, the corners of his mouth seemed to twitch slightly upwards. It wasn't a smile, but more like... confirmation.

"Sorry, Shanks."

"I think... I've come up with another good idea."

He paused.

"It seems..."

"Straw Hat Luffy, on Onigashima... has to make another difficult choice."

"Is that so?" Shanks wrapped Griffin in Haki again. "Just because I lost to you back then doesn't mean I'll lose to you now."

"Tsk, did Roger never tell you that back then...?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Gern flicked his left wrist, and the Eight Desolations Blade emitted a clear, melodious hum.

"On this vast sea, one-on-one..."

"The Emperor cannot defeat the King!!"

Chapter 610 Another Defeat

for a long time.

The frozen sea was deathly still, with only the howling wind sweeping across the crisscrossing ravines and ruins.

The pale sunlight illuminated this shattered battlefield...

"Cough...cough cough..."

A suppressed cough broke the silence.

Red-haired Shanks knelt on one knee on the ice, while Griffin plunged deep into the ice in front of him, supporting his swaying body.

"He's incredibly strong, like a monster!" Tianzhen exclaimed.

Captain Roger once said that if you were from the same era as him, you would be a worthy opponent...

It seems...it's true!

After saying that, Shanks tried to raise his head and look at the equally wounded figure in the distance, but his vision blurred and became indistinct.

He wanted to question, to stop, to roar and charge again... but his body betrayed his will.

It felt like there was scalding hot sand stuck in my throat, and I couldn't make a sound.

Thus, his body, barely managing to stand, could only crawl forward a few steps like a useless piece of trash.

Then, with a 'thud,' my knee scraped a faint mark on the ice, and finally, the last bit of strength supporting my body was gone.

"Uh......"

A short, muffled groan.

Griffin, stuck in the ice, swayed slightly forward.

Shanks' fingers, which were tightly gripping the hilt of his sword, loosened one by one.

The light in his eyes quickly dimmed, his vision was completely swallowed by darkness, and his body, which had been holding on, was like a puppet with its strings cut.

It collapsed forward, crashing heavily onto the ice, splashing up tiny ice crystals, and then remained motionless.

Only a faint, almost imperceptible rise and fall of his chest proved that this Yonko still had a sliver of life left, but had completely lost his fighting ability.

the other side.

Gern gripped Bahuang's hand tightly, remaining vigilant.

Until the sound of Shanks falling clearly reached his ears.

Only now did my tense body truly relax.

"Ha...haa...hoo..."

He gasped for breath, each breath accompanied by excruciating pain throughout his body.

The wound on his waist and abdomen, slashed open by "Divine Avoidance," stung with pain once more, and his back, impacted by the Dorag wind pressure, ached terribly.

His arms trembled slightly from the overload of explosive power and blocking, and the deep-seated fatigue from overusing the fruit's power surged up like a tide.

Fighting two opponents single-handedly, he first severely injured and captured Dragon, who was also ranked at the top of the world, with swift and decisive action.

Then, they fought fiercely until this point, with the red-haired man at his peak condition, almost in perfect health, possessing "Observation Kill" and top-tier Conqueror's Haki...

Even Gern, who was a king-level being, felt an unprecedented drain on his energy.

"Heh, haha..." Gern chuckled softly, his laughter tinged with weariness and a hint of cold self-mockery.

"The current redhead... it's not going to be so easy to take him down without taking any damage."

But he won.

Won!

Despite being battered and bruised, and despite the immense strain, a king is still a king...

In the end, it was still him standing on this shattered ice field!

Gern slowly sat down cross-legged, ignoring the cold and roughness of the ice beneath him, and slumped back, staring at the sky.

He needed time, even just a short moment, to calm his turbulent blood and qi.

He restrained his excessive and dissipated domineering aura, allowing his nearly depleted physical and mental strength to recover a trace.

The cold wind blew through the sweat-dampened hair on my forehead.

Gern closed his eyes and focused his mind, adjusting the rhythm of his breathing.

Time passes little by little.

Only the sound of the wind could be heard on the ice field.

After an unknown amount of time, Gern slowly opened his tightly closed eyes.

He supported himself on his knees with both hands and stood up with some difficulty but steadily.

He looked down at the wound on his waist, then glanced at Shanks and Dragon lying on the ground in the distance.

A smile tugged at the corners of his mouth.

“In the end…” he muttered to himself, “I still… came out on top.”

Having said that, he didn't linger.

He gripped the hilt of the Black Blade Eight Desolations with his left hand and securely fastened it to his waist.

The blade seemed to sense its master's state, and the humming sound subsided, returning to silence.

Then, he bent down.

His right hand was still tightly gripping the neck of the unconscious Dragon, while his left hand reached out and grabbed the back of Shanks' black coat not far away.

Both arms exert force simultaneously.

Two once-powerful figures, capable of shaking the world order, were now dragged behind him like two heavy pieces of luggage, one on each side.

Shanks' body scraped against the ice, making a soft, rustling sound.

Dorag, on the other hand, hung limply, lifeless.

Gern took a step and walked towards the distant ice edge of Wano Country.

His figure stood alone and upright on the vast, pale ice plain.

Behind them, only two long drag marks remained.

...........

Meanwhile, in Wano Country, which is blocked by a huge waterfall and steep mountains.

The smoke of war has not yet dissipated, and Ghost Island is now emitting mournful cries and deafening crashes as it struggles to bear the weight of its burden.

Flames raged throughout the fortress, buildings crumbled, and the flag that once symbolized the Beasts Pirates was tattered and torn in the gale.

The outcome of the war was not fundamentally changed by Momonosuke's death.

On the contrary, the grief and anger over losing Momonosuke were etched even more deeply into the hearts of the Red Scabbards...

They transformed their grief over the loss of their leader into an almost fanatical fighting spirit.

The battlefield inside the palace.

BIG MOM Charlotte Linlin's roar had taken on a desperate, madness.

At the beginning, Kid and Law were completely cornered by Big Mom, but after their Devil Fruits awakened...

Law used his awakened ability to create a "wave" within Big Mom's body, successfully injuring her until she vomited blood.

Kidd then used his awakened power to imbue Big Mom with magnetism, unleashing a magnetic attack on her.

Let the steel balloon feel the pain from the bottom of its heart, something it hasn't felt in a long time!

It wasn't the external pain caused by being hit by Gern, but rather an uncontrollable, internal pain caused by the Ope Ope no Mi!

For a moment, this "Four Emperors," known for his soul and steel balloon-like defense, was driven to the brink of despair by the "Worst Generation" of two new eras.

Trafalgar Law's face was ashen, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth. The "ROOM" area had shrunk to its smallest size, yet remained perfectly solidified.

Each spatial displacement and internal impact precisely struck the woman's weakest point.

The awakening of his Devil Fruit power allowed him to wield the laws of penetration and impact to a terrifying degree.

Kidd, covered in blood, his massive mechanical arm, "bearing the pain," was red and deformed from overwork. He recklessly shredded all the metal debris on the battlefield.

Swords, guns, and building debris, imbued with the "magnetic power" of the Magnetic Demon, slammed into the old woman's steel balloon body.

Chapter 611 Three Emperors Perish in One Day (Part Two)

"You two... damn brats!!!" the old woman roared, trying to extract souls again and unleash her ultimate move.

"I won't... let you succeed!" Luo roared, thrusting the scalpel forward. "K·ROOM·Piercing Wave!"

An invisible, high-frequency vibrating penetrating force field instantly pierced through the area where the old woman was gathering her soul power, interrupting her spellcasting animation.

"Now's the time! Kidd's in charge!"

"No need for you to say it!! Magnetic Demon, 10,000-ton Pressure!!"

Kidd's eyes were bloodshot as he concentrated all his magnetic force, manipulating a torrent of metal as heavy as a mountain.

The force suddenly closed in and squeezed towards the staggering woman from all directions!

"Wei Guo!!" The old woman barely managed to parry with her knife, but her strength was far from its peak.

Crack! The crack on Napoleon's greatsword widened, and then Luo directly teleported away to shield the old lady's mochi!

Leaving others alone

"Pfft!" The Ghost Cry Longsword, carrying the awakened penetrating power, pierced into the old woman's side abdomen, where her defenses had collapsed, from an eerie angle!

"Aaaaaah!!!" The excruciating pain caused the woman to let out a piercing scream.

"It's not over yet! Magnetic..."

"Overlord Electromagnetic Cannon!!!"

Kidd poured all his remaining power, along with the internal destruction gap created by Law, into a colossal electromagnetic cannon that Magneton had conjured in his hand!

A blinding blue-white electric light tore through the air!

boom!!!!!!

The thick electromagnetic cannon beam slammed into the middle-aged woman's chest and abdomen!

The old lady fell completely off the island.

She was also calling for help from her own homemies, but the spherical space that Luo had created blocked her voice.

Then he thought of Gol D. Roger, and wondered in his heart why he didn't reveal the One Piece before he died.

Instead, it ushered in a great era of piracy, forcing her to endure these young pirates who wanted to take her head.