On the devastated battlefield, Admiral Hark's pupils tracted sharply. His gaze was locked oall figure in the sky. He couldn't believe how effortlessly she blocked his carefully prepared attack, which he had been holding in reserve while keeping a close eye on the Fallen Angel, El.

  Even Hark, a Navy Admiral, was stunned. He wasn't sure if the girl was from the Giant race, but based on her appearand the way she referred to El, it was clear she was quite young. Yet, she possessed such overwhelming strength. It was hard to prehend.

  "Linlin is improving rapidly," El observed with a light smile, casually carrying his massive halberd. He had anticipated Hark's i but chose not to intervene. El was fident that, under his guidance, Linlin would fully develop her vast potential as a born monster in just a few years. By then, even Navy Admirals would steer clear of her.

  "Admiral Hark, don’t uimate Charlotte Linlin..." Tsuru, now free but drastically aged, ched her fists, her eyes filled with rese. She called out to Hark, warning him, "She not only has an invulnerable body but also possesses a Mythical Zoan fruit that lets her steal youth and lifespan!"

  "Even Sengoku, in his full-power Buddha form, couldn’t suppress her and was gravely injured whe his guard down!"

  "What!?"

  Hark was shocked. He knew Sengoku's strength well, especially his Buddha form, which could unleash devastating shockwaves. But refleg on how easily Linlin had deflected his prepared Storm Leg, Hark began to uand. His heart grew heavy with caution as he goward El, who was smiling calmly, not even taking the opportunity to attack. "Aerrifying monster?" he thought.

  He could only imagine what a threat the Fallen Angel Pirates would bee if Linlin fully matured and tio serve under El, who already possessed immense power. The mere thought made his skin crawl.

  "Mamamama~ Admiral 'Iron Cw' Hark, is it?" Linlin stood casually atop the thundercloud Hera, resting her sword, Napoleon, on her shoulder. She gazed down at Hark with a grin and said, "Instead of w about stopping me, you should focus on surviving the uping battle! Otherwise, tomorrow’s headline won’t just be about the death or kidnapping of Celestial Dragons—it will be about an Admiral dying heroically in battle! Mamamama..."

  Linlin was well aware of El’s strength and was fully fident. She had no doubts about the oute.

  “Don’t get cocky, brat!”

  Hark’s face darkened, his eyes bzing with anger. He ground his teeth, gring at Linlin as she rode off on Hera. "You little punks shouldn’t uimate a Navy Admiral… I was fighting pirates long before you were born!"

  'Whoosh...'

  Meanwhile, seawater rushed in, filling the massive fissure El had carved with a single swing of his halberd.

  "This monster..." Hark muttered as he stared at the smooth, terrifyingly deep trench that now resembled a massive al. Even with his fiden his own strength, Hark couldn’t help but feel uneasy. He hadn’t expected El to produce such a devastating ssh so effortlessly. Intelligence reports cimed that El oftehe Red Line as a training ground, pung massive holes into it. The reports suggested El excelled more in hand-to-hand bat, but it seemed his swordsmanship was just as terrifying.

  The young Lunarian couldn’t have been more thaeen, right? What kind of monster was he?

  “Enough talk… time to get warmed up.”

  El lifted his massive halberd, pointing it at Hark from his t height. His eyes gleamed with murderous i as he coldly remarked, “Linlin’s right. You, Admiral Hark, will soon experience just how powerless the Navy’s top forces truly are.”

  “Arrogant fool!” Hark roared as he charged forward. His entire body was shrouded in bck fme-like tendrils, giving him a menag, almost demonic appearance. His cws, sharp and covered in advanced Armament Haki, moved with lightning speed as he lu El, aiming to tear him apart.

  “You only have oh before you—defeat,” El decred with a fierce glint in his eyes. His presence was overwhelming, and the fmes burning behind him only added to his terrifying aura. He swung the halberd with a single hand, meeting Hark’s attack head-on.

  'g! g!'

  The sound of metal g rang out repeatedly as sparks flew from their furious exge. Both moved with incredible speed, their strikes hitting with deadly precision from every angle. Within moments, they had already covered tens, if not hundreds, of meters, their swift movements too fast for the average person to follow.

  'Boom! Boom!'

  Even the shockwaves from their battle sent tremors across the nd, making it impossible for anyone nearby to feel safe. Powerful waves of energy sliced through the air, leaving deep scars and gashes in the ground. Trees were felled oer another as the destructive force of their battle tinued unabated.

  'Swish, swish, swish...'

  Suddenly, several razor-sharp energy sshes flew out from Hark’s cws.

  'Boom!'

  Boulders exploded as the once grand au house was reduced to rubble, colpsing like a house of cards. The unscious pirates, nobles, and merts who had been caught up in the earlier queror’s Haki wave were now buried beh the debris, their fates unknown.

  'Whoosh!'

  In the blink of an eye, a blinding fsh of light illumihe area. Tsuru, still uhe trol of the Pet-Pet Fruit’s powers, watched in horror as an enormous, unstoppable ssh tore through the atmosphere.

  'Boom! Boom!'

  The ssh ripped through trees, cutting them ly in half before tinuing its path toward the sed and third isnds, where it smmed into the ground with a deafening crash. The sheer scale of the destru left everyorembling in fear, drenched in cold sweat.

  As the trees on the first isnd groaned and toppled one by ohe se of perfectly severed trunks stretched out before them, creating a sight so vast and terrifying that it left them speechless.