'Boom!!!'

  A deafening explosion shook the entire Sabaody Archipego. The isnd trembled as a terrifying drical shockwave tore through it. Pirates, residents, nobles, and merts who had yet to flee, hiding in fear after the atta the Celestial Dragons, screamed in terror, barely avoiding injury.

  Trees, buildings, and people in the shockwave's path were ruthlessly torn apart and swallowed, leaving behind a massive, semi-drical trench. Though the trench’s diameter was small pared to the isnd’s overall size, it stretched across Sabaody, from the forest ruins on Isnd No. 2 to the sea, leaving onlookers stunned and horrified.

  'Crash, crash…'

  Seawater flooded into the trench, f a river about twenty to thirty meters wide, cutting the dreamlike isnd in two.

  Amidst the destru, a bloodied and battered figure struggled to rise from the rubble. Bck fmes surrounded him, giving him the appearance of a demon from hell, terrifying to behold. His face covered in blood, Iron Cw Hark gred at the t figure relentlessly pursuing him.

  "Fallen Angel El..." Hark's voice trembled with be and disbelief.

  "Tch, tch... An awakened A Zoan ability really is tough to deal with. You still stand up?" El, with his four wings spread wide and fmes burning fiercely behind his head, exuded an overwhelming presence. He looked down at Hark with arrogand disdain. "But you keep fighting, Navy Admiral?"

  His words, spoken slowly and deliberately, cut deep into Hark's pride. For a man who had risen from nothing to bee a Navy Admiral, it was an unbearable humiliation. He had fought for justice, risking his life time and again against ruthless pirates, only to be defeated by a 17-year-old.

  "Don't get cocky, you Lunarian brat!" Hark's face torted in fury, veins bulging across his body. He roared defiantly, "I am Iron Cw Hark! As long as I’m still breathing, I will never back down!"

  Without waiting for a reply, he stomped the ground and charged forward with incredible speed. Though his cws were brokeill had his fists, and if those failed him, he would fight with his legs, his teeth—Hark’s justice would never bow to evil.

  'Whoosh, whoosh...' The sound of his fists slig through the air echoed tinuously. His punches, infused with Armament Haki, rained down on El like a storm.

  'Bang! Bang!' The barrage of attacks was relentless, but El didn’t even bother to block. The fmes behind his head fred up as he allowed the puo nd on his body. The ground cracked beh him as Hark poured all his strength into the assault, but no matter how hard he hit, El remained unscathed.

  "Your punches are chaotid ck power, fueled by desperation," El’s eyes sharpened as the fmes behind his head extinguished once more. His strength, speed, aion time surged as he swung his massive Great Halberd, slig through the air.

  'g!!!'

  Hark’s eyes widened in fear, his hair standing on end. Crossing his arms, he barely mao block the attack, but the sheer force left his arms trembling, as though his bones were about to snap.

  "Fallen Angel El!!!" Hark screamed, but despite his rage, he was sent flying like a onball, crashing into the ground with a tremendous crash.

  'Whoosh!!!'

  In the instant, El’s wings fpped, sending out a violent gust filled with tless wind bdes that pletely engulfed the airborne Hark.

  'Boom... boom...' Hark, covered in Haki and struggling, narrowly avoided the worst of the wind bdes. But just as he was about to recover, El reappeared behind him like a ghost.

  "What!?" Hark’s face drained of color as he sensed El's presence behind him. Panig, he leaped backward in an attempt to escape, but his Observation Haki failed to predict El’s movement.

  "You ’t predict my moves if you’ve lost your posure," El said coldly. Not giving Hark any ce to escape, he raised the Great Halberd, gleaming with deadly light, and swung it down.

  'Ssh—'

  The air was torn apart as a massive shockwave ripped through the ground, severing trees in its path before tinuing into the distance.

  'Boom... boom...' Blood sprayed through the air as two blood-soaked cws were severed and flew through the sky.

  Iron Cw Hark howled in agony, stumbling backward. Both of his hands had been sliced off by El’s brutal strike.

  "Damn you, I will hunt you to the ends of hell—" Hark's face twisted in pain, drenched i. With a snarl, he shed out with a fierce kick.

  "Leg Scythe: Dragon Ssh!!!"

  'Whoosh—' A massive ssh, shaped like a r dragon, shot toward El.

  "Pointless struggle." El didn’t even blink. He swung his Great Halberd, effortlessly defleg the attack. The ssh flew off into the distance, crashing into the mainnd with a deafening roar.

  'Boom, boom…'

  El's wings fpped again, sending him flying forward with incredible speed. In an instant, he hovered above the bloodied, furious Hark, who gred up at him with hatred and defiance.

  "You said I'd be huo the ends of hell?" El's voice was cold and merciless as he looked down at Hark. "Well, you go to hell first. I'll send your masters down to join you, one by one."

  Electricity crackled around El’s Great Halberd as he lifted it high, preparing to strike. "Then you refle why you chose to be their dog."

  "You fool, you have no idea the true power of the Wover!" Hark shouted, refusing to give up. With a roar, he kicked off the ground, aiming both legs at El in a desperate attack.

  "Leg Scythe: Double Dragon Ssh!!!"

  "Thunder Dragon Fsh Strike!!!"

  A massive thunderous ssh tore through the air, obliterating Hark’s attack as it roared toward him.

  'Boom, boom…'

  "Aaaah… damn it!"

  At that moment, a powerful figure, stepping through the air with incredible speed, ehe Sabaody Archipego. Fleet Admiral Hammons William, having rushed over upon hearing the news of Fallen Angel El’s appearance, paled in horror as he spotted a bloody head being severed and flying through the air.

  "Hark!!!" he roared.