Kane suddenly spread his arms wide.
Boom——!!!
That was the sound of money.
A full 100,000 Violation Value was spent, exchanging for absolute dominion over the airflow in this area!
The lightning that had been dancing among the clouds moments before now converged like soldiers answering a rallying call, forming a terrifying thunder pillar over a hundred meters in diameter. With world-ending momentum, it violently pierced through the sea surface!
Immediately after, the sea began to boil and churn madly.
Right before everyone's eyes, a super cyclone connecting heaven and earth rapidly took shape in an utterly unreasonable manner!
"What... what is that..." a pirate from the Flying Pirates stammered, staring dumbfoundedly at the sky.
"Not good!" On the Oro Jackson, Rayleigh watched the terrifying sea tornado growing thicker and larger, his face instantly paling. "All hands! Hold onto the sails! Stabilize the ship!"
Though shocked, the Roger Pirates crew reacted swiftly, immediately taking their positions to battle this sudden natural disaster.
"Puhahahaha! Roger! Looks like your luck isn't too good today!" Garp laughed heartlessly while using Moon Walk to hover mid-air, watching the apocalyptic storm.
But Shiki the Golden Lion couldn't laugh.
Because he discovered in horror that the super storm that should have been indiscriminate in its attack was actually moving as if it had eyes, skillfully bypassing both Garp and Roger, heading straight... toward his massive fleet!
The storm... was being controlled?!
How could there be someone on these seas who understood how to utilize weather phenomena better than him, the "Flying Admiral"?!
"Who is it?!"
His Observation Haki swept across the entire battlefield, trying to locate the source of this abnormality.
Garp? Impossible, that idiot only knows how to use his fists.
Roger? He's tied up dealing with Garp, barely managing himself.
Then who?!
Golden Lion's gaze swept over the solitary navy warship. Then, his eyes instantly fixed.
Fixed on that small, almost negligible figure in the lookout post.
That navy brat!
Despite the great distance and the raging storm, he could clearly sense that the center of all the chaotic airflow in that sea area, the origin of the storm, was that brat!
It's him! He's the one behind this!
"Gehahahahaha..."
Shiki the Golden Lion was momentarily stunned, then let out an even more arrogant laugh than before, though this laughter was filled with icy killing intent.
"Interesting... truly interesting..."
"Where did this small fry come from, daring to interfere in a battle between kings?!"
Shiki suddenly redirected his famed sword "Withered Tree," no longer paying attention to Roger and Garp before him.
Killing intent, locked on!
Every hair on Kane's body stood on end in that instant.
The feeling was like being stared down by a ferocious beast, his very blood seeming to freeze.
"Wave Cut: Lion's Might: Thousand Valley Split!!"
Golden Lion held nothing back, immediately unleashing a heavy slash powerful enough to split an island!
That was no ordinary slash.
It was a golden curtain of light, a hundred meters tall and a thousand meters wide! Wrapped in the pinnacle Armament Haki of a supreme swordsman, it ignored the gales, cleaved through the torrential rain, and descended upon the Dog-head warship with an inescapable, extreme speed!
If that slash landed, not just Kane, but the entire warship along with the trench below would be split in two!
"Not good! Kane!!!"
On the deck, Bogard, who had just recovered from the impact of the Conqueror's Haki, looked up and saw that golden slash resembling divine punishment. His soul nearly left his body.
His usually calm face instantly contorted, letting out a desperate roar.
Too fast!
Too strong!
There was simply no time to rescue him!
"Kid Kane!"
Garp's pupils constricted sharply in the distance. Just as he was about to turn back, he was blocked by Roger's blade: "Your opponent is me, Garp!"
"Get out of my way!" Garp sent Roger flying with a punch, but those few seconds of delay were already too late!
That golden slash had already crossed the thousand-meter distance and arrived directly above the Dog-head warship!
Time seemed to slow down at this moment.
In the Lookout Platform, Kane's pupils reflected that ever-expanding golden death.
His mind went blank.
Run? Where to? That slash covered the entire warship. There was nowhere to escape, above or below!
Block it? With what? Use his recently awakened Armament Haki to challenge a slash from an Emperor-level supreme swordsman? That was suicide!
He was going to die!
This time, he was really going to die!
He had just transmigrated, just gotten the system, just seen the hope of striking it rich overnight!
How could he die here?!
Die at the hands of some brain-dead golden lion head?!
"You've got to be kidding me..."
Kane stared fixedly at that golden line of death filling his entire vision, his eyes instantly bloodshot and crimson red.
I just spent a hundred and fifty thousand points!
This investment hasn't even paid off yet, how can I exit the stage here?!
I'm going to be the man who manipulates the course of this world, how can I be casually crushed like a minor character by a remnant of the old era like you?!
"Don't... look down on me!!"
"My life... is very expensive!!!"
Boom———!!!
An invisible, dark red wave of energy erupted from Kane's center without any warning!
It was a materialized will formed from the extreme unwillingness and greed deep within his soul!
Conqueror's Haki Awakening!
Crackle!
Black-red lightning erupted around the Lookout Platform. Though immature, though insignificant compared to the three kings at the center of the battlefield, it undeniably existed!
That newly born Conqueror's Haki slammed fiercely into that golden slash wave!
It did not shatter the slash.
It did not even shake it in the slightest.
But!
It caused that world-destroying golden slash to pause in mid-air—for less than half a second!
That momentary pause!
It was enough!
Kane's body, driven purely by the instinct to survive, transformed into a gust of wind, narrowly brushing past the edge of that slash!
Rumble rumble rumble———!!!
Golden light devoured everything.
The entire Dog-head warship, along with the entire stretch of sea it occupied, was forcibly split in two by that slash!
Seawater poured in, forming a massive waterfall.
The wreckage of the warship was swept into the unfathomable sea abyss, groaning in its demise.
The entire area fell into dead silence.
...
A few seconds later.
Roger leaped backward, creating distance between himself and Garp. His gaze pierced through the dense mist of water droplets, settling on a massive floating piece of ship debris.
There, a disheveled figure staggered unsteadily to his feet.
Kane's clothes were torn and tattered, his left arm drenched in blood, yet he remained standing.
He had survived the residual force of that slash.
"Interesting…"
Roger grinned, revealing an expression of utmost admiration, the blade in his hand humming softly.
"To survive Shiki's slash and awaken Haki of that color in such a desperate situation…"
"Garp, the Marines… you've produced quite the remarkable rookie!"