Rorschach remembered that during his training in Marineford, Garp and Zephyr both emphasized not to rely too much on the power of a Devil Fruit.
They were firm believers that only Haki was the power that transcended everything else.
But at this moment, looking at the massive island, like a continental plate, once again plummeting from the sky, Rorschach felt that this statement was not entirely correct.
Haki, while it strengthened an individual's overall power, could not create this kind of world-ending disaster. That was basically a pipe dream.
Only Devil Fruit abilities, which defied reason, physical laws, and scientific principles, could achieve such a level.
Whitebeard's Gura Gura no Mi was like this, Shiki's Fuwa Fuwa no Mi was like this, and Fujitora's Zushi Zushi no Mi could probably also achieve this kind of devastating destructive power.
No wonder Shiki had no outstanding subordinates.
With this level of power, along with his mastery of all three types of Haki and world-class swordsmanship, what need did he have for powerful subordinates? He alone was enough to awe the world.
Watching the floating island fall once again, Rorschach knew he couldn't let Shiki continue his rampage.
He extended his right hand, and electricity surged from his palm. He clenched his fist and jammed his thumb hard into his chest.
"Overload Mode! On!"
Boom!
As the electrical power surged into his heart, Rorschach's heart began to beat faster, as if a powerful pacemaker had been installed.
Thump! Thump-thump!
The sound of his heart beating, like a war drum, entered his senses.
A large amount of blood, propelled by his heart, began to flow rapidly, causing the physical strength he had just recovered to be consumed at a frantic pace.
Now, Rorschach felt as if he were in a fiery furnace. His whole body's blood began to boil and burn.
A surge of heat filled his entire body, and a wild power surged through him.
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!
The azure scales covering his body curled slightly, and hot white steam erupted from the gaps between them, making Rorschach's towering body appear hazy and ethereal, half-hidden in the mist.
The massive amount of electrical power absorbed from Enel, as well as the electricity drawn from the large thunderclouds created by Hibari, went wild inside his body.
Flashing arcs of electricity overflowed from his body, glowing and swirling all over him.
His silver hair grew long and spread out in the empty space behind him, with silver electric arcs intertwining on every strand.
Rumble!
A bolt of lightning fell from thin air and struck Rorschach's forehead.
In the next instant, his towering body, which was constantly spewing steam and white mist, vanished from the spot.
"Hmm? This speed?"
Looking at Rorschach, who was suddenly gone from his sight despite being locked on by his Observation Haki, Shiki was also a little surprised.
He stopped pulling the island, extending his Observation Haki to its limit, covering every inch of space within a thousand meters of himself.
Then, his pupils contracted sharply. Without thinking, he looked up and slashed at the empty space in front of him.
A heavy, lightning-intertwined halberd came from the sky, striking his just-lifted right leg.
Clang!
Before Shiki could express his shock at Rorschach's sudden burst of speed, he felt as if he had been hit head-on by a giant sea king.
An overwhelming force came crashing down, causing his great sword, 'Sakura Ten,' which had long been fused with the flesh of his right leg, to bend sharply. A crisp snap, as if it had broken, came from the connection between the sword hilt and his leg bone.
A gut-wrenching pain, just like when he had broken his legs himself nineteen years ago, rushed through Shiki's heart.
The terrifying force, like a tsunami, advanced layer by layer, shaking his muscles in waves. His back broke through the air, forming concentric sonic booms as he was propelled toward the floating island in the sky.
Below, Rorschach, with electrical circuits swirling around him, followed Shiki's backward flight like a shadow, rushing towards the super-island above, which was named 'Vermilion.'
This island was so large that it was even bigger than the G1 base below. It was Shiki's lair.
Countless massive and ferocious beasts lived on it.
Many years ago, Vermilion was a famous primitive island in the New World. After Shiki escaped from Impel Down, he used the power of his Fuwa Fuwa no Mi to lift it into the sky to serve as a research site for his chief scientist, Indigo, who used it to study IQ drugs that could strengthen the bodies and attacks of the beasts.
Breaking through the sound barrier, Shiki's back crashed into the underside of the Vermilion island, instantly shattering the thick, protruding rock layer. Large chunks of it collapsed and fell towards the island and sea below.
Rorschach ignored it, his body shrouded in deep blue Haki, moving against the air. He used his body to directly smash through huge rocks and clumps of mud. The halberd in his hand spun like a spiral, stirring the air, causing it to rapidly turn a fiery red.
The halberd, which had become a mix of blue and white due to the Haki and lightning wrapped around it, quickly became searingly hot and began to burn with flames.
Shiki, who had just managed to stabilize himself after smashing through a hundred meters of rock, was about to catch his breath when he saw Rorschach, holding a fiery halberd, charging toward him like a meteor. A surge of fury welled up in his heart.
"You little brat! Don't you look down on me!"
"I am Shiki the Golden Lion!"
He swung his legs wildly, slashing out gigantic slashes towards the charging Rorschach below.
"Lion's Threat! Severing Valley!"
The howling slashes came from above, raining down on Rorschach.
But Rorschach didn't care and continued to charge straight ahead. In an instant, he slammed headfirst into the dozens of slashes.
Boom, boom, boom!
A series of explosions did nothing to stop Rorschach's momentum.
The surrounding air swirled frantically, pushing his body forward at a breakneck speed!
"500 Million Volts Discharge!"
Rorschach thrust the fiery halberd in his hand forward, aiming it at Shiki's face.
Within the raging flames, streaks of silver lightning suddenly appeared.
Lightning and fire intertwined, Haki swirled, and a single halberd soared into the sky.
"Blazing Thunder!"
Seeing the dozens of slashes he had made easily broken through by Rorschach, Shiki's eyes turned red. Gritting his teeth, he thrust out both of his legs, and with a couple of swooshes, he slashed out a giant cross-shaped slash, sending it towards Rorschach.
"Lion's Threat! Cross-Slice Wave!"
The intersecting cross-shaped slash came down from the sky and collided with the fiery halberd thrust by Rorschach.
Deep within the floating Vermilion island, a deafening explosion resounded.
Then, the bottom of the island was blown apart. The rock layer, spanning several kilometers, was blasted away by the two colliding forces and came crashing down with a roar.
In Shiki's eyes, a blinding spark of light broke through the cross-shaped slash and shot towards him.
"What?!"
Shiki's pupils shrank. He only had time to wrap his entire body in a thick, advanced Armament Haki, forming a highly compressed, ultra-dense Haki armor.
In the next moment, the halberd, intertwined with lightning and fire, stabbed the Haki armor he had put up.
Accompanied by a piercing grinding sound, the muscles on Rorschach's arm bulged. He roared and shoved his arm forward.
Splat!
The thick armor covering Shiki's body was torn apart by the tip of the halberd, and blood instantly splattered from Shiki's chest.
A violent surge of lightning, following the tip of the halberd that had pierced his skin, shot into Shiki's body.
Zzzzzzzzzz! Snap!
Shiki's golden hair stood on end from the electric shock. He couldn't help but scream in pain. The flesh on his two legs, which had been fused with his swords, emitted a scorched black smoke. It was the smell of his flesh being charred by the electricity.
Boom, crackle, crackle!
With a terrifying force, Rorschach used his lightning-charged Dragon Halberd to pin Shiki's chest against the rocky ground of Vermilion. He continuously shattered the seemingly hard and solid rocks, pushing his way upward.
In their wake, countless boulders collapsed and fell.
The entire massive island, dozens of kilometers in circumference, trembled violently because of this, causing the countless giant beasts living on Vermilion island to look over and let out a series of terrifying roars.
Some of the braver ones even took off running towards the source of the immense commotion.
In the center of the island, a flat and wide green grassland suddenly bulged.
The green grass cracked, and tens of thousands of tons of dirt erupted from within.
Then, with a loud bang, the thousand-meter-wide grassland exploded. Two figures broke through the several-kilometer-deep ground of Vermilion island and shot into the sky above the island.
Screech!
A large shadow suddenly fell from the sky. Rorschach glanced up and saw a golden giant bird with a wingspan of over fifty meters. It opened its curved talons, which were larger than a house, and swooped down to grab him and Shiki.
Rorschach frowned and his eyes narrowed. A powerful burst of Conqueror's Haki shot out and slammed into the brain of the charging golden giant bird.
The massive bird's eyes immediately rolled back. Its brain, which was filled with bloodthirsty desires, became a chaotic mess. Unable to control its huge wings, it swooped past Rorschach's feet and slammed heavily into a gigantic mountain that soared into the clouds.
With a series of rumbling vibrations, the golden giant bird hit its head, which bled profusely. It dizzily fell to the ground.
It shook its heavy head, then flapped its feather-strewn wings, stirring up gusts of wind. It flew back into the sky and looked at Rorschach again with a pair of red, ferocious eyes.
"A beast has such a strong constitution?"
Rorschach was a little surprised.
He hadn't expected that his Conqueror's Haki was not strong enough to knock out a single giant bird.
Seeing the annoying giant bird about to pounce again, Rorschach frowned. Just as he was about to do something to kill it, he heard two crisp sounds of bones breaking in his ears.
Rorschach's heart sank. He quickly focused his attention on Shiki.
Then, his pupils suddenly widened.
Because in front of him, Shiki, who had been sent flying by the Dragon Halberd, was clutching the two great swords below his knees and pulling hard.
With two loud cracks, the two blood-stained great swords, the famous swords of the old era, 'Sakura Ten' and 'Kogetsu,' were separated from his two legs, with which they had coexisted for nineteen years. Shiki, whose skin had turned scorched black, held one in each hand.
As the two great swords, which were still dripping blood, entered his hands, an extremely terrifying and sharp aura erupted from Shiki's body and from the two long swords!
"Ze ha ha ha, ze ha ha ha ha! Come on! Navy brat!" Shiki laughed uproariously, his mouth full of blood. He laughed like a madman as streaks of black and red lightning continuously shot out from his body, turning into black and red energy orbs that relentlessly came crashing down on Rorschach below.
"Is this old man going all out?"
Rorschach gritted his teeth, and the Conqueror's Haki he had accumulated also erupted, turning into a black and red energy orb that shot out.
Rumble!
The two energy orbs, one large and one small, collided, blanketing the sky of Vermilion with countless Conqueror's bolts.
In an instant, the island, which had been filled with the roars of countless ferocious beasts, fell into a deathly silence.
Countless beasts' eyes rolled back, and they foamed at the mouth, falling to the ground with a thump.
Shiki swung the two wide-bladed long swords he held in his hands and brought them down with a single slash.
Swoosh!
Two sharp slashes that seemed to tear the sky apart instantly crossed a hundred meters and sliced towards Rorschach's body.
Rorschach roared and threw the halberd in his hand.
Clang!
After a loud explosion, there were a few sizzling sounds, and two deep, bloody gashes appeared on Rorschach's chest.
Behind him, the pained shriek of the giant bird could be heard.
Without even looking back, Rorschach saw that the fifty-meter-wingspan golden giant bird had been sliced into four sections by the two intersecting gigantic slashes, its bloody chunks of flesh falling from the sky.
Shiki, his eyes bloodshot, radiated a tragic aura and swooped down, swinging the two great swords in his hands at Rorschach.
"Lion's Two-Sword Style! Severing Valley!"
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