Strongest Swordsman In One Piece - Chapter 234
The battle lasted for half a day and for the top Logia devil fruit users who can easily fight for several days and nights, or even ten days and ten nights, by virtue of their elementalization, it is not worth mentioning at all.
However, this battle only lasted for half a day, mainly because the battle arena which is the medium island under their feet is destroyed.
If someone views it from the top like a perspective of God, they will find that the medium island that El took control of and brought over to fight with Whitebeard has disappeared into the sea at this time and if they keep zooming in on the angle of view, they can still see a lot of island fragments on the surging sea.
On one of the island fragments, there is a man with a naked upper body and a lot of scars on his front, with some of the new wounds bleeding while his back is flawless without any scars.
This man is the strongest pirate recognized by the world and since the death of Rock, he has been occupying the world’s strongest throne, Edward Newgate.
“Pops, are you all right?”
At this time, a blue light beam flew at a high speed and landed in front of Whitebeard.
Looking at his Pops who was panting and had more scars on his chest, Marco hurriedly walked over and used Flames of Regeneration to help him heal his injuries.
“Gu ha ha ha ha…”
Seeing Marco’s anxious face, Whitebeard patted his son’s head and laughed. “That little brat who can’t even drink alcohol wanting to defeat me, he is still one hundred years early.”
“Pops, did you kill him?”
After helping Whitebeard heal his injuries because the medium-sized island was full of hurricanes and collision of conqueror haki for half a day, as well as a powerful shock wave, Marco could only watch the battle from a high altitude outside the island.
Therefore, when the medium-sized island could no longer withstand the collision of conqueror haki, shock waves, and hurricanes. When it exploded, even Marco was lifted and flew far away, and with his observation haki was unable to sense the two auras during the battle on the island, Marco can’t help but become thinking that his Pops sink into the sea or suffer serious internal injuries.
So, that’s why after releasing his observation haki and he was unable to perceive El’s aura and only his Pops, Marco could not help but ask.
“That kid left when the island was broken…”
As if recalling something interesting, whitebeard let out a burst of unique laughter again, before speaking proudly. “Gu ha ha ha ha… that kid wants to see my full strength to see how far he is from the ceiling of the previous era! So I satisfied him, now he should feel very uncomfortable.”
Just as he said, El feels a little uncomfortable right now.
“Cough cough… That monster, sure enough, he also awakens his devil fruit ability.”
At an altitude of several thousand meters, El caught blood while speaking and flying toward the Pegasus.
If someone looks closely, they will find El’s black robe at this time has also become tattered. However, there were no scars on his body but there were dazzling traces of blood left on the corner of his mouth.
El’s injury is the opposite of Whitebeard’s. The latter’s injuries are skin and flesh wounds while El’s injuries are internal, however, this internal injury, for El, who has Life Return (Seimei Kikan), he just needed to eat something to heal it automatically, without leaving a dark disease like on Whitebeard.
At this time, El did not pay attention to his injury, Instead, he was recalling the battle just now.
Just like what he thought, if there’s no injury and concerns for his son, Whitebeard’s combat power far exceeds the one in the Paramount War.
Not to mention, the current Whitebeard is four years younger than the 72 years old during Paramount War on the manga.
The 72-year-old Whitebeard, after being severely weakened, still has that level of combat power, let alone the 68-year-old Whitebeard who has no worries.
In this battle, El finally knew how far he was from the ceiling of this world.
Throughout the manga, only the strength of three people is unknown and these three are masters of the previous era
They are Pirate King Gol D. Roger, Whitebeard, Edward Newgate, and Naval Hero, Monkey D. Garp.
As the three major protagonists of the old era, they were either dead in 1520 of the Sea Circle Calendar, or super monsters who haven’t taken action for decades and are no longer in their prime.
Among them, are Roger and Whitebeard, who are the representatives of the pirate world, during their battle, El only knows that their Haki shatters the sky.
As for their remaining strengths, El did not know anything about it, but now, El finally saw the full power of the Strongest Man In The World.
El’s internal injury was caused by the devil fruit awakening power of Quake-Quake Fruit and this injury also shows that Whitebeard has long awakened his Quake-Quake Fruit.
If you think about it, it’s actually natural, Whitebeard, who has occupied the world’s strongest throne for decades, how could his body, Haki, and Devil fruit not match up?
Even El suspected that Shiki once mastered the power of devil fruit awakening, but just like losing his Haki, he also lost the power of devil fruit awakening because of that rudder, so he was unable to use the Float-Float Fruit at full power.
No matter what, El was seriously injured in this battle but he got the answer he wanted.
His strength is only at the level of the Pirate Emperor and there was still a big gap between the Pirate Kings like Roger and Whitebeard at their prime.
He can now fight with the old Whitebeard to a tie, but he will definitely not be able to beat Whitebeard at his prime period where he can use Quake-Quake Fruit and Haki unscrupulously.
The difference between him and the Pirate King level is the use of devil fruit awakening which corresponds to the highest level of haki.
Such a gap can only be caught up with time or he can also use some tricks to catch up or even overtake them.
Thinking of this, El called Doflamingo’s Den Mushi Mushi while controlling the Pegasus to descend from the White Sea.