Strongest Swordsman In One Piece - Chapter 237

After pulling out their swords, Hawk Eyes and El’s stared closely at each other while separated several meters away and as they hold their ground, their momentum formed a cyclone under their feet that spread out towards the surroundings.

Swoosh – Swoosh!

In the next second, both of their swords collided harshly with each other and created a dazzling spark of fire.

Like teleporting, El, and Hawk Eyes, travel the distance of a few meters in the blink of an eye as they collided with each other and remain in a stalemate as they engaged in the most common contest among the ordinary swordsmen. However, this kind of contest, among ordinary swordsmen, it’s really a battle with their strengths, while the contest between El and Hawk Eyes is a battle with their Haki.

As El and Hawk Eyes remain in stalemate for two minutes, under their feet, a cyclone formed and spread out once again.

This violent cyclone swept across the ground, causing it to shatter unbearably just like what happened to the ground when Whitebeard use his devil fruit ability.

El and Hawk Eye seemed to be in the center of the spider web, as the surrounding ground began to crack with a small and large fissures.

boom!

A few minutes later, the ground under El’s and Hawk Eyes’ feet suddenly made a loud sound and collapsed.

El and Hawk Eyes, who lost their footing, ended their evenly-matched stalemate and jumped away from each other.

After the dust caused by the collapse of the ground dissipated, an amazing scene appeared as the place where El and Hawk Eyes had remained in stalemate had turned into a bottomless hole.

It can be seen from this that the haki collision that the two had just collided with each other was not just about creating a gust of wind.

After probing each other Haki’s strength, El and Hawk Eyes changed location and continued their battle.

Different from the stalemate just now, now the two have started to test each other’s swordsmanship skills and experience.

For strong swordsmen and master swordsmen, the flying slash is a dimensional reduction blow used to bully the weak, especially the flying slash that is tens or hundred meters high.

However, using this kind of method to deal with powerhouses of the same level will only be a waste of effort, because when the airflow is cut off to create a flying slash the stiffness which appears in a fraction of a second will become flaws.

Therefore, unless they find a situation that is suitable for using flying slash, no matter whether it is El, Rayleigh, Shanks, or Hawk Eye, they rarely use flying slash to attack.

In addition to wrapping the swords with haki, only a flying slash containing a haki can hurt a powerhouse, or be precise, only haki can hurt a powerhouse.

As Kaido said, only haki can be above everything.

The high-end battle is a contest between devil fruit ability and haki.

If there is no devil fruit ability, it will be a contest of haki.

Skills and combat experience are relevant only when it’s related to using Haki.

El is only fourteen years old, the number of times he fights against humans is not even triple digits or a fraction of Rayleigh and Whitebeard, or even Shanks, Benn Beckman, and Hawkeye in terms of number.

However, at full firepower, he can tie with the world’s strongest man in the world based on his devil fruit awakening and technique called omniscient which is the fusion of Mind reading, Future vision, and Life Return (Seimei Kikan) that let him become invisible on one in one battle, the so-called skills, and combat experience were not worth mentioning at all in his eyes.

As long as his haki is enough, El’s skills and combat experience are the best in the world.

Unless his haki is exhausted or someone is powerful enough to seal his omniscient, no one can beat him in terms of skills and combat experience.

Including Hawk Eyes, the strongest swordsman in the world, after only exchanging sword blows for less than ten minutes, Hawk Eyes felt a similar feeling when facing Shanks.

As the kid in front of him has skills and experience that are totally inappropriate for his age or to be precise, the other party’s eyes seem to be sharper than his own eyes, as he seems able to understand all his thoughts.

“Can you use Future vision…?”

Hawk Eyes who has experienced hundreds of battles instantly realized that El’s observation haki has reached the highest level.

As if wanting to confirm whether El can use Future vision, Hawk Eyes increases his attack speed to the extreme, and the huge black sword in his hand is as if it’s light as an ordinary sword as one after another sword slash tries to drown El who is in front of him.

El blocked all of Hawk Eyes’ attacks with a serious expression, and unwillingly to be outdone, he also attack with his sword vigorously and fought back with a tit-for-tat.

It’s a pity that his attack was also defused by Hawk Eyes.

The title of Dracule Mihawk is Hawk Eyes because his eyes were like a hawk and this pair of hawk-like yellow eyes are not just decoration, because Hawk Eyes’ dynamic vision is indeed the ultimate eyes that humans can have, possessing an ability second only to his innate talent, mind reading as it can see everything including things that ordinary people can’t see.

Coupled with the calm state of mind that Hawk Eyes can maintain no matter who he is facing, his observation haki is not below someone who mastered observation haki to the extreme.

His strength is not only the number one on the Seven Warlords of the Sea, his haki is also first grade on the sea and with his comprehensive strength at the same level as Pirate Emperor.

Even if El enter his omniscient state, he couldn’t find a flaw in Hawk Eyes in a short period of time.

The same goes for Hawk Eyes.

As a result, El and Hawk Eyes, who duel in pure swordsmanship, fall into a stalemate the same as before Shanks lose his arm.

This feeling of being unable to defeat the other party made Hawk Eyes feel the same feeling as when Whitebeard’s blood boiled when he fight someone of his level after a decade.

Hawk Eyes’ strong fighting intent turns into substantial haki as it burst out from his body and toward the sword in his hand as he realizes that waiting for more than a month here was not in vain.