Chapter 622: Top-Notch Dominance, the Potential of the Four Emperors! (Two in One)

Blackbeard, who had just obtained the power of the Shun Shun Fruit from Wang Zhi, was at the moment of rapid expansion of ambition.

Having successfully achieved his goal, he naturally wanted to quickly make a name for himself in this world with the dual fruits. Mihawk, who was attacking him, was the best stepping stone for him to consolidate his reputation.

The world's greatest swordsman.

If he could capture and kill Mihawk of the New Navy, his name, Teach, would instantly resound throughout the sea.

And it was precisely because Blackbeard had such an idea in his mind that when he saw Mihawk joining the battlefield, Blackbeard was not afraid or timid at all, but was extremely excited.

"Thief hahaha!!"

Bursts of laughter came from Blackbeard's mouth.

Mihawk's attack speed was very fast. In just a blink of an eye, the blade of the black knife night had appeared in front of Blackbeard.

It was not until Mihawk's blade was less than a few inches from the tip of his nose that Blackbeard made a move.

Teach's bloated body inevitably gives people a feeling of slow movement, but at this moment, Blackbeard's figure suddenly disappeared in front of Mihawk.

"Disappeared again!"

Aramaki, who was watching the battle from a distance, was shocked and had a deeper understanding of Blackbeard's devil fruit ability.

Instantaneous movement.

Really instantaneous movement.

Completely different from the high-speed movement technique of the Navy's Six-style "Shave", and also different from the extremely fast elemental displacement ability of the Thunder Fruit and the Flash Fruit.

The Blackbeard in front of him completely realized the space jump, which was a real instant movement. Whether it was captured by the naked eye or the perception of the observation Haki, Aramaki had no way to see through Blackbeard's movement trajectory.

"Thief hahaha!"

A chuckle suddenly sounded in Mihawk's ears, and Blackbeard, who had just disappeared from his sight, appeared next to him the next moment.

When Mihawk turned his head to look at his side, Blackbeard's big hand had already grabbed Mihawk's neck.

However, Mihawk, who was rushing forward, also reacted very quickly. Although he was a beat slower, the long sword in his hand also quickly retreated at the moment when Blackbeard's breath appeared. At the same time when Blackbeard stretched out his hand to grab his neck, the blade of the black knife was already blocking in front of Mihawk.

"Dang!!!"

Blackbeard made claws with his five fingers and slapped the blade of the black knife fiercely. The huge force directly forced Mihawk back in mid-air.

Mihawk held the knife horizontally with both hands, and his figure flew back. The boots on his feet rubbed violently against the ground, leaving two long scratches on the ground.

Blackbeard, who had mastered the ability of instant movement, was unpredictable. Even as strong as Mihawk was, he could not use his observation Haki to predict the opponent's next move.

After just one round of fighting, Mihawk had already felt how difficult Blackbeard was.

But in the same way, the smile on Blackbeard's face, who failed to hit him, also dissipated, revealing a solemn look.

Although Mihawk didn't know from which direction Blackbeard would attack him, his strength was higher than Blackbeard's. Blackbeard appeared and attacked, which gave Mihawk a moment to react.

For a swordsman of Mihawk's level, this moment of reaction time was enough for him to make an effective defense.

It was obviously impossible for Blackbeard to deal with Mihawk as he did with Aramaki.

The ability of the Instant-Instant Fruit was indeed extremely fast when helping Blackbeard to move. Even Kizaru's Flash-Instant Fruit and Sabo's Thunder Fruit were probably not comparable to Blackbeard's Instant-Instant Fruit.

This was a battle between strong and strong, and it was not the one who moved faster that could win.

Blackbeard did have an advantage, but this advantage might not be able to turn into a winning advantage in front of Mihawk.

Blackbeard's strange ability also made Mihawk concerned. After a brief consideration, Mihawk raised the long sword in his hand and chopped down directly at Blackbeard in the distance.

The green sword energy was released directly, and it hit Blackbeard in front of him in just a moment.

Dark acupoint!

Blackbeard did not use the ability of the instant fruit to dodge this time, but instead punched in the air facing the slash. The deep darkness spread out from his fist and soon formed a small black hole in front of him.

At the moment when the slash came, the structure around the small black hole just shook slightly, and then swallowed up Mihawk's slash.

"Liberate!"

Blackbeard then swung his left hand horizontally, and the deep darkness was like an ink brush, writing a "one" in the space in front of him.

The next second after the "one"-shaped black hole appeared, a slash flew out from the dark space and shot quickly towards Mihawk in the distance.

The power of this slash was exactly the same as the slash that Mihawk had used to attack Blackbeard before. The two were no different except for the difference in direction.

Mihawk's pupils shrank slightly as he watched the slash coming at him. He swung his sword from bottom to top, directly slashing at the incoming slash, forcibly deflecting the slash back toward the sky.

"Buzz!"

The terrifying slash sank into the sky, directly dispersing the clouds above the battlefield.

"The slash I release will become his counterattack against me"

"It can only be close combat."

Blackbeard, who has the power of two devil fruits, is very difficult to deal with. Long-range attacks such as slashing have no effect on Blackbeard. Whether he dodges with the Shun Shun Fruit or receives and counterattacks with the Dark Dark Fruit, there is no problem.

At least from this aspect, Mihawk did not see any obvious flaws in Blackbeard.

If he wants to kill this pirate, I am afraid that the final way is still to fight in close combat.

However, fighting in close combat with Blackbeard is very risky. Before Mihawk arrived at the battlefield, Blackbeard's series of actions to capture Aramaki were also seen by him. The strange darkness is probably not just as simple as absorbing the opponent's attack and releasing it back.

Even Mihawk is not sure if he can get out of that darkness if he is entangled by it.

Unless necessary, Mihawk will never put himself in such a dangerous situation.

Although he has been honored as the world's number one swordsman, Mihawk has never underestimated any strong man in the world.

Even the great pirate king Zhi of Beehive Island could not escape from the darkness, so Mihawk naturally would not be completely sure that he would not be affected by that ability.

Considering this aspect, Mihawk's actions became cautious.

However, he did not mean to give up. Attacking Beehive Island itself was the plan of their new navy. In addition to him and Aramaki, the two strong men, this time the new navy also dispatched the powerful force of the headquarters to deal with Beehive Island.     In addition to commanding the battle, Mihawk also knew that Tsugikoku Yoshiichi was also paying close attention to this battlefield.

So due to some accidents, the biggest opponent of their new navy changed from Wang Zhi to the black beard Teach in front of him, but Mihawk had already felt a strong threat from Blackbeard. It goes without saying that Kuzan and Tsugikoku Yoshiichi must be paying attention to Teach at this time.

Even if it was to allow his partners to obtain more information, Mihawk would never stop.

What's more, Blackbeard's strange ability has also aroused Mihawk's interest.

In his opinion, Blackbeard was already worth a kill!

After deciding to use close combat as the main means of combat, Mihawk no longer hesitated, and lightly swung the long sword in his hand, and flew towards Teach again.

Mihawk was very imposing, and Blackbeard had already noticed the other party's intention. Seeing that Mihawk intended to use this method to close the distance between the two sides, he wanted to stop Mihawk from getting closer to him.

A darkness spread out from under his feet. With Blackbeard as the center, the surrounding area of ​​nearly 100 meters was shrouded in this darkness.

The first thing Blackbeard did was to block all possible footholds of Mihawk.

For a pure swordsman like Mihawk, it is very important to root his feet in the ground.

Because only in this way can the sword in the swordsman's hand swing freely according to his own ideas. A swordsman with empty feet has no way to move the sword freely.

Unless you have the ability to float in the air in the true sense, even if you master the music step, you can only stay in the air for a short time, and the restrictions are also very large.

In the battle between the strong and the strong, this limitation of the Moon Step means weakness.

After doing all this, Blackbeard was relieved, raised his head, and looked at Mihawk with a smile on his face.

He was very satisfied with his idea.

Arrogance and pride are the basic characteristics of Blackbeard, a pirate.

However, Mihawk ignored Blackbeard's actions at all, just glanced at the dark ground below, Mihawk kicked the air with one foot, and actually completed the acceleration in the void, and rushed to Blackbeard again.

The blade flashed, and Mihawk, who came in front of Blackbeard, slashed directly at Blackbeard's neck.

"Hey, hey, hey, you don't think I dodge because I'm afraid of you."

Blackbeard took a half step back, stood on the ground with his front and back feet staggered, and then stretched out his hand, and the hand with the strong armed color domineering was actually directly in front of him, and took Mihawk's attack with his flesh and blood.

At the moment when a pair of flesh palms touched the blade, the domineering auras of Mihawk and Blackbeard collided with each other. The strong air wave quickly spread out around the two people, raising flying sand and rocks, and making it difficult for others to open their eyes.

Blackbeard actually blocked Mihawk's attack head-on. This sudden scene also made Mihawk slightly stunned, with surprise in his eyes.

Although Mihawk did not use the domineering aura in this attack, his armed color domineering aura was not something that everyone could match.

I thought that people like Blackbeard were just fighting with me by relying on the ability of the fruit, but I didn't expect that this unknown pirate in front of me actually had such attainments in domineering aura.

Even if Blackbeard's devil fruit ability is abandoned, relying solely on this powerful domineering aura, Blackbeard can be called a strong man.

Blackbeard, who has been lurking beside Whitebeard for many years, is obviously not an ordinary person.

People who are ambitious will not put all their bets on finding the Dark-Dark Fruit.

Teach is also a diligent practitioner on the ship of the Whitebeard Pirates. Although he has never shown his strength in front of the crew, there is one thing that everyone ignores.

That is Teach, who has lived on Whitebeard's ship since childhood. He has been able to fight with the crew and survive for so many years, not relying on the crew's protection and luck.

A little further away.

Tsukuni Yoshiichi, who was paying close attention to the battlefield, was surprised when he saw Blackbeard blocking Mihawk's attack.

Haki is one of the important criteria for measuring the strength of a strong man.

Tsukuni Yoshiichi guessed that Teach might have a good Haki ability, but he did not expect that the opponent's Armament Haki could be on par with Mihawk.

However, the surprise on Tsukuni Yoshiichi's face soon disappeared because he thought of one thing.

That is, in the original time and space, Blackbeard Teach had a conflict with Red-haired Shanks. At that time, he had not yet obtained the Dark-Dark Fruit, nor had he killed Captain Thatch and escaped from the Whitebeard Pirates.

When Red-haired Shanks went to the Whitebeard Pirates' ship to warn Whitebeard to withdraw Ace, he had already been left with three scars at the corners of his eyes by Blackbeard.

Even when Ace was still a newcomer who had just set sail, when he, as the elder brother, went to meet Shanks to thank him for taking care of Luffy, he already had those three scars on his face.

All these signs show that Blackbeard is unfathomable.

Even if he didn't get the power of the Dark Dark Fruit, he was definitely a strong man who should not be underestimated.

And now Blackbeard has grown to the top level in both fruit ability and domineering, and his combat power can even compete with Whitebeard back then.

Although Mihawk may not have used his full strength, Tsugikoku Yoshiichi has a hunch that Mihawk alone may not be able to take down Blackbeard.

Even if he can defeat the opponent, it is absolutely impossible to leave Blackbeard on Beehive Island.

"Kuzan, don't let your subordinates go to the island before the battle is officially decided."

"I'll go over first. I'm afraid Mihawk won't be able to defeat his opponent in a short time."

Thinking of this, Tsukuni Yoshiichi had already made up his mind. After telling Kuzan a few words, he jumped lightly and flew out from the deck. Then his figure quickly turned into a residual image and quickly disappeared from Kuzan's sight.

Blackbeard has strength and ambition.

Such a person poses a greater threat to world stability than a pirate like Wang Zhi who lives in a corner.

The opponent's ability to teleport instantly also made Tsukuni Yoshiichi hesitate in his heart. He planned to attack and kill the opponent unexpectedly. If Blackbeard escaped this time, it would be impossible to execute this pirate next time.

Even Tsukuni Yoshiichi did not have the confidence to keep Blackbeard in a one-on-one battle.

"Teleportation."

"What a troublesome ability--"

"This ability must have been taken from Wang Zhi. No wonder Wang Zhi was able to escape from my hands back then."