Chapter 172: "World Destroyer" defeated!

The shockwave from their colliding fists completely ripped up the ground within a hundred-meter radius, sending broken stones flying like bullets.

Before long, Wald’s giant body was shaken, staggering backward, each step leaving cracks and footprints several meters deep in the ground.

“Impossible!” Wald’s eyes widened, his voice booming like thunder, “My strength has increased a hundredfold, how could you…”

“Increased a hundredfold?” Gern shook his numb fist, a cold smirk playing on his lips, “So what?

No matter how many chaotic moves you develop, they’re useless!” His figure vanished abruptly, reappearing in mid-air, his right leg hack down like a battle-axe!

“Bang!!!” A downward chop, imbued with vibrating particles, slammed heavily onto Wald’s blocking arms, actually forcing his giant body to its knees!

“There’s also one more thing: your strength is borrowed, and you can’t adapt to it that quickly.”

Gern used the force to flip into the air, his left fist gathering power, “And my strength…”

The pale shockwave condensing on his fist twisted the surrounding space, “Is forged through a thousand refinements!”

“Black Tremor: Star Piercer!!”

This punch landed squarely on Wald’s chest, his giant body flying backward as if struck by a meteorite.

He crashed through the rock walls along the way, finally slamming heavily into the bay, stirring up a hundred-meter-high giant wave!

“Wald!!” From afar, Binjack cried out in alarm, his bony fingers gripping the armrests of his wheelchair tightly.

The sea churned like it was boiling, and Wald’s massive body slowly stood up, seawater cascading off him like a waterfall.

He looked down at his chest, where a huge indentation had appeared, with cracks spreading outwards like a spiderweb.

“Cough…” He spat out a mouthful of blood, but his eyes burned with even fiercer fighting intent, “Interesting… too interesting!

You’re actually lecturing me, Marine!!!”

“Momo: Overlimit Amplification!” Wald roared to the sky, his muscles swelling again, blue veins bulging like coiling dragons.

But this time, his skin began to seep blood…

This was a sign that the Momo Fruit was pushing his body beyond its current limits.

“Five hundred times!!” Heaven and earth seemed to freeze at this moment.

Wald’s fist struck out with the might to destroy everything; space twisted in its wake, and the atmosphere was squeezed into visible ripples!

Facing this world-shattering blow, Gern closed his eyes.

“Momo Fruit development should progress with the user’s limits.

A 100-fold amplification is the strongest you can currently adapt to; anything beyond that… is meaningless!”

Wald’s fists pounded like a storm, each blow carrying the power to destroy an island, but Gern’s Observation Haki had long foreseen everything!

“In fact, your movements are even much slower than they were at one hundred times.”

Gern’s pupils suddenly contracted, and purple-black Haoshoku Haki furiously condensed on his fist.

Vibrating particles wrapped around his right arm like a living thing, finally morphing into a ferocious black-purple Shock Dragon, its head roaring, its scales like blades!

“Black Tremor…” With a punch, the Shock Dragon roared and tore towards Wald’s chest!

“Dragon Fist!!!”

“What?!” Wald’s pupils constricted, and he hastily pulled back his fists to block, but the Shock Dragon directly pierced through his defense, and a violent shockwave rampaged within his body!

“Ugh!” His massive body staggered backward, blood spilling from his mouth; the Momo Fruit’s amplification was actually forcibly interrupted!

“It’s not over yet!” Gern’s figure suddenly elementalized.

He flashed as a white afterimage to Wald’s front, settling into a horse stance with his right fist pulled back to his waist.

“Black Tremor: Star Piercer!”

His fist hardened to the extreme with Armament Haki, and vibrating particles compressed into a spiral drill shape, twisting and collapsing the air under extreme pressure!

“Bang!!” This punch landed squarely on Wald’s abdomen!

“Cough!” Wald’s eyes bulged, and the thirty-meter-tall giant body was actually sent flying upwards by the impact of this punch!

“Damn it…” He gritted his teeth, trying to adjust his posture, but Gern was faster; in an instant, his figure flashed above him.

“Black Tremor: Collapse!” Gern brought his fists together like a war hammer and slammed them down fiercely.

“Boom!!!” Vibrating particles spread out in an eight-directional shockwave; Wald’s chest instantly caved in, and the sound of cracking bones was clearly audible!

“Ugh ah ah ah!” Wald roared in pain, spitting out large mouthfuls of blood, his body plummeting like a meteorite, but Gern had already predicted his landing spot!

He executed another Quake Flash, followed by an uppercut, sending a cannonball-like shockwave of compressed vibrating particles that directly blasted Wald into the sky once more!

“It’s not over yet!”

Gern stepped back half a pace, his leg muscles tensing, and Haoshoku Haki erupted, entwining him with lightning.

He instantly flashed to Wald’s face high in the sky, hardened his left hand with Armament Haki into a claw, and clamped it onto Wald’s head!

“Black Tremor: Heavenly Descent… Meteor!” Gern roared, throwing him towards the ground with all his might!

“Rumble rumble rumble!!!”

Wald’s massive body crashed down like a meteorite, the entire island trembling violently, and the shockwave kicked up a giant dust cloud hundreds of meters high!

…

When the smoke and dust cleared, a giant crater a thousand meters in diameter had appeared on the ground.

Wald lay at the bottom of the pit, covered in blood, the Momo Fruit’s amplification completely collapsed, and his body returned to its original state.

“Cough… cough cough…” He struggled to get up, but Gern’s figure had slowly descended to the edge of the pit.

black blade eight desolations had returned to his hand at some point, its tip pointing directly at his throat.

“It’s over, ‘World Destroyer’ Bondy Wald.”

“Why… why…” Wald struggled to lift his head, his blood-stained teeth grinding, his eyes full of unwillingness.

“My Momo Fruit… it can clearly amplify infinitely…”

“Heh heh.” Gern slowly stepped forward, the sound of his military boots crushing the ground exceptionally clear in the silent battlefield.

He looked down at this great pirate, who had struck fear into the New World, his gaze cold as ice.

“Because…” Gern said coldly, “No matter how powerful an ability is, it requires a matching physique to support it.

No matter how much it’s amplified, each time you experience a completely new level of strength, and your body simply doesn’t adapt or get used to this power.

Aside from the 100-fold amplification you’re most accustomed to, the rest of the amplifications, in the eyes of my Observation Haki,

Are nothing more than a baby who suddenly gained the strength of an adult.”

“Hahaha!” Hearing Gern’s evaluation, Wald suddenly burst into laughter, though his laughter carried a hint of desolation.

“It seems… my legend… ends here!”

“Can I ask you for one thing?”

“Speak.”

“Don’t kill my brother.” With that, the laughter abruptly ceased, and Wald’s head slumped down, completely losing consciousness.

“When you destroyed islands, towns, and countries… did civilians also desperately beg you?”

Gern’s lips curved into a sneering arc, and black blade eight desolations spun lightly in his hand.

The grayish-white bandages automatically wrapped around it like a living thing, finally settling into an ordinary scabbard.

“You’re just a captured pirate; you have no right to make demands.”

With that, Gern bent down and grabbed Wald’s disheveled hair, dragging him towards the warship.

The ‘World Destroyer’ who once dominated the New World now looked like a hunted beast, leaving a long trail of blood on the scorched earth.