Under the action of Akainu's Magu Magu no Mi, this place had long turned into a magma hell, with black smoke billowing and flames soaring into the sky.
Sephiroth, who was in the midst of falling, was somewhat hazy in his consciousness, and even Shusui in his left hand was knocked out of his palm and fell into the magma.
Seeing that he was about to crash into the magma hell below and be burned to charcoal, the super-fast regeneration ability of the Bat-Bat Fruit (Model: Vampire) finally healed the injury on his forehead, allowing him to regain most of his sanity.
Uh-huh!
In an instant, the recovered Sephiroth, with his black wings so violently vibrating behind him, skimmed over the boiling magma, flaunted a wave of low-altitude inverted flight, circled a curve, and rushed high into the sky again.
Boom!
On the other side, Akainu slammed heavily into the magma hell, and due to his ability's characteristics, this magma reached thousands of degrees and failed to harm him in any way.
Akainu shook his dizzy head and rose from the boiling magma.
However.
"Akainu, die for me!!!"
Before he could take a full breath of relief, the silver-haired youth high in the sky swooped downward.
Sephiroth vibrated the black wings on his back fiercely, and used Geppo to accelerate twice under his feet, causing his body to appear in the air, emitting a fierce sonic boom, and surging, domineering black Armament Haki was madly poured onto the Butcher Knife in his hand.
He simply held this rumbling sword as he approached the enemy.
At the same time, Sephiroth's Conqueror's Haki residing in his mind also vaguely produced an inexplicable throbbing, as if it wanted to flow towards the Butcher Knife, but he forced it down.
!!!
Akainu's pupils suddenly shrank. In his Observation Haki perception, he could not hide from the knife cut by the opponent. Even if he elementalized, he could not hide it. He could only choose to take it...
This guy is so dominant in his Armament Haki, he's not as strong as I am, he can... I can definitely hold it!!
When I resist this blow, Sephiroth will definitely have other flaws, and I can take advantage of that to counter.
Tekkai!!!
Armament Hardening!!!
The next moment.
Boom!
Akainu's body shape was like a cannonball. He was hit by the domineering dark slash that erupted from the Butcher Knife. He flew out violently and broke three large trees one by one. He didn't stop until he crashed into a mountain in the distance and smashed into it. It was a huge pit that stopped him.
Rocks rolled down, burying Akainu's entire body in a pile of rubble.
Seeing this scene, a flash of horror passed through the eyes of Sengoku and Zefa, who were not far away.
The two of them unconsciously put themselves in the other's shoes and thought about it. If they faced Akainu's situation, they wouldn't be completely confident of withstanding that slash composed of pure domineering Haki power!
The move Sephiroth just performed was clearly an advanced application of Armament Haki, compressing Haki to the extreme and instantly releasing it from the blade, thereby creating a super-strong impact that caused internal damage to the enemy.
Boom!
Magma spurted out, gravel splattered, and Akainu got out of the pile, coughing up blood in his mouth.
"Cough. Cough! It's impossible that the domineering strike he unleashed would be so powerful."
The power of Sephiroth's move just now was somewhat beyond Akainu's expectations. Even if he tried his best to defend, two ribs in his chest were broken, and his internal organs were damaged and bleeding.
Fortunately, he had already returned his life to an extremely high level of cultivation.
Under the deliberate manipulation of body tissues, the internal organs began to quickly repair injuries, drain congestion, and the fractured bones rapidly healed.
Soon, he rushed back in Sephiroth's direction.
If a physical expert of his level didn't suffer continuous and high-intensity defense-breaking attacks, he would be able to continue fighting after catching his breath a few times...
On the other side, on the sandy beach.
Sephiroth, instigating the black wings behind him, hung in the air, his face full of astonishment and joy, and looked at the dark blade in his hand, which was covered with the Butcher Knife with red blood vessels.
Now, he wasn't imbuing Armament Haki into the knife at all, but the knife was still pitch black, not the blue-black color it used to be.
Black Blade!!!
Sephiroth truly didn't expect that just as he tried his best to deliver that blow to Akainu, the Butcher Knife had completed its final metamorphosis, evolving into a Black Blade and strengthening and reinforcing his attack once again.
For more than three years, he used this knife to kill countless pirates, and almost every day he insisted on using the Butcher Knife to perform domineering body tempering. At the same time, he was also tempering this knife. Unexpectedly, it was only today that this knife completed its transformation and evolved into his own Black Blade!
This also marked that he was already among the group of top-tier Swordsmen!
Sephiroth quickly vibrated his black wings and swooped low in the air, only after he picked up Shusui, which was inserted into the magma, did he see the red figure flying out of the forest.
"Sephiroth!"
"Sakazuki!"
The two looked at each other, and their fighting spirit pulsed in their eyes.
"Enough! You two brats!"
"If you dare to take action again, I'll detain you for a month!"
"Are you trying to destroy all of Marineford?"
"Look at how this place has been destroyed by all of you?"
Zefa's roaring words, like surging thunder, filled the ears of both.
Sephiroth and Akainu both glanced at Zefa, whose arms were already covered in pitch-black Armament Haki, and they chose to stop with great tacit understanding.
It was clear that Zefa was already prepared and ready to step in and stop this fight!
Now in this situation, even if the two wanted to fight, they wouldn't get up.
"Can anyone tell me why you two were fighting here?"
Zefa snorted coldly and continued to watch the two of them.
"Ah! Hahaha! This. We were just having a casual sparring session."
Brrring!
As he spoke, a call from a Den Den Mushi suddenly sounded from Sephiroth's pants pocket. He quickly pulled it out and muttered subconsciously:
"You guys are really lucky!"
In the fight just now, Sephiroth basically did not directly connect Akainu's magma with his body.
Although his super-speed regeneration could heal injuries quickly, he didn't want to personally experience the feeling of his body being burned.
As he answered the phone, Frank's anxious voice immediately came through:
"Something bad happened!!!"
"Brigadier General Sephiroth, there was a large-scale pirate attack on Island 55 and Island 7 in the Grand Line!!!"
"Understood! I'll be right back."
After hanging up the phone, Sephiroth looked back at the purple-haired old man:
"Teacher Zefa, something happened over there in the Sabaody Archipelago, I have to go back quickly."... "Let's talk another day!"
When he finished speaking, he swung his Butcher Knife and opened a Dimensional Door, revealing the Sabaody Marine Base on the other side.
This time, Sephiroth directly confronted Akainu, and the goal of getting involved had been achieved, and he displayed his immense strength in the eyes of the Marine higher-ups.
Now, if Sengoku wanted to deal with him, he would also have to carefully weigh the pros and cons.
Seeing Sephiroth vibrate his black wings and rush into the Dimensional Door, the Generals who were still standing there couldn't help but look at each other.
Immediately afterward, they looked at the battlefield around them that looked like the Red Lotus Hell, and couldn't help but mutter in their hearts:
These two monsters!
Sengoku pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose and stared closely at the Dimensional Door where Sephiroth had left, which had completely closed. He said inexplicably:
"Akainu, come with me, there's something I want to ask you."
Hearing this, Akainu left the place directly, following Sengoku without saying anything.
"A completely inexplicable outsider," Zefa looked at the backs of the two, and he couldn't help but mutter.
"These guys... What are they doing?"
The event of Sephiroth's fierce battle with Akainu on Marineford's coastal sandy beach spread throughout Marine Headquarters.
Many people didn't expect that Sephiroth, the newly emerged Brigadier General, could fight so far with Akainu, an acting Admiral, and judging from the battle situation at the time, Akainu was still on the losing side....
For a while, Sephiroth's reputation in the Marine soared, and he became famous in the eyes of many, all believing that he already possessed Admiral-level combat capability.
Because many Generals present saw it, Sephiroth transformed the Butcher Knife into a Black Blade.
According to word of mouth, the title of the Marine's Greatest Swordsman fell on his head without suspense....