Chapter 23: The Will of Destruction and the Will of the Planet
"How...how is this possible?"
Morris touched his barely injured body, looking very surprised.
The one who was surprised was not just Morris alone, the audience, contestants, referees and the five judges upstairs were equally surprised. They were all surprised at Morris's unscathed state, and equally surprised at Zavia.
"This Zavia actually controlled his power so well, it looks ostentatious, but in reality..."
Vice Admiral Crane looked at this scene, her expression also showing great shock. She had originally thought Zavia had used his full power, but Zavia had just made loud thunder but little rain.
The other four were so shocked they couldn't speak, although it's not like there were no Marines who could perfectly control their power, there were just very few. But being able to achieve such precise control like Zavia, there really was none.
"Alright, the first one is out. Next." Slowly turning around, Zavia moved his fingers a little and looked at the contestants below.
The remaining contestants had already been shocked by Zavia and didn't know what kind of expression or mentality to face this with.
Some had bitter smiles on their faces, some had frightened looks, and some had completely blank expressions.
Upon hearing Zavia's words, the contestants below began to regain their senses. At this time, they became a little hesitant, looking at each other, no one daring to step up to challenge.
Those who had been full of hot blood before, very confident they could defeat Zavia, now had their flames completely extinguished in their hearts, simply called being doused.
"Hmm? No one? Then this is a bit troublesome. Referee, how should this be counted?"
Seeing no one step up, Zavia looked a little troubled, then he turned his head to look at the referee beside him.
However, the referee also didn't know what to say either. This kind of situation was the first time since he started refereeing, completely clueless, he could only look up at Sengoku and the others.
The five people also happened to meet the referee's gaze. Regarding this, Sengoku let out a helpless sigh. Just as he was about to say something, he was suddenly interrupted by Zephyr extending his hand beside him.
Just as Sengoku and the other three were wondering what Zephyr was going to do, they saw Zephyr slowly stand up and walk to the window, clearing his throat and saying:
"First of all, I'm very sorry for this situation, because for the other contestants this is very unfair. My fellow judges and I have also never encountered such a situation before, we will think of suitable compensation to give the participating contestants.
Secondly, brat Zavia, I've heard about your 'notorious name' since the beginning, seeing it today, it really lives up to the name. As for the result of this competition, based on the current situation, you will definitely get first place, but as I said earlier, this is very unfair to the other participating contestants, so..."
Saying this, Zephyr paused for a moment, then slowly opened his mouth in front of everyone's gaze:
"I'll come give you some guidance!"
As soon as these words came out, it shocked the entire venue, even more shocking than Zavia's previous move. In the spectator stands, waves of discussion immediately arose.
The entire venue was also shocked, including Zavia himself. At this time, Zavia no longer had the confidence and impatience from before, instead nervousness took its place.
(This old guy!!!) In fact, ever since Zephyr stood at the window to speak, Zavia had already started guessing the old man's behavior. As Zephyr continued speaking, the uneasy feeling in Zavia's heart grew stronger and stronger, until now.
In fact, Zavia had not expected things to develop into the current situation either. He had thought that as long as he obediently and then won first place in the competition to obtain Conqueror Haki and the Lieutenant Junior Grade rank, he would be able leave this prison-like place.
But he never expected that Zephyr would make this move, to have a one-on-one duel with him!? Are you kidding!? Forget about you old man, even if it was a Vice Admiral, Zavia would have to get serious, although regarding Rokushiki (Six Powers) he could still compete with a Vice Admiral, but regarding Haki it wouldn't work.
Observation Haki that could foresee Zavia's actions in advance, and Armament Haki that could enhance damage and allow Zavia to be injured, just these two would be enough for Zavia.
Although there were many weapons that could injure the Demon Physique, those were all weapons from hell. Ordinary knives and guns from the human world basically couldn't injure the Demon Physique at all.
In addition, after the Demon Physique was enhanced by the power of inheritance, one couldn't say there was nothing that could injure Zavia, but they definitely wouldn't be ordinary knives, guns or cannonballs from the human world.
As for the incident with the silverback gorilla from before, at that time, Zavia guessed that the reason the gorilla could injure him was because Zavia had not completely fused with this power yet, so the other side could injure him.
After that, during the month on Garp's ship, Zavia had tried mutilating himself using knives or guns, but these things couldn't injure him at all. On the contrary, a punch from Garp imbued with Armament Haki caused him to be injured instead, which was quite strange.
So fighting Zephyr one-on-one? For the current Zavia that was simply going from bad to worse and making things difficult for an expert. The two weren't on the same level at all.
Although Zavia could use spatial teleportation to dodge Zephyr's attacks, how much use would that be? And for Zavia to injure Zephyr, he would have to use the Yamato Blade, otherwise it would be absolutely impossible.
But Zavia didn't want to harm Zephyr. Aside from some personal reasons, openly slashing at a former Marine Admiral, if that spread how could Zavia continue to mingle? Was he really going to become a pirate? Sometimes, the power of rumors was just that strong.
"Hey! Zephyr, are you crazy!? How could you and Zavia possibly compete!?"
From the building above, the first to speak was Sengoku, and it should be Sengoku, after all, he was the highest in command here.
However, Zephyr just lightly raised his hand and slowly said, "Old friend, don't stop me, my mind is set."
Upon hearing this, Sengoku's body shook for a moment. Then he slowly turned his head and didn't say anything more, only extremely complicated emotions emerged in his eyes.
Along with Zephyr exerting strength in his feet, the next second he directly jumped down from the 15 meter high window. In front of everyone's shocked gazes he steadily landed in front of Zavia, kicking up a large swath of dust and air pressure.
The air pressure blew the tuft of hair on Zavia's forehead to continuously flutter backwards until it settled 2 seconds later.
The air pressure also blew up the Marine coat worn by Zephyr, looking extremely cool from the back with the "Justice" characters on it.
"No way! Is Admiral Zephyr really going to fight Zavia!?"
"How is that possible, even if it's Zavia, he can't beat Admiral Zephyr!"
"Hmph, I've long disliked him, it would be best if Admiral Zephyr could teach him a lesson."
"That's right, me too."
"..."
The noisy sounds around entered Zavia's ears, some worried and some mocking.
But Zavia didn't bother with these words. He was hesitating on whether or not to really go fight Zephyr. After all, Zephyr was still someone Zavia respected very much as a Marine. Of course, to put it more bluntly, it was an issue of strength.
"Hmm? Brat Zavia, don't think that just because I'm old I'll be easy to deal with. If you don't accept this battle, I won't acknowledge your first place!"
It seemed Zephyr had seen through Zavia's hesitant mood. He took a puff of his cigarette with an overbearing aura as he spoke.
With this, Zavia was left quite speechless. He now couldn't retreat even if he wanted to, but fighting? The result didn't even need guessing.
"Tsk."
Feeling the tremendous pressure, Zavia clicked his tongue. An awkward and ugly expression emerged on his face as he looked at the 70+ year old man before him.
***
"Please spare me! I have no enmity with you! Please let me go..."
In a certain world nearing destruction in the cosmic domain, a white haired, red eyed man in a white shirt and black pants held up a soldier by the collar with no expression on his face wearing black and red gloves, raising his fist.
Before the other side had even finished pleading, a punch slammed into his face. This punch directly sent the soldier flying, the tremendous force shattered his entire head and he smashed into the wall 10 meters away, smashing a large hole in it.
Due to the momentum from the punch not disappearing yet, the soldier's corpse continued smashing through over a dozen walls before finally stopping among the rubble, lying completely still.
Then black mist-like things began slowly seeping out of the soldier's body. It seemed these black mists had awareness as they slowly eroded the soldier's body until disappearing completely, dispersing into a wisp of black smoke.
In the distance, the white haired man watched as the last remnants of the soldier disappeared. He turned around and walked towards a certain direction, no feelings of pleasure after killing or guilt on his face whatsoever.
But rather than saying he didn't have any pleasure or guilt, it would be more accurate to say he had already lost all emotions, including his personality as a person.
Suddenly, the white haired man stopped in his tracks, his eyes full of crimson brilliance looking towards another white haired man beside him.
The other white haired man had a unique hairstyle. He wore a black suit and also had flashing crimson eyes.
"Kekeke, big brother NAO, how many worlds have you destroyed now? You really are tireless." The man in the black suit let out a cold laugh. Hands in his pockets, he looked around with a gaze like looking at ants.
"I don't remember anymore. I only know worlds like this that violate order should be destroyed and collapsed." The one called NAO by the man in the suit replied to his question. His tone didn't have the slightest pity, as if destroying a world was such a casual thing.
"Kekeke, big brother NAO, you really do keep to that god's words even though you're a god yourself..."
"Forget it, Yagwick..."
"..."
The man in the suit who was just about to say something was interrupted by NAO, so he shut up.
"Then what about the will of this world? How is it?" Not long after, the one NAO called Yagwick opened his mouth again. Ridicule was in his tone.
"I was just about to head there. What, want to come along?" Being asked this by Yagwick, NAO was reminded of his own goal. Just now he had sunk into reminiscence because of Yagwick's words.
"Kekeke, interesting. Let it go die in peace."
"I see."
Hearing this, a trace of a cold smile emerged at the corner of Yagwick's mouth. Together with NAO, they headed towards the location of the world's will.
"Speaking of which, Yagwick, wasn't that person called Kusanagi sent to the Gate of Hell? What happened?"
"Hmph--don't mention him again!"
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