In the wide space, Marika and Yamato exchanged glances, one clenching her fist, the other gripping the Wolf Fang Club.
Swish!
Springing into Human-Beast Form, Yamato's steps lifted, transforming into a beam of white light. With a sudden burst of speed, the freezing aura turned into a half-wolf, baring its fangs.
"Divine Foot·White Snake Dash!"
"Hair Binding: Spider Web!"
At the moment she started moving, Marika's hair formed into a large, Haki-covered web in front. In an instant, the web protruded forward, but it also allowed Marika to pinpoint her location. With a flash of red dot in her eyes, a hand palm emitting a black flash rapidly struck out.
"Celestial Essence·Breakthrough!!"
Boom!!
The figure that burst out from the web revealed a Wolf Fang Club tinged with red lightning, swiftly smashing down, just colliding with Marika's striking palm.
The entanglement of Haki and Haki, between their attacks, compressed into an extremely unstable light mass, one bringing freezing aura, corroding Marika's arm, the other releasing an impact, shattering the space behind Yamato.
The light mass exploded into a shockwave, unleashing greater red lightning and impact, causing the ground around them to sink a layer, stirring up a dust cloud.
Bam!
The explosion of the light mass caused the Wolf Fang Club and Marika's palm to meet. Upon contact, the Wolf Fang Club, carrying Yamato's body, was sent flying.
The ice corroding Marika's palm shattered into scattered ice crystals, revealing the arm wrapped in Haki.
In terms of strength, Marika held the advantage, and the 'Celestial Essence·Breakthrough' was an adaptive version of 'Galaxy Impact'.
Over time, she also mastered the Ultimate Armament Aura, capable of unleashing a higher degree of impact.
But at this moment, Marika was also swaying, noticeably unstable, losing the chance to pursue.
The power of Conqueror's Haki is indeed undeniable.
"Narikabura!"
Falling backward, Yamato adjusted her stance in the air, swinging a staff to send out a rod-shaped slash.
"Celestial Essence·Breakthrough!"
Marika also corrected her stance, striking out again, Haki mixed with impact like a pillar, colliding with the slash, once again sending out a shockwave, stripping away a large amount of dust from the ceiling.
Yamato swiftly descended from the air, her furry beast feet touching the ground, the freezing aura around her transforming into crystal ice blades, flying out as she swung the staff.
"Black Hair Wind Blade!"
Marika's hair bundled into a whip, swinging forward to deliver a Rankyaku slash, colliding with the ice crystals and shattering them into oblivion.
Amid the smoke, Marika's movements allowed Yamato to pinpoint her location, white frost gathering in her mouth.
"Namuji Hyoga!"
The white frost, as she opened her mouth to exhale, transformed into frost breath like white light, rushing towards the opposite side of the smoke.
Boom!!
Under the corrosion of frost, the smoke was dispersed, and the doorway of the weapon hall and the fan-shaped area in the front, including the ceiling, ground, and walls, were all frozen with a layer of solid ice!
The green giant blocking the center of the doorway also turned into a large ice sculpture.
However, within this ice, Yamato could not find Marika's figure.
"Here I am!"
Whoosh!
A fierce wind blew through Yamato's hair tips and tail. On instinct, she looked up, seeing a glove-wearing, Haki-infused, dual black-flashing fist looming before her eyes.
The intense vibration from the fist, merely from the moment of the strike, caused a fierce spatial tremor, landing a solid punch on Yamato's face amidst this vibration.
"Celestial Essence·Starquake!"
"Mahoroba!"
Yet at the instant Marika's fist landed, almost instinctively, Yamato swung the iron club, releasing a powerful freezing aura, slamming fiercely against Marika's side.
Bam!!
Yamato's body was slammed into the ground by the force of this punch, shattering the entire ground into pieces, irregularly rising and sinking.
While Marika was sent flying backwards, landing heavily on the ground with half of her ice-cold body.
The moment she hit the ground, the ice shattered, and Marika quickly flipped herself up, clutching her half body with her hand, her open eyes filled with gravity.
Even though she used Haki to block, it was still futile; the ice shards shattered, but the freezing sensation remained on half of her body, condensing into frost.
And most crucially, her consciousness began to blur.
The power of Conqueror's Haki was affecting her.
This woman probably rivaled Lily...
Bam!
The protruding fragments in front flew outward. Yamato gasped for breath, gradually straightening her body.
On her furry face, her right eye was closed, with blood dripping from the corner of her eye, and half of her face was swollen.
Marika stared at Yamato ahead and said, "No wonder you're Kaido's daughter, you're strong."
Yamato took several deep breaths, spat out bloody saliva with a tooth, and said:
"Though I don't know where you're from, you're formidable too. I sense... you're not evil, so why must you obstruct me?"
The confrontation of will and battle reveals a person's inner being and character.
Yamato could perceive that this black-haired woman was not the evil type like Kaido; this type of person shouldn't be her enemy.
"Who says pirates are always evil?"
Marika smiled and said, "The opinion of the world doesn't matter; what's important is what we should do. My dream is progressing well too."
Creating a world where no one goes hungry, relying not just on the superb cooking skills she often imparted, but also on the abundant food reserves within the Disaster Pirates' domain.