Boom!
When Monkey D. Luffy and Hawkeye clashed, the heavens and earth seemed to tremble.
A colossal roar, like thunder, echoed across the sky.
And the Conqueror's Haki concentrated in Monkey D. Luffy's right fist burst forth in an instant.
Terrifying purplish-black lightning, like several winding giant dragons, crackled and spread outwards.
In the blink of an eye, the world was once again shrouded in darkness.
On Hawkeye's side, his Black Blade's body seemed to be enveloped in a layer of green mist, like a ghost fire.
Rings of aura expanded outwards from the blade, causing space itself to twist.
One side, enveloped in terrifying purplish-black lightning, the other in surging green mist like ghost fire.
From a distance, it looked like a mountain-sized, purplish-black light sphere imbued with lightning, clashing violently and earth-shatteringly with a ghost-fire green light sphere from which rings of aura continuously spread.
Surging and astonishing energy burst forth from the collision.
The stirred airflow extended to the boundless open sea, churning the entire ocean upside down.
And what was even more terrifying was, in the gap between the collision of the two light spheres.
Along that line, the sea actually began to split.
It was as if two invisible forces, from different directions, tore the entire sea apart, splitting it in two.
In the middle, a bottomless, pitch-black abyss formed, an endless chasm that stretched as far as the eye could see.
And the seawater above the two halves of the sea poured into the abyss like a breached dam.
At the same time, corresponding to this, in the sky above.
Dark clouds rolled, like a surging sea of clouds, also split in two by two invisible forces, slowly spreading to both sides.
And that surging sea of clouds also rushed madly towards the crack, just like the seawater below.
Seeing this earth-shattering scene, everyone on Baratie was dumbfounded.
Krieg's eyeballs, after arriving at Baratie, were already on the verge of popping out from shock, and now they were even more bloodshot, looking like they were about to explode.
He spoke in a trembling, somewhat hoarse voice, uttering words of profound shock.
"The sky... the sky and the sea... were actually... split apart. What kind of monsters are they? Am I really fighting humans?"
Gin, after being struck by both Hawkeye and Luffy to the point of doubting his life, was once again plunged into an bottomless abyss.
"Is this really a rookie pirate? Is this really a pirate's strength? Do we really count as pirates?"
Sanji's eyebrows were twitching so hard they were almost cramping, and his mouth hadn't closed from the beginning until now.
"Power that can even split heaven and earth, compared to them, I'm simply trash!"
Usopp was once again deeply shocked, his tongue and entire body trembling continuously.
"The sky... the sky and the sea were split apart. Is that what a true sea warrior is? Will I have to fight such monsters in the future? ...I think I've got a disease where I'll die at sea."
Zoro, meanwhile, was so shocked that he kept making 'ah' sounds in his throat, and he spoke with trembling excitement.
"That guy... can actually do something to this extent? I... still have a long way to go!!!"
This was Uta's first time seeing Luffy go all out, and she hadn't expected Luffy to be this strong, muttering to herself.
"Splitting the sky and the sea, this is just like when Hawkeye and Shanks fought... Luffy, have you already become this strong?"
Just as everyone was shocked and exclaiming, Zeff's startled cry suddenly rang out.
"Quick, furl the sails! If this continues, we'll fall into that seabed crack with this ship."
Zeff's cry of alarm immediately pulled everyone's thoughts back.
Then everyone saw that the Baratie was being carried by the furiously surging seawater, flowing towards the bottomless abyss that Luffy and Hawkeye had split open.
In an instant, everyone was stunned.
"Oh no, we're going to fall into that crack."
"It's over, we're dead for sure now."
"Help, I don't want to die!"
Just as some people started crying and calling for help, Zeff shouted again.
"There are fixed oars by the railing, everyone quickly row together."
Though it was like trying to put out a fire with a cup of water, it was better to last a little longer.
Everyone who could move immediately ran to the side of the ship and rowed the huge oars in the opposite direction.
Meanwhile, on Luffy and Hawkeye's side, after the fierce collision, both the sky and the sea were torn apart.
Hawkeye also marveled at Luffy's power from the bottom of his heart.
"Monkey D. Luffy! You truly surprise me again and again!"
"You, who originally had far less power than me, can now unleash power that rivals mine."
"This ability of yours is to release your Haki all at once, achieving the effect of maximum instantaneous burst power, right?"
"This also means that you don't have sustained power to maintain this burst afterward."
"What a pity, Straw Hat."
"If your Conqueror's Haki were even more dominant, and you had more of it, I might have been the one to lose this contest."
"But now, the victor has been decided."
As soon as Hawkeye finished speaking, he suddenly saw Luffy smile strangely.
The next moment, his expression changed dramatically.
He saw a white stream of air suddenly shoot out from Luffy's right fist, which was enveloped in purple-black lightning, like a cannonball leaving its barrel.
The white stream of air contained extremely powerful and domineering force.
The moment it erupted, it instantly transformed into a giant, domineering fierce tiger.
The explosive roar of the tiger tearing through the air was like successive tiger roars, shaking heaven and earth.
The immense energy it carried intertwined with the purple-black lightning.
As if merging into one, forming an even more domineering purple-black electric tiger.
Roar!!!
The explosive air was like a tiger's roar, and the purple-black electric tiger instantly unleashed unparalleled, astonishing power.
Hawkeye, in his shock, realized it was too late.
In just an instant, the mountain-like gigantic green light sphere was broken through and shattered.
The white fierce tiger burst forth from the purple-black lightning, like a wild horse unbridled, galloping all the way, leaving behind crackling purple-black lightning as it cut through the air.
... Luffy vs. Hawkeye, Luffy wins!