Boom—!!
Those ice mountains that had stood for millions of years now shattered like paper!
Massive chunks of ice tumbled down the slopes, crashing onto the frozen surface with deafening roars!
At the center of the battlefield, Raiver and Imu were still clashing with their Haki.
Two torrents of Conqueror's Haki collided like tidal waves, each impact exploding into a ring of shockwaves!
At that moment—
A glow suddenly condensed on the edge of Raiver's Black Dragon Blade.
The light was white, formed by compressing pure Repulsive Force to its limit.
Boom!
The Repulsive Force light erupted!
Unstoppable repulsive force burst forth!
The power was too terrifying. Imu only felt as if an invisible giant hand had violently shoved her away!
Her entire body was blasted backward!
So fast, like a launched missile!
Yet, after flying just a few hundred meters, Imu's figure suddenly halted!
She forcibly stopped in mid-air!
The momentum of her backward flight was forcefully negated by her own power.
Otherwise, she might have been flung kilometers away.
In the next instant, Imu charged forward again!
Her speed was so fast it seemed like teleportation.
A slash descended!
Crimson Haki Lightning erupted from her blade, like countless frenzied blood-red serpents!
Raiver sidestepped the attack while twisting his wrist, sweeping the Black Dragon Blade horizontally toward Imu's waist!
Imu neither dodged nor evaded.
She raised her left hand, instantly coating it with Armament Haki!
At this moment, her hand was several times harder than Sea Stone!
She slapped the flat of Raiver's sweeping blade with her palm!
Clang—!!
The Black Dragon Blade was knocked aside!
The terrifying Wave Cut veered off course, striking the ice surface not far away.
Ssshh—!!
A kilometer-long chasm was brutally carved open!
Raiver used the momentum to pivot!
He compressed Repulsive Force and Vibrational Force to their limits, gathering them at the tip of his foot!
A whip-like kick lashed out viciously toward Imu's chest!
This kick was powerful enough to shatter a mountain!
Imu immediately raised the First Generation Ghost Cutter, holding it horizontally before her!
Thud—!!
Crack, crack—!
Raiver's kick directly shattered space!
Space fractured like glass, spreading countless spiderweb cracks!
The cracks expanded outward, everything in their path crumbling under this force!
Powerful Repulsive Force and Vibrational Force radiated from his foot, forcing Imu to retreat repeatedly!
Imu's eyes narrowed!
An overwhelming Conqueror's Haki erupted!
Her Haki, like a tangible shockwave, directly obliterated the oncoming Repulsive and Vibrational Forces!
The two faced off once more.
Compared to her duel with Raiver at God Valley last time, Imu's performance was entirely different now.
Back then, she had relied more on her Devil Fruit Ability, using Haki only occasionally for a decisive strike.
But this time—
Imu not only displayed overwhelming Conqueror's Haki but also formidable Armament Haki.
Imu understood the principle that Haki reigns supreme over Devil Fruit Abilities.
She also wanted to test whether her own powerful Haki could defeat Raiver.
After all, Raiver's Space-Space Fruit Ability was too invincible.
Voidification—merging his body with space, rendering all attacks useless.
Don't think Imu had done nothing all these years behind the scenes.
She was also searching for a way to counter Raiver's Voidification.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Their figures once again turned into afterimages!
They clashed wildly across the icy plains!
Every time their blades met, shockwaves erupted, shattering the surrounding ice layers!
Their speed was so fast it was impossible to track with the naked eye!
Only two afterimages could be seen darting across the ice surface, with Haki lightning scattering wherever they passed, ice cracking, and icebergs collapsing!
Clang clang clang clang—!!
A series of metallic clashes, dense as a torrential downpour!
Imu swung her blade down, and Raiver raised his to block; the blades slid against each other, spraying a shower of sparks!
Imu used the momentum to spin around, kicking toward Raiver's face!
Raiver leaned back, the kick grazing the tip of his nose!
At the same time, he swept his blade horizontally, aiming for Imu's supporting leg!
Imu leaped into the air, dodging the slash, and while still airborne, brought her blade down!
The blade was wrapped in Conqueror's Haki, crimson lightning erupting!
Raiver raised his hand—
Void Barrier!
A transparent spatial wall unfolded above his head!
The First Generation Ghost Cutter struck it, sparks flying!
The blade could not advance an inch!
Imu's eyes sharpened!
Still in mid-air, the third red eye on her forehead opened!
Abyssal Flame!
Black flames surged from the eye, instantly destroying the Void Barrier and rushing straight toward Raiver!
Raiver instantly voidified!
His body merged into space, becoming transparent like a phantom!
The flames passed through his transparent, voidified body and struck the ice surface!
Boom—!!
A massive explosion!
The ice surface was blasted into a crater hundreds of meters in diameter!
The hundred-meter-thick ice layer at the bottom instantly evaporated, revealing the dark frozen soil beneath!
Raiver's figure reformed a hundred meters away.
Unharmed.
Night fell.
The two had fought from day to night, exchanging over a thousand moves.
Across the icy plains, traces of their battle were everywhere—massive fissures, collapsed icebergs, molten craters.
But neither had fallen.
Raiver remained full of stamina, his breathing steady.
He had once undertaken a challenge where all the maids in the Sky Palace took turns fighting him for three days and three nights, yet none could defeat him.
Three days and three nights—that was the maids' limit, not Raiver's.
At this moment, a flicker of irritation flashed in Imu's eyes, a red light gleaming in her pupils!
Observation Haki Kill!
This was the highest-level application of Observation Haki!
Not only could it block the opponent's Observation Haki Perception, but it could also restrict their movements!
In summary, it made the opponent's reactions and body feel sluggish!
This technique was only effective if one's own Observation Haki surpassed the opponent's!
Having lived for over a thousand years, Imu's Observation Haki had long reached its peak!
While using Observation Haki Kill, she closed in with lightning speed!
A blade swung down!
The blade aimed straight for Raiver's head!
At this moment, Raiver suddenly felt his Observation Haki fail!
His perception went blank, as if he had lost all sense of his surroundings!
But—
Space Perception remained!
It was a higher-level form of perception than Observation Haki, directly sensing space itself!
Warning!
Deadly danger!
Without a second thought, Raiver immediately performed Space Displacement!
His body vanished instantly!
Swapping positions with a floating ice block a hundred meters away!
Imu's blade struck empty air!
The blade cleaved into the ice surface, shattering it to pieces!
"Damn it."
A flicker of emotion passed through Imu's eyes.
If she couldn't succeed this time, it would be even more impossible next time.
Because the opponent was now on guard.
Raiver reappeared a hundred meters away.
He recalled the scene from moments ago, murmuring to himself:
"Is this... Observation Haki Kill?"
This move was truly formidable. If not for his Space Perception, he might not have been able to dodge that earlier slash.
But now, he was prepared.
Raiver sneered.
All Creation of Attraction!
He clenched his right hand!
A terrifying gravitational force erupted from his palm!
The pull was like a black hole, madly dragging everything around it toward him!
Imu's body was uncontrollably sucked toward him!
Abyssal Gate!
A black rift tore open before Imu!
Countless black tentacles surged from the rift, wrapping around her body and forcibly halting her movement toward Raiver.
The two were locked in a stalemate!
Gravitational force and Abyssal Power wrestled in the air!
The surrounding space began to distort!
Raiver clenched his left fist!
Repulsive Force and Vibrational Force condensed into a white sphere of light!
At the same time, countless crimson Haki Lightning bolts erupted from his fist!
He threw a punch!
Boom—!!
Crack, crack—!!
Space shattered!
A terrifying Repulsive Force burst from his fist, combining with the gravitational pull!
Both forces acted simultaneously on Imu!
Imu's body was as if torn apart by two invisible giant hands!
Her expression finally changed—
It was pain!
The Abyssal Tentacles were ripped apart!
Her body flew uncontrollably toward Raiver, only to be repelled midway by the Repulsive Force!
Bang—!!
Imu crashed into an iceberg, and the mountain collapsed with a thunderous roar!
Countless ice blocks fell, burying her in the rubble!
However—
Only three seconds later!
The rubble exploded!
Imu burst out from the shattered ice!
Under the terrifying force of Raiver's punch, her body shattered into countless streams of black energy!
But the black energy quickly gathered into a mass, reforming into her figure!
Her injuries healed at an astonishing speed!