章 216: Cutting through the barrier!
Ian seeing this annoying diávoloi decides to get rid of him first.
Even with this addition of this Faust guy, Ian was still not pressed hard enough for him to dish out his strongest moves…
If you were to gauge Ian's strength right now, then he was way past the third stage but has not yet stepped into the fourth one. Still, even that was enough for Ian to practically bully them around if he got serious enough and used his all.
Though right now he just wanted to enjoy the fight, and this newest guy might make things more exciting at any rate.
That is why when Kaido transformed, he had almost reached Ian's strength and speed as he was right now.
That might sound like Ian was weak but it was the other way around. Kaido had eaten a Zoan devil fruit and the strongest one known to the world. One that made him transform into a dragon. Plus he has the blood of giants, which also increases his strength.
The fact that Kaido using the strongest form he has to barely come close to Ian's base form speed and strength was proof enough of Ian's strength. Not to mention he is fighting two other opponents on the same level as Kaido at the same time.
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Kaido having recovered soon, started to attack again.
Shiki was also mostly recovered and he used his strongest abilities once again.
They were not known as monsters just like that. They easily shrugged such attacks after a few minutes of recovering.
Kaido sprang into action as he sped up towards Ian leaving the ground fractured where he had stepped up.
Ian grinned at him as he readied himself for combat.
When Kaido reached him he swung his Kanabo at him with his full power.
"Take this you brat!"
But Ian redirected the attack to the side without even touching it. He then kicked Kaido behind the knee making him fall on one knee and gave him another powerful punch straight to the stomach making him cough up some more blood, and he was even ready to uppercut him, but he had to dodge out of the way of some earthen spears that were rotating and coming towards him.
This was Shiki starting his own attacks.
The spears followed after him as he jumped backward.
Ian didn't give them much thought as he pointed his right palm forward and shot a huge number of lightning arcs that destroyed the spears altogether.
"I'm not done yet!" Shiki yelled as he saw that.
And following this Ian was suddenly attacked by huge lion-headed earthen shapes.
This time it was much more than Shiki had used before, not to mention these were in fact coated in Haki.
Ian raised his brow in surprise.
"Well, it is only natural now that I think about it." When he thought about it, If Shiki was not capable of doing this much, he wouldn't have been known as one of the legends.
Ian grabbed the spear floating near him and then got into a stance.
From afar it looked as if Ian was buried by hundreds of huge lion-shaped earth attacks, but after a few seconds, Ian was shown again running on top of one as he destroyed the previous by cutting it into various parts.
Shiki manipulated them to follow Ian, and even after Ian cut them apart, he would remake them and make them follow him again.
Ian with a grin on his face, located where Shiki was before he abruptly vanished from their vision with a 'Soru'.
Seconds later he was seen bringing his spear from the sky on Shiki's form.
"You are done for Old man!" Ian grinned.
Shiki had a horror-stricken look on his face as he watched death coming towards him.
But Ian couldn't continue on as he felt an attack coming towards him.
"Bolo Breath!"
So he dodged aside by flying, completely dodging the fire breath attack made by Kaido.
Ian didn't even know that Kaido could release his fire breath in his hybrid form.
But what Ian didn't expect was that guy Faust finally making his move…
He went directly to where Kaido's flame attack had missed and he caught it in his barrier and absorbed it before he then reflected the beam back at Ian much stronger and faster than before.
'Let's see how you will dodge this' Faust evilly thought.
Now since Ian had just dodged the attack, he would have trouble to dodge out of this one, not to mention that while earlier its speed was still okay for Ian, having been increased in power and speed, Ian found the attack right in his face in a second.
Using Haki on all of his body and weapon Ian used his spear to cut the flame breath into various cube sizes as if the flame was solid instead.
Ian kept on cutting the flame pillar that was still being fired by Kaido and being redirected by Faust to attack him.
'He has an impressive lung capacity…' Ian remarked to himself.
Ian dodged to the side, but Faust moving his barrier once again made it attack him.
But Shiki having recovered from the near-death experience he had, yelled at Ian as he resumed his attack.
"You have no way out now you brat!" He yelled at Ian, and once again the huge lion-shaped mass of earth started to bear on Ian's form.
Still, the grin never left Ian's face.
"Bring it on!" He yelled. Meanwhile inside he started to consider taking this a bit more seriously…
However, something out of their expectation happened that made Shiki stop controlling his attack, as the shapes crumbled and turned to dust.
Another addition to the battlefield made itself known.
"Ten O Bunkatsu Shimasu" (Splitting the Heavens)
This was Zoro who is currently in the sky after he jumped and he swung his sword with a yell at Shiki releasing a massive flying purple air blade…
The moment Shiki caught wind of the attack, he tried his all to dodge to the side but it was already too late…
He barely managed to move his body a bit, but the flying air blade cut right through his left arm and continued on to cut the huge horn of the skull dome, a testament to its growing power. Even Shiki who was known as the flying man, and for his speed, barely managed to dodge for his life…
Ian seeing this person grinned as he decided to show off himself.
"It's good to see you Zoro!" Ian greeted not caring one bit at the attack he was currently cutting apart.
Using Rokuogan, Ian sent a huge shockwave that expanded and stopped the flame breath until it reached both Faust and Kaido and threw them into the ground.
Ian didn't stop there as he redirected his attention to Faust.
"Your ability is a nuisance!" Ian looked at Faust as he said.
He then similar to what Zoro had done just seconds ago, let his Haki seep into his spear until it started to glow with a purple color before he swung it at Faust releasing a massive flying air blade at him.
Faust though was confident in his abilities.
"It's no use!" He spoke up towards Ian as he made sure to put a barrier before the attack.
His eyes looked sideways at Zoro. He was going to target this guy for interfering when they were finally close to killing Ian… well that's what he thought anyway…
But a sound drew his attention back to where the attack made contact with the air blade.
His mouth hung open in shock as he saw his barrier being cut into two with the air blade continuing on to reach him.
He started to regret taking part in this fight right at this moment… in the first place, his mission was only to lay low in Wano, and help CP-0 in case they needed help… but he saw an opportunity as he saw Shiki and Kaido teaming up to take Ian down. He contacted his sovereign but all contact with her was not possible for some reason he didn't know, so he made the rash decision to jump into the fight.
Thinking that Ian won't be able to take them all three. How wrong he was…
He barely crossed his arms to guard against the attack at the last second before he was thrown into the skull dome himself. He crashed and dust raised from where he had made contact…
This left only Shiki who was standing there next to Kaido.
Kaido was the only one who was intact, as he held his kanabo above his shoulder. One might think that he was panicking or getting scared, but Kaido was excited.
This was the person he wanted to kill him. If he was going to die, then it should be by the hands of someone as strong as Ian.
"This is it… this is the type of fight where I could die with honor! Let's have the greatest fight the world would ever know Ian D. Louis!!" Kaido started to speak with a low voice before he yelled the last words. His voice booming all around.
But Ian only laughed.
"Relax, don't be so tight. No one is going to die today… well maybe except that guy over there. As for the greatest fight in the world… I think that would come much later on…" Ian said before he pointed at Faust.
Zoro came near Ian as he started to say.
"You can leave that guy to me!" He also pointed at where Faust had fallen. After seeing Ian cutting that barrier down. He saw a new opportunity to get stronger.
If it was possible to do for Ian, then he should also be able to do it!
Ian smiled at him and nodded.
"Alright, but be careful, he is not a human!" He said.
Zoro nodded seriously. He knew the level of fight he got himself into, but he was not one to back down.
Then the both of them got ready for the coming fight.
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