"You even dared to say that my sword skills have been completely..."
"You really are arrogant."
The Golden Lion said coldly, clutching a large cigar between his teeth.
But at this moment, he suddenly frowned and noticed something very unusual.
His will of observation caught the strange changes that had befallen Yeruashi at that moment.
The most obvious and obvious change was his breathing.... It had accelerated sharply several times!
No...
Not just breathing!!!
Shiki could feel that the frequency of all of Yeruashi's movements had increased by a factor of ten!
Even an ordinary person could tell that Yeruashi was in a very strange state.
"Thirty times... acceleration of the flow of time."
Yeruashi said calmly, but only he himself could hear these words, because in his current state, each of his words accelerated thirty times, becoming a short, incomprehensible noise to the observer.
Thirty times the acceleration of the flow of time was the current limit of the illusory clock.
Yeruashi has not resorted to the maximum acceleration of the flow of time for quite some time.
From his point of view, in this state, the whole surrounding world was thirty times slower.
Initially, he was able to clearly capture every movement of the Golden Lion using Rinne Tenseigan's perception, without having to resort to something like the will of observation, and now, with the combination of time flow acceleration and Rinne Tenseigan's perception, the Golden Lion's movements began to appear extremely slow and viscous to Yeruashi.
But Yeruashi didn't even think to stop there.
After activating the time flow acceleration, a great flow of chakra gushed through Yeruashi's tenketsu and a golden veil enveloped his body.
"Six Paths Mode, activated."
"Eight Gate Release, activated."
Yeruashi was surprised to find that he began to feel pressure after activating the Six Paths Mode and opening the Eight Inner Gates, while in a state of accelerating thirty times the flow of time.
He had never felt anything like this before.
Since ascending to the Six Paths level, Yeruashi had never felt that his body had any limits, but at this moment, he was surprised to discover that even the Six Paths body was under enormous pressure after reaching such a speed.
This pressure meant that the activity at this speed would exceed the limit of his body.
As in the case where the body of an ordinary shinobi receives great damage after a very short time after the inner doors are opened.
But Yeruashi did not show any concern when he first felt the limit of his body, because being in that state, he could maintain normal body activity for two or three seconds, which is enough for a normal attack.
Don't forget that he still has the ability to reverse the flow of time, which allows him to return the body to a normal state.
So, as long as Yeruashi can stay in this state for at least a moment before the total collapse of the body, he will be able to stabilize this state, using the ability of the reverse flow of time.
"It's time to know the true speed..."
"Golden Lion Shiki."
Yeruashi calmly lowered the sword and flew forward, quickly approaching the Golden Lion.
From Yeruashi's point of view, all the actions were extremely simple, but when viewed from the outside, everything was completely different.
Everyone watching this battle from the side saw how Yeruashi simply disappeared and instantly appeared right in front of the Golden Lion!
"... What?!"
Shiki's eyes widened abruptly.
Compared to Kuina, Zoro and the others who only observed the battle with the naked eye, Shiki never failed to use the will of observation to catch Yeruashi's movements, so he understood much more clearly than the others how terrifying Yeruashi's speed was at this moment.
Even his will of observation barely caught anything!
The Golden Lion didn't hesitate to use his devil fruit ability to the fullest in an attempt to increase the distance, at the same time sharply swinging his leg in Yeruashi's direction.
But none of that mattered.
All his movements slowed down dozens of times from Yeruashi's point of view.
Yeruashi indifferently looked at the Golden Lion in front of him and raised the sword, and then seemed to just swing it, but when viewed from the outside, all these simple movements seemed vague.
Six Paths Mode!
Liberation of the Eight Inner Gates!
Acceleration of thirty times the flow of time!
At this speed, even Yeruashi himself could not clearly realize how many cuts per second, relative to the outside world, he was creating, using the skills of the great sword master to the limit.
"Atomic cut."
Although Yeruashi still called this move an atomic cut, it was in fact on a completely different level compared to the atomic cut he had used in the past.
Now this move could be called a true atomic cut!
The maximum speed, close to the true speed of light, combined with the skills of a great sword master, allowing you to create a myriad of cuts just by swinging the sword....
At that moment, even Yeruashi himself could not calculate exactly how many cuts he had created.
On the other hand.
Robin, Aokiji, Zoro and the others only saw Yeruashi's sword disappear, and then a flower bloomed in front of him, woven with a myriad of cuts.
The Golden Lion, still trying to increase the distance, seemed to freeze at this moment.
His Oto meito, inserted in place of a prosthetic in the severed leg, collided with Muramasa's demonic blade in Yeruashi's hand.
If you look at the Golden Lion's wide eyes at this moment, you can see extreme surprise and disbelief in them, as if he saw something completely unimaginable.
Klang!
Yeruashi calmly returned Muramasa's demonic sword to its sheath, after which the radiance enveloping his body quickly faded away.
The Six Paths mode and the Eight Inner Gates Release were deactivated, and after them, Yeruashi's time flow returned to normal.
"You have lost."
Yeruashi said calmly, looking at the Golden Lion in front of him.
His voice, at once soft and incomparably clear, reached the ears of Kuina, Zoro, Aokiji, Robin and all the pirates on the decks of the sky ships.
These words caused incomprehension and bewilderment among all present.
Winner and loser... Is it already settled?
What just happened?
The only person whose expression was different was Aokiji, who was standing on the reef.
Aokiji looked at the figure of the Golden Lion in the sky with horror and trembling in his eyes, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
The strong will of observation barely allowed Aokiji to understand exactly what had happened a moment before, it seemed too shocking and unbelievable.
Was it possible for a person to have such speed?!
"Actually..."
"Is it really a god that travels the earth..."
Aokiji whispered softly.
At this moment.
Accompanied by Aokiji's whispers and the looks of incomprehension from many people, Shiki's body, frozen in the sky, gradually disappeared.
No.
It would be a bit inappropriate to say that the Golden Lion simply disappeared, to be more precise, his body was cut into countless small pieces and then turned to dust, carried away by the gentle sea breeze.
...
The 12th year since the beginning of the Pirate Era.
The Golden Lion Shiki ha in the East Blue!
The traveler, the most mysterious and mysterious of the inhabitants of the New World, holding the title of The Closest Man to God, took one more step, after several years of calm.
With just one step, the whole sea shook and was silent for a long time!