Chapter 598 Ability Confrontation

When Shanks and Garin reappeared on the scene, there were many cuts on their clothes caused by knives, but they were not injured.

A look of admiration appeared on Garin's face. Shanks' swordsmanship level was much higher than he expected.

The Figalando family pays the most attention to swordsmanship, which is why he has not used the power of the devil fruit until now.

Shanks was also amazed at Garin's swordsmanship. He learned swordsmanship from Roger and Rayleigh when he was on Roger's ship. However, the two of them were more inclined towards domineering and could not match Garin's swordsmanship. After all, the Figalando family has a swordsmanship heritage of more than 800 years.

Perhaps it was the effect of his bloodline, but Shanks could be said to be a self-taught swordsman. He made rapid progress after learning it, and with frequent sparring with Hawkeye, his swordsmanship level was already firmly in the top three in the world.

After a round of sword fighting, the relationship between the two people became closer invisibly.

However, what happened just now could only be considered a warm-up for the two of them.

Shanks moved his shoulders and slowly inserted his saber into his waist. Seeing this, Garin guessed Shanks' next intention and said,

"Are you going to use the power of the fruit?"

Shanks grinned and said,

"Yes, my fruit has been transformed by Brother Jiger, it is the Mythical Beast Dragon Fruit!"

Jialin nodded and said,

"I heard what he said, but it seems that this fruit doesn't quite match your swordsmanship."

Shanks no longer responded. His upper body clothes exploded into pieces, his body expanded rapidly, and he instantly turned into a dragon man.

Looking at Shanks's burly body covered with scarlet scales, Garin commented,

"The increase in physical strength of the animal-type devil fruit is indeed exaggerated."

Shanks suddenly looked at the Makino mother and daughter in the distance and struck a pose that he thought looked very handsome.

However, when Makino saw Shanks like this for the first time, he was frightened and subconsciously covered the eyes of Sosia in his arms.

Shanks immediately froze and fell into self-doubt.

Seeing this, Jiger's mouth twitched, turned his head away and said,

"This idiot!"

Just as Jiger finished speaking, there was a bang. At this moment, Makino just moved his hand that was covering Sosia's eyes away, and the first thing he saw was Shanks being shot in the opposite direction like a cannonball.

Garin stood where Shanks had just been, slowly retracted his legs and stood up, and said lightly to Shanks who had landed in the distance,

"Distraction during battle is a big taboo."

Jiger also continued to speak,

"It's been so many years and you still haven't learned your lesson. Have you forgotten what I said when we first met?"

Shanks stood up from the ground holding his butt with a look of aggrieved look on his face. He just wanted to show off in front of his wife and daughter, but he failed and got kicked hard on the butt, in front of his wife and daughter. It was too embarrassing and humiliating!

Thinking of this, Shanks looked at Garin angrily and said,

"I think I know who Big Brother learned his fighting style from!"

After hearing this, Jialin was stunned and said,

"What fighting style?"

Shanks gritted his teeth and said,

"He calls this a zero-frame start! That's also the name you gave it, right?"

Jialin shook his head, indicating that he was not aware of it.

Shanks said no more. His face sank, and two streams of deep breath blew out of his nostrils. A violent airflow gradually gathered around his body, and countless wind blades emerged from it.

The next second, Shanks shouted loudly, swung his dragon claws, and wind blades around his body burst out towards Garin.

Garin's eyes flashed, his toes tapped the ground lightly, and his figure disappeared like a ghost. However, he could not escape the coverage of Shanks' powerful observation Haki.

The wind blades merged into a green rainbow stream, chasing after Garin closely.

Seeing this, Jialin simply stopped dodging and immediately adjusted his body shape. He slashed out with several sword energies with his backhand. Any one of these sword energies was at a level that countless swordsmen would find difficult to reach in their entire lives.

The sword energy collided with the wind blade, and in an instant turned into a mist that floated in the air. Then, the mist exploded, and Shanks rushed out of it, with his domineering dragon claws wrapped around him, and rushed straight to Garin's face.

Garin's expression remained unchanged. As he turned his wrist, his sword had already stabbed towards Shanks' lower abdomen. Shanks immediately felt a chill in his crotch, which was even faster than the warning from his observation Haki.

When Jiger saw Garin's move, his face tightened. He thought to himself, Uncle Garin, does he think that with Sosia, Shanks's stuff will be used more often?

Shanks flipped in the air and retreated far away, staring and shouting,

"Where are you poking?!"

Jialin calmly made a sword flower, put away the sword in a very elegant posture, and said calmly,

"As a swordsman, you must know how to find the enemy's biggest weakness during a fight, and that was the best angle for striking the sword just now."

"Good good!"

Shanks was so angry that he laughed, said a few good words, then suddenly opened his mouth and spurted out an extremely violent dragon breath.

Garin slashed down with his sword, and the powerful sword energy mixed with the domineering color split the dragon breath into two. Shanks exhaled another breath of dragon, and this time he increased the output of his ability. Garin frowned slightly and raised his sword to resist the impact of the dragon breath.

The scorching energy spread out, and even in such a strong energy storm, Garin's crescent-shaped hair and beard remained motionless, and his whole body stood out as steady as a rock.

Shanks' attack would naturally not be limited to this extent. He raised one arm and a thick cloud of flames gushed out from his palm. The flames spread over the top of the space, and the color gradually deepened until it turned into a rich black, emitting silver arcs from time to time.

Garin sensed the destructive aura above, his eyes flashed, and he exerted force with his hands to try to disperse the dragon's breath first. However, the thunder in the sky had already accumulated, and a thick silver streak burst out from the black clouds, covering Garin below.

Amid a huge thunder, Garin's figure disappeared in the dazzling silver lightning.

Shanks didn't think that he could defeat Garin like this. He stared at the smoke in front of him. The next second, a crisp sound was heard, and the smoke dissipated instantly, revealing Garin inside.

There was a circle of translucent waves faintly visible on one of Jialin's hands.

Shanks smiled upon seeing this.

"Are you finally unable to resist using your abilities?"

Garin looked up at Shanks in front of him, then bent his arms without saying a word. Seeing this, Shanks' pupils flashed, and he immediately crossed his arms in front of him to protect himself.

The next second, Garin punched out, and dense green cracks spread in the space. A terrifying impact force hit Shanks heavily, and the whole person flew backwards.