Chapter 69: Victory and Target

Looking at Arthur, who was equally powerful as Rayleigh, an indelible will surged in his heart, a will to surpass the guy who was beaten half to death by him but was still able to move.

"One year!" Barrett stood at the end of the Roger Pirates and said to himself, "In just one year, I can achieve that level!"

"Can you fight like that with Mr. Rayleigh?"

"Don't be ridiculous! All the young men who challenged Vice Captain Rayleigh without permission were sent to hell by Rayleigh. He is the real Hades!"

"Maybe it's possible. These guys are growing at such a terrifying rate."

Barrett is two years younger than Arthur. Now Arthur is 16 and he is only 14. According to the original book, Barrett was evenly matched with Rayleigh when he was years old.

"Pluto?" Barrett's desire to become stronger was infinitely magnified, and he continued: "Then I am the devil!"

Everyone in Roger's pirate group was shocked by his words and really thought he was a devil.

Because Barrett really destroyed his own country.

……

The fierce battle between Arthur and Rayleigh lasted for a whole day and was about to come to an end.

The red plains were filled with smoke and dust, with spider webs shattered.

Boom! Rayleigh was suddenly ejected from the smoke by a huge force. He gritted his teeth and looked at Arthur in front of him and said with a smile: "Arthur, I have to admit that if we continue to fight like this with just swordsmanship, I will definitely lose."

"You are too modest." Arthur cleared away the smoke and dust with his sword and confronted Rayleigh: "Mr. Rayleigh."

"I'm serious." Rayleigh looked serious, as if what he just said was true.

"Then let's try using our domineering aura, that way we can determine who is the better player." After a day of fighting, Arthur, feeling extremely hot, took off his clothes, revealing his bruised and battered body.

It was several times more than two years ago. Knife wounds, gunshot wounds, and fatal scars were stacked on his body, making him look like a test subject undergoing a live experiment.

"Why is he still alive? I thought the gunshot wound on the back of his neck and the stab wound on the left side of his neck caused by Shi Ji were shocking enough..."

"What on earth has he been through in the past two years?"

"Those guys in the navy are so ruthless!"

The members of Roger's pirate group looked at Arthur's upper body and evaluated his body. They felt creepy.

In the distance, the air flow from Arthur's body poured into the knife, and the air flow turned into the shape of cherry blossom petals, gradually wrapping the entire blade.

High-level Armament Haki was revealed, and its purity shocked even Rayleigh.

"What a promising young man." Rayleigh was shocked and observed Arthur's armament color. Only then did he understand both his swordsmanship and his domineering level.

The young man in front of him was not too far from him, very close.

"Can I ask you something, Arthur?"

"What's the matter?"

"What is your purpose and goal in pursuing becoming stronger?"

Being asked this question suddenly, he did not hesitate at all, but just looked up at the top of the red earth continent behind him, where the holy land of Mary Joa was located.

If he had not had the experience of going out to sea for the past two years, he would not have known that the true side of the pirate world could be so distorted.

Most pirates are forced to go out to sea as pirates under the oppression of the World Government. Non-member countries do not even have human rights...

Arthur suddenly put away his indifference, and he seemed to reveal a kingly aura, and responded to Rayleigh:

"Power, I want to reach the top of a man!"

This was just Arthur's conservative answer. He wanted to climb to the peak that no one could reach and completely change his tragic fate of being controlled by others.

Just because he had no strength, he was chased everywhere and was framed and almost died.

Looking towards the Red Earth Continent...Rayleigh listened to Arthur's answer and the cold aura coming from him.

Did you seem to have guessed that his ambition was to be at the top of the Red Earth Continent, that is, above the World Government?

"You have ambition!" Rayleigh suppressed his surprise and wrapped the high-level Armament Haki around his sword: "Let's end this day-long battle in one move!"

Arthur Rayleigh was about to finish his move and had already taken a stance, the aura he exuded was as if he was a king from the underworld staring at him.

It was as if it was going to devour me and kill me instantly.

Faced with this terrifying pressure, Arthur is no longer afraid or scared...

Likewise, he responded to Rayleigh, put the Ice Dragon back into the scabbard, focused all his attention on Rayleigh, and silently said:

"If you don't soar into the sky, you will fall into the abyss. Dragon light flashes."

Boom! Arthur, concentrating all his strength, drew his sword and rushed towards Rayleigh like a giant dragon. The sound of the sword cut into his ears like a dragon's roar.

This move shocked Rayleigh again. He didn't expect that Arthur would attack him with such a terrifying killing move as the final move to end the battle.

Moreover, without any sign of charging, without any hesitation, the super-fast attack approached in an instant.

Rayleigh smiled excitedly upon seeing this, and at the same time, he turned into a silver flash and slashed through Arthur's moves.

The swords flashed, and with the sound of crisp collisions, the weapons of both sides crossed in the air, and the terrifying impact generated spread around the Twin Capes.

The sea nearby was turbulent, and Lab in the water made whale calls, as if he was very satisfied with what he saw.

The two exchanged positions and stood motionless on the red soil plain.

"Who wins! Hey, what happened just now, Captain Roger?" Bucky, who was watching with great interest on the lighthouse, asked Roger below.

With eyes wide open and a look of astonishment, Shanks stared at the scene in disbelief: "He actually fought with Mr. Rayleigh like this... This is impossible, right?"

Roger suddenly laughed: "When I was 16, I was still fighting with gangsters in Rogue Town. Where did I get my domineering and sword skills?"

“It’s really like the old wave pushes the new wave.”

In the distance, Arthur slowly put away his knife, and the unstoppable murderous aura on his body gradually faded away. He turned around and looked at Rayleigh as if nothing had happened.

"The young are to be feared." Rayleigh smiled as he looked at the sword in his hand. Just now, his move collided with Arthur's for a moment, and the two domineering forces turned into an impact that offset each other's attack.

In other words, the two men's full-strength attacks ended in a draw.

"Mr. Rayleigh, if you use your comprehensive strength to attack me, I will have absolutely no chance of fighting you with a knife." Arthur was very self-aware and said to Rayleigh politely:

"Thank you for your sword fighting exchange. I learned a lot from this battle."

In this battle, Rayleigh did not even use the Conqueror's Haki and Observation Haki.

Both sides were competing in swordsmanship and armament color, and these two points alone made Arthur try his best.

Rayleigh, however, was at ease and cooperated with Arthur like a teacher.

It also made Arthur realize his current shortcomings.

His observation Haki is very weak, and he has to rely entirely on his own instinctive reaction to dodge.

Even the Overlord Haki entanglement cannot be achieved.

But his Armament Haki was honed bit by bit in fighting.