Chapter 736 Scrape the ground 3 feet
The first to launch the attack was Kuina. The moment the armament color was wrapped around Wado Ichimonji, she disappeared on the spot.
With Vic's current understanding of speed, all of Kuina's movements could not escape his eyes, as Vic saw them directly with his eyes.
Mihawk used his Observation Haki to capture her. With this level of strength, his eyes could no longer keep up with each other's speed, so at this time he had to rely entirely on his Observation Haki. He slightly moved his black sword to block Kuina's attack, and the two swords collided with each other, making a sound of metal clashing.
The two men were intact and did not retreat a single step, but the ground next to them was damaged, like tofu cut by a sharp blade, with cubes of earth and rocks flying up under the powerful momentum.
This was the result of the two people's sharp sword energy interweaving into a net. It can be seen how dangerous this simple attack was. If you are not careful, you will be cut into pieces. Only a piece of ground in front of Vic was spared.
After the dust settled around them, the two of them retreated tacitly, but Kuina disappeared instantly after she landed on the ground. The bodies of Wado Ichimonji and Kuina were like a straight line, and the whole person was like a sharp arrow pointing straight at Mihawk's heart. The entire space was pierced by each person's sword, leaving a vacuum channel.
Mihawk raised his lips into a smile, and simply raised the knife and flipped it, holding the blade in front of his chest.
With a crisp sound of "ding", the tip of Wado Ichimonji's sword was blocked firmly. Mihawk exerted force with his hand, directly swept Wado Ichimonji away, and slashed it out with the sword.
Kuina did not take the knife head-on, but ducked to avoid it. At the moment she ducked, she stabbed out with another knife, this one aimed directly at Mihawk's throat, but he dodged it by tilting his head.
But a big tree ten feet behind Mihawk was pierced through in an instant, leaving a fist-sized hole. If you look inside from the entrance of the hole, you can see the blue ocean, because Kuina's knife pierced through all the trees in this line, leaving a hole in all the trees!
After missing the first attack, Kuina quickly retracted her knife, gathered her strength and stabbed out again. Mihawk took a step back and raised his knife to block. He did not try to dodge by tilting his head left or right, for fear of breaking his neck, because the knife in Kuina's hand was like the needle of a sewing machine, stabbing back and forth quickly at his head and throat.
Just as the two were fighting, Mihawk's sword finally showed its destructive power. The trees in the forest behind Kuina fell to the ground one after another. In the fan-shaped area behind her, all the trees were cut in half, leaving only countless one-meter-high wooden stakes standing there. Mihawk's casual sword was also very powerful.
“Ding ding ding ding ding…”
Each of Kuina's stabs was accurately blocked by the black knife in Mihawk's hand. Perhaps he felt it was too harsh, so Mihawk did not maintain the status quo.
When blocking the attack, he exerted more force, causing the Wado Ichimonji in Kuina's hand to lose its original trajectory. Then he turned around with the knife in both hands and slashed towards Kuina.
Kuina did not panic either. She also held the knife with both hands and raised the blade, then turned in the direction of the black knife and faced Mihawk's knife.
There was another fierce collision, and the surrounding ground was cut again, with earth, rocks and dust flying up. Kuina's feet drew two shallow grooves on the ground and she retreated more than two meters. Obviously, Mihawk had the upper hand in this attack, but Kuina did not suffer any substantial damage, she was just forced to retreat.
However, Kuina did not give up. She jumped directly into the air, tilted her feet upward in the air, and slashed at Mihawk with the knife in both hands.
Mihawk naturally blocked the knife, but was pushed back by a huge force, and his feet also began to plow the ground. Kuina was seeking revenge for the knife she had just used!
Mihawk stopped only after his back broke a large tree, which shows how much strength Kuina used in this move, and she even borrowed the recoil force of the Moon Step.
Mihawk was very experienced in combat. At the moment when Kuina was out of strength and had no support from anyone, he directly pushed away Wado Ichimonji and stabbed Kuina in the face with the knife in one hand. At this moment, Mihawk only had opponents in his eyes, not women. He would not show any mercy to women.
Kuina was not really without support. Seeing the tip of the Black Blade Ye stabbing at her, she directly used the Moon Step and Shave, and got away from Mihawk in a few flashes in the air. It was really thrilling just now, and she was almost stabbed.
Mihawk saw Kuina moving away from him in an instant, so he did not chase after her. Instead, he continued to stab the Black Blade Night, and several flying slashes flew towards Kuina's location.
Seeing this, Kuina's eyes focused, and she swung her sword repeatedly, instantly dispersing the attacks flying towards her, and then swung her sword back with a flying attack!
Compared to Mihawk's small and numerous slashes, Kuina's slash was only one, but it was not small and flew towards Mihawk like a crescent moon.
Mihawk swung his sword and broke Kuina's attack. The blow seemed casual, but it was by no means easy, as could be seen from Mihawk's slightly panting chest.
Of course, Kuina was also panting. She had already started when she took on those flying slashes. The battle of a pure swordsman is still very physically demanding. They cannot stand still and rely on their abilities to fight like ability users. Every move and every style requires mobilizing the body's strength, speed, sword energy, and domineering, all of which consume a lot of physical energy.
The two men stood there breathing for a while, and as if they had reached some kind of tacit understanding, they swung out a flying slash at the same time!
The two flying slashes collided with each other instantly, and the complete slashes instantly shattered and flew in all directions. The ground and the forest suffered huge damage, and there were smooth cuts everywhere. It was a real disaster scene. Only the area within five meters around Vic was intact.
This attack did not determine the winner, and the two men launched five or six flying slashes in succession, each one stronger than the last. The ground of the entire island was scraped down by more than a meter by the two men's slashes. The entire forest no longer existed, and the trees were chopped into pieces and floated into the sea. Only a small stage was left at Vic's place!
After the two stopped fighting, their chests were rising and falling rapidly, and a trickle of blood flowed from the corner of Kuina's mouth. She was injured by Mihawk's sword energy during the fight.
Vic saw it very clearly from the side. Kuina was a little bit behind in strength. She had to rely on Moon Steps to force Mihawk back, but Mihawk was able to repel Kuina with his own strength alone.
In close combat, both of them are similar, but the relationship between melee combat and observation Haki is very close, so in close combat what really matters is observation Haki.
Kuina is definitely not as good as Mihawk in terms of Observation Haki. Her Observation Haki is now just at its basic peak state, but Mihawk's Observation Haki can foresee the future long ago!
Otherwise, Mihawk wouldn’t have been able to last that long in his last fight with Vic, let alone win in a kendo sparring match with Shanks.
However, Mihawk knew that Kuina's observation Haki was not as good as his, so he did not use his ability to foresee the future to bully the little girl. This is why the two of them were able to fight back and forth, otherwise Kuina would have been defeated long ago. This is also something that Kuina needs to improve in the future.