Chapter 811 A show of force?
"Since we've met, let's go to the island and have a chat! Xuanlong!"
Just as Vic was thinking and Ace was alert, a slightly hoarse old voice reached their ears. The voice was not loud but very clear.
Hearing this voice, Ace's face changed drastically, and Vic also became serious. The warship was still several nautical miles away from the island. How did such a slow voice come from here?
If it was a shout, it might be possible that the sound could be heard, but this sound could not be from shouting. It felt like normal talking. Ace just thought that the person was very powerful and used some means to do this.
But Vic knew that it had nothing to do with strength. The man could actually transmit the secret message using the Sight and Sound technique. That was what made him serious!
He had never passed on the secret method of transmitting sound to others. At most, he passed it on to Rebecca and the others. It was impossible for Rebecca and the others to pass it on to outsiders without asking for permission. And the person was such a strong one, which could only mean one thing, that this person, like him, had figured it out on his own!
The secret sound transmission of Observation Haki is not a very sophisticated method. As long as the direction is found, anyone with a decent level of Observation Haki can learn it. However, the most difficult part is to create it. Development and extension are much simpler and are completely on a different level. To have such an idea, the person must be a genius!
"Xuanlong! It's been a long time since anyone called me like this!"
Ever since Vic left the navy, the name Xuanlong has become a little distant. At least in front of Vic, few people call him that, but behind his back, there are still many people who call him that.
Xuanlong is just a title. Just like after Aokiji left the navy, many people still called him that because it was Kuzan's most well-known nickname. But Vic also has the title of Thor, which is more famous than Xuanlong, so more people call Vic Thor.
Vic did not reply using secret telepathy, but the warship's sailing direction had quietly changed, with the bow facing the island.
In just a quarter of an hour, the warship dropped anchor on a vertical shore of the island. The cliff was as smooth as if it had been cut by a knife or an axe, as if someone had practiced swordplay here many years ago. However, over a long period of time, all traces of human intervention had been blurred by natural erosion.
The two did not pay too much attention to these things. They easily jumped onto the shore and headed towards the perception in their sight.
"Hmm? A show of force? Or..."
However, before Vic and Ace had gone far, a powerful domineering aura rushed over from the center of the island. Vic's face did not change and he continued to move forward, but Ace felt a little uncomfortable, but he still gritted his teeth and moved forward. He would not give in easily.
As the two continued to move forward, the impact of the domineering color became stronger and stronger. Vic was not affected, but Ace's body was shaking and he could not stand steadily.
Ace's Observation Haki and Armament Haki are pretty good, but his Conqueror Haki is not so good, especially after he went under the wing of Whitebeard, his Conqueror Haki has basically become dormant. Although he accidentally awakened it when he was a child, it never appeared again afterwards, so Ace has never mastered the Conqueror Haki!
Now encountering such a strong domineering Haki, it suddenly feels a bit overwhelmed. This is the result of not undergoing special training.
Back when Vic hadn't yet awakened his Conqueror's Haki, he was often trained in his Conqueror's Haki by Garp. However, Ace had never received such training from Whitebeard, and rarely came into contact with other strong people who possessed Conqueror's Haki.
Whitebeard's status is there. In the two or three years since Ace joined the Whitebeard Pirates, he has never experienced an emperor-level battle.
From what Whitebeard, Shanks and Sengoku said, we know that the Whitebeard Pirates have been stable for many years and there has not even been a decent war.
Of course, there are definitely challengers, but they are all young and inexperienced people like Ace who have just entered the New World not long ago. Naturally, their strength is not that strong, and many of them have been adopted as sons by Whitebeard.
So after Ace joined the Whitebeard Pirates, his strength didn't improve much. That's what pirates are like. When they are not fighting, they just eat, drink and have fun. Who would focus on practicing?
The strong ones all have their own goals, or are forced to be strong. Whitebeard is obviously the latter. He was forced to become a strong man step by step by this cruel world!
There are countless people like Whitebeard in this world, but many of them fail along the way. Only a few who are talented, lucky and smart make it to the end and become strong!
Whitebeard didn't want to become the Pirate King, and when Ace joined, he was already the strongest man in the world. Would a pirate group like this, which no one would mess with, still pursue strength? Would they still put improving their strength first?
At least it won't be the main one, right? They don't have any big goals to achieve. It can be said that Ace wasted a lot of time in the Whitebeard Pirates. This is also the reason why Wick didn't want Ace to join the Whitebeard Pirates at first. But fate is so magical. Ace finally joined the Whitebeard Pirates after many twists and turns!
Seeing that Ace was about to collapse, Vic immediately released his Domineering Haki and pushed back the attacking Domineering Haki.
From a distance, you can see that two blood-red translucent spheres, one large and one small, filled with blood-red lightning, collide and squeeze each other, releasing more intense blood-red lightning. The surrounding vegetation is suppressed and pulled all over the place by an invisible force. The animals in the forest have already been foaming at the mouth and lying on the ground, unable to even escape!
Vic did not release the Conqueror's Haki over a too large range. As long as he could resist the Conqueror's Haki of the opponent and protect the two of them, he would release the Conqueror's Haki to protect Ace all the way forward.
As they move forward, Vic's Dominant Color is madly squeezing the opponent's Dominant Color. The closer the two sides are, the stronger the squeezing.
The range of the Domineering Haki released by the opponent was very large, but the strength was average. The person on the opposite side also felt the pressure brought by Vic, and his Domineering Haki was no longer released so wantonly, but shrank a lot, just in time to come into contact and fight with Vic's Domineering Haki, just like two balloons squeezing each other!
"Mr. Vic! Is this the clash of domineering colors between top masters? So powerful!"
Ace was protected by Vic's domineering color and was no longer under pressure, but the scene around him was very vivid. Uprooted and collapsed trees were everywhere, small trees and bushes continued to shatter in the invisible force, various beasts on the ground were foaming at the mouth, and the ground was full of cracks, all of which told of the fierce confrontation between the two!
Especially the changes in the sky. The clear sky just now was now covered by clouds. Blue lightning struck from time to time. The collision of the two Conqueror's Haki actually attracted thunder! This gave Ace a new understanding of Conqueror's Haki!
Wherever Vic and Ace passed, there was already a mess. As a result of the fierce collision of their domineering color, most of the tall trees in the forest collapsed. Vic could already see the back of the man in front of him through the gaps between the trees.
A high-collared black cloak covered most of the body, but overall, the man was still very slender. A tuft of white hair could be seen on the top of his head, and the rest was blocked by the high collar. There should be an umbrella on the ground at his feet.
Vic had never seen such a costume before, but strange clothes were common in this world, so it was nothing strange. You couldn't stop people from changing clothes, right? This was the real world, not the two-dimensional world where people didn't need to change clothes.
When Vic and Ace came to 30 meters away from the man, they stopped moving forward, and the clash of their domineering auras became more and more intense.
The man seemed to want to see how good Vic was, so he shrunk his domineering color to a range similar to Vic's, and then continued to strengthen it.
As the opponent strengthens his domineering Haki, Vic is also improving his own domineering Haki. In this world, Vic is not afraid of anyone's domineering Haki except Im, who seems to have lived for a long time and is the most mysterious person.
Others all improve naturally, but only Vic has the help of external objects such as the Soul Fruit to enhance mental strength, which is no different from using a cheat, so Vic only increases the strength of his Domineering Haki little by little to maintain a balance with the opponent. He does not need to crush the opponent right away. The opponent does not show any hostility, so he just plays with the opponent slowly.