Strongest Swordsman In One Piece

As for why pure swordsmen are used to evaluating the battle between El and Hawkeye, it's quite simple, because of El's arrogance.

Although El is a Float-Float Fruit user, in addition to his devil fruit ability, he is also full of confidence and pride in his swordsmanship, because before he became a devil fruit user, his most powerful strength lay on swordsmanship.

If it's a life and death enemy, then he will be the same as when he faces Shanks and Benn Beckman, he will fight dirtily as he will use his devil fruit ability, various external forces, and strategies to weaken his opponent.

If Hawk Eyes' is as same as Whitebeard, in addition to using one of the twelve Supreme Grade swords and he also possesses a powerful devil fruit, then he will also use his own devil fruit.

However, Hawk Eyes does not have a devil fruit nor he is his life and death's enemy, the reason why he came to him was not to avenge the Shanks, but to see if El, who killed Shanks, could be at the same level as Shanks before he loses his arm.

Since El went to the appointment and found out through mind reading that Hawk Eyes did not come for revenge, he has decided not to use the power of his devil fruit in this battle.

If he loses both in swordsmanship and Haki to Hawk Eyes, he will accept his defeat, and then add another goal besides becoming a dual devil fruit user which is to develop his Haki and swordsmanship until he surpasses Hawkeye.

On this trip, El's goal was originally to see his full strength and how far he is from the ceiling of this world at the same time to see how much he realized in his swordsmanship talent.

The more Hawk Eyes fought, the more his fighting spirit boiled, and the same was true for El.

The two of them didn't know when they ended up testing each other and they began to focus on killing each other, as when they wield their Black swords in their hands, they attack each other's vital points.

Before Shanks lose his arm, he had fought with Hawk Eyes more than once, but Hawk Eyes' did not leave a single scar on Shanks and vice versa, while three scars on Shanks' left eye were instead from Marshall, D. Teach not from their battle.

El's sword is wrapped with a large amount of armament haki and the breath of all things, so once he successfully slashes Hawk Eyes, unless his armament haki is strong enough to block El's slash, otherwise he will be left with scars or even a broken rib for the first time.

It's a pity that even if El enters the state of omniscient, his attacks are still blocked because Hawk Eyes' dynamic vision combined with observation haki doesn't lose to him, someone whos born with observation haki.



As El and Hawk Eyes keep fighting, the bright sky gradually turns to sunset, then they suddenly ended their swordsmanship battle that lasted for several hours as they jumped back to open a distance of ten meters away from each other.

Then Hawk Eyes held the hilt of his sword that was longer than his forearm in both hands and slashed towards El.

A dim light flashed across El's eyes because in omniscient, El's perspective is similar to using devil fruit awakening so as if seeing some incredible scene, almost without any hesitation, El jumped sideways and disappeared in place before looking behind him.



The moment he jumped away and disappear from his place, the mountain in the center of the island that is a few miles away from their battlefield, At this time, it has been divided into two parts from the middle.

The broken mountain is undoubtedly slashed by a flying slash but El did not see the so-called flying slash at all.

When he unleashed his observation haki, he discover a powerful wave of energy has flown out of the uninhabited island and cut off a large part of the sea before disappearing.

"Such power and speed, it's quite exaggerated,"

El looked at Hawk Eyes who raised his sword and was ready to swing his sword for the second time with the corner of his mouth rising slightly while speaking. "As expected of the strongest swordsman in the world, you also have conqueror haki and can easily use conqueror entanglement on your flying slash."

After he finished speaking, El also raised his sword and wrapped it with a large amount of armament and conqueror haki.

Since Hawk Eyes took the initiative to end the swordsmanship battle and chose to start the second round of battle in flying slash, he would naturally accompany him to the end, so the two began to test each other once again.

After wrapping armament and conqueror haki on their sword, El and Hawk Eyes took different poses and slashed at each other with flying slashes.

El swept horizontal while Hawk Eyes slashed vertically.

As the dark red light flickered, a huge dark red flying slash in a cross shape suddenly appeared on the uninhabited island out of thin air.

This huge dark red flying slash, whether it is in length or height is more than 100 meters and the energy contained in it is even more powerful than a mastered swordsman's full blow.

What's even more incredible is if someone looks at it from a distance, they will find that this huge dark red flying slash is almost glued together, however, if they look closely they will find that this vertical and horizontal dark red flying slash are actually not glued together at all, but blocked by a huge layer of invisible substance.

The invisible substance is like a sponge, as it madly absorbs these two flying slashes that contain conqueror haki to constantly grow itself.

At the same time, the invisible haki fluctuations also made the sky that was gradually turning dark as the Sun disappearance on the horizon, to instantly turn dark, and soon, the vision of Tear in the sky appeared.

boom----!

When the two flying slashes were finally completely absorbed by the invisible substance and rose to the sky, it did not transform into hurricane-like haki fluctuations that ravaged the sky and the earth but made an invisible substance like an inflated balloon that eventually explode after reaching the unbearable limit.

A mushroom cloud formed by energy suddenly rose from the uninhabited island and after the energy-like mushroom cloud rises, it continuously changes in several colors.

This scene is just like the vision created by Kaido and Charlotte Linlin in the Onigashima when they met once again after a decade.