Chapter 263 – The Real Opponent

"It's about time you arrived, Monkey D. Garp!"

Adrian's eyes gleamed slightly as he watched the iron-gray Navy warship with the white flag emblazoned with a blue seagull emerge on the distant horizon.

A surge of battle intent rose within him.

Without a doubt, Garp, one of the top experts in the sea, was also the perfect person to test Adrian's current limits!

If only that pesky yellow monkey wasn't jumping around and flashing all over the place!

Adrian's gaze shifted to Kizaru, who had already steadied himself and was flying towards the warship.

Just moments ago, despite being hit by a barrage of ghost energy cannons from the thousand-handed white Buddha, Kizaru had managed to use his incredible speed granted by the Glint-Glint Fruit to quickly move to the edge of the "full-screen attack."

Kizaru used his Armament Haki to deflect some of them, and his Glint-Glint Fruit's "splitting" ability to dodge others.

As a result, Kizaru was not seriously injured.

At the very least, he still had the strength to continue fighting!

However, Kizaru had no intention of continuing the fight.

While he couldn't stand Garp's rough and straightforward speech, Kizaru was still greatly relieved to see the veteran Marine arrive.

Just as Kizaru transformed into a streak of yellow light and sped towards Garp's warship, Adrian's mind moved, and he urged the Thousand-Handed Buddha in the sky to unleash another barrage of Ghost Energy cannons.

Deep blue beams of Ghost Energy wove together in the sky, almost forming an impenetrable dark blue net, spreading towards Kizaru, as if to capture the lively yellow monkey on the spot!

Feeling the spiky warnings of Observation Haki in his mind, sensing the seemingly unavoidable ghost energy cannon attack behind him, Kizaru frowned and gritted his teeth.

In a matter of seconds, Kizaru brought his hands together, placing them in front of his body, palms facing each other in the empty air, gathering a mirror-like glow.

"Yata no Kagami!"

A moment later, a beam of yellow light shot out from the Yata no Kagami, forming an incredibly bright path of light in the air, weaving with incredible agility through the gaps in the net formed by the Ghost Energy cannons.

With this ability, Kizaru successfully dodged the White Buddha's second round of attacks.

However, capturing this yellow monkey was just a collateral target!

Adrian's true goal was the Marine warship that was almost in a straight line with the yellow monkey!

Like stars and rain, the deep blue beams of light came crashing down. If it were any other time, this magnificent scene would surely have left one in awe and intoxicated.

However, everyone on the Marine warship knew that these Ghost Energy cannons were terrifying attacks that could take lives in an instant!

Many soldiers were pale-faced, sweating profusely, and screaming in terror.

But more soldiers still focused on the tall figure at the front of the warship's deck, who had just casually tossed aside the megaphone in his hand.

"Hahaha! If you let you completely destroy the warship like this, I'll have a hard time explaining to those stingy bastards in the logistics department when I get back to Marineford!"

Facing the impending Ghost Energy cannon attack, Garp, clad in his white coat of justice, showed no sign of panic or wavering. Instead, he let out a hearty laugh.

Reaching out, Garp grabbed a giant iron ball the size of half the warship's deck that was lying nearby.

His left hand wrapped around the thick, hard chain at the bottom of the iron ball, his right hand gripping the end of the chain next to the giant iron ball, and lifting it high above his head.

Garp took a step back with his right foot, bent his left knee, and struck a classic pose.

Then, with a burst of power from his left foot and a simultaneous surge of energy from his core, Garp threw the giant iron ball into the sky like a baseball, his right hand sliding all the way to the end of the other end of the chain.

Knowing that the mere presence of an iron ball would not be enough to stop the Ghost Energy cannon attack that seemed to want to pierce and destroy everything.

Garp took a deep breath, reached out with his left hand, and grasped the end of the chain with both hands, blue veins popping out on his forehead.

Vast and boundless Armament Haki poured out from Garp's now blackened palms, following the pull of the thick iron chain, completely covering the giant iron ball that was flying towards the sky.

The originally crude and large iron ball was now covered with a layer of rich Armament Haki that resembled glaze. From a distance, it looked like it had been polished to a gleaming shine.

In the mid-air, the dense beams of Ghost Energy cannons collided fiercely with the giant iron ball covered in Armament Haki.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The sound of explosions like a chain of cannonballs spread instantly, and the tremendous impact turned into a billowing wave of air. The surrounding seawater was whipped up into large waves under this mighty force.

The Marine warship swayed incessantly under the successive impact of the airwaves and waves. Many people lost their balance and fell to the deck.

However, Garp, standing at the bow of the ship, remained as motionless as a towering mountain.

Under the Ghost Energy cannon attack of such intensity, Garp's arm holding the thick iron chain didn't even tremble a bit.

In a matter of moments.

The Ghost Energy beams and the giant iron ball collided thousands of times, sparks of bright red and shards of dark blue light flying everywhere.

But even after the Ghost Energy beams were exhausted, they still couldn't penetrate the Armament Haki attached to the surface of the giant iron ball by Garp, and therefore couldn't cause any damage to the iron ball or the warship behind it.

"This level of Armament Haki beyond than that of Douglas Bullet, who polished his strength and spirit to their peak in Impel Down in the original timeline!"

"Is this the power of Monkey D. Garp?!"

"Truly worthy of being the 'Marine Hero' who stopped the terrifying plan of the Rocks Pirates to seize the world and chased the Roger Pirates all over the Grand Line!"

On the panel, the new S-level challenge task "Marine Hero" also appeared as expected.

Adrian paid no attention to the panel information. His thoughts raced, and without hesitation, he once again activated the white Buddha, directing another concentrated barrage of energy cannons toward the massive iron ball.

Garp maintained his stance, unwavering, still holding the giant iron ball above the Marine ship. He shielded it from the descending onslaught of the dense ghostly rain.

Such a state was nothing for the world's top physique freaks.

Garp even had the leisure to shout at Kizaru, who had just returned to the warship.

"Kizaru, you can fly into the sky, so can't you find a way to break that white Buddha of White Ghost? That thing has so many hands, it's so ugly! I don't even want to think about what Sengoku looks like anymore."

Garp's voice sounded very relaxed.

"And if we let White Ghost continue to attack like this, we won't be able to complete our mission."

Kizaru wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth. He had just been hit in the body by the full-screen attack of the Ghost Energy cannons, and he had suffered some minor injuries.

"Admiral Garp, that White Ghost is very strong! It took me a lot of energy to stall for time just now... I still want to rest--"

"Kizaru, if you keep being so sarcastic, do you believe I'll let you experience my 'Fist of Love'?"

The old monkey was defeated by the old senior's reckless attitude of ignoring the enemy and about to start a naval infighting.

The surrounding Marine soldiers also shouted out.

"Admiral Garp! Don't!"

"White Ghost is still attacking!"

Many Marine soldiers also looked at Vice Admiral Kizaru with anticipation. In their eyes, the only one who could solve the current predicament was the ability user of the Glint-Glint Fruit who could fly!

Kizaru's mouth twitched slightly and he sighed.

The next moment.

He turned into light again.

Garp didn't turn his head back and cheered loudly, "Take off, Kizaru!"