Chapter 212 - Infusion!

Kaido from the ground looked up at the sky in shock. There was blood on his mouth from Ian's earlier attack…

'W-What the hell is up with this Brat…" Kaido thought in shock as he looked upward.

This thought was mirrored by Shiki who also stared at the sky in shock too…

Both Kaido and Shiki were by no means weak… the world knows of their feats… and there was no need to prove anything in that regard…

However, it was their bad luck this time that they were pitted against someone like Ian…

'Damn it all…' Kaido angrily thought.

Why was it their bad luck to be against Ian?

It all was related to Haki. The natural power of the world that dwells in every one of its inhabitants no matter how small the amount was.

Haki was a spiritual thing. As such it directly relates to one's own willpower.

For Kaido and Shiki, who had weathered the test of times, having fought in wars against the greatest of pirates and marines alike, their willpower was tempered to be unrelenting, unforgiving, and so on.

They will not give up nor will they surrender… such was their resolve. As such their Haki directly became huge in reserves, and powerful in nature.

But…

Their opponent outmatched them in that regard.

He had his willpower tempered for two years in the void. Since he had been stuck there.

And nothing from the one-piece world can match that.

This lead to the amount of Haki in his body becoming huge. Like it was massive even for someone of Shiki and Kaido's caliber.

Kaido even estimated it to be much larger than that brat Akagami no Shanks.

What did this mean?

It meant that any attack of Ian, whose Haki is superior to theirs, would deal huge damage to them.

And seeing Ian pumping such a massive amount of Haki into that lightning ball before throwing it into the sky, it screamed danger in their minds, which is why they had tried to stop the attack no matter what.

But sadly for them, the attack came regardless of their efforts…

Kaido got up from the ground.

'I will not give up just like that…' Kaido thought to himself…

He then looked at Shiki, and they shared a look of understanding…

Shiki soon came near him and they both got ready.

They will stop this attack, and then they would show the brat his place…

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The attack Ian did was nothing special to him.

Rather it was just a normal attack for him. What was special was that he had used a huge amount of Haki to make it.

Well huge for someone like Kaido and Shiki… but for Ian, it was still quite regular.

The clouds upwards parted, letting a massive dragon made of lightning peek through.

Ian moved the huge lightning dragon through the sky for a few seconds getting a feel for the technique…

Soon enough it became easy enough for Ian to control the massive lightning construct and move it.

"Alright, let's get to it then." Ian grinned and swung his hand at the duo of old men…

The dragon then proceeded to attack Kaido and Shiki soon after.

Almost in a second, the dragon reached its destination and it was about to make contact… and obliterate them apart.

"Shit…" Shiki couldn't help but curse.

He was the first one to act as he gathered a huge amount of earth and started to compress it to form an arc-shaped shield with both him and Kaido taking cover beyond. Not stopping there, he made sure this time that this shield contained almost all of his Haki so that it would be the strongest possible. Which made the shield look black from the outside.

Though he didn't dare put his everything into that, as he knew that afterward, he would be a sitting duck for Ian to play with, so he did the next best thing…

But he didn't stop just yet, as he knew that the shield alone would not stop the attack, so he continued to gather the earth and made many huge earth spears that proceeded to attack the dragon coming towards them.

After doing all this he moved a bit behind Kaido and then started to pant heavily…

"Huff… It's up to you now, my friend…" Shiki spoke up towards Kaido as he was quite tired… not to mention he was still controlling the constructs to attack Ian and keeping the shield together…

Kaido gave him a nod.

"Leave it to me…"

Beyond the arc shield, thousands of Lion-shaped earth constructs started to bombard the dragon-shaped lightning construct.

And though the dragon's advance didn't stop, its size started to decrease with each successful attack made…

And by the time it reached the arc-shaped shield, it had become only as large as Kaido's dragon form.

Which was still huge in itself.

Once it impacted on the shield, the huge arc shield that was quite durable and would probably tank even Kaido's strongest attacks started to break slowly as the dragon penetrated through with ease…

Ian from the sky was having fun looking at this…

His spear that he had let go earlier was floating nearby him leisurely as if it had a mind of its own.

"Good, good…" Ian kept nodding his head as he saw his attack break the shield…

Soon enough the arc shield crumbled into tiny pieces but not before succeeding in decreasing the dragon's size…

But what was left was still enough to hurt both old men and they knew it…

If it touched them, they would be inconvenienced for the rest of the fight… Shiki more than Kaido for obvious reasons…

They would not be out, but they would be injured quite badly…

Just as the dragon head continued on and was about to reach them, Kaido showed his form behind the debris of the crumbling arc shield.

"RRRRRAAAAIIIMEEEIIII HHHHAAAAKKKkEEE"

Kaido swung his Armament and Conquerors Haki coated Kanabo at the massive lightning dragon.

This was why Kaido was known to be quite strong, his Haki complimented his huge physical strength, and usually, his opponents would only be able to take one attack from him and they would lose consciousness…

This is due to him using Conqueror's Haki in addition to Armament Haki in his attacks since both types of Haki increased his damage, and this added to his already monstrous physical power resulted in any person taking his attack falling unconscious…

Well apart from those that were quite strong and could do the same themselves… But using Conqueror Haki as you would do with Armament is not something just anyone can do, Kaido knew that only a few people in the world were capable of doing that.

But this time, such a technique was used to guard against Ian rather than to attack…

And at that single moment just like earlier between Shiki and Ian… a clash of conqueror Haki started…

Huge shockwaves resulted from the point where Kaido's kanabo impacted the lightning dragon.

Though this was just the residue left from Ian's attack after Shiki succeeded in decreasing it…

As such Kaido after struggling for a bit managed to redirect the attack into the sky with one powerful swing.

Kaido's form was finally clear for Ian to completely see… He had his Kanabo swung at the sky while he stood there panting from the effort… Purple lightning surrounded his Kanabo, signifying his Conqueror's Haki…

"Heh, that's cool…" Ian remarked as he saw that. His hand is on his chin as he sat cross-legged in the sky watching everything leisurely.

Ian had learned this advanced technique of conqueror's Haki before. It was a technique named: Infusion. Geo had told Ian that there was only one thing left in Haki that he couldn't help him to train in… and so far Ian still didn't know what that is…

He had known beforehand that Kaido could also use this advanced form of conqueror's Haki like him. In fact, he knew every one of those big names who had conquerors Haki could also do so…

Even earlier when Ian caught and redirected those air blades of Shiki, he had clashed with his conqueror's Haki that was infused in them…

Ian got back to the thing at hand.

He didn't care that Kaido and Shiki managed to stop his attack, it was just a casual one after all…

Plus Shiki was now tired and Kaido suffered burns from the lighting even if he succeeded in stopping it, and add to it Ian's earlier Haki infused ax kick and Kaido was quite injured… so the attack didn't completely fail…