Animeverse Slayer!

At the core of the island.

Issho faced Blackbeard calmly. His cane sword was drawn out, a purple aura covered it's blade. The air stirred around the purple aura.

Blackbeard grinned, "Zihaha, your devil fruit powers are useless against my darkness."

As he finished those words a dark tide swept out from him. It rolled over and surrounded Issho.

The purple aura around Issho's sword fluctuated the moment the dark tide got close. Issho slightly frowned and sliced his sword down.

The ground trembled and cracked. Chunks of rocks floated up and shot at Blackbeard.

Blackbeard raised his arm and made a grabbing motion.

The dark tide surrounding them churned. It swallowed the rocks in an instant.

Issho raised his sword. A faint ripple covered him as sword rays started to converge.

Blackbeard frowned. He never expected Issho to be a grandmaster swordsman. His domain and sword rays surrounding him were incredibly powerful.

When the sword rays converged around his blade Issho swung it down.

A purple sword ray flashed. The ground and the air trembled as it shot towards Blackbeard.

He combined his sword attack with his devil fruit ability!

Blackbeard was shocked. It wasn't easy to combine two completely different system of powers as one.

His carefree attitude changed, he started to take this battle seriously.

Darkness spilled out from him and started to rotate. It formed a vortex infront of him.

Dark Hole!

The sword ray fell inside the dark vortex and disappeared. The vortex trembled for a second and dispersed as well.

"Zihaha, you truly are a monster."

Blackbeard commented. His darkness fruit is able to nullify every devil fruit ability there is, however it's not able to completely ignore other abilities, like sword attacks.

This guy analysed his ability in an instant and attacked accordingly. How terrifying.

Blackbeard raised his arms and made a grabbing gesture towards Issho. Darkness swelled up like a balloon. It blanketed the entire battlefield.

Issho was like a small boat sailing against raging storms. Darkness rose up around him and fell down.

He stomped his feet, sinking it deep into the ground before raising his sword and slashing it down.

A shockwave spread out as his sword fell through the air. Sword rays flashed, carrying with it a hint of purple.

The ground started to rumble. The dust and pebbles shook and started to rise from the ground.

Gravity Dome!

Sword rays moved around him with incredible speed, creating a dome with hints of purple fading in and out.

The dark tide fell. A strange power nullified the gravity power fading in and out of the sword ray dome.

Issho was fully submerged by the dark tide. That part of the battlefield seems to have fallen to darkness.

Blackbeard clenched his fist and pulled. The dark tide moved and caved in.

As the darkness rolled up and compressed itself the ground finally fell apart.

With a loud crash an explosion took place. Darkness spilled out from the center of the explosion and spread everywhere.

Standing amidst the dark tide Blackbeard squinted his eyes.

When the dark tide completely receeded Issho's figure could be seen. He looked no different from before, except for a tiny would on his arm.

A solemn expression took over Blackbeard's face.

What is up with this guy? Are captains from headquarters nowadays so strong?

As he was having random thoughts he saw Issho raising his sword and swinging it to the sky.

The air rippled for a moment and disappeared.

Blackbeard frowned and looked up. As he focused he saw a red spot quickly getting bigger in his sight. It took him a moment to understand what it was.

A meteor?!

"You are mad!"

Blackbeard yelled and raised his arms.

Darkness spilled out of him and spread out. It increased in size and quickly submerged the entire area in darkness.

The moment he completed this course of action the meteor fell.

Boom!!

A burst of terrible heat expanded for several miles when the meteor fell on the island. The forest was set ablaze.

The dark tide that protected Blackbeard rolled out and submerged the meteor in a split second. It took several seconds before the darkness was finally able to consume the meteor.

When it was extinguished the dark tide receeded and revealed Blackbeard.

The ground where he stood was destroyed and it turned black. Even with the power of darkness he wasn't able to completely disperse the power from the meteor.

Blackbeard looked ahead and saw Issho standing far from him. The ground around him was gone, only a small patch of earth around him remained.

"You are very scary."

Blackbeard said.

Issho raised his sword in response. He was pointed it to the sky and was about to slash again.

Suddenly Blackbeard let out a smile, "Zihaha, it's about time to end this. I don't want to drag this around, who knows when that terrible woman would appear."

As soon as he finished those words three figures rushed out from the dark tide behind him and surrounded Issho.

Issho faintly looked at the three newcomers.

"Commander of the 2nd division, Shiryu."

"Commander of the 3rd division, Lafitte."

"Commander of the 6th division, Vaso Shot."

The three remaining commanders have gathered and surrounded Issho.

"Zihaha, goodbye, captain Issho."

"Black Hole!"

Blackbeard laughed and raised his right arm. Dark tides rumbled and formed a vortex. A terrifying force constricted Issho and pulled him towards Blackbeard.

Issho narrowed his eyes.

Sword rays flashed around him and formed a dome.

"It's no use."

Shiryu rushed at him and slashed with his sword. Sword rays flashed and collided with the Issho's sword ray dome.

Issho and Shiryu were swordsmen and had similar understanding towards the 'way of the sword'.

Issho's sword ray dome was destroyed.

Vasco Shot raised him gun which was coated with busoshoku haki and fired. Lafitte also fired using an exquisite gun.

Shiryu continued to step forward and slashed.

Suddenly Issho was attacked from all sides. However he didn't panic, his face was calm and collected as he raised his sword.

Purple aura climbed onto his sword along with busoshoku haki. A heavy pressure spread out from him, for a moment he was released from the force tying him down.

Gravity Blade!

He delivered a simple sword strike. The two shots fired at him were deflected and his sword fell on Shiryu.

The moment their sword met Shiryu felt like a mountain was pressing down on him.

He immediately retreated and got out of the blade's attack range.

Issho's sword swept past the ground and made a large trench. It separated him and the Blackbeard Pirates.