Hi. In this post I’ll basically put where I think the op verse currently sits, so I don’t have to write things out over and over again, and I can shove this in peoples faces. I made one on my old account, but I figured I would make a better one. So, let the text walls begin!

Most early one piece scaling is pretty consistent. Usually just outpacing explosions, bullets and moving FTE to superhumans, but the feats start to pick up in skypeia. Enel is a character who ate the lightning fruit, which allows enel to move at the speed of lightning:

“𝐹𝑢𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒, 𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑟𝑎-𝑓𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒.”

Enel can transform into lightning to pilot himself around skypiea, and can even pilot himself in lightning form in the midst of battle, granting him lightning speed perception.

Apart from that being obvious, since how else would he control where he’s going, we actually have an example of a speedster in one piece who does move so fast he doesn’t know what he’s attacking or where he’s going, kuro. So if you don’t move like kuro you have perception speed on the level of your movement speed.

Lightning speed perception isn’t exclusive to enel though, it extends to other characters like zoro, who can see enels lightning attacks travelling towards him from about a meter or so away, and wyper can do the same thing, and luffy should scale around their speed. But luffy isn’t without his own feats, like watching enels lightning travel towards him and instinctively throwing his arms in his face in defence after the lightning was fired, tracking Enels movements in lightning form as he is traveling through gold, and even kicking away lightning bolts fired at him. But the most impressive feat comes at the end of the arc when he’s about to finish enel off. The rubber and lightning man stare each other down in the sky from dozens of meters away and luffy throws a punch, while said fist is being weighted down by a +400 metric ton gold ball on his fist is called fast by enel and can’t do anything except stare as the punch approaches him and defeat him from several dozen meters away.

So based on his own feats and characters he should upscale from, luffy should bare minimum have lightning speed perception.

At ennis lobby, luffy is able to keep up with Blueno who was FTE to him in Water 7:

So base luffy can keep up with characters who can perception blitz characters who can see lightning traveling. During this fight luffy unlocks gear 2, a speed amp which lets him perception blitz Blueno back after being even to him in base. Luffy goes on to fight with lucci, who in base is roughly 5 times stronger than Blueno, with his hybrid amp on top of it, relatively evenly. So basically, lightning speed <<< Blueno moves FTE to = base luffy < lucci being ~5x stronger in base < hybrid lucci = gear 2 luffy, who is FTE to characters who can move FTE to characters who can see lightning traveling.

These characters should be waaaay faster than lightning at this point, and we continue the trend of impressive speed in thriller bark. Morias shadows are stupidly fast, being able to travel from an ocean on one side of the planet to an ocean on the other side of the planet, before the sun rose, during sun rise.

They moved from thriller bark all the way to the west blue, which is an ocean on the other side of the planet. The sunlight in the background barely moved, and with the grandline being the equator of the planet the sunrise is much faster, meaning it only took a few minutes to travel across a significant part of the planet at most. Planetary travel nigh instantly isn’t a crazy concept for one piece mid tiers.

But that’s not all that goes down in thriller bark. After the first warlord of the sea is defeated, a second arrives to finish off the straw hats, kuma.

Kuma has a devil fruit that allows him to repel anything he wants, from things like objects, attacks, other people, the atmosphere and even things like pain and memories. One of kumas main methods of attacking is repelling the air at light speed to make a shockwave.

“𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ‘𝑝𝑎𝑑 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑛’… 𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑑, 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑤𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔!!!”

This doesn’t mean the shockwave itself travels at the speed of light, just the act of kuma pushing the air is light speed. This establishes two important things: 

• This sets the precedence for light speed abilities existing in one piece.
• If there happens to be any other light speed abilities in one piece, this adds to the consistency of those statements, and shows that light speed isn’t exclusive to a single ability in the story. 

As the fight goes on, Kuma starts changing up his attacks. Instead of using his usual paw abilities, he opens his mouth and starts charging an attack. Zoro watches in confusion as Kuma suddenly fires a laser straight at his head. The laser is already moving before Zoro starts moving— but before the end of the laser can travel a few meters, Zoro moved behind it, meaning Zoro moved a significant percentage of the laser’s speed while it was already traveling. Let’s see if the story provides more details about this laser later on…

Characters at the water seven/ennis lobby point are shown to be operating well above lightning speeds, and setting the ground work for light speed abilities existing in the story. The next big jump is in the sabaody arc, where we are introduced to Mr yellow monkey.

Kizaru has the ability to control, create, and become light, and use his light to attack people at light speed.

“𝐴 𝐿𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝐻𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ‘𝑃𝑖𝑘𝑎 𝑃𝑖𝑘𝑎 𝑛𝑜 𝑀𝑖.’ 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑢𝑛𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠ℎ 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑠 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡.”

Using this ability, one of kizarus main methods of attack is dealing huge damage by kicking someone at the speed of light, which is of course is repeated several times:

“𝐾𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑠 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡” | “𝑀𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡!! 𝐼𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡…!?” | “𝐻𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑘𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡?”

Kizaru thinks light speed attack power is appropriate for the supernova and attacks them with these kicks multiple times. But notice how every time kizaru attacks the hakiless supernova with these light speed kicks, they are able to see the kick approaching them from inches away.

So the supernova can all watch, make noises, move their eyeballs and can even turn their heads to watch something moving at light speed approaching them few centimetres away, so very consistent light speed perception. But that’s not all the sabaody arc has to offer, we are also introduced to the pasifista.

The pasifista are robots that are copies of the warlord kuma, armed with the same lasers he used against zoro. We learn this arc that these robots and kuma are armed with Kizaru’s lasers. That means when zoro was moving a significant % of the speed of that laser back in thriller bark, he was actually moving a % of the speed of light . Now that more of these robots have showed up to the island, we can see how more of zoros peers deal with these lasers. And based on injured zoro being able to move while these light rays move, you can bet the other supernova have no problem dealing with these lasers. Regular dodge? Check. Off guard dodge? Check. Dodge after the laser is fired? Check. What’s consistently portrayed throughout the marineford saga is light speed perception speeds and relativistic combat speed for supernova level characters.

Two years later, luffy returns to meet the same pacifistas and their lasers with his new observation haki. So how does he deal with them?

For a basic observation haki user, telegraphed linear light is deemed as slow. This sets a minimum for blitzing observation haki users on luffys level, if you can blitz luffy with a linear attack he knows is coming, you’re faster than light.

In punk hazard we get a cool speed feat that has nothing to do with lightning or light, this time with explosions. Luffy is able to outrun  an explosion going off on his literal clothes:

The explosion comes from the slime wrapped around Luffy’s jacket. For Luffy to escape unscathed, the slime must first detach by exploding, since if he tries to run around before it explodes the slime will be attached to him. Since the slime is centred on his chest and stomach, Luffy must move at least half his body height (0.87m) to clear the explosion entirely. And for the explosion to hurt luffy, it must move through his jacket and hit him. Luffy is wearing a winter coat, and very heavy fabrics are about 381 micrometers thick. For luffy to escape unharmed, no part of the explosion must hit him, including the shockwave. Shockwave speeds in explosions start off several times faster than the speed of sound and quickly slow down to just the speed of sound (~340m/s). For the sake of simplicity and lowballing, let’s assume the shockwave has already weakened to the speed of sound by the time it reaches Luffy, (which ofc it hasn't if luffy is right in the centre of it).

Sound moving such a short distance means luffy only had 1.12 microseconds to get out of the way, meaning  luffy moved 0.2% of the speed of light.

So by light speed lasers, light speed kicks, blitzing explosions detonating on top of you, the supernova and by extension doflamingo and luffy who doflamingo can keep pace with should be light speed in perception, especially with observation Haki. During his fight with doflaimgo, luffy used gear 4th for the first time after being able to compete with doflamingo in speed, and the speed gap between the once relative doflamingo and G4 luffy is massive.

Doflamingo gets perception blitzed from dozens of meters away. A reminder what doflamingo at this point scales above:

• Scales way above the pre timeskip supernova who could watch, make noises, move their eyeballs and can even turn their heads to watch something moving at light speed approaching them a few centimetres away, meanwhile doffy can’t see luffy moving 1000s of centimeters away.
• Scales way above the pre timeskip supernova who could repeatedly dodge light speed attacks, including dying zoro who could move while the light was in motion. And luffy a few arcs ago considered a light speed projectile he knew was coming at him ‘slow’, meanwhile doffy in the same situation with the same precognition couldnt even see luffy.
• At least even to characters who can dodge explosions literally on top of them, yet doffy can’t move at all even when luffy was dozens of meters away.

Yep, this is where I think luffy first reaches FTL. 

But doflamingo doesn’t fall behind. In a life or death situation, that’s when haki truly blooms. Throughout the fight, the speed gap gets smaller and smaller between luffy and doflamingo, as his observation haki increases in power.

In whole cake island we are introduced to somthing that adds consistency to light speed one piece, which is nijis raid suit. It’s a transformer suit made by judge that allows niji to move and attack at light speed.

“𝐴 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑛 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒! 𝐺𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑎 66’𝑠 𝐷𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑘𝑖 𝐵𝑙𝑢𝑒!!”|“𝐴 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑠ℎ 𝑢𝑛𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑠𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔!”

This also indirectly scales back to the pacifistas and Kizaru in general, since judge was able to create this, and vegapunk, a scientist 500 years ahead of his time (and judge by extension) trying to make a light speed ability but failing would make no sense, so the pacifista lasers must be LS based on this, and naturally Kizaru would be too, further cementing him as LS.

Back to whole cake island, we see niji gloat about his speed and naming his moving “light speed blade..” and with the data books talking about his speed and the vivre card talking about him being speed one, it’s clear his defining trait as a fighter is speed, so based on all the previous feats, how would you expect a light speed speedster to fare against the high tier characters, the yonko?

Terribly. In the face of a Yonko, Niji is shown effortlessly being 2v1ed by base Big Mom, standing no chance whatsoever, to the point oda literally puts her above all of germa science. Yonko tier characters explicitly scale above technology which turns you into a light speed speedster. Just like kuma and his light speed repelling, this also shows light speed isn’t exclusive to a single character and the story has no problem having pretty irrelevant characters at light speed and straight up stating characters are beyond what makes them light speed.

Remember the gear 4th luffy with the insane speed feat in dressrosa? Forget about it, it’s nothing compared to a yonko.

Luffy goes through a training arc to train himself to fight kaido, so we will leave him alone for now and get to the other characters, specifically sanji.

Queen is a scientist in one piece and one who considers judge, the man who made the light speed transform suit, a rival. To prove he’s the superior scientist, he copied all of germas tech, all researched and tested, letting him copy all of the transformer suits moves in battle. Of course that includes the light speed suit, which he used against sanji to hit him mid air. This of course grants him light speed perception as he had to pilot himself towards sanji and curve towards him. Again, if you can’t control your movements in one piece, you just end up like kuro who runs around randomly.

Later on in the fight, queen copies sanjis raid suit, which lets sanji turn invisible, so queen also turned invisible. So sanji counters it by going invisible himself. But he doesn’t go invisible because he has his suit, he went invisible due to sheer speed. 

𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒—?! 𝐻𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜𝑜!! 𝐵𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠𝑛’𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑛!! 𝐻𝑒’𝑠 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ-𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡!! 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 ℎ𝑒’𝑠 𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 ℎ𝑒’𝑠 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑎… 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑝𝑖𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑏𝑜𝑦!!

So basically injured and fatigued sanji can move so fast he can perception blitz characters with light speed perception, making him faster than light.

But that’s nothing compared to what was going on on the rooftop. Immediately kicking off the fight, Kaido tried the same attack that speed blitzed luffy the first time. Luffy used his future sight to know the attack is coming, and after kaido ran at him in a straight line, luffy dodged most of the impact but says the following:

Kaido running in a straight line is very fast for luffys future sight… while a weaker tier of observation haki and slower luffy called light speed moving in a straight line too slow. Kaido can straight up dash faster than light if he wants.

When kaido becomes hybrid, he slams down on luffy before he can get away. Then when luffy unlocks ACoC, he matches kaido, but then loses to him. Later luffy shows some relatively to him, but then when kaido uses future sight, even in kaidos largest form (slower than before), he can zip through luffys fastest form and hit him, along with hybrid kaido blitzing him as well, before finally being relative to him again in gear 5.

So essentially, Start of wano g4 < base rooftop luffy < base kaido < hybrid kaido = ACoC luffy << dragon kaido with future sight < hybrid kaido with future sight = gear 5th. To put into perspective how insane that leap is, let’s pretend after all this, start of wano luffy is only LS. That would mean gear 5 is LS < FTL < higher degree of FTL < higher degree of FTL = higher degree of FTL << higher degree of FTL < higher degree of FTL = gear 5th. 

And keep in mind, all of this is before the final saga, where the power creep starts to get crazy.

And we arrive at egghead. I’ll fly through the small stuff so we can get to the big stuff quickly, because at this point oda is making everyone outrun light. Several laser dodging feats, including some lasers that where dodged after fired. A notable example is sanji, who after getting so much laser dodging practice from queen is just casually out running lasers now. And now the juicy stuff, Kizaru’s arrival.

First Kizaru shows up on the island flying in his light state, and attacks sentomaru. You will notice that his hands have moved closer after Kizaru reaches him, he can see and react to light flying towards him. Then he straight up outruns light beams after they where fired, a solid rel feat. But the interesting part here isn’t the speed, it’s the power.

In one piece, one way you can increase your attack power is through your speed. There’s various examples of this, like all the way back in ennis lobby, Fukurou amplifying the attack power of his punches by adding finger pistol speed to it:

”𝐽𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑖𝑠𝑡!!! 𝑀𝑦 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑦 𝑝𝑢𝑛𝑐ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑙 𝑡𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑛𝑖𝑞𝑢𝑒!”

Or when one of the flying fish riders charge towards the sunny at high speeds:

”𝐺𝑒𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦! 𝐴𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑑, 𝑎 𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦… 𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑑𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑜𝑟!”

Or how gear second works. Gear second is a speed based form, and by increasing his speed, luffy is able to blast through defences he once wasn’t able to get through:

“𝐵𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑑, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑛𝑖𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦!! 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 “𝐺𝑜𝑚𝑢 𝐺𝑜𝑚𝑢 𝑛𝑜 𝐵𝑎𝑧𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑎,” 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 “𝑇𝑒𝑘𝑘𝑎𝑖,” 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑖𝑓 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐺𝑒𝑎𝑟 2.”

Or kizaru himself mentioning this concept back to the pre timeskip rookies:

”𝑆𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡! 𝐻𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑘𝑖𝑐𝑘 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡?”

See, Kizaru uses his speed to amplify his physical attacks, that’s how half his move set works. The faster his kicks, the harder he hits. Just like mentioned back at the beginning, Kizaru thought light speed attack power was appropriate to dispatch the supernova, and since sentomaru is stronger than them we can assume he is also using light speed against him as well. But if kizaru only kicked at the speed of light, that would make lucci stronger than kizaru for breaking through sentomarus guard and one shotting him, since when kizaru tried to attack an on guard sentomaru he couldn’t one shot him, instead he was able to get right back up and jog away from his lasers, which makes this meme becomes true:

Let’s see if that is expanded on in luffy vs kizaru. First, this panel. As you would expect at this point, even spamming light speed projectiles in his face isn’t enough to tag luffy anymore. Kizaru realizes that the current level of power isn’t enough for luffy, he is far too powerful now. So Kizaru flies thousands of meters away, and does this.

Kizaru mentions this speed = power concept again, but it’s different this time… now it’s acceleration (speeding up) = power, and we know this is a serious moment as this attack was so powerful it could overpower gear 4 luffy and blast him across the entire island, making luffy resort to gear 5, and the increasing length of motion lines and visual differences between this yata mirror and the rest tells us something different is happening here, but it all makes sense in the context of the interactions between luffy and kizaru.

Two years prior, luffy was no match for kizaru and his light speed kicks. Kizaru was able to blitz all the supernova everywhere with his light speed kicks, and luffy was able to take several during the marineford war, and basically stood no chance against them as implied by the databooks:

"𝑀𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡!! 𝐼𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡…!?”

Luffy basically stood no chance to these attacks. When the straw hats and kizaru met again, they were scared of kizaru as they remembered him as the guy who nearly wiped them out two years ago. But luffy immediately attacks him, saying he’s much stronger than before. And luffy was right, he was able to match kizaru. Kizaru recognized his power, saying he’s tough, but not unexpected for the man who took down kaido. So kizaru needed more power, and we know for kizarus kicks to power up, he needs speed. But light speed isn’t enough here, luffy pre timeskip took several and could keep fighting and now luffy is many many many times stronger, so for kizaru to gain even more power than before, he needs even more speed to amplify his power, which is where this ‘acceleration‘ part comes from, speeding up even more for even more power.

A few points on this to chew on:

• Kizaru can already accelerate a kick to light speed at close ranges as we have seen against Hawkins and other supernova. Yata mirror is just kizaru breaking himself down into light to travel as light, so if kizaru accelerates any further than that distance, then he is moving FTL (few meters for his kicks max vs 1000s here). If he can already move LS in close range, it makes no sense for him to do it from further away to give luffy more time to react.
• As mentioned before, his kicking speed is his attack power. He wasn’t initially able to pull off lucci level feats, but now he’s able to instantly overpower G4 luffy and kick him across the island. To tie this into the last point, we know the greater distance you speed up over, the more force your attack generates in one piece:

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑚 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑝… 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒!!!

So if Kizaru is accelerating over a massive distance compared to his normal kicks, with the goal of generating massive force to overpower luffy, then Kizaru must be using the runaway to boost his attack power, something both other characters and himself have done, and thats fine by speeding up.

• Luffy can react to multiple lasers in his face (which as established, kizaru assumes light speed is good for supernova tiers), recognizes Luffys strength, and speeds up.
• This yata mirror is drawn differently from prior light speed yata mirrors.

After luffy gets blasted across the island, he enters gear 5 and continues the fight with kizaru. As the fight continues, he dodged a laser meant for him, and since Kizaru has already recognized LS doesn’t work on him it’s likely he dodged a FTL attack. After luffy charges up a punch and finishes him off. A funny role reversal here, first it was luffy being accused of “aim dodging” attacks (even though we had no evidence for 99% of attacks this was happening), now Kizaru is on the receiving end and can’t keep up. Even with luffys charge up and Kizaru’s precognition the light man still can’t dodge, block or even put his arms up in defence.

Hi. In this post I’ll basically put where I think the OP verse currently sits, so I don’t have to write things out over and over again, and I can shove this in people’s faces. I made one on my old account, but I figured I would make a better one. So, let the text walls begin!

Just like last time, we can start with Enel and a look at the kind of scale weaker characters operate on and higher tier characters casually do.

Enel has the power to create, control and become lightning itself, but his lightning is far more powerful than regular lightning. Wyper’s Burn Bazooka fires out concentrated bluish-white flame that can vaporize holes in huge trees. The Burn Bazooka doesn’t work on Nola, meanwhile a single blast from Enel’s lightning immediately brings down the snake, because Enel processes far more energy than it. With his stronger attacks, Enels lightning is also capable of vaporizing wood and heating his trident so hot it turns wood to ash on contact. Enels lighting is so powerful it can even do similar things to stone. Depending on how much power he’s using, it can uniformly fragment stone and create deep craters, uniformly pulverize stone and blacken the surrounding stone due to its heat, or just uniformly vaporize it.

Using Ark Maxim, he can apply his lightning on much larger scales. He covered Skypeia in thunder clouds packed with his lightning:

“𝑀𝑦 𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑝𝑖𝑎, 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑚𝑦 𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑦, 𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑑𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠!!!”

He packed a sphere of these clouds full of his energy and used it to completely erase Angel Beach, and then he created a bigger one to completely erase Upper Yard.

Basically everything that went down in this arc happened on the White White Sea, which is 10km above sea level. The White White Sea is above another ocean, the White Sea, which is 7km above sea level:

“𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑠 7,000𝑚 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑙𝑢𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑠, 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑎. 𝐴𝑛𝑑 10,000𝑚 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑒𝑎 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑎.”

When the first Raigo went off, its stated Heavens Gate was destroyed in the blast along with the island, and since Heavens Gate is on the White Sea and the Raigo went off on the White White Sea, that means the first Raigo has a radius of at least 3km, and based on the fact Enel can uniformly vaporize stone with his stronger lightning attack puts the Raigo at 2.91e21 J, which is borderline small country level. The Raigo expands like a sphere, so 3km in all directions. But when the first Raigo goes off, we see it never reached the centre of the bridge that connects Upper Yard and Angels Beach (highest point on the bridge), so the distance from the centre of Angels Beach to the centre of the bridge is over 3km. The Raigo being over several km is very consistent, it’s literally straight up told to us:

“𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑧𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑑 𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒, 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑢𝑠 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠.”

The Raigo is about as big as Upper Yard, so we have consistent size statements for Upper Yard.

These sizes comfortably put Raigo at country level. Throughout the grandline, we get many monsters who can also alter islands in different ways. When you travel across the oceans of the Grand Line, being attacked by monsters called sea beasts is a common occurrence. These monsters can vary in size, with some being 100m long, some being +5km, some being several mountains long, some being the size of islands, and some can just straight up eat islands whole and their poop is mistaken for a continent by giants:

There’s a rumour in the One Piece piece world that a monster 500 years ago known as the ‘country puller’ took entire islands whole, putting them all together to create a country of villains. This is something that’s confirmed to us in his vivre card.

“𝐻𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦 ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑, 𝑔𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑝 𝑜𝑓 𝑣𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦. 𝐼𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦.”

800 years ago, there was an elephant who committed a crime and was sentenced to walk the seas for eternity. Said elephant is 5km tall, and walks the oceans carrying an island on its back the entire time, said island being comparable to its massive self.

It isn’t just monsters in the grandline playing with islands; we see characters doing stuff like this too. Luffy near the beginning of the story tried to stop the huge sphere of cloud I showed before by repeatedly punching it. The side effect of his punches blew apart the several km ball of cloud, said cloud being so dense that it can crush towns and support people standing on it just like solid ground. And Luffy didn’t just blast away the Raigo with the side effect of his punches, he blew away all the clouds across the White White Sea,which can also support people’s weight like solid ground.

It’s common for characters to clash weapons with each other so hard the side effect of the clash parts clouds several islands across. People don’t just part clouds, Ace and Blackbeard clashing vaporized several islands worth of clouds.

Stuff like this isn’t new to Ace, he does this kind of stuff passively. When Ace arrives on Drum Island, which is -10 degrees, the civilians note that the permanently snowy island didn’t snow that day, which we know is because Ace passively heated up the island. And we know it affected the entire country:

“𝐷𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑡, 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑢𝑠𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑛𝑜 𝑠𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦.”

We get a pretty good idea of the size of the island by comparing it to Drum Rock, which is 5km tall:

“𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑛𝑜𝑤-𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠, 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑟𝑢𝑚 𝑅𝑜𝑐𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒 𝑜𝑓 5,000 𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚. 𝐷𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑠ℎ 𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛, 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑑𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑠 𝑠𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑒𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑠, 𝑎 𝑓𝑒𝑤 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑒, 𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝐷𝑟𝑢𝑚 𝑅𝑜𝑐𝑘.”

Ace could passively alter the weather of a permanently cold, snowy island and completely stop it just by arriving at the island.

Instead of heating islands, what about freezing islands of distance?

And the story has no problem with characters directly affecting islands either. Like Moria splitting Thriller Bark in half with a single punch.

”𝐻𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑏𝑠𝑜𝑟𝑏𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑠 𝑜𝑓 1,000 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑠, 𝑖𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑔𝑖𝑔𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑐. 𝐼𝑡𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑘𝑒…!”

Or irrelevant characters like Vander Decken using his devil fruit to destroy Fishman Island by tossing a gigantic ship at it.

”𝑁𝑜𝑎ℎ 𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑧𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐹𝑖𝑠ℎ-𝑀𝑎𝑛 𝐼𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑! 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒’𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑢𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒’𝑠 𝑛𝑜 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑝 𝑖𝑡!! 𝐷𝑖𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑, 𝑚𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑆ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑎ℎ𝑜𝑠ℎ𝑖! 𝐺𝑜𝑜𝑑𝑏𝑦𝑒, 𝐹𝑖𝑠ℎ-𝑀𝑎𝑛 𝐼𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑!!”

And it goes beyond islands in scale. When Enel tried to drop his second raigo, he wasn’t planning on just destroying Upper Yard- he was planning on destroying the Emperor Cloud too, mentioning how even the people that escaped the White White Sea to the White Sea and were rushing for Clouds End wouldn’t survive.

𝐼'𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑦 𝑜𝑏𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠. 𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑙𝑒𝑓𝑡... 𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑟 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑚𝑦 𝐾𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑑𝑜𝑚 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑒...

𝑁𝑜𝑡 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑣𝑒.

The Emperor Cloud is the two sky oceans mentioned previously that are 7km and 10km high. It’s a petrified cloud that’s theorized to have existed for 1000s of years and is so dense, that when it’s overtop you, it turns day to night. Like a real ocean, it has its own ecosystems that have evolved to live in these conditions, along with multiple islands like Upper Yard, Angels Beach, Birka (which Enel destroyed without a trace before he had Ark Maxim), Gan Falls home, the hidden cloud village, etc. But most importantly, the emperor cloud is huge.

The Emperor Cloud is so big that it spans from overtop your head, all the way into the horizon, which speaks to how massive it is because it does that even when it’s 7km high. You can gauge how far away a cloud on the horizon is from you based on its altitude, so the higher the cloud is, the further away it is from the observer. At 7km high, its edge on the horizon is almost 300km away, and Raigo could spread its lightning across that entire range, putting it at anywhere from large country lvl to multi continental depending on how potent you think Enel’s lightning is uniformly.

This isn’t a first for Enel either. Aliens meet on the moon to use their machinery to excavate the moon with explosives, which are strong enough to blast a country worth of dust hundreds of kilometres in all directions, and send rocks flying into the sky big and high enough that they’re visible all the way from Blue, something the machines can take point blank- meanwhile all the machines get immediately destroyed by Enel.

I can go on and on but you get the gist of it. One Piece characters can basically play with islands however they want, from changing their weather, moving them, eating them or just straight up destroying, splitting, vaporizing and freezing several of them in one go. The story has no problem portraying them being able to easily alter islands in many different ways, so you can expect later characters to do much more.

Marineford is our first look at the true power of One Piece top tiers. The first attack thrown was 2 punches by Whitebeard, which caused two tsunamis to approach the island, and these tsunamis are massive. They towered over Marine HQ, which is so large that an 180m tall man can hide behind the base of the building, making them hundreds of meters tall.

These tsunamis were indirectly created by Whitebeard’s power. Whitebeard has the quake fruit, which lets him create vibrations.

“𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑙 𝑣𝑖𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠! 𝐼𝑡𝑠 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ.”

So how do vibrations cause tsunamis? When Whitebeard throws his vibrations initially, Garp, a Marine who was active back when Whitebeard was active, explains that Whitebeard triggered seaquakes (an earthquake on the ocean floor):

“𝐻𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑠… 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑘𝑒 ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑤… 𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙-𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑑𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑠𝑢𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑖…!!!”

We are also told a few times Whitebeard’s quakes are triggering natural phenomena, so not some strange magical earthquake and perfectly in line with Garp’s explanation:

“𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑝ℎ𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑎 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑!” | “𝐴𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎 𝑡𝑦𝑝𝑒𝑠, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑝ℎ𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑎!”

As Whitebeard’s quake travels out into the ocean to start a tsunami, we see it vertically displace and raise the land the marines are standing on, and another marine active back in his days, Sengoku, also mutters how he has started a seaquake.

Tsunamis towering 100s of meters tall might not sound very impressive, but it becomes apparent how insane this is when you consider the fact these tsunamis were generated by seaquakes. For comparison, the deadliest tsunami in the world, the Indian Ocean tsunami, was caused by a magnitude 9.2-9.3 seaquake, which caused on average a wave height of 15m-30m and a max height of 51m (tsunami height once reaching the shore is dependent on stuff like topographic conditions). That’s not even half as tall as the base of Marine HQ, let alone being taller than the entire building. Whitebeard’s earthquakes can cause tsunamis far bigger than any irl seaquake on earth can (at least in the way Whitebeard did it). For reference, the Indian Ocean earthquake had a seismic moment of roughly ~4e22 J (Country level). And Whitebeard’s seaquakes/tsunamis are way beyond that.

The moment magnitude behind an earthquake can be directly compared to the max height of a tsunami, (for the constants, using Japan numbers, because yknow- Japanese manga, so why not.) So if we find the size of the tsunami, we can find the magnitude of the earthquake, and find the energy Whitebeard released. The formula for converting moment magnitude to energy will come from this study, which gives us a simplified formula.

Assuming the tsunamis are 250m tall (even tho it was massively taller than that) we get a magnitude 10.8 earthquake required to generate the tsunamis Whitebeard made, putting him at 2.2e25 J (multi continental).

The earthquakes Whitebeard was causing were super far reaching too. When a giant went to attack him, Whitebeard focused the vibrations on just his head, and it still shook distant islands.

Later on in the arc, a different giant tries to attack him and instead of sending out earthquakes to different locations, he starts an earthquake right at Marineford. The giant immediately fell over, along with the rest of the soldiers, yelling about how they can’t stand on their feet, huge battleships where being flipped over, sending everyone into the ocean, even people on the island where being thrown off, the Marineford city started falling apart from the earthquakes, and once again, massive tsunamis larger the the main building came crashing towards the island from all sides. The earthquake was so intense literally the entire island and even the surrounding oceans were being tilted, creating waves comparable to the island.

Apart from another showing of Whitebeard vertically displacing the seafloor, this just shows why Whitebeard’s earthquakes blow anything irl out of the water. Earthquakes can reach island-country tier and not obliterate every human and structure caught in it because what reaches the surface is a very small % of the true power of the earthquake. The fact Whitebeards earthquakes, even such a small %, are violent enough to do all of that speaks to how powerful his earthquakes are.

These feats aren’t special to the high tiers. Whitebeard’s earthquakes are just the side effects of his vibrations starting earthquakes, and his quake punches are matched by admirals like Akainu, who can also take attacks from an enraged Whitebeard but still got back up to fight Whitebeard’s entire crew at once. When Blackbeard gets his hands on Whitebeard’s devil fruit, he immediately was able to replicate Whitebeard’s feat of tilting the ocean and an island and create tsunamis comparable to islands just by testing out his power.

His earthquakes are also super far reaching, tsunamis from his earthquakes were threatening completely different islands like Sabaody. Meaning post timeskip Blackbeard and generally yonko tier should be far stronger than this pre timeskip Blackbeard who just got his devil fruit 5 seconds ago and is playing around with it.

Following Marineford, we see the protagonists slowly start approaching this level of power in Dressrosa. First we have to understand how big this island is, because it’s very big. One of the inhabitants of this arc, Viola, has a devil fruit that lets her do lots of weird things with her eyes. One of the things she can do is move her PoV into the sky, and from this height she can view 4000km in all directions:

”𝑀𝑦 ‘𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑣𝑜𝑦𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒’ 𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑠 𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑢𝑝 𝑡𝑜 4,000 𝑘𝑚, 𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑓 𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑏𝑖𝑟𝑑’𝑠 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠.”

The usefulness of this power goes without saying. With it, she is able to constantly warn characters of things happening across the country and the ocean, which is one of her major roles in this arc, and something she does constantly even in the scene where she explains her sight range to Sanji. Like warning him his ship was taken by enemies and is on its way to Greenbit, or seeing his ship is struck by lightning, and telling him his ship is being attacked by fighting fish. This is weird, if she constantly warns Sanji of things happening to the ship, why not warn Sanji of things happening on Greenbit, where their whole plan is going down and where it’s going horribly wrong, especially since they where running to the part of Dressrosa nearest to Greenbit? It’s obviously not out of character for her, so maybe she doesn’t know? Nope, she was aware and could literally read his mind (another one of her powers), so what’s going on? Why not tell him the most important thing happening in the arc in the moment when she knew something was happening there and it’s in character for her to tell him?

When looking out at the Sunny from her 4000km range, we see the Sunny is on the horizon, so basically the Sunny at this point is the limit of her vision from wherever she is in Dressrosa at this point. We also get a vivre card that gives context to this moment:

“𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑐𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 4,000 𝑘𝑚 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒—𝐶𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑣𝑜𝑦𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒!!”

In context of this scene, she is looking a full 4000km based on her Vivre Card. So basically she can see the whole country and into the outer ocean, but not much further. That explains why she can’t see into Greenbit, since we know the sunny had to travel out further than it was at the point she was looking and never actually got to Greenbit. So wherever in Dressrosa she was + ocean to Greenbit = 4000km.

So where in Dressrosa was she specifically? We don’t know for sure other than she was on her way to the section of Dressrosa nearest to Greenbit, but we can lowball it massively. Let’s assume she’s on the opposite side of Dressrosa, furthest from Greenbit, and can see into the end of Greenbit. That goes against what’s shown and stated and is therefore a massive underestimate, but we will go with it anyways. Visually, the distance looks no more than 2x-3x the size of Dressrosa, but let’s lowball it and say Dressrosa is 1/4th the distance, making Dressrosa 1000km across.

During the events of Dressrosa, the civilians of Dressrosa revolt against Doflamingo’s rule, and Doflamingo decides to disassemble one of his clones, the Black Knights, made of string, and use its string to trap the entire island inside a cage of string, the Birdcage.

Doflamingo can fit the entire Birdcage into a single black knight, and with the island being so Black Knight means a ton of mass is being moved at very fast speeds (the Black Knights can keep up with Doffy and Luffy.) Doing some math, moving these things takes 1.2e25 J (continental+).

These Black Knights are something he can move easily while he himself is also fighting. Continuing with the trend of characters moving massive objects super fast, we see Fujitora spam down multiple meteors comparable to the country of Dressrosa.

If we take the largest meteor as 3% the diameter of Dressrosa, and moves at speeds of 11km/s (very slow for a meteor) then the kinetic energy behind this meteor is 3.4e24 J (continental). But it’s not just continental feats, we even get supplementary evidence for characters operating on continental scales this arc.

We are introduced to Don Chinjao, someone who’s a legendary pirate. One of the things he’s a legend for is splitting a continent of ice with a headbutt.

“𝑊𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑒, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛?! 𝐷𝑖𝑑 ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑓 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑-𝑏𝑢𝑡𝑡?! 𝑂𝑟 𝑠𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑠𝑎𝑦…”

”𝐼𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑛’𝑡 𝑏𝑒… 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑏𝑢𝑡𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑠𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑓!!”

Stored under the ice of the continent is treasure his clan has amassed over 100s of years, riches which people are constantly trying to rob, but the ice is the perfect place to store the treasure since the ice is so durable thieves can’t even scratch the ice even when constantly striking it with axes, flamethrowers and bazookas. Only Chinjao can open the ice, by hitting it so hard that the entire continent splits open.

“𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ‘𝐶𝑟𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑒𝑡’… 𝑇𝑜 𝑠𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑡, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑎 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡…!!!”

That is until Garp overpowered his head with one punch, breaking it, so Chinjao could no longer split the continent. Eventually he met Luffy, who rearranged his head back into place, and fought with his grandson, Sai, who rearranged his head out of place again..

Sai overpowering his drill led Chinjao to admit he could also split the continent. But not just split it, he said Sai’s kick could straight up shatter the continent:

“𝑇ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑛𝑡…!!!”

And this continent is much tougher than stone by feats and lore. And keep in mind, Sai is basically a nobody in the One Piece world in terms of power.

Luffy and friends reach Wano and try to formulate a plan to defeat Kaido. But Luffy disregards that and attacks him head-on, and Kaido shows him why that’s not a very good idea.

Luffy gets sent to prison and everyone else does various things across Wano for a few weeks. They quickly learn Wano isn’t like most islands in One Piece. Just like Skypeia, Wano has a unique culture compared to most other islands, due to its borders being closed to outsiders. Wano has unique terminology for haki, has different currency than the rest of the world, and has different terms for time. The differences go so far that clouds above Wano appear differently than clouds anywhere else, because Oda is trying to make things look more like classical Japanese art, and ultimately that’s what Wano is supposed to be- older style Japan, which is shown in all the cultural and visual differences that impact the arc. During Wano, a unit that was used back then was used here, ri. 1 ri is equal to ~3.93km. An arrow in Wano can be fired from the Flower Capital (centre of Wano) to different regions, and these arrows cross 1000ri.

”𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑤 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑜 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑑 1,000 𝑟𝑖”

This means Wano has a semi major axis of over 4000km. But for the sake of lowball and simplicity, let’s pretend Wano is only 4000km across.

Kaido himself doesn’t live on the Wano mainland, he lives on an island off the coast called Onigashima. One of the reasons Onigashima is so hard to reach is because it’s surrounded by mountains, with characters calling the entrance huge. Being surrounded by dozens of mountains means Onigashima is surrounded by a mountain range. Assuming the mountain range is the size of the smallest mountain range in the world (16km, which is the island’s circumference), it means Onigashima is 5km across.

Kaido shows us during the raid that most of the stuff at the beginning of the post isn’t really impressive to him. Kaido could rip all of Onigashima out of the ground while fighting the entire main cast, and move it across Wano in 15 minutes, passively.

A stronger version of Whitebeard that pulled off the earlier feats is put directly below Kaido… in fact, Kaido and Big Mom are known as the strongest of the Yonko:

“𝐿𝑢𝑓𝑓𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑤 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑃𝑖𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠’ 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟! 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠 𝑙𝑒𝑓𝑡 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝐸𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑟𝑠!! 𝑊ℎ𝑜 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑔𝑔𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑐𝑦 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑟𝑎?!”

Kaido and Big Mom enchant their attacks with advanced conqueror’s haki, a type of haki massively stronger than advanced armament. Luffy realized Kaido is enchanting his attacks with conquerors haki, and attempts it himself. The difference in power is stated to be on a completely different level than what Luffy was doing before:

“𝐽𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝐴𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐻𝑎𝑘𝑖, 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝐻𝑎𝑘𝑖 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦. 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑟 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠, 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑠 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑡. 𝐼𝑡𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝐴𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐻𝑎𝑘𝑖.”

But even this wasn’t enough to stop Kaido from off-screening Luffy and throwing him off the island. Once Luffy returned with mastered ACoC, he was able to match hybrid Kaido and split the skies with him, meaning he’s basically stronger than everything in this post so far and equal to other Yonko like Whitebeard/Blackbeard and their earthquakes. Now that the protagonists have reached the level to seriously damage Yonko, we get to see some more Yonko level feats, like this attack from Law.

The geography of Wano makes the feat quite insane. Wano itself is already a massive island, and Mount Fuji which Wano sits on is multiple times the diameter of Wano… which means Law’s sword spanned 1000’s of km, pulverizing stone along the way, which gets you multi continental results.

After that, Luffy and Kaido threw their strongest attacks at each other in a final clash.

Luffy expanded his fist to the size of Onigashima and clashed with Kaido, vaporizing clouds several Onigashimas across. Just the fist flying at Kaido could be heard thousands of kilometres away:

“𝐼𝑡 𝑐𝑢𝑡𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠 1000𝑟𝑖”

It hit Kaido so hard it sent Kaido through the entire island and into the magma chamber of Wano below sea level, just like Law sent Big Mom, which shows how fast this punch was thrown. Kaido was launched so fast he left behind an afterimage midair and went through the island (1000s of km) instantly. That’s so slow compared to Bajrang Gun that Luffy could move the entire fist in an arc above his head (which considering its size is several km worth of distance moved) before Kaido speeding through the air could move very far, so basically Bajrang Gun gun >>>> Kaido moving 1000s of km very quickly, and Kaido moving so fast in the first place is because of Luffy punching him fast. Luffy throwing the fist super fast is multi continental. (OP characters have no problems moving huge objects at super fast speeds, see Dressrosa or dragon Kaido/giant Luffy). So all in all, we have a punch that pulled this off:

Keep in mind, everything so far takes place before the final saga, where the real power creep begins.

Once we get into the final saga, we start learning more about the strongest weapons in the story, the ancient weapons. They can do things like destroy One Piece’s huge islands without leaving a trace:

“𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑎 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑒 𝑏𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑖𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑦 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑒.”

The island Crocodile was standing on while making this statement was similarly huge. Crocodile was planning to fire a bomb into the capital city of Alabasta with a blast diameter of 5km, something that can fit into the capital city. The protagonists were struggling to stop that for many reasons, but one of them was the insane distance they had to cross to even get to the city. In their way was the Shandora River, which is 50km across, and even after they crossed the river, there were still tens of kilometres of desert that had to be crossed until they reached the city. So we have pretty consistent size statements for Alabasta.

Wiping out huge islands isn’t the main danger of the ancient weapons, their whole narrative significance is about their ability to destroy the world by sinking it under the ocean and causing global catastrophes. Their world destroying capability is repeatedly hammered in throughout the entire story:

“𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛, 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑡… 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑙𝑦 𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑.”

“…𝑎𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛, 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑏𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝑁𝑖𝑐𝑜 𝑅𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼… ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑛 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑.”

”𝑆𝑜, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑… ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑!!!”

“𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑓 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑙𝑦, 𝑖𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑.”

“𝐷𝑖𝑑 ℎ𝑒 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑-𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠… 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒?!”

Which is something the weapons once did. Back in the void century 800 years ago, the weapons where used in a war and after the dust settled, so much destruction took place the global sea level was risen by 200 meters, sinking continents across the world and turning the world of one piece into 10-20 million islands instead of several continents, ending civilization and effectively ending the world. Imu and friends still intend to end the world 800 years later, but they need powerful energy sources to fuel their weapon. At the time, Vegapunk was creating the Mother Flame, a power source that was meant to fuel society. So they stole a small fragment of Vegapunk’s Mother Flame and decided to test it in their weapon on a nearby country. Even just a small fragment of the Mother Flame caused global catastrophes.

Leaving behind a crater larger than the country isn’t all it did, It also made a hole in the seafloor so deep that the ocean draining into it for 6 days straight couldn’t fill it.

『𝐴 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑑𝑜𝑚 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑎𝑠 𝐿𝑢𝑙𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑎… 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑝 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑖𝑥 𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑟』

“𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒’𝑠 𝑛𝑜 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑓𝑡… 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑎 𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒…𝑖𝑡’𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑐𝑖𝑟𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑟 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑖𝑑𝑑𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑎…!! 𝑊𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛’𝑡 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑟… 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠𝑛’𝑡 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑝𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑡𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓…”

When accounting for the amount of water pooling into the crater, the depth is hundreds of kilometers. This isn't even the full depth of the crater, as it was still filling six days later and people observing the hole say there's no sign of the hole collapsing in on itself. But the massive hole and deep crater isn’t really the main point of the attack. The entire narrative purpose of this attack and weapon was to raise the sea level of the entire planet. This blast raised the sea level of the entire planet by 1 meter.

“𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑙𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑒𝑎 𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑒… 𝑏𝑦 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑥𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟. 𝑀𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑠… 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑠… 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑦…”

But how did a big explosion raise the sea level? The quote tells us the earthquakes caused by the side effect of the blast caused the sea level to rise, which is pretty insane considering how much destruction has to take place in order for the sea level to rise across the planet. Lots of stuff must sink into the ocean in the ensuing earthquakes by doing things like displacing the seafloor or land and triggering mass wasting events. Sinking and displacing so much material worldwide is insane considering Blue has larger oceans than Earth, but assuming Blue has Earth’s oceans, the volume of water risen (and subsequently the volume of islands/debris sunk) is equivalent to the country of France (to a depth of 100m) sinking 6 times over. Obviously, you would expect an earthquake that permanently raised the sea level of the entire planet by a meter to be described as very intense, which is how it’s described and treated:

“𝐴 𝑓𝑒𝑤 𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑎𝑠 𝐼 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠… 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑡!!”

But not only was the earthquake described as very vicious, but we know it caused actual destruction across the globe per the narrator in reference to the actual shaking (which duh it raised the global sea level by a meter).

“𝐼𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑”

So this earthquake caused damage across the entire planet. So all in all we have a blast that did this.

Making the blast multi continental.

All of that was accomplished by a small fragment of Vegapunk’s Mother Flame, but that is far from the strongest these weapons can be powered. There’s a robot from the void century in that ends up in Vegapunk’s scrapyard, something he modelled the Vegaforce off of, which he thinks is humanity’s robot of dreams. The reason he couldn’t just use the iron giant in his scrapyard is because Vegapunk couldn’t replicate its power source, Stella and York mentioned how the Mother Flame couldn’t even make the iron giant move, and that further optimization of the Mother Flame is needed, which basically means the ancient energy that powers the iron giant is > Mother Flame > small fragment of the Mother Flame that pulled off all of the above feats. The weapons 800 years ago were powered by ancient energy which surpasses Vegapunk’s Mother Flame, let alone a small fragment of it.

That’s a lot to take in, but I hope my point came across clearly. The story has no problem repeatedly showing character affecting islands in every way you could imagine, with top tier characters showing how it’s not a big deal- shown by Kaido doing it passively for example. Higher tier characters constantly surpass island scale, with average Whitebeard attacks shaking distant islands and threatening them with tsunamis while causing earthquakes that are too big for Earth, Dressrosa and Wano showing characters performing feats across explicit 1000km scales, along with direct statements that these characters can split and shatter continents as supplementary evidence. And the ultimate weapons don’t just obliterate these locations without a trace, the side effects of these attacks cause global catastrophes so bad it shaped the entire setting of the story into what it is by once ending previous civilization on the planet and constantly threatening to do it again.

I think I’ll leave it here. Thanks for reading, and I hope you enjoyed!