In any world, the natural power of lightning always makes people associate it with gods and heaven. The roar of thunder is often imagined as the wrath of a deity. Therefore, Enel, who can control and embody lightning, would undoubtedly gain the worship or fear of many people, not to mention on Skypiea ten thousand meters above, but even down in the Blue Sea.
But at this moment, in the eyes of Wiper and Gan Fall, three people capable of controlling lightning appeared.
One was a woman, seemingly a Logia-type ability user like Ace and Enel.
Another was a Marine Vice Admiral who had never truly shown his strength but managed to knock out thousands of people just by releasing his aura.
The last, of course, was Enel himself.
"Damn it! I see it now; these Blue Sea people aren't allied with Enel at all! We attacked the wrong people, Wiper!" Gan Fall looked at Wiper with vexation.
Wiper's face was also grim. The news that Enel had disguised himself as a Blue Sea dweller and blended in with the Blue Sea people on their ship was brought back by Shandian warrior Kamariki. Kamariki had seen a thick lightning bolt shoot from the Blue Sea people's ship, instantly electrocuting a Sky Fish in the White Sea.
In their understanding, only Enel could do such a thing in this world. So, Kamariki naturally assumed Enel was on the Blue Sea people's ship. And Wiper and the others didn't question it, because he himself thought the same!
It could be said that everyone on Skypiea had developed severe lightning-induced stress syndrome in recent years. Whenever anything related to lightning occurred, they assumed Enel was responsible. They never expected that there were others in this world who could also control lightning.
"Mr. Gan Fall, why are you back? Is something wrong?" Hibari looked at Gan Fall.
Gan Fall, however, dared not meet her gaze. Thinking about how Hibari had so warmly hosted him earlier, inviting him for tea, only for him to immediately try to ambush her, Gan Fall's old face burned with shame, wishing he could disappear into a crack in the ground.
Clash in the Sky
In the sky, "Hahaha, I didn't expect you, kid, to be so lucky to survive that Knock Up Stream. The fact that we met again means we're fated. How about you come back with me? I'll take you to the Marineford cafeteria for a free feast, how about it, Ace!" Rorschach moved like lightning, speeding through the sky, getting closer and closer to the fiery snake darting ahead. His voice reached Ace's ears with perfect clarity.
"No thanks! Speaking of which, don't you Marines have anything better to do? To chase just me, you even came all the way up to ten thousand meters in the sky. What did I do to make you so obsessed with me?!" Ace's lower body transformed into a raging pillar of fire, accelerating his speed repeatedly, like a rocket, as he fled into the distant sky.
"Don't flatter yourself, Ace! We didn't come here to chase you. But since we've met again, we can't pretend we didn't see you." Rorschach, wreathed in wind and thunder, suddenly increased his speed by fifty percent, closing the distance by over a hundred meters in an instant, terrifying Ace. A large hand, covered in deep blue Haki, ripped through the air, reaching for his fiery body.
"Come back with me and become a righteous Marine soldier; don't go astray! That way, even if your true identity is exposed someday, your grandfather and I, and many righteous Marines, will do everything we can to protect you!"
"We cannot choose our birth, but we can choose our lives!"
"Turn back before it's too late, Ace!"
Rorschach's roar, like a resounding bell, echoed in Ace's heart. His eyes welled up, and a warmth spread within him, making him want to agree.
Boom!
Flames exploded everywhere, and Rorschach's large hand, wrapped in deep blue Haki, grabbed nothing but air. Ace, whose lower body was a raging pillar of fire, re-formed his body a few dozen meters ahead, looking at Rorschach with complex emotions. For a moment, Ace genuinely considered following Rorschach and becoming a Marine soldier.
"Cannot choose birth, but can choose life? That's truly well said. My birth is already destined to be a tragedy; how should I choose my life?" Ace recalled the countless times he, Luffy, and Sabo had spoken by the seashore in Foosha Village.
"Someday, we'll set sail and be freer than anyone else!"
In that instant, Ace suddenly felt at peace. He gave Rorschach a brilliant smile.
"Rorschach, it must not be easy having that old man as your teacher, right?"
"Indeed, that old man's teaching methods are truly a mess. It's a good thing I'm a Mythical Zoan ability user, otherwise, I'd probably have died countless times already." Rorschach also smiled, not rushing to attack. The two just stood there, dozens of meters apart in the sky, looking at each other.
"Hahaha, 'a mess' is a good way to put it!" Ace threw his head back and laughed, tears streaming down his face.
"When we were little, his training method was to throw us into a forest full of wild beasts and let us fend for ourselves; he didn't treat us like four or five-year-old kids at all. He's really a terrible old man..." Ace's eyes were red.
"But after training every day, being able to sit by a campfire in the forest clearing, eating his messy barbecue, listening to him ramble on about old stories, and then, half-asleep, being carried on his broad back, it always felt so safe."
"I watched the gray hairs at his temples increase each year until they are now completely white. The strength of the punches the old man landed on my head also grew weaker and weaker. I knew he was getting old..."
"I also thought about it; maybe I should just follow the old man's advice. Become a righteous Marine, fight alongside comrades, and capture pirates on the Grand Line. After all, the father I hate so much is a pirate. But..."
Ace clenched his fingers, his knuckles cracking sharply. "But I both hate that man, and I revere him, and I envy him. I want to kill him, but I also want to become him!"
"My heart is very conflicted; I don't want to upset the old man, but I also don't want to regret anything!"
"What is the meaning of my life? I believe the sea and time will give me the answer I seek. So, I must set sail!" He looked directly at Rorschach. "Rorschach, I know you weren't going all out in Mock Town. Now, you can go all out."
"I hope you don't regret the decision you make today," Rorschach said, unbuttoning his shirt as his body slowly expanded and grew taller.
"No regrets until death!"
Ace clasped his hands together. Flames, surging like a tsunami, poured out from his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, swirling and spreading in the sky before him, charging towards Rorschach.
Whoosh!
Terrifying high temperatures warped the void, scorching the air. Orange-red flames shot up hundreds of meters high, engulfing Ace's figure and instantly forming a fiery sun a hundred meters in diameter. The entire sky within a thousand-meter radius seemed to have become an ocean of flames. Even on other sky islands dozens of miles away, this radiant fiery sun was visible at this moment.
Ace's figure materialized beneath the fiery sun, holding up this burning sun in his right hand, and looked across at Rorschach, who had transformed into a monstrous Kirin beastman.
Across from him, a seven-meter-tall demon, covered in azure scales, with bulging muscles, and wreathed in howling winds and leaping lightning, also held a hand to the sky, raising a shimmering, roaring thunder sun.
At the same time.
At the zenith, Enel finally used the power of his Goro Goro no Mi to draw in a vast ocean of lightning capable of reducing the entire Jaya Island to ashes, forming a pitch-black sphere several kilometers in diameter in the sky thousands of meters above.
Strands of dazzling electric light flickered intermittently within this dark sphere, horrifying the conscious Wiper, Hibari, Law, and others on the ground.
Waves of terrifying energy, as if capable of destroying the world, were brewing overhead. In the face of these fluctuating energies, they were merely ants. If Enel wished to destroy them, they would be utterly helpless.
Everyone held their breath, staring intently at the three 'suns'—one large and two small—beneath the dim sky.
Suddenly!
The fiery sun and the thunder sun below moved simultaneously. They charged towards each other, one from the left and one from the right, tracing a path of fire and a path of lightning across the sky. With earth-shattering tremors, they collided!
"Great Flame Commandment! Flame Emperor!"
Ace roared, his Haki surging, his stamina unleashing as boundless flames. His entire will and conviction seemed to explode with this one attack. The terrifying heat warped the air within a thousand meters.
"Two Hundred Million Volts! Thunder Pool!"
Rorschach roared as well. The thunder sun held aloft by his massive arm contained the maximum current intensity his body could currently reach. Enhanced by the infusion of vast Haki, its power increased several times over.
A red and a white 'sun,' each a hundred meters in diameter, thus collided with a mighty crash.
Boom!
In the sky over a thousand meters high, an even more dazzling fireball suddenly appeared, expanding infinitely, then exploding with a roar, turning into a rain of fire and scattered lightning.
Within the exploding fire rain, Ace, blood spilling from his mouth, his eyes tightly shut, fell headfirst from the sky. Having completely exhausted his stamina, he couldn't even maintain his elemental form. His skin was charred by the lightning streaks flowing through the air, and his muscles were even pierced by the lightning's power, likely leaving permanent scars.
On the other side, Rorschach's body glowed with a deep blue luster, his azure scales reflecting an ethereal light, appearing completely unharmed. He was indeed unharmed. He had only consumed about thirty percent of his Armament Haki and the vast lightning power accumulated within his body.
This was enough to show how powerful Ace's attack was. Rorschach's thirty percent Armament Haki could arm the hundred-meter-long Kirin three layers thick. All that Haki had been consumed by the high-temperature flames generated by that attack. One could imagine that if Rorschach's awakened Armament Haki was only of an ordinary type, his body would probably be severely burned right now.
Ace was utterly defeated. He had even fallen unconscious.
The current Ace was already very strong. In the manga, soon after entering the New World, he could fight Jinbe for five days and five nights without a clear winner. By blood, he was the son of Pirate King Roger. By talent, he possessed three types of Haki. In terms of ability, he had the top-tier Logia-type Mera Mera no Mi. His physical combat skills also had no weaknesses, as he was taught by Garp. If such a person were in a fantasy novel, he would be the standard template for invincibility among peers.
Unfortunately, Rorschach's Haki and physique were even stronger than his.
Looking at Ace, who was about to disappear from sight, falling into the endless deep sky, Rorschach grabbed with his right hand. Invisible air currents converged and swirled, forming a long chain that caught Ace's falling body.
"If I can't persuade him, I'll just take him back and let old man Garp decide." Ace is such a lively person; unless Rorschach locked him up in Impel Down right now, no one could stop someone like him who was determined to set sail.
Just as Rorschach was pulling the air chain, intending to pull the unconscious Ace up.
Boom!
A dazzling lightning pillar, as thick as an ancient towering tree, shot out from the huge sphere thousands of meters up in the sky, completely engulfing him.
"Rorschach!"
"Brother Rorschach!"
On the Kirin, Law and Hibari both witnessed this terrifying scene and immediately grew worried
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