A lightning pillar three to four kilometers long, like a spear of divine punishment descending from the heavens, pierced through the dim skies of Skypiea, connecting the colossal thunderball beneath the firmament with the lush green Holy Land forest below.
Boom, boom, boom!
Where the lightning pillar struck, the ground for hundreds of meters around shattered and collapsed. Countless rocks, soil, and ancient towering trees disintegrated in the dazzling lightning, turning into dust that plummeted into the boundless deep sky. A massive, transparent hole appeared in the ground of the Holy Land forest, where the soil, vegetation, and even the cloud masses supporting the island beneath it, all vanished.
The violent tremor rapidly spread outwards, causing the entire Jaya Island to tremble. Even around the Kirin, dozens of miles away, numerous small cracks appeared on the ground.
Wiper and Gan Fall looked up, staring blankly at this awe-inspiring scene. No one spoke. Their faces didn't even show anger or unwillingness. Only silence, numbness, and despair.
They couldn't resist, couldn't fight back, and could barely even touch it. The opponent was thousands of meters above the ground, controlling lightning to destroy the world. What good was Seastone? What good was a Reject Dial? If you couldn't even reach him, what could you fight with?
"Indeed, that Enel guy, hehehe, he really is the god of Skypiea, hahahaha, God Enel, the merciless god." Gan Fall slumped onto the deck, laughing, then crying.
Beside him, Hibari had already leaped into the air, transforming into a swirling white cloud, rushing towards the direction where the lightning pillar had struck.
Law didn't move; he still needed to guard this place. Although concerned for Rorschach's safety, Law had full confidence in Rorschach and didn't believe that Enel could defeat him. He had followed that guy all the way from the North Blue, and no one knew better than him, a professional doctor, the effort Rorschach had put in during his training in Marineford.
"Two hundred times the effort of an ordinary person" was a joke. But Rorschach had indeed endured a hundred times the hardship and pain of an ordinary person. Of course, he had also eaten no less than a hundred times the food of an ordinary person. That guy was like a piece of iron, forged into refined steel by the rough Marines of headquarters, who swung their arms and hammered him for a whole year. How could he break so easily?
Moreover, that guy was originally a controller of lightning; how could he be killed by lightning?
The Shocking Truth
Under the dim firmament, Enel floated serenely, cross-legged and barefoot, yawning with one hand propping his chin, his eyes slightly narrowed.
"This is what happens when you provoke a god. Do you think you're a thunder god like me just because you can emit a tiny bit of electricity? Naive Blue Sea dweller." He spread his arms as if embracing the sky. "I, Enel, am the god of this sky island. Although my dream is to go to the Endless Vearth, even the trash I don't want, others cannot intervene and claim."
"Hehehehe! Be afraid! Be terrified! Because fear itself is God!"
As he laughed, the expression on Enel's face gradually changed. He looked down at the sky below with some surprise.
"Hmm? Did he dodge it? What a lucky fellow."
Below him, over two thousand meters away in the sky, the seven-meter-tall Rorschach was still hovering there, not having been charred by the towering lightning pillar that had just struck. On the contrary, Rorschach's expression at this moment was somewhat peculiar. He touched his arm, then squeezed the rock-hard, steel-like subcutaneous muscles, and the light in his eyes gradually brightened.
"It works! Enel's lightning power, which he sent down, can effectively stimulate my body." Rorschach was somewhat excited.
Since training for half a year in Marineford, his physique had been stuck at an awkward bottleneck, showing no progress. Compared to the Vice Admirals at headquarters, Rorschach's physique was like that of a wild dragon. He didn't even need to transform; his physical strength in human form alone could easily send the giant Vice Admirals of headquarters flying. This was almost equivalent to five Drakes after transformation. If he transformed into his Azure Scale form, fifteen Drakes combined wouldn't be able to break his defense. Excluding Gion and Tokikake, whom he hadn't met, in terms of physical strength, he could easily crush all headquarters Vice Admirals below the level of an Admiral.
But compared to the Admirals, there was still a considerable gap. Don't let Kizaru and Aokiji look skinny; in reality, their physical strength is on another level compared to other headquarters Vice Admirals.
The most grueling part of ability user battles is stamina. Especially for their calamity-level Logia abilities, every time they use a major attack, it requires a huge amount of stamina. Therefore, even Kizaru, who Zephyr always mentioned as being overly reliant on his Devil Fruit ability, possessed a powerful physique honed through countless trials.
Aokiji goes without saying. He was Garp's top student, a tough guy who could clash with Garp using Armament Haki. Seemingly lazy, his true strength was incredibly formidable. Rorschach always felt that Aokiji was never serious when fighting him. If he were serious, a high-intensity ice封 could very likely end the battle. His own Armament Haki wasn't high-level enough to withstand the opponent's extreme cold. How strong Aokiji's physical strength was could be seen from how easily he threw a battleship like a sandbag. That thing wasn't just tens of tons in weight.
After Rorschach's body reached that bottleneck in Marineford, the upper limit of lightning intensity accumulated within his body remained fixed at two hundred million volts. This limit, no matter how he tried to break through it, hadn't budged until now. Two hundred million volts of discharge was very strong, and with the added boost of Armament Haki, its power allowed Rorschach to defeat Chinjao, Gulliver, and Ace. But to use this power to fight Admiral-level strongmen, or monsters like Douglas Bullet, it was far from enough!
The electricity generated by cell friction within his body had weakened its stimulation on his own physique, preventing further overall physical enhancement. That's why Rorschach, after leaving headquarters, had been studying the power of wind control and the development of Haki.
But now, under the tempering of the lightning power struck down by Enel, he could clearly feel that his cells were strongly stimulated by the electric current. Stimulation meant that his physical strength could still improve. It meant that he might soon break through the two hundred million volt limit and advance to a higher level.
"Enel, I knew finding you would bring good things. Do you know how many fanfictions your Goro Goro no Mi has been written about? This Devil Fruit is the most popular fruit in the world of One Piece, bar none." Rorschach's burly body was wreathed in shimmering electricity as he began to fly towards Enel.
He flew very slowly, like a child who had spotted a butterfly and wanted to cover it with his hand. Cautious, afraid the butterfly would fly away. That's how Rorschach felt now. He was genuinely afraid Enel would just bolt. At the opponent's speed, he might not actually be able to catch him. After all, Enel could transform into lightning, while Rorschach merely had lightning imbued into his body. The nature of the two was completely different. If Enel was seen as a lightning mage, Rorschach was a warrior enchanted with lightning attack attributes.
A God's Fury, A Monster's Growth
In the sky, Enel watched Rorschach flying towards him, the corner of his mouth involuntarily curling into a slight smile.
"Oh? Lucky fellow, after dodging that fatal blow, you're not running away and even dare to come towards me. Then, let me show you what the power of a thunder god is." Enel waved a hand, and a silver snake of lightning shot out from it, extending to the colossal thunderball floating beside him. The thunderball was filled with chaotic lightning power, all natural electricity he had drawn in with his previous actions. Now, guided by his hand, it was a destructive weapon that struck wherever he pointed.
CRACK!
With a flick of Enel's finger, a lightning pillar four to five meters thick shot out from the black thunderball, directly striking down towards Rorschach, who was flying below. This time, Rorschach's body was firmly locked by Enel's Mantra.
"You won't be so lucky this time, Blue Sea dweller!"
"Judgment of God!"
Boom!
The sky-pillar-like lightning instantly pierced the firmament, entering from above Rorschach's head and exiting from his feet, like a heavenly sword plunged into the forest of Jaya Island. The next moment, there was another earth-shattering roar. Subsequently, another bottomless pit, tens of meters in diameter, appeared in the forest of Jaya Island, from whose edge one could even see the White Sea below.
"Hehehehehe, kid, next time remember to learn your lesson, don't be so stubborn..."
"Nani?!"
Seeing Rorschach below, not only unharmed but looking even more vibrant, Enel's eyeballs nearly popped out, his mouth open wider than a hippopotamus', and snot was even running down his face from fright. He looked at Rorschach as if he had seen a ghost.
"Impossible! Why aren't you affected at all?! No! The lightning intensity must not be enough! Again!" Enel gritted his teeth. With a wave of his hand, three lightning bolts shot out, striking the giant thunderball, drawing out three thick lightning pillars that snaked through the sky towards Rorschach.
Rumble, rumble!
The three dazzling lightning bolts illuminated the sky for dozens of miles around as bright as day, completely engulfing Rorschach's tall figure. Enel saw clearly and was absolutely certain that Rorschach could not have dodged them.
At the center where the three thick lightning pillars struck, Rorschach's body arched, bathed in dazzling, blinding lightning. He felt the lightning power within him, which had been depleted from clashing with Ace, rapidly refilling. These three lightning bolts were like charging him. And super-fast charging at that. Not only did they replenish his consumed lightning power, but they also continuously stimulated every cell in his body, training and enhancing his physical strength.
In just that brief moment, Rorschach already felt his physical strength had increased by a small increment. If calculated by the intensity of lightning power he could accumulate within his body, it was equivalent to an increase of one million volts in his upper limit.
"This feeling is truly exhilarating." A look of enjoyment appeared on his face.
While he was enjoying his lightning bath, Enel, watching from above, was almost driven mad.
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
Enel suddenly stood up, gripping the golden spear in his hand. He infused it with a long string of lightning and hurled it forcefully at Rorschach.
Whoosh!
The air shrieked with a sharp crack, and the thousand-meter distance was covered in an instant. The golden spear, empowered by lightning, was easily blocked by a deep blue claw, crushed into golden mud, and then melted by the lightning on Rorschach's body into floating golden beads. The golden beads swam immersed in the silvery-white electric light, shimmering with a dazzling brilliance.
Rorschach slowly looked up at Enel, whose mind was now completely blank.
"Keep going, Enel."
"Don't joke around!"
A hint of blood appeared in Enel's eyes. Streaks of lightning appeared on the surface of his body, shooting out all at once, piercing through the colossal thunderball, several kilometers in diameter, beside him. In this instant, the heavens and earth above this ten-thousand-meter altitude seemed to be stilled by an invisible, mighty force. All sound vanished, leaving only the dazzling lightning bursting from the colossal thunderball, illuminating the sky for hundreds of kilometers around.
Then.
Boom, boom, boom!
Thick lightning pillars, like ancient towering trees, shot out from the giant thunderball like silver dragons, vying with each other to strike down at Rorschach, who floated in mid-air.
At this moment, the earth-shattering thunderous roar not only spread throughout the White-White Sea and the White Sea but even reached the chaotic seas below, echoing across half of the Grand Line.
On the Kirin, Wiper and Gan Fall's faces were illuminated by the world-brightening lightning, flickering between light and shadow, completely lost in awe at this world-destroying spectacle. Beneath the dim firmament, a god wielding thunder sent down thousands of bolts of divine punishment. In the void below, a formidable figure like a demon god, bathed in brilliant lightning, surged against the current!
"You cannot survive this attack, weak Blue Sea dweller!"
"Raigo!!"
Enel roared, swinging his arms downwards, pulling along thick lightning pillars that simultaneously bombarded Rorschach. The terrifying thunderous electricity illuminated the entire sky.
Within the endless lightning, Rorschach stretched his limbs, released his Armament Haki defense, and relaxed all the muscles in his body, fully accepting the colossal lightning pillars capable of easily destroying towns. He felt every cell in his body tremble and rub under this terrifying lightning power, making his physique even tougher. Blood surged through his veins like great rivers. Muscles tingled, tore, compressed, then expanded.
His terrifying, seven-meter-plus muscular body, covered in azure scales, visibly grew taller at a speed visible to the naked eye. The intensity of lightning power he could accumulate within his body also climbed by one million volts at a time. Strands of lightning power infused into every cell of his body, rapidly refilling Rorschach's depleted lightning power and continuously breaking through his original limits. If his body were likened to a pond, then this continuous lightning bombardment was like someone constantly expanding the pond's diameter while also pumping water into it.
Excess lightning energy continuously escaped from Rorschach's eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, shimmering and moving around his body in the sky.
Eight meters.
His height in Azure Scale form had increased to a colossal eight meters. Rorschach looked at the tendons on his two arms, which resembled bundles of thick steel bars. With a slight clench of his fingers, the air around his fists roared, unable to bear the strain. An incomparable sense of power filled his entire body.
His body gradually shrank, returning to human form. Rorschach's height now was nearly ten centimeters taller than before, reaching two meters eighty. His silver hair fanned out behind his head in the shimmering lightning, and his azure eyes also pulsed with lightning, captivating to behold. On his steel-forged, rugged body, muscles were clearly defined, like a fortified armor.
A joyful smile appeared on Rorschach's face.
His physical limit was broken. The upper limit of lightning power he could accumulate within his body reached a terrifying five hundred million volts. His control over lightning became even more effortless.
"Enel, you are truly my lucky star. A talent like you, remaining on Skypiea, or letting you run off to the moon, would indeed be a waste of human resources." Rorschach grinned, his legs slightly bent. Two swirling masses of chaotic air erupted from beneath his feet, and his slender, muscular body suddenly transformed into a lightning bolt invisible to the naked eye. In Enel's horrified gaze, he spread his five fingers and grabbed for Enel's face.
"So..., come with me to the true Endless Vearth, and join the Marines!"
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