In an instant, the lightning accumulated within the thunder drums surged out like a released flood, suffusing the surrounding space. Under Enel's control, the vast electrical power coalesced into an astonishing Thunder Dragon, coiling around his body.
Kizaru, emerging from a light mirror, saw Enel encircled by the Thunder Dragon, and his expression darkened. His figure flickered and charged forward. Golden light erupted from his body, condensing on his surface to form a dazzling, golden divine armor that was incredibly eye-catching.
He plunged into the lightning; the violent electrical currents were unable to tear through his golden divine armor.
The Ama no Murakumo sword in his hand slashed down directly, cleaving the Thunder Dragon in two. His form pressed further, the blackened Ama no Murakumo striking towards Enel.
Enel reacted with extreme speed, instantly using his golden staff to block Kizaru's slash.
Between them, lightning and golden light clashed like tides, forming two semi-circular shockwave shields. Then, the impacts grew increasingly fierce, creating two distinctly separated shockwave fronts that swept outwards.
"Godfather said your hand-to-hand combat skills are the weakest among the Three Admirals. Looks like he was right!" Enel bared his teeth, taunting him.
Kizaru's face hardened. The golden light on his body suddenly erupted, directly overwhelming Enel's lightning and sending him flying, once again smashing through a multitude of buildings.
"Brat, you're still too green to lecture me," Kizaru said, his face expressionless. Being looked down upon by a mere brat was a severe blow to his pride.
Enel stood up, a violent aura erupting from him, flattening everything in the vicinity. He clenched his fists, his eyes imperious, azure lightning shooting from them. The four thunder drums on his back exploded with power simultaneously, unleashing endless lightning that wreathed his entire body. An invincible, imposing might, like a storm, swept outwards.
He looked up, his face savage, an astonishing killing intent surging directly to his heart.
"I am the Little Thunder God!"
He crouched slightly. Instantly, an unparalleled force exploded from his feet. The entire ground tore into rubble, countless cracks spreading outwards. Enel's figure, like a rocket, shot towards Kizaru.
His whole being was like a bolt of lightning, the air itself booming—swift and overwhelmingly powerful.
As he charged through, the atmosphere seemed to detonate. Enel's face was grimly fierce, his golden staff wreathed in azure lightning, emanating an aura of utter destruction.
This terrifyingly charged lightning staff smashed towards Kizaru.
Kizaru immediately swung his sword. The staff and sword collided violently, a deafening roar exploding outwards as lightning and golden light erupted once more, even more fiercely than before.
Kizaru's expression changed slightly. The power carried in that staff strike was truly astonishing; at the moment of impact, the webbing between his thumb and forefinger actually felt somewhat numb.
"Again!"
Enel retracted his staff and struck at Kizaru once more. Kizaru immediately blocked, and his counter-slash was even faster than Enel's attack. The two engaged in a frenzied, fierce battle.
With every collision, lightning and golden light exploded like fireworks, astonishing shockwaves rippling outwards. Lightning scattered everywhere, leaving traces of its rampage on the ground and buildings.
In their close-quarters combat, Enel surprisingly wasn't losing by much.
"Get lost!" With a low roar, Kizaru attacked with even greater speed. His right leg erupted with golden light, like a dragon's tail, carrying an invincible aura as it lashed out at Enel's body.
It directly caused half of Enel's body to explode, and Enel transformed into lightning, flying off once more. Swoosh… A streak of azure lightning traversed the void, shining like a comet as it plunged into the cluster of buildings, smashing through them one after another until it finally slammed into a mangrove tree and stopped.
Half of Enel's body had been blown open, but endless lightning surged from within him, repairing his form.
Just then, a golden light, rapidly refracting through the light mirrors in the air, closed in within a few breaths.
"Two Hundred Million Volt—Wrath of the Thunder Dragon!" Enel's face turned savage. The thunder drums on his back instantly spewed forth terrifyingly violent lightning, which, under his control, transformed into a massive, dragon-shaped bolt of lightning that traversed the void and blasted towards Kizaru.
Kizaru's expression changed instantly, and he immediately dodged the dragon-shaped lightning. Accompanied by the collapse of countless houses, a massive trench was torn through the buildings, stretching for over a kilometer.
Countless points of light converged in the air, reforming Kizaru's body. Almost without thinking, Kizaru brought his hands together and then pulled them apart. An intensely dazzling golden light, comparable to the sun, rapidly appeared.
"Yasakani Sacred Jewel!"
Innumerable light bullets shot out from between his hands, a dense barrage flying out and engulfing the area where Enel was.
"Two Hundred Million Volt—Thunderstorm!" A cold smirk played on Enel's lips. He struck his thunder drums again with his golden staff. Terrifying lightning surged forth, encircling Enel. With a furious roar, the massive lightning instantly fractured into countless tiny bolts, forming a wide, azure torrent that rushed straight towards Kizaru.
The lightning bolts were small but numerous, like a torrential downpour.
Hence the name, Thunderstorm.
The vast torrent of the Thunderstorm collided with the powerful light bullets, immediately setting off a chain of explosions, one after another.
The heaven-shaking blasts formed continuous shockwaves, pulverizing the surrounding buildings.
"Yellow Monkey, what do you think? This move was specially developed to counter your Yasakani Sacred Jewel!" Enel roared with laughter.
In the next moment, the sky trembled. Kizaru's face was extremely grim. He raised his hand, and terrifying golden light condensed within it. Instantly, an incredibly brilliant golden pillar of light pierced through the air, plummeting downwards.
The speed of this golden pillar was more than double that of his regular laser beams; even Enel found it difficult to react in time.
Lightning erupted from Enel's entire body, instantly enveloping him completely, like an azure lightning egg. In the next instant, the golden pillar of light blasted the lightning egg, directly obliterating the area where Enel was. Endless debris shot outwards, dust billowed, and the shockwave flattened all buildings within a hundred-meter radius, leaving a crater dozens of meters wide in its place.
Within the crater, amidst the swirling dust, an arc of lightning tore through the smoke.
But in the next moment, endless light bullets flew into the crater. The earth trembled violently, innumerable cracks spreading out from the crater's edge. The crater continuously collapsed, once again nearly doubling in size.
Kizaru stared intently at the crater, his Observation Haki covering it, golden light still gathering in his hands.
Suddenly, he fired another golden pillar of light, blasting towards the crater.
Simultaneously, a terrifying pillar of lightning, tearing through the swirling dust, erupted from the crater, meeting the golden light pillar head-on. The two instantly exploded, causing an even more astonishing blast.
A streak of lightning seized the opportunity to shoot out from the crater, landing on the ground in the distance. The lightning dissipated, revealing Enel's form.
Blood trickled from the corner of Enel's mouth, his robes were considerably damaged, and he looked somewhat disheveled. He abruptly looked up, his face savage, wiping the blood from his lips with one hand, the killing intent in his eyes even stronger.
"Physical attacks still have limited effectiveness against Logia users," Kizaru said, his expression grim.
"A Marine Admiral still can't be underestimated," Enel thought, looking up abruptly, his face savage, wiping the blood from his lips with one hand, the killing intent in his eyes even stronger.
The lightning around his body grew increasingly intense, the azure hue deepening, the very air whining around him.
"Brother Sam should be on the ship by now. In that case, let's go all out and truly feel the gap between myself and a Marine Admiral!"
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