Chapter 152: Ace VS Magellan
"Do you think I don't exist?" Just as Crocodile and the others rushed to the entrance of the third level, Magellan spoke in a deep voice. He raised his arm, aiming his palm at the passage to the third level, intending to release poison and seal the entrance.
"Enkai: Hibashira (Flame Commandment: Flame Pillar)!"
Just when Magellan was about to release poison to block the entrance, a torrent of searing flame roared from his side, cutting him off and sealing him away from the third-level staircase.
Magellan turned, looking at Ace with murderous intent in his eyes. "You brat!"
"I told you," Ace replied, smiling, "your opponent is me, Magellan."
"Be my opponent? That's fine." Magellan stepped forward slowly through the heat. "Portgas D. Ace. The World Government was willing to start a war with Whitebeard just to execute you. I never expected you to walk into Impel Down on your own."
"Yeah, well, I came here looking for someone," Ace said, tipping his hat, "but he was already taken to Marineford. So now I've got to get out of here. If you'd just step aside, I'd be grateful."
"Stop joking." Magellan's body began to pulse with a sickening heartbeat-like rhythm. "My orders are to execute you here."
"Execute me? That's too bad." Flames surged around Ace's body as he took a fighting stance. "'Cause I'm not planning to die."
"Hydra!" Magellan unleashed his signature move, conjuring three venomous dragons from his body that rushed toward Ace.
"Hiken! (Fire Fist!)"
Ace punched forward, sending a massive fireball to clash with the poisonous hydra.
The flames collided with the hydra mid-air, vaporizing it into steam from the intense heat.
"Chō Dokudoku no Kugun (Venom Demon: Hell's Judgment)!"
Magellan leapt into the air and spewed a massive toxic sphere at Ace.
"Hiken!" Ace's arm ignited and extended as a giant flaming fist, obliterating the venomous sphere and pushing forward toward Magellan.
Magellan summoned more venom from his body and used his technique:
"Doku Kōro (Poison Road)!"
He dove into the venom stream and glided rapidly, reappearing beside Ace in an instant. He threw a bandaged fist down at Ace's head.
Ace dodged just in time as Magellan's fist smashed into the ground, releasing corrosive poison that ate into the prison floor.
"One hit from that, and I'm done for," Ace thought as he backed away, wary.
Raising both hands, Magellan released an overwhelming wave of purple poison:
"Dokumizu no Taki (Poison Waterfall)!"
Venom poured from above like a deadly flood, leaving Ace no room to escape.
"Hidaruma! (Fire Pillar!)"
Ace spun his arms and unleashed a column of fire to isolate himself from the incoming venom.
"Enjōha! (Flame Wave!)"
The fire pillar exploded outward, sending waves of flame that evaporated all the venom, sweeping directly into Magellan.
"This place and my flames... a perfect match," Ace muttered.
"Not necessarily," Magellan said, walking through the fire unscathed, steam hissing from his body. "My poison is being vaporized... into poisonous gas."
Ace's eyes widened. "Damn—!"
He held his breath too late. His chest tightened, vision blurred.
"Cough—!" Ace stumbled back, head spinning.
"The gas isn't lethal, but it dulls your senses. You're done, Portgas D. Ace."
"Not necessarily!" Ace suddenly raised his head. His pupils glinted white as he smiled, bracing his right wrist with his left hand.
"Your biggest mistake, Magellan, was not using lethal poison!"
Ace released a surge of concentrated Busoshoku Haki:
"Busō - Kūjin no Ichigeki! (Armament - Sky God's Strike!)"
BOOM!
The Haki blast hit Magellan square in the chest, launching him backward and crashing him into the wall.
Magellan dropped to one knee, coughing blood, clearly wounded.
"Why didn't my poison work on you?!" he shouted.
"It did—but before it could spread, I purified it with extreme heat," Ace replied.
"That's impossible! My poison can't be burned away so easily."
Ace's flames turned a bright white, and the temperature spiked dramatically. The air warped around him.
"You can't imagine how hot my flames can get."
Ace had completely elementalized his body, raising the internal temperature to over 10,000 degrees—burning the toxins out.
Seeing the white flames and the heat distorting the air, Magellan's face grew grim.
"So you purified it with purgatory flames? Then... I'll show you a poison that can't be purified."
From Magellan's chest, a new venom began forming, its color shifting from dark purple to crimson red—his most dangerous form.
To be continued...
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