"Rubber rubber... Well, if there is an afterlife, I want to be a seashell."
One second, Luffy was grinning and waving his arms, but the next second, he was enveloped in a haze, so negative that his whole body became limp.
But it was Perona who summoned a negative ghost, causing Luffy, who was about to attack Mod with all his firepower, to instantly turn off his flames.
"Perona."
Maud glanced at Perona.
"Know it."
Without Mod's instructions, Perona took the initiative to float backwards, as far away from the battle circle as possible.
Maude watched Perona float to the side of the Straw Hats, then quickly dodged a few times and came to a sand dune, looking down at Ace who was burning all over.
Luffy was still in Mordette's hands, but was made unable to resist by the Negative Ghost.
Looking at it this way, it looks a bit like Mod taking Luffy hostage.
However, Ace had no scruples at all, and his right arm instantly turned into high-temperature flames.
"fire punch!"
Ace punched Maud in the air, and a prairie fire was born out of thin air from his fist, which flew straight towards Maud.
If Mod can't even block a fire fist move...
That can only mean that it is in vain.
But Ace naturally preferred that Moder could easily block this fire fist move.
Mod calmly looked at the punches coming from the sky, slightly bent his elbows, and made the same gesture of punching.
The difference is that Ace's arm is filled with red high-temperature flames, while Mod's arm is filled with dark shadow waves.
"Fist of Shadow."
Maud punched.
The shadow wave surging on the arm immediately left the body along the fist, and instantly turned into a flame, facing Ace's fire fist.
After absorbing Pika's Devil Fruit experience, Mod became more comfortable and smooth in controlling the changes in shadow form.
The replica of the shadow fire fist move is not to mention, and it has a sense of deja vu as the superhuman type has been transformed into the natural type.
In itself, one of the most powerful characteristics of the shadow fruit is the free change in form.
It's just that Mod's fruit ability has not yet awakened, so there is a limit to the [volume] that can expand the shadow.
However, it is more than enough to reproduce the Fire Fist.
"This is… "
Looking at the Shadow Fist shot by Mod, Ace frowned, quite surprised.
One black and one red "fist fire" met in mid-air, and then collided into a ball.
"boom!"
The shadow and the flame were entangled together, refusing to give in to each other, and thus squeezed into a huge tornado, which rolled up a large amount of sand as it rotated violently.
"interesting."
Ace's brows relaxed and he looked at the calm-looking Maud on the dune with interest.
Outside the battle circle.
The Straw Hats stared blankly at the mighty black and red tornado.
What kind of monsters are these
In terms of strength, they were already severely beaten, and now they were almost depressed.
"Strong men like Maud and Ace must be in the minority in the Great Channel. Yes, they must be in the minority!"
The Straw Hats could only comfort themselves like this.
Perona looked at Maud standing on the sand dune and said to herself: "Even though she is so strong, there are at least a hundred people who always say that the 'New World' is better than her. She must be being modest, Maud."
Her words reached the ears of the Straw Hats.
It was like the last straw that crushed the Straw Hats.
No need for zero points, they are already depressed.
Chapter 239: Crushing Power
The tornado formed by the entanglement of shadow fist and fire fist eventually scattered into flying fragments.
The sand that was swept into the sky fell down, turning the flames into white smoke.
However, Maude's shadow regrouped into a group in the sand rain, condensing into a shadow clone with the same outline as the main body.
This "fist fire" attack can be regarded as a head-on test between each other.
In terms of results, it can be said that they are comparable.
But in terms of the process, Mod took it too easy.
At least, that's what Ace thinks.
After all, the fact that gatekeeping moves are copied so easily is a disguised way of saying: Your moves are not very good.
"Can the shadow fruit still be used like this... It's really interesting."
Thanks to the reputation of the Shichibukai, the last shadow fruit user Moonlight Moria, Ace's understanding of shadow fruits is not deep, but he is not completely ignorant.
But it was with Moonlight Moria as a comparison that Ace found Morde's method of using the shadow fruit ability to be very novel and interesting.
"The fire fist is not very effective, so what about this move..."
There was a smile on Ace's lips, his knees bent down, and his arms crossed in front of him.
Under the feet, the flames formed circles of vortexes and expanded outward.
One meter, two meters, three meters, four meters...
After the diameter of the flame vortex exceeded ten meters, it suddenly rose from the ground.
Ace raised his right hand, and the palm of his hand seemed to have gravity, attracting all the flames rising from the ground to his palm, and instantly gathered into a huge fireball with a diameter of more than ten meters.
"Great Flame Ring, Emperor Yan!"
The huge fireball emitting high temperature was thrown forcefully towards Mod on the hill by Ace.
The firelight carried the heat wave and hit Maud's face first, making his face turn red.
"This is the charm of the natural system..."
Looking at the huge roaring fireball, Maud refused to retreat or advance.
The image of a green pheasant frozen for hundreds of miles flashed in my mind, but I felt a little emotional.
I don't know if the shadow fruit can have such a mighty power after awakening like the natural system.
When the Great Flame Ring and the Emperor Yan were about to overthrow him,
Maude put away her emotion.
Between the lightning and flint,
Draw your sword and chop it out.
The seemingly simple and unpretentious sword suddenly brought out a cylindrical shock wave that was no less powerful than Emperor Yan.
Overlord!
The dazzling light swallowed up all the firelight reflected along the way.
In the face of this seemingly invincible impact, Emperor Yan's fireball had no resistance and was instantly crushed into a wave of flames.
Surrounded by the shock wave, the wave of flames rushed back towards Ace.
“…”
Ace's pupils shrank when he saw this, and he looked at the wave of flames coming back in surprise.
The real power lies not in the surging prairie fire, but in the shock wave contained within it.
In an instant, Ace's body was swept in by a fire shock wave.
After devouring Ace, the flame shock wave continued to gain momentum, carving out a huge trench in the sand and going straight into the distance.
After the remaining power dissipated, there were many clusters of rootless flames burning quietly in the ditch, but Ace was nowhere to be seen.
"Dead, dead...?"
The Straw Hats stared blankly at the horrific traces left behind after the collision between Overlord and Emperor Yan, and felt an inexplicable chill in their hearts.
The man standing on the sand dune was thought to be a friend rather than an enemy.
Now it seems…
The threat he poses is far greater than the previous rock giant!
"Ace!"
The negative effects of the negative ghost were weakening. Luffy's eyes were splitting as he watched Ace being annihilated into nothingness by the Overlord.
"Damn it, you actually gave Ace to..."
"Hey, Luffy, I won't be killed so easily."
Just when Luffy was so angry that he wanted to beat Mod to death, Ace's voice came from the huge ditch.
The rootless fire burning everywhere in the ditch seemed to be lifted up by a pair of invisible hands, brought together, and slowly kneaded into a human shape, revealing Ace's appearance.
"Ace!"
Seeing Ace safe and sound, Luffy, who was furious a second ago, was now crying with joy.
He really thought Ace was dead just now.
Just thinking about it makes my heart beat as if it's about to stop.
Mod looked at Ace, who had no injuries at all, and wasn't too surprised.
A move such as Overlord, which is separated from the body and released outside the body, even if it is astonishingly powerful when used against an enemy with natural abilities, as long as the opponent can react and elementalize the body in time...
So, basically no harm is done.
Furthermore, if Ace can be eliminated with one move of Overlord, Ace's identity as the captain of the second team of the Whitebeard Pirates will be in vain.
"As expected of the Whitebeard Pirates."
Mod teased casually, and threw Luffy, who was in a great mood, to where Zoro and others were in the distance.
When he tied Luffy with shadow chains just now, Mod said that he wanted to take Luffy to the Navy headquarters, which was actually not entirely a joke.
Before that, he had really considered sending Luffy to the execution stand.
In that case, not only can Luffy's background forces be driven to participate in the turbulent wave of the transition between the old and new eras, but it can also easily disturb Garp's mood.
Maybe we can create an opportunity... to kill the naval hero.
If he decided to do this, there would be no need for Sabo to regain his memory.
But before that, Mod had already started a plan to restore Sabo's memory.
Coupled with the relationship between Luffy, Shanks and Usopp, it is enough to kill Mod's idea.
As for Ace, with Blackbeard as the leader, how could Maud put himself in a position to be shot.
The reason why he started a fight with Ace now was simply because he didn't want to miss the opportunity to fight against a strong man.
"The temptation ends here."
After throwing Luffy away, Mod's free left hand held the flintlock gun transformed from the ferret.
Holding a knife in one hand and a gun in the other.
This is the posture that can maximize the abilities and characteristics of the Shadow Fruit.
"That was a test just now???"
After hearing Mod's words, Sauron and his group trembled.
Recalling the scene after the collision between Ba Guo and Yan Emperor suddenly deepened their depression.