Ace took a deep look at Maud, who was holding a sword and gun.
Some things that are not visible normally can be seen clearly after a head-on battle.
In the two rounds just now, Ace could not feel the slightest killing intent.
Some are just pure fighting spirit.
This made him understand something.
Just like him, he kept looking for opponents in order to become stronger as soon as possible.
"Haha, I haven't been this excited for a long time."
Ace raised his fingers to raise the brim of his hat, feeling the blood boiling all over his body.
So, which one is strong and which one is weak
"boom!"
Just as Ace's laughter died away, Maud took the lead, raised his gun and fired.
The lead bullet wrapped in military colors came to Ace in the blink of an eye.
"Armed color..."
Ace did not make a dodge move, but elementalized in advance to create a hole in his body that the lead bullet could pass through.
The armed lead bullet passed through the hole that Ace had made on his body.
At the same time, Maude followed the lead bullet and suddenly appeared behind Ace.
Qiu Shui's sword slashed out horizontally.
As the dark blade flashed away, Ace's head rose into the sky and immediately turned into a ball of flame.
This sword did not hit the mark.
Maude had already anticipated this, and she drew the sword with her backhand towards the shadow behind Ace.
This is Mod's real purpose after getting close!
Chapter 240: He was shot while lying down
Among the many properties of shadow fruits,
Whether it's the control of [Shadow Stepping] or the one-hit kill of [Shadow Cutting],
They are all quite powerful abilities in close combat.
Moder slashed the shadow under Ace with his backhand, intending to kill the shadow.
Unlike shadow-trampling, which has to be stronger than the opponent to produce a control effect, if it is shadow-slashing, it can be accomplished with the help of sharp weapons.
only,
Cutting shadows requires a prerequisite.
That is the shadow of the target reflected on the ground, which must have a clear outline.
Under this premise, if the shadow slayer is successful, the battle can end in an instant.
The sword flashed past.
The tip of Qiu Shui's knife successfully touched Ace's shadow.
However,
Before Qiu Shui could further cut the shadow, Ace seemed to be aware of it and turned his whole body into elements in advance.
In an instant, Ace's body turned into a ball of blazing flames.
As Ace's entire body became elemental, the shadow that was originally the [actual target] no longer existed.
Morde's Shadow Cut failed immediately.
And the raging flames after Ace's elementalization flowed directly towards Mod, who was close at hand.
At this moment, it was the time for Mod to slash towards the ground with his sword, making it difficult to put the sword away in defense immediately.
But Maud also has ferrets.
In this flash of lightning, there was no need for Maud to give orders.
Bailey, who had independent thoughts, responded to Maude's thoughts in advance as if telepathically, and changed from the flintlock form to the long knife form.
Armed color!
The domineering energy came out of the body and attached to the blade of the ferret, instantly dyeing the snow-white jade blade of the ferret into pitch black.
"As long as my 'attack speed' is faster than yours, elementalization is meaningless."
Mod's eyes glowed red, and she sensed the location of Ace's body from the flames.
Immediately, a knife struck the raging flames coming towards him.
laugh!
Cut it down with one knife.
The sword energy pulled out split the flames with fangs and claws in two.
As the flames were blown away by the sword energy, the remaining power passed through the weak flames and cut a deep trench straight forward in the sand.
There was still a slight burning sensation on Maud's skin, but the flames in front of her eyes had almost dissipated.
only,
The knife still didn't hurt Ace.
Although Mod was able to gain insight into Ace's specific location through his sight color, Ace's sight color was not weak either.
Before the crisis approached, Ace responded in advance, preferring to slow down the offensive rather than give Mod a chance to hit it with a single blow.
"It's really dangerous."
The spilled flames gathered high in the sky and quickly condensed into Ace's figure.
Being high in the sky, Ace's eyes were slightly solemn.
The close combat just now made him feel the pressure he had not seen for a long time.
Especially when Mod used teleportation to rush behind him, a strong sense of crisis arose spontaneously.
It had been a long time... since he had felt such a clear sense of oppression.
This man down there is very extraordinary!
With his mind settled, Ace's arms stretched out to both sides turned into flames, like a pair of flapping fire wings.
Immediately, Ace twisted his waist and his whole body spun in the air at high speed.
As it rotated, the flame suddenly turned into a spiral fire pillar several meters in diameter.
"Fire Ring, Fire Pillar!"
Ace stopped spinning and pushed the condensed spiral fire pillar towards Mod on the ground.
The scorching pillar of fire crashed down.
"Your 'fire' is indeed powerful, but it is... useless in front of my overlord."
Maud looked up at the Flame Ring fire pillar falling from the sky. With a slash, there was a soaring hegemonic force with well-controlled power.
The sagittal shock wave visible to the naked eye, from bottom to top, easily broke through the Yanjie Fire Pillar.
It's like blowing out a candle.
If you blow it in one breath, there is no reason why the candle will not go out.
After dispersing the Flame Ring Fire Pillar, Overlord still had some strength left and rushed straight towards Ace.
Ace obviously realized that a large-scale fire attack would not make any waves in front of Mod's hegemony, and he couldn't help but frown.
This is tantamount to blocking the advantage of being a natural system.
Seeing the aftermath of Hegemony coming head-on, Ace didn't have time to think too much and turned into elements all over his body to avoid the damage caused by Hegemony.
After regaining his body shape, Ace's frown slowly relaxed and he calmly looked down at Maud below.
"My flames can't really hurt you, but your dominance can't hurt me either."
"That's the truth."
Suddenly, Maud's sympathetic voice came from behind Ace.
However, the position where Maud was originally located in his sight turned into a dark bird flapping its wings and stagnating in the low altitude.
"when… "
Ace was suddenly startled, and mobilized his abilities like a conditioned reflex, spraying out a stream of high-temperature flames from his back, rushing toward Mod who was coming around behind him.
However,
The moment before the flames engulfed Maud.
Mord once again switched places with Shadowbird.
The shadow bird that was moved to high altitude was instantly swallowed up by the flames.
As long as Ace cannot cover the flames with weapon colors, it will be impossible to feed damage back to Mod's body by attacking the shadow.
After releasing the flames, Ace's lithe body suddenly turned around, but he didn't know that Mod had already exchanged places with Shadow Bird.
Maud, who returned to the ground, raised the flintlock transformed by Bailey, pointed it at Ace's back and pulled the trigger.
boom!
The lead bullets wrapped in military colors passed through the smoke and went straight to the tattoo of the Whitebeard Pirates flag on Ace's back.
"Did you switch places with Shadow again..."
The moment he heard the gunshot, Ace's heart skipped a beat.
The speed of Mod's shadow body switching places was so fast that it was no different from teleporting.
In order to resist the gunshots coming from behind, Ace could only make his body, which had become light and semi-elemental, become fully elemental again.
Suddenly, Ace's body turned into a ball of blazing flames, hanging high in the sky like flaming clouds.
The armed lead bullet thus passed through the flames and disappeared without any effect.
Seeing Ace once again using the elemental nature of nature to avoid damage, Moder didn't care and did not exchange places with Shadow anymore. Instead, he kept pulling the trigger to attract Ace's attention.
The sound of gunshots suddenly continued.
Lead bullets were shot into the air, punching holes in Ace's elemental flames.
If a firearm is used for cover, it doesn't matter whether it causes substantial damage.
Just disrupting the enemy's rhythm is enough.
The lead bullets fired continuously continued to destroy the flames.
It was just an ordinary lead bullet, and the elementalized Ace didn't take it seriously at first.
But when he saw a lead bullet wrapped with armed domineering aura in the hail of bullets, his whole person was in a bad mood.
"It's too gloomy..."
Ace was wary of armed attacks interspersed with bullets.
only,
Ever since the fight, he has been suppressed by Mod.
This made him quite depressed.
The main reason is that Mod's hegemony overpowers the destructive power of his Burning Fruit.
Maud looked up and watched Ace fall slowly from the sky while avoiding the sharp edge.
"it's time… "
A glint flashed across Maud's eyes.
The lead bullet fired from the barrel of the gun quietly turned into a shadow bullet, and the bullet speed increased more than three times in an instant.
Ace was keenly aware of the change in bullet speed and frequency, but still had no defensive pressure.