Dad's body is indeed still in Maud's possession...
As long as you confirm this, it is enough. There is no need to show off your words.
Uh-huh!
Ace's limbs, which were clinging to the ground, instantly turned into blazing flames and pounced on Maud, who was close at hand.
“…”
When Maude saw this, a chill quickly appeared in her eyes, but it froze in an instant.
The tip of the autumn water knife hanging on Ace's face was slowed down and could not be cut off first.
The raging flames like raging waves bombarded Mod, knocking Mod back several meters away.
Clusters of flames clung to his body like tarsal maggots.
call!
Maude waved the autumn water towards her side, and the energy generated caused all the flames attached to her body to be directed to one side, and fell to the ground to form a long and narrow flame channel.
The flames just now did not cause any harm to Mod.
"Your fire... is too weak."
Maud's tone was calm, as if she was telling a convincing fact.
Before joining the team, he had fought against Ace once in Alabasta, and he could still feel some pressure at that time.
Now, let alone the pressure, I feel like I can defeat Ace even without the power of the Shadow Fruit.
After forcing Maude back, Ace quickly stood up and raised his hand to wipe the blood on his mouth. Flames were burning everywhere on his body, but the eyes he looked at Maude were as cold as winter.
Faced with Mod's comments, Ace did not refute loudly, but silently increased his firepower.
Suddenly, the flames ignited from everywhere on his body suddenly became more intense, forming a wall of fire behind him that exuded high temperature.
Mod just watched Ace build momentum quietly and did not continue to attack.
With Sabo's friendship, he couldn't kill Ace.
That's why he hesitated when he dropped the knife just now, and Ace was able to break free from the suppression.
otherwise…
When Ace rises up to resist, Qiu Shui will strike first on Ace's body.
In that situation, not only killing Ace with one blow, but also seriously injuring Ace was out of the question.
"Ace, are you okay?"
At this time, Marco and Bista returned to their positions almost at the same time and came to Ace's side.
Ace nodded to them, indicating that he was fine.
Marco and Bista breathed a sigh of relief when they saw this, and then looked at Mod with fear in their eyes.
Click click click—
There was a distinct sound of ice condensing behind Maud, but Qing Pheasant walked step by step. When he landed, the cold air condensed ice on the ground and spread to all sides.
"Captain, let me do it."
Aokiji still put his hands in his pockets and looked at Ace, Marco, and Bista calmly.
After several rounds of fighting, Ace and Bista were each injured. As for Marco, under the influence of Phoenix's ability, even if his body was injured, he could recover instantly.
Being injured in battle or whatever, it made no difference to Marco.
In this case, it is not difficult for Qing Pheasant to fight one against three.
However, now that the combat power is obviously abundant, there is no need to take on this battle alone.
The motivation that prompted him to do this was simply because he had just seen Maud holding back on Ace.
As for the reason…
As the first person to come into contact with Maude as an enemy, Aokiji naturally knew everything about him.
Now, as a crew member, he takes the initiative to relieve the captain's worries, which is naturally justified.
Maud glanced at Qing Pheasant and vaguely noticed something. His thoughts paused for a moment, and then he calmly said: "Go deal with Marco."
"Ah la la, okay."
Qingzhi scratched his hair, but did not insist. He simply responded to the captain's order.
After the brief conversation between Mod and Aoki, Marco instantly turned on his full body form, his whole body was wrapped in blue flames, and he fluttered his wings and flew into the sky.
"Pineapple gravel!"
Marco's green flame wings stretched out on both sides suddenly flapped down.
Accompanied by a whistling sound that ripped through the air, the green flames on the wings turned into clusters of gravel-like flames, pouring towards Maud and Qing Pheasant like a sudden rain.
Click click click—
Thin ice formed on Aoki's face, and he looked up at the sky, with clusters of green flames reflected in his eyes.
call out!
He ducked into the air, and within the extremely limited reaction time, he took the initiative to close the distance with Pineapple Pebbles.
"Frozen time capsule!"
Qing Pheasant raised his hands flat, and white cold air shock waves spurted out from his palms, striking together with Pineapple Shuo who was right in front of him.
Boom, chi chi!
Two energies with different properties entangled with each other, once again setting off air waves and steam.
And underneath.
Without even looking at the battle above her head, Maude took a step forward, and the moment her feet landed on the ground, her figure disappeared into thin air.
The next moment.
Maude ducked in front of Ace again.
The same speed, the same pressure!
"!!!"
The red light in Ace's eyes surged, and his body transformed into elements at an extremely fast speed, completely integrating into the wall of fire that had just been intertwined.
Such a move was intended to make Maud lose his goal.
Then, Zi controlled the surrounding flames and embraced Mod in front of him into the flames.
However…
Ace's knowledge is not weak, but Mod's knowledge is even better.
Maude pulled out the stoat flintlock with her left hand, turned the muzzle of the gun and pulled the trigger without even taking a look.
boom!
The armed lead bullets passed through the barrel of the gun and flew into the wall of fire in an instant.
The powerful penetrating power penetrated the blazing wall of fire into a hole as big as the mouth of a bowl.
At the edge of the hollow, a string of scattered blood beads could be vaguely seen, but they were evaporated by the flames in the blink of an eye.
This shot without any trace of confusion obviously hit Ace.
However, it did not make Ace lose his fighting ability.
Because, the wall of fire that hung in front of Maud like a curtain was controlled by Ace's thoughts and suddenly surged towards Maud.
Judging from the momentum, it seemed that he was planning to wrap Maud in the flames.
"The offensive method is too monotonous, and..."
The stoat flintlock in Maud's left hand turned into a snow-white long sword without a sheath after a flash of white light.
Then, Morde used both swords to slash the two overlords that were advancing in tandem with the rushing flames.
boom!
As the white light shone, the impact was like a rainbow penetrating the sun, destroying all the flames with overwhelming force, thus revealing the repulsed Ace.
"You just chose to retreat. In fact, you are aware of the absolute strength gap between us."
Maud looked up at Ace who was knocked into the air.
At this moment, a sharp sword light slashed from the side.
But it was Bista who swung his swords to attack Mod's right side.
Mod, who noticed Bista's offensive, looked sideways, raised his arms, and raised his autumn water to hold the two swords that were slashed from his side.
Clang!
The blades collided, sparks flying out.
The forces of each other collided together through the blades, and the air waves were generated, rolling up the surrounding fine ice ballast, spiraling and flying around, like a small snowstorm.
"one-hand… "
Bista's solemn gaze went straight through the Qiushui blade and landed on Maud's right hand holding the sword as steady as a mountain.
He, who was also a double-sword swordsman, suddenly realized the danger.
Or-
They are both dual-swordsmen, and when Mod used a single sword to hold his two swords firmly, in a sense, he had already lost.
But this is a fight to the death.
The outcome will be determined by life and death.
Immediately, Bista jerked back one of the swords.
The sword blade drew a burst of sparks along Qiu Shui's blade.
At the cost of being suppressed and taking two steps back, Bista successfully drew back one of the swords.
And at this moment, the stoat sword that Maud held in his left hand stabbed Bista's chest with lightning speed.
Unfortunately, Bista took precautions in advance with his rich combat experience.
Clang!
The sword blade that Bista took the risk to pull back blocked the long knife stabbed by Mod in time.
Although he blocked the sword, Bista's defense inevitably collapsed and he retreated.
Maude was unyielding and stepped forward, slashing out a burst of airtight and sharp sword light with the two swords in his hands, which enveloped Bista.
Clang, clang, clang...! ! !
Swords clashed, sparks flew.
Facing Mord's stormy offensive, Bista was retreating steadily, standing on the edge of a cliff, and might fall into a place of catastrophe at any time.
"Damn it!"
Bista struggled to resist Mord's attack.
However, due to the loss of the opportunity and the injury to his shoulder, Bista soon felt the difficulty and felt that he would be cut open by Mod at any time.
In just a few breaths, the swords of both sides clashed dozens of times.
And Bista almost stepped out of the cliff.
In this dangerous situation, Ace finally came to help.
As he ran over, Ace stretched his arms back and his hands turned into flames.
That action was quite similar to how Luffy used a rubber rocket launcher.
"Sacred fire, Shiranui!"
Ace threw his hands forward vigorously, and the flames in his hands gathered into a spear, shooting straight towards Maud's temples and waist.
Out of the corner of her eye, Maude glanced at the sharp muskets flying towards her.
With a slight movement of thought, the shadow originally covering the body suddenly detached part of the body and transformed into slender shadow pillars, facing the musket.