Lafitte frowned slightly and chose to retreat under Ace's power.
He didn't have any large-scale attacks, and Ace's fire could cause damage to him, so he didn't really want to fight Ace in close combat.
But in long-range combat, the natural ability of Burning Fruit will undoubtedly have the upper hand.
"sharp… "
The many Ace crew members who were watching not far away looked at Ross's great power, and their eyes showed excitement.
"The Yonko Pirates seem to be nothing special."
"Yes, the captain who has made countless people afraid of him is also hiding in embarrassment in front of Boss Ace."
Since I had met the red-haired one before with Ace and had a banquet with the red-haired pirates, everyone had almost no fear of the Yonko.
Now, seeing Ace showing off his might and forcing Lafitte to dodge, everyone smiled.
However.
Lafitte kept dodging Ace's attacks, but his eyes looked calm.
He just didn't want to fight Ace. It wasn't that he was helpless or that he was at a disadvantage.
Whoosh!
Seizing the slightest opportunity, Lafitte approached Ace and punched out. The fist instantly became filled with armed domineering energy and became dark and hardened.
Ace was not afraid and swung a fire fist towards Lafitte.
boom!
Fiery flames exploded in the field.
Lafitte quickly backed away from the flames, not wanting his clothes to be burned by the flames.
Ace kept pumping his fist, and the flames filled the sky violently. After he let out a low drink, he continued to sweep towards Lafitte.
Armed color domineering is also divided into strong and weak.
Lafitte's armed domineering power is not strong, he is better at seeing and hearing, which pales in comparison to those with natural devil fruit abilities, and those with the Burning Fruit.
"Is it just a matter of exerting physical strength?"
Lafitte avoided Ace's flames and continued to climb back, shaking his head slightly in his heart.
Since his weapon-colored attack is weaker than Ace's fire fist in terms of attack, he can only rely on his knowledge-colored domineering power to find opportunities, or use up his physical strength.
However, the physical strength of those with natural Devil Fruit abilities is very abnormal, or in other words, when they use their abilities, their physical consumption is very low, far lower than those with superhuman abilities.
However.
After Ace forced Lafitte back, he did not continue the attack. Instead, he looked at Lafitte from a distance.
"What, aren't you planning to take action?"
He raised his head, with flames still burning on his arms, and said: "If you think you can't win against me, you'd better shout out your boss as soon as possible."
When Lafitte heard this, his face darkened, revealing a heart-stopping and gloomy expression.
It doesn't matter what other words he says. No matter how arrogant he is, he can act like a kid and act like a fool, but he can't pretend he didn't hear what he said about asking Ross to come out.
Can't deal with Fire Fist, call Ross out
joke!
What do you think he is
"I can't pretend that I didn't hear what you just said."
Lafitte had an expression on his face that couldn't be described as ferocious, but was evil and heart-stopping.
However.
Just when he was about to take action, he suddenly noticed something and turned to look at the sky behind him.
I saw a black shadow, breaking through the sky from the distant sky at an extremely fast speed, falling towards the island like a meteor.
at the same time.
Ace also noticed the appearance of the black shadow, and looked up at the sky, with a strange color flashing in his eyes.
"what is that?"
Many crew members behind him also subconsciously looked at the sky and saw the falling black figure.
One second... two seconds... three seconds...
The black shadow was getting closer and closer, and when it was about to reach the sky above the town, it disappeared strangely, like a black flash.
"Gone?"
Ace couldn't help but frown as he watched the black shadow disappear from his sight extremely suddenly.
Many other crew members also showed incomprehensible expressions. You looked at me, I looked at you, but you couldn't see how the black shadow suddenly disappeared.
And when they strangely retracted their gazes and looked in Lafitte's direction again, their gazes all froze.
I saw.
Beside Lafitte, a figure appeared at some point.
"I didn't notice it at all..."
Ace looked at that figure, his eyes showing a hint of solemn vigilance.
He didn't realize how the black shadow appeared at all!
When everyone's breathing paused slightly and their expressions changed, Lafitte restrained his previous evil expression and saluted respectfully towards the visitor.
"Lord Ross."
"I didn't expect you to come here in person."
Rhodes!
No need for too many words, just this one word, all of Ace's crew members breathed a sigh of relief.
The strongest man in the world, captain of the Ghost Hand Pirates...Ghost Hand Ross!
Although they had all seen Rhodes' bounty order, no one expected that the body of this man, who was known as the most dangerous being in the world, looked no different from that of an ordinary person.
This made them think of red hair.
While having a banquet with the red-haired crew members, they all wondered, is this guy really the Yonko who rules the new world? !
Wearing clogs and underpants, with a shaggy beard and an unbuttoned shirt, he has no image at all.
If compared with the red hair, it seems that he still looks like Ross, a little more domineering.
"Are you... Ghost Hand?"
Looking at Ross' figure, Ace spoke, with a smile on his face.
Ever since he set sail, he had never encountered a defeat along the way. The first half of the Grand Route was almost overwhelming.
The World Government tried to use the position of Shichibukai to recruit him, but he refused directly and didn't care at all.
After visiting the redhead, he had only one goal.
Defeat the strongest person in this sea!
And now.
He finally came to Ross, or Ross appeared in front of him!
"That's right."
"Don't you want to see me? I'm here."
Ross turned around and faced Ace. His eyes briefly looked at him, and it was no different from what he remembered.
Ace took a breath, with surging fighting spirit in his eyes, and said:
"The strongest... let's compete!"
"Boss Ace..."
Seeing Ace directly challenging Ross, many of his crew members swallowed their saliva. Although Ross looked no different from ordinary people, his reputation was there!
However, they followed Ace all the way and never saw him lose to anyone. The senior leader of the Ghost Hand Pirates, Captain Lafitte, was completely suppressed by Ace just now.
Maybe…
Ace can defeat Ross!
As newcomers who have just entered the new world, they have not yet truly experienced the power of the new world.
In their eyes, as long as they beat Rhodes, they will aspire to the pinnacle of this ocean.
Although this is indeed the case, they have only seen the tip of the iceberg of the real Yonko, the real new world.
"It's too early to compete with me."
Ross put his hands behind his back, looked at Ace, and said calmly: "You are too anxious."
For most pirates, they may grow quickly in the first half, but their journey in the new world is extremely slow.
The more the strength increases, the harder it becomes. It may only take a few years to reach the level of rear admiral, but it may take more than ten years to reach the level of lieutenant general. If you want to have the strength of a general, you may not be able to reach it in your lifetime.
Even though he had extremely high talent and tried his best to practice, it took him six years to climb to the position of Yonko.
Where's Ace
Plan to come up in a year
"Do you call moving towards a goal 'anxious'?"
Ace let out a hey, he didn't feel like a junior facing a senior, he just had the same mentality as Luffy.
Ross raised his head, glanced at the crew members behind Ace, and said casually: "Do you think they and you alone can bear the title of Four Emperors?"
The crew members who were glanced at by Ross felt their hearts palpitation inexplicably, and cold sweat broke out on their foreheads.
“…”
Ace noticed that his crew members were suppressed by Ross's aura, and his expression gradually darkened.
"No one is born a Yonko, and these are not important. As long as I can win against you, that's enough!"
As the words fell, the flames on his body suddenly rose up and turned into a burning man.
"Leave it to me, Lord Ross."
Lafitte stepped forward.
Ross stretched out his hand to stop him, shook his head and said, "Stay back."
"yes."
Since Rhodes wanted to take action himself, Lafitte naturally had no hard reason and responded and stepped aside.