The smoke and dust have not yet cleared, and the sky is filled with fire crackling and burning. As the magma gradually cools, it leaves behind mottled and ugly traces, like blood crust after scarring from a wound. Although the changed terrain is only a few dozen kilometers around, this dead land will affect the ecological environment of the entire island in the future.
Maybe the gourmet capital will move the city further away, who knows
At least Ron didn't care about this issue.
In the past, with the support of Sengoku's love-to-die attitude, and later with the joint assassination effort by Gino and Sand Crocodile, no matter how much Ron did, Lapnis did not dare to complain. In this world, strength speaks for itself.
Except for power-obsessed aristocrats and corrupt officials, even a three-year-old child understands this.
so…
"Should I say, first meeting...or should I say...long time no see?"
After blowing out a smoke ring, Ron looked at the tall figure gradually condensing into a human shape in the distance, with a hint of playfulness on the corner of his mouth: "Mr. Crocodile!"
The person had a slicked back hair, a long scar running across his face, an earring in his right ear, and a scorpion hook on his left hand. He was wearing a black fur coat and an orange plaid long-sleeved shirt under the coat, which looked very Italian. The demeanor of a party leader.
"Oh? You know me?"
Crocodile stood on the edge of the ravine in the distance, with one hand in his pocket and a cigar biting in his mouth: "Rear Admiral of the Navy, Ron... right?"
Crocodile glanced around the empty plain and asked casually: "Where did you take my men? There are many of my people in the pirate alliance..."
Subordinates
United pirate army
Ron sneered and said: "Don't ask such unnutritious questions, Mr. Crocodile. Every breath of air we breathe now may have their body tissues."
"But I'm curious. After seeing my destructive power, you dare to show up. Aren't you afraid... that I'll beat you to death?!"
As soon as the words fell, Ron was filled with murderous intent, and a thunderbolt as thick as an arm shot out of his eyes and pierced Crocodile's chest.
Bang! !
Behind Crocodile, thunder landed and a mushroom cloud exploded.
However, even after being attacked like this, Crocodile's expression did not change at all. He could clearly see through his chest that the large hole in the back did not leak out any trace of blood. The crystallized sand fell to the ground, but soon there was a surge of yellow sand. The wound is sutured.
Later, Crocodile looked ugly and asked: "As a navy, you took the initiative to attack the King Shichibukai. Do you know what kind of crime this is?! Major General Ron!"
He really didn't expect Ron to take the initiative. If it weren't for the elemental protection of the Shasha Fruit, the thunderbolt just now would have been enough to kill him!
No one would doubt the destructive power of the Thunder Fruit, especially right now after seeing Qilin show its power and kill tens of thousands of people with one move!
Suddenly, Crocodile had a bad idea in his mind.
really!
Ron answered his doubts in the next second.
"Sin? Hahaha!!"
"If I kill you, maybe you will be promoted! Do you think it is... Mr. Crocodile, the president of Baroque Works!"
Ron wrapped lightning in his hand and approached him step by step.
"If you want others to be ignorant, you must do nothing yourself... Now, in the name of the Rear Admiral of the Navy Headquarters, I am accusing you of violating the legal right to plunder the Shichibu Sea, forming a Baroque Works Society to disrupt the order of the sea, bribing senior government officials, assassinating naval officers, and many other crimes. !”
"Please come with me, I will arrange a good place for you in Impel Down City, Crocodile!"
Damn it!
Sure enough he knew it!
How can it be? ! !
Crocodile's calm face was shaken, and his deep voice was full of murderous intent, saying: "Really?"
"Looks like I have to kill you to keep it secret!"
"Then it depends on your ability!"
After saying a few words without speculation, the two of them took action at the same time.
shave!
Ron was already thirty meters away from Crocodile. At this time, he started shaving and appeared in front of Crocodile almost instantly. He gathered thunder in his palm, extended three crackling thunder blade claws, and grabbed forward!
One hundred million volts of thunder tooth blades!
Desert sword!
Crocodile had been prepared for a long time. At this moment, he was not willing to be outdone and faced it head-on. The dry ground around him that had been bombarded by Kirin allowed him to easily mobilize enough yellow sand to condense a giant long knife tens of meters long, as if he was going to open up the world. Generally unstoppable, he slashed hard at Ron.
"The Shasha Fruit is indeed as weak as I thought. Compared with other natural fruits, this characteristic of being able to arbitrarily desertify the land and assimilate attacks is a bit shameless!"
In front of the desert sword, Ron's three thunder blade claws were like a rolling pin and an embroidery needle, there was no comparison at all. In the nature department, apart from other earth-type fruits that I have never seen before, the Shasha fruit can be said to be the most advantageous one.
As long as he sets foot on land, Crocodile can create maximum attack effect with minimum consumption!
After all, except for some special islands, you can't expect the environment to be filled with thunder, lightning, fire, lava, and ice, right? Only soil is infinite, and it is also the biggest support for Shasha’s fruits. This is similar to Ron's Kirin just now. They both use external force to strengthen the attack. However, the lethality of sand is in the sky and on the ground. The explosiveness is very different. At most, it can be regarded as a buff that continues to increase.
"And... the power is powerful, but the cohesion is not enough!"
laugh! laugh! laugh! !
Three subtle friction sounds were heard, and the dozens of meters long desert sword was torn apart by the inconspicuous thunder blade claws. For high-speed electromagnetic blades, there is only a difference between being able to cut and not being able to cut, and there is no stalemate. The desert sword is full of momentum, but its hardness is not beyond this upper limit.
Tsk...bang! !
The remaining desert swords fell to the ground, tearing deep ravines into the ground. At the same time, Ron stepped forward and flashed behind Crocodile, raising his blade to pierce him.
"So fast!!"
Crocodile's heart tightened, and he was shocked by Ron's speed.
The lightning man's speed is second to none in the world, second only to Kizaru's Shining Fruit. After thoroughly mastering the Haki of Insight, Ron's straight movement has been controlled by Ron, and he no longer has to slow down to determine his position like before.
Facing the incoming thunder blade, Crocodile didn't have time to think too much. He raised his hands and a curtain of sand hundreds of meters high rose from the ground.
Desert waterfall!
Danger!
Seeing and hearing Se Haki's rapid warning, Ron decisively gave up the attack and fell backward within 0.1 seconds, dodging the curtain attack by a hair's breadth. But because he was too close, the back of his hand still brushed against the curtain.
The two sides closed in as soon as they touched each other and stood dozens of meters apart. This distance is better than nothing for the two natural fruit ability users. Their attacks are always measured in units of hundreds of meters.
Rumble…! !
Tons of sand fell from the sky and quickly piled up into dunes. Crocodile stood on the sand dune, still holding a cigar in his mouth, tilting his head back slightly, looking at Ron arrogantly: "Aren't you asking why I dare to show up after seeing your destructive power? Because of your lightning injury If you don’t reach me, my sand transformation can kill you!”
On the back of Ron's hand, a piece of skin withered and cracked, revealing the pale bones underneath and muscle tissue that was half dry and yellow, and half oozing scarlet blood.
Unless the natural system has restrained attributes and has a superior-subordinate relationship, no matter how destructive it is, it will not be able to hurt the opponent at all. But Crocodile developed the sand-shaping ability by developing the sand-sha fruit to its half-awakening stage, which can directly absorb the water from the opponent's body regardless of the attribute relationship!
This is what allowed Crocodile to be recognized by the Navy as the King of the Shichibukai twenty years ago with only a bounty of 80 million!
In the first half of the Grand Line, his ability to transform into sand was almost invincible! !
Even when faced with other natural ability users, he can still be innately invincible! !
Until he met the rubber man Luffy, he just needed to replenish the water after being sucked dry...
"Is that true?"
The muscles on the back of the hand squirmed rapidly, and the granulation woven into new muscles and skin. Although the injury was not serious, Ron's face slowly became serious. He had speculated about this, but when this scene actually happened, he was still shocked by Crocodile's power!
Crocodile, one of the ten most unjust cases among pirates, was defeated. Luffy was really unlucky!
A rubber physique makes Enero's thunder and lightning helpless, Crocodile's sand transformation is no longer invincible, and the fists of countless powerful enemies are slowed down by the rubber, making him astonishingly durable.
As for Crocodile's underestimation of the enemy, it can only be attributed to the protagonist's aura. Facing him, Crocodile had no concept of underestimating the enemy.
…
Just as Ron was fighting Crocodile, behind the sand dunes in the distance, Gino was adjusting his condition and trying to breathe calmly. The blood vessels swelled and protruded, like countless small snakes swimming in the muscles. Jino's face turned red, enduring the unimaginable pain, and cursed secretly.
"Damn it! Such a terrifying attack didn't even cause him to lose much physical strength!"
One thing Crocodile didn't tell Ron was that after Ron used such a powerful attack, they all thought that Ron's physical strength was exhausted, so they wanted to take advantage of it.
But what they didn't know was that the thunder and lightning in the unicorn did not come from Ron himself, but the attack he launched by concentrating the electricity of nature through thunder clouds. Apart from the physical energy wasted by elementalization, there was no loss at all.
And for Ron, who pays attention to physical exercise, does elementalization deserve to be called consumption
So when they came to the battlefield, they both discovered this at the same time and knew that they were too naive. But the arrow was on the string and had to be fired, so Crocodile went out to deal with it head-on, hoping to use the identity of King Shichibukai to make Ron fearful and wait for an opportunity to attack.
Unexpectedly, Ron knew that he was the president of Baroque Works Club and launched an attack without saying a word.
If a sneak attack fails, you can only attack hard. When you meet on a narrow road, you will be the winner and the loser!
But a user with the thunder fruit ability in his prime is not that easy to kill. The lightning man's speed is almost unmatched. Ron wants to leave and neither of them can stop him, unless Gino uses his fruit ability to contain him.
However, although thunder and lightning cannot harm Crocodile, Jino does not have an elemental physique. If he dares to go to the frontal battlefield, Jino will not trust his armed domineering force at all.
So if he wants to kill Ron, he only has one minute!
That was his strongest minute. With this move, he even escaped from the hands of the world's top experts twice, let alone blocked the thunder bombing!
However, in order to use this move, he needs some time to accumulate strength.
"Isn't anyone here yet, Scanter? If we fail, I will be the first to kill you!!"
Gino cursed angrily and sped up his movements.