Chapter 614

"Kid, keep your eyes wide open."

"The reason I, Crocodile, have achieved my current illustrious reputation is not through deceit or trickery, but through my own bare fists!"

Crocodile was furious.

At this moment,

Seeing Crocodile nearly lose his temper in rage, Lu En peculiarly rubbed his chin.

He scrutinized every move Crocodile made with an odd gaze.

After a long while,

He finally spoke.

"Soft target?"

"Aren't you one?"

The moment Lu En's voice fell,

Instantly,

Crocodile's fury blazed.

You really think I'm a soft target?!

Damn brat!

"Come then."

"Let me see."

"Just how strong you, Sand Crocodile, really are…"

"See if you're worthy of the Marines' assessment of you."

Lu En waved his hand.

In an instant,

He slightly twisted his arm, mentally bracing himself to face Crocodile.

The atmosphere grew oppressive!

A killing aura arose spontaneously.

A gentle breeze brushed by.

The hot breeze, baked by the sun, stirred the fine sand and gravel on the ground.

Sand filled the sky,

Dancing gracefully.

"Kid…"

"You'll regret this!"

Crocodile's face was expressionless, but inside, a fire of rage burned fiercely.

In an instant,

Countless grains of sand fell from his body.

Clearly,

From the very start, he had activated his elementization.

The most insurmountable technique of the Logia Devil Fruit!

In the first half of the Grand Line, a Logia user's elementization meant invincibility.

Against those who lacked Armament Haki and did not possess Seastone weapons, a Logia's elementization was essentially uncounterable, with no known solution.

Unfortunately,

At this very moment, Crocodile was facing Lu En!

"Elementization?"

Lu En regarded Crocodile with keen interest; after seeing him activate elementization, his eyelid twitched and his expression grew even stranger.

Activate elementization in front of me?

Isn't that a bit too thoughtless?

Do you really think I'm some greenhorn fresh out of the gate?

Surely Crocodile isn't this stupid?

"Facing newcomers just entering the Grand Line, activating elementization isn't a big problem."

"After all,"

"To them, your elementization means an unbeatable presence."

"But the problem is…"

"You're still activating elementization in front of me? Are you underestimating me, Crocodile?"

Lu En's eyes narrowed slightly.

Upon hearing this,

Crocodile's face remained expressionless.

He dared not underestimate Lu En.

After all,

The name "Demon Fist Lu En" had already echoed throughout these seas.

Underestimate Lu En?

The ever-cautious Crocodile would never make such a mistake.

"Desert Blade!"

Crocodile said nothing more and immediately activated his Devil Fruit ability.

It was only seen that,

His right hand transformed into a torrent of sand.

Countless fine grains slowly slid from his arm.

His entire right arm became a limb of sand and stone, and under his control, it extended and spread, gradually forming a giant desert blade.

It slashed down fiercely toward Lu En's position.

The massively enlarged sand blade slashed down abruptly.

Shhh!

Accompanied by a piercing sound of air being torn apart.

This strike, Crocodile clearly showed no mercy.

Against a monster like Fist Demon Lu En, he had no luxury of holding back.

From the first move, he went all out.

At this moment,

Facing Crocodile's attack, Lu En remained as calm and composed as ever, serene and unruffled.

"Haki: Kenbunshoku, activate!"

In an instant, he activated Kenbunshoku Haki.

Hum!

Hum!

An invisible, intangible current of air rapidly spread outward from his body in all directions.

Sweeping across a radius of over a thousand meters.

Within a kilometer,

Every whisper and movement of all things could not escape his perception.

Even,

Every motion of every object was slowed down by billions of times and displayed clearly in his mind.

Including Crocodile's attack at this very moment.

Every tiny trace of its trajectory was rendered with perfect clarity in Lu En's consciousness.

Precisely captured and perceived by him.