Chapter 628

With his bare flesh alone, he had taken on a natural disaster head-on.

Even the sandstorm he had created was forcibly blasted apart.

One could well imagine.

Just how terrifying this monster truly was!

Faced with such a monster, Crocodile naturally did not dare to be careless.

He was going to go all out!

Unleashing his strongest move.

Success or failure…

Hinged on this single strike!

"Super-Heavy Sandstorm!"

In a single thought, Crocodile struck decisively.

He spread open his right palm.

The inexhaustible, berserk power of the Devil Fruit within him surged wildly, gathering into his right arm, sweeping up the sand flying all around.

Gradually.

In the palm of his right hand, a miniature sandstorm took shape.

Whirling from his palm.

Frenziedly drawing in and sweeping up the surrounding grit.

Under Crocodile's control, the sandstorm in his right hand drew in more and more sand and stone, and the gathered power grew ever more terrifying.

He could feel it.

The power gathering in his right hand was slipping toward an out-of-control state.

In other words.

He was creating a super-giant sandstorm that even he could not control!

One could imagine.

A sandstorm that even he, a user of the Sand-Sand Fruit, could not manipulate — just what terrifying scale it must have reached.

It had to be on the level of world-ending devastation!

A true natural disaster fully capable of razing an entire kingdom to the ground!

Wiping out populations numbering in the millions would be absolutely no problem.

This — this is the might of a Logia user.

Move, and you can destroy the heavens and the earth.

A mere burst of power is enough to easily slaughter tens of thousands.

What the Logia users are most powerful at…

Is naturally wide-area attacks!

Every single user is equivalent to wielding a portion of a deity's authority, able to conjure all manner of natural disasters and produce world-shattering, terrifying might.

And Crocodile, who bears the Sand-Sand Fruit, can conjure the most terrifying natural disaster of all — a sandstorm!

A sandstorm in the desert…

A desert calamity certain to leave no one alive!

One strike, and it can wipe out an entire country in the desert!

Slaughtering millions of common folk within the kingdom.

Next,

One would be able to see.

Crocodile hurled the sandstorm condensed in his right hand, without the slightest hesitation, straight at where Lu En stood.

"Burst!"

Accompanied by a great shout.

The miniature sandstorm flew from Crocodile's palm, and in that instant expanded boundlessly, transforming into an incomparably terrifying super-large sandstorm that surged toward Lu En.

With the birth of the super-large sandstorm, countless grains of sand and rubble from the entire desert were all drawn in one after another, swelling the sandstorm's vortex and tearing force.

The terrifying air currents seemed to forcibly shred and crush even the spatial airflow itself.

Rumble rumble rumble!

Across a desert region spanning several thousand meters in every direction, faint tremors came one after another.

The entire desert was gently shaking.

Clearly.

This was the upheaval caused by this super-large sandstorm.

The whole stretch of desert was affected.

One could well imagine.

Just how terrifying this super-large sandstorm was!

Watching.

Countless grains of sand and stone flew into the sandstorm, ceaselessly swelling its vortex.

It was growing madly.

From an initial sweep of fifty meters in diameter, it slowly expanded to eighty meters, then kept growing to a hundred meters.

A sandstorm, in truth, is a terrifying calamity formed by a tornado whirling up sand and rubble.

Yet it is even more destructive than a disaster like a tornado!

Wherever this sandstorm passed...

Whether cities or kingdoms, all would suffer terribly devastating destruction.

Even—

They would meet with a miserable end of total annihilation.

Terrible currents of air swept up countless grains of sand and dust from the ground, drawing them toward the surrounding airflow of the sandstorm, circling and spiraling around it.

Faintly—

One could clearly see—

This sandstorm pierced through the heavens, rising over three hundred meters high.

Even the white clouds drifting in the sky seemed to have been affected by this sandstorm, slowly beginning to drift toward where the sandstorm was.

This was an extremely terrifying phenomenon.

Everything—

Was affected by the sandstorm.

Across a region spanning tens of thousands of meters, the desert began to whip up gust after gust of raging wind.

Countless fragments of sand and stone flew through the air.

Yellow sand filled the sky,

Dancing gracefully.

In such conditions—

Ordinary people couldn't even open their eyes.

The gale swept up the barren earth and stones of the desert; failing to shut one's eyes would very likely let the sand eat right into them, making it utterly unbearable.

"Fist Demon, can you block it?"

"This one..."

"Has already completely spiraled out of control!"

"Now, even I cannot manipulate its trajectory or direction of movement."

"If you can't block it, then the citizens of the Alabasta Kingdom may be utterly doomed."

Crocodile gazed at Lu En, the thought silently crossing his mind.

Yes!

Exactly as he had thought.

At this moment, the sandstorm had truly, completely spiraled out of control.

Even he could no longer command it.

Only because...