Chapter 1035

Ace was stunned upon hearing this. He could feel that Marco, connected to his back, was in no better state than himself. This wave of information was simply too overwhelming.

It was like asking a top student how they scored 99, and the other side replied that you just had to miss one multiple-choice question. That kind of casual attitude was what truly made one despair.

"How can such a freak exist!" Marco said helplessly.

He and Ace both belonged to those who relied on their Devil Fruits to step into the Emperor level. Although their own physical techniques were decent, they were only decent relative to those Vice-Admirals; they did not truly possess Emperor-level physiques.

According to the powerful figures Marco knew, Kaido and Big Mom belonged to those who entered the Emperor level through both physique and Devil Fruit ability, while Red-Haired Shanks entered the Emperor level through both swordsmanship and physique.

Only his own old man, Whitebeard, had stepped into the Emperor level as a trinity of Devil Fruit ability, physique, and swordsmanship.

And now, Marco had finally seen the second person—a trinity Emperor-level who was much younger than him.

"I don't know either. The first time I met him, he was about the same level as I was back then, just a peak-level Vice-Admiral." Ace recalled the first time he saw Lin Cheng on Windmill Island; back then, the gap between him and Lin Cheng seemed just as vast as it was now.

This guy was as if he had no limits, constantly challenging the psychological endurance of geniuses like them.

"What do we do?" Ace asked.

"We can only go all out," Marco replied.

Ace nodded, the heat in his body began to rise, and Marco, connected to his back, also transformed back into his phoenix form.

Fully transformed into a phoenix, Marco lifted Ace, carrying him as he flew into the high sky. Two flames of different colors began to merge, radiating a brilliance like the blazing sun.

"As expected, just as I guessed." Lin Cheng, holding his sword, said with a bitter smile: "Ace's Flame-Flame Fruit, like Aokiji's Ice-Ice Fruit, is also a process-type Logia, not a substance that exists in nature."

"Combustion is a process, and his awakening is also different from a normal Logia."

"A combusting-state phoenix? What a truly interesting Devil Fruit combination."