Chapter 241

However......

Sima Di clenched both fists, his left fist blazing with fierce flames and his right fist trailing frosty mist, echoing across the distance toward Punk Hazard before him.

Drawing sidelong glances from Crocus and Jinbe!

They could clearly sense that the two fists of Sima Di contained terrifying power—definitely no ordinary flames or frost.

Now look at Usopp and the others, who only knew how to shout "Holy crap."

The two exchanged a glance, each seeing astonishment in the other's eyes.

Both were watching the same sight,

so how could others only know "Holy crap," while Sima Di comprehended a powerful technique?

It's just......

Outrageous!

Sima Di didn't know he had just shown off. At this moment, he released his Observation Haki, easily enveloping Punk Hazard and locating Sakazuki and Seeing Kuzan, who were locked in fierce combat.

Their battle was the true essence of "Logia"!

No plain, unadorned hand-to-hand combat of physical techniques—instead, each transformed into magma and frost, commanding overwhelming torrents of energy to clash. Each used Observation Haki to lock onto the other's true body, then wove Armament Haki into their elements to strike.

The collision of ice and fire was the extreme devastation of a meteor slamming into the earth!

【Ding! Congratulations on signing in at the iconic scene "Akainu and Aokiji's Life-or-Death Duel!" and obtaining the sign-in reward *Sakazuki's Magma Fruit Development Experience*!】

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*Sakazuki's Magma Fruit Development Experience*: As one who could ascend to the rank of Admiral on the strength of a single Devil Fruit, Sakazuki's development of the Magma Fruit had reached its extreme—even the Awakening, which only one in ten thousand Logia users achieved, was completed!;

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Marvelous insights merged into his mind, leaving Sima Di somewhat astonished.

Sakazuki had actually comprehended the Awakening of the Magma Fruit?

Then why didn't he use it at the Summit War?

After carefully savoring it, Sima Di understood.

The Awakening of a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit

was the ability to assimilate surrounding things—for instance, Doflamingo's Ito Ito no Mi turned everything nearby into threads.

The Awakening of a Zoan-type Devil Fruit

granted an even more powerful body and near-abnormal regenerative ability—of course, there were also failed Awakenings, which left one stuck as a beast-man unable to return to human form.

As for the Awakening of a Logia-type Devil Fruit......

it allowed one's ability to assimilate everything in the surroundings, including living beings, turning it all to one's own use!

For example, right now,

Sakazuki, relying on the Awakening of his Magma Fruit, had transformed the very earth into a magma field, seeking to devour Seeing Kuzan.

And the fact that Seeing Kuzan could match him under such assimilation proved his Hie Hie no Mi had also Awakened.

So it turned out,

beneath what looked like a fierce duel lurked such a deadly, hidden crisis!

Even so,

it still left the Straw Hat Pirates watching on in endless astonishment!

"Is this how Admirals fight?" Zoro clicked his tongue.

If it were him up there,

he'd probably be swallowed by those overwhelming waves of magma or frost in minutes.

It seemed,

but a dense battlefield like the Summit War actually greatly restricted an Admiral's options.

"Frankly speaking, if I went up there, I'd drop dead on the spot." Usopp was well aware of his own limits.

"So terrifying! I don't want to fight a Logia user at all!" Chopper said, still shaken, and shrank a little to the right.

The searing heat rushing in from the left made him, a reindeer, very uncomfortable.

And Nami, herself a Logia user, indicated......

Chopper, you really don't need to be afraid.

Not every Logia user is this monstrous!

She could only silently curl herself up, hoping no one would notice her.

But what you fear is what comes!

"Nami, you better study hard." Usopp teased.

"Zzzzzt—"

Usopp broke into a breakdance on the spot.

Sima Di watched him with amusement—didn't he know his own limits, daring to tease Nami? She was the third-most-important person on the ship.

"Hmph! No matter how strong, can they be stronger than Your Majesty?" Hancock said disdainfully.

This, however, plunged everyone into thought......

It seemed......

no one had ever seen Sima Di go all-out, had they?

Even his duel with Garp hadn't tested his limits—Enies Lobby couldn't serve as a battlefield to bear the two of them fighting freely.

At the Summit War, because the plan was to rescue Ace, he had to oversee the whole situation and could only plug the gaps.

The bombing of Mariejois a few days ago had revealed only the tip of the iceberg, yet it left everyone far behind in awe.

Frankly speaking,

If you tied everyone else together, they wouldn't be enough to withstand a single cannon blast.

"Di, do you think you can defeat an Admiral?" Usopp couldn't help but ask.

Sima Di thought briefly for a few seconds...

"In normal form, I'm not sure, but within a Magic-Suppression Domain, I could beat them into submission. If I unleash all my firepower without regard for consequences, I should be able to kill them," Sima Di evaluated himself.

This made everyone gasp in astonishment!

But immediately after came excitement!

With a First Mate so fierce, they, as his crew, felt honored by association!

Compared to everyone's commentary,

Jinbe, acting as an observer and watching the entire crew use Observation Haki to spectate, kept having the thought, "This pirate crew is not right."

This is too outrageous!

An Emperor?

Even an Emperor couldn't achieve this!

Having both types of Haki fully developed is still very difficult; often, people only awaken one type of Haki.

After watching for a while,

they found that although Sakazuki and the other were fighting with great momentum and the visual effects were breathtaking, they kept repeating the same few moves, and after a while, it became somewhat visually tiring.

"Hey, hey, Di, did we come all this way just to watch this?" Usopp asked.

It seems...

It's not worth it!

"Usopp, have you gotten arrogant again?" Nami said sideways, "Dare you look down on a clash between Admirals?"

"But... after watching for a while, it's just like that," Usopp muttered quietly, "I'm not a Devil Fruit user; their method of fighting holds no reference value for me at all."

"Oh?" Sima Di raised an eyebrow, "So if you encountered a similar Logia-type, would you have a way to find their true body and deal with them?"

Usopp froze!

Then he calmed his mind, released his Observation Haki, and his brows gradually furrowed.

He couldn't find their true bodies at all!

Of course!

Both of them had awakened their Devil Fruits and merged completely with their true bodies; one could say every drop of magma and every chunk of solid ice was part of their true bodies.

It would be a miracle if Usopp could find them.

Sima Di glanced around,

and only Zoro, Sanji, Jinbe, and Curly Dracule (Kurokas) had furrowed brows, thinking about how they would respond if they encountered similar enemies.

The others...