Chapter 163

only finally and gradually subsided.

Luo Xing's lips curved.

It seemed that the mining and beatings during this period had greatly enhanced Enelu's physique, and he had finally withstood the side effects of the Dragon-level monster cell.

"Stand up, Enelu, let me see your current form."

"Yes, Young Master."

Enelu's reply came out like muffled thunder.

He stood up, his original height of just over two meters having surged to five meters.

His entire skin took on a greyish-white color, like the clouds of Skypiea.

Strands of electric current flashed through the air around him from time to time.

The Enelu of this moment, simply by standing there, radiated a pressure so intense it nearly suffocated Trafalgar Law!

"So this is the effect of the monster cell—it can actually make this guy so strong!"

Trafalgar Law's pupils shook violently, finding it unbelievable.

No wonder every member of the Beasts Pirates was so terrifyingly strong—turns out they had something as heaven-defying as monster cells!

Although before entering the Grand Line, Trafalgar Law had already read about monster cells in the newspapers.

But at the time he had dismissed it.

Yet what he now saw with his own eyes completely shattered his previous notions.

Monster cells were absolutely something as terrifying as the Op-Op Fruit he had eaten!

"How does it feel?" Luo Xing asked.

Enelu answered with an excited face:

"Powerful—powerful beyond anything I've ever felt!"

"Like I've gone from a frog at the bottom of a well to a mighty eagle!"

"Finally I can see a vaster sky!"

Luo Xing smiled faintly:

"Then show me your strength."

Enelu was startled.

All sorts of cunning thoughts flashed through his mind.

Luo Xing wanted him to strike and display his power.

If he could seize this chance to kill the man in one strike, then never again would anyone be able to bind him!

He would become a true eagle soaring free!

Enelu suppressed his excitement within.

Although he had submitted to Luo Xing, deep down he was still very unwilling.

Now that the Dragon-level monster cell had multiplied his strength geometrically, he could no longer hold back his arrogant nature.

Enelu had grown swollen with ambition.

He actually wanted to use this chance to kill Luo Xing and regain his freedom!

The curve of Luo Xing's lips took on a somewhat playful edge.

Although Enelu hid it well, Luo Xing still saw through the man's true inner thoughts.

But Luo Xing did not use a Seastone collar to bind Enelu.

Enelu wanted to use this chance to regain his freedom, but this was also Luo Xing's chance to display his own might.

He wanted to make Enelu understand perfectly that no matter how strong Enelu became, he would forever be a dog under his command!

"Come on, Enelu."

Luo Xing said breezily.

"Yes, my lord."

Enelu lowered his gaze, his eyes flashing with excitement and cold killing intent.

The next moment.

He moved.

He used electric current to stimulate his own cells, and in an instant burst out with a speed even faster than Soru, one of the Six Powers of the Marines!

In the blink of an eye he was behind Luo Xing.

His fist, charged with a billion volts, smashed viciously toward the back of Luo Xing's head.

His face was full of savage madness, and in his heart he roared wildly:

"Die, die, you bastard who treated a god as a dog!"

Wham!

Enelu's fist struck Luo Xing.

Enelu was overjoyed, his heart pounding so hard it nearly leapt out, and he was about to laugh wildly when a voice suddenly appeared at his side.

"You really want to kill me? Too bad—a dog can never bite back its master."

The wild expression on Enelu's face froze instantly.

He turned his head blankly to look at his side—the one speaking was none other than Luo Xing.

But then who was it that he had hit?!

No—no, he hadn't hit anyone at all!

Enelu realized it: what he had struck was only an afterimage Luo Xing had left in place!

Boundless horror rose within Enelu!

GLOSSARY:

- Luo Xing

- Enelu

- Trafalgar Law

- Beasts Pirates

- Grand Line

- Skypiea

- Op-Op Fruit

- Dragon-level monster cell

- Six Powers of the Marines

- Soru

- Seastone

The speed he boosted with lightning couldn't even match this man's!

How is that possible!

Enel had no idea that his speed being inferior to Luo Xing's was only part of it—the other part was that his Observation Haki was also beneath Luo Xing's.

Luo Xing had long since used his Observation Haki, which could foresee the near future, to see through Enel's attack in advance.

Luo Xing wore a half-smiling expression, held Yama vertically in his hand, and brought it down, unleashing an "x"-shaped slash wave.

Enel's face went pale with shock.

Endless thunder surged out from within his body in haste, coating his surface with a thick armor of lightning.

The augmentation the Dragon-level monster cell gave Enel, on one hand, raised his voltage from the original two hundred million volts to one billion volts.

On the other hand, it gave him more methods of using lightning.

Such as the earlier electric current stimulating his cells to quicken his speed, and now forging a lightning armor to serve as defense.

In a sense, it resembled the Lightning Release Body Technique of the Raikage of the World of Naruto, but in lightning intensity it far surpassed the Raikage.

The x-shaped sword wave collided with the lightning armor, sparking off intense electric light.

Enel's face flushed red as he exerted every ounce of his ability, trying to use the lightning armor to offset the sword wave.

But unfortunately,

Though this x-shaped sword wave looked ordinary, it was unleashed by Yama, imbued with advanced Armament Haki—Flowing Sakura—and even coiled with a trace of Conqueror's Haki.

It was not something Enel could withstand.

Crack—

Not long after, like the sound of a mirror shattering, the lightning armor was smashed apart, and the x-shaped sword wave landed on Enel's chest.

Enel's Logia body couldn't elementalize at all and was solidly struck.

He let out a wretched scream, his body tumbling away like a torn burlap sack.

He slammed brutally into the rocks surrounding Impel Down!

After a long while, Enel finally struggled to crawl out from the rocks.

On his chest was a deep x-shaped wound, his ribs even exposed—only a little more and it would have pierced his heart!

And the wound cut by Yama would never disappear, just like the scar Kozuki Oden once left on Kaido back in the day.

Enel was seized with unprecedented terror.

He had truly just felt the threat of death!

He seemed to see the Grim Reaper beckoning to him!

Enel was afraid, truly afraid!

He no longer dared entertain those crooked thoughts!

He nearly crawled and rolled his way to Luo Xing, kowtowing nonstop and begging for mercy: