Chapter 141

No wonder this kid dared to take such a risk.

So he's mastered the powers of the Float-Float Fruit, ensuring the Marines can't catch him!

This damn kid.

Karp stared at Luo En floating above the sea and grinned.

At that moment, he suddenly felt a chilling killing intent and terrifying heat coming from his side; he turned his head and saw Akainu's cold, piercing eyes beneath his hat fixed icy and mercilessly on Luo En floating above the sea, his right arm rapidly turning into magma, the killing intent cold and piercing.

"Sakazuki, this capture is under my responsibility."

Karp frowned.

"This kid has grown too powerful to ignore."

Akainu stared down at Luo En, his right arm now fully molten, bubbling with lava.

"I must kill this kid right here. Across this sea… no fifth Emperor shall ever arise."

Akainu stomped his foot and leapt off the floating warship.

His magma-arm surged forth a torrent of lava, coalescing into the shape of a dog's head, which punched toward Luo En on the sea surface—the dog-headed magma limb rapidly extending to strike him.

"Dog Bite: Crimson Lotus."

Before it even neared the sea surface, the terrifying heat caused the seawater to boil.

Luo En sensed the overwhelming destructive power of this attack and chose not to meet it head-on; instead, he vanished in a flash, using the Moon Step's explosive power to evade it.

As Akainu's devastating punch slammed into the sea, the surface instantly boiled, countless waves evaporating into white steam.

After the scorching magma rapidly cooled, it spread across the sea as black-brown igneous rock; standing atop it, clad in his Justice coat and radiating terrifying aura, Akainu squinted up at Luo En in the sky.

"Such a formidable killing intent—no wonder he's a Marine Admiral."

Feeling the terrifying killing intent from Akainu, Luo En, still calm and composed, looked down and smiled: "But it won't scare me."

"I didn't have to show up before you at all—but since the World Government and the Marines forced me into becoming your enemy by handing me such a grand gift… then I must return the favor, no matter what."

He said this with a smile.

In an instant, the six normally floating warships flipped upside down.

Terrified Marines tumbled down like dumplings into the sea!

And that wasn't all.

When Akainu tried to launch another attack at Luo En,

the six warships, controlled by Luo En's Float-Float Fruit ability, drifted above Akainu's head,

then he released the ability—the six warships immediately succumbed to gravity and crashed down upon him.

Akainu completely ignored the Marines still clinging to the warships; his expression icy, he swung his fist upward.

"Great Eruption!"

At the very moment the Marines were about to be melted by the lava, Karp, Tina, and the other Captains rushed forward at top speed and rescued all the Marines still clinging to the warships.

Boom!

Akainu's colossal magma fist, launched with the force of a volcanic eruption, struck with terrifying power—the six warships were instantly pulverized and melted away; the monstrous magma fist continued its unstoppable surge toward Luo En in the sky, its attack range as vast as a volcanic explosion!

Luo En, watching the magma fist rising from below, narrowed his eyes slightly; in his right hand, the black blade Shusui appeared instantly.

Sun Breathing: Full Concentration!

Ultimate Force Intent: Activated!

Armament Haki: Hardening!

The Float-Float Fruit ability spread across the blade's surface.

Luo En, having reached the level of a Great Swordsman, swung his blade downward with full force against the terrifying attack.

"Purgatory!"

Before the stunned eyes of everyone present,

a black-flame-wreathed slash, thousands of meters long, slashed downward from the sky with the might to cleave the sea in two!

The instant it collided with the magma fist resembling a volcanic eruption,

a blinding flash of light, as brilliant as the sun, exploded outward, followed by a wave of scorching heat spreading violently in all directions.

The sea within a kilometer boiled violently, bubbling with steam, and hundreds of fish floated to the surface, belly-up.

On the Red Heart Pirates' ship a kilometer away, the shockwave swept over them, igniting cloth and wood.

But Luo, Bebo, and the rest of the crew paid no attention—they stood frozen, sweat dripping from their foreheads, eyes wide with shock, staring at the distant sea.

Above that stretch of sea,

the surface had been split open by a crack thousands of meters long and dozens of meters deep, still not healing; clusters of blazing black karmic fire scattered across the water!

Vast quantities of seawater surged violently into the massive fissure, raising towering waves!

In the sky, countless shattered volcanic bombs rained down, striking the churning sea like meteorites!

A scene of apocalyptic hell—fire scorching the heavens, boiling the oceans!

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It was hard to believe this was caused by just two people's battle!

Too terrifying!

Hundreds of Marines floating on the sea trembled with fear.

On the Red Heart Pirates' ship far away, not only did Bebo and Xia Qi collapse onto the deck with trembling legs, even Luo couldn't help but sweat.

"That guy… is really fighting a Marine Admiral?!"

The Traveler had drifted to several thousand meters in altitude; Luo En, bleeding from Hukou, his right arm trembling slightly, held the black blade Shusui and hovered a hundred meters above, looking down at Akainu standing atop the thick layer of magma rock and smiled: "Looks like you won't kill me today. Let's meet again in the Grand Line and the New World."

After saying that, he casually slashed out several cuts, striking the sea below.

Before the stunned gaze of the Marines floating on the sea and Luo and the others afar.

A massive rectangular block of water, a thousand meters long, a hundred meters wide and a hundred meters tall, floated up from the sea, as if a giant rectangular water-brick had been drawn out of the vast ocean.

"!!"

The Marines on the sea surface stared up at the seawater overhead in utter shock, stunned and dazed, their gazes blank.

This was practically as if sea and sky had been flipped upside down!

Can a human really do something like this?!

"Seawater that's been separated from the ocean is just ordinary water. You think something like this… would be useful against me?"

Akainu stared at the enormous water-brick floating above his head and said coldly.

The right half of his body had already fully transformed into magma.

"Who knows."

Luo En, whose face was slightly pale, smiled and let his pointing finger drop downward.

That enormous, intact water-brick seemed to lose some invisible binding and collapsed with a roar; tens of millions of tons of seawater, wrapped in a terrifying momentum, smashed down toward the ground under the panicked, stunned gazes of the Marines.

"Great Eruption!"

Apart from Akainu's magma fist, which was even more powerful than his previous punch.

Koby also swung his sword upward, unleashing a slash a thousand meters long.

Garp threw a punch, and the terrifying force of his fist blasted apart the falling seawater with a thunderous crash.

Akainu was counterattacking, while Koby and Garp were trying to save those Marines who lacked the strength to survive under such a wide-ranging attack.

After those tens of millions of tons of seawater, wrapped in gravity, smashed down onto the sea surface, even though it was scattered and sliced apart by the three men's attacks, it still stirred up enormous waves on the ocean.

The Heart Pirates in the distance were also caught in it, their ship rocking unsteadily amid the giant waves.

"Consider this incident my return gift. Please pass a word to the World Government and the Marines for me."

"Since the Marines and the World Government want this free traveler of mine to become a criminal, I'll just go along with their wishes and become one."

Suspended a hundred meters in the air, Luo En held the young swordswoman who had attacked the warship earlier in a princess carry, and smiled down at Akainu, Garp, and the others: "I hope they won't regret their foolishness in the future."

After saying this, Luo En glanced at Garp and Koby on the sea surface, as well as Tina, who was being supported by Koby, and smiled: "Until next time, on the Grand Line."

Having said that, under the dumbfounded gazes of the Marines floating on the sea surface, he rapidly drifted up into the sky and soon vanished from everyone's sight.

All that was left was a chaotic stretch of sea and a group of Marines whose hearts were shaken beyond words.

Both Garp and Koby felt somewhat complicated inside.

Because her Devil Fruit abilities had been weakened by contact with seawater, Tina had no strength in her body and could only lie draped over Koby, but she had clearly heard and seen Luo En's departure, and the corner of her mouth curved upward in an arc.

This was fine…

Akainu stood on a slab of magma rock, his face dark and iron-blue, staring in the direction Luo En had flown off into the sky. He clenched his gloved fists, his killing intent boiling over, his eyes so gloomy and black they seemed about to drip water, and ground two words out from between his clenched teeth:

"Luo… En…"