“Join…” Eneru’s expression fluctuated for the first time.
He froze for a moment, then burst into laughter.
“Hahaha… interesting, too interesting!”
“So, you mean…” The laughter stopped abruptly, and Eneru’s eyes suddenly turned cold.
“Does a mere mortal wish to make a god condescend?”
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly raised his hand, and a thick bolt of lightning descended from the sky, striking directly at Gern’s head!
“Boom!” Lightning exploded, and dust flew everywhere.
However, when the smoke cleared, Gern still stood in place, unharmed.
“A Nature Type ability user? And lightning.” Tesoro finally understood why Gern came to find this guy.
“Lightning comparable to light… If he is properly cultivated, he would indeed be a good fighting force.”
On the other side, looking at the unharmed Gern, Eneru’s pupils constricted: “You…”
“Heh heh.” Gern smiled, interrupting him, “To call yourself ‘God’ with just this is far too naive.”
“Insolent!” Eneru roared, lightning surging around his body, his golden staff raised, “God’s Judgment!”
Thick lightning immediately struck down, and the entire area instantly turned into a lightning prison!
The Snake Princess and the other two quickly retreated, avoiding the lightning’s range.
“Gern!” Libo anxiously called out, but Tesoro held her back.
“Don’t worry.” Tesoro said in a deep voice, “At this level… Vice Admiral Gern probably won’t even need to use Armament Haki.”
Indeed, within the lightning, Gern’s figure still stood tall.
He slowly walked forward, each step intensifying the ground’s tremor: “Eneru, can your Mind Network (Observation Haki) hear my thoughts?”
Eneru’s expression finally changed.
He truly couldn’t hear anything.
Because this man’s thoughts were like an abyss, impossible to pry into!
“Impossible…” Eneru muttered, “No one can block a god’s listening. At first, I thought it was due to distance, but now it seems…”
“It’s because your Mind Network isn’t strong enough yet.” Gern’s voice suddenly sounded in Eneru’s ear.
Eneru suddenly turned around, finding that Gern had appeared behind him at some point.
“When did…” Eneru quickly elementalized, turning into lightning to create distance, and then summoned another lightning strike in his original spot.
“Good reaction.” Gern still stood in place, nodding approvingly, “But not fast enough.”
“Interesting…” Eneru saw that the lightning had no effect on Gern, he paused for a moment, then grinned again, revealing an arrogant smile.
“But, it’s not just you who won’t be harmed…”
Eneru spread his arms, lightning wrapped around his entire body, his tone filled with the arrogance and mockery of a god.
“A god is also unharmed.”
“If you don’t believe it…” With that, he actually sat down cross-legged, his golden staff placed horizontally across his knees, tilting his head to look at Gern, his eyes glinting with provocation.
“You can try it too.”
Gern looked at Eneru’s appearance, as if he had never been beaten by Haki, and couldn’t help but chuckle: “Libo.”
“Swish!!” Before the words fell, a afterimage had already torn through the air!
Libo’s figure flashed out, almost at the moment Gern called her name, she had already approached Eneru’s side.
The white figure stretched into a sharp straight line in high-speed motion, a cold killing intent locking onto Eneru.
Libo raised her right leg high, Armament Haki wrapped around it, a fierce spinning side kick aimed directly at Eneru’s cheek!
Eneru looked on with disdain, too lazy to dodge, he just lazily raised his hand, his body slightly phased, lightning flickering across his skin.
“Sorry, a mortal cannot harm…”
Before the word ‘god’ could be uttered, Libo’s foot had already slammed hard into his left cheek!
“Bang!!!” With a muffled thud, Eneru’s expression suddenly froze, the muscles on his left cheek twisting and deforming under the immense impact.
His teeth almost detached from his gums, saliva and blood splattering in the air!
“Whoosh!” Eneru’s body was kicked flying like a cannonball.
He crashed through several floating cloud stones along the way, finally slamming heavily into a distant building, sending dust flying everywhere!
“Tsk tsk tsk.” Gern stood in place, a faint smile playing on his lips: “Now, do you still think ‘God’ is unharmed?”
In the distance, Eneru struggled out of the rubble, half of his face swollen high, blood oozing from the corner of his mouth.
He stared intently at Libo, his eyes full of disbelief.
“How is that possible… A mere mortal… How could she touch me?!”
However, Libo was even more bewildered than Eneru, and did not continue her pursuit.
Instead, she stood in place, blinked her eyes, and looked back at Gern with a blank expression.
“No, Gern…” She pointed at Eneru, her voice full of disbelief, “He really didn’t dodge?!”
Gern shrugged, his smile deepening: “After all, he is ‘God’.”
The Snake Princess in the distance put one hand on her forehead, showing an expression of “this guy is hopeless”.
While Tesoro’s mouth twitched, he couldn’t help but mutter: “Is this guy’s strong Observation Haki talent just for show?”
Eneru heard their conversation, veins bulging on his forehead, lightning wildly flickering around his body.
“You… you dare to fool a god?!”
Libo tilted her head, her rabbit ears gently twitching, and asked innocently: “So… why didn’t you dodge just now?”
Eneru: “…”
The air seemed to solidify at that moment.
Eneru’s expression froze.
Anger, shame, disbelief… all kinds of emotions twisted on his face, finally turning into a hysterical roar.
“I am a God!!!!”
“Thump!!” The golden staff violently struck the taiko drum behind him, and dazzling lightning exploded!
“Thunder Dragon!!”
Thunder roared, transforming into a ferocious giant dragon, tearing through the air, carrying destructive pressure directly towards Gern!
Facing this terrifying attack, Gern didn’t even need to use his Devil Fruit ability, merely using his left hand, wrapped in pitch-black Armament Haki, to gently deflect it.
“Boom!!” The Thunder Dragon dissipated, electricity scattering everywhere.
“What?!” Eneru’s pupils suddenly constricted, his voice caught in his throat.
“Has his fruit already been developed to this extent at just 17 years old…?”
Gern’s figure had once again appeared behind him at some point, his tone calm.
“It’s just a pity that he’s only fought weaklings and lacks real combat experience.”
The moment he heard the voice, Eneru gritted his teeth, his golden staff instantly melted into a sharp spear, imbued with lightning, and he thrust it backward!
“Swish!” The spearhead pierced through Gern’s abdomen, then he jumped forward, creating distance.
But the moment he turned around, he saw his weapon still stuck in Gern’s stomach.
And a ripple appeared at the wound, the elementalization unique to Nature Type users!
Gern looked down at the “wound” on his abdomen, ripple-like vibrations of particles spreading across his body.
He reached out, grasped the spear, and slowly pulled it out.
“This won’t kill me.”
Eneru staggered backward, his pupils trembling wildly.
His voice was almost squeezed out from between his teeth, carrying an unprecedented waver.
“You… are… also… a God?!”