Meanwhile, on the distant island, a mixture of ice dust and shockwave embers rose like pillars of doomsday smoke, and the deck of the battleship was eerily silent.
Eneru stood there, his golden staff hanging limply at his side.
He seemed to have had his soul drawn out of him, unmoving, only his eyes, which were always full of arrogance and laziness, were now wide open.
They reflected the completely rewritten landscape on the distant island.
Collapsing and constantly rising icebergs, giant waves instantly frozen and then shattered into powder, and the still unsettled fractured cracks in the air…
“Hm?” Tesoro glanced at him, and seeing Eneru’s dumbfounded expression, a knowing smile involuntarily appeared at the corner of his mouth.
“He’s just a 17-year-old from Sky Island who doesn’t even know about Haki.
Although he’s arrogant, it’s normal for his worldview to be shaken after witnessing an Admiral-level full-power clash for the first time.
After all, battles of this caliber truly exceed the scope of conventional understanding.”
Thinking this, Tesoro sighed and walked forward, intending to pat the shoulder of this stunned “chuunibyou youth” in the posture of a “senior.”
He planned to say a few words like “This is the norm in the New World” to calm him down a bit.
However, as soon as he took a step and before he could even raise his hand, he suddenly froze.
Because he saw Eneru’s expression clearly.
It wasn’t the fear, shock, or confused collapse of his worldview that Tesoro had expected.
Instead… it was excitement!
A kind of near-maniacal, naked, undisguised, extreme excitement!
Eneru’s slightly raised lips trembled, his breathing became heavy and rapid, and his chest heaved violently.
Finally, the corners of his mouth completely twisted upwards uncontrollably, forming a distorted yet fanatical smile.
The next second, Eneru suddenly turned his head, his gaze like a tangible lightning bolt, fixed firmly on Tesoro’s face.
“Hey, tell me!” Eneru’s voice was hoarse and trembling from extreme excitement.
“This isn’t Gern’s limit, is it? Is it?!”
“…”
Tesoro was momentarily taken aback by the sudden question, and all the words he had prepared instantly got stuck in his throat.
But looking at Eneru’s eyes, which were almost spitting fire, he still subconsciously nodded.
“A-After all, it’s not a death match, Vice Admiral Gern might…”
Before he could finish speaking, Eneru suddenly burst into a wild laugh that pierced the clouds.
“Yeahahahahaha!!”
His laughter was unrestrained and flamboyant, and along with his highly penetrating laugh, dazzling azure lightning suddenly erupted from all around him!
For a moment, the eyes of everyone else on the deck were drawn to Eneru, who had suddenly started laughing.
And Tesoro, having reacted, instantly understood.
This arrogant “god” didn’t see an unachievable power gap at all.
What he saw… was the future!
It was a realm he firmly believed he would definitely reach, and even surpass!
The terrifying power displayed by Gern and Kuzan not only didn’t destroy his arrogance,
Instead, it became the strongest fuel to ignite his ambition, outlining a clear and incomparable blueprint of his own power!
“Zzzzz!” The violent current was like a swarm of out-of-control snakes.
“Hey! You…” Tesoro was forced back half a step by the sudden current, his words unfinished.
Eneru, amidst his wild laughter, slowly lifted his feet off the ground and floated in mid-air!
Lightning flashed around him, reflecting the extreme excitement, almost maniacal expression on his face, making him look like a true Thunder God descended, full of primitive and powerful pressure.
“Do you see it! This is the power a god should possess! No! It’s power that surpasses a god!
This is the stage worthy of the name of God!” His voice, mixed with the roar of thunder, made people’s eardrums tingle.
“That man… Gern! And that ice user! What they can do…”
I will definitely be able to do it in the future! Even stronger!!!
This is great! The Blue Sea… this is great!!!”
For him, the battle between Gern and Kuzan was not a blow, but an incredibly brilliant divine preview that pointed the way for him!
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The dazzling lightning erupting around Eneru and his arrogant floating posture also attracted the attention of several big shots on the upper deck of the battleship.
“Hm?” Kong folded his arms, his thick eyebrows involuntarily rising, “Is this guy also a Nature Type?”
(Eneru’s enlistment was stamped by Sengoku, so Kong wasn’t too clear, as many basic Marine affairs had already been handed over.)
“That’s right, it seems to be the Rumble-Rumble Fruit!” Garp picked his nose, laughing loudly without any regard for his image: “Crackling and popping, like fireworks on New Year’s!”
“This is the guy Gern brought back from Sky Island.” Zephyr, standing beside him with his arms crossed, had a much more serious expression, and answered in a deep voice.
“His talent and the foundation of his ability are terrifyingly strong; purely in terms of the destructive power of his Devil Fruit, he might even surpass Borsalino, and his speed isn’t bad either…”
Speaking of this, Zephyr remembered the few months he spent with Eneru, sighed helplessly, and rubbed his temples.
“It’s just his personality, too malicious, impetuous, and lacking in reverence!
Sometimes he acts purely on a whim, even more rampant than the Celestial Dragons.”
As the group discussed, in mid-air,
Eneru was enjoying the extreme pleasure and attention that power brought, as if he had already joined the ranks of the two monsters below.
“Haha… huh?!” Suddenly, his triumphant laughter came to an abrupt halt.
Because an extreme chill swept over without any warning!
It wasn’t a tangible attack; it was merely a residual wave of extreme cold air that uncontrollably spilled out after another clash between Kuzan and Gern in the distance.
But the moment it swept over Eneru’s body…
“Crack—snap—” A subtle yet teeth-gritting freezing sound rang out.
Immediately after, the violent lightning jumping around Eneru was extinguished as if by an invisible giant hand.
A thick layer of ice instantly covered him from head to toe at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye.
That arrogant expression, with a hint of surprise and not fully blossomed, was eternally fixed within the ice sculpture.
The next second, the ice sculpture of Eneru, having lost the support of his lightning-based levitation, fell stiffly and rigidly from mid-air.
“Bang!!!” A dull yet somewhat crisp sound rang out.
The 【Eneru ice sculpture】 even bounced back with surprising elasticity, rolling twice,
Before finally lying motionless, sprawled out in a very comical and pathetic posture.
The deck instantly fell into a deathly silence.
Tesoro: “…”
The muscles on his face twitched a few times as he looked at the “Thunder God” who, a second ago, was wildly arrogant and seemed ready to challenge an Admiral,
And the next second, he had turned into an ice block and fallen at his feet.
For a moment, all the complex emotions—surprise, bewilderment, absurdity, and a hint of suppressed amusement—
Finally turned into a helpless sigh and a complaint stuck in his throat.
“If you’re going to show off, just show off! Why did you have to fly up for no reason? Sigh.”