Chapter 205 Oh, I got it. (2 in 1)
"Pirate's Scourge ()"
Wrapped around his armed-colored right foot, he pinned Ace to the ground.
"Armed color... Damn!"
Under the heavy blow, Ace's chest was painful and his mouth was full of blood, but his eyes were sharp like a knife, pointing directly at Maud, without the slightest retreat.
He was not angry at Maud's condescending words, but was aroused by endless fighting spirit.
Dad's body is indeed still in Maud's hands...
As long as you confirm this, it's enough, there's no need to make a fool of yourself.
Swish-!
Ace's limbs clinging to the ground instantly turned into raging flames, rushing towards Maud who was close at hand.
"..."
When Maud saw this, a chill quickly appeared in his eyes, but he was stagnant for a moment.
The tip of the autumn water knife hanging on Ace's face, so it took a beat slower and failed to cut it off first.
And the raging flames like the raging waves bombarded Morde, knocking Morde back a few meters away.
Clusters of flames cling to his body like tarsus maggots.
call--!
Maud waved the autumn water to his side, the energy generated, all the flames adhering to his body were directed to one side, and fell to the ground to form a long and narrow flame channel.
The fire just now did not cause any damage to Mord.
"Your fire... is too weak."
Maud was calm, as if telling a convincing fact.
Before the top, he had played against Ace once in Alabasta, and he could still feel some pressure at that time.
Now, let alone stress, I feel like I can defeat Ace without using the power of the Shadow Fruit.
After forcing Maud back, Ace quickly got up, raised his hand to wipe the blood from his mouth, and flames were burning all over his body, but his eyes looking at Maud were as cold as winter.
Facing Maud's evaluation, Ace did not refute, but silently increased his firepower.
Immediately, the flames that ignited from all over his body suddenly became vigorous, and a wall of fire emitting high temperature was intertwined behind him.
Maud just quietly watched Ace build momentum, and did not continue to attack.
With Sabo's friendship there, he can't kill Ace.
That's why I hesitated when I dropped the knife just now, and Ace broke free from the suppression.
otherwise……
When Ace rises up to resist, Qiushui will slash at Ace first.
In that case, not to mention that it can kill him with a single knife, it is not a problem to seriously injure Ace.
"Ace, are you alright?"
At this time, Marco and Bista returned to their positions almost at the same time and came to Ace.
Ace nodded to them, indicating that he was fine.
Seeing this, Marko and Vista were slightly relieved, and turned to look at Maud with a look of fear in their eyes.
clack clack-
There was a conspicuous sound of freezing ice behind Maud, but the green pheasant walked step by step. When he settled down, the cold air condensed ice cubes on the ground and spread around.
"Captain, let me come."
Aokiji still put his hands in his pockets and looked at Ace, Marco, and Vista calmly.
After a few rounds of fighting, Ace and Bista were injured respectively. As for Marco, under the influence of the Phoenix's ability, even if he was injured, he could instantly recover as before.
Wounded in battle or something, it made no difference to Marco.
And in this case, Aokiji can defeat three by one, so it is not difficult.
However, at the moment when the combat power is obviously rich, there is no need to take this battle alone.
The motive that prompted him to do so was only because he had just seen Maud leave Ace.
As for why...
Aokiji, as the first person to contact Maud as an enemy, is naturally knowledgeable.
And now, as a crew member, he took the initiative to relieve the captain's worries, which is naturally justifiable.
Maud glanced at the green pheasant, vaguely aware of something, his thoughts paused, and then calmly said: "Go deal with Marco."
"Ah la la, all right."
Aokiji scratched his hair,
He didn't insist, but simply responded to the captain's order.
After the short conversation between Maud and Aokiji, Marco, who was in full body form, was wrapped in cyan flames and flew into the sky with wings.
"Pineapple gravel!"
Marco's blue flame wings stretched out on both sides and slapped down suddenly.
With the whistling sound like tearing the air, the green flames on the wings turned into clusters of rubble-like flames, pouring down towards Maud and the green pheasant like a shower.
clack clack-
A thin ice condensed on Aokiji's face, and looked up at the sky, with clusters of falling cyan flames reflected in his eyes.
call out--!
He dodged and came into the air, and within the extremely limited reaction time, he took the initiative to shorten the distance with the pineapple gravel.
"Frozen Time Capsule!"
Aokiji raised his hands, and a white shock wave of cold air spurted out from his palms, bombarding with the pineapple Shuo who was in front of him.
Boom, chi chi-!
Two energies with different attributes are entangled with each other, once again setting off air waves and steam.
And underneath.
Maud didn't even look at the battle situation above his head, he took a step forward, and at the moment when the soles of his feet landed, his figure disappeared out of thin air.
the next moment.
Maud flashed to Ace again.
The same speed, the same sense of oppression!
"!!!"
The red light in Ace's eyes skyrocketed, and his body was elementalized at an extremely fast speed, completely integrating into the wall of fire that had just been intertwined.
Such a move is intended to make Maud lose his goal.
Afterwards, he controlled the flames around him and threw Maud in front of him into the flames.
However……
Ace's sensibility is not weak, but Maud's sensibility is even better.
Maud pulled out the ferret flintlock with his left hand, without even having a preview, he turned the muzzle and pulled the trigger.
boom!
Armed-colored lead bullets pierced from the barrel of the gun flew into the wall of fire in an instant.
The powerful penetrating power pierced the flaming wall of fire through a hole the size of a bowl.
At the edge of the void, a string of scattered blood beads could be vaguely seen, but it was evaporated by the flames in the blink of an eye.
This innocent shot apparently hit Ace.
However, it did not make Ace lose his combat effectiveness.
Because, the wall of fire that hung down in front of Maud like a curtain, was controlled by Ace's mind, and suddenly flocked to Maud.
Looking at the momentum, it seems that he intends to wrap Maud in the flames.
"The attack is too monotonous, and..."
The ferret flintlock gun that Maud held in his left hand turned into a snow-white long sword without a sheath after a flash of white light.
Afterwards, Maud used both knives together, slashing the two hegemonic countries that were advancing side by side toward the surging flames.
boom!
As the white light flickered, the impact of a long rainbow pierced through the sun, destroying all the flames in a destructive way, revealing the figure of Ace who was repelled.
"You chose to retreat just now. In fact, you realized it yourself. There is an absolute strength gap between us."
Maud looked up at Ace who was knocked into the air.
At this moment, a sharp sword light slashed from his side.
But it was Bista who swung his two swords and attacked Maud's right side.
Maud, who sensed Vista's offensive, glanced sideways, raised his arms horizontally, and held Qiushui to support the double swords slashed from his side.
Clang!
The blades collided, sputtering violent sparks.
The strength of each other collided with each other through the blade, and the air wave was derived, rolling up the fine ice slag around it, and circling and flying around, like a small snowstorm.
"one-hand……"
Bista's dignified gaze went straight through the body of the Qiushui knife and fell on Maud's steady right hand holding the knife.
He, who is also a swordsman with two swords, suddenly realized the danger.
Or--
The same double-sword flow, when Maud held his double-swords firmly with a single sword, in a sense, he had already lost.
But it's a deathmatch.
It will be a matter of life and death.
Immediately, Bista suddenly drew back one of the swords.
Along the blade of Qiushui, the blade drew a burst of sparks.
At the cost of being suppressed and taking two steps back, Bista managed to withdraw one of the swords.
And at this moment, the long ferret knife that Maud held in his left hand stabbed at Bista's chest with lightning speed.
It is a pity that Bista took precautions in advance with his rich combat experience.
Clang!
The sword body, which was drawn back by Bista's adventure, blocked the long sword that Maud stabbed in time.
Although it blocked the knife, Bista's defense inevitably collapsed, and he stepped back.
Maud was unforgiving, stepped forward, and the two knives in his hands slashed out a sharp and airtight light, shrouding Bista.
Clang clang...! ! !
Swords clashed, sparks flashed.
Facing Maud's stormy offensive, Bista retreated steadily, like standing on the edge of a cliff, at any time may fall into a doomed place.
"Damn!"
Bista struggled to fend off Maud's attack.
But because of the missed opportunity and the shoulder injury, Bista soon felt exhausted, and there was a sense of crisis that he would be cut off by Maud at any time.
In just a few breaths, the swords of the two sides exchanged dozens of times.
And Bista seemed to be stepping off the cliff.
In this dangerous situation, Ace finally came back to help.
On the way over, Ace stretched his arms back and turned his hands into flames.
That action was quite a bit like when Luffy used the rubber rocket launcher.
"Shen Huo, I don't know fire!"
Ace threw his hands forward vigorously, and the flames in his hands formed a spear and shot straight at Maud's temple and waist.
Out of the corner of Maud's eyes, he glanced at the sharp musket that was flying.
When the mind moved slightly, the shadow that originally covered the body suddenly separated from the body and transformed into a slender shadow column, which was stabbed against the musket.
The shadow pillar, which has both solid and hardness attributes, easily pierced through the fire that Ace had thrown at Shiranui, and then volleyed towards Ace unabated.
"Is it entangled in the armed color..."
Ace stared solemnly at the flying shadow pillar, and with the help of the knowledge color, he could barely see the jet-black armed color that merged with the shadow pillar.
Ace, who didn't dare to be too big, didn't rush into elementalization, but moved vigorously left and right, avoiding the shadow pillars that pierced from all directions.
Bang bang bang...!
The shadow pillar crossed Ace's body and plunged into the ground, causing violent explosions.
Ace cautiously dodged the shadow pillar that kept attacking, while rushing towards Maud and Vista who were fighting against each other.
Since Maud split part of the shadow to attack Ace, the blessing effect of the shadow demon form was directly reduced to 50%.
The weakening of strength and speed has relieved Bista's defensive pressure to a certain extent.
But even so, Bista was still suppressed by Maud.
Even with the blessing of shadow demon form with only half the power, it can improve Maud's comprehensive melee ability to a level that Bista can't match anyway.
This is where the fundamental gap in combat effectiveness lies.
In fact, from the moment of the fight, Bista had a deep understanding of the terrifying suppressing power of Maud as strong as a monster.
Whether it is strength, speed, or even skill, he is not comparable to him.
This gap cannot be filled by experience alone.
In other words, at the moment of the fight—
Bista has already seen the result of his own fiasco.
"How long has passed since the battle of Marin Fando, but this man..."
Bista was sullen, gritted his teeth and endured the stormy attack from Maud.
"What a...monster through and through..."
The declining defense was finally full of fatal cracks.
Under such circumstances, any moves and techniques derived from the Foil flow can no longer save the situation.
Chong——!
The tipping point has come.
"Foil sword..."
Maud whispered to himself, and stabbed Bista's blade with a knife.
Bista then revealed flaws, and the defense that was struggling to support fell apart like this.
Maud did not show mercy, and another long knife slammed into Huanglong and slashed at Bista's chest.
puff!
The knife flashed, and blood spurted.
Bista groaned, his face suddenly pale.
not far away.
Seeing that Bista was slashed by Maud, Ace's expression changed drastically.
"Bista...!!!"
Either because of blood, or because of willpower—
No matter what the factors depended on, at this moment, the turbulent emotions expanded wildly in Ace's body like an accelerant, causing him to suddenly burst into a stronger and more powerful force.
The flames that grew out of thin air swarmed wildly around like a monstrous wave, full of momentum that would burn everything to the ground.
The shadow pillar that was attacking Ace was swallowed up by a wave of flames in the blink of an eye.
Ace's sudden outburst caught the attention of everyone present.
The navy, including Fujitora at the entrance of Dressrosa, also looked at Fire Fist Ace, who released a monstrous flame, with shock.
"Are you awake..."
Fujitora couldn't see, but he could see better than anyone present.
The surging flame wave controlled by Fire Fist in front of him is clearly not released from Fire Fist's body, but a flame that ignites out of thin air by treating the surrounding air as fuel.
Under the gaze of one after another, Ace stood in the monstrous flames, and his body was illuminated by the firelight, like a phoenix reborn from ashes.
When the shackles are released...
Along with the flames, there is the confidence and fighting spirit to defeat Maud.
"Bacardi Maud!!! I absolutely want to beat you!!!"
A flame flickered in Ace's eyes.
"Oh, I see."
As soon as Ace's voice fell, Maud's calm voice without any emotion rang in his ears.
Shadow pillars are not afraid of flames, hiding in the monstrous flames, but will become a more hidden transfer pedal.
"!?"
Hearing Maud's voice, the flickering flames in Ace's eyes suddenly stopped.
when……
As soon as Ace was born, he was imprisoned by Maud, who had already sheathed the long sword, with his hands covered with armed colors and shadows, and was immediately hit by Maud with a knee on his stomach.
Bang!
Unimaginable power penetrated Ace's body through this knee strike.
"Puff!"
Ace seemed to have internal bleeding, spitting out a large amount of blood.
The flame that was frozen in his eyes was extinguished after this blow.
The flaming flames that were ubiquitous around them had a tendency to stop immediately.
The whole place was silent.
The navy, who thought that Ace was going to show off his power after the awakening, stared at a pair of exaggerated eyeballs at the moment, dumbfounded looking at Ace who was wilting in the blink of an eye.
Wait, this development doesn't seem right...
Shouldn't it be Ace, who awakened with willpower, and beat up Mord first after he rose up?
How could it fall faster than before! ?