"You're getting more and more arrogant, actually allowing me to complete Magma Hell?!"
Akainu's eyes twisted with monstrous killing intent, a cold smile tugging at the corner of his lips.
He wished Creed would die right here, right now.
At this point, Creed had already become his inner demon. If he could kill Creed here today and cut out that demon at the root, Akainu felt his own strength would rise even further in the future—
He might even touch the pinnacle that Whitebeard once stood upon in his prime.
If he failed, however, he might very well stop right where he was, never to take another step forward for the rest of his life.
"Creed, become the stepping stone on my path to the top of the world!"
He growled low, and his entire body instantly turned to magma.
As he fully elementalized, a hundred miles around them turned into a blazing sea of fire.
Countless torrents of magma erupted violently from the seafloor, crisscrossing the sky and weaving into a three-dimensional net of molten rock.
Even the seawater itself was, in that instant, boiled by magma exceeding a thousand degrees, bubbling wildly.
Moreover, the magma spewing continuously out from the depths of the sea was still getting hotter at a frightening rate.
"The maximum temperature of magma is usually around fourteen hundred degrees… but he seems to be pushing past that limit? No, this temperature is already beyond what normal magma should have! Could it be… he's stirring the flames of the Earth's core?!"
Creed thought of a terrifying possibility.
Back on Earth, the temperature of the planet's core was between four and six thousand degrees. A temperature that horrifying could vaporize an ordinary person in one or two seconds.
"Never thought the full awakening of the Magma-Magma Fruit would be this terrifying… Sakazuki, it seems I underestimated you."
For the first time, Creed's expression turned serious, abandoning the idea of defeating Akainu within just a few moves.
He had indeed been advancing at godlike speed these past few years, but clearly, Akainu had not neglected his own training either.
The blazing heat swept over him, so intense that even with Busoshoku Haki (Armament Haki) and Haoshoku Haki (Conqueror's Haki) wrapped around his body, Creed felt his throat dry and his tongue parched.
With a thought, frost erupted around him, sword aura crisscrossed, and frigid air surged forth, suppressing the heat with a roar.
Kori no Ken'i (Ice Sword Intent).
But even Kori no Ken'i (Ice Sword Intent), in the face of this monstrous high temperature, was forced back step by step, unable to truly hold it down—
it could only buy Creed a little more time.
"Creed!"
With a thunderous roar, Akainu clenched his magma fists.
Massive magma fists, like a meteor shower, came crashing down from the heavens, raining toward Creed with overwhelming force.
He opened with his most powerful killing technique:
"Ryusei Kazan (Meteor Volcano)!"
"So you want to see the true foundation of the strength I've gained over these years?"
Creed narrowed his eyes and drove his fist forward.
Crack!
With a piercing shatter, the space within more than ten li before him was like a colossal pane of glass smashed to pieces. Countless jagged cracks spread wildly in all directions.
Boom!
The countless magma fists were torn apart by those spatial fissures, then shattered further by the violent tremors that followed, exploding into a rain of scattered flames.
The awakened power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit versus the fully awakened Magma-Magma Fruit!
Originally, Kori no Ken'i (Ice Sword Intent) could be used to counter Akainu, but since his fruit ability had taken another leap forward, it was no longer Creed's first choice for dealing with him.
So he simply brought out the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit.
He also wanted the Tremor-Tremor Fruit to be tempered in this battle, to find that final thread leading to complete awakening.
After all, when dealing with a defensive monster like Kaido in the future, the ultimate destructive power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit would still be indispensable.
"What?! The Tremor-Tremor Fruit!"
Up in the sky, magma surged and condensed into Akainu's upper body. At this moment, his face was full of disbelief.
"To think you could even copy Whitebeard's fruit ability… what kind of heaven-defying Devil Fruit is this? A Copy-Copy Fruit… is it truly so peerless in all the seas?"
"I admit, that is the greatest Devil Fruit in the world. But even so—I'll still defeat you today!"
"Magma Jigoku (Magma Hell)!"
Akainu roared, making the entire sky tremble.
Countless streams of magma flew like raging dragons, weaving and roaring through the air.
Below, the sea surface, battered and scorched by the magma, was shrinking at an astonishing speed.
Thick clouds of steam billowed upward, carrying enough heat to cook a person alive with ease.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
More than a dozen more magma pillars erupted from below, making it seem as though nothing existed in this world anymore except magma.
"This steam…?"
Creed frowned slightly.
The power of a Logia persisted endlessly. It was truly troublesome.
Not only was its offensive power frighteningly high, its duration and spread were just as terrifying. Even the steam in the air was imbued with Akainu's magma intent.
This was no ordinary steam; it was superheated vapor sitting at several hundred degrees.
"Heh."
Unhurried, Creed stretched out both hands and then clenched them into fists.
Twin orbs of clear light flared to life in his palms as countless spatial fissures spread outward.
Boom…
A deep, muffled rumble resounded across the sky. The already-distorted world of magma abruptly shook, then became noticeably chaotic.
Akainu's eyes went wide.
It was vibration—countless chaotic, overlapping vibrations—spreading out from Creed as their source, rapidly extending in all directions.
Like a three-dimensional spiderweb, they filled the hundred miles around them, cutting and tangling every connection he had with his magma domain.
At the same time, Creed stood at the very center of this web, and every shockwave he sent out was magnified and stacked by this three-dimensional net.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The omnidirectional tremors unleashed by Creed instantly rocked Akainu's Magma Hell. Explosions of energy blossomed throughout the sky, like tens of thousands of fireworks bursting all at once—
dazzling beyond belief.
But the danger contained within those lights was indescribable.
If an ordinary Shichibukai accidentally stepped into this battlefield, they wouldn't last even a single second.
This was already an ability bordering on a true domain.
"So this is the awakened Gura Gura no Mi (Tremor-Tremor Fruit)!"
Akainu sucked in a breath of cold air despite the boiling world around him, then charged forward, dragging along hundreds of layers of magma—
They surged like an overwhelming tsunami, crashing down toward Creed.
"Magma Jigoku: Futen (Magma Hell: Burning Heavens)!"
He had been building up power for a long time; Creed had struck later and hadn't fully gathered his strength yet. This was the perfect moment for a head-on clash.
If he could crush Creed here, he would have a seventy percent chance of winning this battle.
Crack!
Boom!
Magma splashed in all directions as terrifying power erupted.
Akainu's full-force onslaught really did push Creed back. His figure was blasted downward, sent flying toward the world of magma below.
At this moment, the sea beneath them had already been burned almost completely dry by Akainu's magma. There was nothing to see but molten rock, and in some places, even the seabed itself was exposed.
Below was a sea of magma.
Creak…
Just ten or so meters above that magma ocean, Creed stabilized himself. Frost condensed beneath his feet, forming a platform of mysterious ice that held him up.
Kori no Ken'i (Ice Sword Intent) spread outward in a surge, sweeping across the battlefield and freezing the magma within more than ten li into a single colossal block of ice.
"Hahaha! Creed, you're dead for sure!"
Seeing Creed blasted down to the level of the magma ocean, Akainu let out a grotesque, twisted laugh.
(End of Chapter)
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