Boom————!
The other realm of martial arts that Garp showed Karl was still the ability of Life Return.
Just as Haki has low, intermediate, and advanced levels, Life Return also has its own levels.
Life Return is a control-type ability. As long as one infuses their consciousness into their body, they can freely control their body, hair, internal organs, and other parts.
The more control one has, and the better that control is, the deeper their attainment in Life Return.
Like Lucci, who could control his physical energy to form a shockwave and use the Six King Gun, which could penetrate the human body.
This showed that he had considerable attainment in Life Return, worthy of the title "The Strongest in CP9's 800-Year History."
Karl could even use Life Return to mobilize a large amount of physical energy, convert it into the power of light, and instantly complete the charging of the Spear of Mystery.
Or control the output power of his fists.
What Karl could do, Garp could also do, and he was even stronger than Karl.
He didn't even need to deliberately charge up; his consciousness and body would automatically cooperate, delivering a blow with 100% power at will.
This showed that Garp's attainment in Life Return had reached the extreme.
Therefore, his control over his body had also reached the extreme that Karl dreamed of.
For example... surpassing the limits of his normal state!
With the explosion of a deafening loud bang.
Karl, who was originally able to suppress Garp, was suddenly sent flying with a look of shock on his face after their two fists collided again.
That's right, sent flying, not pushed back!
With Armament Haki of the same level, and a physical constitution that suppressed Garp's, Karl was sent flying by a single punch.
The other party did not use Conqueror's Haki Infusion, but an iron fist wrapped in Armament Haki.
But the power of this iron fist surpassed 100%, reaching 200%, or even 300%...
"Hahaha... you monster! As expected of a legendary figure!"
After his astonishment, Karl became even more excited.
As expected...
Whether it was Rayleigh, Golden Lion, or Garp, these super-powerful individuals of the old era were all ultimate beings who had reached the pinnacle of mind, technique, and body.
With just this one move, Garp was worthy of the name Marine Hero.
A body of martial arts that had been tempered a thousand times, now comparable to that of a natural-born monster.
Armament Haki that had reached the peak of perfection.
Life Return that surpassed human limits, capable of unleashing a force several times stronger than his normal state.
These three interconnected and fused abilities, in Garp's hands, produced a terrifying effect of 1+1+1 being greater than 3.
If the Six Powers were superhuman techniques created to surpass human limits.
Then the current Garp, standing at the pinnacle of the Six Powers and Life Return, was a true superman.
He was truly worthy of being the most mysterious and unfathomable existence in the original story.
With a legendary record of achievements that countless people could only look up to, Garp's strength could not be weak.
Karl, who had thought his strength was number one in the world after completing his third evolution, did a backflip and landed. He then looked at Garp and said with a fierce fighting spirit, "Monkey D. Garp, it's great that you're my first opponent this year!"
"Since you've shown me strength that surpasses human limits, then I'll also show you my greatest growth this year!"
"Life Return: As Big or Small as I Please!"
Rip—
Karl shouted softly, deliberately adding the prefix "Life Return" before his third trait.
With the sound of tearing cloth.
Karl's body suddenly ripped the shirt under his knight's armor and grew to a height of three meters on the spot.
This height was thirteen centimeters taller than Garp's two meters and eighty-seven centimeters.
The height difference was instantly reversed.
But due to the sudden surge in his body size, Karl's shirt was torn to shreds, and the cuffs of his pants were also ripped.
Only the knight's armor and the modified part of his pants, which he had resized with Electro-Metallurgy by releasing an electric current as he grew, were able to remain intact.
"...You also have Life Return?!"
Seeing Karl instantly transform from a shorty of less than two meters into an existence taller than himself.
Even the thick-skinned Garp couldn't help but open his mouth wide.
"Then... the new round begins!"
Karl, seeing that he hadn't become naked, first nodded in satisfaction, then grinned at Garp.
Whoosh————Boom!
The next moment, Karl used Life Return to its fullest, perfectly controlling his suddenly three-meter-sized body...
His figure turned into an afterimage, shattering the ground as he charged in front of Garp, then threw a punch at his face.
Before the fist even made contact, a sense of satisfaction welled up in Karl's heart.
As Big or Small as I Please was definitely Karl's most satisfying and favorite trait, besides Absolute Comprehension.
All along, Karl had been both satisfied and dissatisfied with his height.
Satisfied that he wasn't that tall; two meters was enough.
Otherwise, if he were too tall, as a lecher with a cloud of beauties around him, he wouldn't know where to start.
Dissatisfied that he was too short. When fighting, unless he used teleportation, he couldn't hit the faces of those huge guys.
Now, the trait of As Big or Small as I Please undoubtedly solved this problem for Karl.
And it allowed him to handle a big one, a truly ultimate-level trait.
But I digress...
Facing Karl's punch aimed at his face, the surprised Garp still reacted in time.
Thanks to his almost passive Life Return, even though Garp was defending reactively, the punch he threw still surpassed 100%, reaching a limit blow of about 150%.
However, after this limit blow collided with Karl's fist.
Garp's eyes suddenly widened, and his whole body turned into an afterimage, sent flying by Karl's punch.
The afterimage, like an arrow, flew out of the island's pier, drawing a huge white line on the surface of the sea, and finally stopped several miles away, falling down.
Just as the information from As Big or Small as I Please had conveyed.
Growing larger would weaken speed and enhance strength.
Shrinking would weaken strength and enhance speed.
Normal Karl was already a super monster with maxed-out strength and speed, and a physical constitution that was number one in the world.
Now, sacrificing a little speed in exchange for strength, he had further widened the gap with the second place.
If Garp had broken the limits of the human body, displaying a superhuman power exceeding 100%.
Then Karl had now also broken the limits of the human body, a super monster whose strength had broken through 100%.
The true power of As Big or Small as I Please..
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