The moment the core was spat out, Ivankov's movements noticeably paused, his eyes revealing a heavy look. Instinctively, his left eye widened and then blinked forcefully.
"Death's Alluring Gaze!"
Bang!
Almost right in front of his eyelids, the explosive wind detonated on the core that was about to attack, swirling a gust and blowing the core away.
"Oh? Similar to Qi Drinking Technique, but using the force of eyelid movement?"
Sage remarked curiously, "With that effort, wouldn't it be better to practice punching?"
It's not Haki, purely explosive energy formed between the blinking eyelids, and it's quite powerful.
But if the eyelids can exert force, wouldn't using arms be even more powerful?
"This is charm! Boy! Haha!"
Ivankov posed in a one-legged stance, that free leg flicked forward, quickly rushing towards Sage, both hands forming hand knife shapes, striking out myriad of afterimages, filling the large face area, as if no longer having a body, just the head as the body, and the flashing afterimages were like tentacles...
What a freak...
"Newkama Kenpo 44's Beauty Secret Technique! Dream Strike Processing Fist!"
Hiss hiss hiss!
The tips of the hand knives pierced the fruits ahead, scattering fragments with extreme speed, missing entirely.
"I don't want to deal with someone as perverted as you."
On the side, Sage held a pear, taking two bites and leaving only the core, "Well, let's see how my ability really fares."
His arm swung back, forming a throwing posture.
Ivankov's toes tapped the ground, shouting, "Same speed as just now? Boy, that move..."
Whoosh!
While Ivankov was speaking, a pitch-black object rapidly approached him, completely catching him off guard.
Even...
He didn't see Sage's arm move at all, just posed as if throwing!
How did it get thrown without movement?
No...
Not no movement...
It's so fast he can't see it clearly!
"Rotating Beauty!"
Ivankov's toes spun, swiftly flipping sideways, somersaulted twice mid-air, and barely brushed past the rapidly thrown core.
Sage's mouth curled into a smile: "It's useless..."
The thrown core suddenly expanded to a massive object about a meter in diameter, striking Ivankov who was spinning.
The expansion in size also means expansion in angle.
Bang!
Ivankov was hit in the chest with this object, carrying him straight toward the wall, the giant core dissipating Haki at this moment, bursting into countless tiny fragments.
The release of the ability is not permanent; it returns after a while.
Sage thought for a while, with a mind command, those core fragments automatically shrunk, returning to original core fragment size.
Besides, he can actively disarm the ability without waiting for it to revert.
But generally, there's no need...
The fruit, aptly named More-More Fruit, means 'more'.
Indeed, the fruit Sage acquired, the ability that actively chose him, is the More-More Fruit.
After killing Byrnndi World, the fruit came to him by itself.
The old man he took down in prison was once the 'World Destroyer' Byrnndi World, and this ability once belonged to him.
This made Sage more certain that this fruit selects its master.
Otherwise, why would it come so promptly when its host just died?
It's like...
"I am more suited than him to be your master, right?"
Sage looked at his hand, grinning: "Very well, More-More, more... Yes, I just want more, more of everything, treasure, power, influence, territory, industry, the more the better. Choosing me as master, you didn't choose wrong!"
"You, with that ability..."
"Tenfold, Soru·Divine Speed."
Sage vanished in place.
Ivankov had just fallen off the wall, not finishing his words, when a foot imbued with Haki hit his face hard, and as he was kicked, in his peripheral vision he could distinctly see everyone around him collapsing.
Bang!!
The foot didn't even touch Ivankov; it was just the outward Haki striking his face, a kick sent him into the wall, blasting out a person-shaped cavity, breaking through the wall of the food warehouse, all the way to the other side of the passage, blasting out a deep person-shaped cavity.
"Absolute speed also signifies absolute power."
Sage withdrew his foot, smiled towards the cavity: "You seem to not be able to react, hum hum hum hum..."
Ivankov isn't weak, counted as a rare strong one.
But in the face of this speed, he also can't react.
This fruit is augmenting on the basic!
As long as Sage's base attributes are strong, the augmentation would be huge.
His speed was already quick, not to mention using 'Soru', in terms of Six Styles usage, he could easily outdo those so-called 'once in eight-hundred years talents' by many streets.
With just tenfold speed augmentation, he already matches the hundredfold augmentation that Vald boasted about in prison.
Very fitting for him!
No need for any fancy abilities, augmentation alone suffices!
This fruit's ability can augment non-living objects touched up to a hundredfold, including speed, size, weight, power, etc...
Likewise, it can work on oneself as a living being, also achieving augmentation.
But it can't augment will...
Will belongs to oneself, unaffected by abilities.
Yet, it's strong enough.
Sage, although only showing speed augmentation, can apply others, since as an ability, since speed is a form of 'amplification', others not augmenting would be unreasonable.
Amplification, of course, is all-round.
But not usable now...
Sage is hugely powerful, and the fruit doesn't need to be developed from scratch; from the moment obtained, he could use hundredfold augmentation, but more applicable to objects because objects aren't living, shattered is just shattered.
But beings are different.
Tenfold speed augmentation, Sage can endure.
Hundredfold speed, with Haki, can provide protection, preventing backlash on himself.
But for other augmentations, let's not even discuss.
Power augmentation...
Sage's power is inherently daunting, yet this daunting nature is based on his physique; to wield even greater power, the Dragon Transformation Breathing Technique must be used, along with physical enhancement, to exert more power.
Otherwise, even augmenting three to five times, Sage's physique can't handle it.
One punch down, whether the foe dies or not Sage doesn't know, but his own hand would certainly be done for.
The same goes for weight; single augmentation still manageable, but coupled with speed, the resulting power isn't merely one plus one...
Size?
This is a pitfall; once amplified, the enlarged body inherently increases weight and power, but the bigger, the harder to manage, because increasing size, not physique.
He'd be crushed under his own weight.
What's it useful for?
Being a live target?
The larger the size, the weaker Haki coverage strength becomes; too large means unable to defend in all areas.
His Haki intensity is not enough.
But this ability has the most convenience: Sage doesn't have to divert his focus to develop Devil Fruit powers; he can continue specializing in Body Techniques.
He's inherently a master of Body Techniques!
The larger the base, the greater the ability exerted!