That's not something like the Straw Hat, like a balloon; it's something exceptionally textured that expands. As it grows larger, the sea lake churns, and large amounts of seawater surge toward the edges.
Amidst the turbulence, Sage's massive head stretches upwards, revealing a neck larger than that of a Giant, followed by shoulders, and then the chest. His enlarged body even bursts through the seawater lake's edges, making the large cavity on the island grow even bigger.
Partially in Ushioni form, Saturn is about as tall as Kuma. Devon and Van Augur are even shorter, one at 3.6 meters and the other at 3.4 meters. At this moment, each instinctively looked up, seeing Sage, who had almost transformed into a mountain, with his chest poking above the sea surface.
Where islands exist on the sea, most are shallow seas, with only a few being deep-sea areas.
The sea area near Egghead is the most standard shallow sea, merely within two hundred meters deep.
Around this island, there wasn't originally just a single island; it became a shallow sea only after rising two hundred meters, so Sage's current position is only two hundred meters from the "sea bottom."
And Sage himself is 1.9 meters, comparable to Buggy. The Dragon Transformation Breathing Technique can reach three meters; in the 100% of 100% posture, it can reach five meters.
His multiplier is now fifty times.
So that means...
"It's not only the Straw Hat who has so-called free form... I have it too. Once I liberate, it'll be even more destructive than him. By the way, when I liberate my body, the size will reach..."
Crack!
As thunder blooms in the sky, Sage looks down at the ants below. His grinning teeth reflect an eye-piercing cold light under the illumination of the thunderbolt.
The sound, whether awe-striking or terrifying, echoes across the island like a thunderclap.
"Two hundred and fifty meters! Full Form · Liberation!!"
Sage stretches out his arm from the water, gripping it into a fist.
With a whoosh, a massive fireball emerges on the fist, supported by a hurricane to expand outward. Ten or so thunderbolts strike the fireball, coiling into electrical arcs around it. Under the gloomy sky, it shines as brightly as the sun.
"Although lacking the extreme physique brought by compression, my power and range..."
The sun, descends.
Boom!!!
A fierce storm arises with the punching motion, instantly forming a howling hurricane eye. The blue-gray whirlwind tears the clouds into flocculent remnants.
A massive ring of fire swiftly spreads outward. The island, already decaying under the dead silence mist, has its perimeter filled with cracks, resembling liquid magma surging from the depths of the Earth's core, filling the fissures.
Using the punch's impact point as center, cobweb-like fissures spread across the island near the Death Star in mere fractions of a second.
On the side closer to Sage, the rocky and earthy ground crumbled inward like a fragile eggshell. The coastline twisted and transformed under intense wobbles, the originally smooth beach distorted like paper kneaded by an invisible hand.
Following this, an even larger shockwave pushes outward in a ring-like fashion. It first pushes back billions of tons of seawater along the coastline. The fusion of flame and power even evaporates some seawater at the moment, exposing the seabed. Numerous fish unable to escape explode into bloody mist under this shockwave.
In a more distant location, under the shockwave's impact, the seawater compresses into a giant wall stacking upwards, with the wave tips even touching the hanging clouds.
The entire island at this moment is like cookies crushed by a child. Behind him, half of the island splits into several irregularly shaped small islands.
In front of Sage, where the fist strikes, half of Egghead is utterly obliterated under this punch. Wave after wave of towering giant tides overturn, filling the vacuum created, but the intense shock even leads to a giant rapid whirlpool forming in the water beneath the fist, threatening to shred everything.
Just an ordinary Elemental Fist; yet, under the towering 200-plus meters, larger than Saint Juan Wolf's figure, the power of a single punch geometrically increases.
This is Sage's liberation form.
In this form, the previously fully compressed form of fifty times disappears.
It's replaced by the most primordial state, with volume increased fifty times, speed enhanced a hundred times, weight... or power, also reaching fifty times the magnitude.
Primordial, once mocked by Kaido for having strength but being completely mismatched, making combat inefficient and blunt, considered a target in the eyes of masters.
Yet the violence and destructiveness outweigh those of the full form by far!
His full form sacrifices some bonuses granted by abilities, allowing it to match perfectly with combat skills and will, thus showcasing a battle stance unique to himself.
But this liberation form is pure destruction.
Even the 67-meter "Continent-Puller" Oars can move the island he fancies; now, his body... can overturn Egghead with just one hand!
In this form, there's no need for any North Star Divine Fist, as the purest power can destroy everything.
He supports one edge of the remaining half of the island with one hand. Suddenly leaping, the giant figure jumps out from the seawater, and at the moment of emergence, the body shrinks again, transforming into the Full Form's fifty times posture.
"Casually growing and shrinking, is not exclusive to that Nika."
Sage laughs lightly, turning his head towards the other half of the island, "Escaped? Acquired a decent ability there, Van Augur."
As for ability failure... there is no such option. It's merely a rumor of the sea; there are abilities that can be rendered ineffective by seawater, but it's never about the ability user's actual body. Those people are just powerless to exert abilities when submerged in seawater.