"This move is quite interesting. Why does it feel somewhat similar to the Raikage's Lightning Release Armor?"
Raleigh stroked his chin as he watched Enel, who appeared like a Thunder God descending upon the world.
However, when one thinks about it, whether it's the Lightning Release Armor from his memories or Enel's raijin, they share remarkable similarities despite their different origins.
Both utilize the natural lightning element to enhance the physical body.
Even without engaging in combat, Raleigh could judge the threat level based solely on Enel's current aura.
Enel's aura had grown roughly twice as strong as before. This indicated that this technique could boost both his speed and attack power by more than double.
"Damn outsider, now you'll taste the power of the Thunder God's Strike!"
Enel abruptly raised his head, his eyes fixed intently on Raleigh.
"Are you prepared to face divine punishment?!"
Crack!
Following Enel's words, a deafening thunderclap drowned out all other sounds in the area.
Hearing the tremendous noise, the people of Birka Island hurriedly covered their heads and hid inside their houses.
"Heavens, judging by that sound, Enel must be truly enraged."
"I heard it's that outsider who arrived this morning. He's been staying under that giant tree and refused to leave, angering Enel."
"Enel is being unreasonable. These outsiders haven't harmed us in any way. We'd naturally drive away any pirates ourselves."
"I hope Enel chases the outsider away soon, otherwise this noise will continue for a long time."
While the island residents were discussing among themselves, the Enel they were thinking of wore a grave expression.
Just moments ago, Enel—empowered by two hundred million volts of electricity—had nearly teleported before Raleigh, raising his hand to strike fatally at Raleigh's neck.
Yet, Enel's full-force hand chop was effortlessly blocked by Raleigh's forearm.
Raleigh even flashed his pearly white teeth to mock him. "Kid, if this is all you've got, you'd better come train with the Marines for a couple of years."
Hearing Raleigh's condescending words, Enel's face flushed crimson with rage.
"Damn it!"
"Damn it!"
The instant his attack failed, Enel swiftly relocated, teleporting thirty meters away from Raleigh.
Gritting his teeth so hard they nearly shattered, the fury in Enel's eyes seemed ready to erupt.
The electric currents around his body grew increasingly restless.
Whoosh!
The sound of tearing through air echoed again, but this time Enel didn't aim for a single point of attack.
Instead, he launched assaults from all directions—front, back, left, right, above, and below.
If others attempted such tactics, it might prove difficult, but for Enel with his Rumble-Rumble Fruit, achieving this through lightning speed was effortless.
"Young man, do you believe in light?"
This phrase suddenly popped into Raleigh's mind.
Seeing Enel's body flickering with electric sparks, Raleigh couldn't help but recall Borsalino.
That guy's Glint-Glint Fruit was hailed as the fastest among Logia-type Devil Fruits. Though the Rumble-Rumble Fruit could rival the Glint-Glint Fruit in speed, it would never surpass it in pure velocity.
"You've developed the Rumble-Rumble Fruit quite impressively. Against those unfamiliar with this type of ability, they'd be flustered trying to handle your multi-directional assaults."
Raleigh's figure swayed left and right, evading every one of Enel's attacks with minimal movement.
"Unfortunately for you, I have a good brother named Borsalino, whose Devil Fruit is the Logia-type Glint-Glint Fruit."
While he was handling the barrage with ease, two steel-like hands suddenly shot out, firmly grasping Enel's right arm.
A terrifying smile curled at the corner of Raleigh's lips.
"Got you, kid."
Seeing the horrifying grin on Raleigh's face, Enel quickly attempted to elementalize his arm into electricity to escape.
But after yanking twice with all his might, Enel discovered that his already-elementalized arm remained completely immobile in Raleigh's steel-clamp-like grip.
"How is this possible? What kind of sorcery are you using?!"
Failing to free his arm, Enel grew even more frantic.
"Take this: North Blue Kneeling Slam!"
The muscles on Raleigh's arms bulged layer by layer as he swiftly turned, pressing his back against Enel's chest. Enel intended to block, but his left hand had only just begun to rise.
Raleigh, who had been facing away, suddenly dropped to one knee, transmitting an irresistible force through his arms and back into Enel's body.
Before Enel could even react, his body was already inverted in mid-air, being driven toward the earth.
Enel's mind worked rapidly—he knew he had no chance to escape this technique now. But he would never admit defeat.
Even if he would be severely injured by this move, he had to display his own fighting spirit.
This was a matter of Enel's invincible conviction.
"Divine Judgment!"
Enel's free left hand instantly transformed into lightning and shot into the sky.
Above Birka Island, a thick thundercloud had been gathering for quite some time.
As Enel's elementalized left hand struck the thundercloud, the long-accumulated lightning suddenly went wild.
A massive pillar of lightning formed within the thundercloud. In the 0.01 seconds before Enel hit the ground, he launched his attack.
BOOM!!!
Enel's body violently kissed the earth of Birka, the impact creating a massive crater across dozens of square meters of hard ground.
Dense spiderweb cracks rapidly spread outward, seemingly threatening to split Birka Island in two.
Almost simultaneously, Enel's prepared attack reached completion.
A lightning pillar over ten meters in diameter slammed down from the sky toward Raleigh.
BOOM!
The previous thunderous roar hadn't even faded away when another equally deafening explosion followed.
The residents of Birka Island trembled in fear upon hearing these two tremendous blasts.
In their memory, since Enel obtained the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, he had almost never experienced defeat.
If those two earth-shattering explosions had been caused by Enel, that would be acceptable.
At the very least, it would mean Enel had driven out the outsider and would continue to protect everyone.
But if those explosions weren't from Enel, it meant the residents of Birka Island would face an unknown fate.