Chapter 138: The War Demon's Resolution! An All-In Strike
On the vast golden deck of the Ark "Maxim," wild winds howled and thunderclouds pressed down from above.
Zoro, Robin, and Wyper finally charged up the giant beanstalk and onto this flying ship that symbolized despair.
"Strike first!"
Robin crossed her arms in front of her chest, her gaze cold and sharp.
"Six Fleur: Slap Barrage!"
Countless fair arms sprouted instantly from Enel's shoulders and neck like flower petals.
Her palms formed blades, locking onto his vitals as she exerted force, attempting to snap the neck of that arrogant god.
"It's useless."
Enel didn't even spare her a glance.
"Zzz—"
The moment the arms applied force, his body transformed into a mass of intangible lightning.
Robin's arms grabbed at nothing, as if she had grasped empty air.
"Logia-type elemental transformation... how troublesome," Robin frowned.
"Now's the time!"
Taking advantage of the momentary opening created by Robin's interference.
Zoro had already leapt high into the air with the Wado Ichimonji in his teeth; the muscles in his arms bulged, and his three swords converged into a massive surge of momentum.
"One Sword Style: Thirty-Six... Two Sword Style: Seventy-Two..."
"Three Sword Style: 108 Pound Cannon!"
Boom!!
A blue, spiraling slash, thicker than any he had ever unleashed before, tore through the air on the deck. Carrying the sharpness to cut through steel, it headed straight for Enel's face.
Facing this strike capable of splitting a warship, Enel remained seated, making no move to dodge.
He merely extended one hand.
"Too slow, swordsman of the Blue Sea."
"Bang!!"
That hand, wreathed in lightning, had actually caught Zoro's sword energy head-on.
Immediately after, the violent lightning erupted, shattering the blue slash into dust.
"What?!" Zoro's pupils constricted.
"As a return gift... 20 Million Volts: Discharge!"
Zzzzt!!!
Blinding blue light conducted through the air.
"Waaaaah!!"
Mid-air, Zoro was struck head-on by the high-voltage electricity; he fell to the deck, smoking all over, his swords nearly slipping from his grasp.
"Damn it... my body... I'm too paralyzed to move..."
Zoro gritted his teeth, attempting to stand, but his muscles refused to obey.
Nearby, Robin had also been blown away by the shockwave of the lightning eruption, crashing near a golden railing in the distance.
"Yahahaha! This is the gap between mortals and a god!"
Just as Enel thought he had resolved all trouble and prepared to continue operating the Ark.
A blood-soaked figure, as if crawling out of hell, burst through the lingering smoke and charged right in front of him.
The "War Demon" Wyper.
His bloodshot eyes stared fixedly at Enel's physical form.
"Hmph, it's you stray dog again?" Enel raised his hand, preparing to discharge electricity.
"Got you!"
Disregarding his own life, Wyper lunged forward.
He violently swung a pitch-black chain with his left hand, embedded with a special type of stone, instantly wrapping it around Enel's neck and body.
"Zzz... Huh?"
Just as Enel tried to turn elemental, he discovered with horror that his body had become incredibly heavy, and he couldn't mobilize his lightning power at all.
"This is... Sea Stone?!"
Enel's pupils shook violently, and for the first time, he showed a look of panic: "My power... has disappeared?!"
"That's right! This is the stone prepared specifically to kill you!"
Wyper roared, taking advantage of the moment Enel lost his abilities.
He stepped forward and pressed the shell on his right palm—which had long been charged and was radiating a dangerous aura—firmly against Enel's chest.
That spot was exactly where Tatsuya had punched him earlier, a place still throbbing with pain!
"For the Great Warrior Calgara!!!!"
In Wyper's mind, the vow of his ancestor surfaced, along with the blood and tears shed by his people over the past four hundred years.
"For the four hundred years of waiting!!!!"
He poured all his life force, all his soul, into this strike:
"This strike... will take your life!!!!"
"Reject!!!!"
Boom————!!!
A dull, deafening roar that made the heart stop.
A visible, immensely huge, and powerful white shockwave pierced through Enel's heart at point-blank range!
The terrifying power even blasted through the golden throne behind Enel, and together with it, blew a massive hole through the Ark's thick deck!
"Crack!!"
At the same time.
Because the recoil of this strike was ten times that of an impact dial, the bones in Wyper's right arm shattered instantly, and blood sprayed out like a fountain.
"Puhah—!!"
Enel's eyes rolled back, foam spilling from his mouth; he couldn't even let out a scream.
His massive body swayed, then toppled backward, crashing to the ground.
In the high altitude where only the wind howled, Enel's strong heartbeat...
Stopped.
Silence.
Deathly silence.
"Ha... ha..."
Zoro lay on the ground, gasping for air, watching the fallen god: "Did... did he die?"
Wyper lay on the ground, bathed in blood, his right arm hanging limply.
He looked up at the sky, a smile of relief appearing on his face:
"We... we did it..."
"The lights of Shandora... finally..."
Everyone thought they had won.
In the distance, Robin also breathed a sigh of relief, leaning on the railing to stand up.
However.
Robin looked at Enel's corpse; her archaeologist's intuition suddenly gave her an inexplicable sense of trepidation.
"No... that's not right."
Robin's pupils contracted sharply.
Only ten seconds passed.
"Zzz... zzzzt..."
On the fallen Enel, faint blue electric arcs suddenly began to flicker.
The current wasn't attacking; instead, like a pacemaker, it was automatically stimulating the heart that had ceased beating.
One beat.
Two beats.
Thump... thump... thump!
The strong heartbeat resonated on the deathly silent deck once more.
"Is... is he a zombie?!" Zoro widened his eyes in disbelief.
Under their desperate gazes, Enel sat straight up from the ground like a zombie.
"Hoo..."
He exhaled a long, heavy breath, twisted his somewhat stiff neck, and it made a series of cracking sounds.
Then, he turned his head, his eyes regaining their luster, and looked mockingly at the terrified Wyper:
"Ah... that really startled me."
Enel touched his chest:
"Just a moment ago, I almost really went to another world.
"If I weren't a lightning man capable of jump-starting my own heart..."
Despair.
True despair flooded over Wyper like a tidal wave.
The strike he had bet his life on had merely given the god a "startle."
Enel stood up, his whole body blazing with lightning, his terrifying pressure even more violent than before:
"As a return gift... die, all of you."
"Thunder God!!"
Just at this suffocating, hopeless moment.
"Hummmm—"
It wasn't thunder.
In the sea of clouds below the Ark, a strange sound of something breaking through the air suddenly arrived, as if something was approaching at extreme speed.
A red figure grabbed the top of the giant beanstalk that towered into the clouds, and using its incredible elasticity, shot vertically up to this ten-thousand-meter altitude!
"Gomu Gomu!!!!"
The boy's roar pierced through the thunderclouds, drowned out the thunder, and resonated across the entire sky:
Enel instinctively looked up.
What came into his view was that boy wearing a straw hat, his face full of anger.
Enel frowned.
He felt that this rubber boy who had descended from the sky... was sent by the heavens to counter him...
His only natural enemy!
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