The most courageous pirate hunter

"You will say yes."

Kaido was confident of victory, as if he was certain that Hermes would become his subordinate.

After all, as long as you have the biggest fist, there's no goal you can't achieve.

Neither side spoke any more.

next second.

The two collided with earth-shattering force, creating a crater a kilometer wide. In the blink of an eye, they appeared in the distance, with storms sweeping through their path and the earth's crust rising and collapsing one after another.

They sped along and soon arrived at the sea.

Kaido flew close to the sea surface, with Hermes attacking him relentlessly from above. Huge waves surged around him, tearing apart countless marine creatures.

One was sacred and extraordinary, the other fierce and brutal; they fought their way from the island to the sea.

Kaido is a humanoid Tyrannosaurus Rex, his claws gleaming like swords as he reached out to grab Hermes.

Hermes blocked the dragon's claw with his right hand, while his left hand reached out to gouge out Kaido's eyes.

Kaido dared not underestimate him, blocking with one hand while simultaneously thrusting out with his knee, causing layers of air in front of him to explode.

The impact caused a surge of violent air pressure to spread outwards from the two individuals, creating a crater in the turbulent sea.

Hermes, performing a backflip and stepping on the moon, stood on the sea, his body burning with steam. He felt nothing but pain, but perhaps due to masochistic tendencies, he actually felt a sense of excitement.

Perhaps it was because the powerful force masked the pain, causing a surge of adrenaline, that led to this emotional state.

no doubt.

Hermes liked this feeling.

Chapter 114 [Conceptual Ability: Shrinking Wounds...]

opposite.

Kaido's blue-green scales gleamed coldly, but many parts of his body were stained with blood. His wounds, large and small, were healing rapidly. A tail swayed back and forth on his back, and his whiskers fluttered beneath his ferocious dragon horns. As his figure slowly rose higher, he exuded a bloodthirsty aura.

The dark sky had been split in two, and a hurricane began to rise in the sea behind them, whipping up waves.

In this chaotic weather, the world revolves around two people.

No words are needed.

Their eyes narrowed, and they both shot off simultaneously with a sonic boom.

In the blink of an eye.

The two returned to the island. Hermes clenched his left index and middle fingers and thrust them at Kaido like a venomous snake, but the latter blocked them with his wrist.

The blue-green scales were as hard as diamonds, and Hermes' finger spear only caused blood to appear on his wrist.

Kaido grabbed Hermes' arm with one hand, exuding a fierce aura that caused Hermes some pain. Even with Armament Haki covering his arm, Hermes' sharp nails dug deep into his flesh.

Hermes, his face contorted with malice, leaned back and kicked Kaido in the chin.

Time slows down.

First, a burst of air pressure spread out, causing Kaido's jaw to dislocate and fly into the air. Hermes did not let Kaido leave, but quickly grabbed Kaido's dragon foot and slammed him to the ground.

As the earth trembled and split open with the force of mountains being moved and seas being filled, a dark abyss seemed to connect to hell, and Kaido's figure vanished.

Hermes' figure rose into the air, far from the ground, his entire arm covered in blood, with five deep claw marks that revealed the bone. Looking at these horrifying wounds, his face was very pale.

His defenses were not even on the same level as Kaido's.

Its resilience is even more remarkable.

Even while he was on drugs, his opponent was still able to hold his own against him, and seemed to be getting stronger as the fight went on. The rumors that he was the strongest in a one-on-one fight might not be an exaggeration.

His endurance alone puts him ahead of many competitors.

However, he gained a lot from this battle, which shows that Teacher Kai is indeed Teacher Kai.

Hermes reached out and ran his hand across the exposed flesh of her arm. Incredibly, the five claw marks shrank by a third, then shrank by another third, and finally, only three tiny wounds remained.

The bleeding stopped.

With the addition of regeneration and recovery through life restoration, the wound disappeared instantly.

It was a perfect example of turning a big problem into a small one, and a small problem into nothing.

However, it consumes a lot of physical strength.

"Jie Jie Jie~"

Hermes only had a feeling, but he never expected it to actually come true.

When Hermes ate the Mini Fruit, he had many plans for its development. Making things smaller and developing them in the opposite direction to make them bigger were just the most basic. A slightly deeper level was to make external things bigger or smaller, and this move had already been developed.

At a deeper level, it involves making life forms larger or smaller, or reducing oneself to molecules or quanta to enter the quantum realm and travel through time and space, just like Ant-Man in Marvel.

There's also the awakening. Hermes even speculated that after the Mini-Fruit awakens, it can magnify and shrink everything within a certain range. As long as the enemy is in this area, they will be easily reduced to molecules or quanta and thus disappear completely.

In addition, there is the development of conceptual directions.

For example, amplifying one's own domineering aura, shrinking one's own wounds and injuries, and magnifying the enemy's wounds and injuries... Each of these developments, in the end, becomes unparalleled.

With the current Mini-Mini Fruit ability, the only way to defeat Kaido is to maintain a body size of five millimeters and combine it with hand-to-hand combat techniques. Increasing the size of the body, the size of the Tempest Kick, or the size of the Watermelon Knife will not work.

Against such a formidable enemy, ordinary abilities are ineffective and may even create openings.

From the very beginning of the battle, Hermes wanted to learn something from it. Under enough pressure, or by consuming the deadly drug ES and consuming his lifespan and potential, he might actually be able to stimulate the birth of some abilities.

Surprise.

Just like when he first awakened his domineering aura, it was unexpected.

Before this, Hermes had no clue about the development of the concept, and it would be an exaggeration to say that he didn't know where to start. When he was cultivating, he only injured himself. He thought about it day and night, and thought it would always remain just an idea.

Unexpectedly, this was achieved in this battle.

No sign.

It was like a sudden flash of inspiration; I suddenly felt I could shrink the wound, and after trying it, it actually worked.

There is no scientific basis at all.

It makes no sense at all.

That's really buggy.

Looking at it this way, shrinking the wound has a kind of reversal fruit feel to it, does it involve time?

According to the usual formula, this ability shouldn't be so easy to acquire; it would only be possible in the mid-to-late stages or the finale. Or is it really related to the drug E·S?

This thing completely consumes future lifespan and potential in exchange for immense power, so a chemical reaction occurs?

But regardless, this battle was worthwhile.

With this ability, if he were to develop the concept of minimizing injuries, then Hermes would be completely on his feet, achieving a unique kind of invincibility.

The future looks very promising.

Hermes couldn't help but laugh, because the pain from taking the deadly drug E·S was now strangely comfortable. If wounds could shrink, then what about more conceptual things like pain, disease, and life?

genius.

I am a genius.

He absolutely adored this Devil Fruit!

In this world full of bugs, it seems unsurprising that any bug will appear.

"what are you laughing at."

A furious outburst erupted, accompanied by a force as powerful as a landslide or tsunami.

Kaido wasn't so happy.

It opened its blood-red maw, which shone with blinding light, and then roared, forming a torrent of heat that swept across the atmosphere and surged toward Hermes with unstoppable force.

"Heat breath".

"Jie Jie Jie!"

"AOE - King's Fist".

Hermes clenched his fist, the air exploded, and he unleashed a powerful punch.

A massive explosion erupted, forming a dark mushroom cloud that swept across the sky. Both of them coughed up blood and transformed into streaks of light, flying towards the horizon.

Hermes' entire right arm cracked, but the next moment it exploded like a firecracker. With a single hand, he wiped the wound, which gradually shrank, and life returned, regenerating and restoring itself. It was a forced reversal of the healing process.

On the other side, Kaido's sunken chest was also rapidly swelling and recovering.

The ground, riddled with holes, shattered layer by layer, and the two figures collided together, turning into afterimages.

The sounds of their battle filled the air, both above and below ground.

Another mushroom cloud rose up, and a long rainbow of steam left a trail of light and shadow in the sky, piercing through two high mountains. A halo of air pressure formed in mid-air and continued to expand. Hermes sank his feet into the ground and moved sideways until he finally stood in the ruins. In front of him was a broken ravine, and the surrounding jungle split off and stretched to the end.

"puff!!!"