One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

Crocodile, blasted apart in mid-air by a sudden bolt of lightning, turned into billowing yellow sand that fell to the earth from a height of 100 meters.

Below is the ground directly above the ruins of Albana's royal city.

The falling yellow sand swirled and gathered in the air, and Crocodile's gloomy figure gradually materialized.

He turned his head to look at the ground beside him, where the liquid gold had already flowed and was beginning to solidify. His entire face was twitching and contorting.

At that moment, even Crocodile, no matter how stupid he was, realized that he had been tricked.

He was completely outmaneuvered by that Rear Admiral Rorschach.

The Hades battleship is fake.

The blast that was fired was also meticulously designed.

The other party's real purpose is to mislead you into saying those things.

Crackling sound.

A tiny arc of electricity rang in his ears.

Then, a tall, slender figure dressed in a navy sailor uniform appeared out of thin air in the open space in front of him.

Long earlobes, squinty eyes, wearing a private's naval uniform.

"Private, are you kidding me!"

Looking at Enel's ridiculous private third-class sailor uniform, Crocodile felt a deep sense of humiliation welling up inside him.

The terrifying energy fluctuations emanating from this squinty-eyed man were none other than the lightning power that had previously emerged from the cannon barrel of the 'Pluto Battleship'.

A navy officer who can transform into a flashing bolt of lightning, hide inside a tiny cannon barrel, and blast a crater hundreds of meters in diameter in the desert, would be a mere private.

Even the most worthless Logia-type Rumble-Rumble Fruit user would never become a mere third-class recruit after joining the Navy.

These navy men are clearly humiliating themselves.

The kind of humiliation that completely disregarded him, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea.

Crocodile, already enraged beyond measure, could no longer contain himself and unleashed a whistling blast of sand at Enel in front of him.

A large blast of sand came hurtling towards him. Enel could have ignored it, since he was a Logia-type Devil Fruit user and could transform into an element.

But when Enel thought of Rorschach and these people from Qinghai, who seemed to possess the kind of domineering power that could attack elemental bodies, he chose to dodge.

A bolt of lightning crackled and flashed, and Enel vanished from Crocodile's sight in an instant.

Its speed was even faster than Old Sha's reaction.

The next instant, lightning gathered behind him, transforming into Enel's tall and imposing figure. He waved his hand towards the golden liquid not far away, and strands of golden liquid rose up. Under the influence of his lightning power, they quickly transformed into a golden spear, which Enel reached out and grasped, then stabbed Crocodile in the back with lightning speed.

puff!

The sharp golden spear pierced Crocodile's back without any doubt, emerging from his chest.

Crocodile was initially shocked, but then breathed a sigh of relief.

This golden spear was not covered with Armament Haki.

It seems that this user of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit has not awakened the power of Armament Haki.

However, the opponent's speed was indeed too fast.

Crocodile's face grew out of the back of his head, his body twisted after being pierced by the spear, his back became his chest, and in the blink of an eye he flipped over, his right hand extending out of the yellow sand, turning into a yellow sand crescent blade that slashed at Enel who was holding the spear.

"Crescent-shaped dunes!"

Swish!

The yellow sand moon blade passed through Enel's two halves of body that he had deliberately separated, without touching his body at all.

Seeing Crocodile, whose body he had pierced through, yet who seemed completely unharmed, and recalling the sandstorm that had filled the sky after he had just blasted him apart, Enel's brows furrowed.

Another Logia-type Devil Fruit user!

Are there that many Logia-type Devil Fruit users in Qinghai?

On Rorschach's ship, there was one that could turn into flames, another that could turn into clouds, and now there's one that can turn into sand.

How did my once invincible elemental transformation ability suddenly become such a common, ubiquitous ability?

However, despite the tremor, Enel was not afraid at all.

His powerful Observation Haki, enhanced by the power of lightning, allowed him to quickly determine that the Logia-type Devil Fruit user before him was far inferior to him in both speed and the intensity of his internal energy.

With that thought, Enel completely let go, pushing his hand holding the golden spear forward.

Zizizi!

Flashes of electricity crackled and popped as they shot wildly toward Crocodile's face.

The raging lightning pierced the air and transformed into a giant bird of lightning that took flight.

"Thirty million volts of discharge! Thunderbird!"

Crocodile's expression changed slightly, and he raised his left arm, which was equipped with the golden claw, to block in front of him.

boom!

A brilliant flash of lightning instantly engulfed him.

The terrifying lightning blasted his body, sending sand and gravel flying everywhere, leaving his body riddled with holes.

The golden claws blocking his way were instantly melted by the high-intensity electric current, turning into molten gold that spilled out.

In a battle between two Logia-type Devil Fruit users who have not mastered Armament Haki, the only way to determine a winner is to see who has stronger stamina and can withstand repeated elemental disintegration attacks.

Even though Logia-type users may seem invincible without mastering Armament Haki or having any means to counter it, they are not capable of infinite elemental transformation.

Repairing a body that has been extensively damaged requires a certain amount of physical exertion.

That's right, the elementalization of Logia-type Devil Fruit users is not without its costs.

The price to pay is physical strength.

The stronger one's physical strength, the more times one can transform into elements.

Furthermore, if even an elemental body is directly evaporated and destroyed by pure energy, then Logia-type Devil Fruit users will also die.

Otherwise, Sabo, who ate the Flame-Flame Fruit in the manga, wouldn't have needed to fear Im's Holy Mother Flame Strike at all.

Enel unleashed a torrent of lightning from his body, which shot towards Crocodile's face along with the golden spear.

"Sixty million volts of discharge! Thunder Dragon!"

Rumble!

The massive bolt of lightning transformed into a ferocious dragon, which slammed into Crocodile, who was unable to dodge in time, instantly shattering his riddled body.

Yellow sand swirled and splashed everywhere, gathering in wisps to form a giant hand that pressed down on the earth below.

"Desert! Erosion of the cycle!"

The power of the Sand-Sand Fruit spread wildly, rapidly corroding the ground of the royal city. In the blink of an eye, the land, buildings, and houses within a radius of a hundred meters were all turned into countless grains of sand, which, like waves of yellow sand, quickly converged towards the giant hand.

The towering pillar of yellow sand beside him also collapsed with a roar, turning into surging gravel that covered Enel's body.

Crack!

Enel moved like lightning, dodging through the endless yellow sand and soaring more than ten meters into the sky. With his left hand gripping the golden spear and his right hand spread its five fingers, he unleashed a dazzling burst of lightning at the boiling, surging sand below.

"One hundred million volts of discharge! Divine punishment!"

Below, the boiling sand waves coalesced into a giant face more than ten meters in diameter. Crocodile roared, drawing in the endless yellow sand, which surged dozens of meters high like a raging tsunami, crashing down on Enel in the sky.

"Raging waves in the desert!"

boom!

The violent lightning struck the sand sea, which was tens of meters high, instantly shattering the boiling yellow sand into pieces that exploded in mid-air.

The terrifying power of lightning generated extremely high temperatures, melting large swathes of sand and gravel into large chunks of glass and crystal.

A lightning bolt of 100 million volts is clearly more powerful than the boiling sand sea unleashed by Crocodile.

Even the waves of sand surging high into the sky could not withstand the bombardment of the towering ancient tree-like lightning pillars, which were pierced through one after another and blasted towards the giant face in the center of the sea of ​​sand below.

"Sand Armor! Sand Barrier!"

Crocodile roared again, and the yellow sand within a hundred meters radius roared and gathered, instantly forming a hemispherical arched dome that covered his entire body.

The next moment, dazzling lightning struck down from the sky.

boom!

Click click click!

The hemispherical sand dome lasted only three seconds before being blasted apart by a terrifying bolt of lightning, leaving a large hole.

From the broken dome-shaped opening, long, spiraling, twisted sand spikes shot out with a whoosh, raining down on Enel in the sky.

"This guy doesn't know Armament Haki either."

Enel grinned crookedly, not bothering to dodge, letting the long spikes pierce through his body, passing through his chest and flying into the higher sky behind him.

His body plummeted instantly, crashing headlong into the sea of ​​sand directly below.

At this moment, Crocodile, who had already eroded the ground within a radius of several hundred meters into a desert, felt a surge of anger as he saw Enel charging towards him.

The fleeting thought that had crossed his mind—to turn into dust and escape—was now completely forgotten.

Endless yellow sand swirled, transforming into a towering sandstorm tornado. Crocodile's body expanded and grew wildly, instantly transforming into a giant tens of meters tall, entirely composed of yellow sand. He raised his more than ten-meter-long hand and followed behind the sandstorm to punch Enel, who was charging towards him.

With the Sand-Sand Fruit power, I am the undisputed Emperor of the Desert!

Even outside of a desert environment, he can use his abilities to create a sandy environment in a short time to amplify his power.

This is the terrifying destructive power of nature's ability to alter terrain on a large scale.

That's why Gulliver didn't defeat Crocodile when he came to Alabasta to spar with him a few years ago.

Even though Gulliver possesses advanced Armament Haki.

The desert, Crocodile's home ground, will amplify his power many times over.

Enel, who was falling like lightning from the sky, saw this and his body grew rapidly, transforming into a giant wrapped in lightning.

"Two hundred million volts of electricity! Thor!"