The natural system started off strong, but the navy finally reached its peak!

As soon as he finished speaking, the sky in the distance suddenly darkened.

Dark clouds rolled in, lightning flashed, and a bolt of lightning ripped through the sky, striking directly at where everyone was!

"Watch out!" The Snake Princess instantly drew her sword, the blade flashing like lightning, splitting the lightning in two.

However, the lightning that was split did not dissipate; instead, it formed a lightning cage around everyone, crackling loudly.

"Those who trespass on the territory of the gods shall die..." A deep voice came from all directions, and thunder rolled in the clouds.

Immediately afterwards, a figure slowly descended from the dark clouds.

He was a tall, slender young man with unusually long earlobes that almost reached his shoulders.

He was shirtless, wearing only loose white trousers, with four taiko drums stuck in his back and a golden staff in his hand.

"People of Qinghai, you shouldn't be here." Enel's voice was devoid of emotion, yet it contained an undeniable authority.

“Enel.” Gern slowly stood up, raising his eyes to look upwards. “We’ve finally met.”

Upon hearing Gern call out his name, Enel frowned slightly: "You know my name?"

“Of course,” Gern chuckled. “After all, I came here specifically to see you.”

"Looking for me?" Enel sneered. "What for? To ask me, this 'god,' for a favor?"

“No.” Gern looked him straight in the eye. “I’ve come to invite you to join me.”

Chapter 227 Are you a god too?

"Join..." Enel's expression flickered for the first time.

He was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter.

"Hahaha... Interesting, so interesting!"

"So, you mean..." Enel's laughter abruptly stopped, and his eyes suddenly turned cold.

"Does a mere mortal dare to ask a god to lower himself?"

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly raised his hand, and a thick bolt of lightning descended from the sky, striking directly at the top of Gern's head!

"Boom!" Lightning exploded, and smoke and dust rose everywhere.

However, when the smoke cleared, Gern was still standing in the same spot, completely unharmed.

"A Logia-type Devil Fruit user? And lightning at that." Tesoro finally understood why Gern had come looking for this guy.

"Comparable to lightning... If properly trained, it would indeed be a formidable fighting force."

On the other side, seeing the unharmed Gern, Enel's pupils contracted slightly: "You..."

“Heh.” Gern interrupted him with a laugh, “To think you can call yourself ‘god’ based on this alone is too naive.”

"Insolence!" Enel roared, his entire body erupting with lightning, and he raised his golden staff high, shouting, "Divine Judgment!"

A thick bolt of lightning struck down, instantly turning the entire area into a hell of lightning!

The three Snake Princesses quickly retreated, avoiding the area covered by the lightning.

“Gern!” Lipo called out anxiously, but Tesoro pulled her back.

“Don’t worry,” Tesoro said in a deep voice. “At this level… Lieutenant General Guern probably wouldn’t even need to use Armament Haki.”

Sure enough, amidst the lightning, Gern's figure remained standing.

He walked slowly forward, each step intensifying the tremors of the ground: "Enel, can your Observation Haki hear my thoughts?"

Enel's expression finally changed.

He really can't hear

Because this man's inner thoughts are like an abyss, impossible to fathom!

“Impossible…” Enel murmured. “No one can block God’s hearing. At first I thought it was because of the distance, but now it seems…”

“It’s because your mental network isn’t strong enough.” Gern’s voice suddenly rang in Enel’s ear.

Enel whirled around and found that Gern had somehow appeared behind him.

"When...?" Enel hurriedly transformed into his elemental form, turning into lightning to create distance, and then unleashed another lightning bolt from the spot.

“Good reaction.” Gern nodded approvingly, still standing in place, “but not fast enough.”

“Interesting…” Enel was taken aback when he saw that the lightning had no effect on Gren. Then he grinned and revealed an arrogant smile.

"But it's not like you're the only one who won't get hurt..."

Enel spread his arms, lightning crackling around his body, his tone carrying the arrogance and mockery of a god.

"God is also unharmed."

"If you don't believe me..." With that, he sat down cross-legged, placed the golden staff across his knees, tilted his head to look at Gern, and his eyes flashed with a provocative light.

"You can give it a try too."

Looking at Enel's unperturbed appearance, Gern couldn't help but chuckle: "Ripo."

"Whoosh!!" Before the words were even finished, a blur of motion tore through the air!

Libo's figure flashed out, and almost the instant Gern called out her name, she was already close to Enel's side.

The white ball of fluff stretched into a sharp straight line as it moved at high speed, its chilling killing intent locking onto Enel.

Ribo raised her right leg high, Armament Haki wrapped around it, and delivered a sharp spinning side kick straight for Enel's cheek!

Enel ignored the sight and didn't bother to dodge. He simply raised his hand lazily, his body becoming slightly ethereal, with lightning crackling across his skin.

"Sorry, mortals cannot harm you..."

Before he could even utter the word 'God,' Libo's toe had already slammed into his left cheek!

With a muffled thud, Enel's expression froze, his left cheek muscles contorted and deformed from the immense impact.

Teeth were almost detached from the gums, and saliva and blood splattered in the air!

"Whoosh!" Enel's body was kicked away like a cannonball.

It smashed through several floating cloud stones along the way, and finally crashed heavily into a building in the distance, raising clouds of dust!

"Tsk tsk tsk." Gern stood there, a faint smile playing on his lips. "Now, do you still think 'God' is unharmed?"

In the distance, Enel struggled to crawl out of the rubble, half of his face swollen and blood seeping from the corner of his mouth.

He stared intently at Lippo, his eyes filled with disbelief.

"How is this possible... How could a mere mortal... possibly encounter me?!"

However, Ribo was even more confused than Enel and did not continue the pursuit.

Instead, he stood still, blinked, and looked back at Gern with a blank expression.

“No, Gern…” she pointed at Enel, her voice filled with disbelief, “He really isn’t dodging?!”

Gern shrugged, his smile widening: "After all, he's a 'god'."

In the distance, the Snake Princess rubbed her forehead with one hand, giving off a "this guy is hopeless" look.

Tesoro's lips twitched, and he couldn't help but mutter under his breath, "Is this guy's strong Observation Haki just for show?"

Enel heard their conversation, his forehead veins bulged, and lightning crackled wildly around his body.

"You...you dare to fool the gods?!"

Libo tilted her head, her rabbit ears twitching slightly, and asked innocently, "So... why didn't you dodge just now?"

Enel: "..."

The air seemed to freeze at that moment.

Enel's expression froze.

Anger, shame, disbelief... a mix of emotions contorted on his face, finally erupting into a hysterical roar.

"I am a god!!!"

"Thump!!" The golden staff slammed into the drum on its back, and blinding lightning exploded!

"6000 Million Volts Thunder Dragon!!"

A thunderous roar transformed into a ferocious dragon, tearing through the air and hurtling towards Gern with destructive pressure!

Faced with this terrifying attack, Gern didn't even need to use his Devil Fruit power; he simply used his left hand, which was wrapped in black Armament Haki, to gently deflect it.

"Boom!!" The thunder dragon disintegrated, and lightning sparked everywhere.

"What?!" Enel's pupils contracted sharply, his voice caught in his throat.

"At only 17 years old, the fruit has already been developed to this extent...?"

Gern's figure had appeared behind him once again, his tone calm.

"It's a pity that they only fought weaklings and lacked real combat experience."

The moment he heard the sound, Enel gritted his teeth, and his golden staff instantly melted into a sharp spear, crackling with lightning as he thrust it backward!

"Whoosh!" The spear pierced through Gern's abdomen, then he leaped forward, creating distance.

In the instant he turned around, he saw his weapon stuck in Gern's stomach.

Furthermore, a ripple appeared at the wound, a unique elemental phenomenon characteristic of nature!

Gern looked down at the "wound" on his abdomen, and the vibrations spread across his body like ripples of particles.

He reached out, grasped the spear, and slowly pulled it out.

"You can't kill me like that."

Enel staggered backward, his pupils trembling wildly.

The voice was almost squeezed out from between his teeth, filled with unprecedented trembling.

"You...are also...a god?!"

Chapter 228 My "Thunder" in the Natural Disasters

"God?" Upon hearing this, Gern chuckled and casually tossed the weapon back to Enel.

Enel took the weapon, flipped his wrist, and the staff spun, transforming back into its long staff form.

However, at this moment, my heart was racing uncontrollably.

Because, only now, did he truly realize that it wasn't just the man in front of him...

Even the three Qinghai people behind him exuded terrifyingly strong auras.

Especially the tall woman with long orange-red hair, whose gaze remained fixed on Gern.

But his Observation Haki instinctively warned him.

If that woman wanted to, at this distance, she could kill herself in an instant.

"Who exactly are you?" Enel's voice was deep, his golden staff gripped tightly, lightning crackling around him, but he no longer attacked rashly.

Instead of answering directly, Gern slowly raised his hand, palm facing up.

"Buzz! Crack!" The air trembled, and pale cracks spread from his palm, shattering the surrounding space like a mirror.

Enel's pupils suddenly contracted; he felt an unprecedented sense of oppression.

That wasn't the rage of lightning, but some more primal, purer power, as if it could tear even the heavens and earth apart.

"What...what kind of ability is this?!"

“Vibration.” Gern closed his fingers, and the crack vanished instantly. “However, compared to this…”

He suddenly took a step forward, and Enel instinctively took a half step back.

But Gren did not attack; instead, he brushed past him and headed toward the central shrine of Bica.

“Enel, your Observation Haki is very strong, but your title of ‘God’ is nothing more than a frog in a well.”

Enel's face suddenly darkened, and he slammed his golden cudgel heavily into the clouds, unleashing a violent burst of lightning and surrounding the clouds with thunderous energy.

"Stop talking to yourself!!" His voice, mixed with the roar of thunder, shook the entire city of Bika.