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

Instead, it became the strongest fuel to ignite his ambition, outlining a clear and powerful blueprint for him!

"Zzzzt!!!" The violent electric current surged like a swarm of snakes out of control.

"Hey! You..." Tesoro was forced to take a half step back by the sudden electric current, before he could finish speaking.

Amidst his maniacal laughter, Enel slowly lifted his feet off the ground and floated into the air!

His body was surrounded by lightning, which illuminated the extremely excited, almost manic expression on his face, making him look like a true god of thunder descending to earth, full of primal and powerful oppressive force.

"Do you see that! This is the power that a god should possess! No! It is power that surpasses that of a god!"

"This is the stage worthy of the name of a god!" His voice, mixed with the booming of thunder, made everyone's eardrums tingle.

“That man…Gern! And that ice man! They can do it…”

I will definitely be able to do it in the future! Even better!!!

"Fantastic! Qinghai...fantastic!!"

For Gern and Kuzan, the battle was not a blow, but a magnificent divine rehearsal that pointed him in the right direction!

.......

The dazzling lightning erupting from Enel's body and his arrogant hovering posture also attracted the attention of several high-ranking officials on the warship's deck.

"Hmm?" Kong crossed his arms, his thick eyebrows involuntarily raising. "Is this guy also a Logia type?"

(It was Sengoku who stamped Enel's enlistment documents, so Kong isn't too sure about that, since many basic naval affairs have already been handed over.)

"That's right, it looks like the Rumble-Rumble Fruit!" Garp picked his nose and burst into laughter without any regard for his image. "It's like firecrackers going off during the New Year!"

"This is the guy Gern brought back from the Sky Island." Zephyr, arms crossed, replied in a much more serious tone.

"His talent and abilities are terrifyingly strong. In terms of the destructive power of his Devil Fruit alone, he might even surpass Borsalino, and his speed is not bad either..."

Speaking of this, Zephyr recalled the months he spent raising Enel, sighed helplessly, and rubbed his temples.

"That's just his personality—too awful, impetuous, and lacking in reverence!"

His actions sometimes depend entirely on his mood; he's even more arrogant than the Celestial Dragons.

Just as the group was discussing, something happened in mid-air.

Enel was enjoying the ultimate pleasure and attention brought by his power, as if he had already joined the ranks of the two monsters below.

"Haha... Uh?!" Suddenly, his smug laughter stopped abruptly.

Because an extreme chill swept across without warning!

That wasn't a tangible attack; it was merely the aftershock of an extremely cold aura that spilled out uncontrollably after Kuzan and Gern collided again in the distance.

But in the instant it swept across Enel's body...

A faint but teeth-grinding freezing sound rang out.

Immediately afterwards, the violent lightning crackling around Enel was abruptly extinguished as if by an invisible hand.

A thick layer of ice covered him completely from head to toe at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye.

That expression, tinged with a hint of surprise and an arrogance that hadn't quite blossomed, was forever frozen in the ice sculpture.

The next second, Enel, who had lost the support of the lightning levitation power, fell straight and stiffly from mid-air.

A dull yet slightly crisp sound rang out.

The Enel ice sculpture even bounced back with remarkable elasticity, rolling twice.

Finally, he lay sprawled out on his back, motionless, maintaining an extremely comical and pathetic posture.

A deathly silence fell over the deck.

Tesoro: "..."

His facial muscles twitched a few times, looking at the arrogant and domineering man who seemed ready to challenge the general to a duel just a moment ago.

The next second, "Thor" turned into an ice cube and fell at his feet.

For a moment, a complex mix of emotions surged within me: surprise, astonishment, absurdity, and a barely suppressed hint of amusement.

In the end, it all turned into a helpless sigh and a complaint stuck in my throat.

"If you're going to show off, then show off! Why did you suddenly fly up like that? Sigh."

Chapter 240 This is what a 'monster' should look like.

Meanwhile, on the other side, on the island of Sakapachi.

"Thump! Thump! Thump!" Each collision between the two figures triggered an explosive shockwave.

Kuzan's Ice Fist and Gern's Tremor Fist clashed dozens of times in a hundredth of a second, with Armament Haki sparks pouring down like a torrential rain.

The frozen waves were shattered into ice shards as soon as they were raised.

The rock fragments that Gern shattered were frozen into meteorite-like ice bullets before they even hit the ground, and Kuzan delivered a whip kick to his opponent's face.

"Bang!" Gern turned his head to dodge, the ice bullet grazed his ear and exploded behind him, the flying shards drawing blood from the side of his neck.

He seized the opportunity when Kuzan was closing his attack, and his right palm, which was wrapped and vibrating, swept out like a knife.

Kuzan's pupils contracted sharply, unable to transform into his elemental form in time.

"Ice Mirror - Displacement!"

With a "whoosh!" the ice sculpture pierced through by Gern's fingertip, and Kuzan's true form appeared in the ice mirror ten meters away.

The ice sculpture in its original location was shattered into dust, while blood seeped from the corner of the real Kuzan's mouth.

At the same time, Gern's five fingers suddenly opened.

Pale energy vibrating at high frequencies swirled around his fingertips, tearing the air between them.

"Heavenly Tremor - Rift!" Five parallel spatial rifts suddenly appeared, like invisible blades slicing across the battlefield.

Wherever the crack passed, everything was neatly divided in two, the cross-section as smooth as a mirror.

Upon seeing this, Kuzan instantly transformed into his elemental form, turning into a wisp of icy mist and retreating rapidly.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!" Five cracks appeared in an instant, silently slicing the ground where Kuzan had been standing into six pieces.

Fine aftershocks remained at the cross-section, and even the air seemed to be vibrating continuously.

However, Gern's offensive did not stop. He ran quickly, and eight pure white vibrating spheres condensed around him, their surfaces covered with spiderweb-like cracks.

"Heavenly Tremor - Eight Extremes Jade!"

Eight spheres shot out of his hand, tracing eerie arcs in the air, locking onto Kuzan's aura as if they were alive, and flanking him from different angles!

Kuzan's eyes narrowed, he crossed his arms, and an aura of extreme cold surged forth.

"A thousand layers of walls!" One after another, icebergs rose up, layer upon layer, forming an impenetrable and absolute defense.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The moment the first Eight Extremes Jade struck the iceberg, the shockwave from the spatial explosion spread outwards, and spiderweb-like cracks appeared on the surface of the ice.

Immediately afterwards, a second and a third followed, and the chain of explosions turned the entire Iceberg area into a chaotic and terrifying hell!

Ice crystal fragments danced wildly in the shockwave, and Kuzan's figure appeared and disappeared at the center of the explosion.

A cold smile curved at the corner of Gern's lips as he muttered a complaint: "It's really difficult to use Observation Haki to detect the movements of an opponent of this caliber."

However, the next second

"Glacier Burial!" Extremely cold air erupted from the center of the explosion, and Kuzan's figure burst through the smoke and dust.

His right arm was completely enveloped in Armament Haki, and he slammed it down towards Gern's face!

Gern's pupils suddenly contracted, and he crossed his arms to block.

"boom!!!"

A terrifying shockwave swept across the entire area, sending the two figures flying backward simultaneously, carving hundreds of meters of furrows into the ice.

As the smoke cleared, Kuzan slowly stood up, ice crystals falling from his uniform, while a trickle of blood escaped from the corner of Gern's mouth, yet his laughter grew even more unrestrained.

"That's more like it!" He wiped away the blood, and once again wrapped the vibrating particles around his palm, compressing them into a pure white sphere, as if he were holding a supernova about to explode.

Then he hurled it at Kuzan—"Heavenly Tremor: Meteor!"

"Boom!!" The sphere exploded in mid-air, instantly creating a shockwave field with a diameter of 100 meters!

Space within the domain twisted wildly, shattering ice and rock into dust.

Furthermore, the devastating shockwave that lasted for ten seconds made it difficult for Kuzan to even maintain his elemental form, and his ice crystal body kept disintegrating and reforming.

"It's not over yet!" Gern flashed behind him, his right fist suddenly retracting to his waist.

The fist formed a vortex of vibration, and the space collapsed under the compression, emitting a hum that seemed unable to bear the weight.

The next second, his straight punch was unleashed like a railgun!

"Black Shock - Star Piercing!"

Wherever the punch passed, space shattered inch by inch, and a thousand-meter-long cylindrical shockwave pierced through the entire iceberg, tearing through Kuzan's ice wall defense as easily as paper!

Furthermore, the shockwave's momentum continued unabated, forcing Kuzan, who had been knocked back, to adjust his stance while...

With his left hand, he glided across the sea, creating a channel that kept freezing over.

At the same time, Gern's figure suddenly blurred, and the high-frequency vibrating particles put him into a state of molecular transition, turning him into a pale white afterimage as he rushed forward.

The space behind him twisted and collapsed, the air was torn into a vacuum channel, and the ice was plowed out into a second abyss by the aftershocks!

"What...?!" Faced with the shockwave, Kuzan's Observation Haki failed just like everyone else's!

When his pupils suddenly contracted, his vision was filled with a blinding whiteness, and the only thing he could make out was those scarlet eyes!

“Black Shock…” Gern’s fist was crackling with dark purple Conqueror’s Haki arcs, his Armament Haki flowing like liquid, and the compressed “high-frequency shock core” inside emitted a destructive hum.

"Instant... Hell!!!"

Unfortunately, just as Gern's fist was about to hit Kuzan, the extreme cold suddenly erupted!

"Glacier: Eternal Coffin!" Kuzan's icy body suddenly shattered, transforming into a sky full of icy mist.

Gern's fist pierced only a frozen ice sculpture.

The real Kuzan appeared hundreds of meters in the air, arms crossed, with freezing air cascading down like a waterfall.

The sea surface and the entire coastline of the island froze instantly, and the ice spread towards Guern at a visible speed.

Water molecules in the air condensed into billions of ice crystals, blocking all escape routes like a blizzard!

In an instant, Gern's shockwave path was completely blocked.

Ice crystals coiled around his limbs like living creatures, trying to drag him into an eternal, frozen hell.

"It can even affect the molecular level now?" Gern grinned maliciously, his entire body surging with Armament Haki, and shockwaves erupted from within him.

"Heavenly Tremor - Collapse of the Boundary!"

"Boom!!" The ice coffin shattered, but Kuzan's offensive showed no signs of stopping.

"Ice Thorns - Divine Spear Forest!" Countless ice crystal spears suddenly erupted from the frozen sea, each with a tip gleaming with a cold, eerie blue light.

Like a spear formation, they thrust at Gern from all directions!

Gern's fists collided, unleashing a spherical shockwave that shattered most of the ice spears, but a few still managed to break through his defenses.

Deep, bone-revealing wounds were left on his side and shoulder, but the blood froze before it could flow.

"Tsk..." He gritted his teeth and shattered the ice spear, then looked up at Kuzan, only to find that the other's figure had already disappeared.

At that moment, Kuzan appeared behind Gren, his right arm completely crystallized into a giant ice blade, which he slashed down fiercely!

"Too slow!!" Just as the ice blade was about to strike, Gern's Observation Haki had already predicted everything.

His body suddenly spun, and his right fist, crackling with high-frequency shockwaves, blasted towards the ice blade.

"Bang—Crack!!" The giant ice crystal blade shattered the moment it made contact, and Kuzan's pupils contracted sharply.

Gern had already taken three steps back using the recoil, his left fist retracted to his waist, and his entire body's strength was being compressed wildly!

"You'd better take this punch!" Ryuo Haki coiled around his left arm like liquid, vibrating particles compressed to the limit at the edge of his fist.

The air was compressed, producing a piercing buzz, and the space even began to distort and collapse!