Chapter 362 Mysterious and Powerful Power
Facing the siege of three people.
Arthur's reaction was instant.
A blade appeared from nowhere in his left hand and instantly blocked the center of Zoro's three overlapping swords.
In an instant, the terrifying power of Ghost Slash was instantly offset under the gaze of everyone.
"How is this possible..." Zoro was stunned with an incredible expression when he saw that the Demon Slash that he had swung with all his strength was easily blocked.
Unconsciously, Zoro glanced at Arthur's expression, which was like a calm lake, without a single ripple.
As if it was natural, the results of his two years of practice were negated at this moment.
Arthur swung his left hand vigorously, easily breaking Zoro's Demon Slash and knocking him out from the left.
Like a cannonball, it flew straight into the ruins of the nearby buildings.
Then, Arthur raised his right foot at a speed as fast as an afterimage, covered his foot with a layer of extreme ice, and kicked towards Sanji's Devil Wind Kick.
The powerful kick, coupled with the power of the devil, caused some cracks to appear on the ground beneath Arthur's left leg.
The scorching heat and the extreme ice collided together, producing large amounts of boiling steam.
"Why hasn't it melted...?" Sanji looked at Arthur's feet wrapped in extreme ice in shock.
The high temperature of the Devil's Wind Kick should be enough to melt all the ice, but the scene before his eyes was another strange phenomenon.
His devil wind legs were being enveloped by the cold air, gradually losing their hot color.
Forcing himself to return to his normal form was not enough to shake Arthur's physical skills in the slightest.
He tried to exert force again, but found that he could not move Arthur at all. Instead, he felt a strong resistance from his legs.
Arthur kicked him out with a big whip kick.
The two main forces of the Straw Hat Pirates, one to the left and the other to the right, lost their balance and flew into the ruins.
"Oh oh oh--!" Luffy's fighting spirit was high and he roared in anger as the huge elephant spear in his hand slammed into Arthur in the face.
Arthur clenched his right fist.
Suddenly, the muscles on my forearms became knotted.
Like a giant bronze pillar, the throbbing blood vessels under the skin are like magma surging in the cracks of the rocks.
It swung extremely quickly towards Luffy's huge rubber elephant gun fist.
Boom——!
The domineering elephant spear collided with Arthur's fist.
The shock wave spread out in all directions in ripples.
"Elephant spear can't shake him at all..." Luffy thought when he felt that the move could not hurt Arthur.
His innate fighting talent made him realize the gap instantly.
He stopped exerting force, and his arm began to quickly retract the elephant spear, stopping the collision with Arthur.
Boom! However, just as he was trying to regain his strength, the power that Arthur belatedly realized appeared in his fist, and it rushed towards the entire Straw Hat Pirates like a terrifying shock wave like a tidal wave.
"Not good!" Ace waved his hands in front of him when he saw this.
A fire net spread out in front of him, and Luffy's body was impacted and flew in from outside the fire net.
Sabo caught Luffy and the flames of the net floated towards the place behind them.
The force of the punch formed a huge fan-shape and attacked the ruins of the building behind them.
The buildings that collapsed due to the fierce fighting were shattered into powder by the force of the fists.
The cracks in the wall spread radially in all directions, and the ground shook as if it was hit by a sledgehammer, tearing two huge cracks.
After easily resolving the situation, Arthur retracted his fist, yawned, and stared at the flames in front of him that were about to go out.
"Are you okay, Luffy?" Ace stood in front of everyone and glanced at Luffy who was caught by Sabo with concern.
"It's okay." Luffy stood up again and looked at Nami, Usopp, and Chopper:
"Nami, Usopp, Chopper, go find Zoro and Sanji and check on them!"
"Do you still want to fight? That guy is a monster, Luffy!" Usopp's body was shaking unconsciously when he saw this terrifying strength.
"Of course!" Luffy replied firmly, standing in front of everyone, walking out of the flame net and looking at Arthur with sharp eyes:
"That guy stopped my dream and my pace of progress. I have to defeat him, otherwise I can't accomplish anything!"
Hearing Luffy's confident words, Arthur smiled at him playfully:
"Beat me? Interesting. It's good to be young."
Looking at Luffy's movements, he put his right hand in front of his mouth and bit his rubbery skin.
"That's right, I'll make you stop laughing soon." Luffy said to Arthur seriously:
“For the past two years, I have been fighting endlessly like a monster with all kinds of powerful creatures!
In order to defeat the monster, I had to become a monster!
Enter, fourth gear!"
After saying that, Luffy took a deep breath and blew it violently into his arm.
His body expanded rapidly, becoming very round, and all the domineering energy in his body served as the source of power driving this force.
It was wrapped around his hands, feet, and other parts of his body, like a dark red outer armor.
A large amount of steam came out from his body again, lingering around him.
Combining his own devil fruit abilities with the speed of Gear 2 and the power of Gear 3.
Luffy transformed into a huge elastic man and kept bouncing in front of everyone.
"Be careful, Luffy, that guy even has to give way to his father!" Ace warned, without disturbing his determination to duel with Arthur for the time being.
An angry Luffy stared at Arthur, filled with the pain he felt two years ago, and said:
"What happened two years ago will never happen again, no matter if it's you or the Four Emperors! I will defeat them all one by one!
Don't hide if you dare, I will beat you so hard that you won't be able to fight back!"
Luffy challenged Arthur again.
The fist is retracted into the wrist, using the terrifying elastic force to compress the force.
Both feet shot out instantly, and as fast as lightning, they arrived in front of Arthur and punched him:
"Rubber Rubber·Ape King Gun!"
The moment the fist shot out from his wrist, Arthur's aura exploded.
In an instant, the beast grabbed the Ape King's fist, and the terrifying power of its fingers was directly embedded into Luffy's rubber fist.
"Ugh...!" Luffy felt his fist being squeezed by a huge force, and he was suddenly startled.
The next second, he felt that the move he had just built up was blocked by another even more terrifying force.
The Ape King Spear, which he was so proud of, lost its power in an instant.
Arthur grabbed his arm, and his body was instantly thrown up and slammed to the ground of the square with all his strength.
"Hah!" Arthur roared and slammed Luffy's elastic body into the ground.
The force was so great that the entire square shook violently and cracked like a spider web.
Luffy clenched his teeth, releasing a large amount of steam from his mouth, and his eyes turned white.
The body, maintaining its elasticity, was catapulted into the air, but the center of gravity was still unbalanced, so it lay flat in the air.
"Luffy!"
"Damn it! I told you something was wrong!"
Ace and Sabo saw this and rushed forward.
In just a few seconds, they saw Arthur disappear from their sight.
The afterimage, which is difficult to capture with the naked eye, moves rapidly in the air around Luffy.
Every movement was accompanied by an explosive punch, hitting every inch of Luffy's skin hard.
Luffy kept falling to the ground and kept flying into the air.
The rubber fruit and the domineering fourth gear were quickly restored to their original form after Arthur's high-speed aerial attacks.
His rubbery physique fell into irresistible fatigue after being hit so hard by Arthur.
Luffy felt no pain, but his body could not withstand the horrific damage caused by Arthur's fist.
In less than 5 seconds, Luffy lost consciousness and was strangled by Arthur, and fell to the ground.
"Monster? What monster? What kind of monster are you talking about?" Arthur stared at him and said:
"Why do you think that you and those little animals can shake me after two years of hard training?"
As he finished speaking, Ace and Sabo were already close to Arthur. Compared to Luffy, they are now even stronger than Luffy.
Feeling that Luffy's life was in danger, the two of them, as his brothers, could not stand idly by.
The two men approached Arthur quickly with full dominance.
Arthur looked around, his spirit after the battle gradually rising.
Sabo, holding the steel pipe, wrapped his own domineering aura around the pipe and swung both hands towards Arthur's body with all his strength.
However, Arthur just smiled calmly and grabbed the unconscious Luffy from the pit in his left hand.
“Luffy…! Damn it… I can’t stop!” Sabo saw how despicable Arthur was and actually used Luffy as a shield, and then he realized that he had also become uncalm just now.
Shouldn't be so reckless, now it's too late.
The steel pipe wrapped with domineering power hit Luffy's face for a moment, and Arthur let him go and took a big step back to create some distance between them.
At this moment, he suddenly found a cross-shaped flame on his chest, which he didn't know when it appeared.
Last second——
"Cross Fire!" Ace found the right opportunity, crossed his left and right hands, and locked onto Arthur.
A cross-shaped beam of light shot out from his finger and aimed at the opponent, and then flames instantly spurted out along the cross-shaped beam and shot towards Arthur.
This is when Arthur was hit.
"Explosive flames!"
Seeing that the cross mark was successfully engraved on Arthur, Ace instantly expanded the power of the Flame-Flame Fruit.
"Natural system..." Arthur's eyes widened, emitting bright light.
The next second—
The cross-shaped explosion expanded to thousands of times its size, and the high-temperature explosion of thousands of degrees instantly enveloped the entire square.
"Sabo! Hurry up and take Luffy with you! This guy is deliberately helping the navy!" After seeing that his move was successful, Ace immediately conveyed the message to Sabo.
Unexpectedly, Luffy, who had practiced physical skills for two years and even learned Haki, was knocked unconscious within five seconds after Arthur's counterattack.
The opponent didn't even use his domineering power.
He stared into the smoke after the explosion of fire.
The smoke gradually dissipated, and Arthur was surrounded by ice crystals.
He appeared in front of them again as if nothing had happened, and said to Ace calmly:
"Unfortunately, I am ice and you are fire. Apparently your flame is not strong enough, otherwise that move might have really hurt me."
"What on earth happened to this guy in the past two years...?" Ace looked at Arthur in disbelief.
Even the full-strength Cross Fire Explosion didn't hurt him.
This confident posture, the calm surface, and the strength that cannot be shaken in the slightest.
They all reminded Ace that the strength of the extremely cold swordsman in front of him was simply unfathomable.
Moreover, it seemed that he was only fighting them in a playful manner and was not using his full strength.
He enjoyed the pleasure of defeating and destroying them.
"Thirty rounds of flowers." Seeing this scene, Robin activated the ability of the Hana-Hana Fruit and penetrated Arthur's ice crystal protection.
They rushed directly inside and trapped his body with more than thirty arms.
And said to Arthur: "Please...Arthur, stop it..."
However, Arthur responded immediately and used the power of extreme ice to freeze all the arms created by her Hana-Hana Nomi into pieces.
The biting cold made Robin scream.
The main character's hands were trembling with cold, and he could hardly control himself.
"Don't touch me. You were the one who wanted to leave me and go find these guys." Arthur said to her coldly, "Nicole Robin."
These words were like a sound piercing his heart, echoing continuously in Robin's ears.
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PS: It will be one million words soon. One million! My first time!
It's a bit cheesy, but it's all handwritten!