Chapter 682 Temperature is King
Ace thought for a moment and said uncertainly, after all, he had just obtained the Flame-Flame Fruit not long ago, and hadn't developed many of the moves of the fruit's ability. In the East China Sea where Haki was not available, no one could withstand the burning of flames.
Of course, there are some abilities that can restrain fire, but there are not many people with these abilities in the East China Sea, let alone those who can restrain fire, so Ace’s understanding of the Flame-Flame Fruit is not that deep.
Moreover, he had been kept in the mountains since childhood, had never been to school, and had little experience. He could only develop some moves instinctively, and it was difficult for him to develop his abilities using knowledge and experience beyond his own cognitive scope.
“It’s not wrong to say it’s burning, but what you see is just the appearance. You haven’t seen through the appearance to see the essence inside. The Flame-Flame Fruit is a natural ability, and what it manifests is flames. What’s the first impression of flames?
It is burning, but burning is only a process and a phenomenon, which is the last thing we need to dig into. If we want to make fire a weapon in our hands, we must see the result of burning fire, which is destruction, letting everything that touches the fire burn to ashes!
So we have to look beyond the surface of fire and delve deeper into the results. You know, there are many substances that cannot be easily burned by fire, such as stones and metals.
But are they really indestructible? Of course not. It all depends on the temperature of your flame. When the temperature of the flame reaches a certain level, stones and metals can instantly vaporize and become invisible!
Therefore, the essence of flame is temperature. If you want to develop the Flame-Flame Fruit to be more powerful, you must work hard on the temperature of the flame.
No matter how gorgeous and cool you develop the ability of the fruit, you must not lose the temperature of the essence of the flame, otherwise this move is just for show. It can be easily blocked by covering it with Armament Haki, but when the temperature of the flame is high enough, Armament Haki is also difficult to resist! "
When Vic was explaining the essence of the Flame-Flame Fruit to Ace, his fingertips were wrapped with jumping lightning and pointed at a large rock not far from the two of them. A dark blue laser instantly pierced through the more than two-meter-thick rock.
The essence of laser is that photons carry huge released energy, and this energy is manifested in temperature, extremely high temperature, which can instantly vaporize stone and metal!
He wanted to let Ace see what kind of destructive power would be created when the temperature reached a certain level. His laser could only be blocked by the armed color domineering of a very few people, and that was only for a short period of time.
After all, laser is just a small branch of the ability of the Thunder Fruit. Even though the attack power is extremely strong, the targeted range is not very large. But the Flame-Flame Fruit is different. Range and temperature are its main areas of influence. If the conditions are met, it is easy to destroy a town. Temperature is an important factor in the speed of destruction!
The Thunder Fruit can also easily destroy cities and islands, but the destructive power of lightning is essentially different from that of fire.
"This! How did they do this? There's even magma?"
Although Ace has obtained the ability of the Flame-Flame Fruit, he will not think about the temperature in a short period of time. The most ordinary boiled water can scald human skin tissue. The cost of using flames to burn the human body is too low. The human body cannot withstand any fire.
Therefore, when Ace uses fire as a means of attack, he will not discover the temperature shortcoming in a short period of time, because at least in the first half of the Grand Line, his fire can be invincible, unless he encounters someone who relies on ability to fight against him.
But even so, the temperature shortcoming of the flame would not be exposed. He would only think that this was a normal phenomenon of mutual restraint between abilities.
If one's understanding is not good enough, even if he faces an awakened Haki from the new world, he will still not realize the relationship between the destructive power of temperature and Haki defense. He will just follow the crowd and think that Haki is absolute in restraining fruit abilities, especially for natural abilities.
However, Ace is still good in terms of comprehension. Take the Great Flame Ring he developed later - Flame Emperor, for example, which is an imitation and reflection of the sun.
It's just that he has never seen the sun with his own eyes, so this trick still has many shortcomings, but he definitely thought about temperature, otherwise there wouldn't be the scene of weaving a straw hat for little Oz. I just don't know if he incorporated his thoughts at that time into the development of the Flame-Flame Fruit.
But now that Ace knows the direction of the fruit's development in advance, he will be able to avoid many detours in the future. In addition, Vic also demonstrated the power of temperature to him, which will definitely leave a very deep impression on Ace.
"See? This is the power of temperature. The magma is just a byproduct. The stones that actually confront the temperature have disappeared. Can your flame do the same?"
"Can't...can't do it!"
Ace swallowed and spoke with difficulty, his flame was good enough to burn wood and roast meat, and it was already good enough to heat some metals red. If he was given a stone, with his current level of skill, he would be burned to death and there would be nothing he could do about it.
Just like in an episode of Journey to the West, where a copper lock is burned with a candle, and only when the copper lock is melted will it rain. In Journey to the West, the Jade Emperor originally wanted to make things difficult for that county, but in essence, the candle fire could never do anything to the copper lock.
If Ace's flames could always burn his opponents, would he still develop the kind of flames that could carbonize or vaporize organisms in an instant? Most likely not.
Just like the India and Vietnam regions in Vic's original world, where the climate is suitable and there are three or even four crops a year, the harvest from just throwing some rice seeds in the fields can feed a family. So would they still cultivate the land intensively?
It may still be the case in modern times, but it was not the case in ancient times. At that time, trade between countries was very closed, and everyone had enough food. Even if you planted too much grain, you couldn't sell it for money. So who would go to the trouble of farming intensively?
The principle is similar. If there is no need, there will be no in-depth study. Now that Vic has told Ace about the ultimate form of fire, even if Ace does not have this need, he will be curious to see what the ultimate form of fire looks like. By then, maybe he will reach the realm of God.
"See? As long as you continue to develop the Flame-Flame Fruit, it will become sharper than any sword made of metal!
Fire has no fixed shape but can penetrate any hole. How you develop it depends on you, but you must think divergently around one key point.
Of course, in order to develop the ability of the fruit, you cannot give up your Haki. The move I used to defeat you before was the Haki of Armament Haki. If I didn’t have Armament Haki, then it would be difficult to tell the winner between you and I could only stare at you.
Therefore, domineering is also a very important ability, which plays a big role at critical moments. Why can your father become the king of the Grand Line even though he does not have the ability of devil fruit?
Of course it is his invincible Haki. The old man was able to become a navy hero by relying on Haki, so don’t underestimate Haki. He put all his energy into developing the ability of the fruit! "
Although Vic gave Ace some advice on how to develop his fruit ability, he would not let him be biased. In the original work, Ace was pierced through the chest by Akainu's punch because his Haki was not as good as Akainu's, and his Haki defense was broken by the punch and he was hit directly on the back!
Ace is definitely biased in the practice of Haki and the development of the fruit. If he wasn't biased, with his talent, even if his Haki was not as good as Akainu's, he would not be killed directly by a pierced chest. At most, he would be knocked away by Akainu's punch.
So Vic did not hesitate to bring up Roger, whom Ace disliked, just to get Ace's attention!
The move that Vic used to defeat Ace just now was the externalization of Armament Haki, so it would be useless even if Ace turned into an element. This will be one of the most profound memories of Ace's life. It can also be said that this is the first miserable defeat he has suffered since he grew up!
"Mr. Vick! I understand! Thank you for your teaching!"
Ace was so shocked after listening to Vic's arguments that he fell into deep thought with his eyes out of focus.