Chapter 268: Thunder Bagua
Lightning flashed and thunder roared, filling the space between heaven and earth, pouring down on this barren land like a sudden downpour.
Bang!!
With a flash of blue light, several bolts of lightning, like swimming snakes, whipped the ground, sending rubble flying.
Bang!!
As the magnetic field converted from the electric field instantly erupted, a fierce gust of wind blasted from the front of the Clima-Tact, and a steel pellet shot out!
The pellet, surpassing the speed of sound, let out a sharp, piercing shriek as it tore through the air.
"So fast?!" Yamato's expression was panicked. She hurriedly used both hands to hold her spiked club horizontally in front of her chest.
Boom!!
The pellet slammed into the spiked club. The force was so strong that it sent her entire person flying backward.
Her back crashed through two stone pillars in succession before she barely managed to stop her body. Yamato propped herself up with her spiked club and said teasingly, "That move isn't bad. It hurt a little."
"Heh heh," Nami spread her legs slightly, twirling the Clima-Tact in her hand with a light laugh. "You'll suffer a great loss if you think of us as weak women."
"So strong."
Above, the onlooking pirates were all shocked by Nami's performance.
"Ever since the big sis got on the ship, I've never seen anyone fight her head-on."
"I say, little bro Reiner, are all your navigators this fierce?"
"There are rumors outside that you and she are lovers. Is it true?"
A pirate swallowed and asked Reiner tentatively, "Can you handle her?"
Reiner: "..."
Handle her in what way?
Ahem, my mind is in the gutter. Reiner suppressed the urge to hit someone and returned his gaze to the battle below.
In fact, before she set out to sea, Nami had also used a staff as a weapon, mainly for close-quarters combat.
Although she didn't have monstrous strength, at his suggestion, she had still tried to develop this explosive method using electromagnetic conversion during her training.
Compared to Kid of the Magnet-Magnet Fruit, Nami's control over magnetism could be said to be very crude, unable to achieve the same perfection as Kid.
But she didn't need any precise control. She just needed to burst it all out in the corresponding direction when attacking.
The principle behind her being able to trade blows with Yamato was the same.
It looked like she was swinging the Clima-Tact, but the real force all came from the magnetic force that exploded in the instant of the swing.
With the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, Nami was not lacking in either speed or explosive power. She had developed this move mainly to make up for her shortcomings in close combat.
And the battle with Yamato had proven that it was indeed quite practical.
"How interesting."
As the battle continued, Yamato's interest in Nami grew stronger.
She held her spiked club in one hand and swung it at her feet. The resulting hurricane blew away all the dust and smoke.
At first, she still had a playful attitude, but after a few exchanges, she was now very sure that the two women before her were definitely qualified to make her use her full strength.
"In that case, weapons don't have eyes. You'd better be careful next!"
Yamato grinned, took a step forward, and gripped the handle of her spiked club with both hands, exerting force with her feet.
Bang!!
Her geta sandals shattered the ground. Her figure vanished with a swish, leaving behind a spiderweb of cracks in her place.
"Shinsoku: Hakujaku!!" (Divine Swiftness: White Serpent Rush!!)
Yamato's entire person transformed into a streak of white light. Her speed was so fast that she even left behind several afterimages, appearing before Nami in the blink of an eye!
"Let me see what you're capable of!" Yamato's expression was fanatical as she brought her spiked club up from below!
Clang!!
Nami timely raised her Clima-Tact horizontally to block. However, the moment they made contact, the force transmitted from her hand instantly shocked her.
The power of this club was simply terrifyingly strong!
The Clima-Tact was sent flying from her hands, and her figure was also sent flying into the sky.
"What on earth did this woman eat to grow up!"
Nami gritted her teeth, her body transforming into lightning to fly away. Her elementalized arm retrieved her weapon.
"Ochenta Fleur: Cuatro Mano!" (Eighty-Flower Bloom: Four Trees!)
Just as Yamato was half-squatting and preparing to leap up in pursuit, the ground suddenly shook, and four arms, comparable to giant trees, sprouted from the ground out of thin air.
Robin crossed her arms in front of her chest to activate her ability. With a thought, two giant palms slammed down at the same time!
"Slap!!"
Bang!!
Bang!!
Yamato leaped left and right to dodge each one. The giant palms slapped the ground, kicking up clouds of dust.
Before she could land, Robin's eyes hardened, and the other two arms, under her control, swiped at Yamato from the left and right.
"Fish-Man Karate: Clap!!"
Slap!!
With a huge, crisp sound, the two palms clapped together, sending out a violent gust of wind.
"Well done, Robin!" Nami's eyes lit up.
Yamato, with no leverage in the air, was undoubtedly hit squarely. However, Robin did not let down her guard in the slightest.
"It's not over, Nami!"
The pain transmitted to her main body's palms had already revealed the result. Robin hurriedly shouted up at the sky, "Attack my hands!!"
As expected, the next moment.
"Namuji Hyouga!!" (Ice Blade!!)
Bang!
A white, crescent-moon-shaped slash erupted from the clapped giant hands, its bone-chilling coldness invading her real palms.
Robin staggered back a step, her hands forced apart as she was compelled to deactivate her ability.
"I know!"
Fortunately, Nami did not hesitate. She raised her hand and sent a lightning beam several meters thick crashing down!
"El Thor!!"
"It seems attacking the sprouted arms will also harm the main body."
Just as she broke free from the giant hands, what met her was a lightning beam containing violent energy descending from the sky. Yamato, however, smiled proudly.
"This level is still far from enough!!"
Haki coiled around her ferocious spiked club, and a few faint blue electric sparks flashed.
Just before she was engulfed by the descending violent lightning, Yamato twisted her wrists with both hands and swung her spiked club up from below with all her might!
"Narukabura!!" (Whistling Arrow!!)
A beam of even more violent azure light shot up to meet it, like a sword energy, breaking through the lightning beam with the force of splitting bamboo. Then, before Nami's terrified eyes, it continued to fly towards her with undiminished momentum.
"Nami, watch out!" Robin couldn't help but cry out.
A move that could break through El Thor was naturally imbued with extremely strong Haki. Nami would not be reckless enough to take it head-on; that was not her fighting style.
In her urgency, she elementalized at top speed, her body scattering in all directions to avoid the brunt of the attack.
"—Mmph!"
Even so, Nami was still affected by its violent aftershock. She let out a muffled grunt, re-formed into her solid body in the air, and her figure fell uncontrollably.
"It's not over yet!"
Faced with the falling Nami, Yamato took a step forward. A rampaging Conqueror's Haki coiled around her weapon, and her aura surged once more.
Seeing this, Nami hurriedly activated her elemental form again, stopping her descent and preparing to fly away.
Just when everyone thought Yamato was going to charge at Nami, she instead grinned, pivoted on her foot, and immediately changed direction.
"Unfortunately, you guessed wrong!"
"Shinsoku: Hakujaku!!"
Bang!!
With a clap of thunder on the flat ground, the ground was once again shattered by the powerful explosive force, and a crack spread out.
Before Robin's panicked eyes, Yamato instantly transformed into a streak of white light, charging straight at her!
"Cien Fleur: Flower Pillar!!"
Countless arms condensed where Yamato was passing, transforming into a giant arm that shot up.
Yamato swung her spiked club around and smashed down violently, instantly shattering the giant arm into countless petals, her figure continuing to charge without stopping.
Wincing in pain, Robin did not dare to let go. She gritted her teeth and endured, continuing to form two giant arms at her side to meet the attack.
"Fish-Man Karate: Gosenmai Gawara Seiken!!"
The giant hands, comparable to small mountains, pushed down swiftly, parting the invisible air and creating layers of ripples.
"How exaggerated. It's just like a giant using Jinbe's moves," Yamato's eyes were filled with fighting spirit.
Faced with the attack that came with the force of a thunderbolt, like a mountain, she had no intention of dodging. Instead, she leaped high towards the two giant palms.
Her arms dragged her spiked club behind her to build up power, as if a dense web of dark red lightning were raging violently.
"That's...!"
Nami's pupils constricted. She instantly recognized the brutal power contained in Yamato's move.
The same Conqueror's Coating as Reiner!
"Robin, watch out!!" Nami shouted anxiously, at the same time bursting forward at top speed to provide support!
"Let's see whose power is stronger!"
Arriving before the giant palms, Yamato's gaze focused. She gritted her teeth and unleashed all her power, her spiked club, accompanied by her roar, smashing down fiercely!!
"—Raimei Hakke!!" (Thunder Bagua!!)
Bang!!!
The moment the pitch-black, heavy spiked club and the giant's palms collided, an astonishing blast wave, carrying a chaotic airflow, swept across the entire field.
A great wind arose, and even the group of onlookers above couldn't help but be shocked.
In the center of the field, countless dark red bolts of lightning were stimulated from the spiked club. The two sides were in a stalemate for no more than a few seconds before the terrifying force instantly smashed the pair of giant arms, sending cherry blossom petals flying everywhere.
The aftershock of the impact mercilessly sent Robin flying backward.
Nami flashed over and caught Robin in mid-air, but was carried along by the heavy force, and they crashed heavily into a mountain peak.
Bang!!
With a dull sound, rubble flew everywhere, and a rolling cloud of dust and smoke rose up.
"—Phew!"
Yamato exhaled a turbid breath, stomped her spiked club heavily on the ground, and said with one hand on her hip and a proud expression:
"I admit you are very strong, but I am stronger!"
(End of chapter)
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