Chapter 387: Goenitz Wins
The great battle began.
Not far away, Goenitz floated in the Sky, controlling the wind formed by his Kama Kama Fruit ability.
Behind his mask, his calm eyes were revealed, showing not the slightest ripple.
Rugal mysteriously disappeared, turning into streaks of afterimages.
His speed exploded astonishingly, making it difficult for people to see his figure clearly.
The next moment, Rugal appeared behind Goenitz.
"Razor!"
He raised his long leg and kicked upwards.
The tip of his foot carried a deadly sharpness.
This kick, like a sharp blade, struck towards Goenitz.
A silver crescent moon appeared in the air.
Accompanied by a "bang".
Goenitz's left hand, coated with armament haki, blocked Rugal's ankle, and his body shifted backward several steps.
He wasn't injured that easily.
Meanwhile, his right arm struck out instantly with speed invisible to the naked eye.
An explosion followed, the scene of the air bursting visible even to the naked eye.
Rugal's left cheek took the full force of the punch.
Goenitz showed no mercy, unwilling to give Rugal any opportunity.
Rugal took the punch, but a cruel smile appeared on his face.
He grabbed the arm Goenitz had struck him with and twisted it forcefully.
At the same time, Rugal kicked out, aiming precisely in the direction Goenitz's arm was twisting.
With a "crack!", Goenitz's right arm was twisted and broken under the strong force.
But his left hand reached directly towards Rugal's eye.
It was as if, in the next moment, he would gouge out Rugal's only remaining eye.
Rugal instinctively closed his eye.
He certainly didn't want to lose his last eye.
The scene seen through a mechanical prosthetic eye was ultimately different from what a real eye saw.
With this closure, he revealed an opening.
Goenitz's unbalanced body instantly became stable under the effect of the strong wind.
He raised his knee and kicked directly towards Rugal's chin.
Rugal's body was sent flying back a hundred meters, finding his balance in mid-air and landing steadily on the ground.
He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, then lightly patted his dislocated jaw back into place.
Meanwhile, Goenitz, without changing his expression, twisted his broken right arm back into position.
"Whoa!"
Cheers erupted from the surrounding audience.
The initial clash alone was so exciting, making their blood boil.
This time, Goenitz prepared to make the first move.
With a wave of his hand, the air compressed to form air currents, which quickly transformed into four tornadoes dozens of meters high under his control.
They approached Rugal with astonishing speed.
His figure accompanied the tornadoes, simultaneously attacking Rugal.
His raised palm condensed wind blades, containing powerful cutting force.
He kicked out, unleashing an invisible air slash, difficult to detect with the naked eye.
As a Kama Kama Fruit Ability User, Goenitz couldn't control wind itself, but he could generate wind by highly compressing the air.
He could easily unleash slashes like sharp blades.
As a superpower type paramecia devil fruit, it possessed powerful abilities similar to the logia type hurricane fruit.
Some things had to be admitted: Goenitz's innate physical talent was weaker than Rugal's.
As an Ability User, what he wanted was to maximize his strength and defeat his opponent with the smallest price.
Moreover, his devil fruit ability could perfectly combine with his body technique.
The four hurricanes trapped Rugal's body in the center.
Although they didn't cause much significant impact, they did to some extent restrict Rugal's movement.
Goenitz, however, was completely unaffected.
Flying in the Sky, he moved along the air currents, his speed becoming even faster and more elusive.
Goenitz delivered a hand chop, carrying powerful cutting force.
It was blocked by Rugal's haki.
Haki was ultimately just energy.
Without sufficient quality and strength, it wouldn't have much effect against Goenitz's wind blades.
Rugal was clearly not among those.
Having awakened armament haki for only two years, Rugal's use of haki techniques had already reached the level of emission.
Goenitz became serious and stopped flying.
To defeat Rugal, he still needed to rely on his body technique and haki.
The development of his devil fruit ability couldn't provide an absolute advantage.
Since Rugal awakened two-color haki, the gap between them had been rapidly shrinking.
Invisible wind blasts swirled around Goenitz's body.
His hands formed claw techniques, coated with armament haki, and he instantly appeared before Rugal.
Rugal responded directly with a fist technique.
However, the next moment, his expression changed.
Goenitz instantly retracted his strength, rapidly changing his movements.
At the same time, intense tornadoes formed around his body, and his body was uncontrollably sent flying towards the Sky.
Terrifying haki and strength erupted, easily tearing apart the tornado.
But this had already given Goenitz an opportunity, and several consecutive moves landed on Rugal.
Rugal's counterattack was easily avoided by Goenitz.
Or blocked and weakened.
Goenitz was skilled in jujutsu and force dissipation technique.
The invisible vortex surrounding his body was like a physical entity, as hard as armor.
Attacks landing on Goenitz would only be greatly weakened.
And Goenitz's counterattacks were incredibly swift and dominant.
Each claw technique could tear apart a wild beast, requiring Rugal to defend seriously.
Goenitz's figure constantly flashed.
Rugal dodged Goenitz's attacks while looking for opportunities to counterattack.
Offense and defense constantly shifted.
Goenitz could maintain an advantage in most situations by relying on his ability, but the price was the rapid consumption of stamina.
"Hmph! Rending Wind Fist!"
Rugal's dominant punch tore apart the gale blocking his path, sending Goenitz's body flying dozens of meters away.
His body erupted with even faster speed, chasing after Goenitz before he could adjust his body.
He kicked towards Goenitz's head.
Goenitz raised his arm to block, using the momentum to stabilize his body, then grabbed Rugal's foot and slammed him violently back to the ground.
Immediately after, Rugal's leg wrapped around Goenitz's neck, putting him in a scissors guillotine.
Rugal, proficient in various body technique styles, constantly brought surprises, continuously counterattacking.
He even once suppressed Goenitz to the point where he couldn't fight back.
This kind of close-quarters battle, where every punch and kick landed, was what everyone loved to watch.
It was precisely because of this that others could clearly feel that hidden within the vastly different combat styles of these two young Monster was perfection in different directions.
But Goenitz was still stronger.
During the battle, both their strengths were slowly increasing.
But Goenitz's progress was greater, controlling his devil fruit ability more freely and perfectly combining it with his body technique.
Every claw technique from Goenitz was accompanied by terrifying cutting force, as if wanting to tear everything apart.
With a wave of his hand, dozens or even hundreds of wind blades would attack Rugal, and to some extent, they even had tracking ability.
The airflow barrier surrounding his body like armor could also allow him to fly.
He could create gales and airflow to restrict others' movement.
Combined with his outstanding combat ability.
Only now, through this battle, did Goenitz truly perfectly integrate his devil fruit ability with his body technique.
After all, he had only eaten the devil fruit for just over a year, and before this, he had been developing it and rarely encountered an opponent as powerful as Rugal.
Ignis inherited Hades's body technique, and Goenitz was largely influenced by Ignis, shaping a perfect combat system uniquely his own.
This was a transformation for Goenitz's combat strength.
Finally, amidst countless cheers, Rugal fell, filled with unwillingness.
(end of chapter)