Chapter 182: Hellfire Lotus
This was a technique Sakazuki had never used before. He had never imagined that there could be such a towering, heaven-reaching giant—one that his attacks could barely injure at all. The arrogance he once carried had been smashed to the very bottom.
"Interesting!"
In the distance, Jiang Qize stood atop a massive boulder that was slowly being swallowed by magma. Seeing Akainu's move, his eyes lit up.
No choice but to admit it—Akainu really was a damn genius. To actually develop a technique in the middle of battle. This magma fire lotus hundreds of meters across, wrapping around Raptorex , really could cause him damage.
Raptorex looked at the magma fire lotus around him as it continued to rise. His massive arms suddenly swung outward.
Clang clang!!
Two arms dozens of meters long transformed into two enormous black blades.
Then Raptorex twisted his body violently. The twin giant blades slashed out like industrial cutters, hacking toward the surrounding magma fire lotus.
Pff pff pff…
The countless magma lotus petals that had just risen were all severed.
In the distance, Sakazuki's face turned pale.
His stamina had already been heavily depleted, and releasing such a massive, crude technique had nearly exhausted him completely.
He never expected it to be broken so easily.
His eyes bloodshot, teeth clenched, he plunged both hands into the magma and began controlling it directly.
Buzz!!
The severed magma fire lotus instantly reformed, closing in at a speed countless times faster than before.
Boom!!
The magma fire lotus snapped shut violently, producing a thunderous roar.
On the island, a gigantic magma flower bud over a hundred meters tall and several hundred meters wide now stood.
The terrifying heat dyed the sky a fiery red. Within a thousand meters, the air was twisted and distorted, like an enormous steamer.
Sakazuki's face was deathly pale as he dropped to one knee.
This was the first time he had ever pushed his stamina to such an extreme.
Boom!!
Suddenly, the entire fire lotus exploded. Massive amounts of magma shot outward in all directions, raining down like molten fire.
Raptorex 's figure emerged.
At this moment, his entire body was scorched, flesh torn open and charred black. He looked as though he had shrunk by an entire size, utterly miserable in appearance.
Yet the aura radiating from him had not weakened in the slightest.
"Hah…"
Raptorex exhaled a plume of black smoke, his bright eyes turning toward Sakazuki on the ground.
The burnt flesh on his body slowly peeled away, revealing tender, sprout-like new muscle beneath, steadily healing.
"How is this possible…"
Sakazuki lifted his head and stared at him, muttering unwillingly as his hands clenched tight.
"There's nothing impossible about it."
At that moment, Jiang Qize appeared in front of him and reached out.
Sakazuki hurriedly tried to elementalize.
Bang!
A fist suddenly smashed into his abdomen, the searing pain forcibly interrupting his elementalization.
Immediately after, a cold hand clamped around his neck and lifted him up.
Although Jiang Qize was not taller than him, lifting him was effortless.
Jiang Qize's hand was already wrapped in Armament Haki, so Sakazuki could no longer elementalize his neck—and he dared not elementalize any other part either, since the neck was a vital point.
"Captured a future Fleet Admiral."
The corner of Jiang Qize's mouth lifted into a sinister smile.
His hair had already grown back.
"You won't escape the judgment of justice," Sakazuki said in a low voice.
"What is justice?" Jiang Qize asked with a smile, looking at him.
Without waiting for an answer, Jiang Qize continued, "Is being the Celestial Dragons' lapdog justice? Is Celestial Dragons killing people at will and capturing them as slaves justice? Or is squeezing the people dry every year to offer Heavenly Tribute to the Celestial Dragons justice?
Last year, an entire island—Ohara—was wiped out just like that. Was that justice? If I remember correctly, you were the one who led that operation, weren't you?"
Jiang Qize stopped, a mocking smile hanging at the corner of his mouth, as he looked at him.
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