Chapter 313 - 171

Chapter 171Golden Lion stood before the giant lion's head, grinning, "Feel honored!"Devil Fruit awakening isn't something just anyone can achieve!Why is he called a legendary pirate?He possesses all the powers of a top-tier expert.Three types of Haki!Conquerors Haki Infusion!Fruit Awakening!But indeed, one can't fight old age; before the move was even fully executed, Golden Lion's face had already turned pale."I should thank you, Straw Hat! You've made my blood boil after so long!""Same to you, old man, don't you dare die!"Luffy said impolitely. The steam around him suddenly turned pure white, swirling and rising like a pristine cloud of flame. His hair also became snow-white, and peculiar patterns emerged on his skin.Gear 5: Nika Form!"What is this? Didn't you eat the Gum-Gum Fruit?"Golden Lion stared at Luffy's drastically changed appearance, his pupils suddenly contracting, wondering if he was hallucinating due to a head injury!He had never seen this form and aura before!It was neither a simple development of the Gum-Gum Fruit nor like any known Zoan transformation.One would think he had eaten a Mythical Zoan.Isn't it only Zoan types that can transform?Although Golden Lion is called Golden Lion, it's not because he can turn into a lion, but because his various techniques lean in that direction.Earlier, with the giants and Haki tattoos, Golden Lion could still accept it, but Luffy's body clearly showed the flame cloud characteristic of a Zoanawakening.Is your Gum-Gum Fruit really not a Zoan Mythical Zoan?Chapter 248: I will beat you back to reality!The sky seemed torn in half by two vastly different terrifying forces.On one side was a giant, grotesque lion's head, forcibly pieced together from several floating islands, its gaping maw gathering a heart-pounding power.Float-Float Fruit Ability Awakening!Normally, Golden Lion could make non-living objects he touched defy gravity, but developed to its extreme, he could even control and shape the intangible air itself to a certain extent.The paramecia-type devil fruit awakening affects the surrounding terrain; the Float-Float Fruitchanges existing matter, including air, compressing it. This technique is the path most paramecia-type devil fruit awakenings take.As he recalled, a junior from the Roger Pirates had a similar awakened form; who knew if he learned it from him.However,"Your awakening seems completely unrelated to our paramecia-type devil fruits. Only your form has changed, and you won't be able to withstand this attack of mine."Below the lion's head, Golden Lion floated, grinning, "Don't let this rare battle end in disappointment for me."He had already squeezed out everything!His golden long hair appeared even wilder against the bloodstains seeping through his kimono. His eyes glowed with an abnormal crimson, a consequence of extreme exhaustion of stamina and Haki."Old man, your era is over,"Entering Nika Form, surrounded by white flame clouds, at some unknown point, substantial, leaping lightning began to coil around him. The white steam flame clouds and black-red Conqueror's Haki intertwined into a violent vortex, placing Luffy in a phantom torrent, where a pair of reddish eyes could vaguely be seen."I'll beat you back to reality!""Gyahahaha, you're still far from it, kid!"A black-red torrent of Conqueror's Haki poured down from Luffy's massive body like a waterfall.The scene in the sky was split like hell, two demons confronting each other across the void. Just standing there, the aura they emitted was enough to suffocate any creature beneath this sky, a pressure that transcended ordinary levels of life.In fact, many people couldn't even look directly at this level of battle, let alone get involved.In the sky a little further away, the thousand sunnywas fiercely engaging Golden Lion's remaining airborne fleet.Zoro had just sliced open an enemy ship attempting to ram them when he was violently struck by the aftermath of the collision between the two massive torrents ahead. He grunted, plunging wado ichimonji deep into the deck to steady himself, cold sweat beading on his forehead."Is this a Four Emperors-level battle?"Although it wasn't, it wasn't far off either.Zoro gazed at the hellish scene in the sky ahead, staring intently at the center of the battlefield, "Just a little further in, and some people have already fainted."As he said, many of Golden Lion's subordinates around them seemed to have rarely experienced their Captain's full Conqueror's Haki outburst. Many of the weaker ones simply rolled their eyes and fainted amidst the intertwined Conqueror's Haki aftermath, falling from the sky along with their ships.And this was merely the residual aura naturally emanating from two powerhouses confronting each other."Is the title 'Legendary Pirate' just too overwhelmingly strong?!"Usopp clung tightly to the mast, shouting with a pale face, feeling his heart was about to leap out of his chest.In the center of the battlefield, two invisible torrents once again violently clashed as their gazes met, intertwining for a moment before violently spreading apart, momentarily clearing a small patch of the gloomy sky that had been dark from the energy convergence, only to be immediately swallowed by even larger energy clouds."Old man, you're going to die if you keep this up."Luffy in his Nika state grinned.Blood was flowing from Golden Lion's seven orifices, and he seemed to be holding his breath.It felt like if he let that breath out, he wouldn't be able to recover.Fighting until now, both his stamina and injuries were severe. Golden Lion had eaten the Float-Float Fruit, not a Mythical Zoan Float-Float FruitSky Dragon Form.His recovery ability was completely incomparable to Luffy's.That being said.It would be too foolish to let the opponent unleash a full-power attack.Luffy took a deep breath, his knees slightly bent. The overflowing Conqueror's Haki instantly scattered a circle of rubble from the already cracked island ground beneath his feet. As he pushed off like a cannonball, a deeper, larger crater exploded in his original spot, kicking up a sky full of dust, but his figure had already flashed close to Golden Lion's main body with a roaring sonic boom."Gyahahaha, that's not necessarily true, you brat! Otherwise, why wouldn't you wait for me to finish accumulating energy?"The red dots in Golden Lion's pupils flickered into a stream of light. The moment Luffy sprang, his Observation Haki had already predicted it, and his body had twisted away in advance. The twin swords, Kōboku and sakura ten, beneath his feet wove a deadly trajectory, with a substantial red light trailing from the corner of his eye, as he fiercely chopped down in a cross towards the direction Luffy was charging!"Slash Wave!""Who in their right mind would wait for you to unleash your ultimate move!"Luffy laughed in anger, "Do you really think I'm an idiot?"The immense lion's head formed by the fusion of islands, and the power accumulated within it, made even him feel a chilling dread. Naturally, he had to stop Golden Lion before it fully erupted.So, after entering Gear 5, he had been relying on his speed and the strange abilities of his Nika Formto engage Golden Lion in close combat, not giving him a chance to fully guide that destructive energy.Golden Lion, using his Observation Haki to briefly see into the future, combined with the Float-Float Fruit's mobility, had been narrowly dodging Luffy's fierce attacks.Gum-Gum Mole Pistol!The only remaining large expanse of island ground beneath their feet seemed to turn into living Rubber under the power of the Nika Fruit. Luffy's fist, crackling with black-red lightning, shot up from underground like an earth spike without warning, striking towards Golden Lion.Bang!Catching Golden Lion in a moment of evasion, it landed squarely on his abdomen.Golden Lion grunted, more blood spilling from his mouth, but he used the force to rapidly fly backward as if weightless, instantly returning to directly in front of the giant lion's head, spreading his arms and laughing maniacally:"Too late, you brat! Do you see that future now?!"The brief skirmish lasted only a few seconds.But those few seconds were enough for Golden Lion's awakened technique, Shishi Odoshi: Chimaki, to complete its final energy accumulation.In the mouth of the giant lion's head, the destructive energy orb had expanded to its limit, emitting fluctuations that warped space itself."That's a terrifyingly big guy."Luffy's massive white face still bore a smile, but his eyes had grown much more serious.He took a deep breath, and his original body expanded, becoming an incredibly colossal being. The white steam flame clouds grew denser, and dense lightning coiled around his body.Rubber Giant!Chapter 249: Golden Lion, Defeated!A true white giant, reaching to the heavens, appeared.Like sunlight piercing through the night.A brief moment of light appeared in the gloomy sky.Luffy's size was even comparable to the lion's head made of islands behind Golden Lion!"So it's not just one part of your body that can grow enormous, but your whole body? Your ability is truly amazing!"Golden Lion was stunned for a moment, then burst into hearty laughter.As everyone knows, Devil Fruit development is the development of imagination.Among the people he knew, only that Linlinpossessed such imagination.Zoan types can transform and possess extremely strong recovery abilities.Logia types manipulate elemental power.But in terms of upper limit, Paramecia seems to be the highest.Powers that other types possess can also be developed by Paramecia in various ways."The sea is inherently magical, old man. If you can make islands fly, why can't I become bigger!"Luffy grinned.Golden Lion narrowed his eyes, scrutinizing the giant, "I really want to confirm again, you ate the Gum-Gum Fruit, right?"Even with a Fruit Awakening, for a Paramecia fruit to manifest the flame cloud characteristic of a ZoanMythical Zoan awakening, and to be able to enlarge so freely, it was simply too incredible."Does that matter?"Golden Lion was stunned for a moment, then seemed to let go, laughing even more wildly: "Yes! It doesn't matter anymore! What matters now is defeating you, so don't you dare run away!""I never planned to run!"Luffy's massive body suddenly leaped, the hundreds-of-meters-tall giant soaring into the air like a rocket, plunging into the dark, heavy thunderclouds that had gathered from the previous battle!"Natural lightning is still the most effective," Luffy's voice resonated from within the thunderclouds, carrying a booming echo.In the sky, from within the heavy thunderclouds, a pure white giant hand abruptly emerged. The giant hand tightly clutched a spear as massive as a mountain, a spear formed entirely of lightning.Gum-Gum Thunder God Spear!Bang!The giant hand gripped the lightning spear and, like throwing a javelin, hurled it fiercely down towards Golden Lion on the ground.Where the lightning spear passed, the air ionized, emitting an ear-splitting crackle, as if the sky itself was torn apart by the lightning."I really want to pry open your head and see how many more things you can think of!""That would kill you," Luffy said."This old man knows of a Devil Fruit specifically for that!"Golden Lion laughed heartily, looking at this attack descending like a natural disaster.First the power of a giant, then Observation Hakithat foresees the future, and now he can even casually grab natural lightning as a weapon.This was practically like the Homies under that crazy woman, Big Mom.Pure elemental attacks like lightning have always been the most difficult to defend against.Haki, at its core, is a power of will, capable of defending and attacking tangible entities, but against formless, intangible, and incredibly violent elemental energy like lightning and fire, its defensive effect is greatly reduced!Otherwise, why are Logia types said to be the noblest Devil Fruits?Golden Lion reached out and gazed, "Don't underestimate the pirates of the old era!"No one is willing to admit that their era has passed.The struggle between old and new eras has always been thus!No sooner had he spoken than the giant lion's head behind Golden Lion seemed to come alive, letting out a silent roar.