In the previous fight just now.
Every time he was hit hard, Ross's power of distortion was agitated once and it became more and more intense, especially the first time, as if it wanted to break through his body and burst out.
He did not like gambling, but at this time, like Fujitora, he had to place his hopes on gambling. Whether a coin flying into the sky lands with a head or a tail depends on the last fight.
"Ice Block: Pheasant Beak!"
After Aokiji landed, he raised his right arm which instantly turned into a frostbird that charged towards Ross and wherever it went, the air seemed to freeze into ice.
Faced with the attack, Ross took a deep breath, folded his hands in front of him, made a virtual grasp and rushed out in front of the ice bird.
"Distortion Impact!"
The power of distortion converges on both palms, vaguely letting the air appear in the form of Distortion. Ross's palms hit the ice bird's head.
Kāchā! Kāchā!!
The Power of distortion is like a whirlpool. In Ross's palms, the constant explosion of the power of distortion on Ross's palms is raised to the limit. The ice bird slams into this whirlpool created by the power of distortion and breaks down from the head and finally breaks into pieces of ice that splashed around.
Aokiji breathed out a cold breath and when the bird broke to its last point, he took a step forward and turned his arm into a spear and hit Ross hard, wrapped in a strong cold this attack flew towards Ross trying to spread freeze Ross into ice.
Zi Zi!
Under the impact of the spear, Ross utilized the power of distortion to its limit to resist.
His whole body was pushed back bit by bit and the ice under his feet was filled with deep cracks and it constantly cracked, like plowing.
At the moment, The power of distortion in Ross's body is boiling, constantly rushing up and down, gathering between his palms, colliding with the sphere that has come towards him.
It's like a very tenacious spring that is under very heavy pressure. It closes up bit by bit and gradually tightens to the limit. It's compressed to the limit.
His physique body that he has been exercising day after day, the Physical Enhancement that has always been the core of promotion, the talent that was activated not long ago, Tenacious…
All of this has been transformed into a force that fixed the spring so that the spring is gradually tightened to the extreme and not exceed the bearing limit.
What is Devil Fruit Awakening?
Zoan is an extraordinary body and regenerative ability, while Paramecia is from inside to outside, allowing forces to rush out of the body, no longer confined to the body and can act on the outside.
The process from the inside to the outside is the most important and difficult one. Few people can do it, even fewer than rare Ancient Zoan Devil Fruit.
The enormous pressure from Aokiji has become the great power of the compression spring and Ross's body has become the essence of the spring tenacious.
Under constant confrontation, the spring was finally pushed to the limit and reached its highest and strongest limit.
Then.
It popped up violently.
The mystery of Devil Fruit's awakening is inspired at this moment.
"Ahhh!"
Ross burst out with an unprecedented roar, the ability to be oppressed to the limit, coming out with a fierce explosion in his body and pounding out from the palms of his hands.
The Power of distortion turns into a terrifying whirlpool and the vast impact goes ahead, whether it is air or ice, or the earth. Everything falls apart under the explosion of power of distortion and everything is nothing in front of it at this moment.
"How could it be…"
The expressions on Aokiji's face changed for the first time.
Ross made a sonic explosion and light explosion, which, although unexpected, did not shock him. People like Ross, who are powerful, always have some hidden attacks, an ace up their sleeves.
But now this scene is no longer a hidden attack, but a change beyond his expectation, Ross clearly has reached his limit earlier and now he suddenly burst out with even more power!
Kāchā! Kāchā!
Aokiji did not hold back any of his power as he utilized Busoshoku Haki and crossed his arms in front of him, to fight the coming Distortion storm.
He doesn't know how long it took but the terrifying's force of distortion finally dissipated and the scattered ice was splashed in all directions and the dust slowly dissipated.
On the field.
Between Ross and Aokiji, there is an area of tens of meters, which is sunken by the ice-covered earth, as if it had been swallowed up by something.
More precisely, it's like a cylindrical area that under the influence of the power of distortions is swept up and strangled, all of which break up into extremely tiny debris.
"Devil Fruit… Awakening?"
As Marine Headquarters Admiral, Aokiji naturally understood the concept of Devil Fruit Awakening. The only explanation that can explain Ross's sudden rise in power and its impact on a large area of nearby space is the Devil Fruit Awakening.
Otherwise, Ross would not have been hit by him several times in a row and he would have to deal with it directly with all of his strength.
Ross stood there and took a deep breath. There was an unspeakable fluency all over his body as if every pore was breathing. It was like a dehydrated fish has entered the water.
This is the awakening of Devil Fruit.
Devil Fruit awakening ability is free from physical restraint and can directly affect the outside world, just like Logia, directly transforming the power of distortions from inside to the outside world.
"Thank you for your help."
"Things… finally got interesting."
Ross slowly opened his eyes and looked at Aokiji. A faint smile appeared on his bloody face.
Without Aokiji, he would not be able to practice by himself and he wouldn't be able to compress the spring to its maximum length that made it snape and awakened his Devil Fruit Power.
Battles are indeed the most effective way to stimulate potential, especially when such one-sided repression is forced upon the body and the threat of death become very real.
"…"
Aokiji's face became a bit ugly.
Such a change was entirely unexpected, but even if Ross had awakened his Devil Fruit Powers, as Marine Headquarters Admiral, he was still in control of the Battle victory or defeat.
"Next, it's my turn to fight back."
Ross looked at Aokiji with a twinkling eye and a strong sense of warfare and ferocity in his voice. He suddenly rushed towards Aokiji, with his right hand's fingers pointing at Aokiji and tearing away.
His fingers instantaneously emerged in a round, much more transparent than Gura Gura no Mi, with only a slight arc of light that burst out in front of him.
Sneer!
The outbreak of the power of distortion blatantly tore towards Aokiji, where the earth and air were all torn apart by the disintegration Distortion.
Aokiji's face changed slightly, his palms closed in front of him, and Ice-Ice Fruit's ability was stimulated, instantly turning into a huge ice wall, blocking Ross's power of distortion.
Bang!
The Power of distortion falls on the ice wall, instantly giving it a shape of Distribution as a sudden depression appeared on the ice wall and then the ice wall bursts into pieces and turns them into splashes of crushed ice everywhere.
Just as Aokiji was waiting for Ross's next attack, he suddenly could not find him.
Seeing the fierce fighting at the moment before, Ross, who seemed to want to revenge on him, fled to the distance without turning his head after the blow, leaving only one afterimage behind.
What a joke!
Not to mention the injuries on his body, even in the state of full power, the gap between Aokiji and him cannot be directly reversed because of the fruit awakening, His strength only equals to that of Doflamingo's was in the War Of The Best.