*Bang! Hualala!
As the words fell, the coast behind Whitebeard exploded, sending tons of seawater into the sky, forming a massive tsunami that covered half the island! At the same time, thousands of equally massive waves surged in from the distance, converging to create a man-made Adriatic Sea quake!
"It's Tremor!"
The trio understood immediately.
The Tremor's force dissipates in the air and on land, but in the ocean, the water it displaces remains. As the shockwave subsides, the water will rush back, forming a cataclysmic tsunami!
"Die!"
Whitebeard's hands grabbed the air as if holding something, and he swung them forward violently.
The waves behind him roared and surged forward, crashing down on the three of them with the force of an avalanche.
If it were just ordinary seawater, the trio wouldn't care. For those who rule the sea, it's hard to be threatened by a mere natural disaster.
But add Whitebeard to the mix, and the danger isn't just "1+1."
Facing the oncoming oceanic curtain, Rowen and Kizaru exchanged glances and shot upward in blue and golden beams of light.
Akainu blinked, then looked up in disbelief.
"Hiss... Did those two bastards just abandon me?!"
But Whitebeard wasn't going to let them get away so easily. With a quick movement, he lifted his foot and jammed his toe into the ground.
*Clang!*
The naginata returned to his hand. Whitebeard spun in place and swung it down with the force of splitting a mountain.
*Boom!
The sky filled with shattered fragments once more, and the terrifying trembling power erupted from the void. The two rays of light that had just escaped the tsunami's reach were shattered and forced back to the island by the tremor.
Akainu felt no emotion; in fact, he found it amusing.
"Ha! Serves them right!"
"I'll hold him off. You guys find a way to break through the tsunami!"
Unable to fly away, and with Rowen unable to use Blink under the power of Whitebeard's Awakened Tremor-Tremor Fruit, there was no choice but to fight head-on and make a way out.
All kidding aside, Akainu couldn't really be angry with their actions.
Mobility had always been the hallmark of Soryu and Kizaru. In the face of Whitebeard's tsunami, dodging was the best option, and he was the one who dragged them down.
After speaking, Kizaru covered himself in golden light, radiating intensely.
*Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
In the next moment, thousands of laser beams shot toward Whitebeard like a storm, illuminating the room. The earth-shattering explosions forced Whitebeard to give up his pursuit and defend himself.
Temporarily free from Whitebeard's threat, Akainu and Rowen exchanged glances as they stood on the shore, preparing their ultimate moves.
**Awakening Skill: Lava Hell!**
Akainu dropped to his knees and thrust his hands into the ground. The earth in front of him quickly dried and cracked, with crimson fissures spreading and emitting intense heat.
A perfect example of scorched earth!
His arms turned into a searing red stream from his shoulders, continuously injecting magma into the ground. Unlike his usual moves, this wasn't a power build-up, but an uncontrolled release of overwhelming energy, a sign of "Awakening".
This state only occurs when an Ability user pushes their limits.
Akainu was clearly going all out, as the others were able to escape at the cost of injury.
But for him, it meant certain death.
"Disperse the waves. I have a way to deal with them!"
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"Rowen turned his head and shouted as Thunderous Titan Mode dissipated, returning him to his normal size. But as he was in the air, the next moment...
*Roar!*
He stomped heavily, causing the ground to collapse.
Thunder continued to swirl and grow in the sky, forming a hundred-meter tall skeletal figure on the shore.
In an instant, this figure was covered in muscle, skin, armor, and cloud patterns, all created by thunder. What stood before Akainu was a thundering giant monkey, clad in heavy armor, roaring at the sky.
**Overload Esoterica: Violent Monkey of Hell!
With the appearance of the Thunder Cloud Dragon Pattern, Rowen decided to let the Thunder God Signet and the Thunder Cloud Dragon Pattern overlap, abandoning this oft-used Overload skill.
However, that doesn't mean that the Hell Monkey form is without value.
Every ability has its time, and for breaking through a Tsunami head-on, Thunder Titan Mode wasn't as effective as Violent Ape of Hell.
*Bang!
Landing on the ground, the Violent Ape of Hell, faintly retaining Rowen's features, appeared cold and solemn, standing like a towering giant and staring straight ahead.
Akainu nodded, saying nothing as he controlled the magma to surge upward.
*Boom!
In an instant, the first wave, a hundred times wider than a skyscraper, exploded with a heaven-shaking roar into a spray of white waves!
A red glow shot up from beneath the sea, and masses of magma the size of battleships erupted with the earth's fury, tearing the waves apart.
Lava Hell not only relied on Akainu's power but also used his innate advantage as a Magma Human to control the underground magma layer and create a volcano!
The volcano in the tropical rainforest of Hell Island was created by Akainu. Similarly, the icy region in the eastern area was created by Aokiji.
While both are natural phenomena, the power of a volcanic eruption is more concentrated. With a single blow, the tsunami was reduced to less than a tenth of its original size.
However, the two didn't feel relieved; there were just too many waves!
What Akainu dispersed was just a small wave in the great tsunami.
It was a man-made quake in the Adriatic Sea!
Previously, when facing the Adriatic Sea quake, Rowen only had to cover the retreat of the battleship force. This time, he had to face it head-on.
Suddenly, there was a gust of wind.
*Swoosh... Whoosh!*
The falling magma and seawater suddenly turned, flying parallel over Akainu's head and heading backward.
Looking back, Rowen was in a karate stance, slowly moving his arms.
Gentle movements stirred unimaginable winds, turning the magma and seawater into two separate "Heavenly Rivers" that Rowen guided into a twisting whip.
If anything over ten meters in diameter could still be called a whip.
**Fish-Man Karate: Wind Treading Class: Water-Fire Twisting Whip!**
*Bang!
Suddenly stepping forward, Rowen grabbed the blue-red whip with both hands and threw it forward.
*Snap... Boom!*
The whip stretched over a thousand meters and landed in front of another incoming wave.
Even though the Water-Fire Twisting Whip was over ten meters in diameter and several hundred meters long, Rowen's attack seemed insignificant compared to the gigantic wave.
However, its effect was terrifying.
Temperature differences are the primary cause of ocean currents.
When a mass of hot seawater enters, combined with the twisting force of the Wind Treading Class Fish-Man Karate, the whip creates a thousand-meter diameter whirlpool when it hits the ocean.
The end of the giant tsunami was sucked into the whirlpool, and the cascading seawater lost its bottom support, naturally dissolving into mist.
"Well done, Rowen!"
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With a single strike, the wave, which was more than ten times larger than the one Akainu had destroyed, vanished completely. The effect was remarkable.
When Akainu noticed that Rowen had such control over seawater, he was overjoyed, but then he furrowed his brow and said, "But if we do that, we'll be exhausted first!"
"Whitebeard won't lose anything..."
This crisis could hardly be called Whitebeard's "technique".
He just unleashed the Tremor, and the ocean automatically took care of everything for him.
Two people fighting the sea?
What kind of fairy tale is that?
"No, it will be tiresome at most, but how could we get exhausted?" Rowen chuckled and pointed to the distant battlefield, "Do you think Whitebeard would let them get involved?"
Akainu's eyes lit up.
"I see!"
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Rowen laughed lightly, indicating that Whitebeard's strategy would prevent others from getting involved, thus reducing the burden on them.
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**(End of the Chapter)**
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