*Boom*
The ground was blasted off with a laser beam. Fenrir barely managed to avoid the beam with his pure instincts.
'Damn! This old fellow is still so strong!'
Cursing under his breath, Fenrir ran up to Maba and tried to give a serious punch.
For now, Fenrir's main objective was to completely measure Maba's strength.
Maba had the sixth highest bounty in the entire world.
Actually even Fenrir was hiding his real strength in the Marines temporarily.
Dram had taught him that one must always have a trump card in his inventory.
Maba swung his left hand as his serpent fingers extended and charged at Fenrir.
The five opened mouths with red light glowing on the teeth alone made Fenrir cautious.
Kicking the air, Fenrir changed his direction dodging all the serpents.
Geppo, one of the six techniques of Rokushiki where one can push themselves off the air itself with superhumanly strong kicks, allowing them to travel through, and remain in, midair for extended periods in what effectively resembles flight.
"How long do you plan to avoid me!"
Maba roared with some anger as the flames in his eyes grew bigger and wilder.
The boiling lava below the ground instantly spiked up at Fenrir.
Doing a somersault midair, Fenrir's feets kicked the air just above the spiking lava to push them back.
Flying up in the air with the force of his own kick, Fenrir coated his full body with armament haki.
Multiple balls of lava formed around Maba which then were shot at Fenrir.
"Ahh!"
Concentrating on his arms, Fenrir coated them with another layer of haki. But this time, it was the advanced version.
*Boom*
As the fist in advanced armament haki made a hit on the first ball of lava, it splashed around in the air.
Thankfully coated with full haki, Fenrir's safety was somewhat guaranteed in front of the lava.
*Boom*
Bursting all the lava balls in the air, Fenrir's figure started falling down towards Maba with a slight increase in the momentum.
Maba raised his hands as hundreds of layers of wind shield one over another formed between him and Fenrir.
"Ahh!"
The falling Fenrir pulled his right hand and then thrusted it through the wind shields.
*Boom*
Even after all his strength and the impact he carried while falling down the sky was unable to fully penetrate all windshields.
*Bam*
Jumping off from near Maba, Fenrir's chest moved up and down with his rapid breathing.
"What happened? Is this all you got? Dram's son!"
Slamming his hands on the pool of lava below on the ground, Maba created two huge lava dragons.
Pulling out the weapon behind his back, Fenrir spun it in the air.
*Grab*
The handle was tightly gripped by Fenrir. The weapon was a thick baton made of sea stone.
It was about a meter long with a 15 centimeter handle. This was the weapon which Fenrir used the most in his life.
"Die!"
The two lava dragons connected to the pool of lava moved forward towards Fenrir.
Fenrir took a posture and dashed forward while ripping off the ground below his feets.
The baton in his right hand shined with a black glow as the haki was absorbed in.
Of course Fenrir wasn't stupid enough to fight off against Maba who was as strong as one of the Four Emperors.
He had plans. The baton in his hand was no ordinary one to begin with.
This baton is a weapon which was fed the Esa-Esa no Mi by Vegapunk.
A paramecia devil fruit which grants the user to absorb any kind of energy and use it again.
But the form of energy which could be used again wasn't limited to what was absorbed. If heat was absorbed, he could use electricity but the amount was fixed.
"Come on!"
Fenrir stopped and stepped on the ground and swung the baton at the two incoming lava dragon heads.
The two lava dragons seemed to join together and form an even bigger dragon as it opened its mouth to engulf Fenrir.
But before that, the baton hit the air just in front of the lava dragon as an explosion sounded.
The lava dragon was blasted off, splashing around the ground.
Right now, the island is in a very bad shape. Most of the land was pooled up by hot red lava.
There was a limited space for Fenrir to stand. And the box was also in a dangerous position now.
"I don't have much choice."
Fenrir leaped in the air and flew up towards Maba with his baton pulled behind.
"Die!"
Maba seemed to be a little bit out of his mind as his eyes only released flames.
Rationality was becoming less on Maba's side while Fenrir was fully focused on surviving.
The wings behind Maba's back expended up and the temperature on the island changed immediately.
'Awakened devil fruit power!'
Fenrir's plan was to make use of the heat energy absorbed from the lava dragon and strike at Maba.
Yet, he didn't expect the other to suddenly use awakened power.
Because using awakened power requires lots of energy. Guess Maba didn't care about the future anymore.
And if the island was destroyed, there wasn't a chance that Maba would not fall in the sea.
Unfortunately for Maba, his luck and fate wasn't with him today.
Maba was facing the worst enemy he could in the entire world.
The baton in Fenrir's hand glowed as the heat energy in the atmosphere was getting absorbed at a fast rate.
Only thing Fenrir needed to do was keep a safe distance for now and his baton would soon be charged enough to one shot Maba.
"Die! Die!"
Maba shot ten red laser beams from his serpent fingers at Fenrir in the air.
"It's useless!"
Shouted Fenrir. He stayed up by kicking the air. Bringing his baton front, Fenrir absorbed most of the beams.
As for why Fenrir didn't use the baton from the very beginning? It is because he was trying to measure Maba's strength as said before.
Maba opened his mouth wide as a red energy ball filled with some amount of lava formed.
"Haa!"
His mouth was like a flame thrower but with lava. Each burst of lava with the hit from Fenrir's baton landed on the ground.
Very soon, the land was left with little ground to stand. And at that place was the box hidden by Fenrir.
'Any longer and everything will be for nothing!'
Fenrir made his final decision and kicked the air to rush at Maba.
His baton also had absorbed enough energy by now to wipe Maba off existence.
"Ahh!"
Maba was like a wild beast in a craze, he roared and swung his hands towards Fenrir.
His serpent fingers moved in agile to bite Fenrir and kill him with their poison.
Fenrir couldn't care less about those serpent fingers as he also swung the baton at Maba.
All the energy absorbed in it was already concentrated to charge in Maba's body in contact.
But at that moment, something happened. Maba's chest showed a glow of green light.
*BeepBeep*
The sound was like a warning before the detonation of a bomb.
And as expected, the explosion in that very instant followed after the end of the beeping sound.
*Boom!*