Seeing the cold smile on Shiki's face, Creed instantly realized he was about to go all out. He straightened, eyes sharpening.
"Oh? Is that so? Then I hope you don't disappoint me."
Shiki's swordsmanship couldn't match his. If he wanted to turn the tables, he could only rely on the power of the Fuwa Fuwa no Mi (Float-Float Fruit).
And Creed was very interested in the complete awakening of that fruit.
Right now, he had one Devil Fruit Ability Extraction Card and one Awakening Card on him. If the Fuwa Fuwa no Mi's power was not inferior to the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, Creed wouldn't mind spending both cards to copy Shiki's ability.
After all, as long as he kept defeating treasure chest owners, he could keep getting more Devil Fruit Extraction Cards. Using them up wasn't a big deal.
"Bastard! You'll regret this!"
Seeing Creed's unconcerned expression, Shiki flew into a rage. His Killing Intent surged again, pressing toward a breakthrough.
That meant Shiki was already at the very peak of fury—his emotional volatility even more intense than before.
"Boom!"
Responding to Shiki's rage was the boundless sea below.
A stretch of ocean hundreds of miles wide and dozens of miles deep suddenly heaved upward, as if it had been cut out of the sea and lifted into the sky.
If not for Redfield's protection, the Creed and the Polar Submarine would have been dragged up along with it.
Even so, the Creed and the Polar Submarine were shoved back as the surrounding seawater rushed in to fill the void.
The place where the sea had been torn up transformed into a colossal whirlpool, devouring everything in its reach.
"Rumble!"
The waves roared and rolled back like a reversed Milky Way. Hundreds of miles of ocean became a nightmarish, living beast that blotted out the sky. For a moment it was impossible to tell whether the sea was above or below.
That vast, surging ocean—hundreds of miles across and dozens of miles deep—swallowed Creed whole.
From within the rising flood, countless golden water dragons were born, surging toward him.
Each water dragon contained not only a chilling Kogane no Ken'i (Sharp Gold Sword Intent), but also a strange, chaotic power that made even Creed take notice.
"Your sword intent just now… you fused it with your Fuwa Fuwa no Mi (Float-Float Fruit) ability?"
Trapped in the boundless water prison, Creed didn't panic in the slightest. Instead, he asked calmly.
The Sharp Gold sword aura that had fallen into the sea earlier had become the medium for Shiki to lift up the ocean.
So this was the true horror of a fully awakened Paramecia.
By attaching his fruit ability to sword intent and spending a huge amount of life force, Shiki had actually managed to remotely tear a mass of seawater hundreds of miles wide and dozens of miles deep up into the sky.
From this, it wasn't hard to imagine:
If the fully awakened Tremor-Tremor Fruit were in the hands of Whitebeard at his absolute peak—with that godlike body of his—destroying the world wouldn't be an exaggeration at all.
At the very least, with the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, Whitebeard could trigger cataclysmic earthquakes and tsunamis across the globe, turning this world into something close to doomsday.
In that instant, Creed finally made up his mind.
He would extract Whitebeard's Tremor-Tremor Fruit—and use his Awakening Card on it.
In terms of pure single-target firepower, with Susanoo (Divine Avatar Armor) he was already among the very top.
What he lacked was the strongest wide-area, large-scale attack.
Especially a "bug" fruit like the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, whose power could be stacked infinitely. Using it for indiscriminate area-of-effect attacks would absolutely be the most efficient option.
"Room (Surgical Space)!"
Facing the countless incoming water dragons, Creed expanded his Room, intending to slice them apart and erase the Fuwa Fuwa no Mi power infused within.
But—
"Boom!"
The water dragons crashed into the Room—and almost shattered it in an instant.
The formerly clear, round sphere of the Room warped and buckled, turning riddled with holes.
"What?!"
Creed was genuinely startled. He immediately shifted into his 30-Billion-Volt Thunder God Mode.
Then he pointed the Ama-no-Murakumo no Ken (Heavenly Cloud Sword) toward the heavens. Within a thousand meters around him, beams of light and bolts of lightning manifested like countless swords, forming a domain of thunder and radiance.
"Zzz—crackle!"
The high-temperature lightning and blazing light exploded outward, vaporizing the onrushing Sharp Gold water dragons with ease.
But the water dragons still managed to grind away a great deal of the lightning—and then absorbed that same lightning as their power source, continuing to invade and assimilate the domain.
"This chaotic power… is this the ultimate force of the fully awakened Fuwa Fuwa no Mi?"
Creed was shocked.
Even with his sword intent supporting the domain of light and lightning, it couldn't hold for more than a short while. The collapse came far faster than he had expected, wiping away his previous composure.
With his power fully unleashed, Shiki could finally threaten him.
Creed even faintly sensed that this "chaotic power" of the Fuwa Fuwa no Mi would be more accurately described as a kind of "law power."
"Roar!"
"Gaaah!"
Within the ocean, waves constantly condensed into all sorts of monstrous forms, surging at Creed in an endless tide.
If he didn't break free soon, he would be worn down inside this water prison hundreds of miles across until his stamina was exhausted—and might even be killed.
But breaking free was no easy task.
The seawater was saturated with chaotic power. Even with Creed's sword intent having reached a near-divine level, punching through in a single blow would be extremely difficult.
"Interesting. Looks like I really underestimated what a fully awakened Devil Fruit can do. In that case… I won't hold back either."
Creed sheathed Reincarnation.
His eyes turned purple, concentric circles appearing in his pupils.
Rinnegan.
At the same time, his clothes billowed without wind. As he spread his arms, an indescribable pressure surged from his body, suppressing everything around him.
If he was trapped—
Then he'd just obliterate everything in one shot.
Chaotic power? Infinite seawater?
To Creed, all of it could be swept aside with a single move.
"Mm?!"
Seeing Creed retract his sword domain as if giving up resistance, Shiki felt no joy at all. Instead, a chill flashed through his heart, and he hurriedly retreated at once.
"Shinra Tensei (Super Almighty Push)!"
At Creed's soft murmur, his entire body shone like a blazing sun, radiating an unimaginably brilliant white light.
"BOOM!!!!!!"
An indescribably vast repulsive force erupted from his body.
It slammed into the surrounding seawater, sweeping everything away in a full three hundred and sixty degrees with no blind spots.
From Redfield and the others' perspective, it was an unbelievably beautiful and awe-inspiring ultimate technique.
The endless ocean that had blotted out the sky was blown apart in an instant by the white light, bursting into countless water arrows that shot toward the heavens, while even the clouds for a thousand miles around were blasted clear.
The limitless force struck the sea beneath as well, driving hundreds of miles of ocean surface down more than a hundred meters, forming a strange, colossal basin.
(End of Chapter)
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