Defeating Enel

"Damn it, why are you back again!" Enel cursed furiously at Lu Zhuo, who stood before him with a cold expression and Kitetsu in hand. He had completely lost the dignity of a god.

Of course, this was a side of him he only showed in front of Lu Zhuo.

Lu Zhuo said calmly, "This time, I'm going to defeat you!"

"Bastard, I'll crush you once and for all, so you'll never come back!"

Enel was nearly beside himself with rage. Suddenly, he leaped high into the air, his body soaring skyward.

Three Hundred Million Volts: Thunder God!

After countless battles with Lu Zhuo, Enel's strength had naturally grown considerably. He could now wield three hundred million volts of electricity.

But Lu Zhuo stood below without the slightest fear. As he watched the barrel-thick bolts of lightning pour down from the sky, Kitetsu instantly leaped from its sheath.

Heavenly Thunder: Wave Sword!

With a furious shout, Lu Zhuo raised his sword to meet the lightning. An extraordinary sight unfolded: instead of coursing into Kitetsu, the lightning was drawn along by the blade, spiraled in a circle, and became a crackling blade of light that shot back toward Enel in the sky.

"Bastard, that move again!" Enel gritted his teeth in fury and summoned another bolt of lightning, smashing it into Lu Zhuo's blade of light.

Crackling explosions filled the air as Lu Zhuo swung his sword without pause.

Draw Sword Strike! Void-Breaking Draw Sword Strike! Evil Light Slash! Army Breaker Rising Dragon Strike!

One sword technique after another followed in quick succession, countless sword lights flying through the air. Enel, too, swung his arms wildly.

Thunder Dragon! Thunder Bird! Thunder Cone! Thunder Flash!

Bolts of lightning flew in every direction. The two of them were like mobile artillery batteries, bombarding each other as explosions shook the sky and made all of Skypiea tremble.

Robin, reclining in a chair aboard the Holy Sword, calmly sprouted two arms and covered her ears.

Nami turned into a thundercloud and drifted above the two, repeatedly sending lightning down at them. But her bolts were too feeble; they had no effect no matter whose head they struck.

Over the past three months, Lu Zhuo's body had been tempered by lightning countless times. It had grown so fearsomely strong that it was no weaker than the bodies of CP9 agents who specialized in training with the Six Powers.

Enel roared, "Bastard, you're down there and I'm up here. I've already made myself invincible—you can't beat me!"

The corner of Lu Zhuo's otherwise impassive mouth suddenly twitched.

"Really?"

Since he was about to leave, he might as well give it everything he had this once.

"Enel, watch closely. Geppo!"

With a shout, Lu Zhuo vanished in an instant. After several quick steps through the air, he appeared before Enel in the sky!

"You... How can you fly?" Enel's eyes nearly bulged out of his head. He watched Lu Zhuo step through the air several times and fly into the sky.

Lu Zhuo had figured out Geppo long ago. He'd simply held back from using it to defeat Enel so he could fight him a few more times and spare his tender feelings.

Now that he was ready to leave Skypiea, there was no harm in defeating him once.

With that thought in mind, lightning flashed in Lu Zhuo's eyes as he stepped forward.

Void-Severing Flash!

In the next instant, Lu Zhuo vanished. Enel's heart lurched. Through his Observation Haki, he sensed Lu Zhuo flashing dozens of times between three fixed positions beside him!

Although his Observation Haki could detect Lu Zhuo, his mind couldn't react in time. What's more, after the first strike, a powerful sword aura pinned him in place, leaving him unable to move.

A moment later, Lu Zhuo returned to his original position and drifted gently to the ground.

His face was a little pale, and sweat beaded on his forehead. That move had taken him around his opponent, using Geppo to shift through the air as he rapidly unleashed thirty slashes, striking from every direction.

Enel opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but his body suddenly burst into a mass of lightning.

Just as he began to re-form, he burst into lightning again.

This happened thirty times in a row. Only after he was reduced to a tiny spark of lightning did Nami, who had become a thundercloud in the sky, help him slowly regain his human form.

But countless gashes now covered his upper body. They were shallow, but looked horrifying.

"S-so powerful... You finally beat me." Enel looked bewildered. He had been knocked from his divine pedestal; it was easy to imagine how that felt.

Seeing him like this, Lu Zhuo smiled faintly. "This world is vast, and there are countless powerful people in it. How could this little sky island ever be enough? You want to reach the boundless earth, and I want to become the strongest god in the world. Our paths are different, but our goals are both to become gods above all others."

With that, Lu Zhuo gently sheathed his sword and called to the thundercloud in the sky, "Nami, let's go. We're leaving Skypiea!"

Long after Lu Zhuo had left, Enel finally came to his senses. A glimmer of understanding seemed to dawn in his eyes, but that was no longer Lu Zhuo's concern.

"Lu Zhuo, elemental transformation really is a tough problem to deal with. If an ordinary person had taken that move of yours just now, they'd have been dead beyond a doubt. But Enel only suffered a few minor injuries. Even if you wiped out all his lightning, he could still revive in a bolt of lightning."

Nami turned into a floating Island Cloud, wrapped Lu Zhuo in it, and carried him toward the Holy Sword.

Lu Zhuo chuckled. "You think so too? We haven't reached the New World yet, but there's a power I need to tell you about."

With that, Lu Zhuo suddenly reached out. A strange aura enveloped his hand, and then he gently grabbed at the cloud beside him.

"Ah!" A startled cry came from deep inside the cloud.

Lu Zhuo laughed and explained, "This power lets you grab Logia users in their physical form. It's called Haki. I figured out a little of it based on Observation Haki and barely managed to master the first level: formless and colorless."

"If I can reach the second level, formless but colored, I'll be able to apply it to my weapon. I could kill Enel in no time."

As he said this, Lu Zhuo suddenly realized that his hand seemed to be in the wrong place.

So big, so soft...

"Lu Zhuo, you bastard! Stop picking on me!" Nami's furious voice came from inside the cloud. A few clouds immediately turned into two tiny fists and began pounding Lu Zhuo's chest.

Lu Zhuo laughed. Since he'd gotten his hands on her by chance, how could he let go so easily? He completely ignored Nami's little fists, kneading her with his large hands as he wore a look of pure enjoyment.

A few seconds later, Nami finally couldn't hold on any longer and reverted to her original form with a pop. The two of them tumbled down together.

Lu Zhuo caught Nami and was about to use Geppo when he suddenly saw a huge net made of arms spreading over them.

The corner of his mouth lifted slightly. He stopped himself from moving his feet and lay down on the net, letting it carry him back to the Holy Sword.

Robin had no idea Lu Zhuo had learned Geppo. After rescuing him and Nami, she chuckled and said, "Did my little captain get carried away? If you two had fallen to your deaths, I'd be the captain of this ship now."

"Don't you dare! I'll always be the captain!" Lu Zhuo said in mock anger. Then he flashed forward, drifting over with Nami in his arms and pulling both Nami and Robin close.

"Bastard, let go!" the two women cried in unison.