Pillar of Lightning (Seeking Votes)

"Looking for death!"

Hancock turned to look at Enel aboard the Ark Maxim, only to find that he had already vanished. His reaction was quite fast.

However, Hancock immediately released her Observation Haki around her. As she sensed the auras of everything nearby, she discovered that he was still aboard the Ark Maxim, hiding behind a mast.

"Bring me an arrow!"

Hancock was furious.

Her pet snake Salome, behind her, was highly intelligent and immediately coiled her body into the shape of a great bow.

Gorud, standing nearby, promptly handed Hancock a metal arrow.

Whoosh!

Hancock imbued the arrow with the power of Conqueror's Haki, making it several times more powerful than arrows fired by ordinary Haki users.

Its speed through the air, piercing power, force, and even the hardness of the arrow itself had all been comprehensively enhanced.

"Huh? How does she have a detection ability like that too?"

Enel, hiding behind the mast, was greatly startled.

So the other side had also mastered a power similar to his Mantra. She did not even need to search with her eyes; she only needed to sense with her heart to discover the presence of someone in hiding.

"Tch!! It's only an arrow. Do you think that can kill me, the Thunder God? You lowly Blue Sea people are getting more and more arrogant!"

Enel suddenly roared and used Thunder Flash, as fast as the speed of light, moving directly from behind the mast to the side of the arrow.

"Thunder Refinement."

Enel's hands immediately erupted with violent lightning and flames, crackling as they released terrifying light and heat. He actually melted Hancock's metal arrow into an iron ball.

"What? The arrow was melted into an iron ball in an instant?"

"!! Could this hooligan have the legendary Devil Fruit power, the Rumble-Rumble Fruit?"

Gorud and Sonia both gaped, their eyes wide.

They could hardly believe that a man bare-chested and with his head wrapped in white cloth had actually obtained the Logia-type Rumble-Rumble Fruit. Controlling such overwhelmingly terrifying lightning, he had instantly melted down a metal arrow over a meter long.

"..."

Hancock, meanwhile, furrowed her delicate brows, rage surging in her heart.

He had the audacity to call them lowly Blue Sea people. Unforgivable!

Boom!

Unable to endure it any longer, Hancock stood upon the deck as her countless strands of black hair fluttered in the wind.

She suddenly unleashed the power of Conqueror's Haki, a power possessed only by kings. That aura swept in every direction, rolling outward with crushing pressure.

At that moment, Hancock resembled a divine maiden brimming with murderous fury.

"Hm? What a powerful presence!"

Enel, aboard the Ark Maxim, was startled!

How had he ever seen such a form of power?

In his heart, he only felt that she was like a lofty divine maiden, filled with limitless danger and the majesty to judge life and death at will. It made even him, the man destined to become the Thunder God, feel insignificant and small!

"Blue Sea people~~ Are you going to make enemies of me, the Thunder God?"

Enel was unwilling to admit that he had begun to fear this beautiful woman.

Instead, he forcibly put on an arrogant, lawless, fearless expression and declared with authority, "Here, I, Enel, am the strongest Thunder God. I can kill all of you at any time."

"???"

"This guy... is he an idiot?"

"Probably! There must be something wrong with his head. He actually shamelessly calls himself a god. He really looks like he's begging for a beating!"

"Hm? Lowly Blue Sea people, you dare profane the dignity of me, the Thunder God?"

Enel had now initially gained the power of Mantra. No matter how quiet their voices were, he could still hear them. His face immediately twitched with anger as blue lightning burst wildly from his body.

"Divine Punishment, Thirty Million Volts!"

Enel rushed into the sky, transforming his arm into a violent bolt of lightning. With not a trace of mercy on his face, he looked down upon them below.

A full three seconds passed.

He then hurled a streak of lightning upward from his hand. As it vanished into the clouds, a thunderclap suddenly rang out as though it had come from thousands of miles away.

BOOM!!!

A massive pillar of lightning descended from the heavens.

At that moment, Hancock and the others, along with more than half of the Kuja Pirates' ship, were within the lightning pillar's field of destruction.

"What!"

Sonia and Gorud were horrified.

Their scalps instantly went numb, and their hearts pounded in terror.

Not knowing how to defend against such lightning attacks, they could only immediately cover parts of their bodies with Armament Haki. There was nowhere to hide on the ship, and they couldn't possibly abandon it and jump down—this was ten thousand meters in the air.

"Norse!"

Hancock immediately thought of Norse, who was resting.

I can't disturb Norse's rest, and I can't let him get hurt at a time like this. Norse can't always be the one protecting us. Right now, I'll protect him properly.

In her panic, Hancock disregarded everything and flashed in front of Norse, using her body to block all the attacks raining down from above.

Norse was lying on a deck chair on the deck, sound asleep the entire time.

"Boom!"

The next moment, the lightning pillar struck with incredible speed, like a beam of light descending from the sky, directly hitting the Kuja Pirates' ship and Hancock's group.

Gorud and Sonia took the hit head-on and were immediately knocked unconscious by the thirty-million-volt lightning. Their orange and green hair was blasted into explosive styles by the high-voltage electricity.

Although Hancock used her own power to resist, her ability specialized in offense rather than defense. Within seconds, the descending lightning pillar shattered that layer of red energy.

Just like that, thirty million volts of lightning blasted across Hancock's entire body. Electricity ravaged her body, leaving countless marks behind.

Fortunately, Hancock had covered parts of her body with Armament Haki, so the lightning did not actually cause her very serious physical injuries.

Even so, Hancock still collapsed. Her entire body was numb with pain, and she gradually lost control over it.

"Yahahahaha..."

Enel arrived in a Thunder Flash, descending onto the Kuja Pirates' ship and snatching away Norse, who was lying asleep on the deck chair.

Everything happened in the blink of an eye. By the time he appeared again, he was already standing aboard his Ark Maxim, holding the still-sleeping Norse in one hand as he threatened Hancock:

"If you want this guy back from the hands of this Thunder God, I'll give you three days. Go kill every rebel on God's Island, or this Thunder God will kill him!"

"Unforgivable! You dared to take my man!"

Hancock was furious. She forced herself up from the ground, but her entire body was still numb, leaving her completely unable to fight back.

Even if she used the Love-Love Fruit's power, the two ships were getting farther and farther apart, already beyond her attack range.

At that moment, Hancock wished more than anything that she had a pair of wings, so she could fly across the White Sea and snatch her Norse back from him.

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