"Straight to the soul?" A flicker of surprise crossed Vikengam's eyes before he said, "Looks like you finally developed a useful way to use your fruit power..."
Honestly, Vikengam had always felt that Charlotte Linlin's development of the Soul-Soul Fruit was far too crude.
Aside from Soul Pocus, which could forcibly enhance her body and send her overall strength soaring-a very effective technique-
Vikengam thought everything else, like her Homies, was pretty pathetic.
Against weaklings, they certainly dominated, but in a fight between top-tier fighters, Homies were utterly useless!
Take techniques like Heavenly Fire and Indra. Did hitting Garp head-on with those do any good?
They didn't do a damn thing.
Ultimately, it was because Haki was simply too powerful.
It rendered many superficially developed abilities useless.
This wasn't just true of Charlotte Linlin. In fact, many ability users on the seas had the same problem, and Vikengam was among them. Many of his ice techniques looked flashy and impressive, but in his fierce battle with Garp, they had made scarcely any difference.
Fortunately, his ice could at least restrain and control his opponents somewhat.
But in the end, what really mattered was the physical enhancement he gained as a Mythical Zoan. Only those tremendous improvements to his strength, stamina, and overall physical capabilities could truly decide victory or defeat.
By contrast, very straightforward abilities had a considerable advantage in this respect. Whitebeard's quakes were simple and pure: sheer destructive power. Block them if you could; die if you couldn't!
There was nothing flashy about them at all.
Shiki's techniques like his earth-roll attacks were similarly meaningless against strong opponents. His true strength lay in the two swords in his hands, his ability to use sheer force whenever he pleased by hauling over an archipelago and endlessly smashing islands into