"Crack!"
Lei En opened his mouth and, right before Enel's eyes—which were practically bulging out of their sockets—viciously bit off a huge chunk of the fruit.
A bizarre stench, like dead sewer rats, moldy rotten apples, and filthy socks mixed together, exploded across his tongue.
"Fuck! This tastes absolutely disgusting!"
Lei En's face instantly turned green, his features twisting up like a steamed bun.
Yet he endured the gut-churning nausea and swallowed the pulp in one gulp.
"You bastard! Spit it out! Spit it out!"
Enel, whose staff was still being gripped at the other end by Lei En's single hand, completely lost his mind.
He watched helplessly as the divine fruit he had dreamed of was eaten by someone else, and his reason instantly shattered.
"I'll kill you!"
Enel let out a shrill roar, released the staff, and flipped through the air.
He drew the spare dagger at his waist, using the force of his descent to viciously stab at Lei En's head!
"Die!!!"
Lei En raised his head, the nauseating taste of the Devil Fruit still lingering in his mouth.
Looking at the dagger inches away, an incomparably crazed cold smile curled across his lips.
He neither dodged nor blocked. He even dropped the defensive stance he had used to catch the staff.
He simply stood there stiffly.
"Pfft!"
The dagger pierced Lei En's forehead without any resistance!
A flash of wild delight had just appeared in Enel's eyes when his expression froze completely the next second.
There was no spray of blood.
There was no sound of a skull cracking.
His dagger had actually passed straight through Lei En's head as though it had stabbed into a mass of intangible air!
Wherever the blade passed, Lei En's flesh transformed into strands of azure electric arcs!
The strongest defensive ability of a Logia Devil Fruit—Elementalization!
"W-What is this?!"
Enel's hand holding the dagger shook violently. As if he had seen a ghost, he tried to retreat in terror.
But it was already too late.
"Boom—!!!"
A savage, unrivaled power capable of destroying the world erupted explosively within Lei En's body!
The previously dim tree hollow was instantly illuminated by brilliant blue light as bright as day.
"Crackle, crackle!"
The piercing sound of electricity echoed throughout God's Island.
Countless thick blue bolts of lightning, like wildly dancing silver serpents, surged madly from Lei En's small body!
The lightning coiled and leaped around his body, producing heart-palpitating crackles.
His black training uniform fluttered wildly beneath the heat of the lightning.
Lei En slowly floated into the air. His eyes had completely turned azure, flickering with wildly violent lightning.
An indescribable and terrifying pressure, like one hundred thousand mountains, crushed down upon Enel.
"Is this... the power of a god?"
Enel collapsed onto the ground, staring up at the boy floating in the air like a god descending upon the world. He was so frightened that he forgot how to breathe.
His prized Mantra was like a lone boat on the vast ocean before Lei En's boundless thunderous power, instantly torn to pieces.
Lei En hovered in the air, feeling the surging power within him that seemed as though it would never run dry.
Roger's peak swordsmanship.
Combined with the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, one of the most powerful offensive Devil Fruits in the pirate world!
At that moment, Lei En felt an unprecedented sense of omnipotence and power.
"Finally... it's mine."
Lei En spread his arms and raised his head.
He could even clearly sense the free-floating electric charges in the air submitting to him.
"This power really is intoxicating."
Lei En lowered his head slightly, looking at Enel trembling like a leaf on the ground, a scheming smile curling across his lips.
"Hey, long-eared thief."
Lei En's voice was not loud, but it carried an extremely faint electrical current that hummed through the tree hollow.
"Didn't you just say this thing was bestowed upon you by a god?"
Lei En slowly raised his right hand, pointing his index finger at the massive dome above the tree hollow.
"Then let me show you what a true miracle is."
As soon as he spoke.
"Rumble!!!"
A terrifying blue pillar of lightning over ten meters wide erupted from Lei En's fingertip!
Carrying devastating power that crushed everything in its path, the lightning pillar instantly blasted through dozens of meters of hard tree trunk!
"Crack, crack!"
The enormous ancient tree let out a pained groan as countless fragments of wood rained down like a storm.
Yet the lightning pillar did not slow in the slightest. It burst through the uppermost layer of God's Island's dense forest and slammed violently into Sky Island's thick clouds, which never dispersed all year round!
"Boom—!"
Another earth-shaking explosion rang out!
The dense clouds, so thick that even sunlight could barely penetrate them, were forcibly blasted open by the lightning pillar, leaving a hole several kilometers wide!
Warm sunlight poured through the massive gap in the clouds like a sacred pillar of light, bathing the forest of God's Island.
It shone upon Lei En in midair.
As though a True God had descended into the world.
Enel stared at the lightning pillar that pierced through heaven and earth, then at the lightning-cloaked boy bathed in sunlight.
The golden dagger in his hand fell to the ground with a clang.
He was completely petrified with fear, his mind blank, leaving only endless trembling and submission.
At the same time, system notifications rang frantically through Lei En's mind like a barrage of cannon fire.
[Ding! Detected that the host has successfully eaten the Rumble-Rumble Fruit! Hidden interception achievement completed!] [Check-in successful!] [Issuing special rewards...] [Congratulations, host: Perfect physique fusion obtained!] [Devil Fruit side effects—fear of seawater and Seastone—eliminated!] [Congratulations, host: Lightning control directly raised to MAX (fully awakened state)!]
Hearing that string of reward notifications, Lei En, still floating in the air, could not help bursting into loud laughter.
"Hahahaha! A max-level Rumble-Rumble Fruit with no side effects! I'm truly invincible this time!"
Lei En laughed so hard that tears nearly came out.
He slowly descended to the ground, the lightning around his body gradually fading away.
Lei En walked up to Enel, whose soul had practically fled his body from terror, and arrogantly planted his foot on Enel's chest.
He looked down at this future "Sky Island Thunder God," his eyes filled with mockery.
"Kid, did you see that?"
Lei En pointed at the massive hole in the clouds overhead, his tone carrying an overbearing authority that allowed no refusal.
"Starting today, I'm your god. Now, I'll give you two choices..."
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