"From today onward, I'm your god. Now, I'll give you two choices..."
Lei En planted his foot on Enel's chest, just about to deliver the classic line: "Die or become my dog."
But he suddenly stopped.
The Rumble-Rumble Fruit's power within him was simply too surging, like ten thousand wild horses tearing through his veins. If he did not let it out, he felt like he was about to explode.
"Forget it. We'll do the multiple-choice question later."
Lei En moved his foot away, not even sparing Enel a glance as he lay there like a dead dog.
"First, I'll see just how powerful this cheat really is."
He slowly drew the famed blade Yubashiri from his waist.
"Bzzzt—!"
As the blade left its sheath, the blue arcs of electricity that had been jumping erratically across Lei En's body seemed to be seized by some fatal attraction, crazily converging upon the blade!
In the blink of an eye, Yubashiri's originally snow-white blade was completely wrapped in a layer of intensely dense, crackling high-voltage lightning.
The air around the blade twisted violently under the terrifying heat.
"Th-this... what kind of monster is this..."
Enel sat collapsed on the ground, clutching his head tightly in both hands.
The Mantra he had been so proud of was now frantically sending him fatal warnings.
It felt as if ten thousand needles were stabbing into his brain—an extreme terror born of instinct!
Lei En ignored Enel's trembling. He gripped the lightning-wreathed hilt with both hands and slowly raised it over his head.
Roger's peak swordsmanship and the max-level power of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit achieved their first perfect fusion across the ages at this moment.
Thunder Breathing: Divine Departure...
Lei En silently recited the absurdly flashy name of the technique, and his gaze instantly turned as cold as ancient ice.
Then, toward the dense primeval forest of God's Island, where even sunlight could not penetrate—
He swung with all his might!
"—Modified!"
"BOOM!!!"
There was no flourish, only the purest, most violent destruction!
A gigantic crescent-shaped slash several hundred meters long, laced with berserk blue lightning and jet-black Armament Haki, erupted from the blade's tip like a roaring thunder dragon escaping from hell!
Wherever the slash passed, there were no sounds of breaking and no sounds of collapse.
Because every towering tree, every hard Sky Island rock, and even the enormous beasts lurking in the shadows—
The instant they touched the slash, they were vaporized into nothingness by million-degree lightning and tyrannical sword pressure!
"Rumble—!"
The slash did not lose any momentum, plowing a horrifying scorched ravine dozens of meters deep and a hundred meters wide through the ground as if crushing rotten wood.
It bulldozed forward for several kilometers before viciously striking the ancient divine ruins deep within God's Island!
"Bang!"
The enormous, indestructible ancient ruins were sheared cleanly in half by this strike, as though they were nothing more than fragile building blocks before divine punishment!
Shattered rocks and scorched dust shot into the sky like a mushroom cloud, blotting out the sun.
A massive shockwave carrying searing wind swept violently through the tree hollow.
"Ah!"
Enel let out a scream.
Even though he was already lying flat on the ground, the lingering wind from the slash carved a long bloody gash across his cheek.
The air was thick with the pungent stench of burning and ozone.
Enel raised his head blankly, staring at the forest that had been leveled to the ground, leaving behind only a scorched ravine, then at the magnificent ruins in the distance that had collapsed by half.
His brain crashed.
"Th-this is something a human can do?"
The combat skills he had been so proud of were nothing but bullshit before this power!
Even if his Mantra could predict it, his body could never evade a destructive attack with such a range!
"Y-you... what the hell are you?!"
Enel completely broke down.
His laughable pride and self-esteem had been reduced to dust by Lei En's single slash, along with that entire forest.
He grabbed his hair with both hands and fell to his knees, tears and snot streaming uncontrollably down his face.
"Waaah—!"
The future Thunder God of Sky Island, the tyrant who had once made the residents of Birka tremble in fear, now knelt before the ruins like a three-year-old whose lollipop had been snatched away, bawling without the slightest shred of dignity.
"What even is this?! You call this an ordinary swordsman?!"
Enel wept as he pounded the ground in despair.
"A god? What kind of god am I?!"
Watching Enel cry his eyes out on the ground, Lei En sheathed his sword and shook his head helplessly.
"What weak mental fortitude. You broke down already?"
Lei En strolled leisurely over to Enel.
He stuck out his foot and nudged Enel's shoulder with extreme disdain.
"Hey, stop crying. You're too damn noisy."
Enel shuddered all over, and his sobbing stopped abruptly.
He looked up in terror at Lei En, who was staring down at him from above, not even daring to breathe loudly.
Lei En crouched down and met Enel's eyes, an exceptionally cruel and scheming smile curling across his lips.
"You said you wanted to be a god?"
Lei En extended his index finger, still carrying a faint current, and lightly poked Enel on the forehead.
"Since you're so ambitious, then today, I'll teach you what the rules of this sea really are."
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