10 Seconds of Elementalization

There was none of the imagined stench, nor any nauseating strange taste.

The flesh carried a slightly icy numbness, like tiny currents bursting across his tongue. It could not be called delicious, but it was definitely not bad.

"They even changed the texture?"

Fang Xu looked at the fruit in his hand, finding it more absurd the more he thought about it.

Did removing the original weaknesses include the fact that Devil Fruits tasted terrible?

This talent was considerate enough.

He finished the entire Rumble-Rumble Fruit in just a few bites.

The instant he swallowed the last mouthful, it felt as though a bolt of lightning had ignited deep within his body.

Crackle!

Fine arcs of electricity leaped from his fingertips as Fang Xu lowered his head to look at his hand.

His skin was still the same skin, but it felt as if a rushing river of lightning now flowed beneath it.

His Chakra still existed.

The Rumble-Rumble Fruit's power had truly fused into his body as well.

The two systems did not reject each other. Instead, each remained clearly distinct.

Immediately afterward, a vast amount of experience concerning the Rumble-Rumble Fruit flooded into his mind.

It was not ordinary written instruction, but insights gained from personally using its power countless times.

How to transform his body into lightning.

How to compress electric currents into the shapes of birds and beasts.

How to use lightning for high-speed movement.

How to use electrical heat to smelt metal.

How to judge how intense a discharge his body could withstand.

Fang Xu closed his eyes, sweat covering his forehead.

This experience was too vast.

Enel's control over the fruit, his understanding of lightning, and every pitfall he had encountered while developing techniques all poured into Fang Xu's mind like a tidal wave.

Only after quite a while did he open his eyes.

"Elementalization."

Fang Xu raised his right hand and followed the sensation in his mind to mobilize his power.

The next second, his fingers began to glow.

The outline of flesh and blood dispersed, turning into a section of flickering blue-Haku lightning.

It worked!

Fang Xu's heart jolted as he continued channeling his power.

His palm, wrist, and forearm... lightning rapidly spread upward.

Half of his body turned into lightning. In this state, ordinary physical attacks simply could not hit a tangible body.

That was the most shameless aspect of a Logia.

Without Armament Haki, Seastone, or elemental counters, Elementalization was practically unsolvable.

If this were in the Shinobi World, most Genin, Chunin, and even quite a few Jonin would suffer badly the first time they encountered such an ability.

But his excitement lasted only ten seconds.

The moment the tenth second passed, Fang Xu's face suddenly turned Haku.

His Elementalization directly collapsed.

His body returned to flesh and blood, his legs went weak, and he nearly pitched headfirst onto the ground.

"Ha... ha..."

Fang Xu braced himself against the table and gasped for breath.

Maintaining Elementalization for just ten seconds had drained a huge portion of his stamina.

His chest felt tight, his limbs weak, and even standing steadily took effort.

"This body is too weak."

Fang Xu gave a bitter smile.

The Rumble-Rumble Fruit was indeed powerful, and Enel's development experience was indeed complete.

But experience was experience, and the body was the body.

Enel could casually unleash large-scale lightning because he had eaten the fruit for years, and his body had long adapted to that level of power.

Fang Xu was currently just a civilian boy from Konoha.

His Chakra reserves were on the weaker side, his taijutsu foundation was average, and his physical condition could not possibly compare to Enel's.

The flawless Rumble-Rumble Fruit had given him an exceptional ceiling, but it had not directly strengthened his physique.

Forcing high-output discharges would only drain him dry first.

"I can't use the fruit's abilities recklessly."

After catching his breath, Fang Xu's gaze darkened.

"I have to train my physique."

He rested for a long time, only leaving the small house once some color had returned to his face.

The room was too cramped. Testing Elementalization was fine, but if he truly tested techniques, one careless mistake might demolish his own home.

Fang Xu did not go to the training grounds.

There were too many people there, too many eyes. It was not suitable for exposing the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.

Forcing himself onward, he reached a riverbank at the edge of the village.

The river was not wide, and the surrounding trees concealed the area. Few people usually came here.

Fang Xu stood beside the river and raised his right hand.

"I'll test the simplest discharge first."

Crackle!

Several tiny arcs flew from his palm and landed on the river's surface.

Ripples exploded across the water, and several small fish floated to the surface belly-up.

Fang Xu's eyelid twitched.

Its power was a hundred thousand miles short of Enel's.

But for him right now, it was already astonishing.

Ordinary kunai and shuriken had to hit their targets to deal damage, while lightning was both fast and difficult to evade.

He took a deep breath and shifted his stance.

"Lightning Assault."

Power surged within him, and Fang Xu's body instantly transformed into a blue-Haku streak of lightning that shot forward.

His speed suddenly soared.

His vision almost blurred, and he crossed several meters in an instant, leaving the soil beneath his feet charred by electricity.

But the next moment, his chest tightened, and his forward momentum immediately broke.

Fang Xu staggered two steps and nearly fell into the river.

"No. The distance is too short, and the control is poor too."

He panted, forcing himself to calm down.

Enel moved with lightning like a true bolt of it, while he could currently manage only a short burst.

It was already powerful enough for ambushes and evasions.

But for long-distance movement, he still had a long way to go.

After resting briefly, Fang Xu raised his hand again, aiming at a waist-high stone by the riverbank.

"Thunder Bird."

The sensation of Enel using this technique surfaced in his mind.

The current condensed, its form compressed, lightning transformed into a bird, and it instantly bombarded the enemy to death.

But when it was truly his turn to use it, his body immediately protested.

His Chakra did not move, but the Rumble-Rumble Fruit began draining his stamina first.

The lightning in his palm gathered for a long time before it barely formed into a blue-Haku Thunder Bird the size of a fist.

It was on an entirely different level from Enel's enormous Thunder Bird.

Fang Xu gritted his teeth and swung his arm.

The Thunder Bird flew out and crashed into the stone.

Boom!

A scorched mark exploded across the stone's surface, scattering fragments in every direction.

The stone was not shattered, but a black crater a fist deep had been blasted into it.

Fang Xu looked at the black crater, his heart burning with excitement.

Even weakened to this extent, it still had such destructive power.

If his stamina improved and the Thunder Bird truly took shape, how terrifying would its power be?

He tried Thunder Beast and Thunder Dragon as well.

The results were even more obvious.

The Thunder Beast dispersed just after condensing into a vague outline.

The Thunder Dragon had not even formed its head before his stamina was drained to the bottom.

As for even more exaggerated large-scale techniques, Fang Xu gave up after merely thinking about them.

It was not that he did not know how to use them.

This body simply could not sustain that level of consumption.

He stood by the river, sweat dripping from his forehead while tiny arcs still lingered in his palm.

Most techniques could not be used.

Those he could use had their power greatly reduced by his lack of stamina.

But even so, Lightning Assault, Elementalization, and the weakened Thunder Bird had already completely changed his fighting style.

Fang Xu panted as he looked at the charred stone on the riverbank. Only one thought remained in his heart: even if most techniques were still unusable, and even if the power of those he could use was restrained by his stamina, his overall strength had still increased tremendously.