I'm an Elemental Logia-So Why Am I Getting Pummeled? / Sword Intent Leaves the Body; The Thunder God Descends

Mantra couldn't detect lightning! Electricity! Thunder! Light! That much he could accept, because those things were absurdly fast.

But not being able to detect a person? This was the first time he'd encountered something so bizarre. Had he somehow seen a ghost?

A trace of worry quietly crept into his heart. I might have run into a tough opponent this time!

"Playing with dragons, are you? Then try my dragon too!!"

A streak of seven-colored light poked its head out of the void, radiating a deadly threat. Then the seven-colored Flowing Light tore through the air. This was known as Hundred-Pace Flying Sword.

Chapter Forty-Seven: I, an Elementalized Man, Got Punched?

On a Sky Island 7,000 meters above the Blue Sea, an intense battle was raging.

A phantom Ink-Wash Painting Scroll covered the lowest layer of the White Sea Entrance.

An Azure Dragon flickered in and out of sight, while a long sword wrapped in seven-colored light left a long trail through the air.

Behind it came a faint streak of lightning. It followed close behind, but astonishingly, the distance between the two wasn't shrinking. Instead, it seemed to be growing wider.

"Bacchan!"

When Enel's Observation Haki once again caught Dongze's figure, he saw the scene before him—one that nearly made his jaw drop.

The Flying Sword was faster than his Thunder Dragon. Good grief, was this guy filming a movie? No, even movies wouldn't dare show something this outrageous.

Yet this was reality. And he suddenly realized that he was being locked onto by an aura.

He became even more bewildered. What the hell is going on?

His invincible ability had suddenly stopped working today. What exactly was this Blue Sea person?

Watching the Flying Sword draw closer and the figure concealed behind it, Enel unconsciously shuddered.

Mantra continuously issued its strongest warning. His heartbeat seemed to slow by half a beat, and at that moment, his blood seemed almost to freeze. His hands and feet began to turn cold.

He had a feeling that if he couldn't dodge this sword, he would definitely die.

The feeling had come suddenly, but it was incredibly intense. His nervous system was issuing its highest-level alert.

"Move! Move, damn it!"

He began roaring inwardly, trying to awaken his flesh, which had been affected by something unknown.

"Move!"

"Move!"

In the end, he even shouted aloud, but unfortunately, it was useless.

Not everyone was a monster like Garp, capable of forcibly breaking free from the aura-locking effect of Hundred-Pace Flying Sword with Conqueror's Haki.

The Sand Crocodile—Crocodile—had been unable to break free either, and could only escape in advance through elementalization. That had been because Dongze had deliberately held back to raise his proficiency.

But now?

Dongze's Armament Haki had advanced another level, reaching the level of Ryuo. He had no reason to hold back this time. Aside from Sword Intent, he had used practically everything at his disposal.

Facing this man who had welcomed him with lightning, Dongze now intended to teach him an unforgettable lesson—or rather, kill him!

"Electrotherapy!!"

Suddenly, a vicious glint flashed through Enel's eyes. He activated the lightning inside his body and sent it toward his heart.

This move had originally been used to save lives by stimulating the heart back into action.

But at this moment, he couldn't worry about that.

Wave after wave of electric current was sent into his heart, forcing it to operate beyond its limits.

"Cough!"

He spat out a mouthful of blood. Finally, just as the Flying Sword was about to reach him, he broke through the aura's restraint through self-mutilation.

He immediately elementalized to dodge. Dots of lightning flashed, and he appeared directly at the edge of this sea region, staring at Dongze in shock.

"Ruthless."

At the very end, Dongze had even seen his opponent use electricity to force himself into an elementalized state. Such ruthlessness was beyond what ordinary people could manage.

Seeing that this move would no longer have a chance to succeed, Dongze turned around and slashed at the incoming Thunder Dragon.

This strike was far more powerful than the previous slash. There was no clash of strength this time. From beginning to end, it pierced straight through the Thunder Dragon. Then, with the final horizontal slash of the move, Dongze didn't waste the momentum. After locking onto Enel's location with Observation Haki, he swung this beheading strike through the air toward him.

"Clang!!"

The slash broke the sound barrier with a piercing explosion. The sky darkened, and rings of Sword Aura surged toward Enel, hiding at the edge of the White Sea like waves.

However, because the distance was too great and Enel possessed Observation Haki, the sword failed to hit him. He elementalized in advance and dodged it.

Although Enel had escaped, the impact of the slash continued.

A huge rift stretched into the distance. Buildings, the White Sea, and the entire lowest-level region were all split in two by that single slash.

In other words, this sword had completely reached the level of Dracule Mihawk's strike during the Paramount War—the slash that cleaved an iceberg in half.

Seeing this, cold sweat instantly covered Enel's forehead.

His earlier guess had indeed been correct. If that strike had hit him, something truly terrible would have happened.

Recalling his earlier words, Enel's face burned with embarrassment. This man before him was already powerful enough to threaten his life or death.

In other words, this was an opponent who could rival him—or even surpass him.

At that thought, Enel's expression grew even darker. A Blue Sea person had suddenly appeared with such strength. Had all the people on the Blue Sea reached this level already?

"Blue Sea person!"

"State your name!"

"You are qualified to have this god remember your name!"

"Dongze!"

"Dongze? What a strange name. It truly lacks the elegance of my own divine name!"

Enel's bizarre train of thought was astonishing. He suddenly became narcissistic, sighing dramatically about how magnificent and grand his own name was while Dongze's was crude and pathetic.

Good grief, he can't win physically, so is he trying to torment his opponent mentally?

Dongze was left speechless by this. The entire mood had been perfectly serious, yet this narcissist had turned himself into an oversized human infant.

"Elegant my ass! You almost became a nylon rope!"

"..."

"Blue Sea monkey! I originally didn't want to quibble with you, but you've offended this god's dignity again. This god has decided to give you a magnificent funeral!"

"One hundred million volts—El Thor."

Looking at Dongze in the distance, Enel narrowed his eyes and began calculating inwardly. This Blue Sea person accelerated incredibly quickly over short distances, to the point that he could even break out of Mantra's detection. That was something he couldn't afford to ignore.

In fact, Enel, who had mastered Mantra, could retain a certain degree of rationality. In the original story, he had encountered a Rubber Man who couldn't conduct electricity, leaving him helpless and ultimately driving him into a frenzy.

Of course, it was also possible that the protagonist's halo had affected him and forcibly lowered his intelligence. It was hard to say. But the sword Dongze had just used, powerful enough to threaten his life, had once again brought him back to his senses.

"How amazing! It's actually El Thor!"

But just as Enel had calmed down, another surge of anger suddenly shot through his heart. For some reason, hearing that irritating tone from his opponent made it impossible for him to remain calm. He simply wanted to pin the man to the ground and grind him into the dirt.

Suddenly, Dongze's figure disappeared again.

Thinking of that terrifying speed—Why was he so fast? Lightning traveled through the air in the form of light, which human eyes could capture. But Shave was difficult for the naked eye to perceive and surpassed the limits of human vision. Comparing the two led to this conclusion. Of course, even the author thought it was somewhat absurd, but anything was possible in a supernatural world, and no single explanation could cover everything.

Enel's expression changed.

"Not good!"

He hurriedly activated the lifesaving trump card of Logia Devil Fruit users: elementalization.

But before he could breathe a sigh of relief, his vision suddenly went dark. A pair of fists struck his face with the force of swallowing the heavens and earth, nearly crushing all his features into the rest of his face.

At the same time, an absurd thought appeared in his mind.

I was elementalized, and I still got punched?

"My name is Enel. I'm a Logia Rumble-Rumble Fruit user. I can elementalize and avoid all physical attacks. Today, I was punched by a native of the Blue Sea."

Chapter Forty-Eight: Sword Intent Leaving the Body, Thunder God Descends

Above the Sky Island, a streak of lightning pierced the sky. Enel revealed his true form in midair.

His features were twisted beyond recognition. That punch had been comparable to Sanji's plastic-surgery package—except Sanji provided beauty treatments, while Dongze had provided disfigurement.

Standing in midair, Enel still hadn't shaken off the surprise and suspicion in his eyes.

He had clearly been elementalized just now. How had his opponent still managed to grab him?

As for that, it was necessary to explain the mysteries of Armament Haki.

For Logia Devil Fruit users, aside from elemental counters, there was only Armament Haki in the world of pirates.

Of course, even this restraint was relative.

During the Paramount War, Old Whitebeard had pierced Aokiji through the chest with a single sword strike, yet Aokiji had suffered no real injury.

The reason should have been that Aokiji had used Observation Haki to foresee the situation and had elementalized part of his body in advance.

Therefore, Whitebeard's sword had not actually touched Aokiji's body. It had simply struck empty air.

Aokiji had then remained completely unharmed, which explained everything.

Likewise, when Dongze had fought Crocodile in Alabasta, the Sand Crocodile, who had experienced the brutality of the New World, naturally knew about Haki.

Thus, when Dongze deliberately held back, Crocodile had elementalized in advance to dodge his attacks.

The situation back then had been somewhat similar to the battle during the Paramount War, when Whitebeard fought Aokiji. However, Aokiji had calmly dodged the sword through his own combat instincts, while Crocodile had mainly survived because Dongze had held back.

After all, Dongze's goal hadn't been to cut people down. He had been raising his proficiency.

"What did you do?"

Enel's expression shifted constantly. Elementalization was his trump card for remaining undefeated. No matter how powerful an attack was, as long as it couldn't hit him, he had nothing to fear.

Now that his trump card had failed, he had lost his usual composure. Dongze's punch had been like a blow to the head, leaving him stunned.

"Nothing. It was just Haki."

"Haki?"

"Like the Mantra you mentioned. On the great sea outside, it's called Observation Haki."

"The other kind is Armament Haki. It was developed specifically to deal with Logia ability users like you. Of course, that's not all it can do. Today, you'll experience it in full."

"Why did you come to the Sky Island?"

"If our goals don't conflict, I think we can stop fighting. Continuing this benefits neither of us."

Enel weighed the difference in strength between them. His trump card, elementalization, had lost its effectiveness.

He didn't want to continue fighting Dongze.

To put it nicely, the result might be mutual destruction, with both sides suffering. To put it less nicely, the fish would die, but the net wouldn't break.

Since he clearly wasn't the opponent, how could he keep rushing forward to be beaten?

His personality was somewhat narcissistic, and he looked down on the villagers living on the Sky Island because their strength wasn't even on the same level as his.

He could wipe them all out with a single finger.

But Dongze was different. From their exchanges so far, he could already sense the other's strength. It was no weaker than his own.

He still held sufficient respect for the strong.

"Heh."

"You can fight when you want to and stop when you don't? Where in the world is there such a good deal? Since you already attacked, you must bear the consequences!"

Enel said grimly, "You'd better think carefully. You're not alone! I doubt that girl has strength like yours. What if she gets hurt by accident?"

Dongze narrowed his eyes. "Are you threatening me?"

Enel chuckled, his laughter carrying a hint of madness and expressing the delight in his heart.

Fine. I can't beat you, but surely I can beat that woman!

"Don't dare. I'm only stating the truth."

Hearing this, Dongze slowly lowered his head. The long hair falling over his forehead covered his eyes. His hands hung slightly at his sides, and his right hand slowly formed a sword-finger.