"You insolent scoundrel!"
The man Xie Wen did not recognize at all bellowed and was the first to react.
A great mass of cold air poured from his body, swiftly forming a thick wall of ice between Xie Wen and Imu.
Sure enough, he was the one who had inherited Kuzan's Devil Fruit Ability...
So what had been the point of Teach lying low for all those years just for a Dark-Dark Fruit? Even leaving aside Xie Wen's Hunter's Knife, there were Artificial Devil Fruits, Green Blood, and Imu's ability to copy and steal other people's Devil Fruit Abilities.
Ice and snow abilities were nothing unfamiliar to Xie Wen. Aside from having fought Aokiji before, Meowrah, Suika Meow, Kaido Meow, and Yamato in his Palico Research Commission all had similar abilities. If weapon effects counted, Meow Jūshirō with Yubashiri Kai equipped counted too.
Besides, Klee Meow was still attached to him! An Ice-Ice Fruit Ability wielded with less proficiency than Aokiji's was nothing at all to the Hill-Dousing Lord. The Little Plushie merely waved her Heavenly Silk lightly, and the flames at one end rapidly turned purple as they transformed into a massive flaming blade that cleaved toward the ice wall.
"Hiss-"
The Heavenly Silk did not even touch the ice wall. The heat it radiated alone made the meter-thick wall skip straight past the liquid state from solid ice, vaporizing it into a great cloud of white steam.
Behind the ice wall, however, a gigantic boar stood in Xie Wen and the others' way, blocking Xie Wen's attack with his thick hide. Besides his naturally tough skin and thick flesh, Fengxi could also manipulate earth to form a layer of mud armor over his body, making him oddly similar to Almudron...
And Almudron's tail was ridiculously hard too. Weapons