Despite the immense power and extremely high temperature of the laser, which can even burn through Warcury's Armament Haki, it is merely a byproduct of the Law of Lightning. In terms of damage, it is still physical damage and has no effect on breaking through immortality.
So the moment Vic retied the boar, he rushed forward. At this time, Warcury was not yet in so much pain from the lightning that he covered his body with Armament Haki. Most of his attention was distracted by the pain in his body!
This was also the moment when Warcury's defense was at its weakest, and then Vic's fist, wrapped in Ryuo, struck the boar's head precisely!
Vic's punches weren't exactly precise, since the entire boar's body was fixed in place by his lightning ropes, making it impossible to dodge. The only difference was whether Armament Haki was applied or not!
The results were naturally vastly different. Saint Warcury, who didn't have time to use Armament Haki for defense, was punched by Vic's fist, which was wrapped around Ryuo, and the entire pig's head was blown apart with one punch. Internal destruction is that simple, direct, and ruthless!
"Is my Armament Haki inadequate, or is it that my Armament Haki isn't strong enough? This is a powerful weapon against Devil Fruit abilities!"
Could perfected Power of Law truly overcome the limitations of Armament Haki? But Haki is a power unique to this world; it shouldn't be weaker than the Power of Law!
Watching the boar resurrect after turning to ashes again, Vic was puzzled. Judging from the strength of Devil Fruit abilities and Armament Haki, the two had always been evenly matched!
A stronger Haki can nullify Devil Fruit abilities; for example, Law nullified Doc Q's ability, allowing him to transform from a woman into a man.
A stronger Devil Fruit ability allows one to bypass Haki defenses and attack the enemy's body. The example is Law, whose opponent was Vergo. Vergo, whose entire body was covered in Armament Haki, was cut in two by Law's Surgery Space!
Furthermore, after Luffy transformed into Nika, neither Kaido nor Kizaru could prevent Luffy's abilities from Assimilation into their bodies, even when covered by Haki!
Now, the Five Elders have borrowed the Power of Law Imu's perfect law to become immortal. The perfection of the Laws can also be said to be the ultimate development of the Devil Fruit ability.
To counter a Devil Fruit ability that has been developed to its fullest potential, wouldn't the opposing Haki also need to be extremely powerful to restrain it?
After Vic's all-out attack with Armament Haki proved ineffective, a guess formed in his mind!
Vic's conjecture is logically sound; however, it's difficult to verify at this stage. In this world, who dares to claim their Haki cultivation has reached its peak? Would Joy Boy have dared to say that 800 years ago?
Furthermore, what constitutes the standard for reaching the top? Is it simply a matter of reaching the limit of Haki, or is there a clear distinction between realms, like the God Realm, where one step leads directly to another realm?
The inability to progress in one's Haki might be a matter of individual Haki. Just as some people struggle to make even the smallest progress in cultivating domineering aura, while others do so as easily as eating and drinking. Those who struggle often feel that their Haki has reached its limit, but is their Haki truly that strong?
So what exactly is the standard for the ceiling of Haki presence? And whose Haki strength is used as the standard?
If Haki has different levels, then who has reached another level? Has anyone ever reached it? Is there any record of it?
Back then, when Vic learned that there was a realm beyond Devil Fruit Awakening, it was through ancient records. Before that, Devil Fruit Awakening was what Vic considered the ultimate state of Devil Fruit development!
Therefore, if Vic wants to reach the ceiling of Haki and prove that Haki also has different levels, he needs to keep cultivating Haki to achieve the result!
He may have spent a great deal of time discovering that even after reaching the limit of his own Haki, he still couldn't break free from the barrier of immortality. Perhaps that was just the limit of his Haki, not the true limit of Haki in this world, but he had no way of knowing!
It's possible that his ceiling was the ceiling of Haki in this world. However, if he still couldn't break through the immortality at that time, then in this world, Haki would be suppressed by the perfect Laws. In the end, Vic spent a lot of time cultivating Haki, but in the end, Haki still had no place to be used!
Of course, these are some of the situations that may arise on the way forward. Vic needs to verify the limits of his Haki and whether he can withstand the Power of Law!
Although the probability of success is not high, at this moment, Vic is willing to spend time verifying the answer; he is willing to follow the guidance of his intuition!
Before Vic has solved the problem of using the flow of time within the illusion to comprehend the Laws of the outside world, given his current strength of only understanding the Law of Lightning, it is extremely unfavorable for Vic to compete with Imu, who has lived for at least 800 years!
Even if he could comprehend the laws of Law of Speed and Slowness and Law of Space in a short time, his advantage wouldn't be significant!
Imu seems to also know the Law of Space. Having lived for so long, how many complete Laws has Imu comprehended? His immortality alone is enough to give Vic a headache!
But if he succeeds in mastering the path of the Haki restraint Laws, then he will be able to overcome any technique with sheer force. No matter how many Laws Imu comprehends, he will be able to break them with his Haki!
Vic wanted to try overtaking Imu's car on another track. This idea wasn't entirely hopeless. The abilities of Devil Fruit have always been manifestations of the Power of Law. It just depends on how much of the Power of Law the user can borrow from this world!
In other words, from the very beginning, Haki has been intertwined and competing with the Power of Law, it's just a matter of who is stronger!
From this perspective, there is a theoretical basis for Haki to overcome Laws. What Vic needs to do is push his domineering Haki to its peak and then compete with the complete Laws!
"Again!"
This time, instead of using the lightning rope to bind the wild boar Warcury, Vic used his teleportation ability to appear in front of the boar's snout. He then shoved the black lightning ball swirling in his hand into the boar's mouth, and the entire boar's body exploded, spraying out a rain of blood and flesh!
Vic isn't afraid of being exposed when using teleportation at close range. At this distance, he could achieve a similar effect using either the Speed Domain or the elementalization of lightning. However, teleportation is more concealed and unpredictable, and even the Five Elders wouldn't be able to detect it.
The immortality granted by Imu was too powerful; even though Vic used the strongest black lightning from the Law of Lightning, Warcury was still resurrected once again!
There is no relationship of mutual restraint between the Law of Lightning and the Law of Immortality. One governs killing and destruction, while the other governs resurrection. They are not contradictory Laws, so it is impossible to say which is stronger or weaker.
The Law of Immortality: Go ahead and kill, kill all you want, I'll resurrect him after he dies!
Law of Lightning: Go ahead and resurrect, resurrect however you want, I'll kill you again after you're resurrected!
Therefore, Vic knew that even the complete Laws could not necessarily break an immortal body; only a few of the laws of Law of Immortality could overcome it!
But if we ask Vic to comprehend it now, not only is there no time to prepare, but we also need to see if Vic has the talent for it. Otherwise, spending a lot of time would be a waste of time!
It took Vic decades just to comprehend one of the Law of Lightning. If he hadn't cheated for decades in the Rainbow Space, he would still be far behind!