Chapter 119: The Test Got Out of Hand
Compress, rebound.
Countless tiny bubble clusters bounced back and forth between his palms, their speed having been stacked to an incredibly terrifying degree!
A blinding light erupted, impossible to look at directly!
Aokiji enveloped this terrifying mass of energy, his hands drawn back to his right waist.
Who said you can't fire energy blasts in the One Piece World?
He brought the heels of his palms together and pushed forward fiercely!
The exaggerated energy wave, accumulated for a long time, instantly erupted!!
Just by grazing it from above, the glacier was split in two!
Rolling with thousands of air currents, it lifted the iceberg!
An irresistible, untouchable wave of destruction instantly blasted to the ends of the sky!
The energy wave spanned the continent, carving a white line across the sky above multiple cities it passed through!
High-altitude air currents were churned and torn apart, transforming into the lingering power of the energy wave, wreaking havoc!
Aokiji slowly retracted his hand.
He internally assessed this Move, used for the first time.
Its power was quite good, Aokiji gazed at the clouds in the distance, split into two halves.
Although it hadn't reached the extent of parting the Earth's hair down the middle, it was like cutting a line through an eyebrow, creating a "broken brow" effect.
However, the charging time was too long.
And it wasn't skilled enough; only a portion of Haki could be integrated, and other abilities couldn't yet be stably and harmoniously fused together.
In short, there were still many areas for development and improvement.
"You little brat, you scared this old man half to death..." Bang's expression was complex.
He turned his head to look at the mark left on the glacier after the energy wave passed.
A gully was no longer enough to describe it.
It was a deep chasm, a cliff that ran through the island!
The high temperatures caused by the frantic friction with the air caused large plumes of rising steam to emerge from the ice cliff.
If he hadn't seen that the direction of the attack wasn't towards him, Bang would have long since flashed away.
A Martial Arts Grandmaster's resolve?
Could that thing bring people back to life?
The energy wave Aokiji unleashed didn't hit any target, so its power wasn't directly displayed.
However, having felt the attack pass by at such an unreactable speed from close range, Bang had a profound understanding of the horrifying destructive power it contained.
The few spectators were still in shock from the previous attack.
Seeing that Aokiji and Bang were no longer fighting, they finally drew closer.
"Aokiji, what was that attack of yours?!" Saitama actually seemed a little excited. "It was like a Move from a manga, some kind of Ki Blast from a martial arts style!"
Besides his hero activities, which he pursued out of interest, reading manga was one of his few regular entertainments.
The usually boisterous Metal Bat was quiet at the moment, his mind full of thoughts about whether his Aura could also unleash a blast.
"This new Psychic Power of yours, this old man doesn't understand it," Bang sighed, shaking his head.
"This old man will just spar with other young people instead."
Aokiji's objective had been achieved; a new template was acquired, and the first limiter was also released, so there was naturally no need to continue occupying the arena.
He shrugged, indicating he didn't mind.
"You all can continue sparring, I'll go to the side to get more familiar with my abilities."
Aokiji even thoughtfully restored the glacier.
The others looked at each other.
"This old man's fight was so muddled, I didn't get enough of it," Bang said first, his expression returning to a smiling one as he looked at the others.
"Who wants to have a go with this old man?"
He had no answer for Aokiji's strange and unreasonable Psychic Power.
But against others, Bang's martial arts could take absolute initiative... Aokiji walked to the side.
He quietly began to experiment with the abilities granted by the Kuma template.
His focus was naturally on understanding Kuma's development of the Paw-Paw Fruit's abilities.
Repelling matter and attacks were just the basics.
What truly made the Paw-Paw Fruit a top-tier Devil Fruit, capable of being a prize in Celestial Dragons' competitions alongside the Azure Dragon Fruit, was the deeper value in developing its conceptual abilities.
He could "paw away" to quickly arrive at places he had previously visited, with a protective bubble membrane enveloping him during flight.
It sounded like just a long-distance movement technique.
But this single Move could be seen as an alternative to the Target-Target Fruit.
No special aiming was needed; as long as he had been to a place before, he could "paw" people or objects to reach it.
If Kuma's moral standards were lower, he could force the World Government to a certain degree of compromise with just this technique.
Occasionally sending Sea Kings' feces, timed bombs, or corpses infected with contagious plagues... As long as he secretly infiltrated the Holy Land of the Celestial Dragons once, he could "paw" these things from any corner of the world.
It might not cause much harm to the Celestial Dragons, but it would certainly disgust them terribly.
Then there were the various concepts he could "paw out".
Negative factors like injuries, pain, and fatigue.
He could even "paw out" a copy of memories.
These were the concepts Kuma had demonstrated "pawing out". Since there was a precedent, it was likely that by developing the Devil Fruit ability, other concepts could also be "pawed out" and materialized.
Its development potential was immeasurable.
Aokiji held his palm upwards, his stamina rapidly depleting as fuel for activating the ability.
Almost all Devil Fruits rely on consuming the user's stamina to activate.
Similarly, for any emission-type ability, actively consuming more stamina would naturally increase its power proportionally.
Aokiji wanted to see the limit of the Paw-Paw Fruit's "repulsion"!
Stamina poured in frantically!
For Aokiji's current stamina bar, it didn't feel strenuous at all.
Only when the energy in his palm conveyed a feeling of being filled to its limit did Aokiji stop and maintain the ability.
The upper limit is actually so much higher than I expected... Aokiji looked at the faint glow emerging from his palm, a heavy, terrifying pressure spreading.
An immensely profound and inexplicably dangerous Aura was released, making the air flow seem exceptionally stagnant.
This drew the attention of Bang and Superalloy Darkshine, who were sparring, as well as everyone else.
Familiarizing himself with an ability could cause such a huge commotion?!
Based on the Kuma template's experience, it shouldn't be able to reach this level, right?
Aokiji pondered deeply.
If he only relied on the Kuma template's stamina bar, even if it was completely drained, he wouldn't be able to accumulate this much.
Could it be that the Breakthrough of the first limiter also raised the upper limit of Devil Fruit abilities?
If so, that was another piece of good news.
Next, how should he test this ability, accumulated to its limit?
Aokiji looked around.
The floating island, initially lifted into the sky, was still covered with large and small weathered stone pillars.
After countless destructions, the stone pillars had long since disappeared.
Rising permafrost plates and towering icebergs had replaced everything on the ground.
Aokiji really hadn't found anything suitable for testing.
Hmm, wait a minute?
Aokiji's gaze fell to his feet.
The permafrost glacier floating island, now several times larger than its original volume, remained motionless amidst the surging high-altitude air currents, despite its exaggerated mass.
The best testing tool had been found.
"You all, pause your fight for a moment," Aokiji raised a hand, indicating. "I'm going to do a test, it might cause a bit of a disturbance."
Bang and Superalloy Darkshine had no choice but to stop.
The others also prepared to deal with the impact.
Saitama observed with slight curiosity, Metal Bat squatted down with his bat inserted into the ice, and Puri-Puri Prisoner stood on his surfboard-shaped ice block.
Metal Knight's observation camera firmly locked onto Aokiji's movements, watching him slowly press his palm towards the island below.
Duang————!
A massive, unique sound effect rang out.
But it was eerily calm.
There was no tremor whatsoever, everyone maintained their original posture—
—slowly descending.
"Where's the island?!"
Metal Bat shouted in confusion and shock.
The enormous floating island had abruptly vanished!
Aokiji looked downwards.
The island, already a small black dot, was still rapidly plummeting!
"Hiss—"
This got out of hand!!
The air exploded with a roar!
Aokiji instantly plunged downwards at extreme speed, accelerating continuously!