"Death Shot!"
"Giant Object Throw!"
The rapid gunfire almost never pauses, ringing out one after another in quick succession.
Hot bullets instantly envelop Ace's body.
Bang bang bang!
In an instant, flames burst out like fireworks.
Several holes appeared directly on Ace's body.
At the same time, Burgess, hidden nearby, suddenly charged out like a ghost. Without any fancy moves, he pressed his right hand against the massive building and struck fiercely.
A building with a diameter of over ten meters, shattered and flying apart, giving an illusion of covering the sky and blocking out the sun.
"Burgess, Van Augur, you're no match for him. Don't reckless attack!" Blackbeard's expression changed first, and he shouted urgently.
However, in the face of this sudden attack, Blackbeard's warning was clearly too late.
Ace quickly grabbed his cowboy hat with one hand. His body, pierced by bullets, was rapidly healing amidst the flames flipping over.
The next moment, without any hesitation, a blazing wave of fire erupted like a tide, exploding within him.
"Blackbeard, it seems your subordinates' eyesight isn't as sharp as yours, you treacherous bastard. Now, die for me!"
"Flame Pillar!"
Boom!
A deep, explosive sound suddenly echoed, and the scorching flames inside Ace surged outward.
Transforming into a towering pillar of fire, it instantly pierced through the collapsing building beneath.
Meanwhile, endless flames swept outward in a crushing manner.
Even Blackbeard, standing dozens of meters away, was directly engulfed by the fiery vortex formed.
Boom!
In an instant, endless flames shot into the sky, and the surrounding heat wave swept over, covering the entire dock.
It must be said that natural-type Devil Fruits possess overwhelmingly powerful abilities.
When fully developed, they can be enough to destroy heaven and earth, becoming a dominant force in the world.
Feeling the intense heat of the sea of fire, Ace lifted his hat slightly, and the Conqueror's Haki hidden within his body instantly surged to its limit.
It spread across the entire dock.
Under Rayleigh's guidance, Ace had trained for a relatively short time.
But with his extraordinary talent—far surpassing Luffy—he had made rapid progress.
As a child, Ace had already awakened his Haki of Conqueror's Will in the junkyard of Goa Kingdom.
However, after setting sail, he focused entirely on developing his Burn-Burn Fruit abilities and had no chance to learn Haki.
Once he entered the New World, he challenged Whitebeard.
Until recently, under Rayleigh's training, he had quickly learned the basics of Observation and Armament Haki.
This speed was so impressive that even Rayleigh called him a genius.
If not for the emergence of the skeleton demon and Acano, among others,
Ace would have been able to inherit Whitebeard and become another emperor of the sea.
However, as his Observation Haki rapidly engulfed the dock, Ace's expression froze, and his brow suddenly twitched.
When he arrived, he had used Observation Haki to clearly sense the presence of people related to Blackbeard—only four in total.
Now, two unfamiliar auras appeared on the dock.
This made Ace tense up immediately.
"Captain Ace, you taught me that zoning out in a life-and-death battle is a big taboo!" Blackbeard's loud laugh suddenly sounded.
A cold wave of air, like a tide, swept out.
"Dark Tide·Dark Hole!"
Boom!
A black whirlpool spread out from Blackbeard at the center.
In an instant, it spun rapidly outward in all directions.
The flames that were sweeping through the sky under the dark tide were quickly swallowed and devoured, disappearing before everyone's eyes.
The sudden eruption caused Ace's face to change drastically.
Before he could react, a sinister expression flashed across Blackbeard's face. His right hand, rolling with endless darkness, reached out and pressed toward Ace from a distance.
"Dark Water!"
Bang!
An overwhelming suction force, like a raging tide, instantly enveloped Ace.
The scene of his sudden outbreak made Ace's face turn pale.
In that brief moment, he had intended to activate his Elementalization to evade Blackbeard's attack.
But unfortunately, as he moved his mind, his Burn-Burn Fruit abilities, like sinking into the sea, had no reaction at all.
Most importantly, Blackbeard's five fingers reached out and grabbed him from afar. His entire body was rapidly pulled by an invisible suction force.
"Captain Ace, I am not the same as before. You better surrender now!" Blackbeard grinned fiercely.
His fist, wrapped in dark tide, struck suddenly and fiercely toward Ace's abdomen with no fancy moves.
Bang!
A dull collision echoed suddenly.
But the first thing that caught everyone's attention was that both Blackbeard and Ace's pupils shrank sharply.
"Who exactly are you!" Blackbeard's expression darkened, and he roared angrily.
Looking at the man in front of him—wearing a Banana King hat and sporting a big bald head, with dead fish-like eyes—he unexpectedly seized his wrist without warning.
If he hadn't seen it himself, he wouldn't believe anyone could intervene at such a critical moment.
"Are you asking me?" Kai lazily raised an eyebrow and said, "I'm just someone who has an interest—an aspiring hero."
"This time, I came to bring Fire Fist Ace back, to fulfill a promise."
"Just now, when you were dueling, he looked at me once, which distracted him. So, this duel has to start over."
Eternal Long's words, mixed with a casual tone, sounded like he was narrating something insignificant.
Seeing Kai, who suddenly inserted himself and interrupted, Blackbeard's face darkened first, and he roared furiously.
"Bastard, die for me!"
"Dark Hole Impact!"
Blackbeard's left hand, overflowing with dark tide again, struck toward Kai with no hesitation.
Bang!
The enormous force of impact caused Kai, who was standing still, to be knocked away like a cannonball, flying over a hundred meters.
Under everyone's watch, he shattered a huge rock over ten meters in size.
For a moment, debris flew everywhere.
But that figure, still standing nonchalantly amidst the wreckage, remained unscathed.
With a flick of his dead fish eyes, he looked at Blackbeard and said, "Did you just punch me? Hitting people isn't right."
"But the strength of that punch was just right—felt like a massage, quite the refreshing sensation."
His small words, at this moment, swept through the scene like a hurricane.
Watching this suddenly appearing, intervening big bald head not only blocked Blackbeard's attack first but also effortlessly absorbed it with ease.
Such unexpected scenes instantly tightened everyone's nerves in the scene.
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