Chapter 109: Chapter 109 Thunder God vs. Azure Dragon, the Peak Duel Between a Logia and a Mythical Zoan
Swoosh—BOOM!!!
After forging the Thunder Spear, Karl had zero intention of closing in to fence with it.
Compared to the Mysterious Spear, the Thunder Spear’s electro-heat can’t match photothermal power, and their very natures as weapons differ.
So the instant he formed it, Karl flooded it with flowing golden Armament, a gilt sheen flashing across the shaft—then hurled the Thunder Spear at Kaido.
A lance of gold, blue, and white streaked out like a meteor and screamed for Kai-do.
Sensing the power packed into that spear, Kaido gripped Hassaikai in both hands, wreathed the club in crushing Armament and red lightning, and swung straight into the oncoming "meteor."
As Hassaikai swept out, Kaido’s seven-meter frame shifted in the blink of an eye.
Azure scales and dragon marks rose across his face and body; twin whiskers streamed on the wind.
Kaido had taken his draconic hybrid form.
He no longer swung Raimei Hakke; like a great swordsman, he unleashed a massive club aura.
Like Charlotte Linlin’s Ikoku Sovereignty, that aura became a colossal shockwave and slammed into the meteoric spear.
The shockwave shattered the Thunder Spear at its point of focus, triggering the thunder sealed within; a deafening blast followed.
Blue-white light tinged with gold bloomed between Karl and Kaido like a flashbang.
Radiance, its heat above the Flame-Flame Fruit, and electric fury swallowed both men in an instant.
A gigantic mushroom cloud rose from the torn earth.
Rrrrumble...
Only when the cloud climbed did the savage quake roll out.
Even Yamato—by now who knows how many leagues away—felt the ground judder underfoot and a keening backwind prickle the skin with stray current.
"So strong—Karl’s fruit, huh?"
Tracking the fight with Observation, Yamato kept flashing forward without looking back, awed. "He only wrapped it in Ryuo, and he still forced the old geezer to use that form!"
"That one hit feels stronger than the old man’s Bolo Breath. As expected of the man I follow!"
Just as Yamato said.
In its base form, Karl’s Thunder Spear is no weaker than Kaido’s Azure Dragon Bolo Breath, which can pulverize mountains at a stroke and rake targets across kilometers.
Wrapped in top-grade Armament...
If Kaido hadn’t met it head-on and chosen to evade instead,
Karl’s lightning spear—unless it struck a mountain—would have bored through everything for over ten kilometers before blooming into a mountain-shattering blast.
Thanks to the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, the Thunder Spear’s speed far surpasses Bolo Breath.
If both fired at once, the spear would have detonated while Kaido’s breath was only just leaving his jaws.
A mountain-breaking strike, searing heat that burns all, top-grade Armament, and a vast shockwave—without guarding, even Kaido’s physique would carry burn marks.
After the mushroom cloud thinned...
A vast impact crater yawned in the earth.
Where Karl and Kaido had stood was now part of its floor.
All around, the ground was charred black, tongues of fire licking here and there, blue-white arcs skittering across the scorched land.
"Insolent brat—trying to wreck my island?"
That single Thunder Spear seemed to clear Kaido’s head.
He took in the crater’s span, frowned, and rumbled, "As I recall, you can fly too. If you’ve got the guts, take it to the sky!"
"Rooaaar..."
Without giving Karl a chance to refuse, Kaido’s hybrid form sprang from the crater.
A dragon’s roar like the Blue-Eyes’ cry split the heavens.
In midair his body stretched at a speed the eye could follow; his form changed utterly.
The face and frame clad only in scales and markings became a titanic azure dragon hundreds of meters long.
"Senior Kaido, you’re forcing me to play Nezha, huh?"
Karl’s mouth tugged up as he looked at the Azure Dragon’s bulk.
Then, at a thought—
A bandage-wrapped Mysterious Spear appeared in his right hand.
Swoosh—
Spear in hand, Karl blasted skyward as a bolt of lightning.
Clearly, he was happy to oblige Kaido to the very end.
Though the Azure Dragon can ride cloud and mist, taking flight trades away the agility of human and hybrid forms.
Karl had assumed that against hybrid Kaido he might have to fight ten days and nights, sink Onigashima into the sea, and only then find a result.
He hadn’t expected Kaido to shift the battlefield to protect his turf.
For Karl, that choice was a free gift of terrain advantage.
A Rumble-Rumble user, afraid of a fight in the sky?
...Please.
Azure Dragon Kaido may claim the air—
But the Rumble-Rumble Fruit owns it.
"God of Skypiea," anyone?
Make yourself that big—be ready to be a target.
Karl’s body raced as living lightning through the field, and under the eyes of the still-conscious Beasts Pirates and the people of Wano drawn by the sky-split, he and Kaido soared above the cloud deck to begin a new round.
Perhaps because a dog can’t change its ways...
As Karl streaked after him, Kaido—who had locked on with Observation—reached a certain height, then twisted his vast coil and spun like a top, whipping up several colossal tornadoes that swallowed Karl whole.
While Karl elementized to avoid harm and couldn’t blink free, Kaido yawned wide and spewed a gargantuan, Armament-laced Bolo Breath, aiming to smash the tornadoes and drown Karl within—one shot to send him crashing into the sea.
Swoosh—BOOOOM!!!
But...
Fast as a volcano’s jet, Karl was faster.
Just as the breath was about to hammer the wind wall,
A streak of golden light, like an all-cleaving blade, ripped the wall in an instant and rammed into the onrushing fire pillar.
A light-spear that can pulverize mountains, a city-leveler, even nation-killer, met Bolo Breath head-to-head in the sky.
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