Chapter 113: A Brutal Beating for Enel

"You are my little star, shining bright in the palm of my hand."

It’s that brat from the Blue Sea!

Has Ohm been defeated?

Enel narrowed his eyes as he watched the youth approach. There was an inexplicable look in his gaze; never before had anyone on Sky Island been able to evade the reach of his Mantra. The arrival of Shu Mingyuan had shattered all conventional logic.

He pointed a finger at Shu Mingyuan from afar, and a bolt of lightning pierced the void, sizzling with the ozone scent of high-voltage discharge. If nothing went wrong, this human boy would be obliterated instantly.

The lightning reached Shu Mingyuan in the blink of an eye, yet a faint smile curled the corners of his lips.

"Lightning Style: Lightning Blade!"

A massive surge of chakra welled up from within his body, gathering in his palm. Intense, searing white electric currents surged across his hand, which he then brought down upon the incoming bolt.

Chidori, also known as Lightning Blade! Kakashi had once used this technique to bisect a bolt of natural lightning; naturally, he thought nothing of such a small current. And so, predictably, the electric force was easily dispersed by his strike.

"Courtesy demands reciprocity. Enel, you should know that you aren't the only one who understands lightning."

Shu Mingyuan looked up at Enel high in the sky. His finger darted out like lightning, and a Finger Pistol strike, wreathed in brilliant electric light, shot from his fingertip, aimed directly at the center of Enel's brow.

In their first exchange, their attacks were identical!

Enel’s pupils widened. Ignoring the current flying toward him, he clearly saw that at the very moment Shu Mingyuan moved, a wave of electricity had surged from the boy's own body—and it was incredibly powerful.

This is impossible!

"God's Judgment!"

He raised his hand toward the sky, and a pillar of lightning as thick as a yard fell from the heavens, crossing a thousand meters in an instant to strike Shu Mingyuan.

"So he was just putting on a show?" Enel thought. Such an attack exceeded the human body's tolerance for electricity; once struck, the survival rate was zero.

As the pillar of light faded, a figure remained standing, as steady as an ancient pine. Within a meter of his body, a layer of brilliant electricity crackled, making him look even more like the so-called God of Lightning than Enel himself.

Shu Mingyuan stepped out of the lightning pillar. The Lightning Armor formed by his Chidori Stream protected him completely, channeling the strike into the earth. Having had his body tempered by lightning day and night, it was the one thing he feared the least.

"30 Million Volts: Thunder Bird!"

"30 Million Volts: Thunder Beast!"

"60 Million Volts: Thunder Dragon!"

In an instant, he unleashed three violent attacks. The Thunder Bird, Thunder Beast, and Thunder Dragon charged at Shu Mingyuan from three different directions. The air, under the influence of such high-voltage current, became ionized, carrying a lethal charge of its own.

Shu Mingyuan drew the Great Grade Sword, Raikiri, from his back—a legendary blade said to have once slain a god of thunder. It possessed a natural affinity for suppressing lightning.

"Leaf Style Swordsmanship: Dance of the Crescent Moon!"

He formed hand signs, and two shadow clones appeared out of thin air. All three Shu Mingyuans gripped the legendary blade, their swords glowing with a brilliant, blinding white light. With a sudden burst of speed, the three fierce sword flashes cut through the air like the creation of the world, slicing the three lightning beasts in two.

His Lightning Style could cut lightning! His Great Grade Sword, Raikiri, was rumored to have slain a thunder god! With both of these at his disposal, it was as if he were Enel’s natural nemesis.

The "unstoppable" power of lightning failed again and again against Shu Mingyuan, and Enel’s expression turned hideously grim. His power relied heavily on the high-voltage electricity granted by the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, which he even used to control radio waves in conjunction with his Observation Haki to create a more powerful Mantra. Yet both abilities were useless against Shu Mingyuan.

They had no effect at all.

As for swordsmanship that could cut lightning, Enel hadn't even heard of such a thing!

"One-Sword Style: Iai!"

In the split second Enel was stunned, Shu Mingyuan stomped the ground and launched himself into the sky. He drew his blade in one fluid motion, a heaven-shaking flash of light cutting upward as if to cleave the sky in two. Enel’s body was split in half, but the electricity within him surged rapidly, pulling his form back together.

"Such attacks are useless against me, Blue Sea brat. I am a god! The god who rules over all the lightning in the world!"

"Heh, is that so? Good. I happen to be someone who likes killing gods!"

He stepped on the air repeatedly, the previous sword flash merely a feint to get close to Enel; his true killing blow was the fist that followed!

"Armament Haki: Hardening!"

Shu Mingyuan let out a low growl. He was on Enel in an instant, a pitch-black fist accompanied by a sonic boom smashing heavily into Enel's abdomen. He used his Chidori Stream to disrupt the currents around him, rendering Enel's Mantra completely useless.

Armament Haki allowed him to strike the physical body of a Logia-type Devil Fruit user. Under his fist, Enel, having failed to dodge, took the blow head-on. He immediately regretted it, as this man could actually hurt him. His elemental form, which had always ignored physical attacks, had failed him before Shu Mingyuan.

Enel felt like crying. What kind of monster had he run into?

The intense pain in his abdomen made him cough up blood. He was sent flying by the punch, but Shu Mingyuan clearly had no intention of letting him off. Using Moonwalk, he pursued Enel, unleashing a barrage of punches. The scene was filled with the shadows of his fists, appearing like a torrential downpour.

Enel had no way to resist; he could only endure the onslaught. Several of his ribs were shattered, and his internal organs suffered varying degrees of damage.

With a kick, Shu Mingyuan reappeared above Enel, his right leg instantly hardened by Armament Haki as he swung it down with force!

"Lion Combo!"

The wind pressure from the kick compressed the air, creating a piercing boom. Enel’s body was struck repeatedly, falling from the high altitude like a blinding meteor.

On the ground, Wyper recovered from the paralysis, staring at the two figures battling in the sky with an expression of disbelief.

What was happening?

Enel, the man even he considered invincible, was being beaten to a pulp by that man from the Blue Sea, completely dominated!

Whether Enel was too weak or Shu Mingyuan too strong, Wyper could not imagine, but looking at the situation, there was no doubt: Shu Mingyuan held the absolute upper hand!

Enel had suffered severe injuries. This was the first time he had been beaten so badly since consuming the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, and the worst part was that he couldn't block it.

Breaking free from the contact with Shu Mingyuan’s Armament Haki, and seeing that he was about to hit the ground, his body transformed into a streak of lightning, reforming into human shape a second later.

"Hah... hah..."

Enel panted heavily. His body was severely damaged, and two of the four drums on his back had been smashed to pieces by the brute force of that Blue Sea brat.

As a god, this humiliation was unbearable!