“Heh heh heh, that’s pretty over-the-top!”

  From atop Atntis, Hajrudin looked down at the fierce csh on the deserted isnd a out a hearty ugh.

  He himself had trained his body daily, relentlessly honing it day after day, just barely managing to master three of Elbaf’s famed spear teiques. But for Thor, he had already smoothly grasped the proud teiques of Elbaf by the time he was eleven.

  Even Cyril Oka—this tall Bueers tribesman—had bee adept at Elbaf’s signature moves back when El generously instructed him. One had to admit, it was a bit disheartening.

  “So fierce right from the start…”

  “As expected of the Kukulkan family’s eldest son!”

  Tsuru, Sally, Nef, Stussy, Shimotsuki Furiko, Wind Camity Irene, Ant King Quinn, Fire Camity Afar, and the other officers couldn’t help but excim in amazement.

  “And that’s only the beginning!” Gerd said with a gentle smile, her tone brimming with pride. She khor’s power well. At only seventeen, he had already surpassed even his giant mother’s might.

  “Boom!!!”

  Sure enough, following a quiitial “greeting,” the two figures—one big, one somewhat smaller—charged in again at the same time.

  “Roooar—!” Thunder Camity Oka’s body grew rger, his face t as fangs and cws extehree tails sprouting behind him, his entire body crag with sparks of electricity.

  His colossal iron hammer—surrounded by powerful Armament Haki and crag with lightning—smashed forward mercilessly, crushing the air around him as it hurtled toward Thor.

  There was a brutal ferocity to his attack.

  “God’s Judgment!”

  Thor shoh interical light. T and exuding an invioble majesty, he abruptly flexed his left hand.

  “Bzzz—roaaaar!” In a fsh, his wrist transformed into a massive pilr of electricity, shooting out like a bolt of lightning.

  “Boom… BOOM…”

  A thunderous crash shook the air. Thunder Camity Oka’s hair stood on end, but instead of dodging, he wildly swung his hammer, its Haki-infused head bck as ink and crag with lightning, managing to block the bst head-on.

  “Bzzz—roaaaar!”

  At the same time, Thor’s entire figure lit up with electricity; in an instant, he vanished from where he stood, transf into a fsh of lightning. Before Oka could react, Thor reappeared brandishing his enormous “God of Thunder” hammer, smashing it fiercely toward the Thunder Camity in a lightning-swift blow.

  “g!!!”

  Their ons collided with a force that seemed to hammer directly into the observers’ hearts, causing jaws to d ears t.

  “Boom… Boom…”

  Waves of tremendous power tore up the surrounding ndscape.

  “That power is insane…”

  Thunder Camity Oka’s arms bulged with veins as he gripped his massive hammer, eyes sharp. Despite all his years of releraining, known among the Bueers freat physical strength, he found himself nearly uo ehor’s monstrous power. If Thor were just a bit older, Oka suspected he’d be pletely overrun.

  “You actually blocked it…”

  Thor raised an eyebrow, looking down from his t height and baring his teeth in a grin. “Not bad at all, ‘Thunder Camity’!”

  “But that was only a warm-up!”

  “Bzzz—roaaaar!”

  With that, his body once again transformed into lightning, impossible to track as he darted around, hammer in hand, unleashing a furious offensive.

  “Swish… swish…” Apanied by dazzliric fshes that were hard to look at head-on, Thor’s t silhouette flitted uably to the left and right, then up and down with breakneck speed, making it impossible to pinpoint his path.

  Refusing to yield, Thunder Camity Oka dispyed swift reas beyond imagination. Relying on his Observation Haki to sense danger, he narrowly mao defend against Thor’s hard-hitting, uing strikes. Despite Thor’s enormous size, her his speed nor his reflexes were hindered in the slightest; on the trary, his massive form vastly amplified his strength, making him resemble a human-shaped monster. Each bone-shaking blow caused Oka’s hands to go numb, f him back step by step.

  “Bam… Bam…”

  “g… g…”

  Sparks flew, electricity fshed. Their fierce collision was like two razor-sharp edges log together—no fancy teiques, just raw power g head-on. And still, her could gain the upper hand.

  Because both wielded lightning powers—oh the Rumble-Rumble Fruit (a Logia), and the other with a Mythical Zoan Kaminari form—each had a certain degree of immunity to lightning. Although her was entirely immune, pure elemental attacks had limited threat.

  Thor had a near-invincible physique and monstrous strength, enhanced by a speed matg lightning itself, with extraordinarily potent Observation Haki. But he cked the depth of experiehe older man had.

  Oka, oher hand, was in his prime—battle-hardened, with more refined Armament Haki and far greater bat experiehe two celed each other out, locked in a stalemate, their fight an even match of iy.

  “Mamamama, not bad at all!”

  Watg the raging flict below, Linlin smiled in satisfa with Thor’s performahough his Armament Haki was slightly weaker thanks to his youth, his Observation Haki—reinforced by the Rumble-Rumble Fruit—was frighteningly powerful, bang things out. He was more than a match for the seasohunder Camity Oka, putting him on par with a Marine Admiral.

  “Still not on the same level as you and El. Sure, the boy has awakened queror’s Haki, but he’s a ways off from applying advanced queror’s infusion,” Gerd observed with a small smile.

  She wasn’t disappoihough. It was unrealistic to expect everyoo master advanced queror’s Haki as early as El and Linlin had.

  “It’s not that hard to pick up, is it?” Linlin said, g her fist and grinning. “Mamamama! Once I’m done having my baby, I’ll give him a proper workout!”

  “Give me a break. Over the st two years, El hasn’t held ba using advanced queror’s Haki against Thor iraining bouts, g it ‘toughens him up’…” Gerd rolled her eyes in exasperation. “And while that pressure-cooker training has done a lot for his progress, he still hasn’t grasped advanced queror’s infusion. Seems it’s not so simple after all.”

  It’s not that the training wasn’t effective—just that people differ in their capacity for insight. Back when El had his short test skirmish with Kong (Steel Bone), he instantly tched onto the essence of advanced queror’s Haki. Thor, though possessed of notable potential, just couldn’t match his father. The real surprise was the third child, Dal, whose astonishing talent for swordsmanship araordinary perception truly seemed to e from his father’s bloodline.

  “Bzzz…”

  Suddenly, Thor rocketed thousands of meters into the sky in a burst of crag light, his hair standing on end, aura terrifyingly potent.

  “Thunder God’s Hammer—”

  Like a deity wielding lightning itself, he locked onto Thunder Camity Oka below with pinpoint Observation Haki and raised his colossal hammer, which fred with electricity. Then, moving faster than the eye could follow, he hurtled downward:

  “Ten Thousand Bolts of Thunder!”

  “Fwoosh—!”

  The air was rent by the shrieking of sheer speed, the atmosphere practically bursting uhe pressure. Enhanced by that terrifying velocity, the hammer wreathed in lightning bore an immeasurable power—a devastating blow of unstoppable force.

  “Elbaf Spear—!”

  In that split sed, Thunder Camity Oka’s face ged drastically, his hair standing on end. Without a trace of hesitation, he mustered everything he had and swung up his hammer in a final, all-out strike.

  “Hakoku!!!”

  Instantly, a r, drical shockwave ripped through the air, bsting straight upward. Colliding head-on with Thor’s colossal, lightning-den hammer, it became an unstoppable force crashing against an immovable object.

  “BOOOOOM!!!”

  Bleam