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Chapter 1273: Teacher Zephyr's Suggestion!
In the world, a height below 2.5 meters is considered normal human body size.
Between three and ten meters is considered a tall human.
They are similar to people in the modern world with 'gigantism', but they are not the Giant Tribe.
So Smoker was not surprised by General Spade's five-meter height, and thus didn't notice the abnormality in his weight.
"Didn't you see I was talking? You impolite bastard!"
General Spade stabilized his body, his coarse voice full of anger came from under the ghost face mask.
Smoker didn't care about this at all. His politeness was only for children and people he deemed worthy of respect.
The next second.
A practiced 'Shave' was used, and he instantly disappeared from the spot.
When he reappeared, he was already behind General Spade.
[Thump!]
Immediately following was another simple and crude heavy punch hitting the black helmet.
But this time, General Spade didn't budge at all, and Smoker's pupils suddenly constricted.
At the same time, General Spade twisted his waist, his left arm swinging like a pendulum towards his back.
Smoker immediately used Moonwalk, forcefully leveraging himself, leaping into the air, narrowly dodging the swinging left arm and strong wind, landing on the ground ten meters away.
"Haki?"
Smoker looked at General Spade in surprise after stabilizing himself.
Although it was hard to see clearly based on the color because the opponent's helmet was black.
But the aura of Armament Haki was too familiar.
"Hahahaha, you can actually recognize it, not bad. You Military Police are indeed not ordinary police!"
General Spade laughed loudly, appearing very pleased.
He had mastered Armament Haki last year and then used it to enter the Grand Line, gaining a small reputation in the Pirate Hunter circle.
Originally, he wanted to be a pirate, but who knew the world had changed so much.
Even someone not very smart like himself could see that being a pirate had no future prospects.
"Is this your confidence to resist the World Government?"
"Idiot!"
Smoker's eyes were full of contempt and disgust. He then decided to be slightly more serious, as he didn't want to waste too much time on the opponent.
"No, no, no, I'm just trying to make a buck, my heart is still towards the World Government..."
Just as General Spade was about to give an explanation, he saw Smoker's legs suddenly turn into a mass of white smoke.
This made him freeze on the spot.
But this less than a second was enough for Smoker to complete his third attack.
"White Snake!!!"
The smoke beneath Smoker erupted violently, causing him to burst out with speed far exceeding 'Shave'.
And the right fist he swung, smoke similarly surged from his arm, further amplifying the power of this attack.
The fist glowed with a faint black sheen and flowing Ryuo radiance.
[Bang——————]
The punch, containing terrifying force, formed a circular air current from a sonic boom the moment it touched the plate armor.
The cement ground beneath them instantly exploded like tofu.
The next moment, General Spade was violently sent flying backward.
He crashed heavily into the already closed castle main gate, and only managed to fall back to the ground after a long while.
But Smoker's expression became even more serious.
Because he felt that the opponent's aura hadn't changed much.
This was too strange.
Although his Armament Haki had only been trained for a short time, the opponent's Armament Haki didn't seem very strong either.
Moreover, that punch just now combined the jet propulsion of the Smoke-Smoke Fruit, the hardening and Ryuo of Armament Haki.
And Iron Mass Fist Art, Stone Breathing, and even the technique of 'Black Arm Punch'.
Especially the presence of Ryuo.
Logically speaking, it should have been enough to transmit most of his punch force through the Haki and armor, causing considerable damage to the opponent's body.
But that wasn't the case.
Indeed, General Spade slowly got up.
Although he kept cursing about how much it hurt, anyone with a discerning eye could see it didn't have much effect.
Only a new indented fist print was added to the plate armor on his chest.
"Damn it! You damned bastard! You didn't wait for me to finish again!"
General Spade was furious, but quickly calmed down.
"I really didn't expect you to be an ability user, and it seems like a Logia ability user. Why didn't you use it before?"
He felt that if Smoker had used his ability earlier, he should have been able to quickly deal with the surrounding Royal Army.
Smoker had no interest in telling the opponent that this was Teacher Zephyr's requirement.
To try not to rely on the Smoke-Smoke Fruit's ability, and preferably treat it as a kind of auxiliary means.
So his current use of the Smoke-Smoke Fruit is mainly to use the jet power to enhance his martial arts explosive power.
Or to use Observation Haki to predict the opponent's attack weakness and use Element Transformation to dodge attacks that are difficult to evade.
And he strictly remembered Teacher Zephyr's suggestion not to easily extend his arms and legs.
Because his Smoke-Smoke Fruit ability had not yet awakened, the smoke he created was smoke that could be touched by Armament Haki as his main body.
That would only increase his strike surface and give the opponent a chance to grab him.
After awakening in the future, he could create non-main body smoke, which could then be used to obscure the opponent's line of sight.
But it would still be used as an auxiliary means.
Smoker was deeply convinced.
"You aren't an ability user too, are you?" Smoker tentatively asked at this moment.
He always felt that this General Spade was a bit strange.
"Hahaha, did you notice? I'm a Super... Uh... I won't tell you!"
"Right, can't tell you!"
General Spade suddenly remembered Queen Red Heart's warning from before.
Their mission this time, the most important thing was not to protect the king, but to hide their identity.
So important information should not be revealed, even if the opponent guessed it, they should not admit it.
The name of the Devil Fruit ability was one of them.
As for the ability itself, it could be used, after all, there were many Devil Fruit abilities with similar effects.
You can't trouble everyone who can release fire just because a certain criminal can use a fire-type ability, right?
It was just that General Spade's body size was a bit too conspicuous.
However, there were many tall people in the world. As long as his face wasn't seen, there was still room for sophistry.
Well, at least that's what they thought.
"A Paramecia System ability user..." Smoker thought to himself.
It could be a Superhuman Body Type, or a Super Creation Type. Under the armor, there was also some kind of substance protecting him.
His Ryuo level was actually not high, with a penetration depth of at most three centimeters.
So an opponent like General Spade, wearing heavy armor and seemingly having 'inner armor' inside, would be relatively difficult to fight.
But difficult to fight doesn't mean impossible to fight.
"First, smash the armor on his body!"
Smoker made his decision and immediately launched a new round of offensive.
It was still the old routine.
His legs transformed into smoke jets, flying rapidly around General Spade.
His fists, condensed with Haki, continuously bombarded various parts of the opponent's body.
Every time he punched, smoke would erupt from his arm, leaving deep fist prints on the armor.
[Bang bang bang bang...]
Amidst the continuous heavy strikes, General Spade swung his fists wildly, trying to counterattack.
But he found it difficult to hit Smoker, who possessed Observation Haki.
He could only vent his rage by destroying the ground.
This made him angrier the more he fought, cursing incessantly, but his vocabulary was pitifully small.
Back and forth, it was just 'damn it', 'bastard', 'cursed', 'bugs', and so on.
Or meaningless taunts like 'Are you only going to dodge?' and 'If you have the ability, clash head-on with me'.
Until the armor was covered in fist prints, and cracks appeared between the fist prints.
General Spade finally realized that he could no longer hold back.
He immediately activated his Devil Fruit ability.
"Hmm?"
Smoker, who was flying up and down around the opponent, suddenly felt the air in front of him rapidly heating up.
Then he saw the armor on General Spade's body begin to emit a gradually brightening red glow, as well as wisps of heat formed by the high temperature baking the air.
At the same time, under the effect of thermal expansion and contraction, the surface cracks were rapidly healing.
"Fire type?"
Smoker immediately pulled back the distance and cautiously observed General Spade's changes.
After all, it was a Paramecia System Devil Fruit. Who knew what special effects it had?
Although Armament Haki could, to some extent, resist or even dispel abilities.
The premise for resistance was that the level of Haki had to be similar to the opponent's ability.
And the premise for dispel was that it had to be stronger than the opponent's ability.
So it was best to first figure out what the opponent's ability was and what level it was at.
(End of this chapter)
In the world, a height below 2.5 meters is considered normal human body size.
Between three and ten meters is considered a tall human.
They are similar to people in the modern world with 'gigantism', but they are not the Giant Tribe.
So Smoker was not surprised by General Spade's five-meter height, and thus didn't notice the abnormality in his weight.
"Didn't you see I was talking? You impolite bastard!"
General Spade stabilized his body, his coarse voice full of anger came from under the ghost face mask.
Smoker didn't care about this at all. His politeness was only for children and people he deemed worthy of respect.
The next second.
A practiced 'Shave' was used, and he instantly disappeared from the spot.
When he reappeared, he was already behind General Spade.
[Thump!]
Immediately following was another simple and crude heavy punch hitting the black helmet.
But this time, General Spade didn't budge at all, and Smoker's pupils suddenly constricted.
At the same time, General Spade twisted his waist, his left arm swinging like a pendulum towards his back.
Smoker immediately used Moonwalk, forcefully leveraging himself, leaping into the air, narrowly dodging the swinging left arm and strong wind, landing on the ground ten meters away.
"Haki?"
Smoker looked at General Spade in surprise after stabilizing himself.
Although it was hard to see clearly based on the color because the opponent's helmet was black.
But the aura of Armament Haki was too familiar.
"Hahahaha, you can actually recognize it, not bad. You Military Police are indeed not ordinary police!"
General Spade laughed loudly, appearing very pleased.
He had mastered Armament Haki last year and then used it to enter the Grand Line, gaining a small reputation in the Pirate Hunter circle.
Originally, he wanted to be a pirate, but who knew the world had changed so much.
Even someone not very smart like himself could see that being a pirate had no future prospects.
"Is this your confidence to resist the World Government?"
"Idiot!"
Smoker's eyes were full of contempt and disgust. He then decided to be slightly more serious, as he didn't want to waste too much time on the opponent.
"No, no, no, I'm just trying to make a buck, my heart is still towards the World Government..."
Just as General Spade was about to give an explanation, he saw Smoker's legs suddenly turn into a mass of white smoke.
This made him freeze on the spot.
But this less than a second was enough for Smoker to complete his third attack.
"White Snake!!!"
The smoke beneath Smoker erupted violently, causing him to burst out with speed far exceeding 'Shave'.
And the right fist he swung, smoke similarly surged from his arm, further amplifying the power of this attack.
The fist glowed with a faint black sheen and flowing Ryuo radiance.
[Bang——————]
The punch, containing terrifying force, formed a circular air current from a sonic boom the moment it touched the plate armor.
The cement ground beneath them instantly exploded like tofu.
The next moment, General Spade was violently sent flying backward.
He crashed heavily into the already closed castle main gate, and only managed to fall back to the ground after a long while.
But Smoker's expression became even more serious.
Because he felt that the opponent's aura hadn't changed much.
This was too strange.
Although his Armament Haki had only been trained for a short time, the opponent's Armament Haki didn't seem very strong either.
Moreover, that punch just now combined the jet propulsion of the Smoke-Smoke Fruit, the hardening and Ryuo of Armament Haki.
And Iron Mass Fist Art, Stone Breathing, and even the technique of 'Black Arm Punch'.
Especially the presence of Ryuo.
Logically speaking, it should have been enough to transmit most of his punch force through the Haki and armor, causing considerable damage to the opponent's body.
But that wasn't the case.
Indeed, General Spade slowly got up.
Although he kept cursing about how much it hurt, anyone with a discerning eye could see it didn't have much effect.
Only a new indented fist print was added to the plate armor on his chest.
"Damn it! You damned bastard! You didn't wait for me to finish again!"
General Spade was furious, but quickly calmed down.
"I really didn't expect you to be an ability user, and it seems like a Logia ability user. Why didn't you use it before?"
He felt that if Smoker had used his ability earlier, he should have been able to quickly deal with the surrounding Royal Army.
Smoker had no interest in telling the opponent that this was Teacher Zephyr's requirement.
To try not to rely on the Smoke-Smoke Fruit's ability, and preferably treat it as a kind of auxiliary means.
So his current use of the Smoke-Smoke Fruit is mainly to use the jet power to enhance his martial arts explosive power.
Or to use Observation Haki to predict the opponent's attack weakness and use Element Transformation to dodge attacks that are difficult to evade.
And he strictly remembered Teacher Zephyr's suggestion not to easily extend his arms and legs.
Because his Smoke-Smoke Fruit ability had not yet awakened, the smoke he created was smoke that could be touched by Armament Haki as his main body.
That would only increase his strike surface and give the opponent a chance to grab him.
After awakening in the future, he could create non-main body smoke, which could then be used to obscure the opponent's line of sight.
But it would still be used as an auxiliary means.
Smoker was deeply convinced.
"You aren't an ability user too, are you?" Smoker tentatively asked at this moment.
He always felt that this General Spade was a bit strange.
"Hahaha, did you notice? I'm a Super... Uh... I won't tell you!"
"Right, can't tell you!"
General Spade suddenly remembered Queen Red Heart's warning from before.
Their mission this time, the most important thing was not to protect the king, but to hide their identity.
So important information should not be revealed, even if the opponent guessed it, they should not admit it.
The name of the Devil Fruit ability was one of them.
As for the ability itself, it could be used, after all, there were many Devil Fruit abilities with similar effects.
You can't trouble everyone who can release fire just because a certain criminal can use a fire-type ability, right?
It was just that General Spade's body size was a bit too conspicuous.
However, there were many tall people in the world. As long as his face wasn't seen, there was still room for sophistry.
Well, at least that's what they thought.
"A Paramecia System ability user..." Smoker thought to himself.
It could be a Superhuman Body Type, or a Super Creation Type. Under the armor, there was also some kind of substance protecting him.
His Ryuo level was actually not high, with a penetration depth of at most three centimeters.
So an opponent like General Spade, wearing heavy armor and seemingly having 'inner armor' inside, would be relatively difficult to fight.
But difficult to fight doesn't mean impossible to fight.
"First, smash the armor on his body!"
Smoker made his decision and immediately launched a new round of offensive.
It was still the old routine.
His legs transformed into smoke jets, flying rapidly around General Spade.
His fists, condensed with Haki, continuously bombarded various parts of the opponent's body.
Every time he punched, smoke would erupt from his arm, leaving deep fist prints on the armor.
[Bang bang bang bang...]
Amidst the continuous heavy strikes, General Spade swung his fists wildly, trying to counterattack.
But he found it difficult to hit Smoker, who possessed Observation Haki.
He could only vent his rage by destroying the ground.
This made him angrier the more he fought, cursing incessantly, but his vocabulary was pitifully small.
Back and forth, it was just 'damn it', 'bastard', 'cursed', 'bugs', and so on.
Or meaningless taunts like 'Are you only going to dodge?' and 'If you have the ability, clash head-on with me'.
Until the armor was covered in fist prints, and cracks appeared between the fist prints.
General Spade finally realized that he could no longer hold back.
He immediately activated his Devil Fruit ability.
"Hmm?"
Smoker, who was flying up and down around the opponent, suddenly felt the air in front of him rapidly heating up.
Then he saw the armor on General Spade's body begin to emit a gradually brightening red glow, as well as wisps of heat formed by the high temperature baking the air.
At the same time, under the effect of thermal expansion and contraction, the surface cracks were rapidly healing.
"Fire type?"
Smoker immediately pulled back the distance and cautiously observed General Spade's changes.
After all, it was a Paramecia System Devil Fruit. Who knew what special effects it had?
Although Armament Haki could, to some extent, resist or even dispel abilities.
The premise for resistance was that the level of Haki had to be similar to the opponent's ability.
And the premise for dispel was that it had to be stronger than the opponent's ability.
So it was best to first figure out what the opponent's ability was and what level it was at.
(End of this chapter)
