The tornado formed by the entanglement of the Shadow Fist and the Fire Fist eventually scattered into flying fragments.

The sand swept into the sky swept down, turning the flames into white smoke.

Maude's shadow regrouped in the rain of sand, condensing into a shadow clone with the same outline as the main body.

This move of "fist fire" is a positive interview between each other.

In terms of results, it can be said that they are not equal.

But in terms of process, Maude took it too easily.

At least, that's what Ace's "look" thinks.

After all, the gatekeeper move being copied so easily is tantamount to saying in disguise: Your move is not very good.

"Can shadow fruits still be used like this...... It's funny. ”

Thanks to the name of the Seven Martial Seas of Moonlight Moria, the previous Shadow Fruit ability, Ace doesn't know much about the Shadow Fruit, but he doesn't know anything about it.

But it was precisely with Moonlight Moriah as a comparison that Ace found Maude's use of the Shadow Fruit's ability very novel and interesting.

"Fire fist doesn't work well, so what about this move......"

A smile tugged at the corners of Ace's mouth, his knees bent down, his arms crossed in front of him.

Beneath his feet, the flames grew out in a whirlpool that formed a circle of whirlpools.

1 meter, 2 meters, 3 meters, 4 meters......

Until the diameter of the flame vortex exceeded ten meters, it suddenly rose from the ground.

Ace raised his right hand, and his palm seemed to have a gravitational force, attracting all the flames that rose from the ground to his palm, and instantly converged into a huge fireball with a diameter of more than ten meters.

"Great Yan Ring, Yan Emperor!"

A huge fireball emitting high temperature was thrown by Ace towards Maude on the hill.

The firelight and heat rushed into Maude's face, turning his face red.

"That's the beauty of nature......

Looking at the huge fireball whistling in, Maud did not retreat or advance.

The picture of the pheasant frozen for hundreds of miles inexplicably flashed in his mind, but he felt a little emotional.

I don't know if the shadow fruit, after awakening, will have such a mighty power like the natural system.

In the Great Flame Ring. When the Emperor of Yan is about to overthrow,

Maude put away his sigh.

Between the electric light and flint,

Draw your knife and cut it out.

The seemingly unpretentious knife suddenly brought up a cylindrical shock wave that was not weaker than that of Emperor Yan.

Hegemony!

The dazzling light swallowed up all the firelight reflected along the way.

In the face of this seemingly invincible impact, the Great Fireball of the Flame Emperor had no power to resist, and was instantly crushed into a wave of flames.

Surrounded by a shockwave, the flame wave rushed back towards Ace.

“……”

Seeing this, Ace's pupils shrank, and he looked at the wave of flames coming from the backlash in surprise.

The real power lies not in the raging fire that swells like a wave, but in the shock wave that envelops it.

In the blink of an eye, Ace's body was swept into the flame blast.

After devouring Ace, the flame blaster continued to gain momentum, grinding a huge furrow in the sand and heading straight into the distance.

After the aftermath dissipated, there were many clusters of rootless flames burning quietly in the ditch, but Ace was nowhere to be seen.

"Dead, dead......?"

The Straw Hats were stunned to look at the terrifying traces left behind after the collision between the Overlord and the Yan Emperor, and a chill inexplicably arose in their hearts.

The man standing on the sand dunes thought he was a friend but not an enemy.

Now it seems......

He poses a far greater threat than the rock giant before him!

"Ace!"

The negative effects of the negative ghost were waning, and Luffy watched Ace being annihilated into nothingness by the overlord, and his eyes suddenly cracked.

"Damn, you actually gave Ace ......"

"Hey, Luffy, I won't be killed so easily."

Just as Luffy was so angry that he wanted to beat Maude to death, Ace's voice came from the huge ditch.

The rootless fire burning everywhere in the ditch seemed to be lifted by a pair of invisible hands, gathered together, and slowly kneaded into a human form, revealing Ace's appearance.

"Ace!"

Seeing that Ace was safe and sound, Luffy, who was still angry a second ago, would cry with joy.

Just now he really thought Ace was dead.

Just thinking about it makes my heart throb as if it's about to stop.

Maude looked at Ace, who was not injured at all, but he was not surprised.

A move such as hegemony that is released from the body, even if it is powerful against the enemy's natural ability, as long as the opponent can react and make the body elementalized in time......

Well, it basically doesn't hurt much.

Moreover, if one move to dominate can solve Ace, it will be in vain to blind Ace's identity as the captain of the second team of the Whitebeard Pirates.

"He really deserves to be the right-hand man of the Whitebeard Pirates."

Maude teased casually, and threw Luffy, who was in a fluctuating mood, to the location of Zoro and the others in the distance.

When he tied up Luffy with a shadow chain just now, Maude said that he was going to take Luffy to Navy Headquarters, but he wasn't exactly joking.

Before that, he really had the idea of sending Luffy to the execution table.

In that way, not only can Luffy's background forces be driven to participate in the monstrous wave of the alternation between the old and new eras, but it can also easily disturb Karp's mind.

And maybe it will be able to create a ...... A chance to take out a naval hero.

If he decides to do so, he won't need Sabo to regain his memory.

But before that, Maud had already embarked on a plan to restore Sabo's memory.

Coupled with the relationship between Luffy and Shanks and Usopp, it was enough to extinguish the idea of Maude.

As for Ace, with Blackbeard, a budding bird, Maud would put herself in the position of being shot.

The reason why he is fighting Ace now is nothing more than not wanting to miss the opportunity to fight a strong man.

"This is the end of the temptation."

After throwing Luffy, Maude freed up his left hand and grasped the flintlock pistol transformed from a stoat.

With a knife in one hand and a gun in the other.

It is a posture that can bring out the characteristics of the Shadow Fruit's abilities to the extreme.

"It was a temptation just now???"

Hearing Maude's words, Sauron's and his party trembled.

Thinking back to the picture after the collision between the overlord and the Yan Emperor, their depression suddenly deepened.

Ace took a deep look at Maude, who was holding a knife and gun.

There are some things that you can't see clearly when you are not able to see them in a head-on battle.

In the two rounds just now, Ace didn't feel the slightest killing intent.

Yes, it's just pure fighting spirit.

It made him understand something.

Just like he used to look for opponents in order to become stronger as soon as possible.

"Haha, it's been a long time since I've been so excited."

Ace raised his finger to raise the brim of his hat a little, only to feel that the blood was boiling all over his body.

So, which is stronger and which is weaker?

"Bang ——!"

Just as Ace's laughter was gone, Maud took the lead and raised the muzzle of the gun to fire.

Armed buckshot came to Ace in the blink of an eye.

"Armed ......"

Ace didn't dodge, but elementalized in advance, freeing up a hole in his body that could be passed through by buckshot.

Armed colored lead bullets passed through the hollow that Ace had voluntarily opened in his body.

At the same time, Maud arrives with lead bullets and suddenly appears behind Ace.

The blade of the autumn water knife slashed out horizontally.

As the pitch-black sword flashed away, Ace's head rose into the sky, and instantly turned into a ball of flame.

This knife did not hit.

In this regard, Maude had already expected this, and slashed at the shadow behind Ace with his backhand.

This is the real purpose of Maude's closeness!