Chapter 136: The Vanishing Future
Laxus and Katakuri are actually players who fight at medium and close ranges, they can stand in place and amplify their moves, or they can get close to the enemy and fight with their fists, but Laxus's fighting style mainly revolves around thunder and lightning, while Katakuri's fighting style revolves around glutinous rice and domineering.
But perhaps because of the height gap, both of them tacitly chose a mid-distance fight, that is, a fighting style of standing still and magnifying their moves.
This is actually understandable, for Laxus, Katakuri's powerful sight and physical characteristics determine that it is difficult for his fists to cause real damage, rather than exhausting and tired, it is better to use a full-range attack to make the opponent unavoidable.
In fact, just as he expected, even if Katakuri was able to change form, he would not be able to escape the bombardment of thunder and lightning.
For Katakuri, Laxus is too small and fast to do in close combat, so making glutinous rice fists to fight is the best way to fight.
But soon, the tide of battle changed!
Although Katakuri can use glutinous rice as a weapon in various forms, its essence is glutinous rice after all!
After the magic and the domineering power of the armed color cancel each other, the glutinous rice loses its steely hardness, and the high temperature and violent energy of the thunder and lightning itself begin to destroy the internal structure of the glutinous rice from the microscopic level, destroying its flexibility and ductility.
And so Laxus began to gain the upper hand!
A large number of thunder and lightning began to condense above the gladiatorial arena, and the dark thunder and lightning clouds sounded muffled for a while, like bells and drums beating on the hearts of the audience, mobilizing their emotions.
A tense and murderous atmosphere filled the arena.
"What are you doing, Katakuri?! Don't you clean up this guy yet!! ”
Seeing that Katakuri couldn't attack for a long time, the aunt was a little impatient, in her opinion, Katakuri was her most satisfied son, and the other party was just a hairy boy in his early twenties, and he shouldn't have been able to win for so long.
Whether it is on or off the field, few people know, because they are worried about the safety of Brie, Katakuri at this time is temporarily unable to exert the ability to 'predict the future', so he is indeed not in the state.
Now that he was urged by his aunt like this, Katakuri's eyes were solemn, a little distracted, and his movements were flawed again.
"Thunder Impact!!"
Laxus spotted the flaw, and the palm of his right hand once again condensed thunder and lightning, shooting out a thick pillar of thunder surrounded by several people.
The Thunder Pillar is extremely fast, and has a destructive power far exceeding that of the Thunderbolt Bullet, which is powerful enough to destroy a castle-level building in an instant, and Laxus has used this trick to cause more than 100 million insignificant damage.
"It's so big!!"
"So fast!!"
"It's so fierce!!"
The pirates trapped in the audience had forgotten that they were behind bars at this time, and their mouths were open to let out a burst of exclamation, and the dazzling electric light in the gladiatorial arena reflected a bright light in their eyes.
Thundered!!!
The thunder exploded, creating a huge golden thunderball in the gladiatorial arena, and the terrifying high-temperature energy seemed to wear out everything in it.
In the sound of the thunderstorm, there was a faint muffled snort.
After a while, the smoke and dust cleared.
Everyone looked up, only to see that in the smoke and dust, the black glutinous rice shield protected Katakuri's whole body, and at this time, there was a slight electric current flickering on it.
As for Katakuri, most of his body has been damaged, and the pale yellow glutinous rice is flowing to repair his body, but the half-body clothes and the scarf covering his hideous mouth have become charcoal visibly with the naked eye, and bright red blood is slowly flowing down his head, chest, back, and arms.
He gulped in a big gulp of air, as if he had used all his strength to block the attack just now, but he was still injured.
"That'...... What is that?? ”
"Is this the face under the scarf?! Brother Katakuri ......"
"That's ugly!"
"What a disappointment! What a disappointment! There's a sense of disillusionment with the perfect man......"
Some of the members of the Big Mom Pirates shouted, and among them, there were even younger siblings who had been taken care of by Katakuri, who showed the excellent tutoring of the Charlotte family in front of many bigwigs in the live broadcast room in full view.
"Shut up! Don't forget who he's fighting for now!! Perospero, the eldest son, roared loudly and stopped the spoiled younger siblings.
"What's wrong? Your movements seem to be getting sluggish! ”
Laxus glanced at a voice coming from the pirate audience area, but instead of giving any mockery to Katakuri, he postponed his attack, as if he was about to take out his ancestral mouth escape magic: "Are you worried about the consequences of losing the duel, so you hesitate?" ”
Worried about the consequences of losing?
Kataku asked himself and replied in his mind: 'No! I've never been worried about losing, I'm worried about one thing, and that's not being able to keep my family safe! ’
A strong sense of responsibility began to force him to settle down.
"What are you kidding?! Brother Katakuri won't lose!! ”
"It's just that...... Don't be too arrogant with your short yellow hair!! ”
Yellow-haired short?
How dare these guys say it!
You know, for so many years, no one else has dared to pretend to be forced in front of him except Kira, let alone give himself the level of 'yellow-haired shorty'!
"Puff ——!"
A few undisguised ridicules came from the magician's side, causing the corners of Laxus's eyes to twitch and the bruises on his forehead to rise: "It seems that I can't show mercy anymore!" ”
There's no doubt that Laxus is yellow-haired, but to say he's short, it definitely doesn't count!
In the entire 'Fairy Tail' guild, Laxus's height is actually one of the best, but this height is not enough to see in the world of One Piece.
Not to mention, the opponent in front of him is still the Big Mom Pirates.
Although the aunt is not a giant, she is the tallest known human being, more than eight meters tall, and her children have also inherited her excellent genes, one is taller than the other, and the height is generally at least three meters or more when she becomes an adult.
Laxus fine-tuned his steps and changed to a more offensive stance, and all his magic power skyrocketed in an instant, and thunder and lightning were great.
A golden magic array appeared out of thin air, either under your feet or in the air, dazzling.
Under the impetus of the magic power, a large number of violent thunderbolts burst out like fountains, connecting the jet-black thunderclouds overhead and the golden magic array on the ground, transforming the gladiatorial arena into an extremely dangerous thunderstorm.
"This ...... This is...... What??! The pirates were stunned.
It's not that they haven't seen thunder and lightning attacks, after all, the Homiz 'Zeus' created by Big Mom has this ability, and its attack power is not weak, and it can defeat many famous elite pirates with a single move, and even their children are not sure that they will be able to take it unharmed.
But the violent thunder and lightning field in front of them far exceeded the strength of Zeus's attack, and even stronger than any form of lightning attack they had ever seen!
The magicians also looked different: "This magic looks similar to what Laxus used before, but the intensity of the thunder and lightning is simply different!" ”
"I haven't seen Laxus use it before, is it a new trick?"
"Probably the trick I realized after fighting Anilu on the Sky Island before?"
Affected by the magic force, these torrential thunderbolts actually pulled each other, spontaneously forming a huge golden birdcage.
In the birdcage, golden thunder and lightning crisscrossed the air, and the violent electronic air continued to swim along the thunder pillar, crackling, and the explosion hit everyone's eardrums, and many people showed painful expressions on their faces.
At the same time, the current began to interfere with the magnetic field, causing the live broadcast of the phone to be severely affected, and the screen projected by the phone bug in front of those watching the battle began to become unstable.
Except for Laxus, who is immune to the thunderbolt itself, no one can escape the sanctions of the thunderbolt, not even Katakuri is not surprised, but seeing the thunder and lightning turn into a sharp spear, it pierces Katakuri's body from all directions, and his tall body is instantly blasted into glutinous rice dregs by the thunder spear!
"A powerful attack!"
Under the stunned gaze of Laxus, the glutinous rice scattered all over the ground began to squirm slowly, repairing Katakuri's body unhurriedly, "But the glutinous fruit of the special superhuman system gives me the ability to change my body at will, so as long as I know it, I can still avoid it in advance!" ”
Immediately afterwards, Katakuri pressed his hand on the ground, and the floor of the entire gladiatorial arena became shaking like a wave, and it was the power of the Devil Fruit's awakening that turned the surrounding environment into the same nature as glutinous rice.
The ground burst up and closed up to the middle, and the hardness of the armed color began to change, and it was even temporarily isolated from the thunder and lightning, and in the thunder and lightning birdcage built by Laxus, another pot-shaped barrier was built.
Katakuri then leapt into the sky, and under the electric light around him, his tall body formed a shadow over Laxus, as if infinite pressure fell overhead like a mountain.
"Are you going to attack from above?"
Undeterred, Laxus looked up at Katakuri's tall body and the doughnuts made of glutinous rice floating in the air.
"Donuts?!"
There was a hint of strangeness in Laxus's eyes, this move he remembered, he had seen it in the information given by Kira before, "Enveloping attack against a single enemy......
"Glutinous Tuan groans!!"
With a low groan from Katakuri, huge fists made of glutinous rice burst out of the doughnuts, each with a high-intensity armed color domineering, which was a fist capable of shattering the walls of the kingdom with one punch!
"There it is! It's the trick of intelligence!! ”
"Faster than you think? Can Laxus handle it? ”
"Don't worry! If it's speed, Laxus has never lost! ”
On the field, Laxus's body fell slightly, and the thunder and lightning wrapped around his body swayed the cloak, just like his movements, which were also unpredictable for those watching the battle.
"It's useless, I already knew all your actions!"
It's a pity that after calming down, Katakuri at this time has calmed down his previous flustered emotions, and reason reoccupies the high ground of his brain instead of anger and worry.
"You'll use the 'Roar of the Brontosaurus', but you can't defend against all the attacks, and I'll end up knocking you to the ground!"
Foreseeing the future starts again, capturing all the words and deeds of Laxus in the next few seconds, Katakuri controls the glutinous rice fist to fall heavily, and the whole person spins quickly, ready to use his strongest trick 'Chop, Cut, Rice Cake' to win the victory at the moment when Laxus reveals his flaws.
However, at this moment, Katakuri's eyes widened, because the future that he had seen in his eyes had disappeared in an instant, leaving only the golden figure that was still on the ground at this moment!
"What's going on?!" Katakuri was shocked, but before he could react, Laxus moved.
I saw that the thunder and lightning power on Laxus's body exploded, and the magic array above his head and under his feet shone again: "You said you foresaw my future?" How could that kind of thing be?!! ”
"My future...... But I can't even control myself!! ”
All the thunder and lightning echoed together, as if they had found their owner, and began to converge on him, and then a loud shout came from the audience: "The angry waves of the Thunder Dragon King!! ”
Faintly, golden dragon scales quietly appeared in the corners of Laxus's eyes.
The next moment, dazzling light filled the entire gladiatorial arena!
Thunder and lightning turned into a giant thunderball, filling the entire gladiatorial arena, and the furious power of thunder will engulf the sphere and blast everything in it into ashes, only the thunder dragon magic of Laxus, and the clothes on his body can survive.
The furious force surged in all directions like a wave, tearing and shattering everything that came into contact with it by the force of thunder and lightning, crushing it into powder, and silently scattering it into the air!!
"The power of the Thunder Dragon King...... When did this guy get to this point?? ”
Kira's eyes flashed with a hint of color, and at the same time, he waved his fingers and skillfully built a void space around the auditorium, isolating the power of thunder and lightning, "I know, he must have secretly learned it when he was practicing with Serena before, just waiting for me to suffer when he duels with me next time!" ”
Hearing this, the thunder gods were speechless: "I don't think Laxus should have such careful thoughts, right......?" ”
The corners of Kira's mouth twitched: "...... You're too serious about the Laxus filter! ”
Just that power...... Seems to be the power of the dragon??
After a long time, the thunder and lightning gradually dissipated, revealing the situation in the gladiatorial arena at this time.
There was no gravel, no glutinous rice, only an empty, bare pit, in which there were two men, both alive, but one was still standing, and the other was already lying.
This duel, after more than half a minute of fierce fighting, finally ushered in the end.
Laxus wins!
Katakuri loses!