One Piece: The Strongest Trait System novel Chapter 123

Chapter 123 - [123] : [BONUS] - Aokiji Defeated! Garp the Hero! Sengoku Has Burned Out

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BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!

Tyrannical energy erupted violently across this stretch of sea!

The Bomb-Bomb Fruit, while not top-tier among Paramecias, let alone all Devil Fruits, became a scary detonator in Rowen's hands!

It ignited the Rumble-Rumble Fruit's lightning and the Flare-Flare Fruit's fire from their very core—from every single spark of thunder, every wisp of flame!

Lightning and fire, already the most violent elemental manifestations in nature, now had all their energy unleashed instantaneously in a colossal explosion!

The terrifying energy rocked the entire sea region!

The atmosphere was now devoid of flame and lightning—because in that single instant, they had completely detonated! All their energy unleashed!

And Thunder-Ice Island—created by the Awakened Rumble-Rumble and Ice-Ice Fruits—under this cataclysmic energy release, shattered into countless fragments!

Completely wiped from the world's map!

Henceforth, this uninhabited island would no longer exist in this sea region!

Erased by Rowen!

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Aboard the Going Merry, far from the epicenter, the crew clung desperately to anything that offered stability as monstrous waves tossed the ship about.

"..." They stared in utter horror at the distant sea.

"G-GONE! THE ISLAND—IT'S GONE!" Usopp stammered, his mouth agape, his eyes glazed with a mixture of terror and disbelief.

In the distance, the colossal mushroom cloud from the explosion was slowly dissipating. Where the island had been—there was now nothing.

Only scattered debris rained down from the sky, splashing into the turbulent sea, swept away by the currents to unknown destinations.

Soon, only seawater would remain, no other trace.

But they remembered clearly... just a short while ago, they had personally set foot on that not-so-small uninhabited island.

Now... that island was completely GONE! Annihilated—by Rowen's attack!

"Un-Unbelievable! R-Rowen!"

Zoro and Sanji's foreheads were drenched in cold sweat, staring in horror at the empty expanse of sea where the island once stood.

Though they had been shocked countless times since Rowen began fighting Aokiji, the scene before them now left them somewhat stunned, almost numb.

An island of considerable size—utterly obliterated by a single attack from Rowen! Such power—was beyond words!

It felt like the act of a God—

"One of the three Ancient Weapons... Pluton, which Crocodile chased relentlessly—legend says its cannons could make an island vanish with a single shot! I once thought it was just a legend—I never imagined a power like that could exist..."

Robin murmured, covering her mouth, staring incredulously at the scene.

Robin had read about Pluton on the Alabasta Poneglyph. A single shot erasing an island from the map—the power Crocodile sought for years. Now, she had witnessed such power firsthand—From Rowen!

The Buster Call that caused her most terrifying psychological trauma—consisted of ten top-of-the-line Marine HQ warships, led by Vice Admirals.

Once activated, a Buster Call aimed to utterly destroy everything at the designated location—buildings, people, everything—with cannon fire. But it only destroyed what was on the island; the island itself remained.

An entire island was completely obliterated!

Though it was an uninhabited island of modest size, and Rowen's current power might not yet compare to Pluton's legendary island-destroying capability—it was still an island...

To wipe a not-so-small island directly from the map—such horrible power was beyond human description.

Robin had never even imagined such power before.

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"Where's Rowen?!" The crew, still reeling from the shocking spectacle, were speechless.

Nami and Vivi were the first to recover, anxiously searching for Rowen. Though the attack was clearly unleashed by Rowen's Devil Fruit abilities, under such a terrifying explosion of power, Nami and Vivi were still deeply worried for Rowen's safety.

"Turn the ship around!" Luffy yelled.

"Aye!" The crew immediately began maneuvering the Merry back towards the former island's location. They had to check on Rowen—even if extreme danger still lurked there.

But before they could bring the Merry close to the epicenter—a flash of lightning appeared in the sky.

"ROWEN!" Seeing the incarnation of lightning in the sky, the crew instantly sighed in relief, crying out joyfully.

"Don't come over here yet," Rowen's voice came through the Transponder Snail Nami held.

Rowen now possessed the communication Trait from Transponder Snails and could directly connect with the snail Nami held.

Rowen hovered in the sky, looking down at the gradually subsiding explosion, an extreme red light flashing in his eyes.

WHOOSH! CRACKLE! CRACKLE!

Freezing aura spread across the sea—A figure, completely elementized into ice, slowly rose from the ocean surface, transforming a large area of the surrounding sea into solid ice.

"Good thing you possess the Ice-Ice Fruit," Rowen commented, looking at Aokiji, a hint of regret in his voice. He hadn't managed to kill Aokiji.

Only now did Rowen truly understand how Aokiji could fight Akainu—whose destructive power was renowned throughout the One Piece world for ten days and nights before a victor emerged.

Freezing aura could suppress energy explosions...

Though magma could melt ice, the true power of the Ice-Ice Fruit lay in its extreme freezing aura.

Aokiji was a man capable of freezing erupting volcanic magma with his aura!

The instant the energy exploded, Aokiji had concentrated all his freezing aura around himself, maximizing its suppressive effect on the blast.

Though he couldn't completely negate such terrifying explosive energy, he had at least survived—If Aokiji had eaten any other Devil Fruit, under Rowen's calculated attack, he would have already been dead.

"Yeah... Good thing I'm an Ice-Ice Fruit user," Aokiji replied, equally shaken, reverting from his elemental form.

"Phew!" Aokiji let out a heavy breath, the breath of someone who had narrowly escaped death. He stood up.

"Scary power... I almost... really died," Aokiji looked up at Rowen in the sky.

"But..." Aokiji's cheek twitched, his eyes darkening as he felt the emptiness where his right leg should be.

Though he survived that terrifying explosion thanks to his Ice-Ice Fruit, his right leg—was lost in the blast! He could only use his fruit's power to create a prosthetic leg of ice to move.

His body also bore numerous, horrifyingly deep scorch marks.

Fortunately, being an Ice-Ice Fruit user, he could use his freezing aura to treat these injuries—otherwise, the sheer pain from such horrific wounds would have crippled most of his combat ability.

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