In the past two years, Ian has made some modifications to the King Punch.
Simply put, he has sealed the accumulated energy using life return as a lock, so that even if the charging is paused, the stored power will not dissipate.
Although he still cannot charge quickly, he no longer has to worry about being interrupted during charging.
Now, Ian can complete his charge in advance and casually deliver a surprising attack to his enemy.
However, the stored energy cannot be kept for too long.
At this moment, Ian laughed wildly and swung his fist downward.
Invisible power wrapped around his fist, distorting the space as if it were a black hole, devouring all the light around it.
Even Ochoku's gaze couldn't help but be drawn to this fist, unable to look away.
Then, when the fist struck, light erupted.
It was as if a supernova exploded—intense light burst from Ian's fist, immediately transforming into a magnificent pillar of light that fell downward.
Ochoku's pupils constricted, instinctively trying to dodge, but it was pointless.
There was no need to aim because the attack range was exaggeratedly large.
There was no need for predictions because the attack speed was astonishing.
Without a sound, Ochoku was engulfed by the dazzling pillar of light.
The straight pillar of light effortlessly disintegrated the ships below, erasing them before any explosion could even occur, completely obliterating them without a trace.
Next, the sea below reacted, obediently revealing a massive hole, allowing the pillar to continue piercing through the seabed and into the depths below.
Rocks, soil, and everything in its path vanished, directly obliterated.
Only then did the earth-shattering roar echo through the sky, as violent winds whipped up massive waves.
Even the pirates, frozen by Yamato's ice, were yanked out of the ice by the fierce winds and blown into the sky.
After a long while, the pillar of light gradually faded, and Ian slowly exhaled.
It felt good!
He looked down.
The edge of the island now had a deep, bottomless pit, dark and unfathomable. The sea continued to pour into it, yet no matter how much water entered, it could never fill the hole, as if the bottom of the pit led directly to an abyss of hell.
What a satisfying punch.
It's just a pity that the increase in power of the King Punch doesn't scale proportionally with one's own strength.
In fact, the stronger one is, the lower the multiplier of power enhancement becomes when using the King Punch.
When Elizabello used it, he could unleash the power of a Disaster-level attack with the body of a mere weakling, a truly impressive feat.
But two years ago, when Ian fought Akainu and used it, he could only unleash a power on the level of an Emperor's right-hand that is the strength of a vice-emperor, still remarkable, but clearly not as exaggerated as Elizabello's.
Now, with Ian at Admiral level, the multiplier of his power from the King Punch might not even be described with the word "several times" anymore.
Ian thought about it for a while before coming to a conclusion.
As his strength increased, his bodily energy had indeed grown, especially for someone as gifted as Ian, whose physical energy seemed to grow wildly.
But the problem is that the capacity of physical energy has a limit.
Otherwise, why would the King Punch require an hour of charging, and only be able to charge for an hour?
As Ian's body grew, the amount of energy he could store had increased, but it hadn't reached the point of qualitative change.
It's foreseeable that unless the quality of energy can improve, as Ian continues to grow stronger, the power enhancement of this move will continue to diminish.
However, even so, Ian's punch was still incredibly powerful.
It's hard to say just how strong it was.
But, Ian looked down at the deep, bottomless pit.
He estimated that based on the destruction, this might not be any weaker than Nika Luffy's attack that sent Kaido-sensei deep into the ground with the Gum-Gum Lightning in the original work.
Maybe even stronger?
Tch.
It's hard to judge without a reference.
Maybe he could go back and test it with Kaido? See if he could punch him into the magma beneath the ground?
While Ian was pondering, the pirates of the Ochoku Pirate Crew were already stunned.
"Impossible!"
The giant eagle Yege, flying in the sky, screamed in disbelief, "Boss Ochoku! Boss Ochoku!!"
His voice was so sharp that Ian turned his head, "You're so loud."
Two flames in his eyes condensed into rays under the effect of life returning, instantly piercing through the wings of this guy.
Electric eyes, forceful!
The giant eagle Yege fell.
Then.
"Roar!!"
The lion, who had been watching him the whole time, suddenly leapt up, roaring as it swallowed the guy whole.
"Yege!"
Smash into the ground by a punch from the gorilla, but still not seriously injured, the Ghost Sword Smold, who was struggling to dodge the gorilla's attacks, looked up in terror, just in time to see his comrade swallowed by the giant lion.
He broke out in a cold sweat.
Lord Ochoku was defeated, Yege was killed.
He turned around.
"Thunder Cloud · Black Dragon Kill!"
While retreating in panic, blood dripping from his mouth, Claude raised his hand and released a black dragon made of thunderclouds, with lightning jumping through the clouds.
But it had no effect on his enemy. Yamato simply knocked the dark clouds aside with two strikes, closing the distance again.
Claude gritted his teeth and soared into the sky, "Tornado Cloud!"
A funnel-shaped cloud suddenly appeared on the battlefield, turning into a massive tornado.
But Yamato only leaped up, "Ice Cutting Slash!"
A cold ice slash sent a white wave that froze the entire tornado.
However, just at that moment, Claude closed in, his right fist launching, "Sea Cloud!"
Besides the island clouds that made up Skypiea, there were also sea clouds!
These clouds shared the same properties as the ocean, and even fish could live within them.
Naturally, once engulfed by these clouds, a Devil Fruit user was no different from falling into water.
This was Claude's strongest move against Devil Fruit users!
Only.
"Thunder Baguá!"
Yamato's Conqueror's Haki was absorbed by the Takeru No. 2 in her hand and transformed into freezing energy.
At this moment, the freezing energy on the iron stick had even condensed into white lightning that wrapped around the rod.
Crack!
This was the sound of Claude's sea cloud being turned into ice and then shattered by a single blow from Yamato. Then, the iron rod struck mercilessly against Claude's head.
In an instant, this man's brain froze into ice blocks and then exploded with a loud bang.
"Claude—"
Smold was almost going crazy.
The powerful, exaggerated Captain Ochoku, and even Claude, who was far stronger than him, had been defeated so easily?
"Perfume Femur."
A cold voice came from behind. Smold instinctively turned his head, and the last thing he saw was the sharp point of a red high heel.
The next second, Smold's head exploded into stone.
"Is there no one stronger?"
Hancock said unhappily, "At the very least, they should be stronger than the white-haired woman's opponent."
If the enemies she defeated were weaker than Yamato, wouldn't that be embarrassing?
But there was nothing she could do. The Ochoku Pirates were ultimately no match for the Beast Pirates. Aside from Captain Ochoku, who held up the facade, the strongest officer, Claude, was barely at disaster-level strength.
The rest of the crew could only be described as insignificant.
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