Among the many characteristics of shadow fruit,

Whether it is the control of [Step Shadow] or the killing of [Step Shadow],

They are all very powerful abilities in close combat.

Maud slashed at the shadow under Ace with a backhand, intending to kill the shadow.

Unlike shadow stomp, which must be stronger than the opponent to produce a control effect, if it is a shadow stomp, it can be completed with the help of a sharp weapon.

only,

Shadow cutting requires a precondition.

That is the shadow of the target reflecting on the ground, and it must be clearly outlined.

Under this premise, if Shadow Slaying is successful, the battle can end in an instant.

The sword light flew past.

The tip of the Autumn Water Knife successfully touched Ace's shadow.

However,

When Qiu Shui had not yet further cut the shadow, Ace seemed to have some awareness and transformed the elements of the whole body one step ahead of time.

In an instant, Ace's body turned into a ball of flames.

As Ace's whole body becomes elemental, the shadow that was originally the [actual target] no longer exists.

Maud's shadow slash was immediately lost.

And the raging flames after the Es elementalization rushed directly to Maud, who was close to him.

This is the time for Mode to swing his sword to slash towards the ground, so it is difficult to stop the sword to defend immediately.

But Maud and ferrets.

In this flash, Maud didn't need to issue an order.

Bailey, who has independent thoughts, was like telepathy, and adapted to Maud's idea in advance, and changed from a flintlock rifle to a long sword.

Armed color!

The domineering aura came out of his body and attached to the ferret blade, instantly dyeing the ferret's snow-white blade into paint black.

"As long as my 'attack speed' is faster than you, elementalization will be meaningless."

A red light shone in Maud's eyes, and he sensed the position of Ace's body from the flames.

Immediately, he slashed the surging flames that were coming to his face with one sword.

laugh--!

Cut down with one knife.

The sword energy drawn out divides the flames with its teeth and claws into two.

As the flames were shaken and dispersed by the sword energy, the remaining power passed through the weak flames and cut a deep groove straight forward on the sand.

There was still a little burning sensation on Maud's skin, but the flames in front of him had almost dissipated.

only,

This knife still did not hurt Ace.

Although Maud learned the specific direction of Ace through his experience and color, Ace's experience and color are also not weak.

Before the crisis approached, Ace responded in advance, rather than slowing down the offensive than giving Mod a chance to win with one strike.

"It's really dangerous."

The scattered flames gathered towards the high altitude and soon condensed into Ace's figure.

At a high altitude, Ace's eyes were slightly solemn.

The close contact just now made him feel the long-lost oppressive force.

Especially when Maud rushed behind him by teleportation, a strong sense of crisis arose.

He has been...he hasn't experienced such a clear sense of oppression in his body.

The man below is very unusual!

Ace was in a state of mind, and his arms stretched to both sides turned into flames, like a pair of flapping their wings.

Immediately, Ace twisted his waist and his whole body rotated at high speed in the air.

As it rotates, the flame suddenly turns into a spiral column of fire with a diameter of several meters.

"Fire Ring, Fire Pillar!"

Ace stopped and rotated, pushing the condensed spiral fire column toward Maud on the ground.

The hot pillar of fire fell violently.

"Your 'fire' is powerful, but it is useless in front of my dominance."

Mode looked up at the pillar of flame ring falling from the sky. With the slash, there was a properly controlled Chongtian Kingdom.

The sagittal shock wave visible to the naked eye can easily break the flame ring and fire column from bottom to top.

It's like blowing a candle.

Blow it in one breath, and there is no reason why the candle does not go out.

After shaking the pillar of Fire Ring and Fire, the Ba Kingdom still had the rest of its power and rushed straight towards Ace.

Ace obviously also realized that a large-scale flame attack could not cause any storm in front of Maud's dominance, and frowned.

This is equivalent to banning the advantages of the natural system.

Seeing the aftermath of the Dominic Kingdom coming towards him, Ace didn't think too much and transformed his whole body into elements to avoid the damage caused by the Dominic Kingdom.

After regaining his body, Ace's frown slowly relaxed and he calmly looked down at Maud below.

"My flames can't do anything to you, but your dominance cannot hurt me."

"That's the reason."

Suddenly, Mod's voice came from behind Ace.

But where Mod was originally located, he turned into a dark bird flapping his wings and stagnating at a low altitude.

"when……"

Ace was shocked and mobilized his ability like a conditioned reflex, and a high-temperature flame gushed out from his back, rushing towards Maud who was surrounding him.

However,

The moment before the flames swallowed Maud.

Maud exchanged positions with Shadowbird again.

The shadow bird that was switched to the sky was swallowed by flames in an instant.

As long as Ace cannot cover the armed color on the flame, it is impossible to attack the shadow and thus feed the damage back to Maud's body.

After releasing the flames, Ace's light body turned around suddenly, but Maud had already exchanged positions with Shadowbird.

Back on the ground, Maud raised Bailey's flintlock rifle and pointed it at Ace's back and pulled the trigger.

Bang--!

The armed lead bullets were wrapped around the gunpowder and went straight toward the white-bearded Pirates flag tattoo on Ace's back.

"Have you switched positions with Shadow again..."

The moment he heard the gunshot, Ace's heart thumped.

The speed at which the shadow bodies of Mod interchange positions is too fast, and it is no different from teleportation.

In order to resist the shooting from behind, Ace was able to only make his body half-elementalized and become lighter, and once again completely elementalized.

Suddenly, Ace's body turned into a ball of raging flames, hanging in the sky, like burning clouds.

The armed lead bullet passed through the flame and left without success.

Seeing Ace using the elemental characteristics of nature to avoid damage, Maud didn't care, nor did he exchange positions with the shadow, but kept pulling the trigger to attract Ace's attention.

The gunshots continued.

Lead bullets shot into the air, punching the elementalized flames into holes.

If firearms are used for cover, it doesn't matter whether there is any substantial damage.

Just disturb the enemy's rhythm, it's enough.

The lead bullets that were shot continuously kept destroying the flames.

Just ordinary lead bullets, the elementalized Ace didn't take it seriously at first.

But when he saw a lead bullet wrapped in the rain of bullets, his body was in a bad mood.

“It’s too dark…”
To be continued...