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  “Beep—Beep—”

  “What!?”

  “What is that monster?”

  “Enemy attack! All units, go to full alert!”

  The sharp sound of arms echoed across the sea as numerous heavily armed Navy persoood ready aboard their ships. But as they watched the rapid, slig wind bdes approag, they turned pale with fear.

  “Damn it, that brat...!”

  With a stomp, Steelbone Kong's body began to expand, his muscles swelling visibly. In mere moments, he transformed into a five-to-six-meter-tall huma hybrid, covered in thick silver fur, his faow resembling a goril. The transformation made him even more menag. Using *Moonwalk*, he shot into the air, ung himself toward the oning attack. “Trying to intimidate me, huh?”

  “Tempest Kick: Wild Ssh!”

  His body crackled with lightning as his thick legs became a blur, repeatedly kig out at high speed.

  “Whoosh... whoosh...”

  In an instant, dozens of pale green sshes flew through the air, colliding with the ining wind bdes.

  “Boom, boom...”

  Explosions rocked the air as a violent storm of wied, but Kong mao block all of El’s wind bdes.

  “Yetting a bit too cocky, kid!” Steelbone Kong’s powerful figure nded ba the deck of the battleship, his presence overwhelming as the ship groaned under his weight. His eyes locked onto the massive winged serpent h in the distant sky. “You think staying far away means I ’t get to you?”

  Before he finished speaking, Kong opened his mouth wide, revealing sharp fangs, and roared: “Thunder Roar on—”

  “Crackle... crackle...”

  An enormous bolt of lightning gathered in his mouth, fshing with terrifying iy. The thunderous beam shot out with overwhelming force.

  “Heat Breath!”

  At the same moment, the massive Quetzalcoatl in the sky opes jaws, not bag down. “Fwoosh...” A ball of scorg fire rapidly gathered in its mouth, the extreme heat dist the air around it. The fiery beam surged forward to meet the lightning head-on.

  “Boom, boom...”

  Lightning and fire collided in a brilliant explosion of light, nearly blinding in its iy. The sheer force created waves of wind and water that buffeted the Navy ships, causing them to rock violently.

  “That monster... it's so powerful...”

  “Is he really just a kid uen?”

  “Gulp! Even Vice Admiral Kong’s attack was blocked!”

  The Navy sailors were shocked, uo believe what they were witnessing. They had seen Steelbone Kong’s overwhelming strength firsthand—how a sihunder Roar on* could obliterate pirate ships from afar. But now, this young Lunarian survivor had effortlessly tered it.

  “El’s attack was stopped!”

  “Is Steelbone Kong an ability user too?”

  Aboard the *Demon King Lucifer*, which eeding away from the battle uhe push of Umibozu, Linlin, Gerd, Hajrudin, and Streusen were in awe, watg the brief but intense exge between El and Kong. The sight made their skin crawl.

  “Yes, acc to rumors, Steelbone Kong is a user of the Mythical Zoan: King Kong Ape form,” Streusen expined, using a rge telescope to observe the situation. “They say he's incredibly strong, with an unbreakable body araordinary defe looks like the rumors are true—he’s definitely a Mythical Zoan user!”

  “King Kong Ape?”

  “Eh? A Mythical Zoan?”

  “Just like El and Linlin?”

  The three of them were dumbfounded. Wasn’t the Mythical Zoan fruit supposed to be rarer than the Logia type? How had they entered yet another Zoan user so soon after leaving Elbaf? After all, they hadn’t eve a Logia user yet!

  “Fmes, storms, lightning... that's quite a versatile set of abilities,” Steelbone Kong muttered as he stood on the deck of his battleship, his face stern. He gred at the giant serpent in the sky, knowing full well that this was no ordinary oppo. His King Kong Ape franted him incredible physical power and the ability to trol lightning, but it seemed this Lunarian could trol even more elements.

  “Whoosh... boom...”

  Unbeknownst to the sailors, the sky had darkened with thick, bck clouds, and soon, rain began to pour heavily. The once-clear skies had turned inting storm.

  “Another Mythical Zoan user, huh?” The massive Quetzalcoatl fpped its wings and shot up into the storm clouds. “It looks like you trol lightning too... then how about you block this?”

  “Heavenly Thunder!!”

  El’s voice echoed across the sky. The dark clouds above crackled with blinding lightning. “Crackle—crackle—” Oer aerrifying bolts of lightning rained down from the sky, striking the Navy fleet below with blinding speed.

  Steelbone Kong, along with the rest of the Navy, was horrified by the storm of lightning raining down upon them.

  “You brat, how dare you!!” Kong roared in fury, his entire body noed iriergy as he unched himself into the sky, attempting to intercept the lightning strikes.

  “Crackle... crackle...”

  All around him, bolts of lightning verged, attracted by his body like a lightning rod. The fshiricity engulfed him, but Kong, with his formidable trol htning and his King Kong Ape’s unbreakable body, withstood the strikes with ease.

  For Kong, the bolts were little more than a minor irritation.

  “Boom... boom...”

  However, the Navy fleet read over a vast area, and even though Kong could rediree of the lightning, he couldn’t stop it all. He could only watch helplessly as bolt after bolt struck the ships.

  “Ahhh!!!”

  Sailors screamed in agony as they were electrocuted. Even those who weren’t hit directly were paralyzed as the lightning spread through the rain-soaked decks. Some ships had their masts bloart, while others were hit in their ammunition stores, causing massive explosions aing the ships abze.

  Meanwhile, lightning tio rain down from the heavens, turning the battle into an uing nightmare for the Navy.