211 Chapter 211

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Jack, seeing the improvement in his opponent's ability, was surprised and knew he had to do something or else he might get overpowered.

So, Jack used the one chance to let Luffy's Naginata stab into the right side of his chest, ignoring the pain and used his other hand to grab onto Luffy's good arm, while his trunk wrapped around his body.

"What the…!" Luffy struggled to move, but he was trapped.

"You are dead now!" Jack said and with his free hand, he swiped his shotel blade intending to cut down Luffy. But as the blade got near Luffy's exposed neck...

Things slowed down for Luffy. There were multiple ways to avoid getting hit, he could just pull his neck down, but where was the fun in that?

"Am I?" Luffy said as suddenly his broken arm inflated into a giant hand, stopping Jack's attack and surprising him in the process. Luffy cashed in on the opportunity, delivering a blow right to Jack's chest. "Internal Destruction Leo Roku-Oh-Gun!" This time his attack was also supported with his Advanced Armament, sakura-like petals came out of Luffy's hand and wrapping around his inflated arm.

A devastating pressure came out of Luffy's hand which had just punched into Jack's figure, —doing as much internal damage as external— Luffy could hear several of Jack's ribs breaking as his body was thrown away like a missile. Blood flew out of his mouth and his trunk got ripped off his face. As he flew toward Sinbad. Who was now finished with his technique.

"Stagnation!" Sinbad said as he appeared right behind Jack's back putting his hands on his back as a frost symbol of white color appeared on his back.

Jack was in no situation to counterattack, so Sinbad pressed on with his technique. A full form of white frost symbols appeared on the Ancient Zoan user's back.

When Jack came to his senses, he bit back his pain and moved but he was surprised as he could feel that his speed was cut by half. Still, he was able to make Sinbad retreat away from his back. "You…!" He looked at the marine, as even his thoughts started getting foggy, "What did you do to me?!" His half zoan form started going away as his devil fruit powers got completely nullified. He still had his strength, but he couldn't use his fruit.

Meaning the injury from his chest wasn't recovering either. Good thing his trunk wasn't an actual part of his body, still the pain was quite a lot.

"Evening out the playing field," Sinbad said as the armor around his body started shimmering and going away. Leaving Sinbad in his regular marine clothes, with the justice coat on his back.

Luffy came to his side, steam wisping from his body as he returned into his base form. His right arm looked worse now because of the last attack. It was deep purple and had multiple fractures on it but now that he could use life return, he was recovering. Luffy also popped a few protein bars for the needed calories. "So that's your little party trick huh, shishishi… hey wanna join my crew?"

Sinbad chuckled, "You are either mad or stupid… but seeing you fight that beast head-on. I can confidently say you are a mad man." He then cracked his knuckles, "But when I consider you being 'his' grandson, I expect nothing less. Let's beat him the old-fashioned way."

Luffy grinned, loosening up his left hand, "Fistfight, eh…? Well, Gramps did teach me something about using my hands. Well, just let me have the finishing blow. I will have to take his arm for what he did. You know an arm for an arm. But I'm gonna rip him a new one."

"It's an eye for an eye, but I do get what you mean," Sinbad laughed darkly, as both Luffy and he started walking towards the Beast pirate, "That's if he survives a hole through his stomach for what he did to my comrade… You don't know how much I had to hold myself back from pummeling the guy. Also, thanks for softening him up."

"Shishishi… you are going to be a fun one to be around, Sinny."

"It's Vice Admiral Sinbad to you, Straw Hat."

"Whatever you say, Sinny."

Jack grunted, because of Luffy's last attack he didn't have his shotel blade on him, but it didn't matter. His face was also very deformed, luckily his trunk was only part of his zoan transformation so even though it hurt like hell, he didn't lose any limbs or his nose. But now that his zoan was gone, his passive recovery was on hold, and that wasn't all, his stamina was cut in half as well.

But Jack was a fish-man, a powerful one at that. He still had his hands, with both arms covered in Haki, he charged at the grandson of Garp the Fist and the son of Black Arm Zephyr. The fight was far from over.

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A/N: Luffy finally learned advanced armament haki, Emission, and Internal Destruction.

So how strong is he?

It's hard to say, but currently, he would still struggle against Jack alone. Out of ten fights, Luffy Vs Jack (in one one one) he might win two or three, draw around four times and lose the rest. Clearly above the Doflamingo level.

Also, Luffy's Gear Fourth Lionman is a combination of the strength aspect of Bounce-man, and the speed of Snake-man. It's a balanced build so to speak.

Looks similar to Snake-man, but with more hair, which gives him the appearance of having a black mane.