277- The island turns into a burning hell.

Cyrus was standing aside looking at Ethan who seemed to be helpless against Kairi's attacks and turned into a negative attitude.

A smile appeared on Cyrus's face and he decided to attack Ethan from behind while he was focused on fending off Kairi's attacks.

*Holy Phoenix's Claw*

The white flame began to get hotter and was shaped like a bird's claw, and its temperature reached more than 1,900 degrees Celsius.

The claw-shaped flame flew into Ethan's back at great speed.

Ethan noticed Cyrus' attack and wasn't afraid or confused, in fact he wondered why he had waited so long to make an attack.

Ethan sent a large magical energy from his body to the ground through his feet. Moments later, a giant stone hill appeared from the ground behind his back. Ethan strengthened the hardness of this stone tee using Haki. (The Stone Hill is an extension of his magic, so he can strengthen it with Haki.)

The flame claw collided with the stone hill and a strong explosion occurred, and the flames spread everywhere and the stone hill began to melt due to the high heat.

Cyrus' attack was stopped, but the stone mound was half melted by the flames, and the flames were still burning on its surface and continuing to melt it.

Ethan's eyes flashed as he saw another giant blade coming towards him but this one he didn't plan to block with his fist.

Ethan concentrated great strength in his right hand and left leg and then his eyes gleamed coldly as he punched forward but not toward the giant blade.

When his fist reached a certain distance, it suddenly disappeared and appeared in front of Kairi's chest.

Kairi couldn't dodge or do anything so she received that powerful punch and was sent flying until it crashed into the space cage and blood spurted out of her mouth and her eyes became bloodshot in pain.

Kairi was hit so hard that one of her breasts was crushed, three of the bones in her rib cage were broken, and one of those bones pierced one of her lungs.

Kairi didn't expect Ethan to learn her technique and use it against her.

'Her defense is too weak.' Ethan felt he had broken many of her ribs and was sure he had damaged her internal organs so it would be impossible for her to continue fighting or she would not be able to show much strength.

At the same time Ethan's chest is hit by the giant blade but he doesn't care about this and without any delay Ethan swings his right leg very quickly and his leg disappears and appears in front of Cyrus, but he is ready for it after seeing what happened to Kairi.

*Angel Cloak*

Cyrus was surrounded by a hot white flame.

But Ethan's feet didn't even touch the fire on his body but he felt like he was hit with so much force that he spit blood and fall to his knees.

Ethan looked at his chest and saw that the giant blade didn't even make a scratch and there was no serious injury, 'My Armament Haki and Conqueror Haki have become very powerful. If they don't have stronger attacks, it's impossible for them to harm me."

'I understand this is the benefit of increasing talent.' Ethan still feels that his Haki is getting more and more powerful, the longer this fight goes on, the less chance Kairi and Cyrus have to defeat Ethan.

...

Kairi leans her back against the wall of a dilapidated building while breathing hard.

She looked at herself and saw that one of her breasts was not there anymore, and she was bleeding heavily, and she also noticed that some of her bones had penetrated one of her lungs, causing her difficulty in breathing, and whenever she breathed, she felt pain.

As she sits down, she notices a handsome, yellow-haired young man being pursued by a black-clad person with the Mercenary Guild emblem on the clothes.

'I am lucky!' Kairi smiled and used her space manipulation to crush the black-clad person into a dough of blood and flesh and then looked at the blond-haired handsome young man, "Adonis, come here."

...

After a while Cyrus slowly stood up and wiped the blood from his mouth, luckily he had a very strong body unlike Kairi or else his fate would have been the same. 'As Kairi said he can use both Emission and Internal Destruction, and also Infusion.'

'But that's not the problem. It's obvious that he's getting stronger very quickly so I have to kill him quickly before he becomes an unwavering beast.'

'Looks like I'll use that.' The flames around his body started to get hotter little by little and the buildings around him started melting from the high temperature.

Cyrus knows that what he does will completely transform the environment of this island, it will no longer be habitable, and their base will be destroyed, but he doesn't care anymore. All that matters is killing Ethan.

As soon as he saw what Cyrus wanted to do, Ethan quickly communicated with his subordinates, 'Everyone, be careful Cyrus will use awakening and if you feel like you can't be in the area you can pull out and get out of the space cage.'

Everyone became wary and knew that the island would soon become a burning hell.

While Newgate was fighting against his opponent and facing some difficulties, he heard Ethan's voice in his mind but he didn't care and focused on his opponent.

Newgate punches the air and cracks appear in the air and then shatters like glass and the force of the earthquake shot towards his opponent, which made him retreat quickly at the same time Newgate noticed that the flames were heading towards them so he lifted his foot off the ground and used vibrations to wrap his foot and then kicked the ground which made it vibrate violently and also the flame that was moving towards him stopped.

But at this time the island was completely surrounded by flames. Some weak pirates were burned with flames and started screaming, but others avoided that and continued to fight against the Mercenary Guild members.

"Damn it, the captain has activated the awakening devil fruit." Newgate's opponent started to be surprised that it would destroy their headquarters, "This island will turn into an inferno of flames."

The entire island was surrounded in flames. The place became like hell due to the heat.

The island has become quite similar to what the flaming half of Punk Hazard looks like.

The heat was very hot and everyone on the island was starting to sweat, including Newgate.

Newgate didn't care about that and kept fighting against his opponent again and they didn't seem to have a problem fighting in that heat even though he was sweating.

...

Linlin did not care about the flames surrounding her and touching her and was fighting her opponent with the help of Zeus and Prometheus.

The high temperatures didn't affect Linlin much due to her superior physique, so she had a huge advantage over her opponent during the fight and might end her fight at any moment.

Linlin had such a high flame resistance that she could even touch Prometheus with her hands even though he could be considered a miniature sun.

...

Ethan looked at Newgate and Linlin's fights and when he saw that they were fine and still fighting their opponents, he nodded his head while thinking, 'As expected of them, especially Linlin, she is very strong especially after I personally trained her.'

Suddenly Ethan felt the space around his body become dense again and difficult to move, then he felt a giant blade approaching his back so he swung his hand back and smashed the space blade.

Ethan looked at Kairi who appeared and was completely healthy as if she had not received his punch a while ago. 'What's going on, I'm sure she was badly injured by that punch.'