Achieving Nothing, I Can Only Be the Pirate King Chapter 100 - 83: Smoke and Fire

"Sage!"

Just as Sage looked up, a figure like lightning shot quickly to his side.

Lily gripped the sword hilt at her waist, her face solemn, "I saw the Navy on the way and heard noises. Is there a battle breaking out here?"

She was buying perfu at the perfu shop when she heard the boom, and then saw completely abnormal thick fog ahead.

And the rain had stopped.

She imdiately handed the items to her subordinates and ca over by herself.

Only when she arrived, she saw Smoker, panting stubbornly in the pit, and was stunned for a mont before turning her head to look at the man watching the spectacle above.

"And who might you be?" Lily’s gaze turned cold.

"An impolite fellow."

Sage walked to the pit, kicked Smoker into a supine position, took a cigar from the chest of his shirt, and instinctively said, "Pearl, give that..."

Saying that, he was taken aback. That kid seed to have gone with Gin to bring the wounded to see a doctor. Now there was only Mute and the recently arrived Lily by his side.

"No fire?"

Sage clicked his tongue, ready to look for a lighting device on Smoker, but at that mont, a red light flashed in his eyes, instinctively glancing upwards at the man.

Kuma!

A fla rose from the cigar tip, lighting it.

"Sorry, got a bit curious and was entranced."

The man in the orange cowboy hat extended a finger, smiled at Sage, then jumped down from the rooftop, landing on the ground, adjusting the brim of his cowboy hat, laughing:

"Norton Sage, I’ve seen your wanted order. The newspaper said you destroyed four kingdoms. Looking at you now, indeed you’re strong. And you must be Bienta Lily, even prettier in person."

While focusing on Luffy, he noticed these two contemporaries...

Especially Sage, his recent bounty soared to 270 million; whether from the perspective of money or Haki, it doesn’t seem like soone new to the Grand Line.

Lily’s eyes went cold, "A bounty hunter?"

"No, I am Ace, also a pirate," he laughed. "We’re in the sa profession."

Sage was puzzled for a mont, narrowing his eyes, "Ace?"

Suddenly appearing flas, and called Ace...

Sage took a puff from the cigar, slowly exhaling the smoke, "Oh... it’s you, Captain of Whitebeard’s Second Division."

Then he lost interest and turned away.

Having lived over twenty years, he had forgotten most of the original plot. Whatever Luffy or Ace, seeing them only reminded him, they were like strangers.

Protagonists?

What does that have to do with him?

Not like they’re his family.

Especially this guy, watching the fight like an audience, making Sage feel like a monkey.

If not for the apology and lighting the cigar, he wouldn’t be so amiable.

Seeing Sage walk away, Ace shrugged, glanced at Smoker in the pit, and smiled, "Seems today’s luck isn’t on your side, can’t stop ."

Though curious about Norton Sage, recognizing him, and thinking of recruiting him to his father’s ship, after observing, he relinquished the idea.

This isn’t soone who’d dwell under anyone.

Ace turned around, facing away from Sage and Lily, ready to pursue Luffy.

"Whitebeard?" Lily, following Sage, questioned.

Whitebeard’s reputation is universally known; unless soone is entirely unaware, they’d be inford.

His na resounded across the Four Seas, depicted as a monster and evil reincarnate in children’s songs, frequently used by adults to frighten kids, with tales like "If you misbehave, Whitebeard will co to capture you."

A living legend.

Yet so, like Lily, who had never left the Royal Palace or accessed external news, remain uninford.

"One of the Four Sea Emperors, also my long-term target, a monster of the sea, but..."

Sage mused, "Now just a dying old man, soon to be replaced."

Kuma!

A fla shot between Sage and Lily’s heads, bursting into a spray of sparks.

Sage halted, turned to look at the man with a lowered head, hat brim covering his eyes, arm engulfed in flas, and said gravely:

"Not satisfied with watching, ready to step in personally, Portgas D. Ace..."

Ace tugged at the brim of his orange cowboy hat, grinned, "I can’t pretend I didn’t hear that... Whitebeard is the greatest man in the world, not so old geezer. Shouldn’t you apologize?"

Sage turned to face Ace, biting his cigar, tilting his head back, and exhaling a puff of smoke, "Wasn’t that the truth I said?"

Everyone’s a pirate, venturing seas knife in hand, pursuing dreams and ambitions, who cares about high or noble statuses.

Whitebeard might seem formidable to him, but irrelevant, possibly even a future opponent.

After all, the territories occupied by the Four Emperors are the vastest...

"I can’t stand anyone defaming my father, especially by soone like you who seems to have heard of my father’s age, ready to target his head among those seeking..."

Ace’s grin grew fierce, "No need to wait for the New World for my father to teach you, as Captain of Whitebeard’s Second Division, I’ll show you the world’s breadth, and teach you manners now."

The flas on his arm burned brighter, Ace stared at Sage, "You dealt with the smoke earlier, now taste my fire!"

Smoke and fire, as Logia-types, cannot decide victory, but to others, their power is entirely different.

Flas can scorch everything.

Not afraid of Haki, compared to Haki, Logia’s power is greater and more convenient.

"Such an impulsive fellow..."

Sage clenched his fist, a feral smile gradually appearing, "Just right, I was wondering if the smoke’s strength isn’t enough, I’ll test it on you!"

"Scorch!"

The fire-transford arm thrust forward, launching a swift column of fire, erupting and spreading near Sage, igniting a wall of flas on the ground.

Such flas cannot form a wall unless...

Blocked.

Behind the flas, a bit away from those people, a gust blew from the side, stirring Lily’s hair and slightly astonished gaze.

Also blowing was the burning flas, and the fur cloak of the man behind.

Sage bit his cigar, looking down at the flas igniting on the ground, his eyes gradually raising, gazing toward Ace in the flas, and slowly said, "Impressive power."

Pure flas, without a physical base, but surpassing smoke in potency.

Haki cannot catch these things, but can attack and disperse the flas.

Who prevails depends on whether the fla’s power exceeds Haki’s strength.

Logia doesn’t require Armant Haki; Haki can’t envelop elents, but its power... is fully sufficient.

"Worth a try."

Sage spread open his right hand’s fingers, leaned his head to the left, "Let’s greet first!"

Whoa!

The leaned hand swung fiercely forward, abruptly extinguishing the flas, seemingly struck by intense air pressure.

Boom!!

The ground beneath Ace emitted a massive sound, as if plowed by so hard and colossal force, revealing a deep, rectangular trench.

And above the trench, the flas spread and quickly congregated, leapt toward the rooftops, revealing Ace’s flaming body.

He gazed at Sage’s hand, his expression turning serious.

Was that an external force?

Shouldn’t it be impact?

Why destroy the ground like this?

And that amount of Haki...

Just a casual hand swing yielded such strong Haki, how much Haki does he have?

For soone newly arrived on the Grand Line, isn’t this overly excessive?