"Damn it!"
Watching his Power Pole snap in half, Hamr's eyes burned with rage.
"You bastard! You broke my staff! I'm gonna sell you for cash!"
Batu: '????? Excuse ? You poked with the stick first, and now you're blaming ?'
"You asked for this!"
"Co out, Blue-Fla Gatling!"
With a furious roar, a massive minigun materialized in Hamr's hands, its belt of ammunition gleaming nacingly.
These weren't Zephyr-sensei's rubber bullets, these were the real deal.
"Die!"
*Rat-a-tat-tat-tat!!!*
Hamr unlocked a new achievent: Blue Fla Mode.
This Gatling gun, forged by his own hands, ca with the special attribute: blue fla effects.
It was a legit blue-flaming Gatling gun.
As bullets rained down wildly, all the pirates imdiately raised their shields in defense.
Batu was no exception. He braced a huge shield, taller than himself, in front of him to block the onslaught.
*Brttttt"*
*ra-tattatatatatat*
*Whoosh! Whoosh!*
*Thud-thud-thud-thud!*
Under the relentless storm of bullets, the shields Batu had previously crafted for his crew began to crumble.
No matter how sturdy, no shield could withstand hundreds of real bullets per second.
Blood mist sprayed across the deck.
The grunts whose shields were shattered didn't even have ti to scream before their bodies were shredded to pieces.
Hamr stared, montarily dazed, just seconds ago, these people were alive. Now they were just bloody chunks.
Even though he had ntally prepared himself for a year, seeing it with his own eyes still stirred a pang of guilt.
His stomach churned, and he released the trigger.
The sound of gunfire ceased.
The air reeked of blood. Severed limbs and pirate remains littered the deck.
"Urgh!"
The next second, Hamr bent over and vomited.
"You bastard! You wiped out all my n!!"
"I'll kill you!"
"Shield Shield: Destruction Shield!"
Furious, Batu summoned a strange-looking shield covered in rune markings.
This ti, he wasn't holding back. He charged forward with the shield raised.
Hamr, seeing this, quickly wiped his mouth and tried to retreat, but the nausea made him sluggish.
"Die!!"
"Tekkai!"
The massive shield ca crashing down from above. With no other choice, Hamr activated his Tekkai technique again.
But the next second, he realized the painful lesson of the Tekkai.
"Boom!"
The shield slamd into Hamr's head with a massive explosion.
Flas burst out, engulfing Hamr completely.
"Pff!"
The blast launched Hamr into the air, black smoke pouring from his mouth. His clothes were shredded and tattered.
A massive bump had ford on his head, but thanks to Tekkai, his body itself was unscathed.
"Hmph! Marine brat, my Destruction Shield explodes on impact!"
"Prepare to die!"
Emboldened by his success, Batu charged again with the shield raised.
Hamr, still coughing black smoke, couldn't afford to let Batu get close.
He used Soru multiple tis to rapidly create distance.
But Batu was relentless now. No matter where Hamr dodged, Batu would appear right after.
"What are you, a dog?! Why are you chasing so hard?!"
"Geppo"
Frustrated, Hamr cursed loudly and leapt into the air using Geppo.
Seeing Hamr rise into the sky, Batu looked up, full of frustration.
"CO DOWN AND FIGHT!"
"CO UP AND GET !"
"DOWN!"
"UP!"
The two of them instantly devolved into street-level squabbling, neither able to do anything to the other.
Hamr knew: he had to defeat Batu. After all, Batu was worth a full hundred million, a perfect fit for his exam requirents.
Yet that Shield-Devil Fruit of his was insanely annoying.
Up close he had spikes, at range he had sawblades, and now he even had explosions.
'How the hell did this guy develop his fruit so well?!'
Then, a thought hit Hamr, he was a Devil Fruit user too!
A plan ford instantly in his mind.
"Soru!"
While still in the air, Hamr suddenly vanished, and reappeared above Batu.
Batu's eyes lit up, he imdiately swung the Destruction Shield upward to counter.
Hamr didn't flinch. He clenched his right fist and swung it downward, though there was still so distance between them.
Then he roared:
"Air Hamr Strike! Shockwave Impact!"
His right fist smashed into thin air, sending an invisible shockwave crashing down toward Batu.
Batu was totally caught off guard.
'Since when could he do that'
The violent shockwave blasted Batu away.
He crashed heavily into the deck.
"Crack!!"
The wooden planks couldn't handle the force and shattered on impact.
Batu's body smashed straight through
*Crash*
Batu crashed through the deck into the ship's belly with a thunderous impact.
"Cough! Damn... you...!"
Blood sprayed from his mouth as he struggled to rise. The shockwave strike had dealt devastating internal damage.
anwhile, Hamr admired his handiwork with satisfaction.
This air hamr technique was sothing he had been working on over the past year. To think its first real combat application would work so beautifully!
'Not bad. Not bad at all.'
"Give up, Batu! You're finished!"
But Batu wouldn't have it. Letting out a furious roar, he stord back up to the deck, ready to keep fighting.
"Sawtooth Chain Shield!"
A spinning saw-bladed shield tore through the air toward Hamr.
"I'll hamr it again!"
Another air hamr strike landed. The sawtooth shield, while highly lethal, was not as durable as the others. It shattered instantly under the blow, reduced to fragnts.
"RRRAAAAAGH!"
Mad with rage, Batu summoned his ultimate technique.
"Shield Shield: Ten-Thousand Shield Formation!"
"Die, brat!"
A countless number of shields rose into the air and flew directly toward Hamr.
Hamr snorted. "I don't care how many shields you throw at , I'll break them all with brute force!"
"Great Hamr! Eighty! Destructive Strike!!"
His right arm bulged with veins as he slamd out a punch. A ripple of invisible shockwaves burst outward in every direction.
Every shield it touched disintegrated. The deck itself splintered and collapsed.
Hamr, caught up in the heat of battle, didn't even notice that the [Devil Fruit Developnt] stat on his system panel had just risen from 40% to 50%.
Under that devastating attack, Batu stood no chance. The shockwave lifted him off his feet, bones audibly cracking as he ragdolled through the air before slamming unconscious onto the ruined deck.
Huff... huff...
Wiping sweat from his brow, Hamr smirked at the defeated pirate.
"Hmph, trash-you lost!"
Despite his exhaustion his tone was full of joy, not because he'd won, but because his evaluation was complete.
He pulled out a special chain from his ring, securely bound Batu, and tossed him onto the speedboat.
This chain was another of Hamr's inventions, infused with Seastone to effectively suppress Devil Fruit users.
Under the shocked gaze of the Snow Leopard tribe girl, Hamr fired up the speedboat and raced toward Marine Headquarters.
Little did he know, everything that had just happened was witnessed from above...By an Albatross with a cara slung around its neck.
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