Chapter 472: Closer to Death

Chapter 472: Closer to Death

Only one enemy is left after Kong's defeat. Imu is the only one left, but he doesn't show any sign of worry. He is still enraged though because all of his subordinates have lost already. But it's not something unexpected because they have been outnumbered from the beginning.

Still, having his side lose is something that a person who has led the winning side for hundreds of years doesn't like. Even though he hasn't lost yet, the force that he has created and led to rule the world has been defeated. It's the same as his group lost to Buggy's group, which is something that he really hates.

"You don't look so good. Do you need to pee?"

Buggy mocks Imu who looks very enraged when his last underling also gets defeated.

"It seems I've been going too easy on you trash."

Imu suddenly stretches his arms and neck, making Buggy frowns because he acts strangely all of a sudden. Then, bright red flame suddenly covers Imu's entire body and the ground below him melts as it turns into lava. The Clown Pirates who are rushing toward him after taking care of Kong are also surprised.

"SHIT! GET AWAY FROM HIM!"N0v3lRealm was the platform where this chapter was initially revealed on N0v3l.B1n.

Buggy sees the melted ground vibrate and warns his crewmates because he has a very bad feeling about this.

"Too late."

The flame on Imu's body suddenly burst and spreads everywhere rapidly. Everyone tries to get away, but the flame is spreading too fast, catching everyone before they can escape. They immediately cover their entire bodies with armament haki and the devil fruit users are activating their abilities too.

Buggy is the first to get caught by the spreading flame because not only he is closer to Imu, but he also charges at him instead of getting away. He wants to stop Imu, but the giant demon's attack is too fast. The only thing he can do is protect himself and orders his crewmates to save themselves.

Haki can protect them from the impact and burning, but it can't protect them from the heat. So everyone is screaming because of the intense heat as they keep running to escape. The ground that gets touched by the flame turns into lava almost immediately because the heat is too intense.

"AARGH, IT'S HOT!"

"DAMN, I CAN'T SEE THE END."

Screams can be heard from the side where the Clown Pirates were coming. They are being covered by a red flame that covers their surrounding. It blocks their vision, so they don't know where to go. They just keep running to save themselves before the heat kills them.

"ENEL! ASSIST JUDE!"

"WE'RE ALREADY ON IT!"

Everyone suddenly hears Buggy's and Enel's shouts before their bodies suddenly get covered by thick layers of ashes. Jude spreads her ash that can't be burnt anymore to save her crewmates. Enel helps her locate them using his powerful observation haki.

Both Enel and Jude are not affected by the flame because of their lightning and ash logia bodies. So they quickly acted to help their crewmates who aren't immune to the flame. Ash can't be burnt anymore, so Jude quickly spreads it to cover everyone's body with Enel's help because she can't see anything with the flame blocking her vision.

Buggy immediately moves to fight Imu again even though the guy is surrounded by the intense flame that melted the ground. The whole ruin of Marie Geoise has turned into lava. All the corpses there have even been burnt to ashes by the intense heat.

He doesn't have fire resistance, but Buggy has a way to protect himself from the powerful flame.

When he almost enters the fire domain, Buggy uses his awakened ability to levitate a few meters above the ground. He holds his swords in his hands and activates Pollux's Press Press Fruit power.

Buggy uses Pollux's Press power to make powerful pressure on the ground as he flies forward. The pressure extinguishes the flame and compresses the lava ground.

Even though the heat of the surrounding flame that hasn't been extinguished still affects him, it isn't too hot because it doesn't touch him. He has gone to various places including those that have intense heat, so this level of heat is still bearable.

Buggy keeps getting closer to Imu, but suddenly Imu uses the flame in the domain to attack him. The flame attacks with various shapes like arrows, whips, balls, and even animals are coming toward him.

He doesn't use Pollux that he switches to his left hand and defends the incoming attacks using Castor in his right hand or kicks. The incoming flame attacks are destroyed by his attacks, but they manage to slow him down.

Still, he eventually gets closer to Imu who just waits there without moving even a single inch away as if Buggy isn't a threat at all. It doesn't matter to Buggy now though because Imu has the right to do it after everything he showed in this war.

Besides, he's sure Imu will start moving when he starts attacking, and it's true. Imu suddenly jumps to the left after Buggy swings Castor in his direction. But unlike before when his attacks were invisible, this slash attack is visible like other slash attacks.

Imu frowns confusedly but still decides to dodge it because he isn't sure of its effects. Buggy becomes the one who frowns next when he sees Imu controlling the lava around him. Imu creates lava projectiles to the sky and then they rain down on Buggy.

"The fuck! It's similar to Akainu's move."

Buggy destroys the lava bullets that rain down on him using Castor in his right hand. He can't use Pollux because he needs to maintain the pressure on the ground to extinguish the fire around him. But even with just one hand, Buggy manages to destroy all of the incoming lava bullets, although it's tiring.

"Control over different types of flame, incredible physical power enhancement given by transformation, and now he can even control lava. Damn! Just how many abilities he has? It doesn't even look like he ate more than 1 devil fruit like Teach in the series. Just what overpowered devil fruit that he consumed?"

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