Facing Doflamingo’s final attack, Alber had once again simply endured it with his body. As long as the flames on his back had not gone out, this was the Lunarians’ most reliable shield.
“Do you understand now? Unlike you Celestial Dragons, who are always boasting about the nobility of your bloodline while fundamentally remaining weak…
There is an essential difference between us on the level of life itself. From a biological standpoint… you simply cannot defeat me!”
Rumble!
“Thunderflame… Purgatory!”
The lightning in the clouds had built up to its peak. As lightning flashed from the single horn atop Alber’s head, lightning poured down like a torrential rain, the brilliant pillars of light illuminating the entire night.
At the same time, the surging flames gathered into masses and, after being compressed, exploded around Doflamingo.
The roar of thunder, the thunderous blasts, and the howls of lightning and flame made all of Dressrosa shine as bright as day.
Rumble!
Nearly endless lightning fell from the clouds, only to be drawn toward the single horn atop Alber’s head. Countless bolts converged together, gathering into even more terrifying power before exploding with a deafening crash.
Doflamingo himself did not possess the ability to fly. He merely used his strings to connect to various objects, including clouds, giving himself footholds in midair.
Now, the strings connected to the clouds had instead become conductors for the lightning.
Some were melted apart by the lightning’s extreme heat, while others carried the current down along the strings, giving Doflamingo the sensation of stepping on a live wire.
However, after his Devil Fruit awakened, there were far more strings in the sky. Doflamingo severed the strings originally connected to the clouds and used the others to forcibly move sideways through the air.
A flash of lightning brushed past the hem of his coat. The fabric was instantly carbonized, revealing the charred skin beneath.
Before he could even adjust his posture, a second pillar of lightning struck the spot where he had just been standing.
And this was only the stray current spilling out from the attack. Once the offensive truly descended, a dense web of lightning sealed off every avenue of escape.
It was as though all the electrical charge in the sky had been dragged down. Bolts as thick as water jars struck the ground without merely exploding, leaving behind numerous penetrating marks.
The sea of flames below also began surging upward into the sky.
At this moment, the formless flames seemed to become solid fists, smashing into Doflamingo’s back. His pink coat instantly vaporized, and his lean body was now covered in scars.
Whoosh!
With the sound of something tearing through the air, Doflamingo was smashed into the ground. A massive blade pierced through his abdomen, pinning him directly to the earth.
Amid the flying rubble, even the nearly indestructible sunglasses that symbolized his identity as the original body developed several cracks.
Through the lenses, Doflamingo’s bloodshot eyes stared fixedly into the sky, where Alber was slowly descending.
“God Thread. It’s a good name, but the attack was far too weak.”
Crack.
The sound of ribs breaking was crisp and clear. Alber’s foot was now pressing down on Doflamingo’s chest, the thick sole pinning him to the ground and declaring the battle completely over.
Blood bubbles spilled from the corner of Doflamingo’s mouth. As he looked at Alber, he suddenly realized something.
This monster, aside from the Haki he coated his blade with during the final attack, had not used Haki at all from beginning to end.
Yet the dense Haki in that last strike was enough to show that he possessed considerable mastery over it. The reason he had not used it was not because he could not, but because there had simply been no need.
Relying purely on his physical body and racial gifts, without any fancy techniques whatsoever, he had simply tanked every single one of Doflamingo’s attacks, then punched and kicked him down from the sky.
He had knocked him from among the clouds… completely back down to the ground.
“You should know quite a lot. How about you honestly tell me everything you know?”
“Wha… cough, cough… tell you? I have nothing to say to you. You think defeating me means you can take your revenge?!
“Cough… you’re nothing more than a frog at the bottom of a well… ngh…”
Alber increased the force beneath his foot, clearly having no intention of letting Doflamingo continue spouting meaningless words.
Since the other party was unwilling to cooperate, Alber had other ways to obtain what he wanted to know.
“That’s fine. We can have a proper talk in your dreams. I’m very interested in your nightmares right now.”
In theory, the battle in Dressrosa ended at this moment. Doflamingo’s plan for Dressrosa had been completely destroyed.
Aside from some damage to buildings and the terrain, Dressrosa had not suffered too heavily. It was just that quite a few structures, including the Royal Palace, would need repairs.
Overall, things had turned out quite well, but some people were not particularly happy.
“Sister Nanamo? Are you okay? Are you hurt?”
Yamato poked Nanamo from the side. Ever since Alber had started fighting, she had had a bad feeling.
And now, that bad feeling seemed to have become reality.
Flames and thunderstorms were both highly destructive natural disasters. When both powers were wielded by the same person, the resulting destruction hardly needed explanation.
“I was wrong. I should’ve insisted to Dad that I come here alone, then knocked Doflamingo out with one punch…”
Besides the flames and thunderstorm, there was also the damage caused by the awakening of the String-String Fruit. Although it was not as visually devastating as Alber’s attacks, the buildings twisted by the awakened Devil Fruit obviously could no longer be lived in.
Ignoring Yamato, Nanamo continued muttering to herself.
“Amphy too, Alber too, they both have a tendency to go to extremes… Chloe isn’t going to give me some huge surprise in the future too, is she…”
“…..”
“Princess Nanamo! We found something new! Dressrosa actually has a natural underground cavern! It was blasted open just now!”
Hermes popped out from the side. The underground cavern it had discovered was the location of Doflamingo’s underground factory in the original timeline.
That entire area had originally formed naturally. Dressrosa had simply never developed underground. It was only after Pica followed Doflamingo to the island and used his Devil Fruit ability that he discovered the empty space beneath the ground.
Then, under Doflamingo’s orders, the place had been converted into an underground factory.
Now, Alber’s penetrating lightning strikes had instead exposed the cavern ahead of time.
“So…?”
“Uh… Dressrosa already has some tourism industry, and it’s also quite close to the Sabaody Archipelago. If we develop this cavern…
Maybe we could open a dedicated travel route connecting Sabaody Archipelago, Fishman Island, and Dressrosa?”
Hermes had also noticed that Nanamo seemed to be in a bad mood, so it cautiously offered its suggestion. After all, an underground cavern like this could become a pretty good natural attraction if developed properly.
As long as the Ryugu Kingdom was willing to provide ships, it could also guarantee that tourists reached this place safely.
“It would probably be difficult for Dressrosa to develop this place on its own, so we could…”
“Mm, not a bad suggestion. Put together a detailed summary and tell Tesoro when we get back. It’s time for him to expand his business.”
The prospects Hermes described lifted Nanamo’s spirits again. In a sense, this could be considered a blessing in disguise.
Rubbing her face, Nanamo regained her composure, then had Yamato freeze all the defeated enemies. On this sea, freezing people was also an effective method of imprisonment.
Just like Trebol, whose life or death was still uncertain, it was quite common to first beat someone until they lost the ability to battle, then freeze them and lock them away for several years.
Even Impel Down still had frozen prisoners like World at present.
Violet continued using the Glare-Glare Fruit to observe the situation around Senor Pink, while Nanamo handed all the frozen prisoners over to Alber before taking Yamato with her toward King Riku’s Royal Palace…
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