Thor

No human could possibly be faster than lightning. Duke firmly believed that, so his Observation Haki had been locked onto Enel the entire time. The moment Enel raised his arm, he too drew Flower Continent from his waist, its tip pointed toward the sky.

A transparent door opened in the void above his head. The raging pillar of lightning poured into it, yet not a single spark leaked out. The azure lightning steeped in utter destruction vanished in an instant, leaving behind not even the slightest electric spark.

Holding Flower Continent in one hand, Duke chuckled. "God over there, didn’t you say you’d stand still and let me hit you for five minutes? Why are you going back on your word?"

"A… door?" Enel stood there in a daze. Only several seconds after the Air Door disappeared did he suddenly understand. "So you’re also a Devil Fruit user. No wonder you dared to provoke a god."

"Judging by your ability, you should be a Paramecia user!" Enel mused. "As far as I know, Paramecias cannot undergo Element Transformation like Logia Types. In other words… you, like all mortals, fear the great thunderbolt!!"

By the end, Enel’s face was filled with wild delight. "You didn’t use Haki like before, which means Haki isn’t omnipotent! That’s right, that’s right! Even Haki cannot block the Thor of the heavens. I am—invincible!"

Duke raised an eyebrow but did not deny Enel’s words. Armament Haki was one means of dealing with ability users, allowing its user to grab or touch the physical bodies of Devil Fruit users. But Armament Haki was not the sea, nor was it Seastone. It could not strip ability users of their powers.

Besides, the Rumble-Rumble Fruit truly was one of the strongest abilities. Lightning did not merely paralyze; it also possessed the speed of light and the scorching heat of fire. Armament Haki might block it once or twice, but after enough hits, one would still be roasted into charcoal.

"Yahahahaha! Blue Sea Person, your time has come. Accept the judgment of a god!" Enel laughed arrogantly. Though Duke could touch and attack his physical body, Enel, having transformed into Thor, was confident that no one in the world could be faster than him. With Mantra allowing him to anticipate his enemies, no one could get near him unless he allowed it.

Boom—

A dull drumbeat rang out!

Enel struck one of the Magatama Drums on his back with his Golden Staff, releasing the lightning he had created from the drum and shaping it into a vicious Thunder Bird that streaked toward Duke at high speed.

30 Million Volt Thunder Bird!

The phoenix-shaped lightning bird beat its wings in midair and crossed layers of space in an instant, charging straight at Duke. Rather than retreating, Duke advanced, raising his blade to meet the Thunder Bird. Another Air Door opened and swallowed the bird whole like a whale.

"Yahahaha! I refuse to believe your ability can store more electricity than I can produce!" Enel was not disappointed when the Thunder Bird was swallowed. Instead, he laughed even more wantonly. Duke’s refusal to confront him head-on could only mean that his ability was invincible.

30 Million Volt Thunder Bird!

30 Million Volt Thunder Beast!

30 Million Volt Thunder Beast!

60 Million Volt Thunder Dragon!

Enel continuously created one lightning beast after another, determined to use overwhelming lightning strikes to electrocute Duke into charcoal and wash away his earlier humiliation. When the final soaring Thunder Dragon appeared, the momentum of ten thousand beasts stampeding filled the air, and everything within sight was covered in dazzling lightning.

"Yahahahaha—"

Thunder roared without end. Enel raised both arms and stood amid the lightning. "Blue Sea Person who has defiled a god, repent with your life!"

The multitude of beasts surged forward, so fast that the naked eye could not track them at all. Duke lacked Observation Haki that could foresee the future, but he could still guess that being struck by this sea of lightning would leave not even a corpse behind.

Faced with endless lightning, Duke had no choice but to halt his advance toward Enel. In fact, at this point, let alone approaching Enel, he did not even have enough room to dodge.

As Enel unleashed his relentless bombardment, positive and negative charges crackled together throughout the surrounding area, forming an impenetrable electric web. Oxygen rapidly dwindled, a foul stench filled the air, and the temperature grew increasingly scorching. Worse still, Duke sensed a hint of numbness spreading through his body.

Flower Continent trembled lightly. Duke made his decision at once, slashing open an Air Door before him with his long blade before leaping inside. The next instant, the lightning beasts that followed obliterated everything where he had stood. The soil was first electrocuted into blackened charcoal-like matter, then scorched by the heat until it sublimated into gas.

Centered on the clearing where Duke had been standing, hundreds of square meters of ground were forcibly erased! Scalding heat rose from the bottomless crater, as though it had been cleansed by antimatter energy. Not a shred of evidence remained that anything had ever existed there.

Duke stood in the inner world opened by the Door-Door Fruit, watching the destructive power of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit and clicking his tongue in amazement. "With this kind of destructive power, even the three Admirals might not necessarily match it. The Rumble-Rumble Fruit truly deserves to be called the strongest Logia Type… though my Door-Door Fruit is pretty broken too!"

Duke was right. The Door-Door Fruit might not possess obvious destructive power, but as a support ability, it was absolutely bug-level. Its user in the original story had utterly failed to bring out the fruit’s true potential. In Duke’s view, so long as it was used properly, it might not make one invincible throughout the world, but remaining undefeated would not be much of a problem.

The world inside the door was utterly silent. Duke stepped across the ground of the alternate space, walking toward Enel, who was still laughing in the distance. He switched Flower Continent to his left hand and drew another beloved blade: one of the Twenty-One Great Grade Blades, the famous sword Shadow Eater!

"The lowly Blue Sea Person has been reduced to ashes! Yahahaha, that is the price for foolishly challenging a god!" Enel’s Mantra covered the entire island. Sensing that Duke had completely vanished from his perception, he could not help shouting smugly, "Just as I thought! Only I, Thor Enel, am invincible!"

Enel threw back his head and laughed, but suddenly, a premonition of death struck his heart. Through Mantra, he sensed a pitch-black long blade stabbing out from the void, slashing toward the four drums on his back. It was actually aiming to cut him in half along with them!

At the brink of life and death, Enel could not spare a thought for a god’s dignity. He instinctively bent over and rolled across the ground, scrambling away in a miserable state. A searing pain flared across his back. Enel reached back to touch it and found his palm stained crimson.

Enel stared at the blood between his fingers. His entire body trembled, his hair stood on end, and his pounding heart filled him with lingering fear. He was fortunate that he had not remained in place in Element Transformation; otherwise, he would not merely have been injured—he would have died.

"Damn Haki!" Enel snarled. Seeing Duke push open a door and step out of thin air, he added, "Damn Paramecia! Damn Blue Sea Person!"

"Well? What do you think of my Fruit ability?" Duke held a blade in each hand, Flower Continent resting across his shoulder while the longer Shadow Eater pointed at Enel from afar. "The Rumble-Rumble Fruit may be one of the strongest fruits on the sea, but you are unworthy of it. Lightning stimulates your cells, giving you vitality far beyond ordinary people and explosive, overwhelming strength. At the same time, it enhances your Observation Haki, making you as all-knowing as a god. Yet all of that comes from the Rumble-Rumble Fruit. Without your Fruit ability, what do you have left?"

Duke laughed soundlessly. "There’s a lecherous fellow on the sea just like you. He’s so fast that he moves at the speed of light. Though he’s doing fairly well now, his teacher once judged that one day, he would regret focusing only on his Fruit ability! I wholeheartedly agree. Once darkness envelops him, those legs he is so proud of will be snapped in an instant!"

Though Enel did not know whom Duke was talking about, he understood the mockery in Duke’s words. The noble god of Skypiea had already suffered one setback after another today, and after hearing this, he finally fell into a state of complete fury.

"Bastard! Don’t think that wounding a god once or twice gives you the right to act so arrogantly before him." Enel’s eyes were filled with madness. He released every bit of electricity stored within his body, and raging lightning wrapped around him as he transformed into a bloated yet imposing giant of thunder.

200 Million Volt—Thor!

Enel’s strongest technique released all the lightning in his body and wrapped it around himself, transforming him into the form of an enormous Thor. The clouds high above seemed to be infected, turning one after another into pitch-black thunderclouds. Lightning snakes flashed through the rolling darkness, thunder roared endlessly, and the clouds echoed the thunder giant below, raising his already formidable aura without limit.

Duke sucked in a sharp breath. With this move alone, Enel truly deserved the name Thor. At the same time, Duke deeply understood one truth: never oppose a protagonist for no reason. The Thor before him was a perfect cautionary example.

It was not because he had failed in battle. Heaven simply wanted him dead!