Chapter 179 Ace VS Blackbeard (Not)!

"Aren't you going to run away, Blackbeard?"

After two months, Ace finally met Blackbeard's gang again. At this moment, he was still full of anger, and the temperature around him was so high that it burned the surrounding houses.

Xiao was lying on a sun lounger wearing sunglasses and basking in the sun. He was playing with a Devil Fruit, an animal-type Devil Fruit. This was his latest research project.

Unlike the other two Devil Fruits, which represent nature and rules, Animal Devil Fruits are energy that can fully integrate the abilities of animals into the human body.

Xiao plans to use this special ability as a basis to create a low-level version of the Eight-Nine Mysterious Skills and improve the light wings by the way. The duration of 12 hours is still too short.

"Ace~Captain, what a coincidence!"

Xiao sat up and greeted Ace.

"Teach, why did you kill Thatch? Wasn't he your best friend?"

Ace did not take action immediately, but suppressed the anger in his heart, tried to keep himself calm, and asked the question that had been lingering in his mind.

He really couldn't understand how the warm and friendly Teach in the past could kill his brother just because of a devil fruit.

"It's just a whim!"

Xiao put down the Devil Fruit, and Diana immediately put it away and left quickly.

"I became the strongest with this devil fruit~"

Xiao stood up slowly, raised his right palm high, and saw that all his fingertips had turned into black mist as thick as smoke.

"Ace, take a good look at this. This is a powerful devil fruit that can be called unusual even in the natural system..."

As he spoke, the endless and deep darkness gathered behind Xiao, burning like a raging flame into a dark cloak.

The billowing black smoke continuously transformed into countless twisting tentacles, rushing straight into the sky.

In an instant, the originally clear sky was suddenly obscured by darkness, as if a huge black curtain hung in the sky.

The brilliance of all things in the world was mercilessly swallowed by this endless darkness, and the light on Banaro Island became weaker and weaker, until finally, the entire island and everyone on the island sank into a pitch-black world where one could not even see his fingers.

"PU~~~"

Wisps of blazing yellow flames ignited on Ace's body, illuminating the dark world. The flames made him look as divine as a god.

"Ace, your body is flame, and I am darkness. Let me let you experience some dark fruits that are perfectly fused!"

Xiao clenched his fists, a look of excitement appeared on his face, an innocent smile like a child who got a toy and wanted to experiment.

The fusion of the Dark Fruit and the Tuntun Fruit is nearing completion. Now he can perfectly control the Dark Fruit's ability. He really wants to find someone to experiment with the full power of the Dark Fruit.

"Run~~~"

Priest Shura saw his captain's expression and immediately shouted in horror.

The remaining residents of Banaro Island and the Blackbeard Pirates fled like crazy to the spaceship outside Banaro Island.

"Paji——"

Poison Q ran and threw him face to the ground,

"What are you doing? Come on, the captain is mad. If you don't run, you will be affected!"

Badgers immediately returned with Van Oka, and continued running while carrying Poison Q who fell to the ground.

As soon as Zhuangzhuang saw that his master was being carried, he immediately stopped running and threw him to the ground, as if he couldn't get up without anyone carrying him.

"Get up quickly!"

Badgers went up and kicked the dreaming lazy horse away.

Ace calmly watched Xiao release his ability. He had absolute confidence in his own power. After all, Blackbeard and his gang were almost burned to death by him last time. If they had the power to defeat him, why would they run away.

"What name should I give it?"

Xiao also released his power with a smile on his face. He turned his palms slightly and murmured slowly, thinking about what name he should give his moves.

"How about this move called Dark Finale?"

Xiao suddenly asked Ace,

"Who cares about you?"

However, the darkness around him became more and more solemn, and Ace felt like a huge mountain was pressing on his heart, making it difficult to breathe.

At this time, if Ace couldn't find the gap between the two sides, he would be a complete fool and start gathering strength directly.

However, the darkness around him became thicker and more solid, as if there was a heavy mountain pressing on Ace's heart, making him unable to breathe.

At this moment, if Ace still didn't realize the disparity in strength between the two sides, then he would be an out-and-out idiot. So, without hesitation, Ace began to gather all his strength to break through the siege of darkness.

"Great Flame Ring~"

In an instant, a spiral column of fire suddenly appeared around Ace. The raging fire burned more and more fiercely with the help of the wind, and quickly gathered into a huge fire tornado.

"Ace, you are trapped in darkness with no way to escape, but I haven't done anything yet~~"

At this moment, Xiao whispered, and darkness surged in like a raging tide, pounced hard on the fire tornado.

The fire tornado that had just risen seemed so insignificant in front of this endless darkness, and was easily extinguished like a candle in the wind.

Ace desperately activated the ability to burn the fruit, trying to ignite a more violent flame, but there was only a chance that the flame would rise and be immediately extinguished by the darkness.

When the last flame went out, darkness blocked Ace's connection with the Flame-Flame Fruit. He could no longer feel his own abilities. The darkness directly entangled him and sealed his domineering spirit.

Trapped in darkness, Ace felt his strength draining away. His efforts seemed to be in vain. He could not ignite the blazing flames again no matter what.

At the same time, extreme fatigue made Ace's nerves begin to become blurred, and soon he lost his sense of his body.

All he could see was darkness. Gradually, he could not even hear his own voice, and his sense of smell and taste also left him.

Ace's five senses were being ruthlessly swallowed up by the darkness bit by bit...

Ace shouted hoarsely, but there was a dead silence all around, and not even a sound came out.

His face was gradually shrouded in despair, but the face of Thatch and the happy life with his companions kept appearing in his mind. He was unwilling to die like this.

But Ace knew that he must not panic at this time. He forced himself to calm down and tried to establish a connection with the Flame-Flame Fruit in his body again.

Even in the endless darkness, he firmly believed that his flame would never go out.

"Flame, please give me a response! Let me burn again, even if this will be the last blow, I will shatter the darkness before my eyes..."

Ace tried his best to stimulate his potential, as if he wanted to sacrifice his body and even his soul to the flame, to burn all the darkness.