Massive amounts of iron sand rose from the ground and condensed into an enormous iron-sand fist.
Vibrating violently, it smashed head-on into Akainu’s Great Eruption.
Boom!
The collision caused the entire island to tremble several times.
Both Yuri’s and Akainu’s expressions changed simultaneously.
Within the scorching Great Eruption, there was more than just the terrifying heat of magma.
An immensely destructive force surged out from within the magma, constantly tearing into and battering Yuri’s Iron Sand Fist.
That force penetrated the Iron Sand Fist and destroyed it from the inside.
It was precisely the advanced application of Armament Haki that Yuri had always coveted: Ryuo.
If the Iron Sand Fist hadn’t already been composed of countless tiny grains of iron sand, each one vibrating at extreme speed and producing tremendous cutting force, then Akainu’s Armament Haki alone might have been enough to break straight through it.
What shocked Akainu, however, was that Yuri’s Iron Sand Fist had also become much stronger.
Every grain of iron sand within the fist was now vibrating and grinding against the others several times faster than it had three years ago.
That extreme vibration and friction gave the iron sand far greater cutting power than before.
Magnetism could generate electricity, and the constant high-speed friction also caused tremendous electrical energy to accumulate within the Iron Sand Fist.
Powerful currents continuously surged through the iron sand, granting the fist explosive striking force as well as the tearing power of electricity.
In other words, the longer the Iron Sand Fist remained active, the more powerful it became.
“Not bad.
You’ve grown much stronger over the past three years.
But even so, you’re still destined to spend the rest of your life in Impel Down after today,” Akainu said.
At the same time, the power of his Great Eruption suddenly exploded.
An even more terrifying force surged toward the Iron Sand Fist and Yuri.
The horrifying torrent of magma, combined with Akainu’s powerful Armament Haki, tore through the Iron Sand Fist and shattered it completely.
A terrifying river of magma surged straight toward Yuri.
“Shinra Tensei!”
Just as the magma fist and the raging river of molten rock were about to reach him, Yuri shouted.
An overwhelmingly powerful repulsive force erupted from his hand.
In an instant, every bit of magma and molten rock was blasted away.
Even Akainu, who had charged forward alongside Great Eruption, was pushed backward repeatedly by the tremendous repulsive force.
“What is this?”
Only after being forcibly pushed back dozens of meters did Akainu finally stop.
It wasn’t that Akainu had managed to stop himself.
The repulsive force had simply disappeared.
Akainu stared at Yuri in shock.
What had just happened had completely caught him off guard.
It was far too unexpected.
Far too shocking.
That was repulsive force, wasn’t it?
Wasn’t Gadile Yuri a magnetic Devil Fruit user?
How could he possibly do something like this?
“Heh.
Looks like you’re pretty surprised.” Yuri smiled proudly.
This was one of the abilities he was most proud of.
It had already been eight years since Yuri transmigrated into this world.
Throughout those eight years, he had never once stopped developing his magnetic Devil Fruit.
Because he knew that this ability was the foundation that allowed him to survive and establish himself in this world.
Over the past three years, his mastery of the magnetic Devil Fruit had deepened even further.
His mental strength was especially powerful, allowing him to control his magnetic abilities with incredible precision and subtlety.
Yuri’s ability to control techniques such as the Iron Sand Sword, Railgun, and Electromagnetic Giant all benefited from his extraordinary mental strength.
And as he continued developing his Devil Fruit, his understanding and control of magnetism grew deeper and deeper.
As early as three years ago, Yuri had sensed that everything possessed magnetism and its own magnetic field.
Humans, objects, energy, the planet, and even the universe itself all possessed their own magnetic fields.
Since these magnetic properties and magnetic fields existed, and Yuri could perceive them, then as a magnetic Devil Fruit user, shouldn’t he also be able to control them?
And so, he continuously experimented with controlling those magnetic fields.
Not long ago, his mastery of the magnetic Devil Fruit finally broke through another barrier.
He succeeded in manipulating those magnetic fields.
However, compared to controlling metal, controlling the magnetic fields of other things was incomparably more difficult.
Controlling metal was easy.
Under Yuri’s command, metal moved as naturally as his own limbs, and iron sand was particularly easy for him to manipulate.
But controlling everything else as freely as he controlled metal was as difficult as ascending to the heavens.
Although Yuri still couldn’t precisely manipulate the magnetic fields of all things, he could at least control the most fundamental properties of magnetism: like poles repel and unlike poles attract.
Those two principles ultimately became the attractive and repulsive forces Yuri now wielded.
Using attraction and repulsion, Yuri had developed Bansho Ten’in, Shinra Tensei, and Chibaku Tensei.
However, using attraction and repulsion placed an enormous burden on his mental strength.
It was completely different from controlling metal.
When controlling metal, the greatest consumption came from physical stamina.
Mental strength was mainly required when Yuri wanted to perform extremely precise manipulation.
Using attraction and repulsion, however, primarily consumed mental energy, although the physical cost was naturally unavoidable as well.
Only because Yuri’s mental strength was so extraordinary could he accomplish this.
Anyone else would struggle even to perceive the magnetic fields of all things, much less manipulate them to produce attraction and repulsion.
“As expected, a criminal like you is better off being eliminated entirely,” Akainu said coldly.
As he spoke, magma began pouring from his entire body.
In the blink of an eye, the ground beneath his feet transformed into a field of molten rock.
Standing atop the magma, Akainu radiated a terrifying aura.
“Hahaha!
You think you can kill me?
You’re nowhere near enough!” Yuri laughed loudly.
Electric sparks erupted across his entire body.
An enormous quantity of iron sand rose from the ground, lifting Yuri into the air along with it.
Under the control of his electromagnetic power, the vast mass of iron sand rapidly assembled itself into a gigantic Electromagnetic Iron Sand Giant.