Chapter 658: SFDI - 658
After exchanging blows with Tesoro, Drake and Tesoro didn’t continue fighting but instead faced each other in a standoff.
Tesoro burst into laughter. "It’s been a long time since I’ve met someone like you!"
Drake shrugged. "With someone like you who’s always scheming and cheating, I bet there are plenty of people who can’t stand it and flip the table!"
Tesoro said, "I’m talking about fools who dare to attack me here in Gild Tesoro, the Golden City!"
Tesoro raised his hand and pointed to the sky. "Let me tell you—inside the fountains you see here, there’s not only water but also gold dust.
That dust has already entered your bodies, and I can use it to control all of you. In other words, you can’t resist me... like this!"
As he finished, Tesoro flicked his finger at Drake.
Drake looked down, observing the golden traces spreading across his body, then sneered slightly. Flames began to emerge from his body.
The gold covering Drake melted almost instantly, even being burned away entirely.
The others took out bottles of seawater and poured it over themselves. When the seawater touched the gold on their bodies, it immediately crumbled away.
This was the advantage of having enough intelligence—since they already knew Tesoro’s tricks, they could prepare early.
It had to be said, the abilities of Devil Fruits were truly incredible. Some of them even seemed ridiculous to Drake.
Perhaps it was the world’s way of limiting Devil Fruit powers, but they all shared a common weakness... seawater. Just a simple bottle of seawater could nullify many Devil Fruit abilities.
Tesoro’s face darkened. The trick with gold dust had worked flawlessly many times, but this time, someone had prepared countermeasures in advance, making him feel targeted.
That sense of losing control made him especially unhappy.
But he didn’t panic—he still believed in his strength. Although the gold dust trick didn’t work, he was confident he could handle everyone.
For some reason, many villains had a strange, rebellious mentality—they believed that no matter how high the hero’s reputation and record, there was always some water in their achievements, and they wouldn’t lose to the hero.
Tesoro was the same. Even knowing Drake had fought evenly with BIG MOM, he thought it was due to some special reason, and that Drake’s true strength wasn’t actually that strong.
"Is this the confidence you have to cause trouble? Then let’s make you completely despair!"
Tesoro punched the ground, and grid-like patterns of lightning spread out in all directions. Large golden pillars rose up, transforming into waves of gold that crashed toward Drake.
Flames spread from Drake’s body, smashing into the incoming golden waves.
The front-facing golden waves were melted into liquid almost instantly, but underneath Drake’s feet, golden tendrils shot out.
Drake leaped into the air, dodging the entangling golden tendrils, but more of them quickly extended toward him.
In the grand city of Gild Tesoro, Tesoro had all the advantage of the home court. Everywhere was gold, and his abilities were maximized to their fullest.
Drake’s body moved swiftly, dodging left and right amidst the flames, while he slashed one of the golden tendrils that was wrapping around him.
But in the blink of an eye, a web woven from countless golden tendrils had already descended over him.
Drake was wrapped up entirely in the golden tendrils, forming a giant sphere.
Soon, cracks appeared on the surface of the golden sphere, and flames burst out from within. Then, with a loud explosion, the huge golden sphere shattered into pieces.
Drake, having escaped, pounced like a predator toward Tesoro.
Tesoro’s arm flickered with arcs of electricity, and a golden fist armor formed from the entwined gold, which he swung to punch Drake.
"Golden Bomb!"
Tesoro’s mastery of the Gold-Gold Fruit was highly developed, and combined with his formidable Haki, the golden fist armor had incredible impact power.
The fists collided, and the shockwave spread outward from Drake’s back, smashing the roof and sending him flying.
But Tesoro’s face showed a pained expression. His golden fist armor, under the influence of Haki, produced a molten effect similar to gold melting.
It not only caused a massive impact but also radiated intense heat. But the high temperature of his fist armor was no match for Drake’s flames.
Golden water dripped from the deformed armor, and Tesoro took a big step back, removing the scalding fist armor.
Drake didn’t miss the opportunity. He advanced boldly and kicked out a hook claw of his Fire Dragon.
A large wave of gold gathered to block Drake’s attack, but when the golden wave rolled back to catch him, Drake had already retreated.
Tesoro looked at his scorched hand and surprisingly smiled.
"This city is entirely under my control. Let me engrain this truth into your bones!"
Tesoro spread his arms, and all the gold around him surged, giving everyone the feeling of falling into an ocean of gold.
Tesoro’s expression grew more and more insane. He shouted loudly: "It’s showtime!"
A huge golden arm extended from the wave of gold and struck toward Drake, who was flying in the sky with his flaming wings.
This palm missed Drake, who had already retreated, but it shattered the upper half of the Golden King Hotel, and everyone was forced outside.
The golden wave quickly transformed into a giant golden figure, with crimson-red stripes glowing on its surface.
The figure was a giant version of Tesoro, with the same broad upper body and star-shaped mark on his back.
The red stripes were the energy Tesoro poured into the giant gold figure, generated by his immense Haki.
"Golden Divine Fire!"
The giant’s right eye widened, and as the stripes on its body grew brighter, a laser shot out.
Drake raised his altitude, dodging the laser, which swept across the ground in an arc, causing a series of explosions.
Drake raised an eyebrow. He had seen moves that combined Haki and Devil Fruit abilities before, but the fact that the Gold-Gold Fruit combined with Haki could produce laser beams was truly baffling.
’The power of the mind... is terrifying!’
What made Drake even more speechless was that he had just fought such a high-level user in the previous world, and now, in this world, he was facing a similar opponent again.
The giant gold figure’s speed did not decrease due to its size—one punch even created a sonic boom, heavily striking toward Drake.
"Golden Hellfire!"
This move was a larger version of Tesoro’s Golden Bomb, with an extra set of armor on the giant’s fists. Due to the increased size, the energy on the fists multiplied many times over.
When the fist approached, Drake could even feel the scorching hot wind.
A small section of the city’s buildings was destroyed by the impact of this punch, while Drake, raising his arm to block, stood firm.
"Not bad," Drake said with a smile, admiring the power of his own strength.
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