What is the best way to deal with an enemy whose powers are a mystery?
You test the waters from a distance.
Crocodile retreated rapidly, immediately unleashing one attack after another at Chrollo.
"Sables!"
"Barján!"
"Desert Spada!"
Sandstorms, crescent-shaped sand blades, and vertical desert swords...
Countless attacks formed of sand shot toward Chrollo relentlessly.
However, Chrollo used the Weight-Weight ability to adjust his speed and momentum, dodging every single attack with perfect precision.
He was proving once again that there are no weak Devil Fruits, only weak users.
"You can't beat me with just this. Is the mighty Warlord of the Sea, Sir Crocodile, actually scared?"
"Shut up!"
Crocodile's face twisted in anger. He slammed his hand onto the ground. "Desert Sunflower!"
In an instant, the underground water currents were drained. The sand dunes in front of him transformed into a life-devouring quicksand pit, swirling and sinking slowly.
Rocks and trees in the vicinity were quickly sucked in and vanished without a trace.
Seeing this, Chrollo stopped his pursuit instantly. Activating the Weight-Weight ability, he shifted his mass from heavy to light and floated up into the sky.
But this was the moment Crocodile had been waiting for. Veins bulged on his forehead as he grinned savagely and roared, "Die!"
"Sables: Pesado!"
A devastatingly heavy sandstorm formed instantly between his hands. Carrying razor-sharp wind pressure, it howled toward Chrollo.
The sky was filled with sand, blocking out all vision. Trees were uprooted, houses collapsed, and countless tons of debris were swept up into the heavens. It looked like the wrath of God.
The gale whipped Crocodile's coat and hair wildly as he laughed.
"Let's see how you dodge this one!!"
"Die!!"
"Your partner is in danger!" Robin watched the scene, her expression grave.
"Crocodile chose the angle of this attack very cleverly."
"If he ignores the sandstorm, it will hit the town behind him and destroy everything."
"But if he tries to tank that terrifying attack with his body, he'll likely be critically injured and lose the fight..."
Robin looked up toward Chrollo, her eyes filled with complex emotions. "What will he choose?"
Bonney looked up as well, curious.
Before they came here, Chrollo had been obsessing over getting a "perfect clear" and grinding his reputation points... presumably, he wouldn't let the sandstorm hit the town.
However, none of the abilities Chrollo had shown her so far seemed capable of solving this specific crisis.
That big white cloth he used for storage would be shredded by the wind pressure, and the entrances for the Dimensional Apartment or the Door-Door Fruit couldn't open wide enough to catch a storm of this size.
Yet, Chrollo still hadn't signaled for her to use the Age-Age Fruit on him.
"Does he still have another trick up his sleeve?" she wondered.
The terrifying tornado swallowed Chrollo's figure. He didn't seem to put up any resistance...
The sandstorm grew larger and larger, crushing everything in its vicinity as it slowly moved toward the town. Watching this, Crocodile grinned and spread his arms wide. "Gwahahaha!"
"Cobra, aren't you going to come out?! Your precious citizens are about to die beneath this sandstorm!"
"Who did you say was going to die?"
A light chuckle drifted out from within the sandstorm.
Crocodile's laughter cut off abruptly. He looked up.
Chrollo's figure slowly emerged in the eye of the storm, completely unharmed.
But that wasn't all... The violent desert tornado became silent around him. The fierce, howling winds calmed down as if they were melting snow... until there was no sound at all.
For a moment, the world was terrifyingly quiet.
Crocodile's most powerful move... had been neutralized with ease.
He stared blankly at the scene, his eyes full of disbelief and... confusion.
"How... How is this possible?!"
What on earth... did he just do?
Chrollo descended slowly from the sky. Wherever he walked, the wind and sand stopped moving. Even the grit on the ground didn't shift an inch.
He still wore a smile on his lips. "Strange, isn't it? Why did your sandstorm stop?"
He looked straight at Crocodile. "Because I happen to have an ability that counters you perfectly..."
[Silence · Dustless Land (Emission Type)]
One of Chrollo's 23 Nen abilities.
[Upon activation, it creates a field around the user. It issues a command to all inanimate matter within the field, forcing everything to become quiet without permission, creating a zone of absolute silence and stillness.]
This ability originally belonged to Dwun, one of the twelve creators of Greed Island.
Dwun was the counterpart to Razor. While Razor was responsible for making sure all Emission-type offensive cards on Greed Island functioned properly, Dwun used Silence · Dustless Land to maintain the effects of all interruption, silence, and stasis cards on the island.
That was why the two of them lived on the game island year-round, keeping the game running.
In reality, Chrollo could have just blocked the attack with full-body Armament Haki. He only used Dustless Land to prevent the sandstorm from devastating the civilians behind him.
Just as Bonney suspected, for his "perfect clear," Chrollo couldn't allow Crocodile's attack to impact the town.
On the sidelines, even Robin felt a sense of helplessness watching this bizarre scene. She looked at Chrollo with intense curiosity... Just how many abilities does this man have?
Next to her, Bonney was already counting on her fingers. "The big white cloth, the dimensional apartment, fortune telling, teleportation, invisibility, tracking, push and pull, the flashbang, and now this silence thing..."
She looked serious, but math wasn't her strong suit. She frowned. "I lost count... I lost count... how many is that?"
Robin listened, her expression growing more shocked by the second. Can one person really possess this many abilities at once?
With this many powers, how is he any different from a god?
While Bonney was still struggling with the math, Chrollo had already launched his counterattack. He raised his hand and pointed to his side. Buzz.
[Instant Displacement] activated.
Crocodile's body was instantly swapped with a grain of sand next to Chrollo, appearing directly in front of him.
Crocodile looked stunned. But Chrollo's fist was already raised high, coated in jet-black Armament Haki. He swung it down at the Warlord.
"This punch is 100% hard work and hustle!"
THUD!
A dull, heavy impact echoed. The punch hit Crocodile in the gut with enough force to nearly break the sound barrier.
Crocodile's body folded, his eyes bulged out, capillaries bursting. He was hit so hard he turned into a living meme.
"Urgh..."
However, a split second later, his refusal to lose kicked in. Crocodile forcibly stopped his backward momentum, straightened his body bit by bit, and reached out with his right hand to grab Chrollo.
"Die!! Desert Girasole!!"
This was a deadly derivative of the Sand-Sand Fruit. Crocodile could drain the moisture from anything his right hand touched. As long as his hand landed on the opponent, they would turn into a dried-out husk and lose the ability to fight. Victory would still be his!
Then I'll kill the two spectators, and no one will ever know how badly I was embarrassed today!
But a second later, his right hand made contact with Chrollo's chest—only to find the skin pitch black, covered in Armament Haki.
He looked up in shock, meeting Chrollo's eyes, which held a look that said, I knew you'd do that.
"Trying to affect your opponent through fruit abilities alone? Just like Bonney. I've seen this movie before."
"Haven't you heard the wise words of Professor Kaido?"
"Oh, right, you haven't met Kaido yet..."
Chrollo's right arm was cocked back, charged to the limit. He aimed right at Crocodile's face and swung again.
"Only Haki transcends all!"
BOOM—
A terrifying sonic boom rang out again, ripples of shockwaves spreading from the point of impact.
Crocodile's right cheek was nearly deformed by the punch. Blood sprayed from his nose, and two teeth went flying into the air.
Immediately after...
His body turned into a cannonball, spinning as he flew backward.
BANG!
CRASH!
BANG!
He plowed a trench of white dust nearly a hundred meters long.
Watching Crocodile struggle to stand up in the sand pit, wiping blood from his nose with his face swollen high, Chrollo couldn't help but think...
This is exactly why...
This is why, aside from the three Admirals, Logia users tend to plateau in the late game.
Because these nature-type fruit users rely too much on their powers and neglect their own physical development.
They forget...
That battles between pirates ultimately come down to the numbers.
"You can never stand on the stage of the truly strong relying solely on Devil Fruit tricks..."
"You have to combine abilities, create combos, and enhance your own combat methods..."
"In the end, all strength must return to the self."
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