Codex Pirates

Chapter 268 Overheating

Devil Fruit Specialty, [Overheating].

[Superheating]: Continue heating to completely evaporate the water in the steam to form superheated steam.

William was able to rely on steam as power because the volume of water would expand more than a thousand times after boiling and vaporizing. The steam was compressed by William in his body, which could provide powerful energy.

But the premise of all this is that William's body has enough "strength" and can lock the expanded steam. Before mastering the skill of "life return", William can only raise the temperature of the steam to about 100 degrees, that is, Because he couldn't lock the steam.

If you want to use a metaphor, William’s body at that time was like a steamer for cooking. When the water boiled and the gas expanded, it would be easy to blow off the lid of the pot and slip away. In this case, no matter how heated it was, It is also difficult to continue to increase the temperature of the steam. What can be done is to continue to add water, and then sit back and watch the steam slip away.

This also leads to the increase of William's temperature and the speed of vaporization, which is slow and gradual.

So in the beginning, even though William could easily diffuse the steam into a large space when he used the steam fruit, in fact, it just looked amazing, and the actual power was not that great. The range is extended, and the temperature continues to drop, which is similar to helping people steam.

After mastering the "return of life", William found a way to prevent the gas from escaping, and could control the gas to gather in the body. In this sealed space, it is equivalent to sealing the steamer with various means. On the one hand, the temperature can continue to rise , on the other hand, the energy generated by gas expansion can also act on itself.

This is the origin of William's devil fruit specialty, [Steam Power].

However, after reaching a certain point in the improvement made by relying on "return of life", William faced a new bottleneck, which was the strength of the "container" that accommodated the steam.

The gas expands, the steam pressure continues to increase, and because the gas outlet is locked, once the pressure exceeds the ultimate strength of the container, it will cause an explosion.

Under such circumstances, William set his sights on one of the six moves—the iron block.

The profound meaning of the iron block is to drum up strength in a well-trained body, so that the user's body has a hardness comparable to steel, so that even bullets and knives are difficult to break through.

As a user of natural fruit ability, William is not very eager for the iron block's ability to ignore bullets and knives. What he really cares about is the iron block's ability to improve body strength.

The so-called "overheating" is a move developed by William combining the ability of devil fruit, life return, and iron block.

Use iron blocks to enhance body strength, use life return to lock steam, and use fruit ability to continue heating.

Moreover, during this process, the iron block and life return combined, and after the steam was locked, the heat loss became extremely slow, which made the temperature of William's body continue to increase rapidly, and the speed of vaporization and expansion of water was much faster than before. In the state of [overheating], the temperature of William's body has reached more than a thousand degrees, and he has stronger explosive and destructive power than usual.

Wisdom and brains seem to be unable to provide any assistance to combat, but in fact, they are catalysts and bonus tools for combat power. The use of devil fruits, different combat methods in the face of enemies with various abilities, and the integration of your own All kinds of skills, so as to draw inferences from one instance, and even integrate them, all of which require brainstorming.

William himself is an extremely flexible minded person, good at drawing inferences from one instance and comprehending by analogy, so he obtained the specialty of [Comprehension].

Smart people will definitely become weaker because of their flexible minds and good thinking, which is nothing but wishful thinking of anti-intellectualists who don't like to use their brains.

Although the Golden Lion Shiji was surprised by William's sudden change in image, he still disapproved and sarcastically said, "Just because of this?"

Shi Ji floated in the air, his body getting higher and higher: "You are in the sky now, this is my home field!"

The golden lion Shiji raised his hand, and the entire island was affected by his fruit ability to float in the sky. Therefore, as his fluttering fruit ability was activated, the sea outside the village suddenly became turbulent, turning into huge waves and rolling towards William on the shore.

JET-moon step!

There was a loud bang, as if an explosion had occurred under William's feet. The heat wave was transpiring, gravel was flying, and steam was overflowing, and William had disappeared in place.

The next moment, William had already appeared in front of Shiji, the golden lion above, and slashed at his waist.

Although the golden lion Shiji was astonished, his reaction was not slow. He quickly raised his right leg and used the saber under his feet to block William's attack.

The moment the swords met, the Golden Lion Shiji gritted his teeth. William has the specialty of [Strength], and with the current state of [Overheating], his strength is unimaginable. The Golden Lion did not expect this, so he confronted William head-on. , bent his knees involuntarily, and quickly activated the devil fruit ability, flew backwards, and let go of his strength.

When William appeared suddenly before, the Golden Lion Shiji thought it was caused by his explosive jumping. He originally wanted to use the flying ability of Piao Piao Guo to use his own strengths to attack the other's weaknesses, so as to widen the distance from William.

Unexpectedly, William followed him like a shadow. After the attack just now was blocked by Shiji, he didn't fall down. Instead, he stepped on the air with both feet. Quickly catch up with the golden lion Shiji who is flying with the ability of fluttering fruit.

In fact, William's steam fruit could have made him "float" in the air. Not long after he ate the steam fruit, William had already used the principle of rising hot air and lower water vapor density to increase his air stagnation. Ability, just floating and flying are two different things.

William, who used to float only by the characteristics of steam, is like a balloon. Although he can stay in the air, if he relies on this alone, he has no mobility at all. Therefore, he uses the principle of steam injection to provide thrust to control his movements in the air.

Later, after William mastered the moon steps, he combined the two to truly realize "flying" - he can move freely in the air.

Therefore, on the entire battlefield, whether it was William's side or the Golden Lion Shiji's group, they all saw wonders that were hard to see in a lifetime. Every time, there will be a harsh friction sound, and even sparks will be rubbed out.

Two figures, one golden and one red, continued to walk through the sky, and the steam emitted from William's body even drew a white line behind them.

The leaders of the two parties fought directly in the sky!