Chapter 940: The Strongest Woman, the Best Mother
The aunt's attitude towards her son and life aroused the dissatisfaction of the wizards.
So in the fourth match, Gray handled it cleanly and neatly.
This was a battle between the Ice Knights and the Biscuit Soldiers. Gray and Cracker were like two generals commanding the soldiers to fight. Under their command, the iron-hard soldiers on the ring chopped each other with their swords in their hands.
However, even though the fighting styles of both sides are similar, the gap in hard power cannot be made up by ability.
Cracker, one of the 'Four Generals', is a person who has eaten the Biscuit Fruit and can create biscuit soldiers of different types with controllable hardness without exceeding his ability limit.
As the 10th son of Big Mom, he did not inherit his mother's inhuman defense. Instead, he is very afraid of pain. Because of this, he usually hides among the soldiers he made with biscuits. Few people know his true identity. Even the portrait on the bounty is just the soldier he made, not him.
The biscuit soldiers' weakness is water. They will become soft when they come into contact with water. Although Gray's ice cannot moisten them, it is of water attribute after all, so it has a certain restraining effect. What's more, it is ice from the demon world that can freeze everything it touches.
Even without considering the compatibility of the two, and only considering the hardness, the ice that Gray is now making is very stable. For modeling magic, stability means hardness. The hardness of these ice cubes is several times stronger than that of the cookies made by crackers!
"Ice Demon Zero's Broken Bow!!"
With Gray's loud shout, a silver-white arrow shot out from the air and pierced through a dozen biscuit soldiers who were blocking the arrow's trajectory.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! …
Only after the last soldier was shattered did this gorgeous and unparalleled ice arrow steadily hit Cracker hiding behind the soldiers, freezing him into half an ice sculpture.
The winner is decided!
The four sweet generals were all defeated. This was the biggest blow the Big Mom Pirates had ever suffered.
However, now, they have no time to indulge in this blow, because their "Emperor" has already stepped onto the stage, ready to use his own strength to regain the lost face of his four children and the shame of his own defeat some time ago.
There was a flash of light on the ring, and Irene made a grand appearance!
Irene, the strongest female wizard in the Fairy Tail world; Charlotte Linlin, the strongest female pirate in the pirate world.
Their second confrontation will begin under the attention of thousands of people.
All over the world, people from every force cheered up and prepared to watch the final showdown between the two forces.
"The news of the last battle between the Wizards and the Big Mom Pirates came too suddenly. By the time we knew about it, the two had already finished fighting! Fortunately, we finally caught up with the live broadcast this time, so it's not a loss!"
"Can we finally see it? This battle to decide who will be the strongest woman in the world!"
Although Irene won the last battle between the two, outsiders do not know the specific process, so it is impossible to be sure whether Irene won the battle or Big Mom lost narrowly.
And in the eyes of everyone, last time Big Mom knew nothing about Irene's strength, and that result might not have been without the factor of underestimating the enemy, but this time both sides have a basic understanding of each other's strength, so how the battle will evolve becomes confusing.
In addition, they had just seen Big Mom defeat the legendary Roger of the old times not long ago. Maybe her strength had improved after that battle, so the outcome of this battle would be even more unpredictable.
"mama~mama~"
The aunt held Napoleon in her hand, stepped on Zeus, and was followed by Prometheus. She looked down at Irene from a high position and said, "Let's settle the score for defeating my four useless sons and daughters in a row, and for robbing my Cake Island last time!"
However, Irene was not at all panicked. The oncoming domineering aura was like a breeze blowing over the hills, and it was difficult to shake her in the slightest.
Irene showed no fear at all, but silently released the magic power in her body. The huge magic power, like a mountain or an ocean, instantly offset the pressure brought by the domineering color, and even showed signs of suppressing it in the opposite direction.
"Save the useless nonsense. If your confidence is swollen because of your victory over that dead man and you can't see your own strength clearly, I don't mind defeating you once more! In addition..."
Irene raised her head, and under the wide magic hat, her bright eyes stared at the aunt in front of her, and every move she made was full of elegance.
The corners of her lips curled up slightly, she straightened her back, and said with a hint of pride and sarcasm: "Although I don't have much time, and I have made some small mistakes in the past, I think I am much more successful than you in being a 'mother'!"
“…”
Are you serious about what you say?
The mages who knew the inside story were all speechless, and at the same time, they looked at Irene on the ring with an extremely speechless expression, or glanced at Erza beside them.
It was unclear how they were getting along now, but everyone in the guild knew exactly what kind of relationship this mother and daughter had in the past.
This is mainly because a certain novelist who wishes to remain anonymous wrote everything in the famous short story "I Was Pregnant for 400 Years Before I Was Born" in the Kingdom of Fiore through mapping.
"So, it's obvious that she didn't do much herself, right? Where does she get the confidence to say these things?" Several background extras from the public household complained in a low voice, expressing the thoughts of others.
"You don't understand, do you? This is called making harsh words, showing off one's power, belittling the enemy and praising oneself. It's a kind of psychological tactic!"
Kira wanted to show off. He pushed his nonexistent glasses and started to talk nonsense in front of everyone. "Before fighting with someone, you can talk about the advantages you have over the enemy. This can create an advantage on the scene. While boosting your own confidence, it can also put a certain amount of psychological pressure on the opponent. If the opponent's mind is disturbed by this, it is easy for him to perform abnormally, which will eventually lead to failure in the battle!"
"Psychological suggestion? So that's how it is!!"
Everyone suddenly realized what was going on, and looked at Irene with a little more admiration and respect: "Irene-san is such a master at manipulating people's hearts? So amazing!!"
Seeing that everyone was about to believe it, Erza quickly shouted, "I'm telling you... don't listen to Kira's nonsense! Although that tactic does exist, mom would never bother to use such a despicable method! Over the years, I've only seen Kira do this before starting a battle with others..."
"Hey, hey, hey... Whose fighting method are you saying is despicable?!"
Kira retorted unconvincedly, secretly complaining in his heart: Erza is now calling Irene "Mom" so smoothly?! Is she secretly putting herself on the second page of the family tree while we are not paying attention?
"So, isn't Erin-san trying to use psychological tactics?"
"Of course not!"
"In other words, she really thinks she's a better mother than that fat woman?"
"I'm better than her!"
Erza's tone was extremely certain, and she straightened her back proudly as she spoke. The posture was exactly the same as Irene's movement on the ring just now.
They are truly mother and daughter, the scale of the work is equally astonishing!
Kira was shocked. "You haven't been drugged, have you? How long have you been together? I remember someone once said that the old man is the only one who can be considered her parent!"
"Really? That should be what Laxus said, right?" Erza was so shameless that she refused to admit it without blushing. She had already learned three points of Kira's essence.
Kira couldn't help but give her a thumbs up.
In the ring, the battle has begun.
Zeus released thunder and lightning, Prometheus released fire, and the entire battlefield seemed to have turned into a world of thunder and lightning and fire.
Under the red and blue curtain of thunder and fire, the aunt held a machete several meters long, and Napoleon slashed at Irene arrogantly. The three of them cooperated well and easily exerted the power of '1+1+1>>3'.
It can be said that in a one-on-one fight, there are only a handful of people in the pirate world who can defeat Big Mom.
In fact, Big Mom's swordsmanship is not that great, but she is very powerful and domineering. Even if she relies solely on brute force, one strike of her sword is enough to break mountains and split seas. If she uses the "Sea Domination" move developed based on the "Spear of Elbaf", the power will be even greater.
Unfortunately, all her fighting methods were restrained by Irene!
Irene simply tapped the ground with her magic wand, and lightly added a 'source of water' into the air.
The next moment, the surging magic power instantly turned into a huge wave, which continued to surge and rush on the ring, directly extinguishing the raging fire created by Prometheus.
"It's sea water?!"
"That woman can actually summon sea water?"
"What kind of ability is this?!"
A group of pirates, like country bumpkins who had never seen the world, stared blankly at the changes on the ring with horror on their faces.
In the world of pirates, powers beyond ordinary cognition basically come from Devil Fruits. But among all the Devil Fruit ability users, there are only a handful of people who can truly control sea water. This is mainly because sea water is the natural nemesis of the ability users!
So far, there are only two people who can freely control the sea water with clear records: one is Shiki, the golden lion, one of the legends of the last era, who ate the Float-Float Fruit; the other is Trafalgar Law, the supernova who just appeared in the Grand Line this year, who ate the Ope-no-Ope-Falgar Fruit.
Even someone like Whitebeard, who can use the Tremor-Tremor Fruit to cause a tsunami, is ultimately not truly controlling the sea water, because he cannot control the flow of the sea water in detail.
But the scene happening before their eyes was clearly beyond their understanding!
Irene was seen standing gracefully on the stage. The surging sea water around her was even more terrifying than the sea in the New World, but not a single drop of water could get within three feet of her body.
Her eyes turned, and as her gaze moved, she was able to control the sea water as if it were her arm, and it looked so easy.
It’s simply... just like the legendary sea god!
