In One Piece With The Barrier Fruit

After the final war, the remnants of the Red Hair Pirates took care of the severely damaged Straw Hat Pirates for a while.

During this time, Shanks took over Rayleigh's teacher position and continued to teach Luffy, teaching him conqueror's infusion and future observation haki.

But pure teaching alone wouldn't allow Luffy to master these powerful techniques. He needed more fighting and training.

But now that the entire world has been unified by Basire. Apart from going to war with the new World Government, Luffy seems to be unable to find any strong opponent.

For this reason, Shanks had no choice but to guide Luffy to some non-affiliated countries for experience.

Fortunately, in addition to having Shanks as a sparring partner, Garp also often fights with the Straw Hats and secretly trains them under the pretext of hunting down the Straw Hat Pirates.

But these battles were not life and death battles, so Luffy couldn't master conqueror's infusion for a long time.

This time in the Laugh Tale Landing Battle, Shanks and Rayleigh did not let Luffy fight stronger people.

Now that the world has changed, Luffy's Sun God Nika Fruit has not yet awakened, and he has not even mastered conqueror's infusion. This is somewhat disappointing to everyone in the Roger Pirates.

They all already felt that they had been deceived by Joy Boy, and Roger turned himself in to start the era of great pirates for nothing.

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In the arena.

Luffy had already entered the fourth gear and was fighting fiercely with Sabo's Fire God form.

Sabo's Armament Haki is no worse than Luffy's, and Conqueror's Haki is almost useless against someone as strong as Sabo before he learns conqueror's infusion.

Therefore, there is not much difference between the two in terms of devil fruit and Haki.

However, due to the appearance of Basire, Luffy experienced very few life and death battles, and his growth was completely unable to compare with Sabo.

After all, Sabo grew up rapidly in the final battle of South Blue and gained Admiral-level combat power.

Seeing Luffy being beaten by Fire God Sabo in Gear 4, Basire also showed a vague smile.

The strength of this protagonist seems to be a bit lacking.

How could the Rubber Fruit defeat Sabo's Fire God form without being promoted to the Sun God Nika form?

"Dragon, do you think your son can grow up quickly and surpass your students?"

On the floating island, Basire asked Dragon with a smile. On one side was his son and on the other was his capable student, but now Sabo seemed to be stronger.

"Sabo is strong now, but Straw Hat Boy has higher potential. Don't you know about the Sun God Nika?"

Before Dragon could answer, a huge figure spoke, Bartholomew Kuma firmly believed that the Sun God Nika was the immeasurable drum of liberation.

Although Sabo is also his student and a user of a god level devil fruit, no matter if it is Straw Hat Luffy's Sun God Nika form or Conqueror's Haki.

Luffy has better potential than Sabo!

Once Straw Hat Luffy awakens Sun God Nika Fruit and masters conqueror's infusion, Sabo will be no match for him.

"Luffy is so lacking in fighting experience."

Dragon added calmly. His son went to sea almost at the same time as Basire and took the same route. But all the strong pirates along the way were dealt with by Basire.

So Luffy did not become much stronger before he participated in the Summit War. After two years of special training, he set sail for the second time and directly encountered the final battle against the government.

Therefore, Luffy has hardly grown much, relying entirely on the foundation laid by Garp, the teachings of Rayleigh, and the strengthening of Shanks during this period.

He has spent more time training than going to sea.

In the ring, Luffy was beaten so hard by Sabo that he started to feel desperate. It seemed a bit like the first time he fought against Katakuri in the original story, he was crushed in all directions.

"Sabo, your Haki is actually harder than mine!"

'Kong Gatling!'

Luffy couldn't believe that after such difficult special training, he couldn't even compare to Sabo, which made him very uncomfortable.

Countless giant rubber fists covered in armament haki attacked Sabo at extremely high speeds.

"Don't underestimate any opponent! Luffy!"

Sabo scolded the overconfident Luffy. This stupid brother really thought he could defeat all the strong men in the sea after just a few years of training.

This guy must be woken up today.

'Vulcan Dragon Claw!'

At this time, Sabo, like the giant Buddha form of Sengoku, transformed into a giant god surrounded by flames. He blasted back with one claw, and evading the countless rubber fists, he forcibly hit Luffy's face, smashing him into the huge ring.

"So strong!!"

'Fourth gear: snake-man!'

After being beaten down he could only change into a more flexible form, with one fist extending and spreading, attacking Sabo with various tricky attacks.

"Although your fists are hard to predict with this move, but your arms have spread so long, you are looking for death!"

Sabo looked at the rubber arms all over the sky and immediately ignored the fast-flying rubber fist and attacked the arm directly.

He directly grabbed the long rubber arm, and then threw Luffy up.

Under the huge power and flames of his Vulcan form, Luffy was tossed around by Sabo like a meteor hammer and hit the ground hard again.

Sabo used his dragon claw move again, so Luffy could only defend and could no longer attack.

Although the Straw Hat boy is very resilient and has been able to withstand counterattacks, he cannot maintain fourth gear for a long time, which is a huge flaw.

After a fierce battle, Sabo, who knew Luffy very well, immediately cut through his attacks like a sharp knife and successfully defeated his little brother.

"Sabo wins!"

With the referee's announcement, the entire venue became lively, and Basire also applauded. It seems that today's protagonist, Luffy, still failed to release his potential and awaken the Sun God Nika form, and even failed to master conqueror's infusion.

Luffy was dragged to get treatment by Sabo, and the Laugh Tale journey of the Straw Hat Pirates was basically over.

Immediately after this match, the battle between Shiryu and Zoro was about to begin, which also promised to be a very exciting battle.

After being thoroughly defeated by Mihawk, can Zoro's three-sword style cut Shiryu's diamond defense now?

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