To most, it would seem that Ace gained insight into the Law of Fire’s Profound Mystery of the Essence of Fire the easiest and quickest, but that wasn’t the truth.

  Ace had spent so long fog on learning to trol and manipute his fmes in his st life that the moment he gained access to his affinity, his prehension of said profound mystery had already reached the level of a prime saint, meaning he was only half a step away from pletion.

  In actuality, the profound mystery he found the easiest to prehend was actually the profound mystery of explosions. He didn’t uand how or why, but to him, it was as easy as breathing.

  The hardest parts about prehending a profound mystery were getting started, and taking that final step taking it to true pletion.

  The profound mysteries of essend fire-body were both mysteries he had gained insights into as a result of his st life.

  As for the profound mystery of heat, it was something he had initially gained insight into after Arianna showed him the list of profound mysteries in this life. Still, his suddenly gaining insight into it stemmed from the impacts of his death of his st life.

  Him being burnt to death by Akainu, despite being the holder of the fire logia-based devil fruit… How could he be reciled?

  Still, sihen, his progress had been minimal. Granted, he hadn’t been fog mu it, but still, it couldn’t even begin to pare to his progress into the mystery of explosion.

  It had only been around a year since he first gained insight into this profound mystery, but his insights into said mystery had already reached that of a mid-staged saint. His speed was simply bzing, but now…

  “I was wrong…

  This is how it should be.

  It’s like this…

  No, like this…

  Hahaha, so this is how I do it!” Ace ughed hysterically to himself as he tinuously reflected on the ws of fire, all but fetting about the existence of the rest of the world.

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  “Where is that brat?” Wukong asked as he gnced down at the war going oh him.

  It had been six hours since Ace had disappeared, and the war had long siten underway.

  “Do you think there’s a problem?” Linley frowned.

  He didn’t for one sed believe Ace would run away, but still, he couldn’t help but be slightly worried that something had happened.

  Before any of the others could respond though, Leona, the only oh the ability to unicate with Ace, began r and growling at them, trying to expin. Unfortunately, none of them could uand what she was trying to say. Well, almost none of them…

  As a magical beast himself, Bebe was able to transte for Linley what Leona was trying to say.

  Linley’s eyes widened in disbelief before a helpless smile appeared on his face. “Apparently, Ace is currently experieng a bout of sudden enlighte.”

  As soon as his words left his mouth, the faces of Jordon and Kaymin showed nothing but shock. Sudden enlighte was something very few got to experien their lifetimes. Even they, with their extensive life experiences, had never experie.

  Their shock quickly turo envy before finally transf into helplessness.

  “Maybe he really is the son of heaven,” Kaymin sighed.

  Hearing that, even Linley had to agree. What incredible luck did oo have to experience sudden enlighte right before a big fight where losing could very well meah?

  The only ones not surprised by this sudden development were Wukong and Leona, both of whom had long siteo Ace’s heaven-defying acts.

  “Son of Heaven this King’s arse!” Wukong snorted. “Couldn’t he have picked a better time to sit bad rex?”

  Those around him couldn’t help but look at Wukong helplessly. Who didn’t know that you couldn’t choose when you would be enlightened?

  Still, they didn’t say anything as they all uood his . Although it had only been a few hours sihe battle began, and till now, it would appear that they were the ones who had a slight advah their side having taken out more of their ehan their enemies had of their soldiers, it did nothing but put a slight dent in their oppo’s numbers.

  Still, there were two things that they had to admit that they were impressed by. The first was the battlefield being held down by Killian and Hogg.

  Though they were fag the smallest force of the four battlefronts, with an opposing force of no more than 10,000. Those 10,000 were led by six of the Church’s two-winged angels and six of the Cult’s two-winged fallen angels.

  That was 12 experts with the power of a general, a, Killian and Hogg, on their own, had mao whittle their enemy’s numbers down by a third.

  Hogg’s power was simply unreasonable. With the war bde in his hand, he was like a one-man army. Every ssh of his sword would kill at least ten soldiers.

  But Killian was the one who really shocked everyone. Six of the church’s angels moved to surround him to trap him in their angel battle-formation, a Killian appeared wholly unbothered.

  It had to be remembered that Killian, along with Leona and Alissa, had already been trapped itle formation of the church’s fallen angels, and had it not been for Ace’s arrival at that time, things could’ve ended horribly.

  Still, even though it had only been a little over a month sihen, the progress Killian had made sihen could only be described as heaven-defying.

  Siting Alissa back, that was the first time Killian had e close to losing her, and it was that which made him vow to himself to never let it get that bad again. That vow spurred Killian along, allowing his prehension to take aniant step forward.

  inally, Killian believed that the Earth’s Throbbing Pulse of the World rofound mystery that simply allowed him to borrow the infinite might of the world by merging his pulse with its pulse, but then he remembered the osciltory effect it granted his attacks.

  By fog on those vibrations, Killian’s might had almost doubled. If before, in terms of raw power, Killian could be said to be knog on the door of the saint realm, now, he was standing firmly above some weaker saints.

  The moment he had been trapped in the formation, before Hogg had even gotten the ce to attempt to save him, Killian casually smashed his battle-axe into the walls of the formation.

  The result of which brought no small amount of shock to those watg as the angel closest to him colpsed on the ground, his iurning into bloody mush.

  Unfortunately, his prehension did nothing to increase his speed or defence, making him something of a gss on. Or at least he would be to saints or those few mortals fast enough to force him into a er.

  Unfortunately, although each of the two-winged angels and fallen angels had the power of a general, their abilities were pretty banced, meaning that whether it was raw power, enduranost importantly, speed, they were all very banced.

  They were signifitly faster than Killian, but not to the point where they could suppress him with their speed, especially when they all khey couldn’t afford to take a siack from Killian’s battle axe without forfeiting their lives.

  As powerful saints themselves, Fain and the others were easily able tnise Killian’s weakness, which was why, as much as they hated to admit it, Killian couldn’t be sidered a saint-level expert.

  Unfortunately for them, it also meant that, just like Kaymin and Olivier in the past, and even Hogg now, Killian could be sidered invincible amongst mortals.

  Thankfully, Killian and Hogg could only be in one pce at a time. This battlefield was, without a shadow of a doubt, ohat they stood no ce of quering. The only positive was that their ordinairy subordinates khat as well, and instead to win, they were now solely fog on deying Killian and Hogg by as much as possible.

  If either of them were allowed to leave to go and support one of the other battlefields, that one would iably end up with the exact same result as this one.

  The sed thing that had mao impress Emperor Jordon and the others was the battlefield with Cirulus.

  As previously mentioned, Cirulus had reached the peak of the ninth rank and prehended impose, making him easily as strong as any general, but that was only the beginning. Ace had also taught him how to use each of the six teiques of Rokushiki, making him an especially powerful general, but his biggest improvement was in his swordsmanship.

  pared to his former self, he could be said to be a pletely new warrior. Siraining with Ace, Cirulus basically went to Ace to be abused. Till now, Cirulus barely felt his improvements, but that was only because the gulf between Ad him was so big that even with all his improvements, the gap had barely been closed, if at all.

  Still, these enerals weren’t Ace. He single-handedly mao kill one and injure another when fighting two-ohout suffering so much as a single injury.

  Still, as impressive a feat as that was, that wasn’t what impressed Linley and the others. Especially as their battlefield had an army of over 100,000, eight of whom were generals. No, the thing that impressed them was the tactics that he employed.

  Despite being severely outnumbered by over five to one, Cirulus used a bination of brawn and wit to whittle his oppo’s numbers down by over a third.

  Granted, a big part of that was thanks to the magicite ons. Still, the tactics he used to employ them forced the enemies into a er, with them not daring to approach easily for fear of being blown away.

  Unfortunately, Cirulus khat this wouldn’t st forever. Eventually, their enemies would undoubtedly resort to using their superior o overrun them. He just hoped he could reduce their numbers so that, at that point, it would be more of a fair fight.

  To make things worse, the other two battlefields didn’t have a ander with Cirulus’ intelligence or the raw power of Killian and Hogg. As such, it was only a matter of time before they were forced to retreat.

  Unless Hogg and Killian mao win their war and make it to these battlefields.

  All the saints watg from their front-row seats uood it was a race. If Killian and Hogg could win their battles ao the other two battlefields in time, then it would be a win for Ace’s side; if not, it was their loss.

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