As Oven withdrew his arm, Tesla seized the opportunity. Taking advantage of Oven's blurred vision, Tesla slowly conjured a transparent bubble with both hands.
With Tesla's fruit power infused, the bubbles continued to expand slowly.
Tesla attempted to use the massive bubble film to fully restrain Oven. Once Oven was enclosed in the bubble film, Tesla had other means to subdue him.
However, because of Oven's huge body size, it took some time to create such a large bubble.
During this time, Oven also gradually regained his clear vision.
"Damn, resorting to dirty tricks, huh? You got the bubble fruit or something?"
Oven expressed his dissatisfaction with Tesla's sneak attack.
But as Oven looked on, he was suddenly taken aback. In front of Tesla, there stood a massive bubble.
"It's done," Tesla said, satisfied.
"What are you?"
Oven asked, a little surprised. But Tesla didn't intend to waste time answering. Without a word, he lifted the huge bubble and threw it towards Oven.
Tesla aimed to trap Oven directly, catching him off guard as it was his first encounter with the bubble fruit. In a panic, Oven didn't know how to defend himself and simply assumed a two-handed boxing posture.
Oven aimed to smash the bubble directly with his fist. In his perception, the bubble seemed very fragile, and with its large size, it should easily break upon impact.
However, to Oven's surprise, his fists pierced through the bubble the moment they made contact, his attack passing through without effect.
"Hehe, you're quite cooperative,"
Tesla chuckled. Despite their similar appearance, his bubbles could possess different characteristics depending on Tesla's specific usage.
Penetration, water content, strength, and more—these were all things Tesla could control and changed. Now, if Tesla wanted to trap Oven, the bubbles were naturally very penetrating.
"What? How could this be?"
Oven exclaimed. However, he had no second chance, as Tesla swiftly trapped his entire body in the bubble.
A massive bubble floated in the air, with Oven trapped inside. He could move, but getting out wasn't easy.
Inside the bubble, Oven continued to attack with all his might, trying to destroy it.
"Don't waste your effort. It's impossible to destroy it from the inside. The bubble can absorb attack power,"
Tesla said in a triumphant tone.
But despite saying that, Tesla wasn't entirely sure. After all, he didn't plan to fully control Oven with this trick; he just wanted to buy time and put pressure on him.
Tesla's true strategy was to continuously stack bubbles, layering them inside one another, and then transforming them into water molecules.
Tesla planned to flood most of Oven's body with water, slowing down his movements and making it more difficult for him to destroy the bubble underwater.
Tesla's mind was clear, and he wasted no time. He immediately created many small bubbles within the main bubble.
As countless bubbles burst, a drop of water dripped onto Oven's body, causing him to feel a little panic.
"Water? It's water!"
Oven became nervous. As a devil fruit user, he was inherently afraid of water.
Even though it wasn't sea water, being submerged in fresh water still had a limiting effect on fruit users if most of their body was submerged.
"Damn it, I need to think of something fast!"
Oven panicked, disregarding caution. He immediately sent a surge of heat throughout his entire body.
Under Oven's intense heat, the huge bubble slowly expanded and became very unstable.
"The heat expands and the cold shrinks,"
Tesla remarked in surprise, quickly stabilizing his bubbles.
Due to the effect of thermal expansion and contraction, when the huge bubble expanded to a certain extent, it broke apart, and Oven jumped out of it in a thrilling manner.
"It was risky," Oven said with a happy grin.
If too much water is inside, it will be much harder for him to exert his strength.
"I accidentally fell into your trap. I was careless, but it won't happen again,"
Oven admitted.
Tesla felt it was a pity that the first attack had been the easiest to succeed, knowing it would be impossible to use the same strategy later on.
"There's no other way. I wanted to end the battle quickly, but it didn't work," Tesla admitted with a hint of helplessness.
"Are you new to the Whitebeard Pirates? With your strength, you should consider joining our Big Mom Pirates. Mom would definitely put you to good use"
Oven jokes, trying to recruit Tesla to his side.
"I heard Big Mom uses her children as tools. I'm afraid she'd be even more ruthless to outsiders. Forget it, I'm not interested," Tesla replied, shaking his head.
"That's not true about Mom!" Oven retorted sharply, then launched an attack on Tesla.
Oven doesn't use fancy moves. His attacks are simple and brutal, yet each strike carries intense heat.
This heat is lethal enough to melt metal instantly, but Tesla covered his arms and fists with a layer of bubble film.
Tesla deliberately maximized the thermal insulation properties of the bubble film. In doing so, he could completely ignore Oven's heat attacks.
However, since Tesla's physical abilities weren't very strong, he found himself evenly matched with Oven, and neither side seemed to gain an advantage.
...…
Meanwhile, not far from the clash between Oven and Tesla, another battle raged fiercely in a different area.
"Jinbei, I didn't expect you to truly betray Mother and join the Whitebeard Pirates. Sadly, Mother valued you so highly,"
The Minister of Candy, Perrospero, said to Jinbei in angry yet sad tone
"Perrospero, as a member of the Fishman Island, it's only natural for me to protect Fishman Island. If Big Mom truly values me, then she should protect Fishman Island,"
Jinbei said solemnly.
"Ahhh, I've said it many times, it was a civil war on Fishman Island. How can you ask mother to intervene in a civil war?"
Perrospero responded.
"Humph!"
Jinbei snorted coldly. "If it's just a civil war, this old man can handle it, if it's just Hodie Jones and Van der Decken IX. But Big Mom allows the Chocolate minister to mix with them."
Speaking of this, Jinbei couldn't help but feel angry. If it weren't for Whitebeard, Fishman Island might have fallen into Big Mom's hands
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TO BE CONTINUED
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