60: Chapter 60 Ace actually compressed the flames to this extent?

Punk Hazard, Ice Region. Located deep underground in the former Marine Science Unit's Third Research Institute.

"Beep, beep, beep! Warning! Outer patrol unit has lost all vital signs! The first line of defense has been breached!"

In the central monitoring room, red alarm lights were flashing wildly.

A man wearing a white biohazard suit with a pair of ram horns on his head, his body composed of gas, was staring intently at the surveillance footage on the screen.

The former chief scientist of the Marine Science Unit, the mad scientist with a bounty of 300 million Berries, "M" Caesar Clown!

"Impossible! This is absolutely impossible!"

Caesar watched the surveillance footage of that Straw Hat wearing a red vest kicking dozens of Centaurs away with a single blow, and cold sweat poured down him like a waterfall.

He knew all too well the terrifying strength and lawless conduct of Carl and his crew.

If these monsters broke into the laboratory and discovered his secret for producing SAD, he wouldn't have enough lives to pay for it, even if he had ten!

"That bastard Joker! He must be trying to make a fool of me!"

Caesar gritted his teeth and scrambled up from the floor, his eyes filled with the madness and hysteria of someone driven into a corner.

"Shurorororo! Since you, Carl, insist on coming here to die, don't blame this genius for being ruthless!"

Caesar lunged at the control console and smashed open a red skull-shaped button covered by a glass case!

"I am a Logia-type ability user who ate the Gas-Gas Fruit! I am the greatest scientist in the world!"

Caesar frantically pressed the button with a hideous expression, roaring into the microphone like a demon:

"Release the ultimate killing weapon!"

"Shinokuni—full activation!!!"

"Rumble—!" Following Caesar's crazy command! In the very center of the ice-and-fire island, from that bottomless chasm, a piercing sound of shattering glass suddenly erupted!

Immediately after, a massive, ultra-high concentration slime gas cloud, like a giant purple mountain, burst forth from the ground!

This gas cloud seemed to possess a life of its own; wherever it passed, whether it was hard rock, burning flames, or frozen snowy mountains, everything was instantly corroded into gray-white, plaster-like dead matter!

"What... what the hell is that?!" Smoker, who had just stepped onto the shore, felt his scalp tingle as he watched the purple gas tsunami bearing down on them with overwhelming force.

"Damn it! High-concentration compressed nerve gas!" Smoker waved his hands frantically and roared: "Retreat! Get back to the ship!"

Carl didn't even flick his cigarette ash, just casting a casual glance at it.

"Ace." Carl exhaled a smoke ring and said indifferently, "This kind of environmentally polluting trash is really an eyesore."

"Understood! Uncle!"

An arrogant sneer curled onto Ace's lips. Instead of retreating, he took a big step forward!

"Perfect, I've been blowing in the wind at sea for half a month, my bones are almost rusting!"

Ace slowly raised his hands, and from his deep eyes, a blinding, pure white light erupted like a scorching sun!

"Boom!!!" A terrifyingly high temperature, capable of instantly vaporizing even space itself, erupted from Ace's body!

Ace held nothing back, directly compressing the power of the Mera Mera no Mi to its limit, fusing it with the max-level Ryou technique taught by Carl!

"Entei Secret Technique: Great Sun White Fire Pillar!!!"

Ace thrust both palms forward! "Rumble!!!"

A terrifying tornado of fire, over a hundred meters in diameter and glowing with a pure, incandescent white, rose from the ground!

The white flames, carrying the extreme heat capable of burning the sky and boiling the sea, acted like an ancient fire dragon, opening its bloody maw and violently devouring the sky-filling "Shinokuni" gas tsunami!

A miracle, or rather, a crushing level of physical counter, unfolded at this moment!

"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!" The high-concentration gas, touted as lethal upon contact, the moment it touched Ace's incandescent white flames, erupted in a series of violent chain explosions, as if it were ignited gasoline!

The poison gas not only failed to extinguish the flames, it became the perfect accelerant for the white fire!

"Burn for me!!!" Ace roared, outputting his Haki crazily!

In less than ten seconds! All the poison gas was completely incinerated into nothing but white smoke under this terrifying high temperature!

"Hiss—!" Seeing this scene, Smoker gasped, his eyes nearly popping out of his head.

"Fire Fist Ace... actually compressed his flames to this extent?! This temperature, it might even exceed Akainu's magma?!!!"

Only now did Smoker truly realize what kind of terrifying value the training and education Carl mentioned actually held!

In the monitoring room, Caesar Clown watched the "Shinokuni" on the screen, which had been completely burned to ashes, and stood there dumbfounded, as if struck by lightning.

"You've got to be kidding?!" Caesar rubbed his eyes frantically, letting out a pig-like scream.

"My most perfect masterpiece! The high-concentration poison gas that I spent four years of painstaking effort to extract was actually burned away by that brat with the Mera Mera no Mi in one go?!"

"How is this possible!!! How could his flames have such a high temperature!!!"

Caesar's worldview completely collapsed at this moment! His scientific weapons, which he was so proud of, were like a ridiculous toy in the face of absolute, overwhelming violence!

"Bastard! Bastard! Bastard!" Caesar hysterically smashed the control console, a sense of desperate madness showing in his eyes.

"Since the poison gas doesn't work! Then I'll crush them with physical attacks!"

Caesar snatched up the communicator and roared with a raspy voice: "All Centaur patrol units! Everyone, mobilize!"

"And! Release those two giant mutant killers, Rock and Scotch!"

"Dead or alive! You must stop them outside the research institute! Shurorororo!"

Following Caesar's command, the heavy steel doors of the research institute burst open! "Boom! Boom! Boom!" The earth began to shake violently!

Two giant Yeti brothers, over fifty meters tall, covered in long white fur, and holding massive spiked clubs the size of warships, charged out violently like two moving snow-capped mountains!

Behind them followed hundreds of fully armed Centaur cyborg troops, full of murderous intent!

"Roar—!!!" The Yeti brothers let out a deafening roar, their massive spiked clubs whistling as they tore through the air, smashing down fiercely toward the location where Luffy and Ace stood!