"It's that chef!" Walter's gaze pierced through the chaotic battlefield and locked onto the terrifyingly calm child on the deck of the Azure Dragon. "Take him out!" he roared at the CP0 forces below.
However, it was futile. "Wahahaha! Walter, you dare to be distracted while fighting me?!" Rocks seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. His attack instantly became ferocious. "Black Emperor: Starburst!" He slammed a punch, which condensed all his Haki and gravity, into Walter's chest!
Walter hurriedly crossed his arms to block, his metalized arms covered with the highest-level Armament Haki. BOOM! A dull, ultimate boom came from the point of impact, followed by countless streaks of black and red lightning. Walter's proud steel defense actually showed spider-web-like cracks before this punch. He was sent flying as if hit by a meteor, coughing up blood, and crashing into the wall of Pangea Castle behind him, creating a huge, human-shaped hole.
"Gurararara! It's over!" Newgate seized the opportunity and pushed the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit to its limit. "Quake Emperor!" He punched out with both fists. Two extremely condensed shockwaves, like invisible battering rams, completely shattered "Forest" Bach's plant defense and viciously struck his body. Bach let out a pained grunt. His old body flew out like a broken kite, his life force rapidly fading.
On the other side, Charlotte Linlin had also gotten tired of playing. She urged Prometheus and Zeus to merge. "Heaven's Might: Thunder-Fire Cannon!" A beam of light, a fusion of fire and lightning, filled with a destructive aura, directly engulfed "Poison Dragon" Ferdinand.
The three Admirals, under the combined attack of the three main combatants of the Rocks Pirates and the support of Ren's domain, were defeated one after another in just a few minutes! "Retreat! Quick, retreat!" Seeing their highest combat power defeated, the remaining Marine and CP forces completely lost their will to fight and began to flee madly into Pangea Castle.
The members of the Rocks Pirates did not pursue. Their goal was not to occupy the Holy Land, but to establish their dominance. "Alright, boys, work's done!" Rocks stood on the ruins of Pangea Castle, looking at the ravaged Holy Land below and the fleeing figures, and let out a world-scorning, wild laugh. "Go back and tell those old geezers of the Five Elders that this was just an appetizer! The next time, I will personally twist off their heads and use them as decorations for my throne!"
With that, the members of the Rocks Pirates returned to the Azure Dragon. Under the countless terrified gazes, the black behemoth started up again, slowly rose into the air, and finally disappeared into the clouds, leaving behind a burning, ravaged Holy Land of Mary Geoise.
The news spread faster than the speed of light, as if on wings, throughout the entire world.
[HOLY LAND MARY GEOISE INVADED BY PIRATES, HEAVY LOSSES!]
[TWO OF THE THREE MARINE ADMIRALS KILLED, ONE SERIOUSLY INJURED! "STEEL ARM" WALTER KILLED IN ACTION!]
[THE ROCKS PIRATES, THE WORLD'S MOST VICIOUS CRIMINALS!]
When the newspapers with these sensational headlines were spread by the News Coo to the Four Seas, the entire world was silenced. Countless people looked at the photo of Rocks laughing wildly on the ruins in the newspaper and felt a tremor from the depths of their souls. A man who could make the whole world tremble had branded his terror in the hearts of all. The great threat of the Rocks Pirates was shown to the world for the first time in the most bloody and unquestionable way.
In the Holy Land of Mary Geoise, in the Chamber of Authority, the atmosphere was as heavy as ten-thousand-year-old ice. Five old men, their auras as deep as the abyss, sat around a round table, a shadow of gloom on each of their faces.
"Walter... is dead," the bald Gorosei holding the Shodai Kitetsu broke the dead silence, his voice hoarse.
"Ferdinand and Bach are also seriously injured. It will take them at least a year or two to recover. There is an unprecedented vacuum in the high-end combat power of Marine Headquarters," the Gorosei with the long white beard said in a low voice. "According to the report from Sengoku and Garp from the front lines, combined with the analysis of the battle at the Holy Land this time, the growth rate of the Rocks Pirates has completely surpassed our understanding. Especially that chef named Ren, his domain ability is too strange. He must be listed as the highest priority target for elimination!"
"We can't wait any longer," the blond Gorosei slammed the table, his eyes filled with undisguised killing intent. "Conventional encirclements have lost their meaning against them. We must use the final measure, set a trap they cannot refuse, and completely eliminate them along with all the threats of the 'D' clan, all at once!"
"Contact the Holy Knights. Have them prepare," the sword-wielding Gorosei stood up, his gaze as cold as a blade.
And on the Azure Dragon, Ren was calmly wiping his cooking tools. He looked at the rapidly receding clouds outside the window, his eyes deep. He knew that after this battle, that legendary name would soon appear. God Valley.
With his current abilities, he could not stop the arrival of this fateful battle. The only thing he could do was to make the monsters on this ship as strong as possible before that final battle arrived, so strong that they could... change that predetermined ending. This time, there was no Golden Lion, no Kaido on the ship, but there was a stronger, and more unfathomable, himself. The ending... was really hard to say.
The aftershocks of the battle at Mary Geoise were more violent than any tsunami in history. The name "Rocks Pirates" became the hottest topic in all the world's taverns, and also the most terrifying bedtime curse that parents used to stop their children from crying at night. Their bounties once again saw an astronomical surge. Rocks's own bounty even broke the 5.5 billion Beli mark, setting a record that was unprecedented and possibly unrepeatable.
However, the Rocks Pirates, the center of the storm, seemed to have evaporated from the world and disappeared. The Azure Dragon was now docked on an uninhabited sky island on the edge of the New World, an island not even on the sea charts. The huge island was like a piece of emerald green jade floating ten thousand meters in the sky. The sea of clouds rolled below, isolating it from all the troubles of the world. This was a secret supply point that Ren had found based on the exclusive ingredient index of the sky islands, and also their only safe harbor in this monstrous storm.
Dolum was directing a group of cloud craftsmen from the sky island, who were skilled in repairing Dial-powered ships, to repair the damage the Azure Dragon had sustained in the battle at Mary Geoise. He would lovingly stroke the new scratches on the hull, and at the same time, proudly boast to the sky island residents about the ship's glorious battle record. His expression was so conflicted it was comical.
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