"The Hachinosu Island monitors have detected the Beasts Pirates from the front!"
"Kaido, Wald, Roya, Hiber… All are pirates with bounties over 100 million Beli on the high seas!"
"The enemy numbers are estimated to be around two thousand. Report to Captain John immediately! The Beasts Pirates will soon be within cannon range!!"
"Wait… someone among them moved!"
From a lookout post on Hachinosu Island, the pirates noticed Wald, with his defiant expression, provocatively glance at Hachinosu Island before turning his mobile cannon.
He aimed it at Hachinosu Island.
With a series of booming cannon shots, like an overture to battle, several shells were fired.
The next moment, they saw the incoming cannonballs rapidly growing larger, like meteors, hurtling towards Hachinosu Island, accompanied by a fierce wind.
A colossal shadow enveloped Hachinosu Island, and the pitch-black, gigantic cannonball crashed into the town like Mount Tai pressing down, directly demolishing several buildings!
Immediately, a terrifying energy spread from within the cannonball. With a deafening boom, the unleashed, dreadful energy instantly engulfed the entire street!!
The ground shook violently!!
In an instant, buildings turned to dust, and structures within a three-hundred-meter radius were leveled!
Smoke and dust billowed, and flames burned on the shattered ruins.
Piercing, agonizing screams echoed as pirates fled in panic, the streets littered with severed limbs and bloodied internal organs.
Crimson, crimson!!
John heard the screams outside, rushed out of the castle, and saw the horrific scene in the town's streets!
Four more gigantic cannonballs whistled in. John leaped high, drew the saber from his waist, and a dark light flashed.
With a swish, a distinct white line appeared in the middle of the four gigantic cannonballs.
Immediately after, the cannonballs exploded in mid-air, a vast cloud of smoke enveloping Hachinosu Island.
The gale generated by the explosion raged through the town streets, sending people and stones flying, leaving the scene in chaos.
Although four cannonballs were intercepted, nearly a tenth of Hachinosu Island's urban area was engulfed in an endless inferno.
John's face was extremely grim, his eyes bloodshot, as he angrily watched the three brazenly approaching dark warships.
"Enemy attack!! Prepare for battle!!"
John shouted loudly, and from the gray-yellow Skull Mountain, pirates swarmed out like a beehive.
Hachinosu Island, once the headquarters of the Rocks Pirates, had various cannon emplacements that could be immediately put into use.
For a time, countless guns and cannons rained down on the sea like a torrential storm.
Roya, holding a black scythe with both hands, swung it fiercely.
A crescent slash flew out, colliding with the hail of Bullets and cannonfire in mid-air, causing a violent explosion.
Kaido let out a long roar, his massive foot planted on the ship's bow. His body suddenly transformed into his Human-Beast form, and terrifying energy gathered in his mouth.
"Boro Breath!!"
Whoosh!!
A pillar of fire, imbued with scorching energy, tore through the air, streaked across the sea, raising misty waves, and directly slammed into Hachinosu Island's skull.
Boom!!!
A massive explosion erupted, and the entire skull was blasted through and melted. Liquefied earth and rock flowed down the opening like blood-red magma.
Many pirates were drenched in the high-temperature molten magma, their scalps peeling off on the spot, their flesh and blood mangled, turning into withered bones.
John's eyes were wide with rage as he watched the approaching Beasts Pirates, his entire body trembling uncontrollably: "Rosa, Peter, Tolkien, come with me to meet the enemy!"
"No problem, Captain!!!"
Each of them led over a thousand pirates surging towards the port, and at the same time, the three warships of the Beasts Pirates arrived simultaneously.
Kaido laughed heartily, leading his subordinates to charge towards the John Pirates!
"My little ones, get them!!"
At Kaido's command, his underlings swarmed out like a plague of locusts, rushing forward!
Wald was the first to charge. He leaped into the air, slammed a fist into the ground, and the immense force tore the ground apart. The cracks spread destructively, connecting into a circle.
Wald plunged his hands into the cracks, exerted force with both hands, and veins bulged on his arms: "Rise, you damn thing!!"
Rumble!
The shattered ground gradually rose with Wald's roar. A conical earth block, thirteen to fourteen meters in diameter, shot up from the ground, and Wald hurled it violently towards the enemy forces!
"80x Meteor Impact!!"
Buzz!!
A strange power instantly spread to the earth block, and it dramatically enlarged. The thirteen to fourteen-meter earth block instantly transformed into a thousand-meter mountain!
A colossal shadow covered the enemy forces, and the temperature instantly dropped by several degrees.
Amidst the stunned shock of the enemy, the earth mountain crashed down with tremendous force.
Bang!!
The ground shook and mountains crumbled!
Hundreds of enemy soldiers were crushed beneath the earth mountain, blood splattering.
Roya directly underwent full beastification. The ten-meter-tall carnivorous dinosaur, with its thick hide, charged through the crowd, enduring the gunfire, and in the blink of an eye, trampled and bit to death nearly a hundred people.
Hiber manipulated the ground, raising giant waves of sand and earth, literally crushing people into meat paste.
Bullet, meanwhile, darted left and right through the crowd, employing the Six Styles on the battlefield.
He appeared to be the youngest, yet his terrifying prowess was in no way inferior to Roya or Hiber!
Each of his moves brought forth a shower of blood and scattered dismembered limbs.
Bullet was bathed in blood, his eyes sharp, devoid of any mercy.
Kaido, at this moment, was like a human beast, sweeping through everything, effortlessly batting away any pirates, regardless of gender or age, who dared to block his path.
In such a chaotic battle, using Haoshoku Haki for a clear-out was the most convenient, but he savored the feeling of slaughter and blood!!
Kaido smashed an enemy's face with his club, blood and brains splattering, warm on his cheek.
Hundreds of enemy pirates surrounded Kaido, yet they cowered, afraid to advance. Their hands, gripping weapons, trembled, and their feet instinctively shifted backward.
Kaido gave a cold smile. For every step he took forward, the enemy pirates retreated three steps.
He tucked his spiked club into his haori coat, then leaped violently, directly jumping into the crowd.
His towering stature was incredibly oppressive. He lifted his foot and literally stomped a pirate, less than two meters tall, into a pulp. His mighty fists collided with swords and blades, producing the clang of steel.
Kaido overbearing ly smashed the enemy's weapons and, with a flick of his hand, sent enemy soldiers flying.
He brutally tore an enemy in half, colorful internal organs spilling out and splattering all over the ground.
"Kaido, prepare to die!!"
A one-eyed man with a mohawk and a pirate hat charged at Kaido.
The rapier in his hand was hardened with Haki. With a flick of the blade, dozens of sword shadows instantly materialized, stabbing at Kaido like a sudden storm.
People immediately exclaimed, "It's Torrential Rain Tolkien!! They say his swordsmanship is as impenetrable as a downpour, capable of easily piercing large holes in rock and steel!"
Countless dense sword lights struck Kaido's body, producing a series of resounding impacts, yet they achieved absolutely nothing.
Not to mention piercing Kaido's skin, they didn't even leave a mark.
"H-how is that possible??"
Tolkien was drenched in sweat, growing more alarmed with each strike. His expression shifted from confident to dismissive, finally settling on shock.
"Are you trying to tickle me?"
Kaido delivered a slap, and the flowing Armament Haki directly struck Tolkien's internal organs.
Tolkien felt his internal organs shatter and bones break. His entire body was violently slapped away, his face plowing a gully dozens of meters long in the ground, a bloody mess.
"Kaido!!"
John roared in anger, gripping his long saber. Dark Haki surged from his wrist to the tip of the blade, like two spiritual snakes spewing from the blade tip and biting back at the hilt.
The dark Haki coiled around the long saber, spiraling and dancing.
"So you've come, John!"
Kaido grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth, and at the same time drew his spiked club, which immediately became wreathed in crimson Haoshoku Haki.
Crimson electric snakes crackled on the club's shaft.
John's eyes were cold: "The brat from back then dares to bare his fangs at his senior now!"