Imu was talking with Rocks, hanging him in mid-air with two black spike-like tentacles.
Boom! To resist Imu, Conqueror's Haki erupted from Rocks' body, sweeping the surroundings once again.
After a moment, his body fell from the sky, his size enlarging by two or three times, and he lay on the ground without any movement.
Whitebeard, Linlin, and Kaido in his Azure Dragon transformation stepped forward to check Rocks' condition.
Rocks, who had fallen to the ground, stood up. Linlin and Whitebeard's eyes instantly widened as they found Rocks' size was now several times larger than theirs.
Muscles bulged all over his body, demon wings grew from his back, and demon fangs grew in his mouth.
A completely demonized Rocks stood before everyone, his eyes burning with demonic flames.
"Kill everyone on the island, including your wife and child!" Imu commanded Rocks, who was already under "Corrupted Control."
His body leaped up quickly, so fast that everyone could hardly react, jumping tens of meters into the air in an instant and stabbing a sword into the head of Kaido in his Azure Dragon Form.
Kaido cried out in pain: "Waaah! What are you doing, Rocks!"
He was somewhat in disbelief. Even if Rocks usually suppressed him as a newcomer, he wouldn't directly attack. Now he could feel that Rocks wanted to kill him directly.
Rocks didn't respond to Kaido. Seeing that the blade couldn't penetrate Kaido's head, he freed his left hand, charged up a punch, and sent his hundred-meter-long Azure Dragon body flying.
Below, Linlin saw her former subordinate being sent flying. Even if the other party had snatched her fruit, she still rushed towards the demonized Rocks with her blade, shouting angrily:
"What are you doing to your partner, Rocks!"
Rocks, whose consciousness had completely disappeared, could no longer hear any words from the outside world. Seeing Linlin rushing over, he just raised his sword again and slashed at her with all his might.
The moment the Napoleon Emperor Sword collided with Rocks' blade, the terrifying impact instantly caused Linlin's arms to lose their resistance. The cannon-like impact sword energy sent her flying directly from the center of the island.
Two people were eliminated in an instant, which was shocking to the others.
Seeing the perfect creation, Imu controlled Satan Saint in his Gyuki Form and prepared to turn around and retreat.
While everyone's eyes were focused on the demonized Rocks, Rune's gaze was on Satan Saint, who was about to retreat from the area.
However, he didn't go up to chase. Just now, a combined strike from six out of seven people with Conqueror's Haki couldn't do anything to him. Wouldn't going up alone be seeking death?
Now Rune felt it was a bit strange. Why was Imu running?
Is there some hidden secret? Didn't he have the power to eliminate them all at once?
Such thoughts exploded in Rune's mind at this moment, meaning the opponent was not invincible either.
Whitebeard saw Linlin being sent flying by Rocks' sword from beside him. He stared seriously at Rocks in front of him, not understanding what had happened to the other party, but killing a partner was unforgivable.
The next second, Rocks' violent aura locked onto Newgate, and he rushed towards him with his sword.
"Do you treat us as obstacles, Rocks?" Whitebeard looked at Rocks, who was close at hand, and the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit instantly condensed in his right fist.
"Obstacle!" The controlled Rocks said these two words to Whitebeard and then slashed down with all his might.
The Tremor-Tremor Fruit wrapped in Conqueror's Haki and the demonic slash collided in an instant, forming a stalemate where the power of the two was evenly matched.
However, the expression on Whitebeard's face couldn't be hidden at all. After blocking Rocks' strike, he felt that the power of the demonized Rocks was extremely terrifying.
The next second, the entire island was shaken by the impact of the two's monstrous strength.
The peak on the left side of God Valley was pierced by the impact and tilted and collapsed.
"Stop dazing around!" Seeing this, Rune quickly grabbed Roger and ran outside the range of the collapsing peak.
The place where the peak collapsed was the southern part, where there were no partners of theirs.
The other members of Roger's crew were all on the west coast competing for treasure. After the analysis, Roger was relieved.
"What on earth is that, Rune?" Roger was dragged by Rune and asked him with a serious expression: "Why would that guy Rocks suddenly change and go berserk? He's not that kind of person, you and I should both know that."
"I don't know if I know or not, Roger, but I can tell you for sure that the black shadow that made him lose control is the King of this world!"
"How do you know that?!"
"Stop talking nonsense. Anyway, I just know. Didn't Rocks say it just now?"
"Newgate is still under that peak! Whoa! Rocks is running towards that forest. He really wants to kill his wife and child!"
"Isn't that obvious? He is no longer himself; he's being controlled!"
The two escaped from the range of the mountain collapse. The entire island shook for several minutes, as if struck by a massive meteorite.
In a dusty open space, the surroundings were full of the corpses of slaves and God Valley civilians.
Roger and Rune covered their noses and mouths, coughing violently while observing their surroundings.
"We can't retreat like this, Rune, or that guy Rocks will kill everyone." Roger listened to the screams in the distance, coming from outside the island, the direction Rocks had just run towards.
Rocks, dominated by the Corrupted Control, was slaughtering the members of his own pirate crew, attacking Marines, pirates, partners, and his family indiscriminately.
"I didn't want to retreat either. Didn't I tell you?" Rune stopped coughing and replied to Roger: "If I see Rocks again, I will kill him!
This island is done for. Quickly contact Rayleigh and the others and ask if they have all arrived on the ship."
Roger did so immediately, took out the Den Den Mushi to contact Rayleigh and dialed, telling them all to quickly board the oro jackson.
"There are too many pirates on our side, Roger. We are competing for treasure with the pirates, we still need some time!"
"Hurry up, get everyone on board! This island is going to go!"
Listening to Roger's instructions to Rayleigh and the others, Rune's gaze became extremely sharp, looking at the huge mountain that had fallen in the distance.
The next moment, his Observation Haki was fully activated, and its coverage instantly enveloped the whole island.
The sounds of the entire island appeared in his mind, like hell.
"Kuma! We can't keep saving people like this, or we will be in danger too!"
"I want to save one more life!"
There was a slave who was doing his best to save the suffering people on the island. Whether it was a Marine or a pirate, they were all slapped away by him.
He even used the Devil Fruit ability he had just eaten to save Alice and Teach, who were being chased by Rocks—they were none other than Rocks' wife and child.
"Damn it, why can't I even save a baby!" A Marine Soldier's frustration and depression came from the forest. Having just lost a Red Hair baby, he was kneeling in the forest, deeply blaming himself.
Children were screaming, babies were crying, and desperate shouts were everywhere.
The rest of the Rocks Pirates' executives were fighting over treasure, even going as far as killing their partners.
Rune's gaze was calm as he quietly watched all this.
"Where on earth are you, Roger?"
"Rayleigh, don't worry about it for now. Contact us after everyone is back on the ship!"