In an instant, the raging wind that had shrouded the battlefield was blown apart, and the two figures reappeared in everyone's sight.
This time, Garp didn't give Valthior a single chance.
A flash of crimson flickered in his eyes, and his wild Conqueror's Haki seemed to solidify, slamming viciously into Valthior.
In that moment, Valthior felt an overwhelming pressure crash down on him. His limbs stiffened, and he couldn't even react right away.
For a split second, a scene from the original story flashed through his mind—Ryokugyu being suppressed by Shanks' Conqueror's Haki.
Right now, he was being suppressed by Garp's Conqueror's Haki!
But before that thought could settle, Garp shot toward him like a cannonball.
"Damn it…" Valthior forced his Armament Haki to circulate, barely resisting part of the suppression. His legs trembled as he tried to dodge.
But it was too late.
In an instant, Garp was already in front of him. He grabbed Valthior by the head, his momentum never slowing, and carried him straight up into the air.
Suspended midair, Valthior immediately realized what was coming. A mass of ice crystals rapidly condensed behind him as a buffer.
Sure enough, in the next moment, Garp roared:
"Seafloor Drop!!!"
With overwhelming strength and Haki, he hurled Valthior down like a meteor!
Like a falling star smashing into the earth, Valthior was slammed deep into Linderland Island. A violent explosion erupted from the ground, shockwaves spreading outward in rings. A massive abyss-like crater formed, swallowing his figure whole.
Inside the crater, Valthior instantly felt the ice behind him shatter—it provided almost no cushioning. The force continued pressing him downward, his entire body wracked with unbearable pain, unable to break free.
At that moment, a vicious glint flashed in his eyes.
His half-beast body swelled once more!
At the same time, Garp hovered in midair, about to assess the situation—when suddenly, from the shattered abyss below, five massive tails burst out, each dozens of meters long, latching onto the edges of the crater walls.
Immediately after, a metallic, ear-piercing roar rang out from within:
"Zheng!!!"
The roar transformed into a circular shockwave, shattering falling debris and surging upward toward Garp.
Sensing danger, Garp crossed his Haki-coated arms in front of his chest.
The next instant, the soundwave swept past him, tearing apart the "Justice" coat draped over his shoulders and shredding his gray-white suit, revealing his black shirt and muscular frame beneath.
Before Garp could clearly see through the chaotic soundwaves, a massive beastly forelimb shot out from the crater, grabbing him in its claws and slamming him brutally into the ground, exploding ice and rubble everywhere!
Then, Valthior's full form was revealed.
At this moment, he had transformed into a gigantic Ice Zheng. Roughly estimating, excluding the tails, his body length was around seventy to eighty meters. Including the tails, it reached at least one hundred fifty to one hundred sixty meters.
Standing on all fours, his majestic form resembled a fusion of tiger and leopard—pure white, flawless, surrounded by frost. Wherever his claws touched, the ground froze instantly. His shoulder height alone was around thirty to forty meters.
Amid the frozen rubble, Garp shoved aside the debris pressing down on him and looked up at the terrifying beast, grinning:
"A complete Mythical Zoan form, huh?"
The enormous Ice Zheng that Valthior had become glared down at Garp with ferocious eyes. Then it inhaled deeply and unleashed another roar!
The cry of the Zheng sounded like clashing metal—harsh and soul-shaking!
The moment the roar echoed, it transformed into a wild sonic wave.
Its destructive power was terrifying. Everything in its path—buildings, ruins, ice—was instantly pulverized into powder, spreading outward as a tangible wave of sound.
With a single roar, half the town was wiped out!
Garp didn't dodge.
Coating himself in Haki, he pushed off the ground and leapt from the ruins, charging straight through the incoming sonic wave and throwing a punch!
Like a massive firework detonating, his strike blew apart the soundwave, sending dust and debris into the sky.
Immediately after, Garp burst through the cloud of dust, a savage grin on his face:
"Galaxy Impact!!!"
Now fully transformed, Valthior showed no intention of retreating.
As a Mythical Zoan user, how could he back down?
A glimmer flashed across the massive ice horn on his head. Then, compressed freezing energy shot out like a laser, blasting straight toward Garp.
Wherever it passed, the air froze solid, scattering frost across the ground.
But Garp's punch did not falter.
He charged straight into the beam, splitting it in two as it flowed past him on both sides and slammed into the ground behind him.
Where the beam struck, the earth froze instantly, then shattered into icy powder, unleashing a violent shockwave.
Even Garp's Haki-coated fist began to frost over slightly, showing signs of being invaded by the cold.
But in the end, it couldn't stop him.
In just a moment, Garp broke through the entire beam and smashed his fist directly into the massive horn atop Valthior's head.
His Conqueror's Haki fused with his punch, making it unstoppable—shattering the ten-meter-long horn into fragments before crashing into Valthior's head!
The force of the blow made Valthior stagger. His claws lost their grip, his massive body sliding sideways as the Conqueror's shock penetrated deep into his head.
From afar, it looked as though the frost-white beast had been struck with a devastating headshot. It staggered, then crashed to the ground, cracking the earth beneath it. Its enormous body rapidly shrank—clearly knocked senseless by the blow.
In the distant battlefield, Rayleigh watched the scene and said quietly:
"It's over…"
"Zoans really are tough," Gaban remarked. "At his level, he still managed to take several of Garp's punches head-on…"
"Valthior's pretty stubborn," Rayleigh chuckled lightly. "He knew he couldn't win, yet chose to fight head-on. Was it to fully experience Garp's iron fists? To understand the gap between them?"
After that, Rayleigh flicked his blade in a flourish.
"Alright, I'll go hold Garp off. You take him back to the ship, and we'll—"
Before he could finish, his expression suddenly changed. His eyes locked onto Valthior's shrinking figure.
"That is…?" Gaban's expression also turned serious, his eyes gleaming. "So he really does have it…"
On the shattered island, Garp stood atop the broken ice, looking at Valthior—who seemed unconscious—murmuring softly:
"Conqueror's Haki…"
A faint yet growing power was surging within Valthior, like a butterfly about to break free from its cocoon, slowly stirring its wings.
With a hiss, a strange azure flame suddenly ignited at the spot where his shattered horn had been.
Before Garp could figure out what it was, the blue flames rapidly spread, engulfing Valthior entirely.
Then—
A powerful burst of Conqueror's Haki erupted from within him, sweeping outward like a shockwave!
Garp's expression changed. He crossed his arms in front of him as his own Conqueror's Haki exploded outward in response!
"What the hell? Awakening Conqueror's Haki for the first time, and it's already this strong!?" Garp was shaken to his core.
At the same time, Valthior—who had been knocked nearly unconscious—suddenly opened his eyes.
Within his pupils, the three tomoe spun rapidly, merging, splitting, and evolving—
In an instant, they formed a pair of Mangekyō Sharingan!
At the moment those Mangekyō Sharingan took shape, the azure flames covering him exploded outward—
And the skeletal frame of Susanoo burst forth!
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