"Clang!"
Amidst the deafening explosion, Kaido's mountain-heavy body was jolted by the blue-glowing battle halberd, his feet lifting off the ground.
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!
Thick bolts of lightning surged from Rorschach's body, transforming into lightning dragons, lightning birds, lightning tigers, lightning spears, and lightning swords, overwhelmingly striking Kaido's imposing body.
Within a hundred meters, the area seemed to have turned into an ocean of lightning.
Raging lightning continuously struck Kaido's body, making sparks fly.
As the roaring thunder crashed down, Kaido's body was sent reeling backward.
Amidst the lightning raining down from the sky, Rorschach stomped his foot down. The sandy ground beneath him writhed like a dragon turning over, rising and cracking in waves. Thousands of tons of earth were blasted tens of meters into the air by the volcanic explosion of power.
"Ah ah ah ah ah ah!"
Amidst a hysterical roar, the Dragon's Heavenly Halberd, held loosely in his hand, spun wildly, emitting a whooshing sound. In an instant, the deep blue halberd shaft turned crimson, heated by friction with the air.
Hundreds of millions of volts of ultra-high-intensity lightning power, enveloped around the surface of the Dragon's Heavenly Halberd, were driven by Rorschach's bulging, muscular arm, plunging into Kaido's throat with a thunderous crash, completely sending Kaido flying with one blow.
Boom!
"Cough!"
Kaido coughed out a mouthful of blood foam, feeling an intense pain in his throat, as if it was about to be pierced by the scorching heat and electricity from the Dragon's Heavenly Halberd. His entire body lifted off the ground, crashing backward.
Rumble, rumble, rumble!
The vast desert ground, with its rising circles of sand dunes and ravines, was pulverized and exploded by the backward-flying Kaido's impact.
In front of Rorschach, where the Dragon's Heavenly Halberd had been directed, a fan-shaped trench, dozens of meters wide and thousands of meters long, appeared.
Within the deep trench, endless yellow sand was melted by the high temperature, turning into multicolored glass.
Some of the melted sand was even still flowing, like lava in a volcanic lake.
Boom!
The ground beneath his feet exploded. Rorschach shot out like a cannonball, shrouded in wind and thunder, breaking through sound barriers. Gripping the crimson Dragon's Heavenly Halberd, he pursued Kaido's still backward-flying body and hurled the halberd.
"300 Million Volts!"
"Thunderbolt Halberd!"
Whoosh!
Amidst an incredibly sharp sound of air being torn apart, a phantom-like dotted line flashed across the sky.
The next instant, Kaido, still flying backward thousands of meters away, violently crashed diagonally into the earth, plowing a massive, hundreds-of-meters-long trench in the ground and overturning thousands of tons of yellow sand.
With a crack, Rorschach's burly figure flickered and disappeared. When he reappeared, as if teleported, he was in the air above Kaido's landing spot. Empty-handed, with thick, deep blue Haki covering his entire body, his two four-to-five-meter-long, thick, massive arms swelled up, transforming into scale-covered Kirin claws, slamming down onto Kaido, who lay sprawled in the sand pit.
Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!
On his mountain-like, burly body, thick tendons, like tightly strung bowstrings, contracted to their limits before releasing, pumping boundless immense power. His swinging fists instantly unleashed a flurry of punches like a torrential storm.
A thousand strikes in an instant!
"Fist Bone! Meteor Shower!"
Thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump!
Every punch that slammed onto Kaido's body was like a god striking an ancient war drum, exploding with a thunderous roar that echoed through heaven and earth.
Thousands of roars connected, transforming into a grand war horn sounding throughout the world.
As if a deity drove a war chariot, rumbling across the sky.
Boiling hot blood surged and roared within Rorschach's body, like the Yangtze River flushing through all his blood vessels.
Steaming heat poured out from the pores all over his body, tinged with traces of blood.
At this moment, Rorschach's burly body was a tangle of steam, lightning, storms, and Haki. The explosive power that filled his entire being made him want to vent.
"Oraoraoraoraora...!"
"Oraoraoraoraora!"
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!
Under the relentless barrage, the ground quaked and trembled, and thick cracks continuously extended in all directions.
Rorschach was like a merciless pile driver, and Kaido was the stubborn iron being hammered beneath.
One hundred punches!
One thousand punches!
Ten thousand punches!
Amidst the earth-shattering roar, the ground continuously shattered downward, and the surrounding yellow sand and soil surged like waves.
"Fist Bone! Galaxy Impact!"
Amidst a ferocious beast's roar, Rorschach's left Kirin claw gripped Kaido's arm. His swollen right arm was raised high, and he slammed a punch squarely into Kaido's face.
Boom!
Kaido's head snapped backward, and his steel-like body compressed the earth beneath him, plunging down over a hundred meters through the strata before gradually coming to a stop.
Whoosh!
From beneath the desert, which had been pulverized by the violent force, a large amount of murky water gushed out.
Kaido's body lay silently in the churning muddy water, unmoving.
"Hoo... hoo..."
A hundred meters above, Rorschach's swollen body shrank, disengaging from his Life Return state. His chest heaved violently, and hot, scalding breaths exhaled from his nose and mouth.
This three-minute burst of ultra-high-intensity power was too much even for Rorschach's current formidable physique.
"That should have worked a little, right?"
He stared intently at Kaido, lying in the muddy water, and saw blood trickling from the corner of Kaido's mouth.
Each of his hundreds of millions of volt heavy punches, infused with powerful Haki, was far stronger than any single blow he delivered to Crocodile and Moria yesterday.
If Rorschach had unleashed a full-power punch in his current form against Moria yesterday, Rorschach believed that Moria's bloated body would have been completely pierced through.
Even if it were in a state where it had absorbed thousands of shadows.
As he was thinking, the churning muddy water below splashed loudly. Kaido, as if waking up from a nap, groggily opened his eyes and, like a drunkard, staggered to his feet from the murky sludge.
Large amounts of muddy water poured from his tattered clothes, but he paid no mind, merely taking a deep breath.
As he inhaled, the air within the seven-to-eight-hundred-meter-deep crater whistled, and violent air currents instantly picked up, as if trying to pull Rorschach, who stood a hundred meters above, down.
Kaido exhaled thousands of cubic meters of air from the entire crater in one breath. From his open mouth, strands of tiny black and red lightning crackled, spreading outwards.
A mass of air compressed to its extreme turned into a brilliant light sphere in his mouth. Accompanied by flashing black and red Conqueror's lightning, it blasted through the hundred-meter space, appearing instantly before Rorschach.
Conqueror's Haki Infusion!
"Goddammit, you're in the wrong dimension, Kaido!"
Rorschach's cheek twitched, and he cursed. His lightning-flashing right hand suddenly clenched into a fist, and his thumb pressed against his chest.
"Overload Mode! On!"
Rumble!
Explosive power instantly filled his entire body. His heart pounded fiercely, pumping surging blood, delivering it throughout his body.
The brilliant deep blue Haki never disappeared, continuously covering his entire body.
The next instant, a potent black lightning blast struck him.
In just a flash, Rorschach felt his eyes bloodshot, as if they were about to burst.
His ears hummed, his eardrums feeling as if they were about to be shattered by the terrifying impact.
His body felt as if it had been directly hit by an erupting volcano. Struck by the light sphere exploding with black and red lightning, he was sent hurtling skyward, leaving a straight upward sonic boom cloud in the deep crater.
The surrounding sand, mud, and rocks, in the face of this exploding black and red lightning, seemed like paper, instantly pulverized and shattered.
Kaido wiped the blood from his mouth, an excited expression appearing in his eyes. His body grew taller bit by bit, and countless azure scales appeared on his skin.
His already burly and imposing physique instantly grew to about ten meters tall, his muscles bulging and coiling like an ancient demon god depicted in mythological scrolls.
He took a pitch-black club from his waist and gripped it in his hand.
Then, Kaido's two bowed legs squatted in the mud.
The tendons in his calves tightened and compressed in bundles, then explosively released.
Rumble!
The muddy water shattered into the finest mist, the ground cracked and collapsed. His mountain-heavy body shot upwards, arriving after Rorschach, catching up to Rorschach, who was sent hundreds of meters into the air by his Conqueror's Haki-infused breath. The club, Hassaikai, in his hand, infused with flowing advanced Armament Haki, struck the air in front of him into a viscous paste, swinging towards Rorschach's body.
Heavy thunder crackled from the Hassaikai.
"Thunder Bagua!!"
Rorschach gritted his teeth, spread his large hand, and electromagnetic force burst forth. From the shattered earth below, a pitch-black battle halberd instantly swept over, grasped by him, and slashed towards the incoming Hassaikai.
"400 Million Volt Discharge! Flash Thunder Slash!"
Crack!
The Dragon's Heavenly Halberd in his hand transformed into a gleaming silver lightning bolt, instantly colliding with the striking Hassaikai.
"Clang!"
The ear-splitting shockwave made blood spurt from between Rorschach's teeth. The advanced Armament Haki flowing on Hassaikai penetrated everywhere, surging into his body, furiously churning and destroying his flesh.
And his own Deep Blue Haki couldn't even break through the Armament armor covering Kaido's body!
His Haki was inferior to Kaido's!
His physique was inferior to Kaido's!
His Devil Fruit development was inferior!
He was completely overwhelmed by Kaido, an undisputed domination!
It could be said that the current Kaido was a super-enhanced version of Rorschach.
Even if Rorschach went all out, using Life Return and Overload Mode, he couldn't contend!
This was the strongest physical monster in the New World, the strongest creature on land, sea, and air, the user of the Fish-Fish Fruit, Mythical Zoan Azure Dragon form, Beast Kaido!
"Wororororo! Not bad, really not bad! I've taken a liking to you. Come back to the New World with me! Marine brat!"
"Blast Breath Bagua!"
On the Hassaikai Kaido wielded, the silvery-white lightning turned into black and red lightning. The terrifying power instantly multiplied several times, completely overwhelming the Dragon's Heavenly Halberd unleashed by Rorschach.
"Clang!"
Amidst the sky-shattering explosion, the thick, bulging muscles on Rorschach's arms, gripping the Dragon's Heavenly Halberd, actually splintered and burst. Large amounts of fresh blood poured out like a waterfall, quickly dyeing his tall body red.
From head to toe, except for his bones which remained intact, the remaining muscles, skin, blood vessels, and internal organs were all shaken to the point of bleeding from this Conqueror's Haki-infused strike.
His vision was blurred, and his consciousness felt as if it was about to dissipate from his body.
Waves of shock force tore the Dragon's Heavenly Halberd from his hands. Then, the pitch-black Hassaikai was swung by Kaido and smashed into Rorschach's chest.
Accompanied by a thunderous roar, Rorschach's body transformed into a meteor streaking across the sky. In the sky hundreds of meters high, he drew a long parabolic arc, hurtling backward towards the direction of Alubarna Royal Capital.
"No! I can't fall here! Hibari and the others haven't gone far yet! Absolutely, cannot, just, fall!"
Crunch, in Rorschach's mouth, blood spurted out along with a piece of his tongue.
His eyes were bloodshot. His backward-flying body swelled up again, rapidly expanding.
A storm-like black and red Conqueror's Haki energy mass burst forth from within him.
Conqueror's Haki poured out, crashing into Kaido, who was pursuing him, making him utter a surprised sound, but the smile on his face grew even more excited.
"Wororororo! Good! Good! You've even awakened Conqueror's Haki? This is truly excellent!"
"Roar!!"
A roar that reverberated through the sky sounded.
In an instant, a colossal Kirin beast, sixty meters long and twenty meters tall, appeared in the sky. It opened its fanged maw, roared to the heavens, and spat out a thick bolt of lightning, instantly crossing hundreds of meters and striking the astonished Kaido.
"500 Million Volt Discharge! Heavenly Tribulation!"
Boom!
Kaido grunted. The wild black hair draped over his shoulders and back stood on end, and the advanced Armament armor covering his body was temporarily torn apart by the ultra-high-volt lightning bolt, allowing the raging, unparalleled lightning power to rampage over his tough skin.
Even the adamantine body, on which even the advanced Armament Haki of some strong individuals could not leave a mark, was actually scorched by the violent electrical energy.
"Not bad! Truly not bad! Marine brat, you are even more excellent than I was in my youth! I remember your name now, Rorschach, right?"
"Wororororo, wororororo!"
Kaido clenched his fist, his body's muscles tensed and knotted. His advanced Armament armor reformed, becoming even thicker and denser, completely blocking the scorching lightning bolt spewing from the Kirin beast's mouth.
His burly body, thus, strode rapidly through the sky, enduring the continuous onslaught of turbulent lightning. The Hassaikai in his hand, flashing with black lightning, impacted like a comet. Kaido, holding it with both hands, swung it, rotating, against the massive body of the Kirin beast.
"Descent of the Three Worlds! Hundred Beasts Eight Trigrams!"
Bang!
As if a giant rock had been thrown into a calm lake, the broad body of the sixty-meter-long Kirin beast rippled with muscle, and the muscles and bones beneath it splintered and burst with cracking sounds. Massive amounts of blood, like a waterfall, gushed from the gaps in his scales, pouring down onto the ground below.
"Roar!"
The colossal Kirin beast let out a painful wail. Its massive body continuously flew backward, and its body also shrank like a deflating balloon, turning into an eight-meter-tall human-beast form.
Then, from the eight-meter-tall human-beast form, it continued to shrink, returning to its naked human form.
Rorschach's ears were filled with the sound of howling wind, his vision was an endless crimson, and searing pain from all over his body, like a tsunami, assaulted his nerves.
At this moment, Hina and the others, who had only just managed to get two to three kilometers away from the royal capital, simultaneously halted their progress. They abruptly turned back, looking towards the howling sky.
At the edge of their vision, a blurred figure streaked across the sky, falling straight down from high above and crashing into Alubarna's royal city.
Rumble!
An earth-shattering explosion ripped through Alubarna's ancient, mottled city walls, collapsing vast sections of them and shattering a good portion of the royal capital highlands. Buildings within the royal city were shaken into collapse, and the neat streets and houses turned into a chaotic mess.
The terrifying tremor caused thick cracks, like pythons, to spread beneath their feet, tearing open tens of kilometers of land as far as the eye could see.
The moving crowd was knocked off their feet, some crying out in terror as they fell into the gaping chasms.
Nearby Marines immediately rushed forward to rescue them.
Hibari, Vivi, and the others, however, looked in the direction of the royal city, watching another furious figure fly down from high above, their bodies chilling as if plunged into an ice cave.
"Big Brother Rorschach!"
(End of Chapter)
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