Chapter 195: Giant Beasts
Rolling clouds of dust swept through, towering dark shadows stood, and scarlet gazes flickered like bloody suns.
From within the sky-blotting dust, an inhuman roar, as if from a savage era, echoed, sending ripples through the air.
"..."
Under the watchful eyes of tens of thousands of pirates, the airflow within the dust swirled and twisted rapidly.
With a terrifying, earthquake-like roar, a giant dinosaur, dozens of meters tall and over a hundred meters long, tore through the dust. Beneath its giant, horned head, a cavernous mouth was filled with ferocious, sharp fangs. Its throat was like a black hole, looking as if it could easily swallow a giant.
Immediately after, a giant, mountain-sized short-faced bear burst out. On its back, it carried a small kanabō and a shield. It pounded the earth with its four giant bear paws, leaving giant cracks and deep pits as it moved rapidly.
A giant lion, its body covered in golden fur, its posture swift and beautiful, pierced through the dust and leaped high. It landed on the back of the giant bear, and then, using its broad back, leaped again, flying several hundred meters and landing on the back of the hundred-meter-class Carnotaurus for a third jump.
Gerd, transformed into a giant cave lion, leaped high into the air, cutting a golden arc across the sky. With a piercing whistle, she flew over the Whitebeard Pirates' commanders and landed directly in the middle of the pirate crowd.
BOOM—
With an earthquake-like roar, the ground trembled violently. Rolling dust, along with shattered pieces of the earth and hundreds of pirates, was thrown into the air. The giant impact even knocked over the surrounding pirates, who were screaming and fleeing in all directions, and they were sent flying, their heads bleeding.
Before the pirates could get up and grab their weapons again, a yellow, fur-covered tail swept out like a steel whip, once again sending dozens of pirates flying, scattering them into the air with piercing cries.
"Is that... a giant transformed into a lion?"
"Didn't the last user of the Lion Fruit die? How can the Archangel Pirates' 'Iron Rose' transform into a lion?!"
Dozens of pirate captains saw this, their faces changing drastically. They couldn't be bothered to follow the division commanders' charge and hurriedly turned back to help their subordinates fend off the enemy.
Marco and the others frowned, but the monster, almost a small giant itself, and the other two giant beasts were about to reach them. They had no time to worry about anything else. Therefore, the sixteen division commanders could only focus their attention and prepare to meet the dozens of monsters and giant beasts charging toward them like a herd of mammoths.
However, just as the distance between the two sides closed to a few hundred meters, another unexpected change occurred.
A heavily armored figure was walking at an unhurried pace in front of the dust cloud at the edge of their vision. Behind her, a mountain-sized dark shadow churned. Section after section of a massive limb, covered in pink scales, was faintly visible.
The next moment, a hurricane was kicked up out of thin air, directly tearing open the sky-blotting dust and sweeping it away to the horizon, revealing the true form of the giant beast within to everyone's eyes.
Its long body rose and fell. Its ferocious dragon head swayed slightly. Its form, rivaling that of a Sea King, rose up on clouds and mist, hovering high in the sky.
The super-giant beast, its entire body inlaid with one pink, hard scale after another, coiled in the sky, its four limbs gripping the smoke clouds.
Marco and the others' eyes widened, reflecting the sky-pillar-like dragon shadow that blotted out the sun, their faces filled with disbelief.
"A dragon?!"
"So big! It's actually much bigger than that guy Kaido!"
"How can there be another Dragon Fruit user in the world like Kaido of the Beasts?"
At this moment, the sixteen division commanders were astonished.
However, Hajrudin, high in the sky, paid them no mind. His ferocious head, with its golden antlers, was aimed directly at the sixteen commanders. His giant dragon eyes, combined with his Observation Haki, locked onto them. A searingly hot, extremely dangerous firelight began to brew in his cavernous mouth, which was filled with sharp fangs.
"DRAGON FLAME..."
The next moment, a searing flame erupted.
A golden pillar of fire came roaring down from the sky. Along the way, it vaporized the clouds and mist, ignited the atmosphere, and directly enveloped Marco and the others. Before the blow even landed, the rolling heatwave and dazzling firelight had already covered them, instantly blinding them and drenching them in sweat.
Seeing this, Marco shouted, "Scatter! The enemy is far stronger than we imagined! Don't waste stamina blocking this!"
Even though everyone was temporarily blinded, Marco's voice still clearly reached their ears, stopping the few who had been preparing to block the blow and making them scatter.
In that instant, the searing flame bombarded the earth. A terrifying heatwave rose, igniting the grassland and the nearby forest from a distance. With one blow, the spot where the sixteen commanders of the Whitebeard Pirates had been standing was instantly destroyed. The verdant grassland, along with the earth in a hundred-meter radius, was diagonally pierced, creating a terrifyingly deep pit that bottomed out.
The sixteen commanders, who had scattered, gradually regained their vision. The destruction caused by that single blow was now displayed before their eyes.
Marco, looking at the molten-rock-filled walls of the pit, raised an eyebrow and taunted the sky, "Is that all you've got? That's far weaker than Kaido's."
"It seems that its only redeeming quality is its size, which is much larger than Kaido's, just for show," Flower Sword Vista said, standing with his twin swords in hand, his face expressionless.
"..." One by one, the division commanders chimed in with taunts.
To this, Hajrudin paid no mind. He silently transformed into his strongest hybrid beast-man form and landed on the ground, separating the sixteen commanders from his Buccaneer forces.
Hajrudin, like everyone else, believed that although the Buccaneers were powerful, it was still a bit too early to have them face the commanders of the Whitebeard Pirates. With only physique and strength, and lacking experience in killing humans, they would be useless against these powerful division commanders. Therefore, letting the Buccaneer troops use the pirates under the Whitebeard flag for practice was a good choice.
Seeing the giant dragon-man, whose height almost rivaled Little Oars Jr.'s, standing on the earth, separating them from those terrifying monsters, Marco and the others couldn't help but become anxious. In the distance, the giant lion was rampaging on the battlefield, and one by one, figures with black wings, manipulating searing flames, were diving, reaping a bloody harvest among the pirates.
Soon, the group led by Marco instantly made a decision. They left Vista, Thatch, Atmos, and the others behind to deal with the Archangel Pirates' "Giant God Soldier," while the rest quickly retreated to avoid excessive casualties on their side.
Although Marco and the others had just been relentlessly belittling Hajrudin, they understood in their hearts that the Giant God Soldier, Hajrudin, who had transformed into a dragon similar to Kaido, was no easy opponent. He was a terrifyingly strong person.
Road and Goldberg naturally would not let Hajrudin be surrounded. After a brief exchange, Goldberg, who had transformed into a giant short-faced bear, changed direction. Goldberg, in his massive and sturdy Ancient Zoan hybrid form, took his shield and kanabō from his back and ran rapidly, heading straight for Hajrudin.
Goldberg, in his hybrid form, had his already powerful strength amplified again. His thick arms swung the cold kanabō, smashing it heavily toward the man with the twin swords.
The Fourth Division Commander of the Whitebeard Pirates abruptly turned his head. Seeing the kanabō, which was several times thicker than a mast, smashing down at him, his face instantly turned deathly pale. With no time to think, he decisively gave up on attacking the dragon-man and hurriedly retreated to dodge.
BOOM!
The kanabō landed on the earth, creating a ripple in the ground as if it were the surface of water. Then, countless cracks appeared, and it disintegrated inch by inch.
"!!"
Thatch saw this, and his already pale face became even stiffer. If he had been hit by that, he would have probably been turned into "Thatch-paste."
The beast-man Goldberg saw this and pouted. Then, he raised the giant shield on his left arm, coated it in Armament Haki, and once again smashed it down.
"Let's see you dodge this!"
Thatch: ...
Not far away, Vista swung his twin swords, sending out a series of fierce, petal-wreathed slashes that flew straight for the chest of Hajrudin in his dragon-man form.
To this, Hajrudin, who was in the middle of punching the buffalo-man Atmos, frowned. He then opened his mouth and spat out countless sharp wind blades, which met the Flower Sword's slashes head-on. The flying slashes and wind blades collided one after another, shattering in the sky and turning into a dense rain of light that scattered.
"A good chance!" Just then, the buffalo-man Atmos saw this and leaped high into the air. He held his twin swords, which were coated in Armament Haki, above his head and, with the force of a buffalo's horn strike, attacked Hajrudin's neck.
CLANG—
The blades scraped against the dragon scales, creating a dense shower of sparks and the sound of metal on metal.
"What?! This pink dragon scale... is it as indestructible as Kaido's blue dragon scales?" Atmos's eyes widened, his face full of shock. He could hardly believe that his all-out strike hadn't even broken the defense.
To this, Hajrudin, who had been focused on dealing with Flower Sword Vista's moves, slowly turned his head. One of his fists clenched, coating it in Armament Haki. A searing flame erupted from his mouth, coiling around his fist, and blossoming like a sun.
"What do you know? This is a man's exclusive peach-pink!"
As his words fell, Hajrudin, his face dark, swung the blow he had learned from his captain at Atmos, who was still stuck in mid-air.
"BLAZING SUN!"
"Atmos!!" Flower Sword Vista saw this and panicked. His figure flashed, and he instantly disappeared from his original spot, heading straight for the blow that was wreathed in Armament Haki and a miniature sun. The next moment, his figure instantly appeared beneath the giant fist, his twin swords wreathed in Armament Haki as they met the iron fist.
BOOM...
The sun abruptly exploded. Haki lightning ravaged the area. The searing high temperature and shockwave combined and spread, directly swallowing both Atmos and Vista.
The blow landed, but Hajrudin, instead of relaxing, frowned.
At the same time, a massive figure with blue skin, long hair like a waterfall, and large tusks growing from his lower jaw, landed on the beach, joining the endless stream of pirates heading for the battlefield.
On a giant tree on the other side of the island.
Amit, with no intention of participating in the battle, sat cross-legged on a giant branch, his eyes looking into the distance, taking in everything on the battlefield. Beside him, a figure as thin as a skeleton was leaning back against a giant dog, his cloudy eyes watching the roaring battlefield, a hint of reminiscence flashing from time to time.
Whitebeard, holding his Supreme Grade Blade, Murakumogiri, walked out of the burning battlefield. He looked at the chaotic scene before him, his brow slightly furrowed. A moment later, he expressionlessly stepped onto the battlefield, crossed it directly, his gaze locked on the distant forest, and walked step by step toward the other side of the battlefield.
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