"A bunch of useless fools!"
Though he claimed not to care, seeing the White Wolf Pirates' rookies actually rescue Giant King Harald with a group of giants who are old, weak, sick, and disabled, Grindelwald was getting red-faced.
Previously when he saw some powerful royal guards being rescued, he truly did not care, but the Giant King was different!
The Giant King was the symbol of the giant race, their best means of controlling the giants.
This was why they had clearly captured the Giant King but had not killed him.
A living Giant King was a good Giant King.
But now that the Giant King had been rescued, they might as well have killed him from the start!
No way!
Grindelwald suddenly said, "Admiral Rona, Vice Admiral Kong, you two hold back White Wolf Silas. I will go deal with those little mice. I will be right back!"
With his speed and strength, eliminating Ripley and the others would not even take a minute. He just needed Rona and Kong to hold back Silas for one minute.
Although dealing with Silas alone would make this operation a complete success, would it not be more perfect if they could keep the Giant King too?
However, the moment he made a move to leave, Silas, already covered in wounds, glared with fury and suddenly erupted with strength comparable to his peak period. Even his injuries began healing at an extremely rapid rate.
Secret Technique: Life Return!
This was a skill almost all top-tier fighters knew, an ability that could only be mastered after training the body to its limits.
Once Life Return was mastered, one could freely control their body, hair, and internal organs. By infusing consciousness into them, any part could be controlled at will.
The reason powerful fighters possessed strong sustained combat abilities, besides their inherent strength, was because of Life Return.
At this moment, Silas was using this Life Return ability to accelerate his body's healing speed, forcibly returning himself to peak condition.
Accomplishing this was not easy even for Silas.
But the moment his body recovered also meant...
"Grindelwald, come back!"
Kong roared, because after using Life Return, Silas returned to his peak. Kong traded several punches with Silas but could not suppress him at all. Instead of being knocked back dozens of meters.
Rona on the other side caught up, wanting to attack Silas, but when she slashed, Silas's body dodged her strike like paper.
"Future Sight!?"
In battles between powerhouses, only the side that could see farther into the future could control everything. Rona's Future Sight was only two seconds, just one second less than Silas's three seconds.
But this one-second difference allowed Silas to face her with much more composure.
"Everything before was an act!"
Kong looked at Silas through gritted teeth. "He is even stronger than he was at Sphinx!"
Kong was certain that at Sphinx, Silas definitely did not have his current strength.
Though he had possessed power that could suppress Kong, in one-on-one combat, even if he could defeat Kong, Silas himself would be severely injured.
But Silas's current performance was completely different.
At their level, even slight improvement was incredibly difficult.
Yet Silas, already seventy years old, seemed to have no limits.
Silas had grown stronger!
Strong enough that even with him and Rona joining forces, they could still suppress him. If the battle continued, victory would definitely belong to them.
But if Silas wanted to leave, they could not stop him!
"Damn it!"
Not only did Kong and Rona realize this, but Grindelwald did too. If he turned back to attack Ripley and the others, then Silas might escape.
Not just escape. He might even shake off Kong and Rona, then turn to attack him. As long as sufficient distance was created, in a one-on-one situation, he definitely was not Silas's match.
They could only stay here attacking Silas.
Now it was not them trapping Silas, but Silas forcibly dragging them here!
"Then let us defeat him first!"
Even clay figures had some fire in them.
Grindelwald acknowledged Silas's strength, but wanting to handle all three of them simultaneously, how many more times could Silas use Life Return?
The answer was not even once.
No matter how powerful Life Return's effects, it consumed one's own stamina and life force. The consumed portions could not recover from nothing.
Like Silas forcibly using Life Return to completely heal all injuries, this was unheard of even for physical specialists like Kong.
Were you really a seventy-year-old man?
Even he, a forty-year-old pure physical specialist, could not do such a thing.
Cellular activity is quite miraculous, right!
When Silas first saw the system reward was cellular activity, he had already anticipated this, because human bodies were composed of cells.
The higher the cellular activity, the stronger the cells' vitality.
And cellular activity also included cells' differentiation ability.
Silas even felt if his cellular activity continued increasing, he could even accomplish limb regeneration.
However, the improvement effects of cellular activity were excellent.
But the enhancement to Silas's strength was gradual.
If using letters to represent Admiral-level fighter strength, Silas fighting Rona at Elbaf half a year ago was S-level. Though he had grown somewhat stronger during the Sphinx battle, he remained in this category.
After the Sphinx battle, Silas's strength had progressed again.
Now he had genuine S-level combat power.
Kong and Rona were both S-level. Though joining forces could suppress and defeat him, if he wanted to escape, even Kong and Rona together could not manage it.
However, there was ultimately one more person on the field.
Though not reaching their level, the gap was not far.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
Throughout Elbaf Island came the sound of giants sounding retreat. Having successfully rescued the Giant King, the giants were no longer entangled with the Marines but fought while retreating.
Elbaf was ultimately the giants' territory. They understood Elbaf far better than the Marines.
Newgate carried the injured Giant King on his back, while Ripley, Rocks, and Giant Warrior Pirates crew members Kashi and Oimo were responsible for intercepting pursuers.
As the giants began retreating, the Marines finally discovered the Giant King's whereabouts and began concentrating their forces to pursue the team with the Giant King.
And Giant King Harald, sitting on Newgate's back, forced himself to rally, stuffing piece after piece of meat that Ripley had miniaturized into his stomach.
"Enough, child. Put me down."
Though puzzled, Newgate still set Giant King Harald down.
The Giant King, who landed immediately, began expanding in size, directly using Haki to dispel the fruit effect Ripley had applied to him.
At the same time, he casually uprooted a large tree nearby.
"A bunch of small fry dare to pursue us."
Even covered in wounds, even standing on only one leg, when the Giant King's aura rose, all-powerful Marines realized something was wrong.
"Dodge quickly!"
"Too late!"
This was why he had held on until now!
"Behold, Elbaf's fury, the giants' anger, my anger!"
A shockwave spanning half of Elbaf appeared before everyone's eyes.
"Hakoku!"