"Rumble!"
The massive pillar of lightning, carrying energy fluctuations that could destroy all things, continuously impacted Rocks like a waterfall.
It blasted his body into a thousand holes, forcibly pushing him down, shattering the hard Rocks beneath him.
The base of the mountain peak, which was already broken in half, exploded!
"Whoosh!"
Endless fierce winds raged.
The giant bird flapped its six pairs of golden wings, which covered the sky, and suddenly shot up into the heavens.
Its twelve wings hovered in the air, stirring up air currents as they flapped, compressing countless giant wind blades, hundreds of meters long, that rained down from above!
"Wind Blade! Hundred Demon Slashing Strikes!"
"Swish swish swish!"
"Clang clang clang!"
Streaks of wind blades, spanning heaven and earth, fell like a violent storm, carving countless crisscrossing cracks and gashes into the base of the mountain peak, which had already been blasted apart by lightning.
Rocks, who had been blasted deep into the rock, suffered the most wind blade attacks, and immediately, countless horrifying wounds appeared on his tall demon body.
By the time the wind blades falling from the sky temporarily ceased.
Rocks had already been blasted straight hundreds of meters deep into the ground.
His entire body was tattered, cut beyond recognition.
However... what was terrifying was that his life force had not diminished in the slightest, not even by an inch!
As he slowly rose from the depths of the shattered earth.
His gruesome, tattered body quickly healed and recovered at an unbelievable speed.
After just three to five seconds.
Rocks reappeared, completely unharmed.
He raised his ferocious face and looked at the giant bird that covered the sky above him.
The black demon wings on his back suddenly flapped!
"Boom!"
The entire tattered mountain base was blasted open by a violent force, turning into a giant pit hundreds of meters in diameter.
In the center of the pit, a black phantom shot straight up, instantly soaring thousands of meters into the sky.
"Abyss — Lament!"
A black slash that cleaved the sky and earth crashed down, vertically striking the golden giant bird hovering in the air with lightning speed.
"Pfft!"
Amidst a grating tearing sound, the six golden wings on the giant bird's left side, which had covered the sky, were instantly severed from its body.
Crimson blood immediately poured down like a waterfall from the thousand-meter height.
The golden giant bird let out a painful cry.
In its golden vertical pupils, Rocks' ferocious face was reflected, along with the long blade he had raised again in his hand.
He seemed to have already seen the scene of the next second.
In the scene, a golden bird's head, the size of a small mountain, flew up under the blade light that cut through everything, helplessly soaring into the air!
Then the giant bird's massive body crashed down to the earth!
But even though he had seen his own demise.
The giant bird still did not choose to give up.
He raised his majestic and sacred bird head, brewing a world-destroying thunder and lightning storm in his mouth, vowing to have a final showdown with Rocks before him!
But just then!
Two imposing figures shot up from the ground, one on the left and one on the right, blasting towards Rocks and simultaneously unleashing a powerful strike!
"Gods Repel!"
"Fist Bone! Meteor!"
The Haoshoku-infused slash and fist strike, like a dragon and snake combining, intertwined into a spiral that pierced through everything, slamming into Rocks as he swung his blade down.
"Boom!"
Amidst an earth-shattering explosion, four figures flew backward in four directions.
The mountain tilted and collapsed, and on the devastated ground, three figures simultaneously landed.
They stood firm in a triangular formation.
In the sky, the golden giant bird disappeared.
Carlo, whose entire left arm was completely torn, revealing the pale white arm bone, was thrown far away, falling to the ground and heavily crashing behind Roger and Garp, creating a deep pit in the ground.
Garp and Roger glanced at Carlo behind them.
Garp shouted, "Carlo! Are you alright?"
No one answered.
Carlo lay on his back in the human-shaped pit, covered in blood, seemingly unconscious.
Roger shook his head and sighed, "Don't call him, let him rest. To be able to beat Rocks in that state into that condition, his strength is already excellent enough!"
"Garp! Give him some simple first aid and send him out, I'll hold off Rocks!"
Garp didn't hesitate, he turned around decisively, leaped, and came to Carlo's side, tearing off his Marine uniform and roughly bandaging the wound on Carlo's left arm.
Then he directly picked up Carlo and rushed towards the distance.
Behind him, Roger gripped his long blade, looking warily at Rocks, who resembled a demon king.
However, to Roger's surprise, Rocks didn't take the opportunity to attack, still standing in place.
It wasn't until Garp returned after sending the severely injured Carlo away that Rocks took large strides, his burly demon body erupting with earth-shattering momentum, charging straight towards the two of them!
Garp clenched his fist, ready to meet the attack, "How did you turn into this monstrous state, Rocks!"
"His condition is very wrong! This unconscious appearance is exactly like the giant spider that was parasitically controlled just now!" Roger shouted from the side.
The two were about to meet the attack.
But at the same time, they heard a voice in their minds.
A familiar voice.
As if pleading, speaking to them!
"Roger!"
"Garp!"
"Please! Kill me!"
The two were stunned, simultaneously looking up, both puzzled and surprised, at the charging Rocks with his ferocious face.
"Did you hear that? That voice!"
"You heard it too?"
"No mistake! It's Rocks' voice!"
"He's asking us to kill him!"
Garp gritted his teeth, looking at Rocks, who had a ferocious expression but whose wide eyes were silently shedding tears.
His mood also became heavy.
"What he's saying doesn't match his expression or attitude at all!"
A massive long blade, imbued with terrifying Haoshoku, slashed horizontally.
Roger, holding Ace with both hands, unleashed a powerful slash, blocking the mountain-splitting blow.
Meanwhile, Garp leaped high, his clenched right fist smashing into Rocks' face!
Three incredibly powerful Haoshoku clashed.
The three fell into a brief stalemate.
But this stalemate lasted only for an instant.
The next moment.
A terrifying aura suddenly erupted from Rocks' tall, demonic body.
Strict Haoshoku bloomed from him, turning into thick black lightning bolts.
"Boom!"
The ground beneath their feet shattered and exploded.
Roger and Garp were both blasted away simultaneously!
The terrifying aura shot straight into the sky, like a giant axe splitting the firmament and cloud sea!
A single person tearing the sky apart!
At this moment, the aura emanating from Rocks completely surpassed that of Roger and Garp!
Roger and Garp, who had been thrown far away, rose almost simultaneously.
Standing one on the left, one on the right.
"Rocks! Roger! I originally intended to catch both of you in one fell swoop here!"
"I just wanted to snatch Shakky and the treasure and run!"
Garp tore off the Justice Cape draped over his back.
Roger tossed aside his Captain's coat and the straw hat he was wearing.
They both looked at Rocks, who had his demon wings spread and was approaching them step by step.
"But now, let's temporarily team up..."
"Although I'm a hundred times unwilling! We really can't just leave this guy alone!"
"Let's go together! First, beat him down!"