Iron Fist Garp spat out blood as he crawled up from the ground.
"Ahhh!! I really want to kill all you monsters!"
Having suffered a critical strike from his good friend Sengoku, Garp, at this point of exhaustion, actually dared to speak such arrogant words.
He uttered the famous boastful line of the future Flame Emperor, Sabo.
The 'Kill-Them-All King' made his debut.
Unfortunately, the Iron Fist Garp of this timeline was also surrounded by a group of monsters, but he didn't have Flame Emperor Sabo's luck; he couldn't escape at all.
Imu saw that Garp had been fighting for a long time, and his inner universe and potential had almost completely exploded.
The intensity of his Conquerors Haki Infusion had also increased by a notch.
He no longer wasted time.
Imu thought for a moment and finally decided to give up on upgrading Kukulkan's deep sea contract to an abyss contract.
He would let Kukulkan, Kong, and Sengoku keep their deep sea contracts; having Immortality was enough.
He reserved the only abyss contract for Garp, a member of the D Clan with even higher potential.
This was to implement the plan of using the D Clan to deal with the D Clan.
"Become my servant obediently! Monkey D. Garp!"
Imu's dark tentacles and shadow arrows finally struck at the almost powerless Iron Fist Garp.
"Get lost! I will never be controlled!!"
"I will definitely come back!"
Amidst Garp's angry voice, two dark tentacles pierced through Garp's chest.
Imu ignored Garp's cursing, quickly carving the Shallow Sea Contract, then upgrading it to the deep sea contract, and finally to the highest-level abyss contract.
The Four Elders didn't expect their new 'fellow star' to be a member of the D Clan.
This was truly ridiculous!
However, they didn't dare to have the slightest objection to Lord Imu's decision.
Furthermore, Lord Imu's control over these Marine high-rankers didn't seem intended to make them Gorosei or Gods Knights.
It was simply to enhance their power to deal with the Rocks Pirates.
Seeing Garp take the abyss contract that should have belonged to him, a hint of envy and complexity appeared in Kukulkan's cold eyes.
This was a position of eternal youth and Immortality.
Kong's eyes also flickered; Garp, who had resisted the most fiercely, had instead gained the greatest benefit.
His status had even directly surpassed his own!
"Still trying to resist! Be a good servant to Imu!"
Imu increased his power to suppress Garp's will.
Half an hour later.
The untamable Iron Fist Garp, under the weight of overwhelming power and an unsolvable ability mechanism, became an abyss contractor even more conceited and arrogant than before.
"I heard that besides being called Iron Fist, you are also called a mad dog by pirates!"
"Then I shall bestow this Cerberus Fruit upon you!"
"Be a good dog for Imu!"
With a flick of Imu's finger, a dark tentacle handed over a Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit from the table to Garp.
"Even without a Devil Fruit ability, I can become the strongest!"
"But since it is God's suggestion, I will reluctantly accept it."
Garp became increasingly conceited and arrogant; his injuries recovered rapidly, and even his stamina and Haki were fully restored. His terrifying Haoshoku made him seem like a god.
He only took one bite of the Dog-Dog Fruit, Model: Cerberus, and then casually tossed the rest of the fruit onto the ground.
With a howl, Garp directly entered the full beast form of Cerberus, treading on hellfire.
"Kong, I leave this griffin fruit to you. I hope you can become the strongest Sky Knight!"
Another Mythical Zoan fruit was casually tossed to Kong by a dark tentacle.
"Thank you, Lord Imu!"
Kong immediately caught the griffin fruit and ate it in large gulps, leaving nothing behind.
"Skree!!"
Kong also quickly transformed into a beast with a lion's body and an eagle's head, possessing a pair of wings.
Mythical Zoan: gryphon ability!
"Go back! In the name of the Marines, crush the Rocks Pirates!!"
In the end, Imu did not make the four of them Gorosei or Gods Knights.
He only had Buddha Sengoku and Iron Fist Garp promoted to the position of Admiral Candidate upon their return.
As long as the Copper Skin General and Iron Hand Admiral died in the war to subjugate the Rocks Pirates, the two could immediately be promoted to Marine Admiral.
"Ahahaha! I will definitely twist Rocks' head off!"
"Sengoku, from now on, we are all gods!"
Iron Fist Garp's arrogant voice drifted outside the Empty Throne Hall.
The five-member group of the God's Knights, who had rushed over because of the commotion from the battle in the Empty Throne Hall, were all startled by Garp's Haoshoku.
"Damn it! A person from the lower realm can actually receive Lord Imu's blessing and possess such strong Haoshoku!"
Shepherd Ten Somaz Saint's tone was filled with bitterness.
When Satan Saint fell earlier, he had even developed a slight covetousness for the position of the Four Elders.
Unfortunately, he had yet to awaken Conqueror's Haki; let alone the position of the Four Elders, he didn't even have a chance at the position of Commander of the Gods Knights.
"They are just tools used by Lord Imu to deal with the Rocks Pirates."
"Only we, the elite Celestial Dragons, are Lord Imu's true confidants."
Thatchers Mafy Palace and Makas Petygrew spoke one after another, but their tones carried a fair amount of envy and jealousy.
If the Rocks Pirates weren't so difficult to deal with...
Lord Imu would never have set the precedent of 'lower realm people obtaining contract power'.
It was they, the elite Celestial Dragons, who had disappointed Lord Imu.
"Let these Marines take our place and fight to the death with the Rocks Pirates!"
The Ram-Headed Demon Ethanbaron V. Geister and the Yeti Topman Snowbast spoke coldly.
In their eyes, these Marine powerhouses had stolen positions that should have belonged to them, the Celestial Dragons.
There was even an abyss contract position that granted Immortality.
This was a slot even they desired immensely.
One must know that the membership of the Four Elders hadn't changed for hundreds of years.
This time, Satan Saint had finally fallen, freeing up a precious position.
As a result, it was given away by Lord Imu so quickly, and to a person from the lower realm at that.
This made their hearts feel incredibly stifled!
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While the Marine quartet and the Four Elders left the Empty Throne Hall and headed for the Room of Authority,
A Flying Battleship broke into a research island belonging to the World Government.
The research island, which was not yet called Punk Hazard, was instantly subjected to a frantic baptism of ten bursts of Conqueror's Haki.
Besides Harald, even Loki joined in this display of Haoshoku.
"wahaha!! Look at my army of Haoshoku users!!"
Rocks laughed wildly, leading his King Executives to wantonly crush everyone on the island.
Great Demon Lord, Whitebeard, Golden Lion, Soul Queen, Red King... with such powerful Haoshoku shocks, forget transponder snail, even the earthworms deep underground were all knocked unconscious.
They didn't give even a shred of intelligence a chance to be transmitted out.
Ganzi looked at Silver Axe Fierce, Barbel, and Kiel Bastard, who were wildly unleashing their Haoshoku, with immense envy in his eyes.
Excluding the Gold, Silver, and Bronze trio of the Roger Pirates, he should have been the tenth king of the Rocks Pirates.
Unfortunately, Loki had now taken the place of the tenth king.
He was just a pathetic clown!
Even the 'salted fish' Bolo Gram and the samurai Fūgetsu Kisaburō felt an intense longing in their hearts as they saw the ten kings unleash their Conqueror's Haki.
They also wanted to become one of them!!
"Bababa, so many monsters! Raiding an island is no difficulty at all!"
"Kinsmen of the Great Hammer Corps, we are here!!"
Blue Ogre Dorry and Red Ogre Brogy shouted excitedly.
Even Harald couldn't help but join the ranks of those unleashing Haoshoku at the end.
Eleven bursts of Conqueror's Haki erupted, their momentum shaking the heavens and the earth!
This was an unprecedented era of kings!!