"Ugh—!"
"Pfft!"
"..."
Across the battlefield, whether it was the Marine Soldiers trying to regroup, the pirates fleeing in panic, or the surviving Slaves cowering in the ruins... anyone with weaker strength or less resilient will instantly rolled their eyes, foamed at the mouth, and collapsed in swathes as if mown down, fainting under this vast divine pressure!
Even some capable pirate Captains or Marine officers grunted, knelt on one knee, blood seeping from their seven orifices, barely maintaining their last shred of consciousness... "What?! Is the final battle about to begin!?" A Roger Pirates Crew member clutched his dizzy head, looking towards the direction from which this supreme Haoshoku emanated.
"Hey! This isn't the time to be spacing out!"
Rayleigh, while vigilantly watching Imu, whose aura had grown even more dangerous in the distance, kicked a treasure chest that had fallen from the sky next to him, scattering brilliant gems and gold artifacts across the ground.
"Look! Treasures are rolling on the ground! Pick them up quickly! Don't forget a pirate's true nature!"
He paused, a rare trace of uncertain worry in his voice, and muttered to himself in a low voice:
"Speaking of which... has Shakky been rescued or not...?"
Not far away, a bleeding-mouthed Dragon struggled to get up from the chaotic mess.
"Ha... ha... it's really a mess..." He wiped the blood from his eyes, with only one thought in his mind,
"Only this Red Hair child... hmm?"
He subconsciously tightened his arm, but suddenly felt that the sensation in his embrace was wrong!
Dragon abruptly lowered his head, his pupils constricting, revealing an unprecedented look of horror on his face!
What he was holding was no longer the quiet Red Hair infant! At some point, it had turned into a rough piece of wood! A crooked smiling face was drawn on the wood with charcoal, silently "staring" at him.
"When?! Where did he go—?!" Dragon exclaimed in shock, suddenly standing up, ignoring his injuries, and frantically scanning his surroundings.
The chaotic battlefield, Burning ruins, scattered treasures... where was the trace of that small Red Hair figure?!
Just fifty meters away from Dragon, next to a pile of overturned treasure chests, inside a magnificent chest with a broken opening, soft silk and velvet lining were spread, with dozens of top-grade gems scattered on it, still sparkling brilliantly under the dim sky.
A small red head was curiously looking at these sparkling "stones."
Little Shanks seemed completely unaffected by the terrifying pressure and fall earlier. He opened his pure eyes and clumsily crawled towards the treasure chest containing the stones... The six who had just completed their combined attack were arguing whose attack had the greatest effect, completely unaware of the aura Imu was emitting, because this aura was not directed at them.
"This blow of mine should be enough to make it suffer!" Garp gasped for breath, but his eyes were still sharp. That 'Fist Bone Clash' just now had almost drained most of his stamina, but the effect was also significant.
"Ha! It was clearly my 'Divine Avoidance' that cut off its body!" Roger landed on the other side, carrying Ace, grinning as he argued.
"Well~ Garp, weren't you almost beaten down by This lady just now? How can you be jumping around so quickly and even throw such a fierce punch?"
Charlotte Linlin squinted at Garp, a hint of inquiry in her tone.
Garp snorted, not answering, but his gaze swept over the Marine Soldiers in the distance, and his fists clenched again:
"I will never allow... never allow anyone to wantonly kill my beloved soldiers in front of me! Whether it's pirates, or this... monster!"
"Newgate! The ability of my Devil Fruit is no weaker than yours!" Kaido boasted to Newgate.
"It's very strong, but the ability of the Devil Fruit also needs to be properly developed!" Newgate nodded and said.
At this moment, Imu, who had been watching Rocks, noticed the monster whispering softly in his mind, words that only he could hear.
"I can see..."
"Running... in the forest."
The Haoshoku that Imu had just released, covering the entire island, was clearly used to observe something.
Rocks's face, however, instantly turned ashen! An extremely ominous premonition rose in his heart!
"Hey! You monster... don't tell me...?" Rocks's face changed drastically, glaring at Imu with wide eyes.
Imu continued to speak calmly, completely unaffected by Rocks's gaze:
"A new Davy..."
"Your wife... and son..."
"Desperately, desperately... wanting to live..."
"But... absolutely cannot... be released..."
"That is a harmful... life... must... be purged..."
"Stop—!!! What do you want to do—!!!" Rocks roared, his figure transforming into a black lightning bolt, leaping high into the sky again, his long blade savagely slashing down at Imu's regenerating body!
"Abyssal Annihilation—!!!"
The pitch-black blade light fiercely cut into Imu's broken body!
Pfft!
Imu's figure, which had just been severed by Roger, had its unhealed body sliced into three sections, with black mist surging wildly.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
At this moment, two faint yet eerie and mysterious sounds of air being torn apart rang out!
From the middle section of Imu's three severed body parts, two black spikes shot out, piercing through Rocks's body!
"Pfft! Pfft!"
With two faint sounds, two black spikes penetrated Rocks's body.
"Huh?!" Rocks looked down in confusion at the parts of his body that had been "hit."
There were no wounds, no bleeding, not even pain, only two extremely faint, cold, abnormal sensations where he was hit, instantly merging into his body and disappearing.
"No pain, no itch...?" Rocks frowned deeply, utterly bewildered.
"Mm... Imu did nothing..." Imu's conscious fluctuations continued to echo in Rocks's mind.
But then, the fluctuations suddenly deepened, like the most venomous curse, directly branded into the depths of Rocks's soul:
"The one who will exterminate your davy clan... will be yourself..."
"Go and slaughter... your own wife and son..."
"With these hands of yours... stained with the blood of your own kind..."
"Fool! What nonsense are you spouting! How could such a thing—!!" Rocks laughed in extreme anger, but his laughter had just begun when it abruptly ceased!
"Ugh—!!!"
An indescribable, intense pain originating from the depths of his soul suddenly erupted!
It wasn't physical pain, but rather as if something cold, defiled, and contrary to his will was ignited and unleashed deep within him!
The world before his eyes was instantly covered in a bloody hue, and countless chaotic, tyrannical, bloodthirsty images and whispers surged like a tide, assaulting his reason!
"Black Turn Domination!!!"
Imu's final words declared in Rocks's mind.
Evil power frantically corroded, Swirled, and took control within Rocks's body!
His muscular body began to tremble uncontrollably, his muscles strangely expanding and contracting, with black veins wriggling and protruding beneath his skin.
From his mouth, four canine teeth were visibly sharpening and lengthening, eventually transforming into hideous demonic fangs!
Behind him, a pair of enormous wings, like those of a bat, spread open!
"Ugh... Ugh ah ah ah—!!" Rocks let out a painful roar that sounded inhuman, the last remnants of reason in his eyes fighting against boundless tyranny... In the distance, Alice, who was holding young Teach and fleeing through the Burning forest, seemed to sense something, abruptly turning her head to look towards the central battlefield, her heart gripped by an inexplicable pang of pain and panic.
"Gibeck...?"
She didn't know what was happening, but a shadow far colder and more desperate than the pursuers behind her seemed to be enveloping her and her son at an even faster pace.
She remained... completely unaware of the cruel fate about to be dealt by the hands of her closest kin.
The dawn of God Valley would be stained with the darkest color by the blood of loved ones turning against each other.
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