Though Robin usually appears as a gentle, composed older sister, when her comrades are humiliated or worse... killed, her quiet rage will inevitably bring extreme, brutal punishment upon the enemy.
What Celestial Dragons? What Five Elders? What gods?
Transformed into a colossal, multi-armed demon, she was willing to annihilate the gods and destroy the world for her friends!
This absolute, unfiltered fury allowed Robin to fully comprehend the advanced application of Armament Haki in the heat of battle.
Combined with her gigantic Demonio form, her destructive output was currently no less than Luffy's Gear Fourth.
It could be said that in this specific moment of rage, she had reached the same destructive tier as the monster trio, perhaps even surpassing them slightly in raw, AoE crushing power.
Her furious, giant black fists relentlessly struck Saturn, not stopping even as the bedrock caved in and the surrounding mangrove forest shattered into splinters.
BAM! CRUNCH! SMASH!
Only when the massive Hybrid form of the Ox-Demon was literally smashed into a bloody, unrecognizable pulp did Robin finally cancel her Demonic transformation.
Panting heavily with tears welling in her eyes, she looked down at the bleached skull resting near her feet.
"Mr. Bones..." she whispered, her voice trembling.
Just as Robin was about to bend down to gently pick up Brook's skull... the skeleton head actually opened its jaw.
"Robin-san... please don't move. Let me quietly admire your panties from this angle."
Robin froze. "...Eek?!"
WHACK!
"Nami-san, please stop kicking me! I might really die soon! Although... I'm already dead! Yohohoho!"
Indeed, the moment Nami returned to the scene with Franky to support Robin, she saw this skull acting like an absolute pervert and immediately started stomping on it with her boots, "rewarding" him relentlessly.
Robin, however, wasn't angry at all.
Instead, she let out a breath and showed a beautiful, relieved smile.
"It's good that he can still say stupid things like that."
Hearing this, Nami pouted, crossing her arms and scolded Robin for being way too tolerant of a pervert like Brook.
While the three were playfully bickering, the bloody pulp of the Ox-Demon that Robin had smashed into the crater actually began bubbling and restoring itself.
Saturn reformed, utterly furious.
Being beaten into paste like this by a mere human woman was an absolute, unforgivable humiliation.
Without another word, he raised his head, about to use his invisible Malevolent Eye to blow Robin's head off in retaliation.
SHING!
But at that exact moment, a cane sword carrying a freezing absolute cold stabbed straight into his demonic ass.
Cold.
Bone-piercing, unnatural cold.
Turning his head in shock, Saturn saw that it was the headless skeleton's body that had done it.
The Chill of the Underworld spread rapidly from Brook's blade, its temperature so absurdly low that it instantly froze one-fifth of Saint Saturn's massive body solid, halting his attack.
Just then, a small, dark thundercloud floated over and positioned itself squarely above Saturn's head.
"ZEUS BREEZE TEMPO!"
It was the Thundercloud Homie that Nami and Franky had just created in the forest.
Coincidentally, Nami had also named it Zeus.
Moreover, this specific thundercloud was forged using fragments of the Demonic Clouds brought forth by Ray's aura.
Not only did it contain the destructive power of natural lightning, but it also carried the highly corrosive, dark Demonic Power of the Demon God.
KZZZT—BOOM!
In an instant, the "great" Saturn lost his ability to move again, his entire body blasted pitch-black, electrocuted, and frozen rigid in the crater.
Brook's headless body took the opportunity to run back to Nami and Robin, picking up his skull and casually reattaching it to his spine with a click.
When his head was separated from his body earlier, he had experienced a flash of insight, fully comprehending the teachings in Ray's "Development Manual."
He could now actively draw and utilize a portion of true underworld Power.
The most obvious manifestation was this Underworld Chill.
Not only could it freeze and injure the enemy's physical body, but it could also freeze them solid to the bone, creating a powerful crowd-control effect that even an Elder struggled to break instantly.
Between life and death, all three of them—Robin, Nami, and Brook—had broken through their limits in combat power.
Exchanging determined glances, the three of them rushed together toward the remaining eight giant nightmare dragons rampaging through the area.
As for the other nightmare monsters that Killingham had sent to slaughter ordinary people on the other groves?
They could only feel burning anger at the sheer arrogance and cruelty of the Celestial Dragons, but they were currently powerless to help the civilians.
Even after their breakthroughs, they weren't sure if they could even protect themselves against the dragons right in front of them.
...
On the battlefield of the monster trio.
In Gear 4: Boundman, Luffy's Haki consumption was immense, and he was now operating his rubber body far beyond its natural limits.
After using an attack like Kong Organ barrage to finally kill another giant black dragon, he exhausted the last of his stamina and Haki.
HISSSS.
He drifted to the ground like a deflated balloon, utterly drained.
Meanwhile, Sanji, having taken far too much point-blank fire damage from a Black Dragon to protect Zoro's blind spot, was also kneeling on the scorched ground.
His trademark suit was ruined, his body pitch-black from soot and burns, struggling even to lift a finger.
After consecutively using his ultimate techniques to slay two black dragons back-to-back, Zoro was also physically and mentally drained.
He forcibly propped himself up with Shusui, blood dripping from his forehead, glaring unwillingly at the next massive evil dragon charging toward him with jaws wide open.
'Is this... the end?'
Zoro glanced at the distant, sky-shattering battlefield where Ray and Shamrock were fighting, and shook his head bitterly.
Ray couldn't help him either.
That red-haired man's combat power was too overwhelming, completely halting Ray's advance.
This was the true price for killing a Celestial Dragon—no pirate crew in the entire world could easily bear the full wrath of the World Government's peak forces.
Even a crew as powerful as a Yonko's would be pushed to the brink.
Ray was unfathomably strong, but facing an unending stream of immortal Elders and Yonko-level God's Knights all at once, even he was stretched thin.
And they had only survived this long because legendary pirates like Rayleigh and Shakky had stepped in to help.
If they couldn't break through their own limits right now, today would surely be their execution day on this island.
Not to mention these terrifyingly powerful black dragons, Killingham had also just finished rescuing the immobilized Gunko from Robin's plant trap.
The balance of power had completely collapsed back in favor of the Gods.
Their allied crews who had come to follow them were truly out of luck today.
At this moment, Zoro only regretted his "insufficient" training time.
Why did he need to sleep three hours every day?!
If he had put in 200 times more effort than others, he could have at least held back one of these enemy experts!
But it was too late for regrets now.
The giant dragon had pounced right in front of him, its jaws snapping shut, on the verge of swallowing him whole.
Just then.
BAM!
A pink figure blurred into view, and an arm as massive as Luffy's Gear Third slammed incredibly hard into the side of the black dragon's face.
The 30-meter-long dragon head was knocked violently askew by the tremendous force, crashing heavily into the dirt and missing Zoro entirely.
Bonney, currently in her adult form, had appeared and saved Zoro from being devoured.
She turned to look at the exhausted swordsman, placing a hand on her hip.
"My dad said adults shouldn't talk about giving up."
Zoro was stunned for a moment upon hearing this, staring at the Supernova.
Then, despite his bleeding wounds, he laughed heartily.
"Hah... You're right. I actually got lectured by a little girl of all people."
Zoro gripped his swords tighter, his knuckles turning white.
"If I can't even get past these overgrown lizards... what right do I have to become the world's greatest swordsman?!"
An unfamiliar yet deeply familiar power suddenly surged from deep within Zoro's soul.
His pupils flickered with a dangerous, dark green light.
The Three Sword Style swordsman rose to his feet once more, his battle intent blazing hotter than the dragon's fire!
'Conqueror's Haki? If I can feel it... then I can use it!'
Zoro closed his eyes, took a deep breath to adjust his battered body, and sensed the two distinct types of Haki flowing within him—one for absolute, cutting destruction, the other for reigning supreme over the weak!
When he opened his eyes, thick, jagged dark red lightning danced aggressively across his three blades.
His entire aura became distinctly different—feral, overwhelming, and demonic.
"Whoa..."
Though Bonney didn't know exactly what Conqueror's Haki Infusion was, she guessed it was probably the terrifying aura now emanating from Zoro.
Uncle Ray had it, and those evil Celestial Dragons had it too.
But each person's Conqueror's Haki seemed slightly different.
Zoro's felt like an Asura stepping onto the battlefield!
At the exact same time, in another direction a kilometer away in the forest, dark red lightning was also flashing violently.
...
Half a minute earlier.
Luffy had fallen deep into the jungle canopy due to the paralyzing side effects of Gear Fourth.
Bartolomeo happened to be running right through that area.
Seeing his idol fall, he immediately crossed his fingers and raised an unbreakable barrier dome, helping Luffy block a black dragon lunging at them from the sky.
CRASH!
Although the black dragon couldn't bite through the barrier itself, the ground beneath Bartolomeo and Luffy struggled to withstand the dragon's immense, crushing weight and pressure.
Just as the bedrock was about to shatter completely, threatening to plunge them into the sea below—
At that critical moment, the primal energy stored deep within Luffy finally erupted.
Burning his absolute potential, he forced his rubber body back to its peak.
Dark red, supreme Conqueror's Haki began coiling thickly around his iron fists.
"Hmph... if using Ryuo is too much effort against you thick-skinned lizards..."
Luffy grinned, the undeniable aura of a true conqueror beginning to emerge from the boy in the straw hat.
"...Then I'll just wrap it in Conqueror's Haki!"
…
Meanwhile.
Sanji, who had been nearly charred black and beaten into the dirt, also sensed bizarre, fundamental changes occurring within his own body.
In fact, ever since Enies Lobby, he had quietly noticed his body developing in a strange direction.
His bones, muscles, and skin were all becoming increasingly hard.
Unnaturally hard.
It was as if he were turning into a machine—powerful, yes, but utterly terrifying to him.
Sanji knew very well what this was.
This was the modified genetic trait of the Vinsmoke family, the cold, emotionless ability he hated and feared the absolute most in this world.
Perhaps due to Ray's intense, life-threatening training regimen, this latent ability had finally begun to forcibly awaken.
But he had always subconsciously suppressed it, refusing to face it.
He was terrified that once his lineage factor fully awakened, he would lose his emotions and become exactly like his brothers—heartless humans who only followed orders and lost their humanity.
Today, however, his physical injuries were too severe, pushing him past the brink of death.
This triggered the ultimate protective mechanism encoded in his genes.
His lineage factor had finally, irreversibly awakened.
His exoskeleton was forming.
Was there still any need to fear it?
'No!'
Sanji slowly stood up, the flames on his leg burning hotter and brighter than ever before, transitioning from orange to a blinding, demonic blue.
He had made up his mind.
Even if he became an artificial human, so what? Even if he became a monster, who cares?
His friends came first!
He would not allow any of them to die before him.
Today, he would transform into a demon of the sea and burn these so-called gods to ashes!
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