Rocks's figure was unsteady, his footsteps stumbling back as he fell, the back of his head slamming heavily into the ground.
Yet he seemed completely oblivious to it, swinging his blade without a hint of pain, sweeping it back in a counter-slash.
For some unknown reason, his long blade had grown larger along with him, and it now crashed through the atmosphere, slicing toward Garp's face.
But Garp didn't even look. Streaks of black and red lightning flashed upon his clenched fists, and in an instant, he unleashed dozens, even hundreds, of black-red fist shadows, bombarding the prone Rocks like an overwhelming tide!
Just as the massive blade was about to strike his face—
Roger's figure suddenly flickered into mid-air, delivering a horizontal slash that knocked the long blade from Rocks's hand.
"Don't have so much faith in me! If I hadn't made it in time, Rocks would have disemboweled you!"
Garp ignored him, focusing solely on raining frantic punches down on Rocks.
"Fist Bone! Meteor Swarm!!"
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!!
A torrential downpour of fists crashed down, every single one landing on Rocks's body, causing his entire frame to vibrate violently as the sound of muscles and bones bursting echoed incessantly.
His massive body sank deeper and deeper into the earth.
Seeing this, Roger prepared to swing his blade and follow up, aiming a slash at Rocks's waist.
Right then, the demon wings on Rocks's back flapped violently, striking the ground beneath him like a spring.
With a thunderous explosion—
His demon-king-like body forcibly carried Garp and Roger with him, charging into the high sky from the depths of the shattered earth.
He completely ignored his own body, which had been battered into a tattered mess by Garp, and threw a left hook toward Garp.
At the same time, he slashed his right-hand greatsword toward Roger.
This punch and this blade—
There were no techniques involved.
It was an explosion of pure physical strength and Haki.
But Garp and Roger, who were struck, both changed expression simultaneously. With a muffled groan, they were sent crashing from the sky toward the earth, one to the left and one to the right.
Rocks flapped his demon wings again, pursuing them downward at extreme speed. Just before Garp's back hit the ground, Rocks's massive hand reached out in a furious grasp.
"Fist Bone! Conflict!"
Garp gritted his teeth, his power exploding in short range. With a burst of inch-force, his punch slammed into the palm of Rocks's reaching hand.
Puchi!!
Rocks's massive hand was actually punched clean through by his fist!
But Rocks didn't care at all, continuing his grasp. His hand passed through Garp's fist and seized half of Garp's body.
At the same time, the greatsword in his right hand followed up with a wild downward slash.
He was aiming right at his own left hand, which was holding Garp.
He intended to slice Garp in half along with his own left hand!
"Garp!"
Roger, who had been sent flying, forcibly twisted his body and unleashed a massive air-borne slash.
Shua!
A hundred-meter-long slash shot forward, sweeping across Rocks and severing one of the demon wings on his back.
However, it failed to stop Rocks's descending blade.
Seeing that he was about to take the hit—
Garp punched the ground beneath him with a backhand. Using the violent recoil, he braced against Rocks's body, arched his back, pressed the back of his head to the ground, and delivered a flying kick to Rocks's chin.
"Don't think I only know how to use my fists!"
With a loud bang, blood sprayed from Rocks's mouth along with several broken teeth, and his body was kicked backward by Garp.
But even as he was sent flying, the greatsword in his hand still slashed down.
With a sharp sound, a burst of blood erupted from Garp's chest, and he too was sent flying, his body skipping across the ground like a stone on water.
Meanwhile, the back of the flying Rocks was suddenly pierced by a long blade.
The sharp sword light erupting from that blade was like a heavy cannon, blasting a massive hole through his chest from behind.
"Ara-Mitama!!"
Roger, his body stained with a fair amount of blood, roared as he gripped his sword with both hands.
Rocks retaliated with a backhand elbow strike. His thick arm bent backward to the limit, slamming his elbow into Roger's face.
Boom!!
Roger's face distorted violently, one eyeball turning bloodshot and swollen from the impact, while a long stream of blood sprayed from his mouth and nose.
He was sent flying sideways by the elbow strike, nearly losing his grip on his sword.
"Get out of the way! Roger!!"
At that moment, Garp's frantic roar came from the distance.
Roger forced his swollen eyes open to look, and his eyelids twitched wildly.
"Crap!"
Without a second thought, he kicked off and lunged desperately to the right.
Just as he lunged away—
A massive shadow that blotted out the sun came crashing down toward Rocks!
It was actually a mountain peak!
A thousand-meter mountain peak that looked like a pillar reaching for the heavens!
At the base of a shattered mountain in the distance—
Garp, covered in blood with his muscles bulging like knotted tree roots, roared as he opened his arms wide and dug them deep into the thousand-meter mountain that Carlo had earlier severed.
He hoisted the entire thousand-meter mountain, using it like a club to smash down upon Rocks's head!
Rumble!!!
The thousand-meter mountain slammed down, hitting Rocks directly and causing the ground for several kilometers around him to collapse and shatter.
An earth-shattering explosion resonated throughout God Valley and echoed across the entire West Blue.
God Valley, which was already sinking, was smashed into pieces by this blow. It split apart from the center like flower petals, turning into over a dozen massive landmasses.
Dust and smoke billowed into the sky.
The resulting shockwave formed an apocalyptic storm, blowing the nearby Roger away like a leaf in a gale, spinning him out of control.
In the sea outside the island, monstrous waves hundreds of meters high were instantly stirred up, pushing the few pirate ships and warships back over a dozen kilometers.
On the ships tossed atop the crests of the waves, people watched the fragmented God Valley in stunned silence, too shocked to speak.
Was this really a power that humans could possess?
An entire island had been smashed to bits!
On the fragmented God Valley island, before Roger could even stabilize himself from the shockwave—
That thousand-meter mountain pillar, which was wedged diagonally into the depths of the earth, suddenly shook violently.
The peak buried underground jolted once.
Then, before Roger's dumbfounded eyes, the entire mountain came flying up from the collapsed ground.
Rocks's tattered figure flew out right after it, delivering a downward slash.
A black-red blade light, like the Heavenly River hanging upside down, flashed across the sky.
The next second—
The thousand-meter mountain that had been thrown into the air was sliced clean through the middle with a crack.
The massive blade light's momentum remained unchecked. It cut through the mountain and slammed Garp, who was at the base of the peak, deep into the shattered earth!
Looking at Rocks, whose body was broken but whose aura showed no sign of weakening—and whose shattered body was even continuously regenerating—
Roger gritted his teeth and charged once more.
"This is never-ending!"
In the distance, the blood-covered Garp also charged out again, coming in for the kill with his blood-stained fists clenched tight.