Having been pushed back to the edge of the island, the two giants heard Cyrus's words and exchanged a look, both seeing the shock in the other's eyes.
'Where in the world did this person come from?'
There was no need to continue.
The two giants were already well aware of the gap between them and this human.
"Are you Rocks? Or Roger?" Dorry asked in a booming voice, watching the floating Cyrus warily.
"Hmm?"
Cyrus was taken aback.
It wasn't strange that the giants knew these two names; after all, they were the overlords of two different eras on the sea.
"People who came here before talked about them. They said those two were the strongest humans on the sea," Brogy said in a muffled voice.
"That was a long time ago. Even Roger has been dead for over a decade."
These two giants were so focused on fighting that their information was severely outdated.
Or perhaps, not long after Roger's death, Crocodile had arrived in Alabasta, set his sights on these two giants, and began secretly capturing pirates here.
So no one else had come to Little Garden?
"I thought you were one of those two," Dorry said, scratching his head.
"Do you really want to witness our combined attack? It's not an attack a human can block," Brogy said.
Hearing that Cyrus wasn't one of the two people he remembered, he didn't ask any more questions.
"Come on, come on, that's why I'm here. Don't worry, I won't die."
'I can lock my HP!'
Besides, Cyrus didn't think this attack could even trigger his Unyielding skill.
Hearing Cyrus's reply, the two giants looked at each other and nodded in unison.
"Gegyagyagyagya! Since you want to witness it, we'll grant your wish."
Dorry laughed heartily, a sound that made Cyrus's expression turn strange.
"Gabababababa! This is the ultimate technique of Elbaf, the Elbaf Spear! It is our pride!"
Brogy also threw his head back and laughed.
"If I wanted to learn it, could I?"
Looking at the two giants laughing uproariously, Cyrus suddenly asked.
The strange laughter of the two giants came to an abrupt halt.
"This is a technique only giants can master!" the two giants said in unison.
"Is that so? Well, let me try it first!"
After speaking, Cyrus glanced at Little Garden behind him, then floated to the seaside and landed.
The two men looked at Cyrus, their expressions turning serious.
"We must ask one more time. Are you sure you want to try and take our Elbaf Spear?" Dorry said with a grave expression.
"Bring it!"
Cyrus gripped his sword and looked at the two giants.
On the sea in the distance, a pirate ship was leaving the island.
Onboard, Galdino and his men saw Cyrus and the two giants on the shore and suddenly had a bad feeling.
In the sky, Issho and Robin stood on the floating ship, staring in the direction of Cyrus and the two giants.
"He should be fine, right? Cyrus can even block an Admiral attack," Robin said, her tone a little worried.
"As his companion, you should trust him. Although he is not old, I can feel that he already has confidence before he does something."
Issho's Observation Haki could sense Robin's worry beside him, so he spoke up.
Robin nodded, but worry still lingered in her eyes.
...
At the seaside.
A peculiar aura began to emanate from the two giants' bodies.
This aura wrapped around the weapons in their hands.
Cyrus was stunned.
'Conqueror's Haki?'
'No, it's not Conqueror's Haki.'
'A special kind of energy?'
Cyrus's eyes were fixed on the two giants' movements.
Their presence grew stronger and stronger.
Red and green light became visible to the naked eye on their weapons.
The two of them stared at Cyrus, a hint of anticipation in their eyes.
Could this human really block this attack?
Voom!
Armament Haki wrapped around Cyrus's arm, flowing into the sword in his hand.
No matter how strong this attack was, his life wouldn't be in danger.
But what he wanted was to block this attack completely by himself.
"Aaaah~!"
"Aaaah!"
The two giants suddenly let out a great roar, swinging their weapons at Cyrus in unison.
"HAKOKU!"
"It's a shockwave from a slash!"
As a Master Swordsman, Cyrus instantly identified the nature of the attack.
The two identical attacks collided and merged, becoming a single, tremendously powerful circular shockwave.
The shockwave plowed a deep trench in the ground and reached Cyrus in the blink of an eye.
Cyrus's eyes widened, and he took a sudden step forward with his left foot.
He raised Flame high with his right hand, and facing the shockwave that had already rushed before him, he brought it down in a slash.
The sword and the shockwave collided, and a colossal force assaulted Cyrus.
His feet slid backward. Cyrus gritted his teeth and gripped the hilt with his left hand as well.
The shockwave ground against the Armament Haki-infused blade.
Boom!
The shockwave flashed past. On the sea surface behind Cyrus, two deep trenches appeared, stretching to the end of the line of sight.
After the two shockwaves passed, giant waves churned and spread out to the sides.
In the middle, the giant waves stirred up by the shockwaves collided, sending seawater splashing hundreds of meters high.
"Run!"
Galdino and his men's eyes nearly bulged out as they watched the towering waves and the trenches in the sea.
Then they fled for their lives.
Issho and Robin watched nervously.
Dorry and Brogy, who had unleashed the attack, stared straight ahead.
The dust and smoke cleared. Cyrus stood with both hands on his sword.
There were marks on the ground where his feet had slid back, but not far.
Hoo!
Cyrus exhaled, and wisps of white smoke drifted from his mouth.
"That packed a punch!" Cyrus exclaimed with feeling.
[HP: 79%]
Even though he had blocked the attack with his sword, the collision in that instant had dropped his health by that much.
In terms of raw destructive power, this attack was fiercer than the attacks Aokiji and Kizaru had used.
Of course, it was also possible that when they fought him, Aokiji and Kizaru weren't truly going all out, so they hadn't used their strongest techniques.
"He actually blocked it!"
Dorry stared at Cyrus sheathing his sword, utterly dumbfounded.
"How incredible. Are humans on the sea this strong now? A hundred years ago, no one could take that attack head-on."
Brogy was also deeply moved.
"I didn't take it head-on. Didn't you see the shockwave was split apart?" Cyrus said upon hearing them.
To block it completely, the shockwave's force wouldn't have split at all.
His sword had merely cleaved the shockwave in two.
But the result was the same, and Cyrus was already very satisfied with the current outcome.
He was genuinely interested in this technique, which was different from yet similar to a slash.
However, such an attack had extremely high requirements for strength, or rather, physique.
Needless to say, the physique of the giant race was immense.
Charlotte Linlin and Kaido, who could also use this move, were also monstrous in terms of physique.
Perhaps it also required a massive weapon to execute this move.
Whether it was Napoleon or Kaido's Spiked Club, both were much larger than normal weapons.
Cyrus pondered the possibility of replicating this move himself.
If his constitution was strong enough, perhaps it was really possible.
Moreover, when the two of them used this technique, the way the energy wrapped around them reminded Cyrus of Conqueror's Haki Emission.