In the sky, three swift figures darted past, colliding fiercely before quickly separating.
Rocks glanced at the two who now looked rather disheveled, a sinister smile flickering across his lips.
"Whoosh!!"
Rocks tightly gripped his supreme greatsword, the blade scraping against space, emitting a violent sonic boom, like a bolt of lightning streaking across the sky.
The blade edge was razor-sharp, carrying an endless wave of energy.
The demonic flames on the blade surged, causing the space around it to distort violently, as if a black hole was about to devour everything.
"Divine Demon Flame Devour!!"
A sword aura that dominated the heavens and earth shot out in an instant, heading straight for Garp.
Garp pupils contracted sharply. Even from a distance, he could feel the terror of this sword aura.
At this moment, he desperately wanted to dodge Rocks' attack, but the speed of the sword aura was too fast.
By the time Garp reacted, it was already upon him.
Moreover, this strike seemed to seal off all his escape routes, leaving him no way to avoid it.
He had no choice but to take it head-on.
Garp brow furrowed tightly, and without hesitation, his aura surged. Armament Haki covered his entire body.
His dark muscles bulged even more, and the power in his arms seemed ready to burst forth.
He crossed his arms in front of his chest, and at that moment, they seemed as impenetrable as a fortress.
Meanwhile, Roger, who was beside Garp, had already sensed Rocks' intentions the moment he made his move.
Rocks planned to focus his power to eliminate one of them first, then deal with the other.
But Roger wasn't about to let Rocks succeed. He gripped his supreme greatsword, Ace, and infused it with black flames. Conqueror's Haki coiled around the blade.
With a low roar, he shouted.
"Divine Departure!!"
A terrifying black sword aura formed at the tip of Ace and shot straight toward Rocks' attack.
The two sword auras tore through space, leaving long cracks in the air where they passed.
In the next instant.
The two forces collided.
However, there was no deafening explosion as one might expect. Instead, Roger's sword aura mysteriously vanished.
Only Rocks' purple-black sword aura remained in the air.
The demonic flames devoured!!
Rocks' sword aura had completely swallowed Roger.
The two differently colored energy waves clashed in the air, but in the end, Ace sword aura was completely obliterated.
However, the power of the purple-black sword aura had diminished slightly, but it continued to shoot straight toward Garp without any deviation.
In an instant.
Garp body, upon contact with the sword aura, was sent flying backward like a meteor, covering hundreds of meters in an instant.
"Boom!!"
A deafening roar echoed throughout the God Valley as Garp body slammed heavily into the ground.
A massive crater formed in the area, with thick gray smoke billowing upward.
"Garp!!" Roger exclaimed in shock.
As the gray smoke from the crater slowly dissipated, a figure shot out from within.
"You're still alive? You're really tough!" Rocks said, his face pale.
The figure that leaped out of the crater was none other than Garp, who now stood beside Roger.
His arms were a bloody mess. A large scar extended from his left forearm to the back of his hand, and there was a deep, bone-exposing wound on his right arm, though it was smaller compared to the one on his left.
Both arms were drenched in blood, continuously dripping, and both palms had been stained red.
If Garp hadn't blocked Rocks' slash in time, he might have been killed on the spot.
"Taking my life won't be that easy!" Garp said in a deep voice.
"Kihahaha! Then let's continue!"
With that, Rocks' Conqueror's Haki surged once again, reaching a terrifying level. The aura he unleashed shot straight into the sky.
The dark clouds summoned by Kaido were instantly dispersed, like a laser cannon fired from the ground into the clouds, except this laser wasn't red but a deep purple-black.
Rocks held the Supreme Grade Great Blade horizontally in front of him, his eyes flickering with a blood-red light.
"Divine Punishment: Finale!"
As his words fell, the entire Supreme Grade Great Blade expanded, and the demonic flames on it seemed to solidify, clinging tightly to the blade.
In the next moment, Rocks swung the blade forward with a single hand.
In an instant, the entire world turned dark, as if the sun had been extinguished.
"What's going on? Why did it suddenly get dark?"
"I don't know! Where did the sun go?"
"Hey! It's bright again!"
"Look, what's that in the sky?"
Amidst the clamor of the crowd, the dark world regained its light in the blink of an eye.
In the sky, a pitch-black sword appeared in front of Rocks, so dark it seemed to absorb even the sunlight.
"Whoosh!!"
The black sword energy shot out, locked onto Garp.
Garp took a deep breath. At this moment, there was no trace of fear on his face, only calmness.
He clenched his fists, pouring all his Armament Haki into them.
The bleeding from his wounds stopped, and the red on his fists disappeared—not because the blood was gone, but because his fists had turned pitch black, so dark that the red was no longer visible, just like the color of Rocks' sword energy.
At this moment, Garp channeled all his strength and Haki into his fists, preparing for a life-or-death struggle.
Seeing this, Roger expression changed drastically. He knew the power of Rocks' attack and immediately swung his sword, trying to help Garp deflect it.
However, a loud, urgent voice interrupted his action.
"Don't worry about me! Use this opening to kill Rocks!" Garp shouted.
He knew this was the only chance.
Hearing this, Roger paused, his brow furrowed in hesitation.
"Hurry! There's no time!" Garp yelled anxiously.
Roger face twisted in agony as he struggled internally.
One option was to help his good friend Garp, the other was to kill Rocks.
"For the greater good, hurry!!" Garp was now roaring.
"Damn it!!" Roger cursed.
In a flash, he changed direction and charged straight at Rocks.
Rocks, who had just unleashed a massive attack, was now drained of energy.
Seeing Roger coming at him in this opening, he smiled helplessly and raised his Great Blade to block.
"Thud!"
The sound of the blade cutting through flesh echoed as Roger sword sent Rocks' Great Blade flying.
The Supreme Grade Great Blade, Ace, pierced through Rocks' body, emerging from the other side.
The blade that pierced through the back was stained with crimson blood.
Under the sunlight, it appeared both alluring and blinding!
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