"Descending Tri-World · Ragnarok!"
Kaido roared, raising his kanabō over his head, Blake and red lightning coiling around it, his entire body crashing toward Garp like a falling star.
Garp slightly bent his knees, laughing wildly as he threw both fists out; the ground cracked and shattered inch by inch with him as the center.
"Fist Bone · Galaxy Impact!"
Kaido's kanabō, wreathed in Blake and red arcs of electricity, collided once again with Garp's iron fists, which contained terrifying, monstrous strength.
Boom!!!
The instant the fists and the kanabō collided, the entire layer of rock beneath their feet was completely pulverized into dust, and a spherical shockwave hundreds of meters in diameter spread outwards from them.
The shockwave intertwined with the Haoshoku lightning, forming a distorted force field that even warped and deformed the space around them.
On the other side, Charlotte Linlin's massive sword energy tore through the air.
"Maser Cannon!"
The combined attack, composed of several Homies, completely engulfed the figure of the Grim Reaper.
The Grim Reaper swung its massive scythe to block.
"Death Storm!"
The Blake whirlwind stirred up by the scythe collided with the sword energy, erupting into a wave of air. Wherever the air wave passed, the remaining forest on the other side of the island was uprooted, the snow covering the trees turned into white mist, and the trees were instantly ignited like matches.
Charlotte Linlin didn't even glance at her opponent, preparing to charge toward the direction of the Ope-Ope no Mi.
Pew!
Borsalino's fingertip glowed with golden light, and a laser beam cut across Charlotte Linlin's path.
Wherever the laser passed, the rock beneath Charlotte Linlin's feet was vaporized into glass-like slag.
Slacking off is one thing, but if the two of them working together couldn't stop this old lady, it would be too obvious.
His, Borsalino's, slacking off was quite technical.
Relying on its immortal body, the Grim Reaper recovered from the explosion once again; its scythe sliced through the night sky, colliding with the emperor sword and producing a tremendous roar.
The slash was deflected, slamming into the edge of the island. Minion Island, already in ruins, had a chunk sliced off, which slowly sank into the sea amidst the waves.
Boom!
On another battlefield not far away, Fujitora's cane sword swung out violently, and the violent gravity crushed the fan-shaped area in front of him.
The gravity in the area where Number 46 was located instantly intensified several times over; the ground beneath its feet collapsed with a roar, forming a crater dozens of meters deep, with the rock layer forming a smooth cross-section, like a mirror.
The dual blades in Number 46's hands were already unsheathed. The two long swords traced elegant arcs, and wherever the blade wind passed, a brief vacuum belt appeared in space, striking directly at Fujitora.
Fujitora swung his cane sword down again.
"Hell's Journey!"
The range of the gravity field kept expanding; the reefs near the coast collapsed one after another, and seawater flooded into the island, only to be compressed into water columns that shot up into the sky.
This was originally just a sudden encounter, but due to various twists and turns, it had turned into a situation where both sides were reinforcing their troops.
Even the riot in Mary Geoise back then hadn't been able to attract so many top-tier powerhouses.
On this small island, a full six Admiral-level powerhouses had gathered, along with three members of the God's Knights.
Blake, in the different dimension, was watching with great interest.
Doesn't this beat that?
Even Blake, the instigator, hadn't expected the final situation to turn out like this.
However, none of this had anything to do with him. As long as the God's Knights were attracted, Blake could proceed with the first round of testing.
As for potential casualties during the battle?
It didn't matter; it wasn't his people getting hurt.
Almost none of the people present could become his helpers like Aramaki, so it didn't matter who lived or died.
Seeing that Blake's teacup was empty, Stella refilled it for him, seemingly completely uninterested in the battle on the island.
Under the clash of forces from the numerous top-tier powerhouses, the entire island's surface had largely collapsed.
Magma gushed out from underground, forming a magma lake over a hundred meters in diameter; gravitational distortion caused multiple depressions in space, and sword energy intertwined with lasers to form a web of death, scorching everything in its path...
That broken box containing the Ope-Ope no Mi tumbled in the turbulence, finally getting stuck between two cracks, with churning magma below and continuously falling rubble above.
"Hound Blaze!"
Sakazuki's giant magma fist transformed into a ferocious dog head, completely swallowing the upper body of the snow monster.
The high-temperature magma instantly vaporized the snow monster's body, while simultaneously leaving a pool of magma on the ground; the rock at the bottom of the pit was assimilated into magma and began to flow.
But the next second, Blake gas began to diffuse from the snow monster's body, rapidly re-condensing it.
At the same time, the magma around it had all solidified into obsidian.
Sakazuki's mindset grew increasingly impatient.
He didn't know the exact number of the God's Knights, but no matter how he thought about it, there couldn't be only three of them.
Judging from the way these three had appeared earlier, the World Government clearly possessed some kind of ability to rapidly deploy troops.
If the World Government's patience were exhausted, who knew how many more people they could deploy?
"I can't let this go on!"
Sakazuki steeled his heart. Facing the snow monster's attack, he didn't block, dodge, or avoid it, instead beginning to condense a large amount of magma in his hands.
Although the snow monster was somewhat puzzled by Sakazuki's actions, its movements didn't stop in the slightest.
"Ice Prison · Star-Crushing Fist!"
Sakazuki was three meters tall, but he still seemed somewhat petite in front of the snow monster's massive frame.
This punch landed solidly on Sakazuki's back.
Low temperature collided with high temperature, erupting into a large cloud of steam.
A mouthful of blood suddenly sprayed from Sakazuki's mouth; the blood landed on the magma, making a sizzling sound.
But immediately after, the magma in his hands had already taken shape.
"Great Eruption · Super Meteor!"
This attack wasn't aimed at the snow monster, nor was it aimed at anyone else present, but rather—
The Ope-Ope no Mi stuck in the rock crevice!
Sakazuki had figured it out: it was impossible to defeat the snow monster first and then destroy the Ope-Ope no Mi.
Not to mention the opponent's eerie recovery ability, even if he made the snow monster lose its combat capability in the short term, others would block his path forward.
Among the nine people present, seven of them had come to seize the Ope-Ope no Mi.
Everyone was fighting, but if anyone wanted to approach the box containing the Ope-Ope no Mi, they would be besieged by a group of people.
So Sakazuki simply didn't go over; he directly withstood one of the snow monster's attacks, using an injury-for-injury approach to directly destroy the Ope-Ope no Mi.
The moment steam filled the air behind Sakazuki, the magma fireball precisely hit the fruit box.
The high temperature instantly decomposed the fruit's structure, and the micro-bomb Kalifa had placed inside it also exploded, mixing with the pillar of fire caused by the magma.
Sakazuki's figure was thrown away, landing on the charred ground, and he slowly stood up.
Bloodstains still remained at the corners of his mouth, but his eyes were exceptionally bright.
The smoke slowly dispersed, and everyone on the island stopped what they were doing, staring blankly toward the direction of the Ope-Ope no Mi.
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