Navy's Highest Combat Power's Seamless Clutch!

"Creak—ka ka ka!"

The ear-splitting sound of twisting metal echoed above the shattered Gold City.

Admiral "Ryokugyu," Aramaki, stood atop the ruins with both hands pressed firmly against the ground, unleashing the power of the Woods-Woods Fruit within him like a breached flood.

Black-skinned vines as thick as ancient giant pythons, seemingly filled with endless greed and vitality, frantically climbed and coiled around the golden giant's legs.

The golden giant, weighing hundreds of thousands of tons, let out a painful metallic groan under the vines' clutch.

Gild Tesoro controlled the giant golden arms and fiercely grabbed the three main vines wrapped around his waist.

"Break for me!!!"

With Tesoro's furious roar, the golden giant's arms erupted with terrifying strength.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The three tough vines, each over ten meters thick, were forcibly torn apart. Wood chips mixed with green sap exploded through the air like a torrential rain!

However, before Tesoro could even catch his breath, Ryokugyu's mocking voice pierced through the battlefield:

"Hahaha! Struggle, Tesoro! Struggle with everything you have, like a bug caught in a net! The harder you fight, the tighter my forest will bind you!"

Just as Ryokugyu had said, within a tenth of a second, the severed ends of those vines split like tentacles into ten, then a hundred finer and tougher thorny barbs!

They drove themselves into the golden giant's body from vicious angles.

Wave after wave of green instantly swallowed half of the golden giant's body, pinning it firmly in the middle of the ruins like an enormous golden beetle trapped in an abyssal spiderweb.

Tesoro had fallen into an unprecedented desperate situation.

If his opponent had been a warrior-type strong one who favored pure physical destruction, Tesoro, in his hundred-meter golden giant form, would never have been forced into such a