World Destroyer? Carry Him Away, Next

Purple light flashed.

Centered on Rosen, a semicircular barrier spread outward in every direction. Black-red lightning coiled around it like black dragons, meeting Bondy Wald's 100x Slash head-on with an indestructible stance.

The instant Bondy Wald brought his foot down in fury and struck the Outer Shell Still Blood Armor, waves of overwhelming shockwaves erupted. Even Impel Down, the prison built upon the sea, shook violently.

However.

After taking the attack head-on, Rosen's Outer Shell Still Blood Armor trembled violently, yet its surface remained completely unharmed. Instead, Bondy Wald's Armament Haki-hardened right foot was directly shaken apart, its Haki dispersing as it reverted to normal.

That was not all.

Purple streams of light slithered across the surface of the Outer Shell Still Blood Armor like awakened spirit serpents, seizing the chance to crawl up his right foot.

Some of the purple light directly eroded his skin and flesh, turning into tattoo-like patterns that covered his body.

Other streams traveled up his right leg and entered the bone-deep wound on his chest that Rosen had inflicted earlier, reaching deep inside.

"Aah!"

Bondy Wald wanted to raise his foot again and use Armament Haki Coating Hardening, bringing his left leg down like a battle axe to completely shatter Rosen's Outer Shell Still Blood Armor. But he suddenly felt an uncontrollable swelling sensation within his body, followed by agonizing pain that tore at his heart.

In an instant, the skin across his body turned red and swollen. Then blood began pouring wildly from his nostrils, eyes, ears, and mouth.

Especially from the wound on his chest that Rosen had cut earlier—it was as though countless tomatoes had been crushed inside it. Streams of scarlet blood burst from the wound like fountains, splashing across Rosen's Outer Shell Still Blood Armor and staining the semicircular barrier crimson.

Bondy Wald's eyes rolled back. His giant-like swollen body rapidly shrank back to normal before he fell helplessly from the air, collapsing at Rosen's feet.

Blood streamed from every pore of his body, quickly forming a pool of thick, scarlet blood on the ground.

"What happened?"

Seeing Bondy Wald suddenly vomit blood and collapse, the most shocked person was none other than Domino.

Outer Shell Still Blood Armor.

She had not forgotten that Rosen had used this move on the Fifth Layer, Extreme Cold Hell, to shield her from the freezing cold and frost.

But now.

The World Destroyer had actually died beneath that very move.

"So that's it."

"He used Still Blood Armor on his enemy?"

"He combined Flowing Emission, Internal Destruction, and Still Blood Armor to create the Outer Shell Still Blood Armor. Once someone physically touches that semicircular barrier formed from Rosen's Armament Haki, his Armament Haki flows into their body, eroding their flesh and even penetrating beneath the surface to enter their body and inject itself into their blood vessels."

A look of realization flashed through Zefa's eyes.

As Rosen's teacher, and the person who understood his abilities best, he saw Bondy Wald's cause of death at a glance.

It made him marvel at Rosen's incredibly precise control over Haki.

Anyone else—even himself or Garp—could only drive Armament Haki into Bondy Wald's body and attack his internal organs directly.

But where exactly it struck was not something they could control.

To defend while also making his Haki flow into Bondy Wald's body, then exerting even finer control to inject that Haki into his blood vessels and unleash devastating Internal Destruction—only Rosen could do something like that.

Neither he, Zefa, nor Hero Garp could accomplish it.

"In terms of Haki control—no, in terms of Armament Haki techniques—he has completely surpassed me. No, he has surpassed everyone at Marine Headquarters."

Zefa looked at Rosen's back, a gratified smile appearing on his face.

He had already retired and devoted the rest of his life to nurturing the Marines' young talents.

For a teacher, nothing was more gratifying than seeing his students surpass him.

"How did he do that?"

Shiryu felt a chill run down his spine, yet he could not make sense of it no matter how hard he tried.

"Junior."

"You really are terrifying, like a monster."

Borsalino shook his head.

During Rosen's clash with Bondy Wald, he had nearly been unable to stop himself from intervening several times.

After all, Rosen had been exposed to Haki for far too short a time.

At most, it had only been three days. Although Bondy Wald was not particularly powerful, he had earned the title of World Destroyer entirely because of the Momo Fruit's inherent danger.

The result, however, took him by surprise. Rosen had not only defeated Bondy Wald cleanly and decisively, but had controlled the pace of the entire battle from beginning to end.

His only injury was that his clothes had gotten slightly dirty.

"Dead?"

"He actually beat Bondy Wald to death."

"That Marine brat can use Conqueror's Haki Coating!"

"Damn it."

"It would have been one thing if a king possessing Conqueror's Haki had emerged among the Marines, but he can even use a technique like Conqueror's Haki Coating."

The Sixth Level Prisoners who had witnessed Rosen kill Bondy Wald were all stunned.

It was not only because of Rosen's strength, but also because of the techniques he had displayed in battle.

His Armament Haki techniques had already reached a pinnacle beyond comprehension.

And then there was Conqueror's Haki Coating.

That was the symbol of a king!

Yet it had appeared in a student who had not even graduated from Navy School.

"World Destroyer?"

Rosen dismissed the Outer Shell Still Blood Armor. Ignoring the prisoners' cries of shock, he glanced at Bondy Wald, who lay sprawled at his feet with every blood vessel in his body ruptured and no trace of life remaining.

"Carry him away."

"Next."

He directly told Domino to carry away Bondy Wald's corpse, then called for the next prisoner.

No wonder Rosen was so eager.

In his battle against Bondy Wald, aside from not fully unleashing the Weapon-Weapon Fruit, he had gone all out with all Three Colors of Haki and used every technique he had created or learned.

The battle had been immensely satisfying, and it had further increased the strength of all Three Colors of Haki.

Your comprehension is heaven-defying. Through your battle with Bondy Wald, combined with training in Qi Body Origin Flow, your Three Colors of Haki have undergone a breakthrough enhancement.

Armament Haki strength increased by 225%.

Observation Haki strength increased by 183%.

Conqueror's Haki strength increased by 110%.

Of the Three Colors of Haki, even Conqueror's Haki, which had improved the least, had more than doubled.

Observation Haki had increased by over a hundred percent, nearly doubling.

As for the greatest increase, it was naturally his Armament Haki, which he had used repeatedly from the beginning of the battle until he killed Bondy Wald.

It had increased by more than twofold.

Beyond the tangible gains, there were hidden gains as well.

The increase in Haki had made the Three-Color Qi Infant grow larger, greatly increasing the speed at which he cultivated the Three Colors of Haki.

"The stronger the opponent's Haki, the greater the improvement?"

Rosen recalled his earlier Conqueror's Haki clash with Douglas Bullet.

They had not directly fought, but the Devil's Descendant's Conqueror's Haki was simply too powerful. Even though they had only clashed intensely for a short while, it had still increased Rosen's Conqueror's Haki by more than twofold.

Unlike Bondy Wald—after a real fight with blades and fists, even the Armament Haki that had gained the most had not improved as much as it had from one clash of Conqueror's Haki with Douglas Bullet.

Rosen was not surprised by this.

The stronger the person one fought, the greater the risk.

If the gap in Haki was too vast, one would often be killed before one's own Haki could improve.

And why had Douglas Bullet possessed Emperor-level strength before even reaching twenty?

Outstanding talent was a necessary condition, but there were many people in these seas whose talent matched or even surpassed Bullet's.

The core reason was that he had fought Roger, Rayleigh, Jabba, and the others in extreme battles day and night.

After all, those people would at most hang Douglas Bullet up and beat him; they would not actually kill him.

Over time, after enough battles, even without Qi Body Origin Flow or Six Paths Immortal Thief, Douglas Bullet had still ground his way to Emperor-level combat power under the rotating sparring of the Roger Pirates' three kings.