Just as planned.
When Dalmatian and Oven led Onoki, Jiraiya, A, Rasa, and the others to within five hundred meters of the Gate of Hades and took up positions in four directions according to their groups, they noticed that the artillery fire from the three artillery regiments behind them quickly died down.
Seeing this, Dalmatian and Oven led A, Kazahana Eiji, Daichi Terumi, Kaguya Kunio, and ten Conquerors to quickly run to a point less than two hundred meters from the Gate of Hades and brace for battle.
"They're here!"
Dalmatian shouted as he watched demons pour out in clusters from the black spatial rift.
At the same time, his body began to undergo drastic changes.
His muscles swelled, his frame grew larger, his ten fingers thickened and sharpened, white fur with black spots grew across his skin, and a tail of the same color swished back and forth beneath his Coat of Justice.
This was the Hybrid Form of the Spotted Dog form of the Zoan Dog-Dog Fruit!
Yet that was not all.
White mist ribbons flecked with black spots emerged around Dalmatian's body, while the tip of his dog tail formed into a blazing flame plume of the same color.
The awakened form of a Zoan user!
Clearly, he had not remained stagnant during these years of conquering countless worlds. His strength had already surpassed that of his counterpart twenty-one years later in the original story.
Perhaps that was why Dalmatian dared to act so domineeringly before Charlotte Oven?
Because he was now fully qualified to be promoted to Admiral.
In fact, it was not just Dalmatian. The other officers, including Charlotte Oven, were the same.
The cultivation methods for the advanced Armament Haki technique, Internal Destruction—Ryou—and the advanced Observation Haki technique, Future Sight, publicly revealed under Imu's