A Despair-Inducing Offensive

The Beasts Pirates had always revered strength above all else.

Those who waited, those who reveled, Gifters, True Hits, Banebreakers, the Tobi Roppo, and the All-Stars.

Each rank was defined by strength.

Setting everything else aside, take the Tobi Roppo, who had only six positions, as an example.

Every member who had previously occupied one of those positions had been an Ancient Zoan user.

The All-Stars, one level higher, had also all been Ancient Zoan users.

That alone was enough to reveal a great deal.

Zoan abilities had always been labeled as the easiest to master.

But Ancient Zoans were far beyond what ordinary Zoans could compare with.

Strength, defense, and speed.

From the moment they ate an Ancient Zoan Devil Fruit, a user's overall physical abilities would immediately increase dramatically.

Yet Ancient Zoan Devil Fruits were exceedingly rare. Even after searching the entire world, there were only around a dozen of them.

Now.

With Ancient Zoan Devil Fruits being artificially created and mass-produced,

the limitation of quantity had been forcibly shattered, and the embryonic form of a terrifying army had been born.

That was why Kaido was so excited.

No one in the entire world understood Zoans better than he did, and no one knew more clearly than he did how valuable Zoans were in war.

The New True Hits were the new title given to this group of Ancient Zoan users within the Beasts Pirates.

Today.

Under Queen's command, the New True Hits had come to subdue Yamato and test their own combat strength.

Their appearance left Yamato utterly stunned.

Unlike ordinary Zoans, Ancient Zoan Devil Fruits were exceedingly rare in the world.

That was basic common knowledge.

Yet the sudden appearance of more than a hundred Ancient Zoan users completely overturned Yamato's common sense.

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