Boom!
The giant sand fist shattered, but the crystal fist kept charging forward, unstoppable and ferocious. Crocodile exploded into fine sand, then re-formed in the distance, a trickle of blood at the corner of his mouth.
Crocodile's face darkened, disbelief flickering in his eyes.
He had actually lost the clash.
He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and held it before his eyes. It was glaringly red!
"I'm Crocodile, damn it."
Unable to bear the humiliation, Crocodile flew into a rage.
He roared and stamped his right foot against the ground.
"Erosion Samsara!"
"Tsar!"
With a furious, hysterical roar, a sandstorm spread outward from Crocodile. Everything it touched cracked and turned to fine sand. In the blink of an eye, the area had become a desert.
The ground, the reinforced concrete buildings—everything was reduced to fine sand. All living plants within range withered as their moisture was drained away.
Then the entire earth shook with the force of an eighth-magnitude earthquake. In the vast desert, a towering hand made of fine sand rose up and pressed against the ground. A head, neck, and body steadily emerged. Far away, the pirate thugs watching the battle stared in stunned disbelief.
It was a hundred-meter-tall sand giant, identical in appearance to Crocodile. A massive spinning swastika symbol loomed behind it, and it wore a sand-coated overcoat, its hair slicked back. Standing behind Crocodile, it looked down over the battlefield as fine sand continuously slid from its body!
A thousand meters above, Chaos looked equally astonished.
This was the first time he had seen Crocodile use this move.
He had often discussed ways to develop Devil Fruit powers with Crocodile, Stussy, and the others, but he hadn't expected Crocodile to develop a move like this.
It was no different from Goddess