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Secret Technique—Ghost Step.

Secret Technique—Resonance Acupoint Strike.

Cook's figure vanished and flashed like a ghost. With Armament Haki coating his fingers, he struck over a hundred prisoners within a dozen seconds.

The prisoners hit were instantly left rigid.

The attacks contained not only Haki, but also a strange hidden force that instantly disrupted the body's cellular chemical signals.

A living organism's internal mechanisms operated through chemical signals. Even the nervous system's control over the body was, in essence, a form of chemical signaling.

Once the chemical signals Inside Body were disrupted, the body would be paralyzed at best and drop dead on the spot at worst.

Apart from a few Devil Fruit Ability user prisoners, all the other prisoners were killed instantly by Cook.

In merely a dozen seconds, more than half the prisoners present had been wiped out.

Gulp! A prisoner with an enormous head began to tremble, his hands and feet turning ice-cold as terror instantly consumed his heart.

The few prisoners who considered themselves fairly strong, especially the Devil Fruit Ability users, looked grim but had not abandoned the thought of escaping.

"Split up."

The remaining hundred-plus prisoners ran for their lives in every direction.

The Zoan Users all entered their hybrid forms, while the few Paramecia users displayed their own abilities. The Gear-Gear Fruit user transformed into a gear-driven machine vehicle, while the Needle-Needle Fruit user ran while firing dense volleys of needles around himself like a hedgehog...

"Why?" Cook seemed to mutter to himself in distress. "Why insist on seeking death?"

As soon as he spoke, he appeared before the Needle Man. His palm turned into a black blade, and he slashed down.

The Needle Man's arm was severed outright. The wound looked as though it had been seared by a branding iron and had completely carbonized. By the time he felt the pain, he realized that every part of his body hurt and that he could not move at all, as if he had been paralyzed.

Another Paramecia user fugitive likewise saw only a blur before both his hands were cut off, leaving his entire body rigid where he stood.

More than ten seconds later, Cook returned to his previous position without a speck of dust on him. The remaining hundred-plus prisoners all seemed frozen in time.

If not for the arms lying on the ground and the rapidly fading life force of some prisoners, the guards would have thought they were seeing things.

Cook was so strong! Hannibal, who had just crawled out of the rubble, saw the scene and his pupils constricted sharply.

On the other side, Shiryu of the Rain, who was desperately resisting Grizzly Boom, had fallen into a difficult battle. Several tears had appeared in his uniform.

"Where do you think you're going?" Cook's voice slowly rang out.

The guards looked around in confusion.

On the wall in the upper-left corner, more than fifty meters above the ground, a prisoner whose body had camouflaged itself to match the wall's color stiffened upon hearing those words.

He desperately hoped he had not been discovered, but the sensation of being watched so intensely told him not to cling to any illusions.

Before Cook could make a move, the Gecko Man prisoner dispelled his camouflage and jumped down, not forgetting to shout, "I surrender!"

"Damn it, it was a Gecko Man."

"Lord Cook is amazing!"

"Why haven't you put Seastone handcuffs on them yet?!" Zachary roared at the guards who were quietly discussing it among themselves.

"Ah... yes!" The guards, jolting awake as if from a dream, quickly sprang into action.

Just then, Shiryu of the Rain was smashed directly into a nearby wall by one of Grizzly Boom's Fight to the Death attacks.

Cough, cough! Urgh! Haa, haa...

A large amount of blood flowed from the corner of Shiryu of the Rain's mouth. The hand holding his sword hung limply at his side, and his breathing was extremely labored.

Yet the wound he had left on Grizzly Boom healed within seconds. The terrifying vitality and physique of an awakened Zoan User were displayed to the fullest on Grizzly Boom.

"You're the Mad Beast Cook, right? That punch just now hurt quite a bit. Before I leave, I'm going to smash your head to pieces! Roar!"

Grizzly Boom let out a furious roar. His speed increased severalfold, and his vicious claws gave off a thick, bloody stench.

The badly injured Hannibal, Shiryu of the Rain, and the Chief Jailer, Deputy Chief Jailer Dagama, and Deputy Warden Magellan, who were watching the broadcast through a Den Den Mushi, could not help but worry.

Grizzly Boom's strength was too great.

Although Impel Down had five awakened Zoan Jailer Beasts, they were defective products born from failed experiments.

A truly awakened Zoan User like Grizzly Boom not only possessed vastly increased strength and vitality, but also retained human reason and combat skills, along with powerful Two Colors of Armament.

Within Impel Down, aside from Columbus and Magellan, no one else could be certain of defeating him.

"An awakened Zoan is indeed powerful. It's worth taking seriously."

"Hahaha... die, you bastard!" Blazing with rage, Grizzly Boom's enormous bear paw was about to sweep into Cook.

"Cell Power, 40%."

"What..." Grizzly Boom's vision blurred, and then excruciating pain erupted throughout his entire body.

The guards widened their eyes. All they saw was Grizzly Boom's body continuously deforming, like a lump of dough kneaded over by an invisible force.

Still embedded in the wall, Shiryu of the Rain stared straight ahead. With Observation Haki, he saw an unbelievable sight.

In an instant.

In just an instant, Grizzly Boom had been beaten over a thousand times by Cook. Those attacks were terrifying, seemingly capable of damaging the internal organs and muscles.

"Ahhh! Impossible! I won't lose!"

Grizzly Boom let out a hysterical roar. Even with severe internal bleeding, he forcibly activated his Devil Fruit Ability, his body swelling even further as he entered his fully beastified form.

Like a final flare before death, the bear-man became even more terrifying, violent, and frenzied.

"Isn't living good? Cell Power, 60%."

As soon as he finished speaking, Cook returned to Deputy Warden Hicks Zachary's side and ordered without looking back, "I'll leave the rest to you."

"What?" The prison guards were horrified.

"Bastard! I—"

Puchi! Crackle, crackle... Before Grizzly Boom could finish a sentence, his bloodshot eyes widened. His body twisted and burst apart, blood spraying in every direction from the surface of his skin.

"I'm already..."

"Dead..."

Boom! The enormous body collapsed with a crash, slamming heavily into the ground.

Shiryu had never expected that Grizzly Boom, the bear-man who had pressured him so hard he could barely breathe, would fail to last even ten seconds before Cook killed him.

As for Hannibal, during the first attack, he could still barely make out some movements. But during the final wave of attacks, he could no longer see Cook move at all, and then Grizzly Boom went down.

That night, Columbus hurried back from Marineford, escorting Douglas Bullet from the elevator on Level One straight down to Scorching Hell.

The moment he stepped out of the elevator, he saw the devastated Scorching Hell and numerous bandaged prison guards clearing away the wreckage.

Suppressing his anger, he went down the stairs and first escorted Douglas Bullet to Infinite Hell.

In Infinite Hell, he met Magellan and Shiryu, whose arm was wrapped in bandages. Columbus asked with a grim expression, "Explain the situation in detail."

"My apologies, Warden. The incident happened too suddenly. Dagama and I had to guard Infinite Hell and Extreme Cold Hell, and we also underestimated Grizzly Boom's strength. As a result, This Time's losses were severe."

Magellan then explained the events in detail.

Upon hearing that Martin had died in battle and Dra had been severely injured and crippled, Columbus revealed a hint of helplessness. Fortunately, Cook had turned the tide, which gave him a hint of comfort.

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