Sphinx Island.
The vast island's entire coastal region had become a battlefield where pirates and Marines clashed. Even the weakest pirate or Marine was a monster by ordinary people's standards.
They could shatter rocks with a casual punch, and ordinary bullets only drew a little blood. Only large-caliber guns and cannons posed a threat.
Thirty thousand "monsters" were fighting.
The result was that the entire harbor town had been reduced to rubble. Every moment, the clash of fists sounded like countless cannonballs exploding.
"Now this is a problem. Has the Admiral still not dealt with White Wolf Moger?"
Honeyz looked anxious. The situation had turned against the Marines. Their greatest asset, the Admiral, wasn't on the front lines, and the Marines they'd temporarily gathered from various Marine Branches were now at a disadvantage against the pirates of the New World.
He raised an arm to block Rocks's attack, then threw a Haki-coated punch at him, but Rocks nimbly dodged it.
As the battle wore on, Honeyz keenly sensed that the young man fighting him was improving at an incredible rate.
At first, he'd been able to suppress Rocks with his superior Observation Haki. But Rocks soon changed his approach, going from attacking at full force to using only seventy percent of his strength.
Rocks had figured it out.
The Marine Vice Admiral before him had both Observation Haki and Armament Haki, but he was clearly more proficient in Observation Haki. His Armament Haki was about on par with Rocks's.
Setting aside Observation Haki, Rocks was certain he wouldn't lose to this Marine Vice Admiral in a one-on-one fight.
But on a battlefield, you couldn't expect your enemy to stop using his greatest strength.
So Rocks had to deal with it another way.
The strength of Observation Haki lay in its