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"Boss Queen, what do we do? If this continues, we'll have no choice but to die!" A Gifter was the first to lose his nerve.
Facing the two Numbers, Crocodile had killed them both in a single exchange.
Their enormous bodies had also been completely dried out, turning into two mummified corpses.
The sight was undeniably shocking.
Trapped in the quicksand, their only option was to place their hopes on Queen.
"Don't worry, I've already thought of a way. But for the sake of the bigger picture, I'll have to sacrifice you. Once I find Boss Kaido, I'll definitely avenge you!" Queen flashed a savage grin before roaring sharply.
"Explode!"
The inexplicable command left the Gifters and pirates present momentarily stunned.
Even Crocodile's brow twitched. The instant he pushed his Observation Haki to its limit, his expression changed drastically, and he hurriedly drove his Devil Fruit powers to the fullest.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Thunderous explosions rang out without warning.
The two corpses of the Numbers, which had been lying in the yellow sand, exploded apart.
A vast cloud of purple-black poisonous gas mixed within the blast, rapidly spreading and crushing outward in all directions.
"It's plague gas!"
Everyone trapped in the quicksand had their expressions change dramatically.
Unfortunately, none of them had expected Queen to implant the poison gas bombs he considered his greatest masterpiece into the bodies of the Numbers.
At a critical moment, they became human bombs.
The shockwave from the explosions overturned half the desert.
Even the quicksand terrain was directly destroyed.
Queen, who had been trapped within it, did not have time to think. He immediately returned to human form and dashed forward.
As the creator of the poison gas bombs, he had long developed an antidote and feared nothing.
Instead, as he watched