The rumbling words echoed through heaven and earth, refusing to fade for a long time.
Coming from Whitebeard, those words carried even greater authority.
However, this time, Whitebeard was facing Rocks, the man who had stood at the pinnacle of piracy like the ceiling of his era thirty-eight years ago.
In his time, he had been a presence feared even by Marine Headquarters.
After all, the three Four Emperors before them now, along with Shiki the Golden Lion, were all once members of the Rocks Pirates.
The fact that a single pirate crew had produced so many peerless overlords was enough to show just how extraordinary he had been.
What drew even more attention, however, was that Rocks's Devil Fruit ability came from Blackbeard, who had betrayed the Whitebeard Pirates not long ago.
Had they not seen with their own eyes how skillfully Rocks wielded the powers of the Dark-Dark Fruit, many of the younger generation would never have understood why Blackbeard had dared to defy the world, endure the endless pursuit of the Whitebeard Pirates, violate the ironclad rules aboard the ship, and murder Satch, commander of the Fourth Division.
It seemed that everything he had done had been for the sake of obtaining power equal to Rocks's.
Yet, as far as they knew, each type of Devil Fruit could only exist once in the world at any given time.
The Five Elders had used special means to resurrect Rocks.
However, this resurrection only extended to his body, spirit, and memories.
It was much the same as Kaido of the Beasts, who had been resurrected during the Sea Burial War.
Only after being resurrected would they regain the Devil Fruit that had originally belonged to them.
Since Rocks now possessed the power of the Dark-Dark Fruit, did that mean