Rocks's Backup Plan! Two Top-Tier Devil Fruits!

Zhao Hai hitched his marching pack higher.

He took a deep breath.

His lungs rapidly expanded.

This was the result of Garp's special training.

Holding his breath in the deep sea for two hours was more than enough to deal with this poisonous miasma.

Chakra circulated rapidly through his body.

The muscles in his legs tensed.

"Geppo!"

Zhao Hai turned into an afterimage and plunged into the dark-purple miasma.

The trees around him sped backward in his vision.

The miasma was dense.

It was highly corrosive.

Zhao Hai could feel waves of stinging pain on his exposed skin.

He immediately drew on the chakra stored in the Yin Seal on his forehead.

A thin film of chakra covered his body.

The stinging eased considerably.

Three minutes later.

He burst out of the miasma forest.

Ahead stood a steep mountain of black rock.

At the foot of the mountain was a towering stone gate.

A massive skull was carved into the gate.

The skull had a pair of curved devil horns.

Dark-red paint still remained in its hollow eye sockets.

Zhao Hai stopped.

He stared at the emblem for several seconds.

He had seen this design in the internal archives of Marine Headquarters.

Whenever Garp got drunk, he would often point at his fist and curse this pirate crew.

The Rocks Pirates.

The terrifying force that had ruled the seas thirty-eight years ago.

Whitebeard, Golden Lion, Big Mom, and Kaido had all once been crew members aboard that ship.

Zhao Hai swallowed.

That idiot pirate Buck had no idea what level of treasure map he had been holding.

He stepped forward.

He pressed both hands against the stone gate.

Chakra gathered in his arms.

His muscles bulged.

Amid a dull scraping sound.

He forcibly pushed the several-ton stone gate open a