Ferocious

Heracles vanished like a ghost. Ripples spread through the air, blood hung at the corner of his mouth, and the thin wings on his back trembled with a piercing shriek.

Transforming into a rhinoceros beetle, Heracles's ears twitched, and he vanished from where he stood in the blink of an eye.

A massive foot kicked out from space itself, blasting the ground apart. Dirt and shattered stones shot into the surrounding forests like bullets, setting off explosive booms.

Rob Lucci wore a cold expression, steam rising from his entire body. His powerful aura alone was enough to make people tremble.

Fluorescence flowed around his hands as Rob Lucci stared at Heracles. A faint gust of sand swept up, and he vanished.

A fist and a kick collided, and the frenzied Shockwave flattened everything around them, overturning the earth.

As a rare Insect-type ability user, Heracles was exceptionally strong in speed, attack, and defense. Even with his physical techniques, Rob Lucci could not gain the slightest advantage.

Rob Lucci's physical techniques ranked among the best in the entire world. Though he rarely used his Devil Fruit ability, that did not mean he had never developed it.

Perhaps because of his personality, Rob Lucci generally preferred physical techniques. Aside from deliberately training himself, he simply enjoyed the feeling of powerful opponents clashing head-on.

Airwaves burst from between them. Rob Lucci's feet sank deep into the ground as he slid sideways, the other man's strength exceeding his expectations.

Among all living creatures, rhinoceros beetles might seem as weak as ants. Yet the weaker a creature was, the more unimaginable its talents could be.

Take ants, for example. They could lift objects more than four hundred times their own weight. What kind of concept was that?

Rhinoceros beetles far surpassed ants in that regard.