Combined Ultimate Technique, First Awakening of Haki

"How do we get out of here?!" Rocks roared over the thunderous din, demanding an answer from Lin Nuo.

"Kuma's Devil Fruit ability! He can repel people to a designated location!" Lin Nuo explained at breakneck speed.

"But it's being suppressed by Imu's Haki right now! So I need all of you to attack Imu with your strongest techniques at the same time."

"Use your most powerful combined Haki attack to forcibly shatter her Haki domain! Create an opening for Kuma to use his ability!"

"Oh? There's an ability like that?" Linlin raised a brow.

"I can prove he's telling the truth!"

At that moment, Rayleigh and Gaban came over, supporting Roger between them.

"Prove it?" Rocks looked from Rayleigh to Lin Nuo, suspicion filling his eyes.

"Why do you look like you're on such good terms?"

"That... I'll explain later!" Lin Nuo quickly changed the subject and shouted to everyone.

"Anyway! There's no time! Unleash all your trump cards together! Use your strongest combined Haki attack and crush her in one go!"

"Roger! Garp! I'm counting on you too!"

"Kuma and I will wait nearby!"

Having said that, Lin Nuo did not dare linger any longer. He scooped Kuma up and shot into the sky again, rapidly retreating from the heart of the battlefield.

The combined attack of these monsters would be terrifying even in its aftershock. I need to find somewhere safe and hide!

Lin Nuo thought to himself. He landed behind a relatively intact cliff and shielded Kuma behind him.

"Hmph! Once this battle is over, I'll get to the bottom of this!"

Rocks watched Lin Nuo's retreating figure and snorted before turning his gaze toward Roger and Garp.

"No other choice, Roger, Garp... let's join forces for once!!"

Roger grinned broadly, baring his teeth.

"Just what I wanted! A battle on this scale may only come once in a lifetime!"

Garp clenched his fists. Though his face was still full of displeasure, he stepped forward nonetheless.

"I'm only doing this to eliminate this monster threatening the world! Don't get the wrong idea!"

"Hahahaha! The Navy's savior is joining hands with pirates?" Rocks laughed loudly.

"Cut the crap! I just don't want to let this pest keep running wild!"

"It's already killed nearly a hundred of my soldiers!" Garp roared.

"I'll destroy it with my own hands!"

Roger looked at Garp and suddenly laughed. "Hey, Garp, after this is over, want to join my crew?"

Garp spat. "Go to hell!"

"Enough chatter!" Rocks drew a deep breath, his voice carrying across the battlefield.

"Let's crush her in one blow!!"

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Eight streams of Conqueror's Haki erupted simultaneously from Rocks, Whitebeard, Linlin, Kaido, Roger, Rayleigh, Gaban, and Garp!

Black-red lightning intertwined and collided wildly.

At last, it formed a pillar of light that surged into the heavens, forcibly resisting Imu's terrifying pressure that blanketed the entire island.

"Nothing... you do... will matter..."

Imu's cold thoughts rang out once more.

"You're afraid, aren't you, Imu?!" Rocks snarled, his voice piercing through the pillar of Haki.

"Afraid that someone will inherit Davy Jones's will! Afraid that Joy Boy's prophecy will finally come true!!"

"Shut—up—!!"

It was as though Imu had been struck at a sore point. All her tentacles and limbs rose at once, smashing down toward where the eight stood!

But in the next instant—

Eight figures shot forward like meteors flying against the current.

Following different trajectories, they charged Imu from above, below, left, right, and every other direction.

"Infinite Slash!"

"Higan · Blade Thallium!"

"Shockwave Tsunami!"

"Abyssal Curse!"

"Three Worlds Ragnaraku!"

"Elbaf Spear · Ikoku Sovereignty!"

"Fire Kagutsuchi Sage!"

"Infinite Fist!"

Eight furious roars carried the strength, will, and conviction of their entire lives, becoming eight dazzling attacks powerful enough to reshape the land itself!

Blade light, fist shadows, shockwaves, lightning, flames...

Everything converged at that moment into a torrent that tore through the sky.

It slammed mercilessly into the center of Imu's colossal body!!

Bzzzz!!!

A deafening blast and blinding white light instantly swallowed everything.

The shockwave spread outward in a mad ring, devouring every rock and tree in its path.

Lin Nuo had already unleashed both the Lunarian Flame and the Flame of Regeneration to their fullest.

Crimson and sky-blue flames formed a two-colored shield, tightly protecting him and Kuma as they hid behind the cliff.

Even so, the destructive impact still shook him to his core.

Within this strike, which gathered the full strength and effort of eight supreme powerhouses,

Lin Nuo sensed more than just devastating killing intent.

Tempered by this extreme pressure, in this realization gained by facing peak power head-on,

Lin Nuo's understanding of "Haki," and of his own strength,

seemed to break through some invisible shackle at that very moment, attaining an entirely new elevation!