Penetration

In that instant, Newgate's Observation Haki caught it—

The Moby Dick had set sail.

Her sails were fully unfurled, her bow cutting through the waves. His children had left the battlefield and were heading for the safety of the open sea.

Now he had nothing left to hold him back.

The power Newgate had kept suppressed within him suddenly broke free.

The air itself groaned first.

"Break the sky!"

With a furious roar, he stepped into the air and drove his right fist through empty space.

This punch was no longer just the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit.

He had poured Conqueror's Haki directly into the force of the blow.

The instant the force left his fist—

Space shattered inch by inch like fragile glass. Black traces of Haki spilled through the cracks, as though the sky itself had been torn open.

This was a tremor punch driven by Conqueror's Haki Coating—power that could truly "shatter the world"!

Rock's pupils contracted.

"Tch—!"

He did not retreat. He stepped forward instead.

He drew back his right fist. In an instant, the lightning around him surged back into his body and compressed alongside his Conqueror's Haki, collapsing inward as though even time had been forced into that single moment.

Lightning, Haki, will—

All of it gathered at the front of his fist.

At last, it became a lightning sphere as black as the abyss.

"Tyrant Thunder: Emperor Piercer!!!"

He threw the punch!

The instant its force left his fist, the sphere burst into a spiraling pillar of black-red lightning that tore wildly through everything in its path.

Thunder and Conqueror's Haki roared together. The pillar punched straight through the clouds and shredded them, leaving a long, jagged tunnel behind.

Then, in the next instant—

"BOOM—!!!"

The tremor punch collided head-on with the