Thunder roiled high in the sky.
Yet it could not drown out the true "sound" of this battlefield—the cacophony of cracking bones, screams, explosions, and fear.
But!
Hachinosu had never been an ordinary island.
There was no room for the weak to survive here. Those who had lived until now were all monsters who had crawled out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
"Boom—!!!"
Another wave of lightning pillars crashed down, but in the brief gap between the densest thunderstorm—
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"
Dozens of figures forcibly charged out of the sea of lightning!
Their bodies were completely wrapped in Armament Haki, their iron-black sheen flashing repeatedly beneath the lightning.
Lightning struck them and exploded into dazzling sparks, yet it failed to erase them outright!
"Don't think you can do whatever you want just because you're a Logia user!"
"We're monsters who survived the New World too—!!!"
Their roars forcefully drowned out the Lightning Roar!
"Don't look down on us—Navy!!!"
The next instant, dozens of attacks—blades, cannon fire, abilities, shockwaves, and more—simultaneously tore through the air!
They sealed off every escape route from different angles and charged straight at Rock in the sky!
"Bang bang bang bang—!!!"
Seastone bullets were mixed among them, their trajectories vicious as they aimed straight for vital points!
Rock tilted his head slightly, and several Seastone bullets sliced past his cheek.
The wind pressure tossed his hair, but his gaze did not so much as flicker.
The wind suddenly sharpened.
"Clang—"
A faint, crisp sound rang out.
He raised two fingers and caught an Armament Haki-coated longsword capable of cleaving apart a warship.
The blade trembled violently, yet his fingers did not move in the slightest.
The pirate swordsman who had leaped into the air to strike had his pupils abruptly constrict, his