Rumble—!
The Ninefold Thunder Rings hung high in the sky, layers of lightning pressing down.
Davy was blasted back several meters, his eight tentacles charred black and trailing smoke.
But Garp and the others did not immediately charge in.
Not because they did not want to, but because they did not dare.
The Red Line beneath their feet was already trembling. If they kept hammering away with lethal force, the ground beneath them might collapse first.
Rock hovered even higher, his dragon eyes lowered.
[Nine Heavens Thunder Marsh] followed the rainwater and underground water veins thousands of meters into the earth, weaving the entire continent's rock formations into a three-dimensional web in his mind.
The nine most critical faults were tearing apart simultaneously.
Rock raised both hands, and the black thunderclouds overhead churned as they sank.
"Yinglong: Nine Veins Suppress the Sea!"
Boom—!
Wind and rain surged backward. Nine underground water veins changed course at once, their unbalanced water pressure forcibly drawn to both sides of the faults.
Like nine invisible, enormous hands, they held up the sinking rock layers by sheer force.
Vegapunk stared at the structural diagram on his screen. The nine areas that had been glaring scarlet moments ago were gradually turning yellow.
"He's using underground water pressure... to temporarily support the faults?!"
Then his expression changed again. "It won't last long!"
Of course Rock knew.
Thirty seconds. Thirty seconds at most.
He raised his head, his voice rolling across all of Mary Geoise on the thunder.
"Thirty seconds."
Everyone looked up at once.
Rock grinned. "Stop holding back. Kill him."
A brief, deathly silence fell.
The next second, the entire Holy Land erupted.
Issho moved first, planting his Shikomizue against the ground.
"Rise!"
Boom!
Gravity reversed instantly, forcibly lifting Davy's enormous Kraken body into the sky