The Defeated Officers

A deep crimson gleamed in Rain's dark gray eyes. He drove the Rock-Rock Fruit into another devastating form: Core Heat!

"Fucking... melt."

The red glow in Rain's eyes surged. Within the isolated battlefield tightly sealed by obsidian barriers, the rock strata deep beneath the earth, driven by extreme pressure and Rain's innate energy, were forcibly reversed in an instant into a boundless sea of terrifying magma, bubbling with pale white smoke!

"Boom-crack!"

Behind him, Nine-Tailed Fox Devon's nine enormous fox tails were instantly stuck fast by the surging core magma. Thousands-of-degrees magma, infused with Rain's violent Armament Haki, spread wildly upward along her fur like maggots clinging to bone, burning her.

"Wh-what kind of temperature is this?! My body is going to melt!" Devon let out a shriek that scarcely sounded human. Her prized Mythical Zoan defenses were as fragile as paper before the searing magma imbued with supreme Haki. Large portions of her body were instantly scorched black, her flesh split open.

Above them, the once-unstoppable "Colossal Battleship," Sanjuan Wolf, who had sought to smash through everything, was pinned in midair by hundreds of suddenly protruding obsidian rock spears, each over a hundred meters tall.

"So hot... Big guy is so hot!!"

Wolf's massive body sank into the magma bog, while the flesh of his legs gave off piercing hissing sounds under the corrosion of lava infused with Extreme Pressure Haki. Though he possessed pure brute strength that stood at the pinnacle of the world, he could find no leverage whatsoever in this magma hell that seemed capable of completely vaporizing matter on a microscopic level. He could only sink lower and lower before Rain in humiliation.

Fighting three opponents, Rain had not even fully drawn the short blade at his waist. Merely through his rock awakening, which stood