Strong Suppression

"Shut up."

Just as Keen and the Gun-Bear Construct were locked in an inseparable brawl, an incomparably cold, deep voice suddenly thundered through the center of the hall.

Dressed in black, Rain stood in the heart of the ruins, his dark gray vertical pupils sweeping coldly over the fight in the corner. He did not even spare the struggling, roaring Gun-Bear Construct a glance. He merely raised his right hand casually and pressed down at the ground beneath that area.

"Get... down!"

Boom—!

In that instant, the awakened essence of the Rock-Rock Fruit surged violently through the petrified ley lines of the ancient ruins! The Marble and iron ore that had lain buried beneath their feet for eight hundred years seemed to come alive at once, opening like a massive maw of mud and stone and swallowing the Gun-Bear Construct that was grappling with Keen with a resounding crunch.

Massive rocks and black mineral veins twisted tightly together, forcibly dragging the bronze behemoth weighing dozens of tons more than ten meters underground into an absolute dead zone, trying to seal it completely beneath overwhelming weight and pressure.

Yet this ancient weapon, which had consumed the Zoan Devil Fruit, Ancient Blood Bear Form, possessed vitality and physical resistance beyond imagination.

"Roar—!"

Less than half a breath later, a savage roar like muffled thunder erupted from deep underground.

The sealed ground began to bulge and crack violently. Amid the dull explosions of several High-Pressure Beast Bullets detonating beneath the surface, the Gun-Bear Construct actually relied on the almost brutally savage strength of the Ancient Blood Bear to smash through the blockade of dozens of tons of Obsidian crystals, bursting from the earth once more amid flying rubble and dirt.

Its fur-covered bear paws slammed the ground furiously, madness blazing in its scarlet