As if to prove Bullet's words, Adams suddenly shot out of the bottomless crater, trailing a plume of dust as he hovered steadily in midair.
His custom-tailored black coat had been reduced to tatters, making it look like beggar's rags. Strange tree-ring patterns faintly emerged across his perfectly sculpted skin, and a vast surge of vitality welled up from within him, rapidly repairing the internal shocks and hidden injuries.
But an almost imperceptible pallor flashed across his handsome face. After so many days of fierce fighting, his stamina reserves were clearly running low.
Although Zoan Awakening could accelerate recovery, it did not grant the user infinite stamina. It merely gave them terrifyingly large reserves, and those could still be depleted.
So even for me, fighting two legends in succession is still too much?
Adams silently made an assessment of his current strength.
"Bwahahaha! Kid, I never expected you to be this tough!"
Standing at the edge of a still-intact massive island fragment, Garp looked at the seemingly unharmed Adams and laughed even more excitedly.
"Then this old man will have to get a little more serious!"
"Let me see the true strength of the Hero of the Marines!"
Suppressing his thoughts, Adams tossed out those words. The air around him exploded with thunderous booms once more, rings of sonic booms blooming behind him as he vanished in an instant. He reappeared before Garp as if teleporting, driving a full-force heavy punch coated in condensed Armament Haki straight at Garp's face.
Even knowing that his odds of victory were slim, he still wanted to see where his limits lay.
A sharp glint flashed in Garp's eyes. He raised a fist coated in Haki as well, intending to meet the blow head-on, but his expression abruptly changed. A terrifying pressure filled with