Crack!
Space fractured and the cracks spread from where their fists met. Rocks, locked in combat with Garp, looked as though he had just heard a joke.
"Die?"
He unleashed a tremendous burst of strength.
Garp went flying backward. Rocks turned toward the oncoming Sword Aura that split heaven and earth.
"Ahahahaha!"
"You want to kill me?"
"Just you lot?!!"
Rocks's savage laughter rang through heaven and earth. He let the Sword Aura strike him, but it failed to cut into his body at all.
"I!"
His left hand seized the Sword Aura striking his body.
"Am!"
He flung it hard to the left. The towering Sword Aura tore through the sky and carved a trench a hundred meters deep, stretching into the distance.
"Rocks!!!!"
His savage voice carried a hint of madness. He stamped down, and his figure swept forward like a raging gale.
Destroying everything in his path, he coated the weapon in his right hand with Conqueror's Haki and brought it down hard on the member of the Five Elders wielding a cursed blade.
"Ahahahaha!"
"Is that all you've got?"
"Not enough! Not enough!!!"
"All of you!"
"Hit me harder!!!!!!"
Clang!
Their blades collided, and their Conqueror's Haki clashed.
Countless bolts of black-and-purple lightning shot in every direction.
Laughing savagely, Rocks pressed down on the sword-wielding member of the Five Elders with all his strength.
Watching his opponent's blade slowly give way, Rocks grew increasingly frenzied.
His strength continued to rise, and lightning erupted wildly.
The sword-wielding member of the Five Elders was the first to falter and was blasted backward.
"Ahahahaha!!!!"
Rocks watched the member of the Five Elders fly away under his strike and laughed in near-delirium.
Just then, Roger emerged from the underground Palace.
"Divine Departure!"
His low voice rang out as he charged forward, swinging his blade to interrupt the near-delirious Rocks.
Clang!
Their blades collided. Holding his blade against Roger's, Rocks's expression tightened slightly.
"Roger, you're a member of the D. Clan too."
"Do you really want to make an enemy of me?"
Some of the frenzy faded from Rocks's face as he looked at Roger and asked in a low voice.
"Rocks, I have no intention of making an enemy of you."
"But I can't let you have that thing."
"And..."
"I've already destroyed it."
Roger answered Rocks's questioning with a somewhat somber expression.
Hearing Roger's words, Rocks demanded, one word at a time:
"What! Did! You! Say!!!"
With every word, his face darkened further.
Roger looked at Rocks's stormy face and said in a low voice:
"I've already destroyed it."
Boom-
In a furious rage, Rocks sent Roger flying and was about to charge after him to kill him.
But Garp suddenly appeared, his fist coated in Haki, and slammed it down. A deep crater the size of a lake instantly opened in the ground.
Rocks was smashed into its bottom.
"You have a death wish!!!"
Rocks's savage voice rang out from the bottom of the crater.
Bang!
The figure at the bottom of the crater vanished and appeared in front of Garp.
Both men threw a punch at the same time.
Space fractured, and the cracks spread.
Just then, a rumbling sounded, growing louder and louder before erupting with a thunderous roar.
In an instant, the earth shook, and the ground cracked inch by inch.
The rumbling continued without end.
A pillar of energy a hundred meters thick erupted from beneath the Palace and shot straight into the sky.
The energy shooting skyward, accompanied by a scene of world-shattering destruction, was a spectacular sight.
Meanwhile, Rocks felt a stirring well up from within his bloodline.
Driven mad with hatred, his eyes stretched wide as though they would split. His savage voice roared with towering hatred.
"You! Will all! Dieee!!!!!!"