With the Buster Call Fleet.
All the soldiers had boarded, and the warships accelerated away from the island one after another.
Sakazuki stood aboard a ship, looking toward the island's center.
The clash there grew increasingly savage, its intensity visible to the naked eye. Even the island was slowly splitting apart under the force of the battle.
Sakazuki knew there was little time left.
Such intense fighting would hasten the volcanic eruption. He pushed off the deck and vanished in an instant.
An afterimage flashed past, and he appeared at the stern of the last warship.
This warship had remained stationary, staying behind to pick everyone up.
"Vice Admiral Morris, let me stay behind to pick them up."
"My power is magma. I'll face the least risk."
"Well... all right. Be careful, Sakazuki."
"Don't worry, Vice Admiral Morris."
Morris hesitated for a moment.
Then he agreed to let Sakazuki stay behind. Just as Sakazuki had said.
As the user of the Magma-Magma Fruit, he alone was the best choice to handle this situation.
Morris then handed the communications Den Den Mushi to Sakazuki and jumped aboard the neighboring warship, which slowly sailed away from the island.
After watching Morris leave, Sakazuki remained at the stern.
He recalled the pillar of energy he had seen earlier, piercing heaven and earth.
No one on the island possessed a matching ability, so...
Was it that super battleship?
Sakazuki frowned slightly as he watched the torn sky above the island's center.
At the heart of the battle.
Rumble-
Unrestrained Haki erupted, tangled with the lightning born of clashing Conqueror's Haki.
Rocks threw a punch, driving Garp back.
Kong and the burly member of the Five Elders immediately pressed in.
Before Rocks could force them back, Rayleigh, Roger, and the others swung their blades at him.
Like a trapped beast, Rocks was driven step by step into a snare.
Rocks was sent flying to the edge of the deep pit.
By now, the heat pouring from the pit could easily scorch human skin.
Even coated in Armament Haki, the others still felt uncomfortable.
Blood flowed from Rocks's chest, only to evaporate the moment it emerged, leaving streaks of dried blood behind.
"Hah... hah..."
Rocks panted heavily as he looked at the men closing in around him.
His gaze passed over them one by one: the two members of the Five Elders, Kong, Roger, Garp, Sengoku, Rayleigh, and Gaban.
Rocks swept his gaze across them and sighed.
"So I've lost."
"But you cannot stop the will of the D. Clan."
"Ahahahaha!!!!"
The sword-wielding member of the Five Elders coated his blade in Conqueror's Haki.
He looked at Rocks and spoke calmly.
"There's no point in saying more."
It sounded like a sentence being pronounced.
At the sword-wielding Elder's words, Rocks slowly fell silent.
Looking at the sword-wielding Elder, he gave a soft, mocking chuckle.
"Heh heh."
"This rotten world ruled by a pack of pigs really is..."
Then he looked calmly at Roger, as though he had accepted his approaching fate, with no hatred left in him.
"And you."
"Watch yourself, Roger."
With that, boundless blood energy erupted from Rocks, entwined with Conqueror's Haki.
He burned through his life, his expression crazed and savage.
"I!"
"Am!"
"Rocks D. Zebek!!!!!!!"
Boom!
Heaven and earth seemed to shake, and the clouds overhead were crushed and scattered.
The sea churned uneasily, while the island shook violently and split apart.
From Sakazuki's vantage point.
First, endless white light flared, followed by the thunder of a massive explosion.
Moments later, thick smoke rose into the sky from the island's center.
Dark red magma shot skyward amid billowing black smoke.
A tremendous rumbling accompanied it.
The soaring pillar of magma visibly thickened and spread outward.
Chunks of lava several times larger than those of Meteor Volcano hurtled down from high above.
They left countless fiery red trails across the smoke-shrouded sky.
The island shattered under the tremendous force, and endless magma erupted from underground.
The entire island became a volcanic crater, with a vast mushroom cloud filling heaven and earth.
The sea turned violent as well, sending wave after wave a hundred meters high crashing outward.
Volcanic ash swept in with hurricane-force winds, like a blizzard.
It was clear that every living creature in the surrounding ten thousand miles of sea would perish.
With a volcanic eruption of this magnitude.
Temperatures in the West Blue would remain low for the next year, as volcanic ash blanketed the sky and blocked out the sun.
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