"Damn it!"
Wang Zhi blinked, and Hachinosu trembled with him.
He had merged with Pirate Paradise, and now he was merging with Skull Mountain itself. When he spoke, it was Hachinosu speaking and laughing.
"Shane!"
As the overlord of this island, Wang Zhi had held an extremely high position in the Rocks Pirates.
John and Silver Axe each had their strengths: one was a Two-Sword Style swordsman, the other an axe-wielding warrior.
Wang Zhi was different. There was a reason he had been able to hold this place for decades.
Even Blackbeard had to defeat him before being recognized as a true member of the Four Emperors, precisely because his Devil Fruit and Two-Color Haki were both immensely powerful.
Had he not lacked Conqueror's Haki and preferred to keep to his own corner,
perhaps he, too, should have contended for the throne of a king in his lifetime!
Even back then, only Rocks's right-hand men, Whitebeard and Golden Lion, could hold the upper hand over him.
Many people regarded the future Marco the Phoenix as the strongest beneath the Admirals and Emperors.
Yet even after Blackbeard defeated Marco, who led the remnants of the Whitebeard Pirates in the Payback War, he still could not ascend to the throne.
Wang Zhi!
This man, known as a legendary great pirate,
was the foremost figure presiding over the pirate paradise of Hachinosu among the islands of the New World.
The absolute ruler of Rocky Port!
An existence said to be capable of easily lifting the entire world!
In truth, he could use the Island-Island Fruit to merge with Hachinosu, or any other island, as though he had lifted the entire world!
Below John, Silver Axe, Stussy, and Flame Flower were the likes of Kurozumi Higurashi and Kurozumi Semimaru.
And above them,
the one