Plunge the seas into fear

"Come on, Roger!"

Rocks looked more like a beast now.

Just as Garp struck first.

He did not even use his hands.

Darkness Tentacles swam out of his body ahead of him.

Haki gathered on their surfaces as they unleashed a frenzied barrage.

"Roger! Leave these tentacles to me! Go!"

Garp kept taking hits and counterattacked whenever he could.

The ability users around them were far worse off than before.

They had already been severely weakened, their stamina depleted, and were suffering from all kinds of injuries.

Now Rocks was tormenting them indiscriminately. This was no place for a human being.

"Don't order me around, Garp!"

Roger leaped and swung his sword, delivering a perfectly timed slash.

The blade's light cut across God Valley, slicing the valley clean through the middle.

After the mountains toppled, they quickly collapsed where they stood, looking considerably more slanted.

Rocks, however, split his body into two halves, separating them outright.

In return, an even fiercer devouring force formed!

More and more tentacles appeared, and the nearby Rocks Pirates crew members began to suffer.

Unless they resisted with Haki, minimizing the side effects of having their Lineage Factors torn at.

Otherwise, they would be weakened!

"He's back at it again!"

Whitebeard planted his blade in the ground.

Debris on the ground kept being dragged over, becoming nourishment for Rocks.

Golden Lion drove his Dual Swords into a crack in the ground.

He kept cursing, "Damn it! Roger, slash him once for me too!"

Because the devouring force was too fierce.

Linlin could no longer ride a cloud in the air.

She could only drive her hat sword into the cliff.

Streusen clung to her leg, tugged by gravity like a little dwarf.

"Rocks is a madman! I told you he couldn't be trusted!"

Linlin thought she had truly run into rotten luck.

What exactly did the Dark-Dark Fruit look like? She had to take a look later.

This thing was far too absurd!

Still, awakening it seemed to be very difficult.

"Hahahahaha!"

Rocks was still laughing wildly. He seemed to have lost his reason.

Yet he was unleashing his Haki at every moment.

Hearing his captain's laughter.

Kaido really wanted to smack him with his Kanabo!

After eating his Devil Fruit, he had felt several times stronger all over.

But as this darkness tore at him, he felt his internal organs crashing around.

Even the blood in his body was about to be devoured. It was terrifying.

"Afraid? Are you terrified?"

"Before awakening, the Dark-Dark Fruit is the only Devil Fruit that can't turn its user into an element, and it brings double the pain."

"But in truth, once awakened, it produces an uncontrollable devouring force."

"Not even light or Haki has anywhere to hide!"

"That's also why it can't turn its user into an element before awakening."

"Because even the ability user is restrained and bound!"

"This devouring force doesn't just tear at you, but at the ability user too!"

"The intense gravity brings double the pain and prevents elemental transformation."

"In exchange, it is the strongest Logia Devil Fruit!"

"Hahahahaha!"

Rocks's laughter grew more and more crazed.

Whether the Devil Fruit's will had replaced his own.

No one could prove it!

With him looking like that, who knew what state he was in? At any rate, it was not human.

"Plunge the seas into fear!"

Rocks spread his hands, letting Roger slash at him over and over.

His body split into chunk after chunk of darkness.

From every chunk of darkness, masses of tentacles shot out to devour everything.

"It's useless! I can predict all your attacks!"

"The darkness is me, and I am the darkness!"

"To hit a Logia, you must have Observation Haki that surpasses the Logia user's."

"But even you can't surpass my Observation Haki!"

"No one can stop me. Since I can't knock you down, I'll devour all of God Valley."

Rocks was no less extreme than Imu.

Only this handful of people remained in God Valley.

He simply had to finish them all off!

As long as he took his entire pirate crew down with him, the Roger Pirates and the powerful fighters from Marine Headquarters would be finished too!

"You lunatic!"

Roger had known that, in the end, Rocks would never accept any outcome other than his own victory.

Even a draw meant losing his chance completely.

An opportunity as perfect as God Valley would hardly come twice in a lifetime.

He had to go all the way!

"I knew this would happen! Newgate, Shiki! Do you want to die along with this guy too?"

Sengoku clutched the rocks with his bare hands, still needing to punch holes into them from time to time.

Now everyone was in the same boat.

After Rocks realized he could not defeat Garp and Roger while securing victory for himself.

He decisively chose to kill everyone in the trap.

That way, he could still win!

Other than that, even a draw was absolutely unacceptable to Rocks.

And so.

To ensure victory without any reservations.

Rocks launched an attack in his strongest state, frantically releasing all his darkness and Haki.

"He never follows the rules."

Whitebeard had also anticipated this. Rocks could not possibly have gone without a backup plan.

"Rocks has always been crazy! I told you not to push him! What a pain!"

What annoyed Golden Lion most was that even he had been dragged into it.

Before this scene.

Darkness kept tearing at and devouring everything.

The tentacles began reaching both sides of God Valley.

The valley began to tremble and shake.

The frenzied devouring force stirred up a swirling storm, accelerating everything's pull toward the center of the darkness.

Shane gripped Dragon's shoulder with one hand, while Captain John clung to his foot like a lifeline.

"Rookie, don't let go! Or we'll all die!"

As John spoke, he tossed a liquor bottle away.

The bottle flew toward Rocks and was devoured outright.

Hearing Captain John's words.

Shane turned to Dragon and said, "Dragon, don't let go, or we'll all get torn to pieces!"

The Darkness Paradise State devoured and attracted Lineage Factors.

Even those without abilities would be affected.

Dragon held the Treasure Chest with one hand and gripped Zephyr's hand with the other.

"Uncle Zephyr!"

At that moment.

Zephyr silently looked toward Tsuru at the end of the chain!

Tsuru desperately clutched a rock with one hand, looking resentfully at these grown men!

"Why don't you all just die? I'm an ability user! I'm affected even more!"

Bang!

A Darkness Tentacle shattered the rock over there.

Fortunately, it was pulled in and devoured before it could fall.

Amid the storm.

The darkness expanded faster, unlike the Dark Hole from before.

It was continually strengthening itself through devouring.

That meant the longer Rocks remained awakened, the more danger everyone else would be in.

And the stronger he himself would become!

"Roger, come on!"

Rocks was still taunting him.

Only his eyes still held any light, while the words from his open mouth sounded more like the whispers of the Old Gods.

The Darkness Tentacles made no distinction between friend and foe.

They flew out from everywhere, smashing and devouring everything they touched.

Rocks stood at the core, growing stronger with every object and every life he devoured.

His body swelled beyond twelve meters in height, like a giant.

But this was only the beginning.

Rocks had even retained nothing but his obsession with erasing everything.

He surrendered himself entirely to the darkness. Only this way could he reach his strongest state.

The Darkness Tentacles had Observation Haki to guide their direction, Armament Haki to attack enemies, and Conqueror's Haki to sweep away the weak.

The number of tentacles kept increasing, from a few dozen at the start to over a thousand.

Until Rocks vanished from sight, his entire body swelling into a Darkness Abyss suspended in the air.

"Devour! Destroy!"

There was no longer friend or foe, only darkness.

Above God Valley.

The Darkness Abyss reached the rock walls, progressing toward the destruction of the entire island.

Staying here meant facing death.

Even so, Shane still held the Den Den Mushi with his dragon tail.

"I want to try again!"

Roger gripped his sword hilt.

The Voice of All Things rang in his ears once more.

"I heard Rocks deep inside the darkness!"

"As long as we can tear an opening in the abyss."

"We'll have a chance! But the two of us don't have enough Haki."

Hearing Roger's words, Garp believed him without hesitation.

"There's mine too."

Whitebeard resisted the devouring force with one arm.

Haki roared from his fist.

White lightning flared to life, erupting alongside Garp's pale blue lightning.

Whoosh!

Within the darkness, Haki kept illuminating small patches of space.

"This lunatic even wants to kill me!"

Golden Lion unleashed his Haki, his mouth no less relentless.

"Even my cigar got devoured!"