Rocks's entire Fortress-man physique brimmed with lightning, while the Woods-Woods Fruit merged perfectly with his Scarecrow form.
The powers of darkness and Tremor-Tremor rested in his hands.
Even without the island's help, Rocks still possessed the greatest strength among them.
Akainu staked his life on a final blow. In his view, allowing Rocks to become a god would bring irreversible disaster upon this world.
But in Rocks's eyes, it did not matter who became a god. They were destined to serve as Shane's catalyst for creating a new world.
Now.
When he sensed the changes in the Blue Planet, he knew what Shane intended to do.
"What a wildly audacious idea, Shane!"
"You brat, you're the greatest genius the seas have ever seen. Back at Rocky Port on Hachinosu, I saw your ambition at a glance. And at God Valley, you were all the more indomitable."
"From the day you resurrected me, you already knew you were certain to defeat Imu. You were only worried about the future, about how this world should welcome a brand-new world thirty-five years later."
"You knew that without learning a lesson, people would be no different from those endlessly repeating a vicious cycle. You saw the flaws in every link, so you chose to sleep and let us experience these decades ourselves."
"The facts proved that eliminating the Celestial Dragons back then was nowhere near enough. As long as those people existed, the seas would rot again and again. But you didn't act yourself. You placed the outcome before our eyes, until the worst possible result finally appeared."
"You used me, but I was willing enough. These extra decades of life were quite a bargain. And gaining the title of god just before death would make this life all the more worthwhile!"
Rocks was