"You bastard..."
Akainu's voice was forced out through clenched teeth, veins bulging on his forehead.
Roy gave him no chance to catch his breath.
He raised his left hand, his fingers slightly bent, and gently clenched it in Akainu's direction.
The ground around Akainu suddenly exploded, spewing forth countless fragments of dirt, rubble, broken steel bars, and molten metal.
All matter that could be manipulated by Telekinesis rose from the ground, gathered in mid-air, and then, as if grasped by an invisible giant hand, enveloped Akainu's body.
Akainu's pupils suddenly contracted.
He tried to dodge by transforming into an element, but the Gravity Suppression slowed his movements by half a beat.
Just then, mud and gravel surged in from all directions, enveloping him in a giant earthen ball nearly ten meters in diameter.
The surface of the soil ball continues to creep, contract, and compress, causing the internal pressure to rise sharply.
"You bastard..."
Akainu's roar came from inside the earthen ball, deep and violent.
His lower body began to elementalize—not just ordinary lava, but rather raising the temperature of the magma within his body to its limit.
Dark red light burst forth from the magma, and intense heat shot outwards through the cracks in the soil.
The entire ball of soil began to tremble violently, and dark red cracks appeared on its surface, emanating a blinding white light.
Roy knew he couldn't hold him for long.
But it doesn't matter—he never intended to use this to trap Akainu in the first place.
All he needed was this one moment.
Roy took a deep breath, and his mental energy condensed into invisible needles within his Telekinesis Domain.
These needles have no physical form; they are purely composed of mental energy, and become even sharper and more concentrated under the amplification of Telekinesis.
Then he raised his eyes, his gaze piercing through the earthen ball and locking onto Akainu's core consciousness.
" Mental Storm."
Countless mental needles pierced Akainu's brain at the same instant.
It wasn't physical harm, but a direct impact on the mind.
At this moment, inside the sphere, Akainu felt as if ten thousand steel needles were simultaneously piercing the depths of his brain, frantically churning the most vulnerable part of his consciousness.
Akainu's elemental transformation abruptly halted.
The arms remained in the posture of condensed magma, but the magma's light began to flicker.
The intense, sharp pain deep within his brain briefly threw his thoughts into disarray, and he even stopped breathing for a moment.
And at that very instant— Roy's Conqueror's Haki erupted.
Dark red arcs of electricity surged wildly from Roy's body, like a thunderstorm that had been building up for too long finally finding an outlet.
The Conqueror's Haki materialized into Inazuma, spreading wildly in all directions from him!
The clouds in the sky were torn apart, a rift ripped open across the heavens by the Conqueror's Haki aftershocks.
Sunlight streamed down through the cracks, illuminating the battlefield in a silvery white.
Within the auction area, all weaker pirates, marines, and bounty hunters within a radius of several miles...
Almost simultaneously, their eyes rolled back, they foamed at the mouth, and collapsed to the ground with a thud.
Even the naval soldiers who rushed to provide support from as far away as Sabaody fell in droves.
The entire Sabaody Archipelago, including the auction area, fell into a deathly silence at that moment.
The other three battlefields also experienced a brief interruption at this moment.
Zephyr's iron fist stopped in mid-air.
When that Conqueror's Haki swept over him, even this battle-hardened former Admiral felt a flicker of horror in his eyes.
Roy's Conqueror's Haki... He had experienced it many times—in G-5 Branch, in intelligence reports from Hachinosu, and in the World Government's classified files.
But every time he experienced it firsthand, he had the same thought: Just how strong can this kid become?
Tesoro's face lit up with a fanatical expression as he unleashed this Conqueror's Haki.
"The boss is getting serious!"
His reaction was faster than Zephyr's, taking advantage of the moment when Zephyr was distracted.
The speed of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit exploded at close range, and his figure transformed into a golden Inazuma, the lightning exploding before Zephyr's eyes.
Zephyr instinctively closed his eyes and swept his Iron Arms to force Tesoro back, but Yamato, Savi, and Jesus Burgess's attacks came from three directions simultaneously.
Yamato's spiked club, imbued with Armament Haki, swung horizontally towards Zephyr's ribs.
Savi, in his Giant Ape form, clenched his fists and unleashed a powerful hammer strike from the sky.
Jesus Burgess's Strong-Strong Fist came from the front, the wind from the punch whistling.
Kazami appeared silently behind Zephyr, the tip of his sword gleaming coldly in the moonlight, aiming straight for the back of Zephyr's neck.
The four of them joined forces and attacked simultaneously while Zephyr was stunned by Conqueror's Haki.
Zephyr hastily defended, parrying left and right with his Black Arm, but four attacks landed simultaneously. His shoulder was slashed open by the tip of Kazami's sword, and blood flowed down his sleeve.
On another battlefield, Garp's Conqueror's Haki erupted simultaneously.
At the very instant Roy's Conqueror's Haki exploded, Shanks seized upon Garp's slight moment of distraction, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, took a deep breath, and pushed his own Conqueror's Haki to its limit.
Dark red Inazuma danced on Gryphon's blade— Conqueror's Haki Coating.
This is an ultimate technique that only a very few top-tier experts can master. It materializes Conqueror's Haki and wraps it around the weapon, so that every strike contains the power to destroy everything.
Shanks gripped his sword with one hand, while Gryphon gracefully appeared behind him.
The Conqueror's Haki wrapped around the blade hissed.
His body slumped slightly, his legs bent, and his whole body resembled a fully drawn bow.
" Divine Departure!!!"
Roger's signature move.
The ultimate blow in One Piece against the Pirate King heroes: a fatal strike Conqueror's Haki Coating on Famous Sword.
At that moment, Shanks's figure seemed to overlap with that of his deceased captain; the way he swung his sword, the angle of his strike, and the momentum of his attack were all exactly the same as the man who had conquered the entire sea.
" Roger..."
Garp's voice was so low that only he could hear it as he looked at Shanks, who resembled Roger so closely.
"Hahaha! Shanks!"
You bastard!
"They've even learned Roger's move?!"
Garp clenched his fists, and the fighting spirit in his eyes began to burn as he looked at the oncoming " Divine Departure ".
Looks like I need to get serious!
Otherwise, you kids would really laugh at me!
Garp bent his knees slightly, and the ground beneath his feet began to crack.
At the same time, Garp's Conqueror's Haki converged towards his fist, and a cross-shaped beam of light appeared on his fist. As Garp exerted his power, a large section of the ground behind Garp was lifted up.
"Whoosh--!!"
Garp's figure vanished from his spot, and he shot head-on into Shanks's Divine Departure like a cannonball.
" Galaxy Impact!!!"
Iron fist and Divine Departure collided in the sunlight.
A dark red Inazuma bolt exploded, and the shockwave blew away all the surrounding building ruins.
Shanks and Garp's Conqueror's Coating attacks intertwined, their fists and swords half a meter apart, with a dark red energy sphere in between continuously expanding.
"Not bad, kid!"
Garp grinned.
"But you're still too green!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Garp's arm suddenly swelled up.
"Boom--!"
As Garp exerted his strength once more, Shanks could no longer hold on, and Shanks ' longsword was gradually pushed back.
"Bang--!"
The tangled energy burst forth suddenly toward Shanks.