Loki Takes on the Rocks Pirates Alone 7

"Ganzui, save me!!"

John had no time to worry about anything else and hurriedly shouted.

The next second, a violent explosion erupted against Loki, kicking up billowing black smoke.

John seized the chance to retreat.

At that moment, the others also noticed a figure at the edge of the battlefield, though no one knew when he had appeared.

He was a tall, burly man with a very long beard and hair tied in a ponytail. He wore golden armor and a pair of glasses.

His eyes were full of mockery behind the lenses, and one hand was still rubbing at his body.

"How embarrassing, John."

"Cut the crap!"

John ran over and snapped back at him.

John's Observation Haki had alerted him to Ganzui's arrival earlier. The two were usually on good terms, so when John saw things turning against him, he called Ganzui into the fight.

"That guy's Harald's son, right? How did you end up fighting him?" Ganzui flicked the grime he had rubbed off his body away.

Immediately afterward, another explosion rang out in the distance.

"Your moves really are disgusting." John gave Ganzui a disgusted look.

Ganzui was a Bomb-Bomb Fruit user. His fingers were too thick to fit in his nostrils, so he couldn't pick his nose.

In battle, he generally turned the grime he rubbed off his body into bombs and used them to fight.

He was a prominent figure in the Rocks Pirates.

At that moment, a massive shadow fell over the two of them.

Loki lowered his head, his face expressionless. His eyes had turned completely red, with no pupils visible, and his eye sockets glowed faintly.

"Giant brat, did you kill my good brother Koden?!" Ganzui shouted.

"...Huh?" Loki tilted his head.

"Don't bother asking. Who besides me even knew that guy?" John waved a hand and remarked.

Ganzui stopped asking. When he received the news, someone had told him that after Mad Demon died, Koden had gone up to fight Loki, only to be killed in a few exchanges.

Now that the battlefield had been torn up like this, they probably couldn't even find his body.

"I'll avenge him!" Ganzui roared.

Kūja no Sekihō!

Ganzui rubbed the grime off his body into a ball, then flicked it away and detonated it.

Boom!

Flames soared into the sky as a scorching blast spread outward, raising the temperature of the entire area.

It struck Loki dead on.

A pirate who heard Ganzui's words was deeply moved. "Boss Ganzui started out as a smuggler pirate, but he's so loyal!"

"Weren't they on the same ship? Sure enough, when you're out making your way in the world, that's the kind of boss you need!"

"Oh! Take down that bastard giant brat!"

Listening to the cheers around him, John was speechless and didn't know what expression to make.

In truth, Koden owed Ganzui tens of millions of Beli. Now that he was dead, he naturally couldn't pay it back!

Roar!

With a long roar, Loki burst out of the explosion's smoke. As his massive body moved, his footsteps seemed to shake heaven and earth.

Loki had grown even bigger!

If this kept up, some couldn't help wondering whether Loki would eventually grow taller than the skull-shaped rock mountain on Hachinosu.

Loki stomped forward, slashing his sword into the ground and leaving deep marks.

John and Ganzui split up to dodge. They didn't just evade, however; they also looked for chances to counterattack.

"Supreme Iron Ball!"

"Filth Grand Celebration!"

John created a large iron ball above Loki's head, a mass made from a mixture of countless metals.

Meanwhile, as Loki chased him, Ganzui threw explosives onto the ground, laying them out in what looked like a formation before detonating them all at once.

Boom!!

This time, he was attacked from both above and below!

"It hurts..."

The iron ball fell on Loki's head, knocking it to one side and smashing his neck crooked!

Several powerful bombs on the ground blew one of his feet off at the ankle. The severed limb flew out from the coast and crashed into a ship, sinking it!

His body swayed, and the sound that came from his mouth was no longer a boy's voice, but a deep, muffled rumble.

Seeing that Loki seemed badly hurt, John and Ganzui immediately turned to attack, pelting his face with a succession of metal objects and explosions.

For a while, the commotion was tremendous. The two of them made enough noise for a war between armies.

"That's enough, isn't it?" Newgate frowned at the edge of the battlefield.

"Hey! This brat's already plenty strong. There's no need to keep fighting, is there?" Shiki said as well.

"What are you talking about? The fight isn't over yet, is it? Besides, would John and Ganzui stop so easily?" Ochoku spread his hands.

"Are they really going to kill him?" Kyo said in a deep voice.

It wasn't kindness that prompted them to say this. They could see Loki's ability and talent. Although he was still somewhat unpolished in places, he was already quite impressive.

Since they had gone out of their way to bring Loki back from Elbaf, surely they hadn't intended to torment him to death?

Why hadn't Kaya reacted yet?

His increasingly massive body had instead made him a bigger target, turning Loki himself into a living target his enemies could never miss.

Just as they were thinking this, something incredible happened before their eyes!

Loki used his bare hands to straighten his crooked head. A series of explosive cracks rang out from his neck as the bones and muscles repaired themselves.

At the same time, a foot grew back from his severed lower leg and, under his ever-increasing weight, crushed the ground beneath it.

And all of this happened in the span of a few breaths!

Loki now stood there, the shadow cast by his massive body making the area look as though it were under an overcast sky.

"Biggest! Fastest! Strongest!"

Without exception, everyone raised their heads to look at him.

Loki suddenly bent down, reached out, and scooped up a sailing ship moored by the coast. Then he casually hurled it onto the ground.

Boom!!

The ship blasted a huge crater into the ground, filling it with shattered planks and stones. Cracks spread across the earth like a spiderweb!

"You... You've got to be kidding..."

A bead of cold sweat the size of a bean hung on John's forehead. Just then, a fierce gust swept across the land, whipping his long hair into disarray. The bead of sweat fell and shattered on the ground.

It wasn't a fierce wind at all, but merely a breath Loki blew out after puffing up his cheeks. Numerous pirates were blown away.

"John, you fucking screwed me over," Ganzui said slowly.

"I fucking screwed myself over too!" John sounded as though he were cursing, but he unconsciously lowered his voice.

"I'll remember this," Ganzui said. Then he turned and ran, his overly burly body proving frighteningly nimble instead.

"Don't leave me behind!" John stood on an iron plate and used magnetic wind to glide close to the ground.

The two great pirates forgot all about their pride and scrambled to flee, having completely lost their initial composure. They had only one thought: to get away from the battlefield as quickly as possible!

The next second, their backs were lit up, as though a new sun had risen in the sky.

John still had time to look back, but that single glance nearly scared his soul out of his mouth. He hurriedly clamped his mouth shut, lowered his head, and ran for all he was worth.

"I'll destroy your bodies and souls with a torrent of Spiritual Power at its maximum!"

Loki hovered high in the air, the pair of wings behind him beating slowly. He raised his hand, and a Reishi Bow formed in a fraction of a second. He then drew the bow and formed an arrow.

Reishi visible to the naked eye danced around him. An incalculable amount of energy condensed into a single arrow, its tip so red it was almost black, as though dripping blood!

He immediately released the bowstring. What he fired was less like an arrow than a beam of light, a flood.

Dense Spiritual Power swept over the land like a wave!