"Die!"
Incensed by the mockery of his voice, Pica shrieked and raised his giant stone fist, swinging it directly at Bartley.
As the huge rock fist came at him, Bartley felt a fierce gust of wind, as if a whole house were being thrown at him.
"Break!"
Bartley leaped forward, throwing a punch.
Boom!
The two disproportionate fists collided, and a powerful force expanded, creating a visible shockwave that burst outwards.
Crack! Rumble!
The massive rock fist cracked, then the entire arm shattered, sending debris flying everywhere with an unceasing roar.
Swoosh~
Boom!
The burly Bartley became a black blur. With a loud crash, the other arm of the giant rock Pica had become was also broken in two. The several-meter-tall stone arm fell from the air, shaking the ground.
"You're going to shatter, too!"
As soon as Bartley landed, he pushed off the ground and flew towards Pica again, fists first.
"Bitestone!!!"
Suddenly, a head-shaped stone, identical to Pica's head, appeared on the rock giant's chest. It opened its mouth wide and tried to bite Bartley.
Boom!
Bartley, in mid-air, punched the head-shaped stone, smashing it to pieces. However, he was forced back to the ground.
"Charlestone!!!"
Just as Bartley landed, a gigantic and sharp stone pillar shot out from the ground. However, Bartley's Observation Haki was well-developed, and he easily dodged it.
Immediately after, several more giant and sharp stone pillars erupted from the ground in succession, attempting to either send Bartley flying or pierce him.
Rumble~
"This kind of attack is useless!"
Bartley's face was cold. He threw a punch, directly smashing the several-meter-long stone pillar in front of him into smithereens.
"Then I'll use another move. Die!"
Pica's high-pitched voice rang out again. The rock giant, which had felt alive just moments ago, now seemed to have died, no longer moving with any sign of life.
Rumble, rumble, rumble...
The ground shook continuously as large amounts of rock covered the moist soil and grassy fields. At that moment, two horizontal cylindrical stone pillars emerged from the ground on either side of Bartley. Dozens of sharp stone spikes protruded from the circular ends of the pillars, which quickly moved towards Bartley in the middle, as if to crush him.
Boom!
The two horizontal stone pillars clamped together, trapping Bartley in between before he could react.
"Bastard! You think that's enough to defeat me?! In your dreams!"
With a roar, Bartley's exposed hands and feet instantly turned black, gleaming with a metallic sheen.
Crack!
Suddenly, the two joined stone pillars trembled, and then countless cracks appeared on their surfaces.
Rumble!
In the next moment, the two horizontal stone pillars shattered. A large amount of debris flew in all directions. If the soldiers in the vicinity hadn't kept their distance, this single attack would have killed or wounded dozens, if not hundreds, of them.
"You high-pitched sissy, is your strength as weak as your voice?!"
Shaking off the stone debris on his body, a pitch-black metal man appeared before Pica's eyes. He exuded a frighteningly ferocious aura, and his metallic body made him look even more terrifying.
"This guy..."
Pica, hidden within the rocks, saw Bartley's entire body covered in Armament Haki and muttered to himself. This level of Haki... I've only ever seen it on Vergo in the family.
And this guy's Haki seems even more pure than Vergo's.
However, his voice was always a sensitive topic for Pica.
"Bartley, I'm going to kill you!"
That high-pitched voice was now filled with rage.
Rumble, rumble, rumble...
The huge rock giant came back to life. Its broken arms were rapidly regenerating inch by inch, and its body was also growing quickly, from its original twenty to thirty meters to forty to fifty meters and still growing. The plains lacked rocks, so Pica was directly drawing and assimilating a large amount of rock from underground.
"This... this guy..."
Bartley, who had turned into a black metal man, stared in awe at the now hundred-meter-tall rock giant, cold sweat beading on his forehead.
"My... my God!"
"What... what is that thing?"
"There's no way we can defeat that thing!"
"Am I dreaming?"
A giant, hundred-meter-tall rock giant had appeared on the plains, stunning countless people, especially the enemy soldiers. Many dropped their weapons, completely losing their will to fight.
It must be said that Pica's Stone-Stone Fruit had an incredible deterrent effect in large-scale battles. Without a powerful enough fighter to counter it, it was practically unstoppable. The number of soldiers was completely useless in the face of such a rock giant.
On the battlefield, besides the battle between Pica and Bartley, there were other strong fighters clashing.
"You dare to zone out in front of me?! Catapult Pop!!!"
Gladius, wearing a helmet and a circular-lensed mask, turned a gear-like device on his left arm before extending it and aiming forward. Several black dots were shot out, flying rapidly ahead.
Boom, boom, boom...
A series of explosions sent dirt flying and dust billowing a few dozen meters away, leaving more than a dozen enemy soldiers lying in pools of blood.
Within the billowing dust, a nearly two-meter-tall monkey agilely moved back and forth, dodging the explosions around him. That's right, it was a monkey, not an ape. It had a tuft of hair on its head in a V-shape, and white fur around its face. Its body was covered in gray-brown fur, and its tail was as long as its body, with the tip coiled into a circle.
Coiled Tail - Art!!!
A high-ranking officer of the Garfield Pirates and ruler of the Sixth Island, a Zoan-type Monkey-Monkey Fruit, Capuchin Model.
In the sky, Buffalo, wearing a heavy yellow coat and a tooth with the Donquixote Family symbol, flew through the air, his propeller-like hair spinning.
Sitting on his back was Baby 5, a long-legged woman in a maid outfit. She was holding a rocket launcher and firing constantly at the ground below.
Boom!
A cannonball fired by Baby 5 blew up a small enemy unit that had just formed a formation, sending them flying.
"You think you're so great just because you can fly?! Don't think you're the only one who can!"
On the battlefield below, a young man in a pink-and-white suit angrily adjusted his tie before leaping up, stomping on the air. A circle of white smoke appeared under his feet as he used the air to ascend.
"Is that Rokushiki's Geppo?!" Buffalo said with a grin. "So it's the female deceiver – Adonis. Baby 5, take him down!"
"You're disgusting."
Baby 5 also had a hint of murderous intent in her eyes. She fired a cannonball directly at him.
"Damn it! Don't call me that nickname!"
Adonis dodged Baby 5's attack and angrily yelled at Buffalo.
The reason was that he had learned Geppo by deceiving a female officer at a Marine academy. He was later exposed and subsequently hunted by the Marines. It was also because of this nickname that the Marines had given him that he was despised and loathed by countless women.
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