From the moment he stepped out of G-1 Branch, Sakazuki's goal was not to defeat Rosen, but to try to extinguish his junior's idea of fighting the Ochoku Pirates one-on-one.
In fact.
Having personally witnessed Rosen's Conqueror's Haki, he already knew that he could not possibly win against Rosen in the competition for the position of Fleet Admiral.
After the battle just now, he sincerely admitted that he was inferior to Rosen, and also recognized his junior as a naval admiral.
That's why Sakazuki didn't want to see Rosen and risk his life.
After all, it's not easy for the Marine Headquarters to produce the strongest Marine officer in a thousand years.
In his view, the correct way to start a war with the Four Emperors should be to wait for Rosen to be promoted to Admiral first, and then naturally take over Sengoku's position as the new Fleet Admiral.
In this way, once he stands at the pinnacle of the Marine's highest authority, his junior can rightfully, in the name of Fleet Admiral, command the three admirals and, with the strength of his own forces, openly wage war against any of the Four Emperors' pirate crews.
At that time.
He, Sakazuki, will undoubtedly be the first to answer the call, becoming the strongest blade under Rosen's command, a blade that will slash at the Four Emperors.
"Senior Sakazuki."
Do you really think you can hold out against me for ten days and ten nights?
"No, I should put it this way: when did you start to have the illusion that you could spend ten days and ten nights with me?"
At this moment.
Rosen began to speak.
He understood Sakazuki's words and ideas, but felt they were completely unnecessary.
"This is not an illusion, but a fact."
Sakazuki's calm tone revealed an air of proud confidence.
He admitted that he was completely outmatched by Rosen.
However, he was very confident in his ability to sustain combat, even to the point of being arrogant.
"Yeah?"
"Before you consider this an undeniable fact, why not use your Observation Haki to sense the island beneath your feet?"
"It is the core of the island."
Rosen gave Sakazuki a deep look, then added, "The Earth's core."
"The Earth's core?"
Upon hearing this, Sakazuki's eyes immediately glowed red, and his Observation Haki did not spread out in all directions, but instead surged into the depths of the earth.
What puzzled him was that even after maximizing his Observation Haki's range, he still couldn't detect anything unusual.
"Excuse me."
"I almost forgot that our Observation Haki is different."
Rosen immediately saw through Sakazuki's thoughts. He gently placed his hand on his forehead, only then remembering that Sakazuki's Observation Haki had a considerable range, capable of sensing everything within a ten-kilometer radius, but in terms of sensing range alone, it did not reach the level of Fujitora.
After all, an extremely wide range of perception is Fujitora's natural talent as an admiral-level monster.
Just like Kaido's indestructible body, Big Mom's steel balloon, and Douglas Bullet's massive Haki mass, they are all innate talents.
Furthermore, sensing the underground is a completely different concept from sensing the surface.
If a person's Observation Color perception range is 10 kilometers, but if they go deep underground and are affected by the Earth's crust and the extremely dense rock layers below, they can only perceive a range of up to 5 kilometers underground.
"Try again, senior."
"I've made some minor adjustments to it."
"Now, it's closer to the ground, and you should be able to sense it with your Observation Haki range."
Rosen's mind raced, and then he spoke to Sakazuki.
Boom
This moment.
Both Sakazuki and Borsalino felt a slight tremor in the ground of the island.
"This is."
Sakazuki's eyes glowed red, and his Observation Haki penetrated deep into the ground once more. Just as Rosen had said, this time he sensed the situation inside the island.
It was a fierce and violent aura, and it felt incredibly familiar to him.
Because he is now facing that power head-on.
"The blazing flames of a Ryūjin Jakka?"
Sakazuki looked at Rosen, a hint of surprise and suspicion flashing in his eyes.
when?
He remembered that he was on edge the whole time, concentrating his mind and using his Observation Haki at full power without ever letting his guard down, but he still didn't realize when Rosen had quietly tampered with the island's underground.
A flame was planted.
No.
It should be ten shares.
"The moment I shot you with Armament Haki and the explosive flames of Ryūjin Jakka, I had already buried them all beneath your feet."
Rosen looked at Sakazuki with a half-smile:
"Would you like to see it in its entirety?"
After saying that.
Before Sakazuki could answer, the island began to tremble more violently.
Click
Amidst a series of deafening roars, the island was no longer experiencing an earthquake, but rather a cataclysmic collapse.
The shocking cracks, like giant pythons, stretched out in all directions, tearing the earth apart wherever they passed.
then.
A blazing aura and a dazzling golden light surged forth from the cracked earth, erupting from countless fissures.
From a distance.
The entire island seemed to have transformed into a supervolcano, with cracks covering its surface like a spiderweb, each one appearing to be filled with lava.
Boom
Sudden.
With a series of earth-shattering explosions, like thunder drumming, pillars of fire erupted from the depths of the island, melting through layers of rock, reaching the ground before shooting into the sky.
Each pillar of fire was extremely large, like a giant, serpentine sea monster that burst through the earth and shot straight into the sky.
If you look at it with your eyes, you can't see the end of the pillar of fire at all.
There are ten such towering pillars of fire in total.
When the ten pillars of fire, like pillars of the new world, connected the earth's core to the sea of clouds, a terrifying heat wave spread out in all directions, engulfing the entire island.
Faced with the intense heat, the surrounding soil and rock layers melted rapidly, forming a molten, red liquid resembling lava.
All the trees spontaneously combusted and burned fiercely.
Even a river in the island of Hengchenyu emitted a large amount of white mist, which was then quickly evaporated.
"If my sword is determined to strike you, a Marine Admiral, then at the moment you are blasted away by Susanoo's arrow, these ten towering pillars of fire will burst forth from the ground."
"Then."
"They will gather in front of you and detonate instantly, completely engulfing you as you lie prostrate on the ground, before you can even get up."
Every syllable of Rosen's was imbued with a chilling aura.
Both Sakazuki and Borsalino, who was also surrounded by ten towering pillars of fire, had sweat pouring down their faces, necks, and backs.
Sakazuki, in particular, who was directly subjected to the explosive flames of Ryūjin Jakka, knew very well the power that flames reaching 6,000 degrees Celsius would have once detonated.
Compared to the volcanic eruption created by his Magma-Magma Fruit, which is the most powerful of the three types of Devil Fruit attacks, it is much stronger.
Moreover, the ten pillars of fire before them were enormous, seemingly stretching from the ocean of the new world all the way to the sky island thousands of meters above.
Such a massive flame, once gathered and detonated, would be far more powerful than the previous Taimatsu, Taimatsu, and Jōkaku Enjō.
"This is it."
"Ennetsu Jigoku."
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