"What's the situation?!"
Shortly after Kaido arrived, Whitebeard also reached the scene.
He had actually seen the changes here from afar, but only asked York upon arriving.
So York repeated what he had told Kaido.
"These are the Five Elders after activating their fruit abilities! The legendary highest power holders of the world! Of course, only on the surface."
"On the surface?"
Whitebeard was startled; he was good at catching key points.
York pointed to the sky, at the uniformed woman whose body was split into four equal parts and still unable to reassemble.
"The guy possessing that woman is the true King of the World who has always hidden in the shadows!"
Whitebeard's gaze sharpened, instantly clarifying the logic.
"Is he the one Rocks wants to take down?"
York nodded slightly.
From Rocks' plan, indeed all purposes were to take down Imu.
Not far away, Rocks walked over slowly.
"Surprisingly, you three are willing to help me."
"Heh! Not helping, just here to witness your end."
York mocked, but Rocks didn't react at all. Only then did York notice the blood flowing from Rocks' ears.
Rocks knew Life Return; repairing eardrums was nothing before Life Return, yet he insisted on not repairing them.
York's gaze became solemn again.
This guy... must have suffered inhuman mental torture...
He had followed Garling earlier.
Garling brought Rocks' late wife's corpse.
But now that woman wasn't seen resurrected.
Plus, besides bleeding ears, Rocks' cheeks still had traces of blood tears.
Between Garling's arrival and his own, what kind of story happened here—even if not guessed precisely, could be roughly imagined.
"Wahahahaha! Although there are only four people! We are not without a chance of winning!!"
Ignoring the strangeness in the eyes of York's trio, Rocks displayed his usual arrogance again.
"Five enemies in total!"
"That maggot is the trashiest! Kaido, leave it to you!"
"That bird was crippled by me; York, you handle it!"
"That horse is decent; Newgate, you take it!"
"Finally, that pig, and the woman in the sky, leave them to me!!"
"Kill them all!! This world will be ours!!"
Quickly assigning opponents, York, Whitebeard, and Kaido had no objections.
Not that they didn't want to speak, but they knew the current Rocks couldn't hear.
Opposite.
While Rocks grandly assigned opponents, the opposing side was actually quite wretched.
Sandworm Old Jupiter, injected with 50 times pleasure by York's holy light tentacles, was still writhing on the ground.
If not for his lower body being buried in the soil, who knows what kind of filth this place would become.
Monster bird Old Mars had most of his body sliced open by Rocks, still unable to close, half drooping, looking completely crippled.
The skeletal horse and four-tusked boar were intact, but Imu above them was split into four pieces.
Scanning across, truly a gathering of the old, weak, sick, and disabled.
But their side didn't feel disadvantaged at all.
After all, they had immortality as a foundation.
Apart from Rocks himself, they didn't regard the others on Rocks' side at all.
York's ability?!
If not for Old Jupiter, that idiot, eating York into his mouth, York's ability wouldn't have worked on him so easily.
And as time passed, possessing immortality, they would maintain their peak.
The Haki Rocks applied to the uniformed woman and Old Mars would eventually dissipate, and their combat power would return to peak.
In contrast, Rocks' side would gradually exhaust stamina, eventually all dying at their hands.
So simply put, this battle was essentially a race against time.
If Rocks and the others could thoroughly take down the Five Elders in a short time, Imu would become a commander without an army.
Later when attacking the Holy Land Mary Geoise, it would be much easier, and the winning chance higher.
Conversely, everyone on Rocks' side would have to die.
The two groups confronted each other like this; the originally terrifying battlefield unexpectedly calmed down briefly.
Until a certain moment, a breeze blew, raising some dust to obscure vision. Both sides moved simultaneously.
Kaido transformed into the Azure Dragon and soared into the sky.
He directly abandoned the Sandworm Old Jupiter still writhing on the ground, choosing the half-crippled Old Mars flying in the air.
Dragon mouth opened, surging dragon breath spewed out.
Seeing this, Old Mars also opened his mouth to spew flames.
Flames from both sides collided and compressed in the high sky, as if a second sun appeared here.
Rocks and Whitebeard didn't change, rushing toward their designated targets respectively.
Rocks wrapped extreme Haki on his sword blade, slashing at the giant four-tusked boar.
Old Mercury showed no weakness, charging at Rocks similarly.
Four large tusks turned into four sharp blades, also wrapped in extreme Conqueror's Haki.
Blades collided; the giant boar was pressed back a step but ultimately withstood Rocks' attack.
The collision between Whitebeard and Old Venus was similar.
Murakumogiri wrapped in tremor power, Kitetsu I wrapped in cold air—the two collided, evenly matched.
Instead, York, like Kaido, directly abandoned the opponent allocated by Rocks, turning to rush at the giant sandworm.
As the saying goes, hit you while you're down.
Thoroughly disable the weakest first, then solve the stronger ones step by step, finally ganging up on the strongest—this was the strategy with the highest winning rate.
"Fist Bone · Crushing Fist!!"
York leaped high from the ruins, right hand clenched and arm bent accumulating power, left hand resting on the right arm. At the moment he was about to land on the sandworm, he punched with full force.
Consciousness swallowed by pleasure, the defenseless giant sandworm was blasted into two sections by York's punch on the spot.
Then York proactively drilled into the hollow upper body of the giant sandworm, withdrew Haki, and punched madly at the inner wall.
"Ora ora ora ora..."
Delivering dozens of punches within a few seconds, raising the implanted pleasure amplification to hundreds of times.
Then, before immortality repaired it, he drilled out of the sandworm's body.
Old Jupiter was thoroughly disabled from combat by York.
At least until this great war ended, don't even think about waking up from the vortex of pleasure.
Raising his head, gazing at the quartered uniformed woman in the sky, a touch of curiosity and expectation welled up in York's eyes.
He wanted to try if his fruit ability could remotely affect Imu's true body in the Holy Land Mary Geoise!
If it could... then the future would be interesting!!
While York gazed at the uniformed woman, she was actually watching York too.
"Adolph D. York, a newly born fruit ability, never recorded before, worth collecting..."
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