The toxins within Aymar were a type of blood poison that Nox secreted from the Seven Star Sword with each sword strike on Aymar. It then infiltrated Aymar's bloodstream through the wounds.
Blood poison is a toxin unique to Nox's vampire ability. It is a type of blood itself, specifically a refined blood that can perfectly integrate into human blood.
Blood poison possesses extreme concealment and stability. As long as Nox does not activate the blood poison, it will not cause any effect on the opponent, to the extent that Aymar in battle never knew he had been poisoned.
However, as soon as Nox activates it, even top-tier body art experts would be poisoned, causing their entire body's blood to instantly coagulate, preventing normal circulation throughout the body. Only Mythical Zoan ability users with extremely high poison resistance might be able to resist this blood poison.
Unfortunately, Aymar was not a Mythical Zoan ability user, and the amount of blood poison in Aymar was very small.
But at this critical moment, causing Aymar's body to momentarily pause and lose balance was the most fatal threat to a true top-tier expert, the real executioner of his life!
"Crushing Impact!"
Even with his blood coagulated, Aymar could still activate his Devil Fruit ability. Powerful Crushing Impact energy surged out, directly rushing towards Nox.
However, this bit of crushing power, in front of Nox's Seven Star Sword, was like ordinary steel smashing towards him, easily cut into pieces!
"No!!!"
Aymar was still desperately trying to break through the blood poison in his veins, but by the time he successfully used Busoshoku Haki to resolve the issue of his blood coagulation, the Seven Star Sword had already reached his neck. He didn't even have time to use his hands to defend himself!
The Busoshoku Haki covering Aymar's neck was directly torn apart by the Seven Star Sword's unparalleled sharpness. Even his bones couldn't block the Seven Star Sword!
"Puchi!!!"
Nox's figure crossed paths with Aymar. Aymar's unwilling eyes had not yet lost their luster, but a large amount of fresh blood gushed from his neck.
All that blood consciously flew towards the Seven Star Sword and was completely swallowed by it.
Aymar's body shriveled in an instant, like a dried corpse after being exposed to the sun for days and nights, with all its blood completely dried up, falling directly from the air.
"Aymar!!!"
Nox's spatial displacement ability was like instant teleportation, so fast that Garp and the other two couldn't react at all. By the time they did, Aymar had already been beheaded by Nox with a single sword strike!
They had been very cautious when they previously heard that Nox possessed the ability to instantly kill top-tier combatants.
Before they were assigned to deal with Nox, they had already conducted countless studies and mental simulations of Nox's various moves, powers, and abilities.
But it wasn't until Nox truly displayed his real power and killed a top-tier combatant in front of them that they realized how terrifying Nox was.
Garp knew best that Nox's terrifying aspect wasn't the abilities and power he was currently displaying.
The most terrifying thing was his bottomless potential and the fact that you never knew what new abilities he would display next. His research into Nox's previous moves was useful, but its effect was very small because he knew that Nox would display new power next time.
This was just like the powerful Life Return enhancement ability, the combination of three Sword Intents, the Sea Stone longsword, the power of the Mythical Zoan vampire that Nox had displayed before, and now the displacement ability that was like instant teleportation.
After the initial shock, Garp's Haki erupted like a Volcanic Eruption. Garp, who had already enhanced himself with Life Return, could now be said to have his combat power soared to a completely new level!
He knew very well that among the three still alive, only he had the ability to directly confront Nox in his break out (baofa - explosive) state. Even Ivanov, who was a Mythical Zoan Thunder God Eagle, might be instantly killed by Nox, so he stepped forward without hesitation.
"Bone Fist · Star Annihilation!"
Garp flew out like a falling meteor, leaving a path of dark red lightning wherever he went. His fist, shining with dark red light, was attached with surging Haki.
The moment he saw Garp charging, the immense blood energy, Haki, and Sword Intent around Nox converged again. In an instant, a giant blood dragon a hundred meters long appeared behind him.
As Nox flew up, the blood dragon opened its huge mouth, and Nox was completely inside the dragon's mouth, as if the blood dragon was Nox's backing.
"Three Elements Combined · Haoshoku · Blood Dragon Sky Cleave!"
A blood dragon also coiled around the Seven Star Sword. As Nox slashed out with his sword, the violent power of the blood dragon erupted!
The moment the fist and sword collided in the air, it was like a nuclear weapon exploding in the air. As the huge air waves rolled, they formed a blood-colored lightning mushroom cloud.
The earth-shattering impact pressure caused huge depressions over a thousand meters wide to appear on the Sea hundreds of meters below.
Garp's full-power punch under extreme enhancement blocked Nox's sword. The fist and sword did not collide, just like when they fought more than ten years ago!
"Garp, your fist is still not hard enough!"
Nox looked at Garp, who was spitting blood, and smiled slightly.
Immediately, the blood dragon behind Nox roared, and in an instant, the blood dragon's figure turned into a streak of blood light and merged into the Seven Star Sword, causing the Seven Star Sword to erupt with even greater power.
"Bang!!!"
At this moment, the Seven Star Sword, with absolutely powerful force, forcibly broke through the power barrier between the fist and the sword, powerfully defeated the Haki attached to Garp's fist, and even directly struck Garp's fist with the sword.
To make his Busoshoku Haki harder, Garp connected the Busoshoku Haki of his fist with his entire body. As long as the opponent's power could not destroy the Busoshoku Haki of his entire body at once, it could not truly break through the Busoshoku Haki on his fist.
But Nox's sword had reached the upper limit of his entire body's Busoshoku Haki defense.
"Crack!"
Garp, who was covered in black Busoshoku Haki, looked like a piece of glass about to shatter, covered in hideous and terrifying cracks.
"Ah!!!"
As Nox defeated Garp's Busoshoku Haki, Garp suffered a strong backlash from the breaking of his Busoshoku Haki. His body flew backward like a falling meteor, and there were clearly visible cracks on the bones of his fist.
"Chaos Space!"
The moment Garp moved, Carl once again activated his strongest ability, making the flat space chaotic, and even opened up a stable spatial channel within the chaotic spatial order.
"Go!"
After Garp was defeated by Nox's sword and fell back, Carl grabbed the flying-back Garp and directly entered the spatial channel. Ivanov followed closely behind.
"Trying to run? Did you ask me?"
"Cleave for me!!!"
Seeing the familiar spatial chaos, Nox lifted the Seven Star Sword, instantly gathered all his power into one, and in an instant, unleashed a hundred-meter-long blood-colored slash.
"Crack!!!"
Space was torn apart wherever the blood-colored slash passed. That chaotic spatial area was even shattered by the sword, and the original chaotic spatial order immediately recovered under the World's instinctive self-healing.
But that spatial channel also collapsed as a result. Carl and Garp were the first to enter the spatial channel and escape, but Ivanov, who entered the spatial channel later, was forcefully pushed out the moment the space collapsed.
At this moment, Ivanov was very confused. How could he still be here?
Looking at the broken spatial channel, Ivanov felt utter despair.
Why didn't he move a step faster and enter the spatial channel first? Why was he, who was clearly the fastest, the last to enter the spatial channel?