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"Stop dreaming, Rocks! The Valley of the Gods will become your grave!"
This time, to eliminate the Rocks Pirates once and for all, the Marines had pulled out more than just elite forcesāthey had thrown away the very banner of justice to forge a temporary alliance with both the Roger Pirates and Byrnndi World's crew.
Fleet Admiral Brownie, standing tall at the front of the Marine line, held no illusions. Rocks D. Xebec would never leave this island alive.
"A burial ground? You weaklings call yourselves a threat?" Rocks sneered, looking across the sea at the assembly of his enemies.
"Don't underestimate the Marines, Rocks!" Kong shouted, stepping forward.
At that moment, the current three AdmiralsāKong, Zhenwu, and Heibatāalongside Vice Admirals Garp, Sengoku, Zephyr, and Tsuru, boarded the central battleship. Together, they confronted the notorious monsters of the Rocks Pirates.
"With this strength, you think you can take us down?" Rocks asked, casting a cold glance at their top brass. His voice was calmāalmost too calm.
"It's not just the Marines, Rocks."
A new voice entered the mix. Deros, standing beside Brownie, added in a low tone.
"Jie ha ha haā¦ you? Weren't you the one who got flattened by Ayr during the Holy Land incident? What are you doing here? Looking to die again?"
Golden Lion scoffed, recognizing Deros from the infamous Mariejois battle. He laughed openly, taunting without restraint.
"The World Government must be desperate, sending a defeated dog like you. Are we Rocks Pirates that insignificant?" Charlotte Linlin said dryly.
Her main concern when arriving at the Valley of the Gods was the possibility that the Five Elders might join the fray. The power of those celestial eldersārumored to be immortal and far stronger than most knewāhad once left even her in dread. Having faced them personally, she knew the terror they brought. But their absence today granted her some relief.
"A defeated general?" Kong's eyes narrowed, and even Sengoku and Garp seemed taken aback.
Deros, once thought to be the World Government's unbreakable shieldāhad lost to Ayr?
"I did lose," Deros said, his voice slow and grim. "But today, I'm here to settle that score."
"I'm not interested in fighting someone I've already beaten," Ayr replied, shrugging with casual indifference.
Deros flinched.
Golden Lion and Big Mom grinned, but it wasn't their words that struck Derosāit was Ayr's blatant dismissal. It hit harder than any Haki-coated punch.
"You think you know the Rocks Pirates? Then let me enlighten you. I will massacre anyone who dares stand before me today!" Rocks shouted. The very air around him twisted as Conqueror's Haki exploded outward.
He exuded the dominance of a true king, one who saw no equal under the heavensāshaking even seasoned Marine veterans to their core.
"Roger's crew and the Wald Pirates are en route. What chances do you have once we're all here?" Deros mocked.
"Roger Piratesā¦ and even Byrnndi World?" Ayr's brow rose.
In the original timeline, only Roger's crew had fought in the Valley of the Gods incident. Byrnndi World had never shown up.
But things had changed. His very existence had already twisted history's course.
"Jie hahahaā¦ How desperate must you be, Marines, to ally with pirates?" Golden Lion ridiculed them.
"To eliminate Rocks, even aligning with devils is acceptable!" Brownie snapped, unfazed.
"If that's your so-called justice, then it makes me sick," Rocks grinned, Haki surging around him. His sword was already coated with advanced Armament and Conqueror's Haki.
He'd grown tired of words. The battlefield would do the rest.
With the Marines bracing themselves, and the Roger and Wald Pirates still yet to arrive, Rocks knew this window was his best chance.
If the three great forces united fully, the Rocks Pirates would face overwhelming oddsāeven for monsters like them.
"Come on, then, Rocks!" Brownie drew his blade, unleashing his own dual-layered Haki.
The tension thickened. The clash was inevitable.
Just then, Ayr raised his hand and broke the silence.
"Then allow meā¦ to commence this war."
His eyes shiftedāthe Fairy Eyes, an evolved form of the Sage Eye, glowed brilliantly.
"Tengai Shinsei!"
Ayr's voice thundered.
It was the first time he had ever invoked this abilityāa power once associated with the legendary Rinnegan in the shinobi world. He was about to show what his fairy eyes could really do.
At first, no one noticed any change.
But thenā
"BOOOOOOM!!!"
A tremendous rumble echoed across the sky.
Everyone turned their eyes upward.
From the heavens, a massive meteorite, wreathed in flames, descendedāits sheer size blotting out the sun.
A singular force that could obliterate a thousand-meter radius with ease.
"A METEORITE?!"
"Is this Ayr's ability?!"
"No way! He doesn't even transform like Kaido or glow like Sengokuāhow does he control this kind of devastation?!"
"RUN! If that thing hits, we're all dead!"
"DAMMIT! How can one man possess such terrifying powers?!"
Panic erupted.
Even hardened veterans who'd faced Yonko-level threats found their nerves fraying under the pressure.
The war for supremacy had begunāand Ayr had opened it with a divine calamity.
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