A portion of the Armament Haki on Garp's body shattered, and a sword wound appeared. He was silent, his face impassive, but the presence emanating from him grew even heavier.
Weevil climbed out of the pile of rubble, shook his head, and his eyes grew fierce. He leaped up, dragging his high-temperature naginata, and charged.
"Weevil, coordinate with me!" Bege roared. Bege alone could hardly defeat Garp. With Weevil's arrival, perhaps they had a chance.
"I know!" Weevil quickly moved behind Garp, while Bege instantly rushed to Garp's front. The two of them, one in front and one behind, surrounded the Marine Hero.
"Kill!"
Weevil immediately made his move. The high-temperature naginata cut through the air, burning with seething flames. Garp shifted sideways, avoiding the slash. Weevil swung the naginata horizontally.
Garp caught the flaming naginata with one hand. Weevil roared, and the immense force pushed Garp back.
Garp was also surprised by Weevil's astonishing strength. He stomped his foot, shattering the ground, and managed to resist Weevil's power. At that moment, Bege charged in, his swords like a rainbow as they slashed at Garp's head.
The veins on Garp's right arm bulged. With a furious shout, he grabbed the naginata and swung Weevil around like a sandbag, smashing him towards Bege. Fortunately, Bege reacted quickly and dodged.
After landing, Weevil spread his feet to steady himself and fiercely yanked his naginata, snatching it back from Garp's grasp.
Bege also took the opportunity to attack, his speed fully erupting as he closed in on Garp and slashed with his swords.
His external space suddenly caught Garp's body. Garp's jet-black form became even darker, as if he were wearing a suit of black armor. The distorted space around him trembled and cracked.
His hands shot out like dragons emerging from the sea, blocking the swords.
Dark red lightning and black lightning seethed, swept out, and clashed, creating a thunderstorm.
Bege's expression was ugly. He furrowed his brow, gritted his teeth, and released his spiritual energy to bind Garp. The shattering space continuously pressed in on the Marine.
Garp suddenly let out a low shout, and the distorted space exploded. Bege's face instantly turned pale and ugly, his head buzzing.
And at the moment the distorted space shattered, a Slow-Slow Beam struck Garp.
Garp's expression was extremely grim. He unleashed his full power, stomping his feet on the ground, trying to gain momentum to charge Bege.
However, Weevil charged in, his flaming naginata appearing in the air, tearing the atmosphere apart.
"Don't you dare hurt my brother!"
Garp turned and threw a punch at the flaming naginata. Two equally ferocious forces exploded in an instant. A circular shockwave swept out, sending Bege flying.
This time, Garp couldn't send Weevil flying.
Weevil's face was contorted in a snarl, his eyes growing even more ferocious.
"You hurt my brother! I'm going to kill you!"
The veins on Weevil's arms bulged. He once again swung his flaming naginata, slashing at Garp again and again, each slash more ferocious and violent than the last. Garp was forced to defend, catching each slash with his iron fists.
Bege's head was spinning. He slammed it on the ground to force himself back to consciousness, gritted his teeth, gripped his swords, and charged in as well.
Garp's speed was limited, and he couldn't use his full strength. This was their best chance.
Weevil's wild, brutish attacks put Garp on the defensive. He had trouble dealing with Bege's slashes, and several of them landed on his body, tearing through his Armament Haki armor and leaving gashes.
The only regret was that these wounds were not deep. It was clear that tearing through Garp's Armament Haki armor had already consumed most of the slashes' power.
In just thirty seconds, Weevil had slashed dozens of times, and Bege had left six or seven wounds on his body. The ground beneath their feet continuously collapsed and shattered, and a fierce wind kicked up sand and dust, forming a storm that blotted out the sun.
When the thirty seconds were up, the effect of the Slow-Slow Beam disappeared. Garp recovered, and a terrifying pressure erupted from him.
At that moment, a terrifyingly sharp edge came down from above. The flaming naginata, carrying an unrivaled, terrifying power, seemed to cleave space itself as it slashed at Garp's head.
The veins on Weevil's entire body bulged like coiled dragons. The impact from the dozens of slashes he had just delivered was all unleashed in this single moment. This one slash was the fusion of the power of the previous dozens of blows.
Even Garp was horrified. His arm, black as steel, shot upwards without hesitation, meeting the flaming naginata in the simplest and most brutal way possible.
BOOM... BOOM-BOOM-BOOM...
It was like an earthquake. The fractured earth continuously exploded, and an astonishing ring of impact instantly shot out from between the fist and the blade.
It swept across a thousand meters in an instant, leveling everything and even knocking the combatants on other battlefields to a halt.
Weevil's slash drove Garp into the ground, causing the earth to explode and creating a deep crater dozens of meters wide.
Just like Bege before him.
However, in the next instant, Garp shot out of the deep crater and landed on the ground. He spat out a mouthful of blood and tore off his tattered Marine uniform.
"Rokushiki Ogi: Life Return."
"Rokushiki Ogi: Steel Body, Iron Bones."
An extremely terrifying presence, like the sky collapsing, erupted from Garp at the bottom of the crater and shot into the clouds, pressing down on everyone on the island.
His body became even blacker. Every inch of his skin was indestructible, and every muscle contained terrifying power.
As the creator of the Marines' ultimate art, the Rokushiki, he was its strongest user. At this moment, he had used his most powerful technique, perfectly fusing his Haki with the Rokushiki secret arts, multiplying and enhancing his terrifying power in every aspect.
"Unimaginably terrifying!" Bege's face was extremely grim.
His speed was so fast that he left only a series of afterimages.
Bege's expression changed drastically, and he roared at Weevil, "Weevil, watch out!"
Weevil's face immediately changed, and he quickly coated his body in Armament Haki. At the same time, Garp appeared in front of him, his thick, black leg smashing heavily into Weevil's stomach.
Blood sprayed from his mouth, and Weevil's eyes bulged. He shot into the sky like a rocket.
Garp stomped on the ground, shattering it, and shot into the air like a beam of black light. He overtook Weevil, appearing above him. He flipped his body and brought his thick right leg down on Weevil once again.
Forcibly controlling his body, Weevil crossed his arms, once again covering them in Armament Haki.
Garp's sharp eyes were incomparably cold. His right foot smashed heavily onto Weevil's arms.
Weevil's face twisted, his eyes bulging so wide they looked like they were about to pop out. He once again spat out blood.
WHOOSH...
The air exploded with a deafening boom, pushed away by the force. Like a meteor crashing into the earth, a hundred meters of ground was instantly blasted into the air. The entire island of Fear trembled, and then a terrifying shockwave kicked up a cloud of dust that swept across an area of several thousand meters.
Beneath the shattered earth, thick cracks continued to tear through the ground, spreading even further. With the continuous collapse, the landscape became even more devastated.
The entire ground caved in, and rubble fell. Weevil was buried a hundred meters deep within the earth.
"Weevil!" Bege's eyes widened, and he let out a roar. The rage in his heart boiled over, rushing to his head. The blood-red light in his eyes suddenly erupted, becoming extremely savage.