Bang!
A violent punch from the Devil Form.
Susanoo's powerful punch.
As the two arms — vastly different in size — collided with each other with violent Haki and tremendous force, the island beneath Rosen and Douglas Bullet shook instantly. The ground could not withstand such pressure and collapsed on the spot.
Crack!
Huge fissures stretched out like giant pythons, and then a massive amount of smoke and dust gushed out from the cracks, rising straight into the sky like a column of ash.
"It's so heavy!"
Douglas Bullet's pupils shrank slightly as he felt a mountain-like pressure pressing against his arm that was locking fists with Susanoo.
However, instead of retreating, he grinned fiercely — his whole body bursting with fighting spirit and Haki. Then he clenched his other hand into a fist and swung it straight, stomping his feet on the ground before rising into the sky like a hidden dragon bursting from the abyss.
Crack!
But at this moment, the purple half-skeleton covering Rosen's body suddenly grew blood vessels, internal organs, flesh, skin, and clothes — then threw a backhand punch, striking Douglas Bullet's Rising Dragon Fist.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
The power of the fists intertwined and exploded, stirring up a violent shockwave — like a sudden storm sweeping up sand and stone — blasting across an area of thousands of meters.
Rosen suddenly released an even more powerful Armament Haki, shaping the Second Form of Susanoo. The speed and force of the punch he threw increased greatly compared to the first form.
A fist like a meteorite falling from the heavens slammed Douglas Bullet, whose feet were off the ground, straight back into the island — pressing the earth down like a cake with a piece dug out, collapsing layer by layer.
"As expected… The attack and defense of this Armament Haki construct keeps improving as his Haki strengthens."
Douglas Bullet's eyes flashed with surprise.
At the beginning, he had witnessed Rosen use Susanoo with his own eyes — whether the first, second, or third form.
However, the attack and defense of the Third Form of Susanoo back then were not even as good as the Second Form now.
Nothing else explained this except one fact — Rosen's Armament Haki was now far stronger than when he first used Susanoo in Impel Down.
As a construct born entirely from Armament Haki, Susanoo's offensive and defensive power depends wholly on the strength of Rosen's Haki.
"Surprised by this?"
"This is only the beginning!"
Rosen noticed the flash of surprise in Bullet's eyes. He chuckled, then suddenly raised Susanoo's arms and clasped its fingers together. His hands were like a massive Haki hammer, wrapped with black-and-red lightning, smashing down toward Bullet, who had fallen to the ground.
"It's like I'm fighting a humanoid Haki," Bullet thought — but his body moved without hesitation.
Having entered the battlefield from a young age and survived countless life-and-death struggles, his combat skill, experience, and awareness were second to none — allowing him to make the fastest and most correct decision instantly.
Facing Susanoo's heavy hammer of Conqueror's Haki, he bent his knees slightly, lowered his body, and then raised his hands above his head — in the posture of a king holding a pagoda — while also wrapping his arms in Conqueror's-infused Armament Haki to meet Susanoo's incoming strike.
Boom!
Even before Susanoo's hands and Bullet's hands made actual contact, the Haki surrounding them had already erupted into violent conflict.
Whoosh!
A dazzling golden light burst out.
A golden energy sphere formed between their arms, with black-and-red lightning bolts — jagged like blades — connecting to it, flying wildly and stirring the storm overhead.
"Blocked!"
Bullet felt slightly relieved, but at that moment, he caught a faint smile at the corner of Rosen's lips. At the same time, his Observation Haki flared outward, sensing a powerful threat.
"His Observation Haki… it can see into the future — and far into it."
As that thought flashed through Bullet's mind, Susanoo — still with its clasped hands in hammer form — suddenly grew two additional arms from either side of its body.
Bang!
Bang!
The third and fourth arms, formed instantly from Rosen's Haki, clenched into fists. Black Conqueror's lightning crackled around them as they delivered a heavy blow.
Bullet, still in the pagoda-holding stance to block the hammer, was struck cleanly — his body launched from the ground into the air.
At the same time, the fourth Haki arm surged forward like a blue dragon emerging from the sea, compressing the air entirely before unleashing a devastating punch at Bullet mid-flight.
Boom!
The colossal impact sent a circular shockwave roaring in all directions.
After being hit by the dual punches of Susanoo's Arm strike, Bullet was sent flying backwards hundreds of meters like a cannonball — smashing through seven or eight towering ancient trees in succession before crashing headfirst into the ground. The hard earth shattered like a fragile biscuit, cracking and collapsing around him.
"Ugh…"
Lying in a deep crater, Bullet's face twisted slightly from pain, with a thin trail of blood at the corner of his mouth.
If this had been a pirate on Catarina Devon's level, they would have been seriously injured by now. Even with a Mythical Zoan ability, their stamina would have been nearly drained.
But Rosen's current Haki was far beyond what it had been in Infinite Hell — making Susanoo's offense and defense stronger than ever.
However…
After taking those two devastating blows, Bullet suddenly flipped over and leapt out of the pit, full of energy once more.
Despite having eaten the Paramecia-type Clank-Clank Fruit, he gave off the impression of having a stamina pool greater than any Zoan-type Mythical Beast.
This is what it means to be a king standing at the summit of the seas. Whether or not they've eaten a Devil Fruit, they all share one thing in common — an unfathomable reserve of vitality.
No matter if it's true damage or piercing attacks — you can't take them down in a single strike.
Especially someone like Bullet, still in his early thirties. Even after seven or eight years in Impel Down, with his stamina reduced, he had long replenished it by consuming the flesh and blood of Sea Kings for months.
The length, thickness, and fullness of his stamina bar were no different from before his imprisonment.
"Come again!"
Springing forward, Bullet's charge split the ground with cracks, exploded into spiraling gusts of wind, and in a flash, he appeared behind Rosen like a roc spreading its wings.
But every move was already seen clearly by Rosen through his future vision.
"Devil's Cannon!"
Bullet swung his purple-coated arms, muscles swelling and contracting, Haki raging like a dam burst — venting with violent force.
Boom!
The air before his fists compressed instantly, becoming as viscous as water before surging into a massive shockwave of pure Haki — like a mountain torrent, like a tsunami, like a beam of heavy artillery aimed at Rosen's back.
He was confident this strike could shatter Susanoo's Second Form outright.
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