Chapter 20: Chapter 20: Rocks Driven Mad with Hatred
Crack!
The space shattered and rippled where their fists collided. Rocks, who was fighting Garp, seemed to have just heard a joke.
"Die?"
A surge of terrifying power erupted.
Garp was blasted backward. Rocks turned and looked toward the incoming sword aura that split the sky and earth.
"Ahahahaha!"
"Trying to kill me?"
"Just with you lot?!!"
Rocks's savage laughter echoed across heaven and earth. He allowed the sword aura to strike his body—but it couldn't cut into him in the slightest.
"Me—!"
His left hand grabbed hold of the sword aura slicing into him.
"Am—!"
With a powerful flick to the left, the sky-piercing sword aura slashed through the air, carving a trench hundreds of meters deep, its end nowhere in sight.
"ROCKS!!!!"
His violent voice carried a trace of madness. With a stomp, his figure shot forward like a hurricane sweeping through.
Destroying everything in his path, his right-hand weapon—wreathed in Conqueror's Haki—slashed viciously toward the Elder holding the cursed sword.
"Ahahahaha!"
"Is that all you've got?"
"Not enough. Not nearly enough!!!"
"All of you—!"
"Give me everything you've got!!!!!!"
Clang!
Blades collided, Conqueror's Haki clashed.
Countless arcs of black and purple lightning exploded outward.
Rocks's wild laughter roared as he pressed down hard on the Elder's blade with all his might, holding nothing back.
Watching the Elder's sword slowly being forced down, Rocks grew more frenzied.
His strength continued to grow, lightning bursting violently in every direction.
The Elder withstood the onslaught, refusing to be blasted away.
"Ahahahaha!!!!"
Watching the Elder get knocked flying, Rocks laughed madly, his expression increasingly deranged.
At that moment, Roger walked out from the underground palace.
"Divine Departure!"
A low voice rang out as he charged forward and swung his blade, interrupting Rocks in his frenzied state.
Clang!
The two blades collided. Rocks, holding up his weapon to block, narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Roger, you're one of the D as well."
"Are you truly choosing to stand against me?"
Facing Roger's sudden appearance, some of the madness on Rocks's face faded as he asked in a low voice.
"Rocks, I don't wish to be your enemy."
"But I can't let you have that thing."
"Besides..."
"I've already destroyed it."
Roger answered Rocks's question with a heavy tone.
Hearing this, Rocks asked, pausing between each word:
"You. Said. What!!!"
With every word, his face grew darker.
Roger, staring into Rocks's increasingly stormy expression, said grimly:
"I've already destroyed it."
BOOM—
In a fit of rage, Rocks sent Roger flying and rushed in to kill him—
But he was suddenly intercepted by Garp, who struck with Haki-covered fists. A single punch smashed down, instantly creating a crater the size of a lake.
Rocks was slammed deep into the pit.
"Courting death!!!"
Rocks's violent roar echoed from the bottom.
Bang!
His figure vanished from the pit, reappearing right in front of Garp.
The two of them punched out simultaneously.
Space shattered and warped.
At that moment, a thunderous rumble sounded, growing louder and louder until it exploded outward.
In an instant, the ground trembled violently, splitting inch by inch.
The deafening roar continued without end.
A massive energy pillar, a hundred meters thick, erupted from beneath the palace and shot straight into the sky.
The energy surged toward the heavens, accompanied by apocalyptic destruction—an awe-inspiring sight.
Elsewhere, someone felt a tremor rise from deep within their bloodline.
Rocks, consumed by hatred, eyes bloodshot, roared with boundless fury and murderous intent:
"You! All! Must! DIEEEEE!!!!!!"
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