New World, Liliga Island.
Liliga Island is located in the front section of the New World. The island is generally oriented northwest-southeast, with mountains in the middle and rich mineral resources. The islanders mainly make a living by mining.
At this time, Liliga Island, far from the port on the side, about a hundred meters from the coast, a warship was hidden in the darkness. Lava flowed on the ship, covering the dark armament color and surging towards the island.
A moment later, a hundred-meter-long black staircase formed, and Sakazuki and Sengoku walked down first.
Then the soldiers on the ship followed the two down and surrounded the pirate ship of the Waldo Pirates at the port, ambushing them.
Sakazuki and Sengoku swept their Observation Haki and sensed Waldo and others who were having a bonfire banquet in the center of the ruined port town.
The two looked at each other, nodded, restrained their aura, and walked towards the center of the town.
In the town square.
Byndi Waldo, wearing a captain's coat, a helmet with one broken horn, and his signature 'W' mustache, held a wine barrel in his hands and drank it dry.
Putting down the empty barrel, his face flushed slightly, and he laughed loudly at someone walking from afar:
"Bararararara, Guy Lame, how is the statistics coming along."
Guy Lame's figure was like Baron Tamago. His upper body was round, his limbs were slender, and his hair was tied into a square hammer shape. He also carried a giant square hammer as tall as a person on his back and walked over from a distance.
After sitting around the bonfire, Guy Lame put down his hammer and said with a smile:
"The situation is very good. The ore reserves in this town are even more than we estimated."
"The construction of the Groceady can be put on the agenda."
Guy Lame was a fighter of the Waldo Pirates and the designer of the "Groceady." He was a Cube-Cube Fruit user, capable of turning objects into cubes for manipulation.
The Groceady was designed by him and was a giant submarine that could maximize Byndi Waldo's abilities.
Byndi Waldo's eyes lit up, and he laughed heartily:
"Bararararara, to our dream, cheers!"
Everyone raised their glasses in celebration, believing that once the giant warship was built, no one in the world would be able to stop them:
"Ooooooh!!!!!!"
The celebrating crowd did not notice a slight anomaly appearing on the distant tower top.
Buzz—!
A semi-transparent shockwave formed from Sengoku's hand, charging up. Then, Sengoku, standing on the tower top, suddenly transformed into a Buddha form, becoming a golden giant several meters tall.
The tower was crushed, and the people having the bonfire banquet noticed, but it was too late.
The moment the tower was crushed, the shockwave in Sengoku's hand shot directly towards the center of the banquet.
Boom!
A soaring mushroom cloud accompanied by a violent explosion, like a signal. Centered at the explosion point, lava erupted layer by layer a hundred meters away, forming giant waves that continuously covered the center.
The soldiers at the port also rose up abruptly the moment the explosion sounded and attacked the remaining personnel of the Waldo Pirates.
In the center of the lava.
Bang!
A large hole was blasted open, and Waldo, covered in Armament Haki, jumped out, still holding his elder brother, Bynjac, and shouted to the surroundings:
"Guy Lame! Sebastian! Nami!"
Not far away, in a place covered by lava, the lava turned into cubes and floated aside. Guy Lame's voice came:
"I'm fine!"
With burns in many places, he picked up his human-sized hammer and stood up in a disheveled manner.
"Fish-Man Karate·Karakusa Tōshōken!!!"
A roar came from beneath a lava-covered area.
Bang!
The lava exploded, revealing two figures inside. One was Sebastian, a fighter of the Waldo Pirates, a blue fishman with sunglasses, and fins growing on his head and arms.
The other was Nami, the ship's doctor of the Waldo Pirates, wearing a pink cheongsam, with a white coat over it that was now mostly burned off, looking very disheveled.
Seeing that his most important companions were fine, Byndi Waldo breathed a sigh of relief. As for the others, there was no need to think about it; they must have perished in such an explosion.
Putting down Bynjac, Waldo looked angrily at the golden giant:
"Sengoku!!!"
Buzz—!
Then, with Armament Haki covering his entire body, he grabbed a handful of pebbles from the ground, also covered in Armament Haki:
"Momo! Shotgun!!!"
Whoosh!
Several whistling sounds echoed. The flying pebbles suddenly grew a hundred times larger in the air and their speed increased by a hundred times, directly striking Sengoku's golden body.
Bang!
The pebbles exploded but did not break Sengoku's golden body. Sengoku waved his hand, and the smoke dispersed.
Waldo, who was originally there, had disappeared. Suddenly, he sensed something!
He swung a palm backward!
Boom!
But he only hit Waldo's afterimage, and a large pit was created in the ground.
Sengoku's expression remained calm as he thought, 50 times speed...
On the other side.
After Waldo rushed out, Guy Lame was about to go look for the three people over there when suddenly his hair stood on end, adrenaline surged, and the warning from his body constantly stimulated his brain: death, death!
"Cube Destruction!"
He channeled his ability and swung it towards a certain spot behind him that he sensed.
Crack!
The sound of bones breaking was heard, and Guy Lame was sent flying backward, crashing into a collapsed building with another bang.
Sakazuki stood where Guy Lame had just been, looking at his right hand, which had turned into lava cubes and fallen off. He raised an eyebrow, truly an unreasonable Paramecia...
The moment they made contact, Sakazuki realized that the Armament Haki covering his hand had been instantly destroyed, so he immediately withdrew it.
His arm transformed into lava, and then his fist fell off as lava cubes.
He channeled his ability to regrow a fist, solidified his arm, flashed, and rushed towards the ruins of the house that Guy Lame had crashed into. Guy Lame's voice rang out:
"Cube Booster!"
The entire ruins instantly turned into large cubes and shot into the sky. Sakazuki stood on the flying cubes and hammered down with his arm channeling his ability:
"Flower Fruit Mountain."
A giant lava fist smashed the cubes below, and the descending giant lava fist exploded in the air like a brilliant firework, smashing onto the ground.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!....
In the square pit, Guy Lame, while dodging the lava bombs, spread his arms wide and brought them together in front of his chest, forming a semi-transparent cube. He aimed it at Sakazuki, who was falling from the sky:
"Air Cube Booster!"
He threw the solidified air bomb in his hand at Sakazuki, but the moment it left his hand, Sakazuki's figure instantly disappeared from mid-air and appeared directly in front of Guy Lame.
Before Guy Lame could react, Sakazuki fully covered himself in Armament Haki, grabbed the air bomb, and pressed it towards Guy Lame's terrified head.
BOOM!!!