Between Two Worlds: Nen and Haki

"Huh?" Brogy, who was hacking away desperately in an attempt to break through Zane's defense, felt a jolt of shock in his heart.

Their high level of chemistry allowed him to decisively halt his offensive, immediately turning to run and regroup with Dorry.

"What's the matter?"

"Idiot, don't get too caught up in your attack. Haven't you noticed he's fighting us with total ease?" Dorry adjusted his breathing, answering Brogy's confusion in a low, gravelly voice.

Brogy was startled and quickly looked toward Zane.

Previously, he had been so focused on his assault that he had no energy to spare for observation. Looking again now, he immediately saw what Dorry had spotted.

Noticing that the ground beneath Zane's feet remained completely unscathed, Brogy's expression instantly turned solemn.

"Incredible as expected. Dorry, it looks like our only hope of winning is to use our ultimate move!"

"Indeed, we have no choice but to use it!"

With grave expressions, Brogy and Dorry moved a certain distance apart, turning their sides toward each other. Both discarded their shields and raised their respective weapons high.

"That stance..."

Zane did not pursue when Dorry and Brogy backed away; instead, he watched the two giants' movements with composure.

Now, seeing the stance Dorry and Brogy had struck, he raised an eyebrow, his interest instantly piqued.

"Zane, isn't it? Next will be the final strike from Brogy and me. If you can block it, we both agree to become your subordinates. But if you fail to block it, the price may be your death!"

"That's right. The next strike will decide the outcome. If you give up now, we can end this here!"

Stanced and ready, Dorry and Brogy shouted their serious warnings to Zane.

"Zane..."

Atop the skull mountain, Nico Robin stood up abruptly upon hearing the giants' words.

Though she had absolute confidence in her captain, Dorry's warning still caused an unavoidable look of tension to cross her face.

"Give up? Don't make me laugh. Go ahead and give it everything you've got. If I really die from this, it just means my skills weren't up to par. I'd deserve it!"

Amidst his booming laughter, the third eye on Zane's forehead snapped open.

Lightning Form: Three-pointed double-edged glaive!

He gripped the empty air with his right hand, and brilliant lightning erupted, condensing into a domineering three-pointed double-edged glaive.

His God's Eye peered directly at Dorry and Brogy opposite him.

Whether it was their stance or the internal flow of their power, everything fell within Zane's sight.

His legs bent slightly, and Zane raised the three-pointed double-edged glaive, striking a stance remarkably similar to that of the two giants.

"What?!"

The sudden appearance of the lightning and the stance Zane had taken caused Dorry and Brogy to freeze for a split second.

But they no longer had the mental capacity for extra thought.

Following Zane's heroic declaration, their fighting spirit surged to its absolute peak.

Spear of Elbaf: Sovereignty!!

Spear of Elbaf: Sovereignty!!

Amidst an eruption of aura that distorted the very air, Dorry and Brogy roared in unison, swinging down their massive sword and axe.

Boom!!!

Two massive shocks burst from the sword and axe, merging together into a single, even more powerful spiral shockwave. With the force to tear the earth asunder, it blasted forward.

At almost the exact same moment.

Zane, his majestic God's Eye wide, swung down his raised three-pointed double-edged glaive, and an equally powerful spiral shockwave erupted from it.

"This is..."

Dorry and Brogy, who had just unleashed Sovereignty, immediately noticed the identical attack coming from the other side.

Both wore expressions of pure disbelief.

Sovereignty?

How could the opponent know Sovereignty?

And to think he was performing it as a human, entirely on his own.

Boom!!!

Amidst Dorry and Brogy's shock, the two powerful spiral shockwaves collided violently between them.

An earth-shattering boom resounded throughout Little Garden, even carrying out to the most distant reaches of the sea.

At the epicenter of the collision, a sphere of energy swelled and expanded frantically, causing the ground beneath to instantly disintegrate into a collapsing, deep crater.

Rolling waves of shock radiated in every direction.

Tons of earth and rock were uprooted, and in the nearby forest, rows upon rows of towering trees were ripped out by the roots and sent flying into the sky.

The mountain-sized giant skull shook violently, with dense cracks spreading across its surface.

Nico Robin, perched at the top, struggled to steady herself. Sensing the skull mountain's imminent collapse, she quickly sprouted wings made of arms from her back and flew away.

Boom!!!

Sure enough.

Just after Nico Robin left, the massive skull mountain finally failed to withstand the intense pressure of the impact and collapsed amidst a deafening roar.

"Dorry, Brogy, you two better watch out!"

The heroic laughter drowned out the groaning of the earth.

The two colliding shockwaves finally yielded a victor.

Zane's Sovereignty forcefully crushed the giants' Sovereignty, continuing its forward trajectory toward the two giants with its remaining power.

They scrambled to dodge.

Alerted by Zane's warning, Dorry and Brogy instantly snapped out of their shock.

Boom!!!

Narrowly, the massive spiral shockwave blasted through the gap between Dorry and Brogy as they lunged to the left and right.

The earth was torn open. Anything in its path—be it rock or timber—was ground to dust. In its rampaging charge, the shockwave punched a clean hole through the entire forest until it reached the coast, where it split the sea and continued toward the horizon.

The terrifying shockwave only finally dissipated after several seconds.

Looking down from the sky.

The initial collision of the Sovereignty attacks had left a massive blank zone in the middle of Little Garden, with a giant crater at its center that looked like a meteorite strike.

Beyond that, the residual force of Zane's Sovereignty had carved a sunken trench over a hundred meters wide from the blank zone through the forest, all the way to the coast.

'What exaggerated destructive power. That move just now... the Captain must have used his God's Eye to learn it on the spot from the two giants. Even though he just learned it, it was somehow stronger than theirs. The Captain is as reliable as always!'

With her physical improvements, Nico Robin's mastery over the Flower-Flower Fruit's abilities had become much more fluid.

Like the arm wings she had sprouted; they were now a manageable burden rather than a strain that would dissipate after a few seconds of flight.

Flapping her wings, Nico Robin looked down at the island's landscape. Even though she was long accustomed to Zane's monstrous strength, she couldn't help but marvel at the sight.

"Huff, huff... that was dangerous. If we hadn't reacted in time, we'd probably be dead or heavily injured right now."

Dorry had flopped to the ground in a somewhat pathetic manner. Once the commotion behind him died down, he scrambled up and looked back.

When he saw the massive trench carved through the spot where he had just been standing, extending into the distance, a gasping Dorry fell into a daze.

Brogy's reaction was much the same.

The fact that it could still cause such staggering destruction after crushing their own Sovereignty was proof enough of many things.

For instance, it proved that Zane's strength far surpassed that of Dorry and Brogy.

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