Doll moved first.
The instant Armament Haki spread across both of her arms, she charged straight toward the massive greatsword crashing down at her.
"Giant combatants? We have giants stationed at the G-14 Branch too."
"I’ve trained with one of them quite a few times."
BOOM!
Her fist collided head-on with the giant’s greatsword.
A tremendous explosion of air erupted.
Doll was blasted backward like a cannonball.
Not everyone was Whitebeard, capable of catching a giant’s blade with his bare hands.
More importantly, these two giants were no ordinary giants.
They were genuine powerhouses among their race—the legendary Blue Ogre Dorry and Red Ogre Brogy, who had made their names a century ago.
Over the past hundred years, they had fought countless battles against each other at the peak of their strength.
Their combat instincts could be said to have remained at their absolute peak.
BOOM!
Doll crashed into the mountain behind her.
The enormous impact caused the mountain itself to collapse, sending a vast cloud of dust rolling into the sky.
Seeing that his attack had connected, Dorry immediately withdrew his sword and prepared to turn around and attack Lucas.
The young man had remained standing to the side from beginning to end, calmly drinking his liquor with an indifferent expression.
To the giants, his every movement seemed like a challenge to their dignity.
However, the moment Dorry turned around, a sharp sound tore through the air.
"That’s some impressive strength."
"Compared with the giant Vice Admiral stationed at my home base, you’re at least ten times stronger."
"But don’t you know that this sea also has Armament Haki?"
"You really think you can defeat a Marine Vice Admiral in one strike?"
Doll appeared before Dorry like a ghost.
Her entire body was covered in pitch-black Armament Haki, making her look as though she were wearing a suit of armor.
The expressions of both giants changed slightly.
They had never imagined that after being isolated from the outside world for a hundred years, the sea would have developed so many new techniques.
They had witnessed Devil Fruits in the past.
But this so-called Haki was something they were encountering for the first time.
"Six Powers: Ryuo Rankyaku!"
Using Geppo, Doll stomped through the air.
Her long leg, clad in leather pants, swept out like a blade.
The Rankyaku of the Six Powers, combined with Ryuo, exploded with tremendous force, forming a gigantic slash more than ten meters long that swept horizontally through the air.
Dorry’s expression changed.
He had no time to think and immediately raised his greatsword to meet it head-on.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
One strike after another crashed down.
The repeated collisions were evenly matched, erupting like thunderclaps.
One enormous figure and one comparatively tiny figure collided again and again.
Every clash sent massive waves of wind sweeping across the battlefield.
Compared with Doll’s light and agile fighting style, Dorry’s method was much more direct and overwhelming.
His greatsword moved so quickly that it formed an impenetrable storm of blades.
Every powerful swing not only shattered the Ryuo-infused slashes but also generated enormous gusts of wind, forcing everyone watching from the sidelines to retreat again and again.
Seeing that the two had entered a stalemate, Brogy didn’t rush to intervene.
Instead, he remained nearby, staring intently at Lucas.
He understood very clearly that the young man who had remained completely calm from beginning to end was probably the greatest threat of all.
BOOM!
Dorry’s greatsword once again smashed Doll’s Ryuo-infused Rankyaku apart, and the resulting explosion of air swept outward like a hurricane.
Using the force of the blast to propel herself backward, Doll rapidly retreated more than a hundred meters before using Geppo again to stop herself in midair.
The next moment, an enormous amount of Armament Haki and Ryuo surged into her right leg.
"Just as expected from the giant chosen by Admiral Lucas."
"Your strength really isn’t something to underestimate."
"But if this is all you’ve got, don’t blame me for taking you down."
"Six Powers Ultimate Technique: Circular Severing — Sky Splitter!"
Doll suddenly spun like a compass needle.
The Haki and kinetic force accumulated within her right foot converged furiously, erupting into a devastating Rankyaku slash.
In an instant, the sound of something tearing through the air resounded across the heavens.
A slash dozens of meters in size shot violently toward Dorry.
Dorry’s expression changed slightly as he looked at the greatsword in his hands, which was already covered in cracks and notches.
He finally understood why Lucas had told them the moment they met that they had become disconnected from the current era.
Back then, when they had roamed the sea, when had they ever encountered these tiny humans who dared to confront giants head-on like this?
But precisely because of that...
The fighting spirit that had been buried deep within Dorry’s heart for a hundred years suddenly ignited.
He gripped his greatsword tightly with both hands and threw his head back with a hearty laugh.
"HAHAHA!"
"As expected, the Marines have grown tremendously over the past hundred years."
"Their strength really isn’t something an ordinary person can compare with."
"Since you want to settle this with a single attack, then I’ll see how you intend to block my giant warrior technique!"
"Elbaf Spear: Hakoku!"
Dorry’s ten fingers tightened around the hilt.
The muscles in his arms swelled like rocks.
The power within his body rapidly gathered into his greatsword.
The next instant, a terrifying aura erupted.
BOOM!
The moment the sword was unleashed, an enormous shockwave surged forward like a hurricane piercing the heavens and earth.
It collided head-on with Doll’s incoming Ryuo-infused circular slash.
BOOM!
A thunderous explosion erupted.
At the point of collision, a tremendous blast of compressed air swept outward.
Everything in the surrounding area was violently obliterated.
Doll, who was more than a hundred meters away, felt the suffocating pressure rushing toward her.
Her expression changed drastically.
As a Marine Vice Admiral, she had naturally participated in battles against the forces of the Four Emperors.
Perhaps she had never directly fought Charlotte Linlin or Kaido.
But she had witnessed attacks from them capable of piercing mountains and cleaving through the sea with a single strike.
In her mind, such a terrifying attack should have been an exclusive trump card of the Four Emperors.
She had never imagined that the giant before her could unleash the same kind of devastating attack.
After all, the giants serving in the Marines couldn’t even perform Giant’s Spear, an entry-level technique among the giants.
"Vice Admiral Doll, get out of the way!"
Hina shouted urgently.
Doll suddenly snapped back to reality.
The stalemate before her had finally been broken.
The residual force of Elbaf Spear: Hakoku was still surging toward her without losing much of its momentum.
The sudden development instantly tightened everyone’s nerves.
However, before anyone could react, another enormous wave of Conqueror’s Haki suddenly erupted.
BOOM!
Lucas’s Conqueror’s Haki surged out of his body like a broken dam.
At the same time, pitch-black Armament Haki rapidly spread across it.
The resulting force formed a gigantic black tide that collided head-on with Elbaf Spear: Hakoku with absolutely no intention of yielding.
BOOM!
The two enormous waves of force violently rolled backward.
The black tide merely paused for an instant.
Then—
An even more powerful burst of Haki erupted from Lucas’s body.
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