One Piece: Starting with God Valley, intercepting the Dark-Dark Fruit

In his original spot, Giger frowned as he looked down at the fist mark on his abdomen slowly fading.

Giger wasn't injured; he was just replaying what had just happened in his mind.

Normally, a Devil Fruit user who gets grabbed by Roger would definitely lose their Devil Fruit power, but Roger was clearly not affected at all.

Is this the so-called "freedom" after the Nika Fruit awakens? So free that even darkness cannot restrain it?

If one's own Dark Fruit could also awaken, would it stifle this freedom?

Just then, Roger burst into laughter from afar.

"How about it? This ability is quite interesting, isn't it?"

This didn't sound like it was being said to Giger; it sounded more like he was talking to himself.

After saying that, Roger suddenly assumed a running posture in the air, his legs spinning wildly like a fan as he rushed towards Giger.

Roger still held his sword Ace in his hand. As he ran, the blade of Ace became flexible and gradually extended to a hundred meters, looking like a black ribbon from below.

He laughed and slashed Ace at Gigg. Gigg cleaved it in two with a single blow. Although Ace looked like a ribbon, it was still one of the Twelve Swords, and its blade was extremely hard.

Gigg's attack only caused a section of its blade to protrude; the rest of the blade continued to surround and wrap around Gigg's body.

Roger gripped Ace's sword hilt and swung it violently, causing Gigg to rise and fall with Roger's swing.

He wanted to use Kamui to become ethereal, but found that the surrounding space had also become as tough as rubber, and the dark distortion power could not twist open a hole in the space as usual.

Finally, Giggs managed to break free from Ace's restraints with a charged Shinra Tensei.

Roger, with a grin on his face, continued to swing Ace to chase after Gigg. Gigg's figure twisted and turned in the air, flying in front of Roger and swinging his sword to cut at his neck.

"Hey, hey, hey!"

Roger let out an exaggerated cry of surprise, his head tilting back at an odd angle as Muramasa's blade grazed the tip of his nose.

Giger's expression remained unchanged. With his other hand, he unleashed a wave of darkness that engulfed Roger's entire body, forming a massive sphere of darkness.

Then, Giger made a loose grasp with one hand, and the black ball gradually shrank to the size of a rubber ball, which was the limit.

Seeing that it could not shrink any further, Giger immediately drew his sword and slashed at the black ball, cutting it in two.

However, one half of the black sphere that had been cut in half turned into black smoke and dissipated, while the other half remained suspended in front of Giger.

Just as Giggs was about to strike again, the remaining half suddenly shot upwards, growing into a human shape along the way. The darkness enveloping it burst like a balloon, revealing Roger inside.

Roger continued his ascent until he disappeared into a huge cloud.

Before long, the cloud that Roger had entered began to move and coalesce into Roger's grinning face.

Giger snorted coldly.

"Pretend to be a ghost!"

A black, domineering aura erupted from Gigg, condensing into a black pillar of light that shot straight into the sky, shattering the "cloud face."

However, when the clouds were dispersed, what appeared was not bright sunshine, but a huge shadow.

And this shadow comes from Roger.

He had transformed into a giant even larger than the wolf from before!

This scene stunned everyone once again. After a brief moment of shock, a solemn expression appeared on Giger's face.

In the anime, Luffy in his Nika form also demonstrated the ability to transform into a giant. Although Roger's physique was not as large as Luffy's in the anime, it was still visually striking.

Moreover, Nika's Titan form is not just a simple inflation like in Gear Third; he truly transforms into a Titan, resulting in a real power boost. What's more, it was Roger who transformed into a Titan.

Ten thousand meters in the air, Roger's smile gradually faded. He looked down at Giggs and spoke in a booming voice.

"The power of darkness is nothing more than this."

His voice echoed in the space, and the Muramasa in Giger's hand trembled almost imperceptibly, turning into a black light and silently returning to the back of Giger's hand.

Giger was completely unaware of Muramasa's unusual behavior, because Roger's fist, as big as a mountain, was already smashing down on him.

Chapter 242 Did Gig lose?

Roger's speed did not decrease despite his increased size. Gigg, who was in mid-air, had no way to avoid the punch and was hit squarely.

Even Gigg, who possessed the bloodline of the Lunaria race, coughed up a mouthful of blood the moment he was hit. He pressed his hands firmly against Roger's huge fist, trying to push it away.

Roger's strength now far surpassed Gigg's, and he was pushed rapidly downwards.

Giger gritted his teeth, and his right sleeve suddenly burst open, revealing his right arm glowing with a scarlet light.

A strange black spiral pattern appeared on his right arm and extended all the way to Gigg's neck.

A surge of blood energy erupted from Giger, who at this moment resembled a demon god of hell. He roared, and the blood energy surrounding him gathered on his right arm, transforming into a giant blood hand that gripped Roger's fist tightly.

Roger's expression changed slightly as he recalled the fleeting power that had appeared when Giggs severely injured Whitebeard.

However, compared to then, the power that Gigg is unleashing now is even stronger.

Gigg's eyes had turned into two balls of red light, and his blood-red hand gripped tighter and tighter, with spikes extending from his fingertips and piercing Roger's skin. A massive amount of blood then flowed into Gigg's bloody hand.

After absorbing Roger's blood, the black knife-shaped mark on the back of the blood hand trembled slightly. However, compared to the enormous blood hand, the mark was so small that no one noticed it.

Roger felt a wave of weakness wash over him, and then Giger threw him off.

As Roger descended, Gigg followed closely behind, dragging his enormous bloody hand, and reached for Roger's heart.

Roger suddenly started yelling and pounding his chest, directly knocking away Giggs's bloody hand. Then he spread out a large hand, interlaced his fingers with the bloody hand, and used it to block it.

After blocking the bloody hand, Roger immediately slapped Gigg with his other hand, and Gigg took the hit by relying on the power of his blood energy.

At the same time, the black lines on Giger's neck were gradually creeping up and had spread to his chin.

Giger's consciousness gradually blurred, and he bit his tongue, using the pain to gain a moment of clarity.

He roared again, gripped Roger's hand tightly and flung it away, then swung his right arm and launched a fierce attack on Roger.

A thunderous sound echoed through the sky, and the aftershocks caused the ice below to tremble violently, with deep cracks spreading out. Aokiji had no choice but to temporarily withdraw from the battle and repeatedly release his abilities to maintain the ice surface.

After an unknown amount of time, the sounds from above gradually subsided. Then, a figure plummeted like a meteor, blasting through the ice and leaving a huge hole in it.

Seawater gushed out, but Aokiji dared not go to help, because it was Gige who had just fallen in.

Akainu and the others also witnessed this scene and immediately ordered someone to go down and rescue Giggs. However, the people who went down could not find Giggs at all and returned empty-handed.

Bang!

With a heavy thud, Roger descended from the sky. The ice surface seemed to transform into a soft trampoline under his large feet, trembling like waves as he stepped on it.

Both the navy and the pirates were thrown into the air. After a brief moment of confusion, the pirates' faces lit up with ecstasy.

In their view, the outcome of the battle was already very clear: the black dragon had been knocked into the sea, and everyone present knew very well what the consequences would be for a Devil Fruit user falling into the sea.

Roger is the victor!

However, only the remaining core members of Roger's pirate crew noticed the weariness in Roger's eyes, and the fact that his skin, which had been radiant just moments before, now looked dry and brittle.

In no time, Roger's body shrank considerably, and his height was less than 100 meters.

Even so, Roger did not deactivate Nika form. Only he knew that once Nika form was deactivated, it would mean the end of his life.

Roger exhaled a large cloud of black smoke, looked down at the crowd below, and glanced at Akainu and the others.

Next, he will seize this last bit of time to weaken the Navy's power to the greatest extent possible and cripple the World Government's strongest arm!

However, before he could even make a move, Akainu abandoned the badly injured Barrett and charged towards him.

Thinking of Giggs, who had been thrown into the sea and whose fate was unknown, Akainu was already furious. Black smoke billowed from his body, and his lower body erupted as magma, spraying him towards Roger.

"Big fire!!!"

The enormous magma fist magnified in Roger's pupils. His expression remained unchanged as he suddenly raised his hand and grabbed Akainu in his palm.

"puff!"

Akainu spat out a mouthful of blood, and magma continued to gush from his body, covering Roger's hands and making a sizzling sound.

Roger increased the pressure on Akainu's hands, and Akainu's eyes became bloodshot, with a chilling sound of bones cracking echoing from his body.

The pain was unimaginable to ordinary people, but Akainu gritted his teeth and remained silent. His body was unable to move, and he could only glare at Roger with his eyes.

Just then, a blinding golden light burst forth from behind Roger, condensing into the figure of Kizaru.

Kizaru's face was unusually filled with anger, and he roared,

"Let him go! The Eight-Span Curved Jewel!!"

A barrage of energy projectiles poured from Kizaru's hands, all striking Roger on the back of the neck.

Roger was far from his peak condition at this point, and his body was thrown forward by the explosion.

He frowned slightly and swung his other hand backward, but Kizaru used the Yata Mirror to flash to Akainu's side first, condensing the Ame no Miku sword and slashing at Roger's hand.

However, Roger's skin in Nikka form was exceptionally tough, and even Kizaru's slash only left a shallow cut on it, while Akainu was still held in Roger's hand.

Roger was thoroughly annoyed by Kizaru, so he made another move, this time locking onto Kizaru with his powerful Observation Haki.

Soon, Kizaru followed in Akainu's footsteps and was grabbed by Roger's other hand.

There's no way around it; neither Akainu nor Kizaru has reached their peak strength yet, and they just had a fierce battle with Barrett, which is why Roger was able to subdue them so easily.

Upon seeing this, Aokiji and Aramaki immediately unleashed their respective abilities, with ice and vines emerging from the ice surface to firmly restrain Roger's legs.