I am the Bandit King of the East Sea.

Rumble...

The twisted execution platform finally tilted and crashed to the ground, with a dense barrage of longswords falling from the sky and embedding themselves diagonally in the rain, while crimson blood flowed silently on the ground.

Sigma had only just arrived when Roguetown was reduced to ruins.

Rocks looked at the collapsed execution platform, his expression changing slightly.

"Dor of Infinity..."

He spoke out angrily, but there was nothing he could do.

The alternate dimension of the Door-Door Fruit and the world outside the door are two separate worlds and cannot interfere with each other.

Then.

A giant air portal opened once again from the other end of the street.

Within the subsequent alternate dimension, there were countless fully armed bandits about to emerge from the inner space.

Chapter 966: Big wood, big wood, big wood, big wood

The East Sea Mountain Bandits have arrived.

The only way to stop them is to kill them before they even step out of the air door!

Lox was the first to react, and he unleashed a burst of intense darkness backward as he hurtled toward the giant portal in the air.

But at this time.

Within the enormous air portal, in a lush green space, Aokiji stepped out, causing all the pirates to change color.

"It's Aokiji!"

"A troublesome guy has appeared!"

"His abilities are extremely difficult to deal with!"

Under the wary gazes of the pirates, Aokiji stepped out. His usual laziness was gone, replaced by a mocking expression as he looked at Rocks, who was rushing towards him.

"Heh, want to race me in speaking speed?"

Rocks's face darkened, and he waved his hand again, causing a black tornado to suddenly erupt.

"Darkness Liberation!"

The twisted flying swords that had just been dragged into the tornado burst out again, shooting out in all directions like arrows, tearing through the sky and striking the newly opened giant air gate.

As a user of the Dark-Dark Fruit, Rocks could absorb massive amounts of matter using its power and release it in a short period of time.

But even as thousands of swords flew out in a dense barrage, about to strike Aokiji, he remained unhurried.

"Times have changed, the Dark-Dark Fruit is no longer relevant!"

"Old man, your abilities are the most useless!"

He gathered his breath slightly, and his fists rained down like raindrops, the heavy fist shadows as dense as a storm, each punch poised to strike the incoming flying sword.

"Wood big wood big wood big wood big wood big wood big wood big wood big wood big..."

Amidst a dazzling barrage of fist strikes, thousands of flying swords aimed at the air gate were all struck down and shattered on the ground!

"It's...it's appeared!"

"Aokiji, the user of the Wood-Great Fruit, I've heard he's a rare user of the Word Power type, able to nullify attacks simply by shouting 'Wood Great'!"

"If no one can outpace his speaking speed, then all attacks are utterly useless against him!"

Aokiji stood at the air gate before a pile of broken swords, exuding an aura of invincibility.

With him blocking their way, the densely packed bandits behind them finally had a chance to emerge from the green alternate dimension within the giant air gate.

"This is really troublesome..."

Rocks coldly stared at Aokiji, then stepped back slightly to make room and ordered the pirates behind him to swarm forward.

The best way to deal with Aokiji is to have a speed-type strong fighter, or to overwhelm him with numbers and outpace his speaking speed.

At that moment, a deafening roar reached Lox's ears.

Kaido's massive body crashed down beside him like a meteor, creating a deep crater in the street and causing the ground to tremble slightly.

Kaido, gripping his spiked club, struggled to his feet, his body covered in wounds and blood.

Rocks narrowed his eyes, looked up at Sigma who was still standing in mid-air, and then looked at Kaido who was struggling to stand up beside him, scrutinizing him for a moment.

"Kaido was defeated too quickly... huh?"

Lockes noticed that although he had many wounds, they were not actually too serious.

"Seeing the situation was not going well, you deactivated your ability without my order...?"

His eyes were a little cold, but also a little helpless.

The Rocks Pirates are gradually showing signs of slipping out of control...

"Never mind... I never intended for Kaido and Sigma to fight one-on-one. Being able to temporarily restrain them is already fulfilling my duty."

Lockes thought to himself.

After the barrier of the Minotaur Fruit was removed, Sigma didn't move much.

He simply stood quietly in the sky, looking down at the battlefield below, without uttering a word.

Since his appearance, he has barely uttered a word, and his expression has remained completely unchanged.

He did not immediately join the battle.

But even without being in combat, he himself was like a towering mountain suspended in the air. The oppressive feeling of his presence made the pirates feel breathless and dared not let their guard down.

Such behavior is obviously extremely conspicuous.

"Good heavens, it actually climbed up to my head..."

Shiki the Golden Lion snorted coldly.

The Float-Float Fruit's power is similar to telekinesis; he can manipulate objects at will, but he must touch them with both hands first.

He could theoretically control thousands of swords like Sigma, but he would have to touch all of them first.

"Sigma, just stay in the air, and whatever you do, don't come down."

With a flick of its hand, the golden lion caused the sky, which had just cleared, to darken once more.

A floating island plummeted from the sky like a falling meteor, casting a massive shadow that once again enveloped most of the town of Rogue.

Judging by its sheer scale... this island is no smaller than the previous Sword Cloud, possessing the same overwhelming presence.

This majestic floating island, like a mountain peak descending from the sky, or a shooting star streaking across the heavens, swooping down.

Meanwhile, Sigma in the sky maintained his calm and composed expression.

"You can't do it," he said calmly, looking up at the sky.

At that glance, the descending sky island that was looming overhead suddenly faltered.

The floating island is still falling, but the rate of descent is visibly accelerating.

The golden lion's expression changed.

Both sides possess the ability to manipulate objects to float and move, making this akin to a power struggle between them using the floating islands as a means of communication.

When the floating island finally arrived above Sigma's head, it had almost stopped its momentum, hovering obediently like a tamed beast.

"Darkness Liberation!"

A raging black storm surged into the sky once again. Without waiting for the two sides to engage in a struggle, Lox seized the opportunity to launch an attack.

A pitch-black storm, carrying hundreds or even thousands of broken swords, surged forth, about to engulf that figure.

At this moment.

Sigma gently raised his hand, his palm touching the sky island that had stopped falling.

Boom!

The entire island shattered into more than ten huge chunks of rock and soil that fell from the sky and collided violently with the twisted flying swords spewing from the black hole. A series of clanging sounds rang out, and dust filled the sky.

But Lox's pupils contracted slightly.

He realized that the figure deep within the smoke and dust had vanished without a trace.

at the same time.

A figure quietly appeared behind him.

Lox was jolted awake, transforming into a black hole with a surging, dark vortex that enveloped the figure behind him.

The terrifying gravity pulled and twisted the streets and houses within a hundred-meter radius, then compressed and shattered them into dust...

Chapter 967 The Gate to a New World

Locus seemed to transform into a black hole, unleashing a powerful gravitational pull, and a massive, pitch-black vortex enveloped everything around it.

But then, the sudden burst of black hole abruptly stopped.

Amidst the receding black tide, a calm voice can be faintly heard.

"The suction is so strong... what an amazing sphincter."

"You Devil Fruit users are really too easy to deal with."

The black hole that had just erupted vanished into thin air in an instant.

Sigma has returned to the skies.

Rocks stood there, his face ashen, as he struggled to pull out a seastone spear stuck in his buttocks, from which blood gushed.

"He's so strong, yet he specifically targeted this area. Was he deliberately trying to embarrass me...?"

Lockes' face turned extremely ugly. With a slight exertion, he broke the shaft of the seastone spear and threw it to the ground.

This sea stone spear is actually quite ordinary.

Its gun barrel was made of ordinary steel, with only a sharpened sea stone inlaid on the spearhead. It was not even sharp and could be described as crude.