As Bullett awakened the Combine-Combine Fruit, transforming into a towering cyan-black giant that stood at the center of the Golden Ship like a supreme deity.
His body, several thousand meters tall, was even more colossal than Caesar's Great Kunfeng Body.
Even with Tesoro awakening the Gold-Gold Fruit and transforming into a Golden Giant, limited by the insufficient amount of gold, he could only reach a height of a few hundred meters.
If placed beneath Bullett, he wouldn't even reach his knees.
Buried deep in the ground, Tesoro looked up at this giant, his heart filled with bitterness.
"So, that bastard Bullett wasn't even using his full strength when he fought me!"
He felt an immense humiliation.
But at the same time, Tesoro also felt a profound sense of powerlessness!
For the first time, he realized that money wasn't omnipotent.
"Perhaps, just as Caesar said, the only truth in this world isn't gold, not Berries, not even status, identity, or power! It's... strength!!"
As Bullett's combined giant rose, the ground rolled like waves, pushing all the buildings and people at the center to the edges of the Golden Ship, right where Caesar had first landed at the port.
Hundreds of unfortunate souls, unable to react in time, slid down the tilting ground, letting out desperate screams as they fell from the Golden Ship suspended ten thousand meters in the air.
Unless something unexpected happened, they were doomed.
After all, not everyone had Kaido's physique.
At the edges of the Golden Ship, crowds of people stood in a daze, looking up in stunned silence at the towering giant that pierced the clouds.
Some, their minds shattered, fell to their knees one after another, kowtowing frantically toward Bullett.
"Oh god—"
"Gyahahaha, not a bad move! Truly massive! Too bad there aren't any islands here, or I'd toss a few your way!"
Shiki gripped his twin swords and swung them fiercely!
Armament Haki enveloped the blades, instantly unleashing sword beams over a hundred meters long!
Above the flowing Armament Haki, thick black lightning bolts erupted, tearing through the atmosphere and causing the very space before Shiki to tremble.
From hundreds of meters away, Shiki slashed wildly with his swords!
"Conqueror's Infusion!! Thousand Layers of Purple Cherry Blossoms!!"
In an instant the entire space convulsing as it pressed toward Bullett's massive body!
The several-thousand-meter-tall cyan-black giant opened its eyes, glowing like burning meteors.
Its colossal arms, stretching between heaven and earth like a mountain range, rose, covered in boundless Armament Haki that dyed the brown earth pitch black.
"Ultimate Bullet Cannon!!"
A mountain-sized fist descended, colliding with Shiki's sword beams from a hundred meters away!
This was the clash of peak Armament Haki against peak Conqueror's Haki!
Bullett hadn't yet mastered Conqueror's Haki Infusion, but his Armament Haki was so overwhelmingly dense, capable of covering his island-sized body, that it reached an absurd level of power!
BOOM!
For a moment, all sound vanished from the world.
But what followed was an endless storm of destruction, continuously expanding from the two combatants, ravaging the sky and the earth!
On the Golden Ship, countless unfortunate souls were sent flying by the terrifying shockwave, letting out desperate, horrified screams as they plummeted from the ten-thousand-meter high altitude!
"You brat! You...!"
Shiki's expression shifted slightly, his twin swords trembling in his grasp.
The colossal arm of the towering giant opposite him stretched like a mountain range, pressing down as if the very heavens were collapsing, forcing his levitating body inch by inch toward the ground below!
"Jihahahaha, kid, your Armament Haki is truly formidable!"
Shiki burst into loud laughter as the colossal fist that pierced through the sky came crashing down, pressing his body deep into the ground!
BOOM CRACK CRACK!
The entire Golden Ship couldn't withstand the impact of millions of tons of force, splitting into four or five fissures dozens of kilometers long that divided the vessel apart.
Through the cracked gaps, one could see the endless void below.
The Golden Ship had been shattered!
If not for Shiki's Float-Float Fruit ability still being active, this ship would have met its end.
A massive ring-shaped shockwave cleared the air, stirring up endless dust and rubble.
Caesar grabbed Tesoro and soared high into the sky, growing a pair of dazzling golden wings that flapped gently, allowing him to stand aloft and overlook the entire battlefield.
Tesoro stared blankly, dazedly watching the shattered Golden Ship.
"My Gran Tesoro..."
"Impressive technique!"
From within the cracked earth fissures, a golden-haired figure slowly floated upward, looking up at Bullett who was once again raising his gigantic arm.
"All this time, I've been using the Float-Float Fruit's ability to levitate objects, but I forgot to develop its other capabilities."
"Such as pulling, repelling, compressing, cutting, restraining, distorting..."
Shiki raised his hand toward a cracked piece of earth below.
With a tremendous roar, that piece of land thousands of meters long and wide rose directly, continuously compressing and distorting, rotating until it quickly formed limbs and a head, transforming into a sky-piercing giant similar to Bullett's!
However, unlike Bullett who stood on the ground, this several-kilometer-tall brown giant actually stood directly in mid-air.
"Combine-Combine Fruit? JIhahaha, my Float-Float Fruit can achieve the same!"
Shiki flew forward, and the brown giant's face immediately caved in, allowing Shiki to fly directly inside.
As Shiki disappeared within, the originally sculpture-like sky-piercing giant opened its eyes and slowly raised its pillar-like massive arms.
"Now, come, Bullett! Let's decide this with our fists!"
The brown giant let out an ear-splitting roar, laughing heartily as it stepped on empty air, raising its mountain-sized fist to smash forward!
"Ultimate Bullett Cannon!"
The blue-black giant transformed by Bullett roared with a massive sound wave, throwing another punch that spanned the sky, colliding with the brown giant's fist!
High in the air, Caesar shook his head and sighed.
"This is truly barbaric. This isn't a fight - it's more like wrecking the place!"
The two several-kilometer-tall sky-piercing giants began a frenzied exchange of blows, sending countless house-sized rocks and earth flying in all directions."
The more Shiki fought, the more exhilarated and excited he became.
As the battle with Bullett continued, Shiki began exploring more uses of the Float-Float Fruit.
CRACK CRACK CRACK.
Massive arms bulged and grew from the brown giant's back, transforming Shiki's controlled giant into a fuzzy ball composed of countless enormous arms.
Even from the brown giant's head and face, giant fists protruded, fiercely pounding Bullett!
Caught up in the excitement of battle, Shiki summoned another massive piece of land, using it as a giant shield to brutally slam against Bullett's enormous body!
BOOM!
With a tremendous explosion, the massive blue-black giant formed by Bullett could no longer withstand the impact and collapsed under Shiki's attack.
The body that pierced the sky collapsed.
Bullett's face turned deathly pale, his Haki completely exhausted, as he plummeted straight down to the ground, buried beneath countless rubble and soil.
Douglas Bullett, the Devil's Heir, defeated by Shiki!