Behind Rocks, Carlo swung his halberd again in a diagonal slash.
"Whoosh!"
A black slash, tearing through the earth, swept across, pulverizing the sky-full of shredded meat.
At the same time, a storm was conjured from thin air between heaven and earth, scattering the pulverized remains of Somaz's body in all directions.
Some were even carried directly into the sea outside the island by the strong winds.
Seeing this scene, Rocks' lips curled into a smile, about to offer a few words of praise.
"Rocks D. Xebec!! It's actually you, you audacious fellow! You were the one who broke into the Holy Land 18 years ago and caused destruction there, weren't you? How dare you show up again..."
"You're practically courting death!"
Gringu, riding an ostrich, cast a cold gaze in their direction.
The long sword in his right hand pointed diagonally skyward, and he was already rushing towards them.
"Who are you?" Rocks grabbed his long blade and turned around.
"I am Saint Gringo of the Figarland Family!" Gringu roared, leaping from the back of the galloping ostrich, gripping his sword with both hands, and slashing down at Rocks' head.
"What trash? Never heard of you."
Rocks grinned, holding his blade with one hand. Haoshoku Haki Entanglement surged onto the blade, and he unleashed a slash through the air.
"Boom!!"
The heavy Haoshoku Haki tore through the void, and under the impetus of Rocks' unique sword technique, which resembled artillery fire, it instantly unleashed a violent shockwave in front of him, similar to Ikoku or Kings Fist!
The ground in front of him was instantly torn open by a massive chasm.
The violent shockwave surged directly towards Gringu!
Mid-air, he was like a mosquito hit by a cannonball, unable to resist being violently blasted away!
Still in the air, blood gushed from his mouth.
His eyes filled with disbelief!
"How is this possible! Rocks! Your power..."
After crashing into his ostrich, turning it into a pile of flesh, he flew backward for hundreds of meters.
Only when several arrow-like straps shot from afar, binding his body and forcibly dragging him back, did he stop his backward flight, falling from the sky in a disheveled state.
Junzi walked over from a distance, and to her surprise, she saw a shocking gash on Gringu's forehead.
That huge gash had split Gringu's head in half, revealing the sparse brain matter inside.
The split part of Gringu's head turned into a black substance and was rejoining.
However, the speed of the rejoining was significantly slower.
His aura, however, did not diminish in the slightest.
But his handsome face was now filled with rage.
Rocks' power had somewhat exceeded his expectations.
Fortunately, the commotion here was so great that it had attracted his team members, the other members of the God's Knights.
Seeing his team members arrive, Gringu seemed to remember something and shouted to one of the women, "Mafie! You don't need to be here, do me a favor and bring my two sons back!"
"Are you talking about those twins?" Thatcherz Mafie, with a pair of curved horns on her head, a tall stature, sunglasses, and a cigar in her mouth, bared her jagged teeth in a grin.
"Yes." Gringu nodded, looking at Rocks, "Everyone else! Follow me! Take down Rocks!"
"Yes!"
Seven or eight members of the God's Knights followed closely, charging towards Rocks.
Rocks saw this and smiled at Carlo.
"I'm troubling you, Carlo. I'll take care of things here. I need to find my wife and children. You should go about your business. Newgate and the others should be arriving soon; this island will be lively in no time."
Previously, out of concern for his wife and children, he had Carlo fly him over first.
Now that he had landed on the island, Rocks didn't want to trouble Carlo anymore.
"Alright."
Carlo nodded, ignoring the dozen or so charging God's Knights members, and turned to walk away.
"Sorus Karlo, Fourth Division Captain of the Rocks Pirates."
Gringu glanced at him, didn't bother with Carlo, and just led his men to attack Rocks.
In his eyes, Rocks was the biggest threat.
As for Carlo, he was just an insignificant Division Captain.
He led a group of God's Knights members to attack Rocks.
But Junzi, who was not yet a member of the God's Knights but rather of the God's Blades, a rank below them, suddenly swung her hand and shot two arrows at the departing Carlo.
The bandage-like arrows extended infinitely from her hand, moving at extreme speed. In the blink of an eye, they shot behind Carlo, aiming for his back.
Carlo turned around like lightning, reaching out his right hand and catching both arrows.
But the moment he grabbed the arrowheads,
The straps connected to the arrowheads rapidly retracted, pulling the expressionless Junzi towards him.
A black pistol slid out from Junzi's sleeve, aimed at Carlo's glabella, and the trigger was pulled.
"Bang!"
A flash of fire, the bullet exited the barrel, accurately hitting the target's forehead.
However, the scene Junzi had envisioned, of Carlo being shot in the head, did not occur.
The pointed armor-piercing bullet was crushed into a lump of scrap metal the moment it hit Carlo's forehead.
With a clang, the shell fell to the ground.
"Boom!!"
A large hand grabbed through the air, crushing the atmosphere above Junzi's head, and slammed down.
Junzi instinctively threw a punch, intending to counterattack.
But the next moment,
The large hand, unshakable and unstoppable, pressed down, instantly reaching her eyes and seizing her small head.
Carlo, nearly four meters tall, had a single hand much larger than Junzi's entire head.
With this grab, Junzi's small and delicate head was completely enveloped by his palm and lifted into the air.
Terrifying power squeezed from his five fingers.
Causing a painful expression to appear on Junzi's delicate face.
Although she also possessed immortality,
The pain she suffered when her body was injured was still unavoidable.
Although there would be some reduction in pain,
It still hurt a lot!
Junzi was quite resilient.
Despite being caught by Carlo, she still didn't give up resisting.
Numerous bandages detached from her legs, waist, and arms.
Transforming into arrows, they shot towards Carlo.
However, to her disappointment, these powerful arrows, capable of easily piercing the flesh of ordinary people, were useless the moment they hit Carlo's body.
The man in front of her didn't even use Haki to defend himself.
With just his physical body, he easily resisted her Arrow Devil Fruit Power.
Sorus Karlo, this man, was far stronger than she had anticipated.
"Everyone has probably underestimated you, Sorus Karlo."
Junzi looked at Carlo through the fingers gripping her face.
"I know you, you are the son of Admiral White Dragon. Rocks is your father's killer. Why don't you avenge your father? If you are willing to turn back, now is the best time. The World Government can give you a chance to rejoin the Marines, as long as you... help us kill Rocks."