One Piece: The Cryo Doctor on the Straw Hat Ship

These two brats who just popped out of nowhere actually possess such power.

"No wonder he was so arrogant, he actually has some skill!"

Shiki the Golden Lion's voice deepened, and the last trace of mockery vanished from his eyes, which had once overlooked the entire ocean.

"It's been so many years... It's been so many years since I've encountered this kind of 'surprise'!"

The golden lion suddenly threw its head back and laughed wildly, the sound echoing through the air and shaking the clouds.

He opened his arms as if to embrace the entire sky.

"Since you're so eager for a 'test'... then I'll grant your wish!"

The moment the words fell—

Boom! Boom! Boom!

At the edge of the Sky Island Cluster, three medium-sized islands trembled violently simultaneously.

It wasn't just a simple shaking; the entire structure of the island was beginning to disintegrate and reorganize under the pull of some invisible force.

Rocks were stripped from the mountainside, trees were uprooted, and soil cascaded down like a waterfall.

But all these substances did not fall; instead, they defied gravity and converged towards the sky.

"Lion's Might - Heavenly Roar!!!"

The golden lion suddenly clasped its arms together, its eyes flashing with golden light.

All the materials from the three islands are converging.

Hundreds of millions of tons of rocks, soil, and vegetation are spinning, compressing, and merging wildly in the air.

In just a few seconds, the enormous head of a lion, so large it blotted out the sun, was formed!

Chapter 182 This is our combined attack

"What...what is that!?"

On the Going Merry, Usopp was covered in cold sweat, and his voice had completely changed.

Chopper clung tightly to the mast, trembling all over: "It's sooooo big! This is something no human could possibly fight against!"

Nami was also terrified, her face turning pale, but her hands remained firmly pressed against the control panel, the data stream in her brain flashing wildly:

"Energy readings... incalculable! This is beyond the scope of a conventional attack!"

Brooke raised his head, his empty eyes revealing a solemn expression:

"Using an entire island as a weapon... is this the true power of legendary pirates?"

"Hehehehehe!!"

The golden lion laughed wildly, hovering directly in front of the lion's head, like a god riding a mythical beast.

"See that, you brats! This is my true power!"

"Now...can you still laugh!?"

He pressed his arms down sharply.

roar--!!!

Although it lacked vocal cords, the lion's head, made of island material, emitted a deafening roar that seemed to come from the depths of the earth.

The next second, the lion opened its huge mouth.

Inside the giant maw, countless sharp rocks interlocked like fangs. In the deeper darkness, one could vaguely see matter compressed to its limit spinning and rubbing, emitting destructive energy fluctuations.

"Disappear completely from my sight!"

A fierce glint flashed in the golden lion's eyes.

The lion's massive jaws snapped shut, carrying the force to crush everything, and slammed down towards the location where Zoro and Sanji were!

The bite covered an area of ​​several thousand meters in radius.

Let alone two people, even an entire fleet would be reduced to dust by this attack.

"Zoro! Sanji!"

Luffy shouted from the Going Merry, his rubber arms already extended, trying to rush out.

But V reached out and pressed down on his shoulder.

"Wait, Luffy." V's voice was calm, his gaze behind his glasses fixed on the sky. "Trust them."

Because he was busy with his own training, Luffy didn't know much about Zoro and Sanji's current situation.

But V, who had been keeping a close eye on the Straw Hat crew, knew very well...

An attack of this magnitude would not have a serious impact on Zoro and Sanji.

Almost simultaneously—

High in the sky, Zoro and Sanji exchanged a glance.

Both of them saw an unprecedented solemnity in each other's eyes, but... there was no fear.

Only the fighting spirit burning to its extreme.

"Hey, you green-haired moss-head." Sanji took a deep breath, the spring-like structure in his legs making a "click-clack" sound as flames spread from his feet to his calves. "We volunteered for this battle... If we lose, it'll be incredibly embarrassing!"

Zoro sheathed all three swords at the same time, and then drew them out again at the same time—that was his habitual action of adjusting his breathing and gathering his momentum.

"You don't need to tell me, you lecherous cook."

The ghostly aura around him intensified, and his beast form almost completely merged with the phantom of Asura, his green fur glowing like a burning ghostly fire amidst the dark ghostly aura.

"Let's go!"

The two of them murmured at the same time.

Sanji's legs compressed to their limit, and the flames turned from dark red to incandescent white, a sign that the temperature had exceeded a certain critical point.

"Flame Demon Wind Kick..."

His figure suddenly vanished.

It wasn't teleportation, but rather a speed that exceeded the limits of what the naked eye could perceive.

The next instant, Sanji appeared at the lower jaw of the lion's head, his legs kicking out like cannonballs.

"All-you-can-eat yakitori grilled over a huge fire!!"

Two blazing white flame shockwaves erupted from beneath his feet, not in a straight line, but spiraling and swirling, striking the rocky jaws of the lion like drills.

Boom—!

Rocks cracked and flames seeped in, but the lion was too large, and the attack only shattered the top few dozen meters of rock.

"Not enough..." Sanji's eyes sharpened. "Then let's have more!"

He stomped his legs in the air repeatedly, each stomp unleashing flames that propelled him forward, his figure becoming a blazing white afterimage at the lion's jaw.

"Flame Demon's Wind Kick - Continuous Blazing Yakitori All-You-Can-Eat - Wild Dance!!"

Bang bang bang bang bang-!

The relentless, fiery kicks rained down on the same spot, causing the rock to crumble and the cracks to spread deeper.

at the same time--

Zoro appeared between the lion's eyebrows.

He held the swords in his hands, crossed them in front of his chest, and bit down on the Wado Ichimonji. His demonic aura surged to its peak.

The roars of beasts and the whispers of demons resonated within him.

"Nine-Sword Style..."

Zoro's eyes have transformed into two forms: one a vertical pupil resembling that of a wild beast, and the other a blood-red eye resembling that of an Asura.

"Ghostly Aura - Gara - Asura..."

On the three swords, the pitch-black ghostly aura and the eerie green beastly shadows blended perfectly, the blades trembled, and emitted a buzzing sound like the roar of ten thousand beasts.

"All Beasts Devour the Heavens!!"

cut!

It was not a single slash.

Instead, it was countless streaks—claw marks from wild beasts' pounces, blade light from Asuras' slashes, cracks from the erosion of ghostly energy—all the strikes merged into one at the moment the blade was drawn, transforming into a dark crescent moon that stretched across the sky, entwined with the phantoms of countless beasts.

Wherever that crescent-shaped slash passed, the space itself seemed to be torn open with tiny cracks.

It silently cut into the rock layer between the lion's eyebrows.

Then--

Boom, boom, boom! ! !

It exploded from the inside.

At the center of the lion's head, the rock strata appeared to be torn, scratched, and gnawed from within by countless wild beasts, with spiderweb-like black cracks appearing as the starting point of that crescent-shaped slash.

Dense ghostly energy and beastly shadows surged from the cracks, constantly eroding the surrounding rock structure.

"What!?"

The golden lion's pupils suddenly contracted.

He clearly sensed that the matter of the three islands he had precisely controlled using the awakened power of the Float Float Fruit was being eroded and destroyed from within by some force "outside the rules"!

That was not simple physical destruction, but rather a kind of... strike aimed at "the structure of matter itself".

"What kind of monsters are these two brats!?"

A storm raged within the Golden Lion's heart.

But the dignity and pride of a legendary pirate made it impossible for him to back down.

"A trivial skill!"

He roared, and his two famous swords, "Withered Wood" and "Cherry Blossom Ten," burst forth with dazzling golden light.