A cook, vice-captain of the Rocks Pirates?

That's neither a mountain range nor an island.

That was an elephant.

A living miracle, enormous beyond imagination, as if created by the hand of the creator god.

Its four limbs are like pillars supporting the heavens and the earth, and every step it takes makes the sea tremble.

Its skin, etched with the deep furrows of time, is like the oldest rock, bearing the marks of a thousand years of wind and frost.

On its back lies a complete and prosperous kingdom full of exotic charm!

And from those ancient eyes, as deep as a pool, tears flowed continuously like a waterfall, merging into the sea below; the sorrowful cries originated from there.

Elephant Lord, Zou.

"Gurgling... What a big guy."

Even Newgate, looking at this living legend before him, felt a flicker of shock in his eyes.

He could clearly sense that the giant elephant contained an immense, yet sorrowful, life energy.

"Is this... Elephant?"

Rein had heard legends about it since the Rocks Pirates era, but this was the first time he had ever seen it with his own eyes.

His extraordinary sense of righteousness towards food allowed him to feel the giant elephant's pain more clearly than anyone else.

It was a torment that combined physical and spiritual suffering.

"Hahaha! What a huge elephant! Its meat must be very chewy!"

Gatz's fear was quickly replaced by his even stronger appetite. He looked at the elephant's legs, which were as large as mountains, and his mouth began to water.

"Shut up, Gatz."

Raine's voice was calm, yet carried an undeniable air of authority.

"It's not food; it's a patient."

Renn's gaze fell on the elephant's left hind leg, which was moving slowly.

There, a massive wound, comparable in size to a town, was clearly visible.

The wound was so deep that the bone was visible, and the surrounding flesh was completely necrotic, turning an ominous dark purple color. It was even oozing pus filled with the stench of decay.

A massive negative energy, filled with resentment and pain, is constantly emanating from the core of the wound, like a malignant sore, frantically eroding and devouring the life force of the elephant spirit.

"Such a serious injury."

Marco transformed into a phoenix and circled in the air. He could clearly feel that the wound contained an extremely domineering and eerie power that could annihilate life energy.

“This wound…is at least a hundred years old, yoi.”

"Should we... help it?"

Joz asked in a muffled voice, a pang of pity rising in his heart as he looked at the giant elephant staggering forward in pain.

Just as everyone hesitated, Elephant seemed to have noticed the arrival of these uninvited guests.

Its mournful cries abruptly stopped, and its enormous head slowly turned around.

In those ancient eyes, as deep as a still pool, all sorrow was instantly replaced by a fury and rage filled with the feeling of territorial intrusion.

"Roar!"

A silent yet soul-stirring roar suddenly erupted!

A massive negative energy, filled with millennia of regret and pain, swept towards the ancestral giant tortoise like a tsunami!

Under this mental shock, even top-tier combatants like Gatz and Jozu felt as if their heads had been hit hard by an invisible hammer, their vision went black, and they almost fainted on the spot.

Chapter 292 The World's Largest Surgical Operation

"Damn it! This guy..."

Newgate roared, and an even more powerful Conqueror's Haki surged into the sky, like an invisible shield that firmly blocked the tsunami of spirit.

"It has lost its mind due to prolonged suffering."

Renn's expression turned extremely serious.

"The thing in that wound is not only devouring its life, but also eroding its mind."

"captain."

Ryan turned around and looked calmly at Newgate: "We have to help it."

This is not just out of sympathy.

Raine knew that the existence of the elephant spirit itself was inextricably linked to the Void Century and the agreement with Joy Boy.

It cannot die.

"Gurarararar! Just what I wanted!"

Newgate laughed loudly: "I've had my eye on that piece of rotten flesh for a long time!"

He turned his gaze to the enormous wound.

"Then let me perform the world's largest surgical operation on this behemoth!"

The idea of ​​performing surgery on a giant elephant that is like a moving island is itself a wildly absurd fantasy.

But for the Whitebeard Pirates, a group of monsters who never play by the rules, this was just another entry in their logbook filled with challenges and fun.

"Alright, do as I say."

Like a top-notch surgeon, Ryan devised the boldest and most efficient surgical plan in an instant.

“At the heart of that wound dwells a parasite that feeds on negative emotions, which I call the ’grudge’. It must be removed first, otherwise any treatment will be in vain.”

"Gatz! Joz! You two will be in charge of the surgery!"

Raine pointed to the giant, malignant tumor-like wound on the elephant's leg.

"Use your full strength to dig out that completely necrotic piece of flesh! Remember, be fast! Be precise! Be ruthless! Leave no residue!"

"Alright! Head Chef!"

Gatz and Joz responded excitedly, exchanging a glance and both seeing the fighting spirit of a worthy opponent in each other's eyes.

"Marco! Vista! Silver! You guys take charge of cleaning the wound!"

Raine issued one order after another.

"Once the rotten flesh is dug out, rush in as fast as you can and use your flames and sword energy to clean out all the remaining toxins and fungi from the inside of the wound!"

"understand!"

"As for me..."

Ryan picked up his food box.

"I was in charge of the final stitching and treatment."

"What about us, Dad?"

The other combatants on board were also eager to try.

"you?"

Newgate grinned as he unleashed the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit to its fullest extent. An invisible force of vibration, imbued with a protective will, spread out, enveloping the entire Proto-Tortoise and the surrounding sea.

"Your task is to create the safest possible surgical environment for our doctors!"

An unprecedented surgical operation surrounding the legendary behemoth has officially begun!

"Oh oh oh oh!"

Gats and Jozu leaped off the back of the giant tortoise like two cannonballs, using Moonwalk to charge straight at Zunesha's mountain-like legs!

The elephant seemed to have sensed their intentions. Its huge trunk, like a divine whip, carried a terrifying power capable of shattering mountains and lashed out at the two of them!

"Don't try to succeed!"

Newgate roared and unleashed a powerful air blast that collided precisely with the massive nose in mid-air, abruptly halting its attack.

In that fleeting moment, Gatz and Joz had already reached their destination.

"Diamond Mountain-Splitting Axe!"

Joz's arms transformed into diamonds, becoming two extremely sharp giant axes that cleaved fiercely into the dark purple necrotic flesh!

"Giant Anchor - Meteorite Drill!"

Gatz then spun the anchor at high speed, like a giant drill bit, frantically drilling into the crack that Jotz had cleaved open!

The two worked together seamlessly, one cutting and the other drilling, just like two high-powered excavators, frantically working on that huge wound.

Dark purple, foul-smelling flesh and blood fell like a torrential rain; the scene was bloody yet full of violent aesthetics.

The elephant let out a painful cry, frantically swinging its massive legs in an attempt to shake off the two tiny ants that were provoking it.

But Newgate had already used his vibrational power to create a relatively stable space around Zunesha's legs, so no matter how much Zunesha struggled, it couldn't affect the two humanoid excavators that were running at full speed.

Finally, after nearly half an hour of frantic digging, accompanied by Gatz's excited roar, a huge, dark purple tumor, over a hundred meters in diameter and as big as a small mountain, was pried out from the deepest part of the wound!

On top of that tumor, there was a terrifying parasitic creature, pitch black in color, covered with countless twisted tentacles and wailing faces, resembling a giant octopus!

That is the true form of the grudge!

"Marco! Vista! Silver! Move!"

The three people who had been waiting for a long time instantly transformed into three streams of light and rushed into the bottomless, huge wound the moment the tumor was dug out!

"Phoenix Flame - Purifying Rain!"

Marco's Flame of Regeneration was no longer a simple treatment, but transformed into a rain of blue fire filled with purifying power, burning away the toxins and mycelia remaining on the inner wall of the wound!

"Rose Blossoms - Sword Domain!"

"Shadow Thrust - Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix!"

Bista and Silver's sword and gun are like two of the most delicate scalpels, removing the most stubborn lesions hidden deep in the flesh!

The surgery was carried out in an orderly manner, full of efficiency and beauty.

Meanwhile, beneath the massive tumor that had been excavated, Rennes had already set up the world's largest soup pot, made of shape-memory alloy.

He ignored the still menacing vengeful carbuncle and instead treated the huge, necrotic flesh filled with negative energy as top-grade... firewood.

He threw the tumor into the bottom of the pot, and then lit it with the purest flame of life that Marco had provided.

The rotten flesh, burned by the flames of life, did not emit a foul stench; instead, it let out a series of mournful cries. All the negative energy was purified and transformed, eventually becoming a pure fuel full of life.

Raine threw the leaves, which he had taken from the Twin Trees and which contained the power of protection and healing, into the pot, and added some spring water from the Weeping Reed Isle that could soothe the soul.

Soon, a pot of ultimate ointment, brimming with life and healing energy and displaying a dreamy emerald green color, was ready to be brewed.

"Dorum! Prepare to drop!"

Under Dorum's precise control, the enormous soup pot was accurately launched by the space-based orbital food delivery cannon on the back of the progenitor tortoise.

It drew a perfect parabola in the air, evenly applying the emerald green ointment to the elephant's huge, deep wound that revealed the bone.

Chapter 293 You must be... very hungry, right?

Shila-

A soft sound, like spring rain nourishing all things, rang out.

The moment the elephant's hideous wound came into contact with the ointment, it began to heal and scab over at a speed visible to the naked eye, growing new, vibrant pink flesh and blood.

A surgical procedure that can only be described as miraculous has come to a perfect end.

When the last grotesque wound on Ganesha's mountain-like legs was completely healed by Rein's ointment, which was full of life and creation, the ancient creature, which had lived for thousands of years, let out a long, soft groan, as if it had been relieved of a thousand-year burden.

In its ancient eyes, which were always filled with sorrow and pain, all the turbidity and frenzy had vanished, replaced by an unprecedented clarity, wisdom, and...gratitude.

An invisible yet immense will surged into everyone's mind like a tidal wave.

That is not language, but a purer spiritual resonance composed of images and concepts.

Thank you... to all of you...