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As Rowen completed his Nika Giant Form, an unbelievably violent and tyrannical crimson-black lightning roared to life around his entire body.
These raging arcs of Haki, even compared to Rowen’s now giant form, were no less immense—seeming to rip the very sky of this sea region asunder.
A horrifying surge of energy exploded outwards from his body.
The island and the sky, which had already begun to tremble under the combined Haki of Kaido and Big Mom, now began to suffer a large-scale collapse under this new, transcendent pressure.
Countless layers of ice shattered and fell.
The sky began to crack and tear like a fragile tapestry. Even the distant, unfrozen ocean started to heave, sending monstrous tsunamis roaring out into the surrounding waters.
Fissures ripped across the ocean surface. In the distance, massive sea trenches formed!
A user of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, once they had trained it to its absolute peak, no longer needed to consciously use techniques like "Air Quake" or "Sea Quake."
Their mere emotional fluctuations, their very presence, could shake the world—just as a prime Whitebeard could in his youth.
And the savage, crimson-black lightning now roaring around Rowen contained an even more terrifying level of raw, destructive energy.
This was a Conqueror’s Haki that had completely surpassed the Four Emperors of this era, the Pirate King of the last era, and even the legendary Rocks D. Xebec.
A level of Haki that even Kaido and Big Mom had never witnessed...
Previously in the Summit War, after two consecutive Haki enhancements, Rowen had struggled to control this frighteningly immense Conqueror’s Haki.
Although releasing Conqueror’s Haki as a wave of pure intimidation required no physical stamina, using that same savage energy for actual combat—for attack, for defense, for speed—required a colossal expenditure of both physical and spiritual energy.
The primary reason he couldn’t properly control it was that his own physical vessel, as strong as it was, was not yet strong enough to handle such a transcendent force.
Though Rowen’s physique at the Summit War had reached the Apex Gold tier—compared to this Conqueror’s Haki that surpassed Roger, Rocks, and the others, there was still a gap in levels.
Thus, he couldn’t fully unleash the might of this Haki.
But after absorbing the ’Desire for Liberation’ from Dressrosa, Luffy finally brought his Human-Human Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Model: Nika, to the point of Awakening!
And because Rowen had used his System to build a unique spiritual channel between them, he had perfectly collected that Desire and fed it directly to Luffy, accelerating the process.
The very moment Luffy awakened, Rowen had instantly loaded the completed Trait into his own system.
He had obtained the full, unadulterated power of the Human-Human Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Model: Nika.
Becoming Another Sun God Nika.
This wasn’t the Nika power Bonney formed by distorting the future with her Age-Age Fruit—this was the real Nika.
And because Rowen was a user of not just Nika, but also the Human-Human, Rumble-Rumble, Ice-Ice, Flare-Flare, Revive-Revive... and many other Awakened Devil Fruits. Even after Awakening his Nika Form, Rowen’s style didn’t change to Luffy’s, constantly laughing.
That persona, while a fundamental part of Nika’s combat style, it didn’t quite fit Rowen’s character.
Even so, Nika’s exclusive ’Imagination’ and its rubbery body that could accommodate everything—were all obtained by Rowen.
With this rubbery body, controlling Haki no longer required infusion, it could be integrated.
He could integrate this Conqueror’s Haki, which his own physical energy couldn’t yet wield freely, into Nika’s rubbery body—
Though the stamina consumption would increase dramatically, he could finally maximize the power of this Haki.
This was also why Rowen needed to first deplete a portion of Kaido and Big Mom’s stamina and Haki.
Rowen needed to end this battle quickly.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Before this terrifyingly immense Conqueror’s Haki, the combined Haki of Kaido and Big Mom was completely and utterly suppressed.
Although their Elbaf Fusion technique could combine their attack power into a single, devastating sphere, their Haki level did not increase at all. It was a fusion of quantity, not quality.
And Rowen’s Haki had completely surpassed the level of an Emperor. It had surpassed the level of Roger and Rocks.
It had reached a completely new, uncharted realm.
The difference between his Haki and theirs was a complete, qualitative gap in their fundamental level of power.
And this difference was so vast, so profound, that even Big Mom, with her notoriously weak Observation Haki, could feel it as clearly as a physical blow.
They didn’t need refined senses to understand what was happening.
"What an outrageous Haki..." Kaido’s eyes were now scarlet, glaring at Rowen’s form.
In this moment, he had completely forgotten about Joy Boy. This was something far more immediate, far more terrifying.
The level of their Disposition... was different. His Haki and this man’s Haki were not in the same league.
WHAT KIND OF SICK JOKE WAS THIS??
The intelligence he had received before was that this man’s Haki was, at best, on the same level as Red-Hair’s.
And Kaido had never believed his own Haki was weaker than Shanks’s.
Besides, he had a top-tier Devil Fruit that Red-Hair didn’t, the Fish-Fish Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Model: Azure Dragon!
Before the Summit War, he had clashed with Red-Hair.
Though Red-Hair had his complete Red Hair Pirates, while Kaido was alone, and was repelled by Red-Hair... Kaido was confident, in a One-on-One duel, the final victor would surely be him.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t be called the World’s Strongest in a One-on-One.
But now, it was completely different.
This man’s Haki wasn’t "similar to Shanks’s." It was on another plane of existence entirely.
He, Kaido, had also witnessed the top-tier powerhouses of the previous era... In the God Valley Incident, Rocks, Roger, Garp.
The absolute top-tier powerhouses of that era had all erupted with their strongest Haki, engaging in a life-or-death battle.
In that era, Roger, Garp, and the others hadn’t reached their peak yet, it wasn’t truly their era.
The name of that era was Rocks.
Otherwise, Rocks wouldn’t have been able to gather Whitebeard, Golden Lion, him, Kaido, Big Mom, and the others.
Because in that era, they hadn’t reached their peak yet.
But even Rocks’s Haki hadn’t reached such an outrageous level!
The intensity of this Haki had completely overturned Kaido’s understanding of what was possible.
HAKI CAN TRANSCEND ALL!
That was Kaido’s famous quote.
And it referred to Conqueror’s Haki. Because Kaido had once seen how terrifying a powerhouse who had truly trained Conqueror’s Haki to its peak could be.
Like the Pirate King Roger—without any Devil Fruit ability, just with Haki alone, he was enough to rule an era.
But Kaido had never, ever imagined that Haki... could be THIS strong.
Even Haki as strong as Roger’s couldn’t defeat the combined might of Sengoku and Garp. He was often chased across the world by the numerically superior Navy.
But Rowen’s Haki... was different.
"WORORORO! NOW I KNOW HOW THE SUMMIT WAR ENDED! IT WAS WITH THIS HAKI, WASN’T IT?? SKY SOVEREIGN ROWEN!"
Kaido let out his signature laugh, and for the first time, he no longer called Rowen a "brat."
To do so in the face of this level of power would not be an insult to his opponent, but a profound insult to himself.
"THIS HAKI! WHY IS IT SO STRONG??" Big Mom’s forehead was also beaded with veins.
"Hey, old hag, don’t tell me you’re getting scared now?" Kaido glanced at her.
"KAIDO BRAT, DON’T GET CARRIED AWAY! WHO DO YOU THINK I AM?? MAMAMAMA!"
Big Mom suddenly burst into wild, manic laughter.
It had been a long, long time since she had felt so fired up.
A Haki... even stronger than Rocks’s.
"SKY SOVEREIGN! I don’t acknowledge Straw Hat as Joy Boy, BUT..."
Kaido looked at Rowen, a wide, joyful, almost insane grin spreading across his face.
Big Mom also began to laugh, a sound filled with madness and glee.
"—IF YOU CAN KILL THE TWO OF US... I WILL ACKNOWLEDGE YOU—AS JOY BOY!"
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
The Haki around Kaido and Big Mom, rather than diminishing in the face of Rowen’s overwhelming presence, began to burn even brighter, even more fiercely.
This was the response of two rulers of the sea, even when faced with a power greater than their own.
A King of a higher caliber??
The one who can kill them... Is The Sun God... Is Joy Boy... Is the True King of this Era!
"COME AND TELL US! IS THE NAME OF THIS ERA... SKY SOVEREIGN ROWEN??"
"HAKAI (Conquest Of The Sea)——!!!"
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