Grand Route, Hasalik Island, center of the ruined town.
Rocks and Barrett looked at the woods in the distance with serious eyes, their bodies tense and alert.
The feeling that constantly stimulated the two people's nerves was a constant reminder of the horror of the monster in the distance.
"What on earth is that! Rocks, have you sensed the other party's appearance?"
Barrett's muscles were tense, his fists were clenched, and his body was slightly bent, like a wild beast, ready to pounce on his prey at any time.
Rocks held the sword across his chest, alert and focused.
"I don't know. My observation Haki tells me that the opponent is not big, like some kind of animal. He gives me an extremely dangerous feeling."
Although Rocks's Observation Haki is extremely powerful, he cannot see clearly what the other party is like he can with X-ray vision.
His observation Haki just has a wider range, and can easily distinguish the number, strength, and words perceived by his observation Haki.
Barrett had no complaints after hearing what Rocks said.
"Since you don't know, force him out!"
After saying that, Barrett exerted force on his feet, roared, and rushed directly towards the woods. His clenched fists were covered with a thick layer of armed color domineering. Because of the concentration of strength, the muscles in his arms bulged violently.
"Get out here!"
With a roar, Barrett swung his fist directly towards the woods.
The strong force caused by the friction of the air created a huge air wave.
"boom!"
With a loud bang, Barrett's full-strength blow hit the ground hard.
The fist collided with the earth, and in the blink of an eye, the forest where the monster was hiding was directly destroyed by Barrett's power, and a deep pit several meters deep appeared on the original ground.
A huge cloud of dust flew up, filling the entire forest and completely burying Barrett's figure.
The rumbling sound continued, and Rocks stared at the monster with scarlet eyes flashing in the smoke above Barrett.
"Barrett! Up there!"
After shouting loudly to remind Barrett, Rocks quickly swung out a purple gravity slash.
"Buzz!"
The horizontal gravity slash was aimed directly at the monster with scarlet eyes in mid-air.
"grumble!!!!!"
Along with the impact of lateral gravity, the monster let out an angry roar.
"Um?!"
Barrett looked up at the monster in the air, grinned, then exerted force on his feet and jumped directly towards the beast.
"Hahahaha! I saw you!"
With a roar, Barrett's fist, covered with a strong sense of armed color domineering, hit the monster's abdomen hard.
"jump!"
When the fist collided with the monster's belly, a loud noise was heard.
"grumble!"
The monster roared, stared at Barrett with its scarlet eyes, and grabbed Barrett with its sharp claws.
"Squeak"
Barrett was not surprised at all, grinning and blocking with a punch.
"Um?!"
However, Barrett probably didn't expect that the monster's power was actually a little stronger than his, and he suffered a loss for a while.
The monster's attack failed, so it swung its tail behind it and hit Barrett's back with lightning speed.
"Piea"
There was a sound of a whip hitting the body, and Barrett's back was hit directly by the monster, leaving a huge wound.
“Wooah!”
Barrett groaned and fell downwards at an extremely fast speed.
"BOOM"
Barrett's body fell from mid-air and hit the ground directly.
A human-shaped hole appeared on the already uneven ground.
This moment happened too quickly and was full of surprises.
Rocks didn't expect that Barrett would be defeated so easily.
"asshole!"
Just when Rocks was a little surprised, a curse came from the pit where Barrett was, and then Barrett's burly body rushed out.
"Look, I'm going to kill you!"
Barrett, with a beast-like violent aura all over his body, rushed towards the monster at an extremely fast speed, instantly rushed to the top of the monster's head, and smashed the monster's head fiercely with a punch.
The violent force directly knocked the monster unconscious, dropped it from the air, and slammed into the ground below at an extremely fast speed.
"call out"
After a successful attack, Barrett fell from the air and landed on the ground.
“Hoo, hoo, hoo!”
A violent gasp came from Barrett's mouth.
"Pah"
"grumble"
The sound of churning earth and the roar of the monster rang out at the same time.
Barrett stared at the pit not far away with full vigilance.
The smoke and dust slowly dissipated, and finally, Rocks and Barrett could see each other clearly.
It was a giant rat that was two meters long.
Although it looked like a rat, this rat was not only huge in size, but also had red skin, bulging muscles, white smoke coming out of its body, and its eyes flashed scarlet light, full of cruelty and brutality.
"grumble!!!"
The mouse let out an angry roar at Barrett Rocks and the other man.
A terrifying aura different from others suddenly erupted.
This momentum is filled with madness, brutality, and murderous intent.
"snort!"
Feeling this terrifying momentum, Rocks and Barrett snorted coldly at the same time, and their domineering aura burst out at the same time, sweeping towards the mouse together.
"Buzz!"
The domineering aura of the two men collided with the strange aura of the mouse, and a strong wind wave erupted, blowing away all the surrounding trees and rocks.
After an unknown amount of time, the collision and dissipation of the momentum of the two sides left only bare land on the entire battlefield.
Rocks looked at the mouse with strange eyes.
"What kind of power was that just now? It's really shocking!"
"Hahaha, indeed, that power feels really good!"
Barrett's eyes flickered as he looked at the big rat with great excitement. He was very interested in the power that the rat had just displayed.
"grumble!!"
The mouse looked at Rocks and Barrett, roared, and his muscles trembled. The white smoke around him spread wildly, and then he pounced directly at Rocks at a rapid speed, his two claws flashing sharp cold light.
In its eyes, Barrett, the thin and short Rocks, was obviously easier to deal with than the devilish muscular man.
Seeing that the mouse actually gave up fighting with Barrett and pounced directly on him, Rocks suddenly laughed.
"Hey, are you taking me for granted? But I think you might be disappointed."
Rocks chuckled, holding the sword horizontally in his hand, and went straight to meet the mouse's sharp claws.
"JIANG!"
The sound of iron colliding was heard, and Rocks and the mouse's claws collided fiercely.
The clothes and hair of the two people were rustling due to the air waves generated by the collision of forces.
"Buzz!"
Just as the mouse was looking at him with some disbelief and violence, a purple halo suddenly passed from Rocks' sword to his body.
"boom"
"grumble!"
The mouse covered by the purple halo suddenly felt a terrifying gravity bursting out from his body, knocking him to the ground.
With an angry roar, the mouse tried to stand up and attack Rocks, but the terrifying gravity pressed down on him, making it unable to move.
Rocks placed the sword in his hand above the mouse, controlled gravity to suppress the mouse, squatted down and looked at the mouse.
"Tsk, you actually treated me like a soft persimmon, now you're going to suffer the consequences."
Rocks stared at the mouse and said with a hint of sarcasm.
The strange thing was that Rocks actually saw unwillingness, curiosity, anger and reluctance in the mouse's eyes.
"Hey, Rocks, that's obviously the prey I'm eyeing!"
Barrett walked to Rocks with a slightly unhappy look, then squatted down and looked at the mouse curiously.
"Hey, Rocks, what's going on with this rat? The power he uses is really special. Do you know what it is?"
Barrett looked at the mouse curiously and asked Rocks.
"Oh, I don't know."
"That should be the power of ghost energy."
Suddenly, Rayleigh's voice sounded, answering Barrett's question.