One Piece: Surrounded at Marineford? Just kidding!

Chapter 281: A Recital of Despair! The Double Suppression of the Heavenly Obstruction Star!

A red meteorite, several kilometers in diameter, carrying the heat waves of an evaporating ocean, filled Barrett's entire field of vision like an inverted volcano.

The moisture in the air was instantly sucked out, and every breath was like swallowing scalding hot coals.

Faced with this non-human cosmic catastrophe, Douglas Barrett, who had just been clamoring to crush the ocean, suddenly had his pupils shrink to pinpoints.

He froze.

A drop of cold sweat slid down his scarred forehead, turning into white smoke in the high temperature before it could even drip.

His right foot.

The right foot that was about to crush the warship uncontrollably took a half step back.

This is a fear etched deep into our genes.

The man known as the "Devil's Heir" was as insignificant as an ant before this absolute power from the stars.

But this subtle timidity was noticed by the girl on the rock giant's shoulder.

"Um?"

Uta tilted her head, her long red and white hair dancing wildly in the scorching hot wind. Her heterochromatic eyes held no fear, but rather a morbid excitement and mockery.

She grinned, her voice amplified and carried across the deathly silent battlefield.

"What's wrong? Big guy? You're scared of this broken rock?"

That's a very casual remark.

But it was like a red-hot poison needle, piercing Barrett's fragile yet inflated self-esteem.

Barrett's狰狞 face instantly turned a deep liver color, and the fear in his eyes transformed into a furious madness.

"Shut up!"

Barrett let out a guttural roar, his neck veins bulging.

"What a joke! I'm going to become the strongest man in the world! Roger is dead, Whitebeard is dead, no one in this world can make me back down! How could I be scared by this piece of junk meteorite!"

boom!

With a roar, the power of the Fusion Fruit was pushed to its limit.

The rock giant, already a thousand meters tall, expanded again, causing the ground within several kilometers to collapse completely. Countless rocks, scrap iron, and even underground magma were forcibly extracted and gathered on the giant's arms.

A thick, terrifyingly heavy layer of blue-purple crystalline armor covered the giant's entire body.

This is the strongest defense, compressed from the ultimate Armament Haki and combined abilities.

"Get back inside!"

Barrett, controlling the rock giant, raised his arms to the sky and instead of retreating, advanced to meet the falling apocalyptic meteor.

The next second, the world fell silent.

Rumble!

A deep, muffled roar, like the lament of a planet, echoed throughout the entire sea.

The rock giant's palms pressed firmly against the bottom of the meteorite.

The moment of contact, the terrifying impact caused the ground of Eregia to sink tens of meters, and the entire island's foundation emitted cracking sounds as it could not bear the weight.

Countless rocks shattered into powder under high temperature and pressure, and the shock wave transformed into a real ring-shaped air wave, forcibly pushing aside the surrounding seawater and forming a tsunami wall hundreds of meters high.

"Drink it all!"

Barrett's eyes were bloodshot, his teeth were clenched so tightly they were grinding, and every muscle fiber in his body was screaming.

But he blocked it.

He actually managed to stop the meteorite, which was powerful enough to destroy the island, from falling!

The enormous meteorite hovered in mid-air, like a crimson throne being held aloft by a giant.

"Hahaha."

Barrett, panting heavily, looked at the boulder above him that had stopped falling and wore an extremely arrogant smile.

The thrill of overcoming natural disasters.

The ecstasy of proving one's own strength.

"See that?! This is the strongest in the world!"

He was about to mock the navy for being so weak, and to ridicule the blind admiral for his limited attack capabilities.

A lazy voice drifted over from the mast of a distant warship.

"Hey, Fujitora, your meteor shower isn't working, is it?"

Borsalino, with his hands in the pockets of his striped suit, a wry smile on his face, and a mocking look in his eyes behind his brown sunglasses, looked at the expressionless blind man beside him.

"They actually managed to hold it off! What terrifying strength! These young people these days are monsters."

Fujitora ignored his colleagues' teasing.

His pale, blind eyes continued to "stare" at the sky, and the cane-knife in his hand was not sheathed, but instead drawn out an inch more.

The wind stopped.

Fujitora's scarred face remained expressionless, and his tone was as calm as if he were discussing what to have for dinner.

"Since one isn't heavy enough."

Fujitora's wrist twitched slightly, and the purple gravity aura exploded around him once again, more violent and profound than before.

"Then let's have one more."

Before the words were even finished, a visible purple gravity wave, like a waterfall flowing backwards, surged into the sky once more, piercing straight into the heavens.

The clouds that had just calmed down burst open again.

An even more terrifying and desperate sense of oppression than before enveloped everyone's hearts.

Barrett's maniacal laughter froze instantly.

He looked up sharply and, through the edge of the first meteorite, saw a scene that made his soul tremble.

Above the sky, a second meteorite, twice the size of the first, streaked with a jet-black tail of flame and struck the back of the first meteorite with perfect accuracy.

"Are you kidding me?"

Barrett opened his mouth to curse, but his voice was completely drowned out by the world-destroying roar coming from above.

This is Fujitora's signature move, Heavenly Obstruction Star!

"Snap!"

Two meteorites collided violently in mid-air.

There was no explosion.

The terrifying kinetic energy of the second meteorite was instantly converted into a downward impact force.

Weight stacking.

Kinetic energy superposition.

The increase in destructive power is not one plus one equals two, but rather a geometric surge!

All the pressure, in that instant, was directed at Barrett at the very bottom.

"Ughhhh!"

The rock giant's arms instantly cracked under the strain, and its seemingly indestructible blue-purple crystalline armor shattered like fragile glass.

Barrett's main body, located at the core of the giant, suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of internal organs.

His knees bent uncontrollably, and he almost collapsed to his knees.

"That wretched blind man!"

Barrett's eyes were bloodshot as he stared intently at the motionless blind man on the warship, his hatred almost tangible.

But he couldn't move.

The immense pressure suffocated him, and his entire body was groaning. Even his rocky body, after the awakening of the Fusion Fruit, began to show huge cracks.

He was about to be crushed into a pulp by these two meteorites stacked together.

"Hey! Big guy! What are you doing?!"

Uta's expression changed drastically.

She is not stupid.

She knew very well that she and Barrett were now in the same boat.

Barrett fell; this "mage" couldn't last three seconds against two naval admirals.

"If you collapse, how will my concert continue!"

Uta screamed, her sweet voice turning sharp and shrill.

She suddenly waved her hands, and the wings of light on her back exploded.

"The Demon King of Songs - Instrumental!"

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Countless black musical notes surged from the void, no longer pulsating melodies, but transforming into tangible black tentacles that grew wildly like steel bars, tightly binding the teetering rock giant, as well as the two constantly pressing down meteorites.

These black musical note tentacles possess a toughness far exceeding that of steel.

Their cycle of breaking down and regenerating actually helped Barrett alleviate some of the terrifying pressure.

The earth plummeted rapidly towards the center of that despair!