The pirates sat and forgot, and they really believed the nine truths and one lie.

This brief joy did not last long.

The ground beneath their feet, the solid ground formed by special cloud layers, once again emitted a dull rumble and violent tremors.

It was as if something larger and heavier was awakening deep underground and rushing upwards at high speed.

"Oh no, there's something else!" a Skypiea warrior exclaimed, his face turning pale.

A more solid, pitch-black shadow, accompanied by a terrifying shriek that seemed to crush the air, burst forth from the ground to the side of the group without warning, and crashed head-on into the Tyrant Bear at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye.

The centipede elder charged even more fiercely, and the section of its body covered with dark carapace that was exposed was much larger in diameter than before, carrying a savage aura of destruction.

A faint red light seemed to flash in the Tyrant Bear's empty eyes.

Faced with this sudden and fatal impact, his massive body displayed an extreme agility and fighting instinct that was disproportionate to his size.

He didn't even try to dodge completely. Instead, he raised both palms again, and the fleshy balls in his palms rapidly compressed the air in front of him, forming an invisible yet incredibly strong air barrier in front of him.

The dark figure collided solidly with the air barrier. This time, the sound of the collision was as muffled as two mountain peaks clashing. The violent shockwave exploded in a ring, instantly clearing away the remaining clouds within hundreds of meters.

The Tyrant Bear's rock-solid body was slammed backward dozens of meters by this terrifying force, its feet carving two deep furrows in the cloud-covered ground.

The hastily formed air barrier in front of him shattered instantly upon impact.

The centipede elder's body, which had been struck, was once again thrown upwards by the reaction force, tumbling and flying. Several fine lines even appeared on its carapace, but in an instant, it began to heal under some strange force.

"It's...it's so hard!"

"This...this person isn't dead?!"

The cries of the indigenous people were already tinged with despair.

Even the tyrant's bear paw, powerful enough to send mountains flying, couldn't truly injure the monster, leaving only a few cracks at its hardest point of impact.

Just how terrifying are the monster's defenses and vitality? How can they possibly defeat such a nightmare?

Just as Tyrant Bear regained his footing, the tremors beneath his feet suddenly intensified, and a foul, pungent stench erupted from the clouds directly below him.

"Father, be careful!!"

On the Going Merry, Bonnie's screams were heart-wrenching.

She was horrified to see that right beneath her father's feet, the old man's face, belonging to the centipede elder, suddenly burst forth from the ground.

The massive, wrinkled maw opened dramatically, revealing a dark, bottomless throat and rings of gleaming, meat-grinding spiral teeth that lunged fiercely at the Tyrant Bear above.

We are determined to devour it whole!

Faced with this deadly underground devouring attack, Tyrant Bear's face, a blend of metal and flesh, remained coldly indifferent; he didn't even show the slightest surprise or panic.

Just as the abyss's gaping maw was about to close, the Tyrant Bear's massive body made an incredible, physics-defying, agile twist in mid-air.

Like a master of physical martial arts who was also skilled in paper drawing, he slipped through the gaps between the giant jaws and sharp teeth at the last second, perfectly avoiding being swallowed.

Not only that, while dodging, his fleshy right hand shot out with lightning speed, accurately striking the centipede elder's forehead right in the center of his old face, between the eyebrows.

"Wait……!"

Before Elder Centipede could close his enormous mouth, a clear look of astonishment appeared for the first time in the old man's cloudy eyes, as if he wanted to say something.

But, the chance is gone.

Since we can't break through your ridiculously tough armor for the time being, let's shift the blame elsewhere.

Elder Centipede felt his vision suddenly blur and distort, and an irresistible force instantly enveloped his entire centipede body, which stretched for several kilometers.

Its enormous body was uncontrollably detached from the earth and completely enveloped by a suddenly appearing, translucent, bear-paw-shaped air bubble.

Under the stunned gazes of everyone, the air bubble containing the mountain-sized insect shot into the sky with a whoosh, like a stone thrown by an invisible giant hand.

It moved so fast that it left only a faint white trail in the air, breaking through the clouds of the sky island and disappearing into the azure sky, transforming into a rapidly receding shooting star.

"It's over?!" a Sky Island warrior asked hesitantly, seemingly still in disbelief.

The deathly silence lasted for a few seconds.

"Whoa—!!!"

"We won! We really won!"

"Tyrant Bear is amazing!"

"We're saved! We're saved!"

A burst of cheers erupted from all directions as the island's inhabitants embraced and wept, leaping and shouting as they tossed their weapons and shellfish into the air.

Bonnie was also caught up in the fervent atmosphere. Her tense nerves finally relaxed, and a bright, relieved smile appeared on her little face as she cheered along with everyone else.

Everyone was genuinely happy to have gotten rid of such a terrifying monster that was destroying their homes.

Gan Fore rode on Pierre's back, circling low in the air and stroking his beard, a relieved smile on his face: "It was a close call, thankfully the evacuation was fast enough, it seems there were no fatalities, a stroke of luck amidst misfortune."

As he spoke, he planned to descend to a lower altitude to more carefully survey the battlefield and search for islanders who might have been buried or injured.

Just as he descended and his gaze swept over the cleared area below, "Whoosh—!!!"

An extremely intense, chilling sense of crisis, like ice water poured over his head, instantly overwhelmed him.

What followed was a violent tinnitus that was enough to tear the eardrums.

"Varied……?!"

Gan Fall didn't even have time to react.

A dark shadow suddenly appeared in his field of vision as if it had teleported, passing by him at an incredibly fast speed at a very close distance.

The terrifying airflow generated by merely being grazed was like a Category 10 hurricane, slamming directly into Gan Faure and Pierre.

"Pfft-!"

Gan Fall coughed up a mouthful of blood, his ears were ringing, and everything went black before his eyes. He completely lost control of his body.

He and his loyal companion Pierre were blown away like kites with broken strings, tumbling through the air and tracing a pathetic arc.

Finally, with a loud bang, it crashed heavily onto the cloud ground near the Merry, creating a shallow crater from which it could never rise again.

The terrifying black shadow that suddenly leaped down from the sky, after grazing Gan Fall, continued its momentum like a meteorite falling from the heavens, and crashed heavily in front of Tyrant Bear.

The earth shook violently, with a deafening roar more intense than any previous collision.

The solid cloud-covered ground rippled violently like a fragile water surface, forming a huge crater with a diameter of over 100 meters. Endless smoke and dust billowed into the sky, instantly engulfing the area where the shadow had landed and obscuring the figure within.

A deathly silence descended once more, all cheers ceased abruptly, and the smiles on the faces of the Sky Island inhabitants froze, replaced by utter horror and terror.

Bonnie's cheer froze on her lips as she stared wide-eyed at the billowing smoke.

A towering, mountain-like silhouette could be vaguely seen, standing silently in the center of the deep pit; its height was definitely over twenty meters.

Even Tyrant Bear looked quite small in comparison.

What's even more chilling is that in the shadow of that tall figure, there isn't just one pair of eyes, but four side by side.

Four slender eyes, radiating crimson and savagery, filled with a pure desire for destruction, flickered in the heavy shadows.

It is definitely not a race of giants.