Chapter 373: The Crush of the Behemoth!

The battered "Mammoth" was pushing against the oncoming giant waves.

It was charging without slowing down toward the incomparably vast fleet of the Four Emperors, initiating an almost suicidal assault.

The Gifters and ordinary pirates on the ship had completely broken down by now.

They clutched their heads, collapsed onto the deck, and wept bitterly, their desperate wails even drowning out the roar of the waves.

Having spent years fighting in the New World, they knew all too well.

Relying on this dilapidated ship that was about to fall apart and the few hundred remaining soldiers.

Launching an assault against an Emperor of the Sea who ruled the world was no different from voluntarily offering their necks to the guillotine.

But Jack, one of the All-Stars, stood like an emotionless iron tower, towering firmly on the deck at the bow.

His bloodshot eyes were filled with hideous red veins, and his entire body radiated an unmasked, violent killing intent.

Directly ahead, Big Mom's flagship, the "Queen Mama Chanter," was crushing the waves and moving steadily forward.

On the throne, Charlotte Linlin was currently on the verge of a rampage.

Having lost Katakuri, Oven, and Daifuku in quick succession—her own sons whom she was so proud of and who were the most important cornerstones of her family.

Her sanity had long been swallowed by bottomless hatred.

Just then, she saw that on the vast sea ahead, there was actually a mere dilapidated pirate ship daring to foolishly block her path of revenge.

The fury in Big Mom's heart was instantly ignited to its peak.

"Mamamama!"

Big Mom opened her gaping maw and let out her iconic, strange laughter.

"One after another, have you all been living too comfortably on this sea?"

"Have you all forgotten the terror of me, Charlotte Linlin?!"

Big Mom suddenly stood up from her throne, her massive body bringing an unparalleled sense of oppression.

"I was wondering who had the guts to dare block my path of revenge..."

"Isn't this that brash little brat under Kaido, Jack?"

Facing the terrifying pressure of the Four Emperors, which was as deep as an abyss and as heavy as a prison.

Jack gripped the two uniquely shaped, massive Shotel blades at his waist with both hands, and meeting Big Mom's gaze, he roared without backing down:

"Shut your mouth! You old hag!"

Jack's voice was rough and hoarse, carrying a reckless madness:

"This is the territory of Boss Kaido!"

"If you know what's good for you, turn your fleet around and get out of here immediately!"

"Otherwise, I'll send you pesky lot to the bottom of the sea to feed the fish right now!"

Hearing their boss's treacherous words of provocation, the subordinates on the Mammoth were so terrified they couldn't even cry out.

They rolled their eyes one by one, as if they could already see the gates of hell opening for them.

Hearing Jack's death-defying provocation, Big Mom's massive face twisted with extreme rage, her eyes filled with horrific bloodshot veins.

"Send me to the bottom of the sea?"

"A mere All-Star, who doesn't even have the qualifications to stand on equal footing with me, dares to speak such nonsense to me?!"

"How truly suicidal! If you want to stop me, go and call Kaido here!"

Standing at Big Mom's side, Smoothie, one of the sweet commanders, saw this and her eyes turned cold.

She strode forward, drew the longsword from her back, and prepared to personally step up to clean up these brash remnants of the Beasts Pirates, lest these filthy wretches dirty Mama's hands.

But Big Mom let out a deafening roar, swung her massive arm, and roughly shoved Smoothie aside:

"Get lost! You don't need to intervene!"

"Whoever dares to block my path, I will personally take their lifespan!"

Big Mom took a step forward and reached up to grab the living bicorne hat on her head.

In her hand, the hat instantly stretched and transformed into a massive emperor sword, "Napoleon," radiating a biting, cold gleam.

"Prometheus!"

Following Big Mom's angry shout, the sun in the sky, Prometheus, immediately turned into a surging fireball and plummeted down.

The scorching flames, capable of incinerating everything, instantly latched onto the blade of Napoleon, dyeing the entire giant sword a dazzling fiery red.

At the same time, an extremely dense Conqueror's Haki coiled around the blade like a violent dragon, emitting a heart-palpitating "crackle" sound.

The two ships finally converged amidst the fierce winds and giant waves.

In this instant, Jack let out a beast-like roar.

He exerted force with his legs, shattering the deck beneath his feet, and launched himself high into the air like a cannonball.

While in mid-air, he directly activated his Ancient Zoan Mammoth form's hybrid state.

His body instantly expanded, growing a thick trunk and sharp tusks.

He covered his twin blades with his highest intensity Armament Haki without reservation; the jet-black blades tore through the sky, and with the incomparable momentum of his high-altitude descent, he slashed fiercely toward Big Mom's face.

He attempted to suppress his opponent in the very first strike using his monster-level strength, which he was most proud of.

Facing the twin blades descending like Mount Tai, Big Mom tilted her head back, her eyes full of tyrannical killing intent.

The giant sword Napoleon in her hand, wreathed in raging flames and black chaotic lightning, was swung fiercely from bottom to top with the momentum to split heaven and earth.

"Clang—!!!"

Jack's twin blades slammed heavily onto the blade of Napoleon.

The terrifying shockwave generated by the collision of these two supreme forces and weapons erupted violently at the center of contact.

This visible wave of air instantly expanded outward in a ring, instantly blowing away the sea mist within several kilometers.

The surging sea surface below was even forcibly pressed into a huge depression several hundred meters in diameter by this invisible, immense force.

In this earth-shaking collision, Jack gritted his teeth, the veins on his arms bulging, pushing his strength to the limit.

However, this standoff lasted for only half a second.

Big Mom looked coldly at Jack, who was suspended in mid-air, let out a disdainful snort, and suddenly twisted her thick wrist.

An overwhelming, destructive force erupted from within her body without reservation.

A move of earth-shattering power, "Ikoku Sovereignty," instantly took shape.

The violent sword aura transformed into a substantial, massive cylindrical shockwave, tearing through Jack's Armament Haki defense.

Before the full-force strike of a Four Emperor, filled with anger and killing intent.

Jack's twin blades, which could be called indestructible, let out a crisp sound like a wail and instantly snapped into several pieces.

Immediately after, that appalling sword aura shockwave hit Jack squarely in the chest.

Jack's massive, tough body jolted violently, his chest feeling as if it had been struck by a meteorite.

He spat out a mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of his internal organs, under the force of this destructive power.

His entire body flew backward into the high air like a tattered kite with broken strings.

The aftermath of the "Ikoku Sovereignty" swung by Big Mom did not lose momentum.

The massive cylindrical column of air skimmed directly across the sea surface, splitting the water along its path in two, and finally struck Jack's flagship, the Mammoth, with precision.

Without any suspense, this sturdy Beasts Pirates warship was split in two from the middle by that shockwave, the cut as smooth as a mirror.

The wooden planks shattered with a roar, and the cannons inside the cabin detonated in rapid succession, flames shooting into the sky.

Those remnants of the Beasts Pirates, amidst desperate wails, fell into the sea raging with fierce winds and wild waves like dumplings, along with the broken, burning ship hull.

Jack, heavily wounded and with his consciousness fading, also slammed heavily into the cold seawater after tracing a long parabola.

Restricted by the curse of the Devil Fruit, even though he was a Fishman, he lost all ability to resist at this moment.

He could only sink powerlessly, straight toward the deep, cold seabed.

With just one move, she had cleared away this "fly" that was courting death and dared to get in her way.

Big Mom snorted coldly and put Napoleon back on her head.

Under her command, the Four Emperors' main fleet continued to move forward in a grand procession, finally arriving at the feet of the towering Zou, the giant elephant.

Dozens of massive caramel-colored warships deployed in formation on the sea, surrounding the vast expanse of water in front of Zunesha tightly.

Big Mom stood at the bow, looking up at the elephant's back that pierced the clouds, a flash of cruel light in her eyes.

From high in the nine heavens, there was suddenly a sharp, piercing whistle that resounded through the sky.

"What is that?!" The lookout of the Big Mom Pirates pointed at the sky in terror.

Driven by the powerful "Coup de Burst" from Franky, the thousand sunny plummeted down from the ten-thousand-meter-high sky above Zou, like a burning meteor.

"Boom—!!!"

The massive lion-headed hull slammed steadily onto the sea surface directly in front of Big Mom's flagship.

Accompanied by an earth-shattering roar, a deep pit was smashed into the sea surface by the immense kinetic energy.

A huge wall of water tens of meters high was instantly kicked up, crashing down on Big Mom's fleet.

The crystalline water spray dissipated in the sunlight, and the thousand sunny stabilized its hull amidst the waves.

Luffy held his Straw Hat with one hand, his gaze like a torch, standing steadily on the lion figurehead at the bow.

On the deck behind him, Tatsuya spread his hands, Zoro rested his hand on his sword hilt, Sanji lit a cigarette, and Law drew his nodachi.

Every member of the Straw Hat Pirates had a solemn expression, fully armed and lined up on the deck, with no one showing any fear.

Luffy slowly raised his head, looking directly at the murderous Charlotte Linlin on the opposite flagship, his mouth curling into a smile filled with wild fighting spirit.

"No need to waste effort looking! We are right here!"

"Come on! Let me see what you've got! The so-called Four Emperors!"

Amidst the whistling sea breeze, the Straw Hat Pirates and the Four Emperor Big Mom, who was at the peak of her rage, officially faced each other in a head-on confrontation!