Total Annihilation

"Almighty Push!"

A faint shout rang out from deep beneath the earth. Doflamingo naturally could not hear such a distant voice, but his Observation Haki blared like an alarm at full volume.

Shock appeared on Doflamingo’s usually haughty face. With a casual flick of one hand, countless threads wrapped around the Doflamingo Pirates members who had rushed over. His other hand seized the clouds overhead, and with both hands pulling hard, he yanked all his subordinates into the sky.

The instant they left the ground, the earth seemed to go mad. It trembled slightly at first, then the entire ground exploded!

Countless massive chunks of rock shot into the sky. Fortunately, those who had come from the Donquixote Family were all elites, and Doflamingo had pulled them into the air from the very beginning, allowing them to avoid the first wave of attacks. Otherwise, casualties would have been inevitable.

Even so, the Donquixote Family members were thrown into a frantic scramble. All manner of strange Devil Fruit abilities flew everywhere before they finally managed to block the boulders raining down on them.

Once the dust settled, Doflamingo saw that Yota had already burst from underground and stood suspended in midair, staring at him with cold eyes.

In his hand, he held half the head of the towering Pica…

Pica had been underground just now, so there had naturally been no way for him to evade Yota’s Almighty Push. Moreover, there was nowhere underground to dissipate the force, causing the damage from Almighty Push to increase severalfold. The Stone-Stone Fruit user had been blasted into a pile of mush on the spot.

This half of a head was only the largest piece of Pica’s corpse that Yota had managed to catch with his quick reflexes. Black mist swept over it, and the chunk of flesh vanished from Yota’s hand.

"Bastard! You actually killed Pica!" Doflamingo’s face twisted with fury. With a flick of his hand, every member of the Donquixote Family, along with himself, landed in a circle around Yota. "I definitely won’t let you die so easily!"

Yota rolled his eyes. "Just you lot of worthless trash? What a joke."

"If it weren’t for the Devil Fruits, I would’ve wiped you all out long ago!"

After saying that, Yota could not be bothered to waste any more words. He opened the Eight Gates, and his figure vanished from everyone’s sight!

"First!"

A plump old woman with a face full of panic took Yota’s punch and vomited blood wildly. Then black mist swept around her and sucked her in.

"Second!"

A strange bald old man was struck in the waist by Yota’s hand chop. With a crack, his entire body folded backward into a V-shape. Groaning miserably, he was sent flying.

"Third!"

Gladius, with hedgehog-like silver hair, felt a needle-like sense of danger at his temple. He roared as his entire body swelled up, but the black mist in Yota’s hand merely swept lightly over him. Gladius’s explosive ability was immediately sealed, and his entire body was sucked into Dark Space.

"Fourth!"

Black mist swept out first, then instantly transformed into powerful repulsive force. Yota shook his hand in disgust as a sticky figure was blasted to pieces by his high-powered Almighty Push.

"There’s no need to collect such a disgusting Devil Fruit."

Once Yota opened the Eight Gates and began attacking, even Doflamingo could not clearly see his movements. His Observation Haki could only sense a shadow, let alone his subordinates, who were practically lambs awaiting slaughter.

Only now, after getting his hand smeared by that Glue-Glue Fruit user whose name he still could not remember, did he stop.

Seeing Jora, Lao G, Gladius, and Trebol—four of his subordinates—taken out by Yota in a single breath, Doflamingo’s expression finally changed completely.

Yota was not someone their group could possibly handle! He was an expert on the level of Whitebeard and Kaido! A true top-tier powerhouse capable of dominating the seas!

"Run! Scatter and flee!" As Doflamingo cursed himself for being so blinded that he had believed that bastard Queen, he activated the awakened power of the String-String Fruit. Countless tough threads twisted into a ball, wrapping Yota inside.

It won’t hold him for long… Damn it! I should’ve realized it when that fat bastard didn’t come himself!

After cursing twice more, Doflamingo did not dare linger. He wrapped threads around a path through the clouds and prepared to flee.

With a crack, a hand landed on Doflamingo’s shoulder. "Don’t be in such a hurry to leave~"

"How is that possible?" Doflamingo looked at Yota behind him, his face filled with horror. "How did you break free from my String Cocoon so quickly?"

"Break free? What nonsense are you talking about?" Yota smiled faintly. "You never caught me in the first place!"

Doflamingo froze slightly and turned his head. His cocoon was still there, completely motionless.

He controlled the String-String Fruit ability, and the enormous ball of thread instantly fell apart, revealing a wooden dummy inside.

"A substitute? Damn…" Doflamingo had only gotten out two words when Yota activated the Dark-Dark Fruit ability in his hand. Black mist swept out, trying to absorb Doflamingo.

"It won’t be that easy!" Doflamingo roared. Even though he could not use the String-String Fruit, he still resisted the Dark-Dark Fruit’s suction with his powerful physique and Haki.

"Pointless struggle!" Yota sneered, purple light flashing in his eyes. "Universal Pull!"

The two powerful forces of attraction merged into one. Their power immediately surged, and Doflamingo lost all ability to resist. Without making a sound, he was sucked into Dark Space.

Yota lowered his hand. A moment later, several of Yota’s clones returned, each carrying a Donquixote Family officer in hand.

Black mist swept from Yota’s hand and absorbed them all.

"Other than one Float-Float Fruit, it seems no one else had Devil Fruit abilities." Yota frowned slightly. "There should be others who didn’t attack alongside Doflamingo. At the very least, I didn’t see those young women."

"But what kind of Devil Fruits does the Donquixote Family even have? Why isn’t there a single truly top-tier combat Devil Fruit among them?"

Wasn’t that true? Although the Stone-Stone Fruit and Bomb-Bomb Fruit had fairly decent combat power, they were definitely not top-tier. Meanwhile, the overpowered Hobby-Hobby Fruit not only failed to increase combat power, but actually reduced it considerably.

As for the remaining Glue-Glue Fruit, Float-Float Fruit, and even Doflamingo’s String-String Fruit, they could only be considered second-rate. Yota would not even take something like the Glue-Glue Fruit if it were given to him for free.

"With just this stuff, the Donquixote Family is considered the boss of the underground Black Market?"