Chapter 3

Returning to the wooden house, Carnes entered a waiting state .

With the anticipation came an excruciatingly slow passage of time.

After three and a half hours of cellular regeneration by the system.

Carnes clearly felt that his body was undergoing a tremendous transformation.

Especially the right lower abdomen, where the unhealable injury resided, now brought unbearable pain that ordinary people could hardly endure.

"Ah!" Carnes tightly grasped the corner of the table, crying out in agony.

The intense pain caused him to break out in a profuse sweat.

With great difficulty, he removed his shirt once again and took off the bandages.

Carnes saw his right lower abdomen, the area missing a chunk, a depressed cavity.

At this moment, it pulsed and contracted like a beating heart.

And with each beat and contraction, it inflicted intense pain on Carnes!

"Boom, buzz!"

At the same moment, Carnes' emaciated body suddenly bulked up.

The muscles that had atrophied due to years of lack of exercise began to recover!

"Boom, buzz!"

Once again, Carnes' muscles all over his body swelled!

The scars that had already formed on his upper body gradually healed at this moment!

In just a matter of moments.

The wounds scabbed over, and in their place was flawless skin without any lingering scars!

"Boom, buzz!"

Once again, Carnes' muscles all over his body swelled even more.

Making him look like a bodybuilder, with terrifyingly huge muscles all over his body.

But in the next second, these muscles suddenly compressed, instantly transforming Carnes back into a normal-sized person.

"Hum, ooh!"

The drastic changes happening in his body at this moment caused Carnes to feel intense pain in every inch of his skin!

And in the next second, after the muscles were compressed.

Carnes' entire body's muscles swelled once again!

"Boom, buzz!"

Following that was another compression of the muscles.

"Hum, ooh!"

The muscles expanded and contracted two or three times before finally coming to a stop.

The pain that had enveloped Carnes' entire body was relieved at that moment.

"Whew, whew, whew..."

Carnes took deep breaths, slowly lifting his head to look at his reflection in the mirror.

The previously emaciated body was no longer there.

In its place was a robust physique, with muscularity and not a single scar.

The terrifying wound on his right lower abdomen had fully healed.

The wrinkled skin due to age became firm at this moment.

The aged countenance was no longer present!

At the same moment, Carnes' head full of white hair underwent a visible and rapid transformation.

In just a short moment.

Carnes' previously white hair turned black!

[Ding! Body restoration complete!]

[Congratulations to the host for regaining the peak state of the body.]

Listening to the system's prompt and feeling the long-lost peak state of his body, Carnes couldn't help but clench his teeth, his entire body trembling with excitement.

At this moment, his mind was filled with a longing for battle, a desire for slaughter!

"Crackle, crackle!"

Suddenly, dark red arcs became visible and crackled around Carnes.

The supreme Conqueror's Haki uncontrollably emanated from Carnes' body.

"Boom!!"

"Boom, rumble!!"

Under Carnes' feet, the wooden floor collapsed under the overwhelming aura.

"Clang!" In front of Carnes, the mirror shattered into countless pieces.

Even the walls, beams, and all objects in the wooden house cracked and ruptured under the uncontrolled overflowing Conqueror's aura from Carnes!

"Hum!"

Accompanied by a faint buzzing sound that reverberated.

Carnes suddenly clenched his fist, took a sudden step forward, and fiercely punched the adjacent wall.

"Whoosh!"

"Bang!"

"Boom!!!"

A tremendous roar echoed in all directions.

Under Carnes' punch filled with a Conqueror's Haki the wooden wall crumbled into dust.

Even the entire wooden house was destroyed and torn apart in an instant under the aftermath of Carnes' punch!

"Boom, rumble!!"

Thick smoke and dust billowed up.

The wooden house disappeared without a trace at this moment, and only the shattered fragments confirmed the trace of its existence.

Amidst the dense smoke and dust, Carnes stood tall.

He was shirtless, with his muscular body fully exposed.

"Phew," he took a deep breath.

Carnes raised his hand and dispersed the dense smoke and dust surrounding him.

After venting with that punch, Carnes managed to suppress his impulse for battle.

He looked at his own hands, feeling the incredible state of his body, and couldn't help but exclaim.

"Ah~~ this feeling... this long-lost feeling of being filled with strength throughout my body, how long has it been since I experienced it?!"

"Thirty years? Forty years?"

"I've almost forgotten this feeling..."

"Ever since I suffered this irreparable injury in the Valley of Gods all those years ago, I have been living in pain every day, and my physical condition deteriorated to the extreme. I couldn't even do physical labor that an ordinary adult could manage."

"I could only rely completely on Haki to deal with those trashs that I could have crushed with just a finger!"

"Now... I have returned!"

"I, Carnes, have come back!!!"

As he spoke, dark red arcs once again flickered around Carnes' body.

He slowly turned his head and looked in the direction of the sea, with a grimace on his face and a hoarse voice as he spoke.

"Garp, are you... ready?"

"Ready to face the anger I've buried for forty years?!"

"Newgate, are you... ready?"

"Ready to welcome me, the vice-captain?!"

"As the vice-captain... I've always been angry at you!!"