Boom!
Under the horrified gazes of the Marine officers, within the spherical barrier shield, Magellan's head was gripped tightly by a large hand and exploded with a bang!
Countless yellow and white matter splattered all over the inner walls of the barrier.
By the distant port, Katakuri nonchalantly withdrew his right hand from the mirror before him.
Brulee's quick appearance was just one part of Katakuri's plan.
Her Mirror-Mirror Fruit ability could ignore distance and space, allowing direct teleportation anywhere.
Before the massive battle began, Brulee had been staying on a large ship out at sea, never coming ashore.
Steel and the others stood frozen for over ten seconds before letting out horrified screams.
"Admiral Magellan!"
"Admiral Poison Dragon!"
Not far away, Ryokugyu, who was struggling against Linlin while turning the hundred-meter radius of land into a primeval forest, felt her heart sink abruptly and instinctively turned to look.
There, within the transparent barrier, sat a tall headless corpse.
"How could this be? Magellan!" Aramaki's eyes widened in disbelief.
"Mamamama, you're distracted, Ryokugyu."
"Purgatory Thunderfire Kill!"
Linlin raised high her lightning and flames, instantly blasting the momentarily dazed Ryokugyu away!
Mid-air, Aramaki vomited blood profusely, her green hair completely scorched by the flames.
Not just her hair, her clothes and body hair everywhere else were all burned away.
In mid-air, a large sword wrapped in Armament Haki whistled down, cutting Aramaki in half at the waist!
"Admiral Ryokugyu!"
The Marine soldiers were horrified.
But Linlin showed no joy on her face.
Her sword Napoleon shrank as she watched Ryokugyu's bisected corpse fall to the ground and slowly transform into a wooden statue.
"Hmph! You got away fast!"
At this moment, Marine officers elsewhere on the battlefield also saw Magellan's headless body one after another, their faces instantly turning pale with both shock and fury.
Onigumo's murderous aura surged as his eight black spider arms brandished eight swords, swiftly cutting a giant from the Giant Legion into pieces.
A waterfall of blood drenched him completely.
He had killed until his eyes turned red, roaring as he charged into the pirate horde.
"Kill! Kill all the pirates!"
Behind him, the veteran Vice Admirals—one-armed Doberman, Momonga gripping his longsword—like tigers plunging into a flock of sheep, tore through the blood-soaked chaos with seething rage and hatred!
At the harbor, the ground was blanketed in crimson magma, leaving not a single foothold.
Three towering figures clashed at extreme speeds upon this scorching magma field, their movements as fleeting as phantoms!
"Borororro, Akainu, it seems you've lost an Admiral on your side."
Caesar stood firm in the magma, allowing the crimson lava to engulf his legs.
His burly frame was also coated in magma, hissing as white smoke billowed from it!
Opposite him, Akainu had transformed into a dog-headed, human-bodied deity, gritting his teeth with blood trickling from the corner of his mouth.
His fists were clenched tightly, his eyes blazing with boundless fury.
He said nothing, silently hurling another wave of scorching, fiery-red magma!
"Dog Devouring Red Lotus!"
Violent crimson magma erupted, turning the entire ground into a frenzied lava lake.
The terrifying heat scorched and vaporized everything, rapidly draining Caesar's Haki!
Beside them, Atlas—a ten-meter-tall figure with a goose head and human body—showed several clear cracks on his obsidian form.
Seeing Akainu, like a silent volcano, charge at Caesar once more,
Atlas could only grit his teeth and stride forward, his massive black fist striking toward Caesar alongside Akainu's!
The Marshal from the Army hadn't been boasting; his strength was truly formidable.
Under the power of the Earth-Earth Fruit, Atlas's punch carried such immense force that he could even match Caesar in a contest of strength!
"Borororo, Akainu, you still haven't learned your lesson! Do you really have what it takes to trade blows with me, Caesar?"
Caesar's golden pupils reflected Akainu's fiery-red charging form.
Boom!
He stomped heavily, sending fiery waves through the magma lake beneath him.
His right fist erupted with overlord's wild lightning, striking out with a roar of wind and thunder.
The air exploded in concentric white shockwaves, his speed skyrocketing to phantom-like levels!
The surging magma erupting from Akainu's right fist hadn't even reached Caesar before the air pressure from Caesar's punch instantly shattered it, forcing it back toward Akainu!
In that moment, it was as if the heavens had collapsed, with a pillar of force emerging from the sky.
Caesar's massive golden fist, studded with golden spikes, shattered the crimson magma filling the sky and descended toward Akainu's head!
"Earth's Power—Obsidian Barrier!!"
Atlas roared, pushing his Earth-Earth Fruit ability to its limits.
Before Akainu, the ground abruptly surged upward, forming a pitch-black wall dozens of meters high and three feet thick.
This wall was pitch-black and heavy, its hardness unimaginable, and coated with Atlas's Armament Haki, making it harder than diamond!
Yet when Caesar's colossal fist struck the black wall, a deafening explosion erupted, shaking the very foundations of Marine Headquarters.
The black wall shattered into fragments, pierced through by the thick, massive arm!
But with Atlas's intervention, Akainu gained a moment's respite, allowing him to evade Caesar's fist!
"What a troublesome ability... No... What's troublesome is you, baldy!"
A sickening excitement lit up Caesar's face as he churned the crimson magma, lunging straight at Atlas like a fire demon from a volcanic cavern!
"The last person who dared to call me bald now has three-meter-high grass growing over their grave!"
Atlas roared back, lunging forward and colliding with Caesar.
Outer sea.
The hundreds of miles of ocean frozen by Kuzan had been shattered into fragments by the recent massive explosion.
Centered around the blast, not a single standing pirate remained within a radius of over ten miles.
Those pirates closer to the explosion had their bodies instantly vaporized, vanishing from this world entirely.
"Cough, cough, cough..."
On a floating ice sheet, Kaido slowly rose, hunched over, his face utterly grim.
His entire body was covered in charred wounds, as if he had been soaking in magma for ten days to half a month.
Had it not been for his immense vitality, he would have likely perished in the colossal explosion triggered by the explosive rocks.
The blast's power was too terrifying; even with Kaido deploying his full Armament Haki defense, he was still blown half to death.
He sighed as he gazed at the half-carcass of a mammoth beast floating on the sea not far away.
Vincent, that fool who had just eaten Jack's Mammoth Fruit, had sworn confidently that he would become the Beast God Pirates' new Drought.
Who would have thought he'd lose his life before even setting foot inside Marine Headquarters?
Kaido looked further into the distance, where countless ship fragments floated, the churning seawater now a blood-red expanse, like a hellish sea of blood.
These subordinate pirate crews that had pledged allegiance to the Beast God Pirates, having charged too close, were wiped out in one fell swoop by this earth-shattering explosion.
"Woroorororo, it seems the Marines have some gutsy brats too!"
A broad, hearty smile suddenly spread across Kaido's face.
Then, he soared into the air, transforming into an Azure Dragon, and flew toward the inner bay.
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