"Mochi—Slice!"
Katakuri's right arm swelled violently, transforming into a guillotine capable of splitting heaven and earth, slamming Onigumo deep into the ground!
By now, numerous bone-deep wounds also marred his own body.
Having consumed the last of his father Caesar's essence, even Katakuri couldn't help but feel a trace of exhaustion.
He had never imagined that the Marine officers and their countless soldiers could be so ferocious!
Led by Vice Admirals like Onigumo, whenever one wave fell, another immediately took its place.
The Marine soldiers advanced wave upon wave, throwing their lives away without hesitation to stall Katakuri and his allies.
Like rabid dogs, they clung fiercely to Katakuri, thwarting his attempts to support Linlin and Caesar.
When Doberman fell, Momonga filled the gap.
When Momonga fell, Onigumo took his place.
Batch after batch, they stood like reefs against the torrent, blocking the Beast God Legion led by Katakuri!
Even Cracker and Snack had perished in this hellish slaughter.
Katakuri strode to the edge of the crater, looking down at Onigumo, whose lower body had been crushed into a pulp of flesh yet still struggled to rise.
Onigumo's eyes were bloodshot, his body drenched in gore, his twisted and ferocious face resembling a demon from hell as he glared fixedly at Katakuri.
A broken sword was clutched in his grotesquely deformed hand, while three arms grown from his Devil Fruit ability supported him as he slowly crawled toward Katakuri.
A long trail of blood marked the path he dragged himself across.
Moreover, from his crushed abdomen, a coil of still-writhing intestines spilled out during his crawl.
But Onigumo seemed oblivious, his eyes filled only with boundless killing intent.
Katakuri's right hand manifested the spear Mogura, raising it high.
Thud!
The sharp spear tip pierced through Onigumo's skull, pinning him to the ground.
Swoosh!
Katakuri withdrew his weapon, turning his gaze into the distance.
There, Bullett was holding aloft the massive cube in his hand.
His arm muscles bulged as he prepared to crush the miraculous device capable of neutralizing Conqueror's Haki impacts.
"Barrier Barrier! Spherical Shield!"
On the battlefield, Steel let out a low growl, hooking his finger toward Bullett's direction.
A spherical barrier instantly enveloped the cube in Bullett's hand.
"Hey! Navy brat, once is enough—don't push your luck!"
Suddenly, a clear female voice rang out not far behind Steel, causing his expression to change.
In the next instant, a thick kanabō pierced through the air with a series of crackling explosions, accompanied by thunderous roars, and slammed into Steel's spine from behind!
"Thunder Bagua!"
Boom! Crack!
Steel's eyes bulged, his body arching backward like a bow.
His spine, ribs, arm bones, and all his muscles were shattered in a single blow.
Pop! Pop!
The immense pressure forced his eyeballs right out of their sockets.
Yamato shook the corpse off her kanabō and stood firm, leaning on the massive iron club amidst the surrounding Marines, her gaze fixed on Bullett's position.
She wore a form-fitting blue combat outfit that accentuated her perfect, curvaceous figure.
She was a woman of unparalleled beauty.
Yet, at this moment, the eyes of the surrounding Marines were filled with fear as they looked at Yamato.
In Bullett's hand, as Steel died, the barrier enveloping the Field Stabilizer vanished.
Worried about further complications, Bullett exerted force and crushed the device in his hand.
With a sharp crack, the massive cube twisted and exploded into a heap of scrap metal.
As the cube shattered, an overwhelming Conqueror's Haki shockwave erupted from Bullett's burly frame, powerful enough to shake the heavens and earth!
Hum!
A cyan-blue sphere of Conqueror's Haki energy expanded infinitely, sweeping over the Marines on the battlefield.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
One by one, Marines rolled their eyes back, foamed at the mouth, and collapsed to the ground.
Following Bullett's Conqueror's Haki outburst, all the kingly potential fighters of the Beast God Pirates unleashed the Conqueror's Haki they had long suppressed within them!
Kaido, Redfield, Katakuri, Yamato, Doflamingo, Crocodile, Gin, Ganzui, Loki.
In an instant, spheres of energy in various colors bloomed across the entire island of Marine Headquarters, like successive nuclear bombs detonating, their shockwaves rippling through the battlefield.
The collective release of Conqueror's Haki from so many powerful fighters altered the very weather above the seas near Marine Headquarters.
In the sky, layers of dark clouds stacked like a towering black wall.
Howling tornadoes connected heaven and earth, swirling endlessly over the icy surface!
White lightning bolts darted and roared through the clouds like electric dragons.
As for the Marines, all those below the rank of Rear Admiral were essentially wiped out, unable to withstand the barrage of Conqueror's Haki shocks, their eyes rolling back one after another.
At the edge of the harbor, vast glaciers and boiling magma coexisted in the same space.
A bizarre and surreal sight.
Two men, once divided by their conflicting ideals of justice, who had battled fiercely for ten days and nights.
Now, they set aside their past grievances and joined forces to confront Caesar.
The powers of ice and fire intertwined, yet instead of canceling each other out,
their collision sparked an even greater force!
Kuzan, who had once awakened his abilities and nearly merged with nature itself, now wielded the power of the Ice-Ice Fruit with even greater mastery.
He stood upon the Antarctic land, where the temperature was low enough to freeze blood and thoughts.
Caesar stood at the center of the land caught between ice and fire, gazing toward the most intense battlefield.
There, the Marine forces had dwindled to less than a thousand elite soldiers, still struggling to hold their ground.
In contrast, the Beast God Pirates still had over ten thousand fierce pirates who had survived the brutal slaughter.
These individuals would become the backbone of the Beast God Pirates!
Seeing this, Caesar couldn't help but reveal a deeply satisfied smile.
He glanced to his left and right at Akainu and Kuzan, who were approaching him once more, and curled his lips:
"Akainu, from today onward, justice will exit the stage of the New World. Without my permission, no Marine who claims to uphold justice is allowed to set foot in this paradise!"
Then, a vast and majestic Conqueror's Haki, akin to heavenly might reigning over all living beings, erupted from Caesar's tall and burly frame, sweeping across the heavens and the earth!
Boom! Boom! Boom!!
A series of thunderous explosions rang out. On the plaza, the last remaining elite Marines who had withstood the Conqueror's Haki impact from Bullett and others felt their minds go blank, their vision turning white as they collapsed like harvested wheat.
Even several severely injured Marine Vice Admirals grew dizzy, experiencing brief moments of disorientation, and were swiftly executed by their respective opponents!
From that point on, the remaining Marine forces on the vast G-1 base island numbered only a few dozen.
Akainu's eyes were bloodshot, his breathing heavy and labored.
The power of justice had lost its momentum!