While an astonishing battle was unfolding on Fish-Man Island, an earth-shattering battle was also erupting in Mary Geoise.
Fleet Admiral Akainu versus the world's highest authority, the Gorosei, and the God's Knights Supreme Commander, Figarland Garling.
In a hellish landscape of crimson magma, Mary Geoise, once the Celestial Dragons' paradise and symbol of the world's highest authority, was now scorched and burning everywhere.
Even ordinary powerhouses would find no footing here.
Akainu, his body completely merged with the crimson magma, stared coldly at Garling, the Celestial Dragon with triangular sunglasses and a starfish-like head, standing beside several monstrous beasts.
"Figarland Garling!"
From this Celestial Dragon, Akainu felt an intense threat.
In terms of individual combat power, none of the Gorosei, who had revealed their true forms, could give Akainu such a feeling.
"Akainu, go to prison and reflect on your mistakes."
The giant wild boar that Warcury had transformed into spoke in a trembling voice, causing the surrounding magma to churn continuously.
"I said, if you don't give me an explanation today, then I'll just completely destroy this place." Akainu's tone was resolute.
As his words fell, countless streams of magma began to surge wildly, clawing and grasping in all directions, showing signs of an impending complete rampage.
The Gorosei remained silent upon hearing this. They knew that akainu truly had the power to destroy the entire Holy Land.
As the Admiral they had personally selected, the Gorosei knew Akainu quite well. This was also an important reason why they had never dared to push Akainu to the brink. The power of the Mag-Mag Fruit was absolutely destructive.
"Bastard! As Fleet Admiral, is this how you uphold peace and protect the Celestial Dragons?!" Warcury couldn't help but roar in anger.
Boom!
Just then, an extremely powerful Conqueror's Haki surged forth, like a colossal, turbulent wave, sweeping across the entire space.
This Haki carried an incredibly terrifying majesty and oppressive force, as if it wanted to crush everything, even making the surrounding air dense, causing distant CP agents to feel breathless.
Buzz!
Garling, who had not yet made a move, finally drew his sword. The unparalleled sharp cold light instantly caused the temperature of the surrounding scorching magma to drop slightly.
A cold, aged voice slowly rang out. "Akainu, you are no longer Fleet Admiral. Attacking Celestial Dragons and destroying the Holy Land—I, Figarland Garling, on behalf of the God's Knights, declare..."
"From this moment on, you are an enemy of the entire world."
Akainu sneered, his voice resounding through the magma world, "The entire world?"
"Do guys like you even deserve to represent the world?!"
Boom!!!
At this moment, the volcano, which had been suppressed and silent for an unknown period, erupted fully at the Celestial Dragons' Holy Land Mary Geoise.
Deep within the Holy Land, no matter how chaotic the outside world became, it still did not affect the bird-singing and flower-fragrant grand hall.
Here, it was like a serene paradise, far removed from the world's clamor, where time flowed peacefully.
A long, dark figure slowly glided across the grass, and in their rare blood-red double-ringed pupils, a sense of unease was revealed.
A sharp, eerie voice, like fingernails scraping a blackboard that was extremely unpleasant to hear sounded.
"Renji… Joy Boy?"
"Could it be you?"
…
At this time, in New Marineford.
Sengoku walked over, looking worried. Since the war two years ago, he hadn't walked so quickly in a long time.
The good news from Galzburg, along with real-time images, had spread throughout the world.
Golden Lion had fallen, and Kaido had also been killed by Renji.
Sengoku should have been very happy about such great achievements. And in fact, half an hour ago, he was indeed very happy.
Until he learned of the orders the Gorosei had given about Renji.
"Those bastards are really becoming less and less human, aren't they?!"
"They revoked Renji's Admiral position and listed him as a wanted criminal."
"And they said Renji intended to conspire with pirates to rebel? After killing so many pirates, how can he conspire to rebel?!"
"Are those old fools out of their minds?!"
Sengoku strode furiously.
Renji was a model Marine of the new era, personally vetted by him for two years, and then single-handedly promoted. Later, he pushed against all objections to recommend him as an Admiral.
And Renji had always lived up to his training, and even far exceeded Sengoku's expected returns.
In just two short years, Renji, almost single-handedly, had turned this tumultuous Great Pirate Era upside down, not only fiercely suppressing the tide of great pirates, but also, with his extraordinary charisma, attracted a large number of fresh recruits to Marines.
It could be said that Renji's contributions to Marines reaching its unprecedented strength today are absolutely undeniable.
Yet now, the Gorosei had done such a thing to Renji, discarding him after he had served his purpose.
How could Sengoku stand by and watch such a thing happen now?
"Sengoku!"
A figure approached, also with surging anger on his face.
"You're planning to go to the Holy Land, aren't you?"
"Garp?"
Sengoku looked at the figure before him, his expression slightly surprised, but he didn't hesitate for too long, immediately confirming.
"That's right, are you going too?"
Garp's expression was somber. Besides knowing Renji's achievements, he also knew that before the arena competition in Galzburg, Renji had already captured Luffy and his crew alive.
However, merely capturing them alive...
Compared to his usual actions where he always killed pirates directly, especially those with bounties over 100 million...
Now Luffy's bounty was 400 million, which had long reached Renji's kill-line. But he had not delivered a fatal blow.
The reason he didn't kill the Straw Hats was certainly not because his strength was insufficient, as he was able to capture them alive.
The only reason Garp could think of was that Renji was considering his feelings.
Two years ago, Ace died right before his eyes. Now, Renji hadn't killed Luffy.
Garp's emotions were naturally churning, and now that Renji was in trouble, he absolutely couldn't stand idly by.
Sengoku said solemnly, "Akainu went to Mary Geoise half an hour ago, and there's still no news."
Garp was about to say something.
Just then—
Boom!
An earth-shattering sound came, and even from the relocated Marineford, one could still see the sky in that direction, illuminated crimson.