"Shadow Shackles!"
Moria's furious roar echoed across the battlefield as dark shadows twisted and contorted like living creatures, transforming into dozens of thick ropes that wrapped around Whitebeard Newgate's limbs with lightning speed.
These shadow ropes shimmered with an eerie dark purple glow, each one containing terrifying power capable of crushing steel.
However, facing the power of the world's strongest man, these restraints lasted less than a second before being easily shattered. But this fleeting moment was enough for Bullet to land his long-prepared attack.
An even more dangerous threat came from the air. King, with blood trickling from the corner of his mouth, forced himself to stand up and extended his right arm, fingers spread wide: "Blood Manipulation!" As his ability activated, an eerie crimson glow appeared at his fingertips. As a Mythical Zoan Vampire Devil Fruit ability user, King possessed the special ability to manipulate blood, and he was now attempting to disrupt Newgate's blood circulation with his power.
Yet Whitebeard's control over his body far exceeded ordinary imagination. With just a slight frown, the blood flow within his body immediately returned to normal.
But in this brief moment of distraction, Bullet had already completed his cold energy buildup. His fists covered with biting cold ice, he slammed them violently against Whitebeard's chest.
Crack!
Massive ice crystals spread across Whitebeard's body at a visible rate, completely encasing him within a giant ice sphere over five meters in diameter in the blink of an eye. Under the sunlight, this ice sphere refracted blinding light, resembling a small comet that had fallen onto the battlefield.
"Concentrated Death Cannon!"
Seizing this golden opportunity from afar, Queen's modified snake head opened its gaping maw once more. Then an orange glow flashed as a laser cannon twice the size of the previous one tore through the sky, leaving a scorching trail in the air as it headed straight for the frozen Whitebeard.
"Hellfire · Fire Dragon Devour!" King endured his injuries as blazing flames erupted from his Enma Blade, a lifelike fire dragon roaring forth from the tip of the sword.
"Cold Air · Meteor Fist!" Bullet swung his fists continuously, dozens of ice crystal fists condensed from cold air crashing toward the same target like meteors.
"Armament Iron Fist!" Urouge's hundred-meter-tall giant form extended a massive fist covered in black Armament Haki, smashing down with a sound that tore through the air.
"Shadow Horn Lance!" Moria's shadow twisted and contorted, transforming into a ten-meter-long black spear that thrust straight forward.
The officers of the Beasts Pirates seized this fleeting combat opportunity, each unleashing their killing moves. For a moment, crimson flames, deep blue cold air, black Haki, and purple lasers interwove across the battlefield, creating a dazzling yet deadly tapestry.
Various energy attacks poured down upon the frozen Whitebeard like a torrential storm. The shockwaves from the explosions swept across the entire battlefield, ice surfaces shattered, and dust and smoke billowed into the sky as if the apocalypse had descended.
As the smoke gradually cleared, an eerie silence fell over the battlefield. Everyone held their breath, their gazes fixed intently on the center of the explosion. The air was thick with tension, as if time itself had frozen.
Suddenly, a booming laugh pierced the sky: "Gurararara! Now this is more like it, brats!"
Whitebeard emerged slowly from the dust and smoke. Though his white captain's coat was tattered, revealing the muscular physique beneath, his domineering aura remained undiminished.
The Supreme Grade Sharp Blade Ame-no-Habakiri in his hand gleamed with a chilling light, while the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit created visible spatial ripples around him, making even the air seem to tremble under his pressure.
"But the game ends now!"
Whitebeard raised Ame-no-Habakiri high, unleashing the Tremor-Tremor Fruit's power to its extreme. The entire ice surface created by Bullet began shaking violently, countless cracks spreading like spiderwebs with an ear-piercing shattering sound.
As Ame-no-Habakiri swung down, the air ahead shattered like glass. A terrifying shockwave swept toward the Beasts Pirates with overwhelming force, collapsing the ground and distorting space in its path.
Facing this cataclysmic strike, the Beasts Pirates officers deployed their strongest defenses: "Ice Shield!" Bullet roared, slamming his fists into the ground as a several-meter-thick ice wall erupted.
"Guardian Fire Dragon Flame!" King swung Enma, a blazing fire dragon swirling and roaring in the void to form a flaming barrier.
"Shadow Shield!" Moria's shadow twisted and deformed, transforming into a pitch-black protective barrier.
Yet all defenses proved fragile against the Tremor-Tremor Fruit's power. The ice wall shattered instantly, the fire dragon dissipated with a mournful roar, and the shadow shield broke like bubbles. The undiminished shockwave sent all the Beasts Pirates members flying. They crashed heavily to the ground like broken kites, vomiting blood in an utterly devastating scene.
"Gurararara, brats! Wano Country belongs to me now! And you're my prisoners!" Newgate declared, looking at the Beasts Pirates officers lying on the shattered ice. Simultaneously, he released his terrifying Conqueror's Haki, purple-black lightning crackling through the air, further overwhelming the already injured officers.
Hearing Newgate's words, King suddenly recalled the scene when Kaidou left Wano Country. That towering figure had patted his shoulder and said: "King, I'm counting on you to protect Wano Country while I'm away."
He remembered his resolute reply: "Don't worry, Brother Kaidou! As long as I'm in Wano Country, no one will threaten the Beasts Pirates!"
At this memory, unyielding flames ignited in King's eyes. Gritting his teeth, he slowly rose under Newgate's terrifying Conqueror's Haki pressure, his black Wings struggling to spread open: "Whitebeard, get out of Wano Country!"
With this roar, an astonishing aura erupted from King's body. His purple-black Conqueror's Haki clashed with Whitebeard's oppressive presence, colliding in midair with blinding flashes of lightning.
At the same moment, Bullet also stood up in sync. The man who would later be known as the "Devil's Heir" wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, his eyes burning with fighting spirit: "What a joke! How could I lose before defeating Big Brother Kaidou? My goal is to become the strongest in the world!"
A second wave of Conqueror's Haki erupted on the battlefield, resonating with King's aura as they jointly resisted Whitebeard's overwhelming pressure.
"Oh? Two Conqueror's Haki users!" Newgate's eyes flashed with golden light as he observed the two awakened Conqueror's Haki users, "Gurararara, interesting!"
Queen, who had fallen not far from King, watched this scene and rolled his eyes before struggling to his feet and shouting loudly: "I am the world's greatest scientist!" However, aside from attracting a few puzzled glances, no special phenomenon occurred.
Feeling the gazes from the other executives, Queen roared in shame and anger: "What are you looking at me for! I'm the world's greatest scientist, any objections?!"
"Kishishishi!" Moria let out his signature eerie laugh, staggering as he stood up, "King, Bullet, how could I possibly lose to you two!" He raised his large sword, pointing it at the distant Newgate, "Mere Conqueror's Haki - even without it, I can cut down Whitebeard!"
Hearing this, the others also stood up one after another, aiming their weapons at Newgate.
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